Have to agree. I always wondered why people had to pay $ 150,000 for a hot rod that everybody rushed work on to meet a deadline.
Dumb way to create a car.
I wonder how many families he destroyed by forcing so much overtime down his employee’s throats.
I probably watched most of the episodes, but had to quit because I got stressed out just watching. Every car featured had a short deadline, a frantic rush at the end, and a shop full of other cars that just sat there week after week after week. Some of the employees should have been fired long ago, like “Blue Bear”, what a punk troublemaker. His foreman has one operational mode - yelling and insulting. All the turmoil, yelling, and the mad rush to complete cars on time got to be too much to sit through, and I had to grit my teeth at all the cars delivered with the paint still wet, untested for leaks, etc, etc, etc. Too stressful to watch.
Yep, if I was going to have a car customized at this level, I would much rather let the people working on it take their time and make sure it's as close to perfect as possible. You don't want them to take forever, but you can control that by pegging payment to levels of progress.
Coddington certainly had a lot of talent, but he also seemed to create a lot of unnecessary stress for himself and everyone around him.