Resurrected Rides Review 2024 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
In Resurrected Rides, hosted by Chris Redd, a team of car restorers take a person’s nearly-broken-down cars and makes them into fantasy vehicles, complete with new paint jobs, interiors, gauges, and fun gadgetry.
Don Abenante is an expert fabricator, Saul and Oscar Valencia are masters at reviving interiors, Lacey Blair is the mechanic, Shayna Guy works on paint and Steve Nelson is the resident gadget guy.
The first car is the ’91 Vanagon that belongs to Tayvon, a 33-year-old stuntman that bought the van because “I thought it was cool.” He covered the floor in artificial turf, the exhaust leaks into the car’s interior, and his clutch constantly slips. Redd hires an actor to play a small prank on Tayvon, who almost buys it until he sees the former SNL cast member. Then he proceeds to give the Vanagon a “Ride Roast,” making jokes about how broken-down and filthy the car is.
Then the team goes to work on it, and they have ten days to get the job done. Tayvon wants a Ninja Turtles color scheme, which gives Redd some ideas to ask the team later. Some of the bigger ideas from the team: Having a drop-down projector in the ceiling and a screen built into the back. The team also installs a camper top, but the roof rack Abernante fabricated makes it too heavy, so Nelson comes up with a hydraulic system to lift the camper top.
Blair has to deal with a disc in the clutch that needs to be sent out for resurfacing, and the Valencias have to re-pad a seat whose foam is disintegrating. With two days left, Redd comes to the team with his big idea: A pizza shooter, just like the Ninja Turtles toy.
It’s not a stretch to say that if you were a fan of Pimp My Ride, you’ll like Resurrected Rides. At its core, it’s basically the same show, where someone’s hooptie becomes a dream car full of fun gadgetry and lots of technology.
Redd is a funny host, as you might expect. The prank he pulls on the first car owner, Tayvon, was funny enough, but his last-minute request for the team to make a pizza shooter made the show slightly different than its basic-cable forebear. We let out a big laugh when the team demonstrated the pizza shooter for Tayvon and Redd gleefully screams, “It’s useless as shit!”
In a 39-minute show, the producers can only show certain items that were fixed or overhauled, but we would have loved to have found out what Blair needed to do to fix the car’s exhaust problem, and we wanted to hear the Valencias’ rationale for building the front seat’s padding back up instead of just using new foam.
The reveal is the key to the show, as it was with Pimp My Ride, and that is pretty well done. And we are also loving the fact that two of the team members, including the mechanic, are women, something we would have never seen on the old MTV series.
