DETROIT — The Discovery Channel will pay tribute to the Detroit auto worker in a new reality-TV show, Motor City Motors, which premieres on Monday at 10 p.m. EST on the cable channel. The program stars a pair of brothers who run a custom bike shop in Detroit. They will customize and frequently completely transform a vehicle in five days, using a different set of crew members, for each episode.
Dave and James Kaye run the Detroit Bros. Custom Cycles shop that is the center of the new show. James studied metal sculpting at the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit, while Dave has a finance degree from the University of Michigan business school. The brothers have been featured on the Discovery Channel's Biker Build-Off in the past.
Among other things on the new series, they turn a 1992 GMC Suburban into a pothole-filling machine and create a giant mechanical spider using the engine from a Mitsubishi Spyder. Dave said the point of the program is to go beyond the traditional car-customizing entertainment and "make crazy feats of engineering and fabrication."
In the inaugural episode airing on December 28, the brothers turn a stock 1926 Ford Model T four-door sedan into a "mid-'60s-style gasser drag racer," gutting it and lowering it 4 inches. On the crew for that job is a Model T expert who volunteers at the Henry Ford museum, a racing-car fabricator, a sheet metal worker, a building maintenance worker with welding and electrical skills and a builder/fabricator for an auto-industry paint finishing systems supplier.
Inside Line says: Probably not going to help much with Detroit's employment problems, but should be more interesting than the tired American Choppers soap opera. — Laura Sky Brown, Correspondent
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playtime727 says:
07:30 PM, 01/12/2010
Don't waste your time. Lame show.........