While they pretended to be looking for the automobile, the “A-Team” led by Chip would work on it for eight days, and surprise the unsuspecting owner with a newly refurbished, customized, and overhauled car. The team pranked the owners of antique or classic cars, whom they called the “mark,” with the help of friends, colleagues and family members, whom they referred to as “the insiders.” They would create a ruse that the car might have been towed by the police, lost in car shops, wrecked, or worse still – stolen.
With many reality-TV shows already out there, the creator thought of a great TV-premiere premise that set the tone for the rest of the “Overhaulin” series. Narrative structure and concept of the show
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Professional car racer Jessica Combs also joined the team, but was replaced by former UFC ring girl and Playboy model Arianny Celeste, when Jessica transferred to another network. Later on, when Courtney left the show, actress and TV presenter Adrienne “AJ” Janic came in to replace her.
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The series was originally co-hosted by actor and TV presenter Chris Jacobs, syndicated columnist and former fashion model Courtney Hansen, along with executive producer and creator Bud Brutsman. This led to a TV production studio inviting him to be part of the car-building reality TV show. In 2000, he moved his business to Huntington Beach, and with the help of a documentary on his transformation of a 2002 Ford Thunderbird, which he called Speedbird, he gained more clients. He later won the top prize in America’s Most Beautiful Roadster with his first design project. In 1990 he graduated from the Art Center College of Design located in Pasadena, California, and after working for other people, decided to strike out on his own by establishing Foose Design in Orange County with his wife. The “Overhaulin” team was headed by their chief automobile designer, Samuel “Chip” Foose, who started taking an interest in working on automobiles in his father’s design firm called Project Design, when he was seven years old. 6 The real reason why it was canceled – 20.5.9 Richard Rawlings’ Gas Monkey Garage episodes were pulled out.5.8 Celebrity Specials on “Overhaul” got a backlash.5.7 Chip couldn’t get used to his popularity.5.6 Some of the Overhauled cars were sold by their owners.
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