Fast N' Loud: Blood, Sweat and Beers by Rawlings Richard & Dagostino Mark

Author:Rawlings, Richard & Dagostino, Mark [Rawlings, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-05-11T21:00:00+00:00

PART TWO

THE BIG SHOW

Aaron and me in the desert. COURTESY OF DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS.

ASSEMBLING THE CREW

Before we reminisce about some of our favorite episodes, I thought I’d say a few things about the core who’s who here at Gas Monkey Garage.

Putting a crew together to pull off the work we do while simultaneously making good television is not as easy as it looks. All right, I’ll admit, it must not look too easy. We’ve had a lot of turnover in the two years or so since the show started. K.C., Aaron and I are the only original Gas Monkeys who’ve been at the garage since the show began—primarily because a lot of people who think they can do this job can’t handle the intensity of it. It’s a lot of pressure. We shoot continuously, usually six days a week, with a week off in the summer and a few vacation days around Christmas and Thanksgiving. That’s it. And our days aren’t nine-to-five (as much as we try to make them nine-to-five). It often takes long stretches of work late into the night to get the builds done on time, and getting these cars out the door on whatever deadline we’re working toward is the key to Gas Monkey’s success.

From the beginning, Aaron and I determined we were going to build the best cars faster than anybody else has ever built them. And that’s what we’ve been doing, week after week, with the help of our kick-ass crew. Sometimes we get wildly successful results, and sometimes not. I’m not afraid to show all of it—the good, the bad, the ugly, and the disastrously unprofitable. I insisted we needed to show people the real ups and downs of the car business. Nobody can win all the time. Nobody. And if we lose money on a car, we’re gonna tell you.

Anyway, the magic formula I’ve uncovered for putting together a solid crew—whether it’s at Gas Monkey or a print shop or what have you—is that there is no formula. It’s all trial and error. With the enormous pressure we’re under, it’s important that everybody in the garage gets along. Sometimes you just can’t figure that out until you get people in the door and see how they perform when the heat’s on. Or when the heat’s off, as it were.

That first garage space we were in didn’t have any heat—and we started shooting in the middle of winter. It got cold! It didn’t have any running water, either. We had to run up to the building in front of ours to use the bathroom or wash our hands. I had to rent a little office trailer to park in the parking lot just so I could have a spot with a computer and a phone in it. It was nuts. And for the whole first three months of shooting, Aaron, K.C., and Scot were pulling twenty-two-hour days just trying to get the work done on time. No joke, twenty-two hours a day. For the

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