It’s 4 days into my holiday and I’ve done the first touristy thing so far.
After finding a replacement for my hiking boots, I headed over to Gas Monkey Garage to take a look at where it all started and still continues. The place was made famous due to the TV show Fast N’ Loud, in which Richard Rawlings and his team buy, sell and customize cars while having both that process and their antics filmed.
I was surprised that the first thing that grabs your attention upon arrival – the pungent aroma that smashes your senses. It’s similar to that of overflowing ablutions at a Summer music festival – that’s a week overdue for septic pumping.
Aside from looking through the razor wire topped cyclone fencing at the film crew preparing to shoot the sale of a 60’s Cadillac, the gift shop is about as close as you get to the action – kinda disappointing. The show portrays Richard as being all about the cash, so with branded merchandise like truckers caps for $29.95 – don’t be in any hurry to “Get You Some of That” ….. which he is fond of saying.
Personally I think the show has gone off the boil and lost some of what it had going for it when lead designer and fabricator Aaron Kaufman and custom painter KC Mathieu left the show.
Again I decided to beat the afternoon traffic home and came across a fender bender in the fast lane of opposite traveling traffic that saw that all 5 lanes on that side turned into a car park for 4 miles. There’s the reason right there why I prefer not to live in a big city.
After sorting out a home cooked meal of Chicken Cacciatore accompanied with garlic bread, I got to packing all my gear up to fly up to Boise early in the morning.