FantomWorks has been put on the cancellation scrapheap.
Velocity, newly relaunched as MotorTrend Network, has cancelled the car restoration series.
The previously-announced 9th season, premiering December 5, 2018, will now be FantomWorks’ last.
RIP.
FantomWorks Cancelled – No Season 10 For MotorTrend Network Series
You just cancelled the best show. Whats wrong with You?
I agree with you
What are they going to replace it with another bullshit show that the jack up the truck with low profile tires
I agree one of the best too many stupid shows like wrenched and gas monkey and Houston stupid big wheels motortrend is making bad choices
You can not accuse the people at Motor Trend of having any brains. Maybe they will put up a so called car show like Barret Jackson, that I do not watch. Selling cars to richest buyer is a not entertainment. Maybe Motor Trend doesn’t want to be in the entertainment business like the good people at Velocity did.
This was perhaps the most entertaining car show on TV. Great technicians, great cars and no eye candy required. How stupid of Motor Trend.
I can’t believe they cancelled this GREAT automotive show !!! This is a show I can watch episodes over and over and I cant say that about many shows. If this is what we can expect from Motor Trend then this cable network is doomed !!! Johnny D
This is a real period correct show… Way to many bling bling b.s.shows out there…boooo to you ….
I agree with everyone else who has posted here. I’m shocked and disappointed that FantomWorks has been cancelled. One look at this site and anybody could see how popular the show was. Hopefully Motor Trend will reconsider. If not, as others have already said, maybe another network will pick the show up.
Don’t do it MotorTrend this is a great car show
I agree with every post I have read. MotorTrend, f/k/a Velocity, has started its own trend of canceling good shows and replacing them with dumb ass shows about dumb ass people with too much money having their dumb ass trucks jacked up into the stratosphere with big ass tires. Is Garage Squad next?
Fantomworks is one of the best shows on TV congratulations motor trend you just lost a avid watcher
My husband and I love fantom works. I can’t believe you would cancel a great show shame on you!!!!
I don’t think motor trend thought this through, for some reason they decided to take one of the best shows on their Network off of the air bring fantomworks back.
I agree with others that Fantom Works is one of the best restoratie show. Since I am New to restorations, this show has helped me with mynknowledge and understanding asmuch or more than any other. I too feel Motor Trend is going down since taling over and they are brecoming too Political and lossing the reason way we like shows like Fantom Works All of their New shows stink and they will ruin the Whole purpose for this channel. I will be waiting for the next automotive channel show to take over.
Maybe they needed more time for the 20 commercials per hour for Last Stop Garage . So Stupid ! I’m Done
fantom works is the best it is real they explain everything to you and they show you what and what can not be done to a repair or a restoration . motor trend you suck
this shows sucks he goes through techs like water theres not one same person on that show from the beginning besides Dan. clown show .like the super bee show let’s make a race car and leave drum brakes on it
Your a complete idiot
a grown man going by the name spanky ? as previously stated, you are a complete idiot. who cares who works on the cars ? its about the cars,not people. go to auto zone to buy fake air vents to put on your 71 pinto instead of making dumbass comments about a great show
Fantom Works does go through some workers. I would think they’d be a little better pay than the run of the mill show.
Ann
Hey guys- Fantomworks is one of my favorite shows! obviously Spanky must hate cars! I love them and Dan and his crew are not divas! Boo on MT!!! Duh to there group! Sad to see this show come to an end????
I agree 100%. I just cancelled MotorTrend…..
I agree I won’t be subscribing.
Just can’t Believe Motortrend is that stupid. Real honest straight forward people that have a great diverse crew that does great work at a reasonable price. Real folks can actually go there and able to afford to do it. Go to kindigit and see if you could get your car done. Love the guys at Kindigitbut could never afford what they do.
I agree with all comments here. Fantom Works is a great show. Maybe another network will pick it up just like Fox did with Outdoor Man.
I agree that Fantomworks was a great show, and I will miss it. But if you check out the Fantomworks website, you’ll see that Motor Trend ended the show at Dan Short’s request. He felt that the constant filming had become to disruptive and costly to his business… Still sad to see the show end though.
I owned & operated a collision repair shop for almost 30 years and restored a car or two a year for customers who were known for show winning cars. I retired in 2011 and this show is one of the only ones that catches my attention due to doing the restorations properly. I relate oh so well to the big issues the techs don’t want to have to tell Dan lol. Motor Trend apparently feels Bad Chad & his cartoon cars is the beat entertainment for people who know about what they are watching. See ya Motor Trend….
they cancel one of the best car shows. i enjoy watching the people bringing old cars back to life. wish i had the knowledge they possess.
what a mistake!
Mark, your comment is right on! Fantomworks was one of the few shows left on what is now Motortrend that I enjoyed and watched. Like may of us who have commented here I just hope some other smart thinking channel picks it up.
I totally agree. Once again some pinhead in a suit in corporate made a terrible decision. Let’s hope Fatomworks comes back like Last Man Standing did! If this is how Motor Trend is going forward, it’s time to find a new channel. I didn’t see even 1 comment that supports MT’s stupid decision.
Thats one of the best shows on . it dont make any sence to
Canclle it . BRING IT BACK!
I dont want this show to end!!! My all time favorite!!
One of the best shows on TV, should have got rid of bad Chad, roadkill, wheeler dealer and all the idiots working on car/trucks
I agree with Philip, also heard Iron resurrection is on the block…hope not that man is talented.
Fantom works is the best this sucks!
Best show his pink slips
Fantomworks was one of my favorites also. I wish it would come back.
Please get rid of Road Kill instead of Famtom works the show totally sucks and The cast are fake as shit. Show is totally useless.
Get rid of road kill not fantom works what are you thinking or do a tasteful Harley Restoreration show please no father and son fighting that show sucked .sad day goodbye fantom works.
i agree
Big mistake!!! Love the show. I hate the new show Bad Chad. Change the title to Sad Chad. Don’t like roadkill or wheeler dealers either.
WAKE UP
I agree with Gary Bad Chad is the worst I seen so far his taste is up his ass and that guy with the tabaco in his mouth can’t even talk no less with that shit in his mouth
I agree… the new Bad Chad show sucks and FantomWorks should have been cancelled years ago… Dan is a drama queen always whining about how hard it it to find and fix things. The episode that featured the beautiful white 59 impala was absolutely ridiculous. . So much so that I ordered a catalog from Bob’s Impala parts and had it sent to FantomWorks…
I think that was a 1960 Belair. Nobody else knows what really happened behind the scenes. Please give Dan a break.
completely agree with Hank. Always felt that Dan was a condescending guy, both to his team and to the customers. Never liked it. Another bad one is that Canadian show, Restoration Garage I think. Another arrogant owner who doesn’t get it.
Are you freaking kidding me?? Best auto show on all TV and dropping it? thats the stupidest thing they could have done. Guess the God fearing retired Vet that does stuff the right way does not generate enough of that all mighty dollar! What a sad sad joke!
I can’t believe it either! So much better than the ones they are showing now. Fantomworks and Bitchin Rides are my favs! They better not cancel Bitchin!
This is the best show on your network. Its shows the process of restoring or repairing vehicles from start to finish, including billing. It’s nice for people to get to see how much it really costs and how much work goes into it.
I agree with you. Love this show. Can’t believe it’s no more!!!!!
They are losing a customer of this channel we love this show. Hoping another station will pick it up. I agree with not watching the car shows who cares about all that. I like that he restores cars not destroy cars I don’t want my car on the ground or wheels so big they look like separate vehicles. Take the other crap shows off
I agree. Cancelling FantomWorks is a really stupid move. Attention to detail, the entire process from start to finish, attention to detail, dealing with problems they run into… The list goes on! These big companies that come in and make sweeping programming changes without knowing what their audience really wants to see just blows me away. Insert angry face.
I agree, very bad decision on FW. Good show and hopefully Dan can get picked up somewhere else. I would like to continue watching MT but the show line up isn’t promising. Don’t think I can “get into” some of these new ones.
Bad Chad, who found this dude & Then had the brilliant idea to give him a show? Probably the same genius that decided to cancel FW. Stupid!!
best show on tv they really get into cars everyone should boycott this chanel also what happened to resteration garage all this chanel wants is shows that lower cars .
Absolutely the best car show on TV. They show all the work without the phony deadlines. The guys do the work and sometimes sweat and get dirty doing it. Dan Short is a real guy, a real Vet and a great leader and hands on kind of guy. This show is so much better than the shows it’s hard to believe it’s being cancelled. Big mistake for Velocity or what is now called Motor Trend.
Please rethink this decision and bring this great show back!
I concur with David Suit. This is a huge mistake. Again please rethink this poor decision.
We agree with everyone else!!! Fantom Works is a great show. So do we have new young programming managers who don’t give a crap about the dedicated viewers????? Typical b.s.!!!
Fantom Works was a real show, no messing around, just getting things done. If you wanted to cancel a show, should have been Grave yard cars and that s
8888d nut that is supposed to be the shows lead character and that is putting it mildly.
This has been one of THE BEST shows! Real true TV! This show is not staged or fake! There are other flakey fake shows that could have been cancelled. Your going to have a lot of angry fans.
Fantom Works is the real deal. There’s a bunch of other shows that should be canceled. Big mistake!
The reason I kept Velocity/Motor Trend is due to this show being authentic and fun to watch. Dan totally Rocks and is a stand up guy. Please re consider your decision!
One of just a handful of car shows without a lot of the childlike bs ‘gameplay’ between techs. This is a great show & sad to see it go. Dan & his team will be missed!
So few shows actually teach us how to work on our cars. Dont get rid of this great show! Why not pull the asshat at graveyard cars? Mark is to busy showboating to actually teach us anything. Bad move Motortrend
MARK IS TOO BUSY TEACHING HIS DAUGHTER HOW TO PUT DECALS ON CUDAS. FANTOM WORKS WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITE CAR SHOWS RIGHT AFTER OVERHAULIN’.DO THEY REALLY THINK ANY CAR GUY IS WATCHING ALL GIRLS GARAGE???
Really no Fantom Works replaced by this so called tackle box face douche canoe Bad Chad? whose work appeals to about .0000000000023% of mammals on planet Earth! Good call MotorTrend follow that up with these loser fatfuc$ on Wrench’d no thanks! I’m from America and there’s plenty of bearded fat asses everywhere. I prefer to watch people work!! See you in one season Dan!
Why would you cancel one of the BEST car shows on TV?
That is ignorant to cancel Danton Works one of the true hot rod shows that are still left on TV. I will discontinue watching this channel! tired of all the bullshit and crap shows. For instant unique whips bolt on crap. American chopper drama series. We need good hot rod building and restoration shows that’s what made this channel great
Its obvious that motor trend doesn’t have a clue about what we the blue collar minions like or want. Dan and his crew were great, knowledgeable and built and restored cars back to original and even better than original. Total shame it will be over, hope another network picks it up, would be smart of them to do so.
I totally agree with comments above maybe if Dan would have restored more golf carts for RICH RAPPERS his show could have been saved? I guess we will never know…….this really SUCKS
One of my all time favorite shows i watch it over and over Dan is a no bull boss this really sad bad Chad suck can’t wait for new shows to come on then this you should rethink it
I am so glad the show has been canceled never could stand the shop owner mainly. Now I hope they get a restoration show with a person who has a personality. As long as it not the owner of this shop or Richard from Gas Monkey.
After watching this show from the beginning I was impressed with the degree of quality fantomworks does When redoing a motor vehicle. I think it’s a bad mistake for Motor Trend Network to eliminate this program. Maybe somebody the top will wake up and see that there was there was a mistake made.
I just checked out the Fantom Works web site, and it turns out it was Dan Short’s decision to end the show. From what he said in the letter he posted, it was a major pain in the ass having those camera and sound guys all over the place, and it was having an adverse effect on his crew and his business, and it had been going on for years. After reading his letter and the details of what was involved in making that show, as much as I enjoyed it I can understand why Mr. Short was ready to call it quits. All good things come to an end and all that…
Seems to me that the guys that run these shows only care about the bribe and not the show. Best car show on American tv. Pity, was a real on the spot show instead of all the bull shit served up. I live in the UK and only wish someone over here would help Dan to get back onto tv.
Motor Trend…if it’s like the magazine, here come the foreign cars that they love.
This a great show.. You are making a mistake in cancelling this show..
Terrific show – one of my favorites. I will miss it.
One of the best shows they have, and they cancel it. Great.
They cancel a great show but keep loser shows like Wheeler Dealers. Makes no sense at all.
I agree, Wheeler Dealers is a loser,they concentrate on foreign makes while here in the US.
There’s room for shows like wheeler dealers. There is zero reason to cancel fantom works
First they ruin wheeler dealers, then collude with a crap magazine, then they cancel fantomworks. Nice work, ladies.
I completely agree.
I’ve been on an extended vacation traveling. Now I come back to hear that Fantomworks it’s being dropped by the Motor Trend Channel.
Well, I will have to drop Motor Trend from my cable package!
Jim Feerick
Why would you cancel Fantomworks, it’s the best show on your lineup. This don’t make sense!!! Are you trying to shut down the network? This is nuts!!!
Fantomworks cancelled the show due to the stress and debt they have incurred. Motortrend / velocity did not cancel the show. Dan Short issued a statement apologizing to the fans about his decision to cancel after 2018 season.
So many stupid car shows and you take off the best one.
I totally agree! You got so many other stupid car shows on there that you could take off!! And now you’re taking off one of the best car shows you have on!! I’m boycotting your stupid Channel now!!!! One of the only reasons I was watching your channel was for fantomworks!!
I hope another Channel picks it up, baby Discovery will be smart pick it up!
They cancel one of the best shows for OMG live love wrench!!!! OMG worst show ever
they keep garbage shows on and cancel ones that people watch consistently. this is not a good way to start your new again network how many times is this now i think its the 4th name for the same network
Get rid of road kill show, there are show that are just stupid that can go. Keep famtom works
Motor trend will kill off all the shows that make sense. Road kill is stupid Unique rides sucks Leave Fantom works on and go play with your legos
They’re liberals. They are on earth to tell you what to think, what to believe, and what to like. How dare you question their good intentions!
Sam mandola ur full of shit roadkill is stupid as HELL………
I really enjoy a number of shows on Velocity. And Fantomworks was one of the ones I enjoyed the most.
It’s one of the few that sticks to the nuts and bolts of actually working on cars, and the craftsmanship involved in turning out a great product for the customer. So many of the car restoration shows revolve around silly behaviors and out activities of the people involved.
Fantomworks covered as much of the restoration process as they could in 60 minutes. With the possible exception of Wheeler Dealers most of the other shows involve watching the shop owners and mechanics going through silly antics eg. running over cars with tanks or “Big Foot” style pickups, going to go-cart tracks,
and other antics not related to working on cars. Dan Short maintains strict control of the restoration/repair process. And refuses to turn out a quality project.
The loss of this shows means I’ll be watching the Velocity channel (or what they choose to call it) just that much less. Is there a more boring show to watch then “Motor Week”. With Motor Trend coming it’ll be shows like that, and some of the other gimmicky shows in the future.
Velocity made it’s bones with shows like Fantomworks. And now they’re abandoning Fantomworks and us.
When Motorweek took over Velocity Channel I knew they would ruin the the content of it by pushing the the Motortrend brand…which is why no one reads their magazine or should I say auto parts and auto ad magazine…Famtomworks was the first show I watched on Velocity which made me tune into other shows. I’m not a gearhead but Dan and his crew made it interesting to a novice like myself enough to buy a 62 olds and try and get involved….I will miss the show and probably watch less of the “so-called” improved network
Motor trend will regret cancelling this show. Acting stupid breaking shit and fake acting like Road kill will be their demise. Totally out of touch with what we like. Jj
I agree….. Dan Short and his crew made for an interesting show… Most restoration based shows are shot in fantasyland….barnfind this one of whatever self imposed deadlines….cut to commercial and problem solved…..bullshit.
Motortrend… I stopped subscribing to your magazine in my teens….it sucked….. I feared motortrend taking over velocity would ruin the network. Congratulations cancelling Fantomworks is a good start to destroying your network.
Actually, Dan Short chose to not film the show anymore. The network was set to renew it, but due to the problems it caused in the shop, he chose to decline. Research , people!
I thought so
I have seen every Fantom Works since its beginning and Dan Short has always been consistent and what I know a real car loving mechanic to be. Congradulations, Dan, on doing good work your way and putting building quality cars over TV exposure. Best wishes for the future and keep it salty.
Bill Green
Any car guy knows they do it the right way and enjoys watching how they do it. I can’t believe a supposed car magazine would cancel such a show. Please reconsider!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Iron resurrection now fantom works, two of the best shows and you cancel them. What the hell is wrong you? Big mistake
yet they keep chasing classic cars
I’d rather watch CCC than junkyard whatever it is, or Graveyard Carz. Cancelled 2of my faves…FantomWorks and Iron Resurrection. Never did like the magazine anyway. Not a fan of Wheeler Dealers since Edd left either. Loose the lousy shows and keep the good ones!!
I agree! Cancel the good shows and keep “All Girls Garage “ ???!!!
This was my favorite show on Velocity. Not a bunch of weird personalities but actual guys restoring some great cars – not to mention motorcycles, building a cool boat and more. These guys are true American craftsmen and we know Dan Short is a patriot to boot. I’m wondering if I will continue to watch Velocity.
Oh well. I guess I can downgrade to a new platform that doesn’t have Velocity. Of all the cars shows, Fantomworks and Wheeler Dealers were my favorites. I can get Wheelers on the internet, so bye bye. I even figured out the labor rate so when they pulled out the bill with the parts cost, I could figure out how much a quality A1 restoration really cost. There is one show I really like but can’t remember the name. They have a shop in Canada and the owner loves to wear horrible 1960’s clothing. Somebody will know what show i mean. Legendary Motorcars! I just remembered. Peter is the bad dresser. 🙂 Come to think of it, that hasn’t been on for a while.
Whoever decided to cancel FantomWorks has the intellectual agility of a small soap dish. Hopefully another network will pick them up. This is not a good start for the new motortrend network. I am also hoping to see Restoration Garage back soon. Otherwise I can’t think of any reason to keep this tier and the motortrend waste of bandwidth .
Fantomworks is a great show.Sorry to hear that it is cancelled.As with everything else a good show will go off only to be replaced by a crappy show.Thanks Motortrend.
Whoever decided to cancel FantomWorks has the intellectual agility of a small soap dish. This does not bode well for the new improved Motortrend channel . I can now drop them, there are more automobile show
Channels .
Canceling Fantomworks was a huge mistake. It was one of the reasons I watched Velocity. I hope another network will pick up Fantomworks. They show the actual nuts and bolts of a restoration without the silly antics and you can tell the employees there are passionate about their work, as you’d want them to be if they were working on your vehicle. I can probably downsize to a different tier of cable service now that Velocity will be without it’s best show.
I totally agree! I is the closest show to a real world car restoration show! What a joke! MotorTrend is not even fit to make those kind of decisions. I cancelled my subscription to that magazine years ago! I hope another network picks up the show!
I agree they have a lot of fake shows on the air Fantom works was great,they put crap shows like live love & wrench really ,what a crap show,not to mention garage rehab bring back Fantom works
In my opinion, Phantom Works is the best show on Velocity, but Motor Trend has a weird sense of what is good. Hopefully someone else will pick them up.
Glad to see it go The guy Dan Short is a Rude Arrogant ass like a lot of the so called car builders the Iron work Show was a good humorous Show with a very Talented Metal work in Joe Martin hate to see it go the TV executives-have no clue about what us Gear heads like and most of the shows anymore are like Infomercials to push there products at least the old Boyd Coddington show let you see real craftsman at work
Dude ur full of shir
You obviously have the mentality of a 2nd grader. Perhaps you should hop on your 15 foot raised truck with the Dixie flag and put your head back up your ass
Motortrend formerly Velocity has been shelving shows people liked and watched such as of course Fantomworks, RMD Garage Dallas Car Sharks, Iron Resurrection, Speed Is the New Black, They do not care what the ones who watch like. You do not see them asking us do you.
Motor Trend was a great magazine back in the day. Now it’s ” foreign car magazine”. I guess they previewed this great show and said..”most of their work is with American cars-dump it”. With Velocity gone, I may be able to dump a tier and save some money.
Well with all the cancellations of the shows I watch I can cancel Motor Trend TV. Just like the magazine, now the TV shows will suck. Good news I can save $20 a month and get rid of this channel package and wont have to watch every other commercial being a Motor Trend TV ad.
This is my favorite show. I might as well cancel Motor Trend TV and save some $. Most of the rest of the shows suck anyway.
I agree with everyone else, MT is cancelling the best shows. I’m not much for all the staged BS. Fantomworks, Speed is the New Black we’re we’ best, all the other shows are infomercials. Guess I’m watching Netflix.
Just saw you guys are cancelling the show. This is the kind of show you can watch to learn the business and get some tips on restoration. As an auto tech this show delivers on many levels and goes into some depth on the how to get things repaired right. What the hell!! Why take this show off. Will watch for awhile to see if you screw up the rest of the programing. Like others will save money on cable without this channel and go to alternate viewing.
Can’t believe Fantom Works is canceled. Best show on Velocity. Dan Short had the formula to make car restoration very interesting & discussed real costs, problems, repair techniques, show unique solutions to restoration challenges. Might be dropping that channel. Most other auto shows are ridiculous.
They probably wanted him to add a pretty blonde to the cast to try to bring in more male viewers. NEWS FLASH!!!! There are plenty of places for guys to see pretty girls these days. Why ruin good car shows with a little eye candy????
Yeah shows like Live Love and Wrench where the blonde tries to hard and giggles and laughs about everything. What a stupid show. Let’s put shoes like that on and take Phantom Works off. How stupid!!!
Fantomworks, Ieon resurrection and speed is the new black were the three best shows on the now Motortrend channel. I guess I’ll be dropping that channel just like they dropped those shows. Whoever decided to cancel those shows should be fired! Or should I say canceled.
Agreed. I’m going to miss Dan Short. What is going on? This is what this channel was built on!
I knew the Minute MotorTrend took over they would find away to get Rid of Shows true Gear Heads watch, I will Dump MotorTrend and only Hope that a new Channel will come who won’t sell out Muscle Car Gear Heads for Ass Kissing Foreign Car Bullshit Magazine (MotorTrend) Maybe Hot Rod Magazine can start there own Channel.
Seems like every time a channel that specializes in automobiles is taken over, the new channel management has their head up their asses about what shows to keep and who to cancel. Fantomworks has been the best show on velocity for years. And now the morons at motortrend have canceled it. Why can’t you just leave well enough alone? There are enough stupid car shows with people doing stupid stuff on both your channel and a lot of other channels. As a lot of other people are saying I guess you are going to be putting on something only about foreign cars and not American. Which is why I don’t even look at your magazine any more.
This is the only show I watch on velocity, I should have known once moter trend took over they would pull something like this.
I agree. The ONLY reason I got a premium cable package was to watch Velocity and shows like fantomworks. Great America car show. Now you go and cancel all the good shows. Motortrend YOU will not survive if you don’t listen to what your viewers say. Bye bye!
I agree now that fantomworks is gone and wheel dealers is tuned I am not paying for premium channels any more .
I really like the show and the info they discuss with each particular car. What a shame to let it go. I don’t really like the newer shows. No show will replace FantomWorks. Just my .02
My favorite show,an being cancelled,replaced with a stupid show Live,Love, Wrench smart people,guess that’s why I never read Motor Trend.stick with Hot Rod,and Chevy Performance
Fuck Motor Trend, both the magazine and channel…they don’t care about real craftsmen, only slapped together tuners, and shitty foreign cars. i won’t be watching any more.
Just saw the ad on “Motor Trend” that Fantomworks was canceled WTF – then reading these comments find out that Iron Resurrection may be canceled also? I hate the other stupid shows like Whealer Dealers since Ed left – looks like I will be checking to see how much I can save by cancelling this channel – on the plus side won’t have to see the advertisements for signing up to live streaming on Motor Trend – just another way of trying to get more money from us consumers
I cannot believe this show has been canceled. You keep loser shows and cancel the good ones like Fantomworks and Speed is the New Black???? Really? ??? These were my favorites and I can guarantee viewership will drop off. Not off to a good start with a new network for sure.
I agree with the previous comments. Fantomworks is my favorite car show. As a car enthusiast and back yard car restorer for over 40 years, this program, along with Wheeler Dealers are the pinnacle of car fix up/restoration shows on TV. I’ve even considered traveling to Norfolk to have Dan and his team work on one of my restoration projects. All of the other car shows on MT have similar formats, customize and accessorize. While there’s nothing wrong with that, some of us are more purists when it comes to cars and their originality. I will truly miss Fantomworks, Dan and his talented team. I thank them for the 9 seasons that we did get to see. If enough of us comment on it’s cancelation, maybe MT will reconsider. Come on people!
I will definitely not be watching motortrend tv. They don’t care what people actually want to watch! They are just in it for the sponsors.
Big gear head and by far one of the best car shows in TV, huge mistake
Highly disappointed!!!! I really hope another chanel picks up these shows that were canceled. With all the garbage on TV these shows were family friendly. I don’t know who is in charge of the shows that they keep but they are morons.
Sad to see they are canceling the show, one of the few I like to watch.
Instead we will get more shows of West Coast Customs doing build for Justin Bieber on his Million dollar car, and other IDIOT builds on a Rappers bus etc. I could live without ever seeing WCC ever again… guess a motor channelis mor einterested in main stream than actual content.
I do Like Joe Martin and crew, but not every car needs to be dropped, an LS engine, channeled etc. gets repetitive.
There are currently no shows where the real car enthusiast can learn and attempt a build on a realistic budget.
Guess time to find a new channel.
I am ready to also drop Motortrash network. Barrett Jackson also needs to go, over priced, over hyped. Thank god for mecum. We want to see actual work and theory’s, not trash talk and burn outs. Graveyard cars is also dead.
Larry
I dont know why motor trend is cancelling the best shows and bringing in the absolute dumbest show aka roadkill what a disappointment. I wish velocity never sold out.
are you retarded??? cancel Fantomworks and iron resurrection?
what douse decided this?
well if motor trend is going to cancel one of the best car shows on TV then I’m going to have to cancel them you see the people in charge at motor trend TWO CAN PLAY THIS GAME.
Why not cancel that annoying little MoPar twerp who thinks he’s so funny and clever. I saw him constantly berate a worker for a “dent” in a car – he called him “Dent Guy” throughout the entire show. Annoying little prick. While you’re at it, I don’t watch Wheeler Dealers any more because Edd China is gone! I am glad Coddington’s show is gone (I know he passed away), because that whole shop was a toxic rush-rush environment, with everyone sniping at one another. Reminded me of Paul Senior’s continual childish outbursts on Orange County Choppers.
I will still watch as long as you continue to air Barret-Jackson.
Add my voice to the chorus. Fantomworks and Chasing Classic Cars were the last of my tune-in’s. Apparently renewing Carini’s show is some sort of national security secret with Motortrend TV. I’m assuming it’s not coming back too. Motortrend, formerly Velocity, will be a “surf over” with my channel selector. All the current re-runs and remaining shows sucketh.
I agree with virtually all that has been said. I get so tired of some rapper or celebrity with cash running out of all of his/her orifices having something built that none of us normal people could afford or would drive. All of us ‘normal’ gearheads could identify with the crew at Fantomworks and what they did. All we can hope for is that someone starts a new network and brings back some of this programming.
If your trying to get me to stop watching motortrend channel your going in the right direction. Cancelling Fantom Works is correct. I enjoy this show over 99% of those overweight hillbilly mecanics you have on. I am disappointed in your decision to cancel this show.
Really disappointed your dropping what I consider is one of the top ten shows on Motortrend. I hope you reconsider.
I have NEVER read Motor Trend magazine and I’ve tried not to miss an episode of Fantomworks. This show was real. Start to finish it presented the beginning to end process with customer, work needed and what it cost. Seems like the new named channel needs some repair too….for their decision making process!
Sounds like motor trend is trying to see if it can shot itself in the foot.
You can only watch reruns so many times.
This is the new direction they were promising when they took.over the velocity channel.
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So disappointed phantom works and iron resurrection canceled watch reruns every time they’re are on.just like everything else going to crap.
“Phantomworks”, the only garage that knew how to restore a vehicle the way it should be, without the stupid concert hall stereos and ridiculously large wheels on everything. You may as well cancel Grave Yard Cars also, seems you have an aversion to shops who do cars the right way.
I was really hurt to learn that my favorite car show has been cancelled. Seems like anyone who has decent patriotic show that is not an infomercial, and deals with real people and real cars should stay on. Hopefully it will be picked up by another channel.
Love Fantomworks. Try to watch every episode. Why would they cancel? Great show.
Like all the previous comments, I agree Fantomworks was one of best car shows. No irritating camera mugging going on like Graveyard Cars. Motor Trend obviously doesn’t know its audience. When the ratings start to fall, maybe they will figure it out.
Fantomworks is the best show on Motor Trend. Chasing Classic Cars also good. Not much left to watch, otherwise. Bad decision to cancel show. Of course viewers opinions never matter.
I guess Motor Trend doesn’t care about what viewer like. They cancel Fantomworks…I cancel Motor Trend.
I agree very BAD, BAD, BAD, BAD, deal to cancel the best automotive show on M.T,
You need to reconsider this choose !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE CHANGE YOUR MIND AND PUT FANTOM WORKS BACK ON.
The program director should be canceled NOT the SHOW ‘!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excessive quality. We need more programming with fake stories, and childish antics, to entertain 10 year old’s.
the owner of fantomworks cancel the show himself Dan Short it’s interfering with his business do your homework
How about this cancel motor trend TV . Losers
I am a die hard 30 year Auto Tech my wife and I Enjoy watching fantom works Out of all the ridiculous shows did they put on their Only a handful were worth watching dan short was one of them Need to take off Wheeler dealers what a waste. And I can only take so much of mark worman And the way he treats his employees motor trend is going to go under leaving this ridiculous bullshit on and canceling the good shows
Seriously..have been a MT subscriber for years…DONE!..,3 of the best shows on restoration and you cancel them out of the gate. Nice business model. Dumazzes
Finally a great automotive show without all the garage weirdos and they are being cancelled??? Whoever is making these decisions needs to be FIRED!!!!!
Wow ….who is making these decisions….guess just another “dumbass” executive who thinks he knows what’s best….another tone deaf rapper car make over…Bet the executive thinks he’s cool cause he wears his ball cap sideways!!!
And irons the bill flat, ‘cause he’s fresh… really poor decision by this “new” network.
A agree completely about Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection. Usually this isn’t just a cancellation based upon any logical process like viewership but a cancellation based upon the shows subject not wanting to adhere to new guidelines or terms being forced down their throats by new management. Seen it all too often and we the loyal fans have to live with the results. Hopefully a Motor Trend channel alternative will rise from the ashes.
Idiots !!!!! Nothing new I quit M/T mag
Years ago when it started to go Europe
Three of the best entertainment/education shows on
I built cars like that and I never lost the itch till this day
Guess I’ll have to find another channel to scratch it
Morons if it ain’t broken don’t fix it
Well I guess Motor Trend does not care if they have viewers or not. Cancellation of Fantomworks is a bad decision.. Goodbye Motor Trend … you have lost me and a lot of my friends. Here’s hoping some other, smarter network picks Dan and his show on. Motor Trend, I am thoroughly disgusted.
I just saw the commercial 20 minutes ago that the final ever episode of Fantomworks is the last and I’m pretty damn sad, and so I searched online and found this page. I watch this show religiously and have since day one. It’s nice seeing the work that’s done. Like another comment on this site, I had figured out the price of the restore whenever they said the total hours put into the job and i found it interesting. Sad to see Velocity is now MotorTrash television.
terrible one of the best shows. Place where you would want to take your car. Very informative shows Real mechanics that work on cars that everyday gearhead sees not barett Jackson chasing cars mega buck models. Big mistake correct it before you lose everybody
Pretty stupid to cancel a show that is worth watching, half the car build type shows on TV are crap, this is one of the top 3 or 4 that I really like…… guess that’s why I was never a sub for the mag and never will sub to the site, way to nail one foot to the floor right the from the start…… how long will it take for you to hit the other one???
Sad day indeed when they take off a great show wake up and leave it on
PLEASE reconsider and do not cancel Fantomworks!! This is one of the best car shows that actually shows and explains real car work.
Totally disappointed, FantomWorks was the only show that had true mechanics and restorers retaining their professionalism and not mugging for the camera or trying to be comedians. I never was a Motor Trend mag fan, I just felt it, and holds true with this channel buyout. I guess the new program director has an entertainment background and feels people must laugh to be entertained, not by hold one’s attention with knowledge and substance. Maybe It will come back on another channel if enough people complain but on my next trip to Norfolk I’ll find that shop and shake Dan’s hand and thank him.
Fantomworks was the first show I watched on Velocity which made me tune into other shows and I knew when motorweek took over Velocity that they would ruin a good thing. I am not a gearhead but Dan and his crew made it interesting enough to a novice like myself to make me purchase a 62 Oldsmobile to tinker with and get my hands dirty. Hopefully bring it back to a respectable condition. Now I learned from reading other posts that Iron Resurrection and Speed is new black are gone too!…Motorweek just cut the best 3 shows on its network…when it was Velocity the only show I hated was “this is motorweek” with the guy driving a car that was way out of most people’s means. I hope some channel pick up the 3 best shows that motorweek just cancelled.thanks for letting vent.
Cancelling Fantomworks is ridiculous. Its the only show that comes close to actually showing the restoration process. We dont need to see a bunch of staged “problems”.
You have made a big mistake. Hopefully someone else picks it up?
It’s like most networks today. They only show what the elite want to see. Like most networks they have lost touch with the majority of people who viewed their programs. Who wants to watch hours of an auto auction? I haven’t read Motor Trend for years and now that they have screwed up Velocity, I guess I’ll find another channel to watch, maybe some shows on PBS.
Motor Trend TV is ts becoming crap just like the magazine. Used to read it until all they did was foreign cars. Fanthom Works was the best and now it’s gone. Figures
I watched speed til velocity liked the switch more car build shows why the hell would motortrend cancel the best shows are they figuring out some kind of tax writeoff by losing viewers and going broke….
Great show… It will be missed!
Couldn’t agree more. Of all the car magazines out there Motor Trend is by far and away the least intresting. It has sucked for years and now this channel will as well undoubtedly. Its all about high priced forign shit most of us could care less about. There are no other good options at this point. I can only hope some other channel rises up from the ashes after these stupid bastards run it into the ground! I am done watching MT .no reason to watch anymore. Nice going guys! ????
If we have to pick between Fantomworks and MotorTrend, we are not picking MotorTrend. I have always enjoyed Fantomworks and I love Iron Restoration, Speed Is The New Black and Garage Squad. Graveyard Cars is interesting and I do enjoy Car Fix and All Girls Garage. The girls are very talented and the projects they take on are fun to watch. Both Car Fix and AGG tend to get a little too close to infomercials at times, but still very enjoyable. I was not sure I would like the auction shows but the variety of vehicles coming across the auction block always catches my attention. Jury is still out on Live, Love, Wrench.
I still miss Edd China but I do like Mike and Ant. I really understand why Edd left. Maybe Edd will get a new show and end up on a better network with Fantomworks and Iron Restoration. Very sad to see the best shows canceled by clueless network executives.
Fantom Works, the only reason to watch Velocity channel, is gone, along with Ed China from Wheeler Dealers which turned it into a looser. Bitchin’ Rides should be gone. Highly scripted with the cast thinking they are funny, I am done watching Velocity. Dan Short, create you own video web site and offer subscriptions, you’ll clean up.
The good news is if MT keeps canceling the good shows and replaces them with show with rappers/ballers getting their whips customized I can save some money on my cable bill by canceling the MT tier
We don’t need more commercial car shows. Why cancel a good show like FantomWorks. Was one of the best shows. We want to see American Muscle cars. You will lose viewers.
why did you cancel fanthom works? idiooooottts
Thanks for cancelling Fathom works and Iron resurrection now I can cut the cable cord and save all kinds of cash. I would not spend a dime to watch crap like road kill and wheeler dealers and you car shows that are nothing more then infomercials for motor oils and dustless blasters, Adios motor trend.
No shit two of the best shows
Motor trend sucks
There weren’t enough tattoos, cool facial hair, childish antics, or yelling ‘Wooooooo’! on FantonWorks for it to fit in with the rest of the MT line up. Who wants to watch normal mechanics without full sleeve tatoos, multiple piercings, that don’t have long dirty beards actually working on cars? What’s the point of watching if they’re not putting tank treads on a Porsche 911 and don’t yell ‘Woooohooo’ while mugging for the camera after every segment?
This is a real shame. Again the numbers crunchers have killed the best car show on television. This is why I do not subscribe to MotorTrend magazine anymore. When the bean counters outweigh the real car people this is what happens to the programming on television and the content of car magazines. One day I would like to see the producers and editors ask the people that actually watch the shows, buy the magazines and buy their products advertised what they think. Maybe and only maybe then would they realize what a terrible mistake it is to change what has been working so well.
I am going to miss the best show on tv.
Sad to see such a good quality program cancelled. It goes to show that the T.V’ channels could care less about quality in what they put on the air. One look at their magazine should have warned us of what we could expect. Fantomworks is a good show that deserves to be on the air. Chasing Classic Cars is another program of quality that will probably be cancelled because of its quality. I will avoid the MT channel like the plague.
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I guess motortrend canceling phantomworks so I guess I’m canceling motortrend
This is the best show MT has to offer . Cancel this show and watch your ratings drop . Say bye bye Motor Trend.
Fantom Works is perhaps the BEST Gear Head show on TV. I am sure there’s more to the story of cancellation than what we’ve been told. The other show that’s GREAT is Full Custom Garage. THANK GOD Ian Rousell’s on MAV TV so he cannot be s-canned by MTTV.
Fantom Works was the only reason I tuned in to Velocity/Motor Trend. Most of the other shows are pure garbage. Mostly customization bullshit and foolishness that very few people relate to or are interested in. How many jacked up trucks or weed eating customs with fat tires can one look at? There was no reason to read MT magazine, now there is no reason to watch the MT channel. Well, at least I will save some money each month since I will cancel the MT channel package.
Maybe Discovery or another channel will pick up Fantom Works. I sure hope so.
Fantomworks was the best car restoration show because Mr. Short and his craftsmen told you what was wrong and how they would repair it. At the end we were witness to how much the cost would be. I thought this was the best show because of the education and there was no annoying member. When Graveyard Carz comes on I can’t change the channel fast enough, the owner of that garage makes me angry. Dan and the guys will be missed.
Agree with above on Full Custom Garage as being a good show with a completely different approach to cars/trucks restored, customized or just created. Great…????????????????
I had a gut feeling when motor trend took over they would completely ruin the excellent programming the Velocity channel took years to put into place. So now motor trend can have their foreign cars and made for TV drama self proclaimed car experts that throw wrenches and have temper tantrums, and are willing to sell what good character and self respect they may have had for a fast buck. Sad to say these same people are contributing to the downfall of this Country by setting the worst of examples for the future generation of true classic car lovers. Well shame on you motor trend, I and all my American muscle car friends are much too mature and discerning to waste our time buying into this trash.
the best car show on tv was just cancelled by the worst mag/new be network on tv .. judging by how long it took for me to scroll down to ad my 2 cents they will loose a lot of viewers over this mistake . fantom works was the best show in the line up … and it will more than likely be replaced by a wine ass bicth and complain show with no content just bickering … hats off to the 12 year old in charge
Unbelievable disappointment. Great classic car show. So sad to see a real car guy show go away. My fellow Sherwood Cruisers, 120 members in Sherwood, OR are disappointed in Motor Trend for axing one of our favorite series . . . Tim
I stopped watching wheel dealer when Ed left now with fantomworks and Iron resurrection gone I think i’ll just not watch motor trend tv. the new shows you are coming out with are a joke to anybody that has ever worked on a car its sad to see a good product go to hell as fast as it has just wonder when Wayne gets cut loose.
I owe Motor Trend an apology… I just read a letter from Dan … it seems that Dan’s leaving was mutual … He did not want to spend all his time doing the TV show … as you can see from all the comments he 2ill be missed … he also said that his business continues.
I can imagine Dan not wanting camera crews constantly distracting his business. Seems like a no nonsense guy.
If MT wanted to keep Dan in the lineup they could have made him an offer they couldn’t refuse. Clearly, they didn’t and Dan’s pain of filming the show wasn’t worth it to him. MT failed. The MT crew in charge of negotiations failed. It is among the best of the shows and now there is less quality shows (across all the BS TV) to watch.
As for me, I’m now more motivated to go out in the garage and turn a wrench myself. I’m going to live life more and just observe it less.
Bad move motor trend! Dan Short and Fantom Works was my favorite show!!
There are three months worth of comments at the disappointment of Motor Trend Television cancelling Fantom Works from their line up. I certainly can’t add anything more than what has already been said. I really appreciated the detail of difficulties and solutions endured restoring many vehicles to their former glory. Only one other current show I can think of which provides as much detail is; Graveyard Cars. Only drawback is exclusive concentration to Mopar products.
motor trend is going to do the same thing it did to it’s magazine. Was once one of the best car mags out there. Then once foreign cars hit their pages it went down the tube. Before to long you’ll be luckly to find anything with hot rods or American muscle. Even notice now a number of the good shows are doing foreign cars and they can’t seem to get enough of that loud mouth on wheeler Dealers. Even a number of others are from Australia. At this rate I’ll probably end up canceling the channel unless they mend their ways.
Are you kidding me! Fantom works is the show on Velocity. I love the way Dan keeps everything running smooth. You idiots at Motor Trend should have your heads checked. Keep it on fools!!!
Motor Trend you people are DUMB ASSES You have lost me as a viewer !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a shame. I have been watching this show from the first episode. Velocity you stink!
You suck. I will not be tuning in any more. Thanks for nothing.
One of the best shows on this network. I guess they want more over the top custom cars and trucks. I like this show because they DON’T do all the custom stuff. And the staff is cool without having to resort to hijinks and stunts that have nothing to do with building a car.
What is it with these TV Network Executives. You going to tell me that Fantom Works isn’t one of your most popular shows on Velocity/Motor Trend. You got a show which in my opinion and others think that it’s a very good car show and you up and cancel it. If you’re going to cancel something, cancel Dallas Car Sharks or Junkyard Empire. What are you going to cancel next…..Graveyard Carz? Maybe people ought to cancel your network from their cable/satellite lineup. Who ever mad this decision doesn’t have their head screwed on right or lacks common sense, which seems to be the norm these.
I lived 58 years without watching your channel, I’m sure I can make it another 58?
I only watch 2 shows on Motor Trend and Fantomworks is by far the best of the two. Why did I figure when Motor Trend took over things would go to he.. in a hand basket? Simple answer, because their magazine sux. Like some others have said it will soon go all European.
I never did grow a liking for Dan but the show was still good.
This is sad …. this is the best restoration show on MT, I’ll miss it, for sure
So instead of Fantomworks we are going to get more crap like three chicks with six tits?
Thank you motor trend for canceling fantom works and all the real good shows I guess people would rather watch bad chad what a joke he is would not watch him if you gave me. Free cable I will save money on cable cancelling motor trend. PS Can You Get A title On Some Oil Drums welded together and a p.o.s not even. Primed
Gerrard,
Completely agree.
I know Bobby would agree with us both!
Jimmy
Philadelphia, PA
There are so many shows on about cars which I enjoy watching. But explain how someone could leave some shows on like Bad Chad (sucks) Wheeler Dealer and not to mention someone like Chasing Classic Cars who allow his mechanic to have medical issues and turn away when he was needed. So just take Fantom Works off and now it’s time to remove Motor trend from my lineup. Ask the people what they watch, real men shows none of those candy ass fluff fluff foreign crap.
You are cancelling one of the best shows in your programming lineup. Why? There are more important things than dollars and cents. Yes, the production costs for FantomWorks may be higher, but your Return on Investment (ROI) is also higher. Keep FantomWorks and cancel some of the cheap, uninteresting, boring programs that only exist to fill gaps in programming. If you don’t take care of your viewers… Another Network will. Period!
So now we can watch another show about building cars with unrealistic surprise deadlines of annual events ??? Lol
This show was the only real one with real mechanics
Big mistake! Real big one !
The 2 best shows on Velocity is Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection. Somebody is making a very poor move if they take them off the air.
i hope everyone doesnt watch motor trend anymore fantom works was the best show what happened to restoration garage and now they want to cancel irion resurection if everyone willl boycot this channel maybe they will come to there senses and put them back on velocity channel was so much better lets alll keep complaining
Instead of blaming the idiots at MT with words we should be sending them a message that hurts! How? By watching our favorite shows making a note of each shows sponsors (the main source of income for MT) then letting the SPONSOR know we WON’T be purchasing their products any longer because the network that they pay a lot of money to advertise on is cancelling the only shows on TV worth watching.
Fantom works is the best show on MT and now they cancel it ,I won’t be watching to much of MT anymore sense all there new shows suck
Can’t believe your cancelling one of the best restro shows on your network. I think your messing up, Fathom Works, you will be missed, sorry to see you go.
You canceled a “legit” show and keep crap like wheeler dealers and the @#sshole mark worman? I agree with the other reviews. Motortrend: we love imports
Way to go Motor Turd, the car magazine that never met a car they didn’t like. Fantom Works was a great, REALISTIC show that actually showed the restoration process honestly. No idiots in flat brimmed hats playing out scripted antics, no product placements, no ridiculous 7 day “deadlines”. Just real mechanics doing real work. I guess that is not what teenage boys want to see. I got a higher tier of my TV service for the sole reason of being able to watch Velocity Channel. Like many others have said here, now I can drop that, and save $20/month.
I have been in the auto repair industry for 40 years. This is the closest to real world auto show and most enjoyable show on air.motor trend asking wrong people there opinion. Don’t have a clue what people who watch there station want, obviously from reading previous posts. Very very disappointed. Get a clue M/T. Your pissing your viewers off.
Big mistake cancelling motortrend after last Fantomworks show
Whom ever your program director is he is an idiot for cancelling FantomWorks it is a great show as most comments on here show
Motortrend I just cancelled you, Instead of dropping crap you drop good shows that everyone likes. Why Don,t you drop that fat head that so in love w/ himself /Graveyard carz. Its bad enough w/ have to see these low life politicians screwing up our country now we have a station thats going all foriegn. This is USA and we like watching good Americans built and fix American Cars. You jerks
Motor Trend you had better reconsider canceling Fantomworks!! It’s one of the best shows on your channel. Dan and his crew are Great!!! I will definitely be very disappointed if you take them off. There’s other shows that don’t do as well as Fantomworks. Please Keep Fantomworks!!!
You are cancelling the best show , read the comments and wake up .
I’m in shock that Fantomworks is leaving the air, Fantomworks are two of the best car shows ever on TV…!…{]=; They have a veracity & excitement few can come close to let alone match…!!!…}=: This decision needs to be revisited…!!!…}=:
I’m in shock that Fantomworks is leaving the air, Fantomworks and Overhaulin are two of the best car shows ever on TV…!…{]=; They have a veracity & excitement few can come close to let alone match…!!!…}=: This decision needs to be revisited…!!!…}=:
I agree, 100%. . . . . . . . . . . . wave “bye-bye” Counts Kustoms . . . . . . different channel, I know, but it might be contagious. . . . . . . . hang on Mr. Coker
I am very disappointed to hear that Motor Works is cancelling Fantomworks. Lots of realism in their work and no fake deadlines..My favorite shows are Fantomworks, Iron Resurrection and Kindigit Designs, At Fantomworks they actually show how they are rengineering and making things work! I sure hope MOTOR TREND reconsiders.
BRING BACk. This is one of the best show in the channel. Still time to make the right move.
There must be a way to stop the cancellation, of Fanthomworks. If this is Motor trends idea, of new ways to please Velocity’s TV watchers, they are dead wrong. I have watched every episode, Of Fanthomwork’s, more than once. This is a bad move by Motor trends. Lets find a way to fight Motor Trends, on this.
Fantom Works is the Show I Truly Look Forward to. It is the Best show on TV for quality restorations. I have few TV shows that I really anticipate seeing. The good news is I won’t be spend as much time watching tv.
I knew when Motortrend took over they would cut the good shows and bring more crap shows….Whats next idiots??????
I just purchased my subscription to Motor Trend app. If fantomworks and iron Resurrection are canceled I am going to cancel my subscription to motor trend. Sad day for Gearheads.
First you idiots took Edd China off the show and left Mike Brewer. Anybody could do what Brewer does, but China knew what he was doing and explained what was happening along the way. Then your fatal mistake is taking Fanthom Works off. I am so tired of most of the shows that appear on your network. The only good shows right now are Iron Resurrection and Fanthom Works. If you could get Edd China back you would be accomplishing something. I know that would be a new experience for this network, but your viewers would appreciate it. So I guess if the rumors are true then I am a former viewer of the Motor Trend Network
Fantonworks is hands down the BESt show on TV. Dan is the real deal and honest in his work, cost, and expectations of the customer It saddens me that the integrity of the network just took a nosedive!
What is wrong with these people? Fathomworks is my favorite show. I hope Dan Short is open to going to another station. I think a lot of people will follow.
I think you are confusing perfectionism and caring about quality as arrogance. He knows his craft and wants it done right for the customer. When your good, your good. Its sad that someone who cares a great deal about his product is called an ass. I do agree with you that Iron Resurrection was a good show and I hate to see that one go as well. I’m afraid we will dropping Motor Trend and maybe cable altogether with these changes and ones I feel will be coming down the pike.
After reading a lot of the comments, I totally agree with everyone. You’re keeping crappy shows like Roadkill, street outlaws and wheeler dealers. I hate those shows. Now I hear you’re cancelling Iron Resurrection too. Stupidest move EVER!!! Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection are the only 2 shows I look forward to on the new Motor Crud channel. I used to DVR and download Dan’s shows to my tablet and watch it when I traveled. With the 2 gone, I can cancel the channel from my cable subscription.
Shows like Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection have made me a female gearhead. I really appreciate the quality and workmanship of classic cars. Fantomworks is amazing because they let you know how long it really takes to complete a masterful restoration. I have come to enjoy the staff and their amazing skills that they bring to doing masterful work.
Joe Martin is out of the world amazingly talented in so many areas from design to metal work to hand-painted artwork on the cars or trucks. Shorty’s paint jobs on the classic vehicles are done with love and joy. They are showroom ready. I love the relationship with Joe and the entire staff. They may kid around, but the end result is jaw-dropping beautiful work.
Motor Crud ….. you lost another viewer.
I have liked this show ever since they fixed the Buick for the lady who’s husband died. It is a great show. You take this show off. This show is not just entertaining But it teaches the person who knows not how to turn a wrench learn. Yes learn. People who never were into cars love this show. It shows them how to look for problems with there classic cars and how to fix them. This show should be shown to kids to get them interested in classic cars instead of drugs.
I can’t believe they are taking off one of the best car shows I’ve ever seen in fantomworks this is ridiculous and now I hear that iron Resurrection is next you can’t get any better than those two shows they’re laid out perfect they do the right kind of work they appealed to my sense how car should be built some of these other stupid shows you got going you going to keep and get rid of the to the best Motor Trend you are screwing up you are a mess and you’re going to pay for it with loyalty that is not going to be there
Wheeler Dealers went down the drain when the got rid of Edd, now one of the best restoration shows is out. There are fewer and fewer reasons for me to watch this network!
I agree with your comment 100 percent
Cancelling Fantomworks will leave Motor Trend network as boring as their magazine! Who the hell makes these decisions? Certainly no one with their finger on reality!
Very bad start to your network rebranding!
Main reason I watch Motor Trend Network. May stop because of this. Best show on this network! You sure are starting off on the wrong foot in my opinion!
Buying a network does not make you smart. In fact we have many examples of CEO’s who have run successful businesses into the ground – most recently Sears as an example. GE is headed down also. I try not to be a armchair quarterback but cutting Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection and keeping Street Outlaws – Roadkill etc. I think your now the official Motor Buzz Kill Network. No more dirty hands – no more real situations – no more love of bringing back cars and memories. What is next? No more Motor Trend.
When will TV people realize that car shows should be about the cars, not the idiot “personalities”, that the producers manufacture. Of course this show was cancelled. The lunacy factor of the cast was less than 1. Let’s keep all the redneck crews, on other programs. Shows what the Hollywood types really think about their viewers.
This makes no sense because I’ll bet the ratings are good on this show and whatever dan says he means you can her it in his actions
Wow! You just lost me…..all shows are low profile hot rods .no real people ! What are you guys thinking…..all the new shows are the same ,very disappointing
When i grew up in the 50s motor trend was the rag you wiped up grease with. Hot Rod was the magazine everyone read. Now one of he best shows on TV is being cancelled. Fantom works does extremely good work with the passion to go with it. Motor trend you suck
MotorTrend is off to a bad start by canceling FantomWorks. I may have to get MAVTV
One of mymy favoriye shows on your network. It’s getting pretty boring with all the shows customizing the same cars.
Guess this is one more channel to take off my “favorites”
Really bad decision
Wrench’d is the Edsel of motortrend, and you cancel fantomworks. Footbullet!!!
All of the comments go away if another network picks up the series.
Just wanted to add my comments to all the others who posted. MotorTrend has ruined the Velocity Channel line up that actually kept viewers watching. Now, with cancelling these 3 shows, and probably replacing them with 40 inch wheels stuffed in drop down frames with the backseats replaced with speakers shows, you are setting this channel up for failure. I used to watch Velocity as my go-to channel. Now with the 3 really good shows that were on being cancelled by a crappy magazine, I guess this network will be my no-go-to channel. Thanks for ruining a good thing! I wonder if the same person who made the magazine shitty is responsible for making the network shitty? I, along with all the others who posted am greatly disappointed that Dan and his crew are going away, as well as Iron Resurrection and Speed is the New Black. Maybe a real channel like Discovery will pick up these shows!
I am also going to cancel my upcoming subscription to motor trend.I wish you all the worst luck in your new venture.
Sad will miss the show. One of the few that I watched. So much for that channel.
unbelievable you end phantom works yet you leave gas monkey and give that fool Richard another show where he rehabs other shops come on get it together
This SUCKS . Dan Short – and his talented and knowledgeable crew do things the way they SHOULD be done. Another gear-head channel should be launched to compete with Motor Trend. They don’t have a clue what the people want– and what’s more –they don’t care. Iron Resurrection should be kept as well. I will complain to my CATV provider — in probably vain hope that will have some effect.
Motor Trend tv or whatever it’s called now has lost me. Canceling all my (our) favorite shows is beyond stupid. Then you replace it with 30 min crap shows that are little more than product infomercials and crap shows from overseas. If your trying to kill the channel you’re doing a great job. Channel will be gone in 2 yrs because of a lack of good programming and greed from corporate idiots who don’t even know how to open the hood of their car. Such a shame.
This is a Damn Shame!
Always choosing the crappy show over a show that actually works. I went and met with Dan and he is such a great guy. He tells you the way it is and the guys are actually working on beautiful cars. Cars that mean something. Classics with awesome stories and amazing work done on them. His knowledge and his final product is amazing. These new bulls__t shows about cutting and dropping and not bringing a car back to its original beauty are so tiring. Dan…. I will keep going to Norfolk to see you. Thank you for treating me like one of the guys when I came to see you. All we needed was a beer and it would have been like seeing an old friend. Hope to see you soon!
Fantom Works is my favorite with Iron Resurrection right behind. Looks like I can drop cable like the wife has asked.
I do wish mt would reconsider, I have seen other company take over . they pay toooooo much for what they got. the next stop is to cut the high price even if its good . they want to pay off there debt soon . not take the long haul and work for it. just PROFIT THATS ALL THY WORRY ABOUT IN THERE MILLION DOLLAR HOUSES NO BODY ELSE MATTERS THATS THE Facts truth
Fantom is a great show , i hope another net work picks them up. an profits from mt stupity
Unfortunately this happens all the time. Some genius with a lot of degrees although not enough sense to come in out of the rain, buy something in the first thing they do is screw it up. This was the best show on velocity. Motor trend can F off as far as I’m concerned.
Time to cancel Motor Trend.New management must be all dumb.Time for a new network.
Cancelling one the 3 best shows they have. Probably replace it with another bullshit show like Texas Metal.
Just seen the commercial for the last episode of FantomWorks. Not much I can add that hasn’t already been said. Called and dropped this channel from my home cable network and this channel package from my Directv service.
Dan Short is an idiot. I knew his day would come with veloco-trend. I heard he was cancelled and cried tears of joy.
Total and complete idiots to kill the best show on Motor Trend— so long– I’ll find something else to watch !!
I can’t believe this is Fantom Works last season. As a woman I have enjoyed the a show from season 1 sitting beside my husband. You are cancelling one of the best shows on your net work only to replace them with crap. I hope you reconsider after reading all the disappointed peoples messages. Who ever is in charge on the new station does not have the pulse of the people.
i can not believe you are cancelling fantom works.i agree wheeler dealer should go after ED left that show went down the hill.
I couldn’t agree more.
I was planning on cutting cable and picking up the Motor Trend app. Not Now. Loved Fantomworks. Saw parts of two episodes of their new show Live, Love Wrench. In the first they exploded a manual transmission in a hydraulic press ending the episode saying they needed to take it to a transmission shop. In the second they were attempting to fix a leak in an automatic transmission and it was clear they didn’t know what they were doing. Turned it off. They canceled a show with real craftsman working on real jobs and replaced it with a clueless young couple doing things for the first time. To bad. Just got back from my first SEMA show and was psyched about the Motor Trend App. I guess they saved me some money.
The only car show with no B.S. and/or morons trying to be funny is ending. That says a lot about the Motor Trend ownership, and none of what it says is good. The new shows being promoted now look like they are waaaaaay too stupid to watch. And don’t get me started on the MOPAR fool.
I will miss Dan Short’s no nonsense Fantomworcks approach.
Seems like we have a consensus. Keep Fantomworks!!!!
Have to agree , Fantom works was the only show I looked forward to every week. Almost stopped watching after the first two episodes this season where Dan was building just another hot rod instead of doing what he knows best, restoration!. Leave the 502’s , custom frames, and impossible deadlines to crap shows like fast and loud.
Edd China had a difference with Wheeler Dealer due to needing time to explain the repairs High producion cost Now its just two commercials and the car is like new I watch car programs because I like cars Any info i gain to do some repairs myself is the reason I watch I still own mercedes made to be owner friendly and dan short was a I dont cut corners type guy i respect and their trials made my work seem doable If i just want to watch cars go fast Ill watch Grand Tour
As soon as i heard motor trend was taking over, i knew the channel would go to hell.You have so many
crappy car shows on its mind boggling. The idiot in texas building cars with the frame on the ground and
200 inch wheels sucks, he builds nothing but clown cars. you have shows on that deal with nothing but
inports. Iam an american, and would rather walk than drive that crap. fantom works and bitchin rides are
the best you have. you have lost me as a viewer.
I knew the split second that I heard motor trend was taking over, that channel would go downhill. They just want to pimp out their wasteful app that they charge monthly for. I tried the app and it was useless. MT does very little unless they make above average profit. They don’t care about viewer’s likes. To get rid of the one show that was different, and keeping all of the sheepmobile builders, is truly stupid. Motor Trend, please sell the channel to people that really care about their viewers. I don’t like the magazine, app, and it looks like channel soon. You will lose another viewer should you not wise up quickly
just found out about Fantom Works and Iron Resurrection being cancelled…well motortrend I just canceled you too!! only show that you have left that shows real talent is Bitchin Rides and that’s not enough to keep me watching…what a bunch of Morons!!! who the hell is in charge?!! they should be the ones that get canceled!! WHAT A BUNCH OF IDIOT!!!
Agree. Motor Trend is TRENDing away fom the better shows. Fantomworks is the reason I get motortrend in my cable package. My wifes stepdad lives in a market that does not get Mtrend. First thing he does when visiting is to look for Fantomworks. W Dealers not good without Ed. Heard CCC and Iron Resurrection are on the chopping block as well. Would suggest network that has Counting Cars move those shows to their network. I do not know who makes the line up decisions for MTrend but they are uninformed and following a path that will lead to many cancellations of Motor Trend. I recently downgraded my cable package down to the level where I could still keep MTrend. Will downgrade again. #bagMotorTrend,
Motortrend sucks. Cant believe they are cutting fantom works and iron resurrection. Im done watching.
If this is any indicator of how Motor Trend operates, then they should step aside and bring back the Velocity people. Cannot understand cancelling Fantom Works. If they get rid of Iron Resurrection and keep that BS Texas Metals…I’m done as a viewer.
Wow… a real Phantomworks fan club here. I stopped watching the show because I couldn’t stand the owners “it has to be expensive, state-of -the-art or its dangerous ” attitude. The show that turned me off was some guy brought an old camaro.. had drum brakes. I remember the show guy practically calling the car a death trap, he wouldn’t work on it unless the car owner gave in to the long list of modern and expensive upgrades. I hate people like that. Yes, modern is often times safer, but the older stuff “works” as well. He could offer suggestions with reasoning, but don’t make the car sound like it’s ready for the scrap pile just because it’s stock is. Heavy handed salesmanship. Roadkill is the best show because they have “fun” with cars Anybody can purchase. Making the most out of the least. Honestly Roadkill is the only reason I ever got the channel. If it gets cancelled, I’m gone. Don’t care for 100k car restorations/customs.
I remember the episode you mentioned, the reason disc brakes on the Camero was highly insisted upon was because Dan was installing a 650 hp crate engine in it. Think about how fun it is to go fast…fast. Then think about stopping it fast! Great thinking on Dan’s end. I would hope he would have done that for me if I didn’t know any better.
Larry says
January 21,2019
I can’t believe that Fantomworks is being canceled. It had interesting people with real knowledge of cars.
Not just “characters” with artificial deadlines, who only knew how to chop tops and put air bags on to
“slam them to the ground”.COME ON MOTOR TREND YOU CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS.
These people are not too smart. They have a lot of new, crappy shows, so they cancel one of the best ones. What the hell are they thinking?
Best rebilder on motor trend they Build Cars the way the average person can do it not this stupid drop them on the ground stick the stupidest big wheels you can on the need it with this thinness tar is taken fine like a rim with a rubber band on it Won’t look at road kill bunch idiots they keep dropping the good shows how does not deal with them Not gonna renew subscription to magazine hopefully History Channel or discovery where enough sense to pick it up. Enough people step up it can be brought back just like the swap people.
This network is really messing up. This is one of the best “car” shows on the air. Plus it has real people and great cars! Enjoyed the gambit of vehicles, from old partially wooden vehicles to sports cars. It’s a shame normal peoples opinions don’t matter. Sorry Dan, you and your guys deserve better. I hope another network picks this program up !
I agree cancel anything except fantom works the network must be thinking along the same lines as abc when the cancelled Roseanne.
Dan is a red blooded American and the networks want sheep not people even though Dan does not get political on the show. the network does not want someone who thinks for themselves and loves this country
Dan Short was / is an vulgar mouthed, arrogant asswipe. He made a mountain out of a molehill on everything that needed repair. I did like the way he would screw the customs eyes out on charges & then make them like it. I’ll never forget the episode were he charged a customer $50,000.00 to add A/C in his old Caddy. Anyone that steps foot in Dan Short’s doors is gonna take it up the ass..
So you’re cancelling the best show on the network. Well, that’ll be the end of that channel on my TV! Idiots…
Can’t believe they’re dropping the best car show in the lineup. No doubt the Velocity Channel will continue to go downhill now that Motor Trend has taken over
Have they lost their mind that’s one of the best shows on the channel..
Can’t believe they dropped the best car show in the lineup. No doubt the Velocity Channel will continue to go downhill now that Motor Trend has taken over
THANK GOD!!!! Worst show on the network, well besides “Inside West Coast Customs” there are reasons shows get cut, cause they are not good. Now please keep the real talent like, Iron Resurrection, Bitchin’ rides (stupid name) the guys from Texas Metal are super talented, not my style vehicles, but super talented guys! Mark Worman is a super douche, but again talented crew and super super knowledgeable guy. Roadkill is ok, like that they bring back junkyard cars and drive them off, most so called “gear heads” could never do it! Wanna get rid of a show, hows about that whoooooooo idiot that wears his wife’s jeans!!! Oh and thanks for ridding us of that Speed is the new Black. Think that’s what it was called. not really into the trailer queen cars, they are nice to look at and the guys that build them are super talented, just my opinion. Thanks again for parting ways with Fantomworks!!!!
You’re off to a bad start Motortrend. You canceled the best show but you’re leaving some of the other crap shows on. Makes to freaking sense. What’s next, Graveyard Carz or My Classic Car?
Seriously? Two of your best shows that show technique, the mental process of what to look for, and get it going by focusing on systems that are broke and need fixing and you are canning them? It is bad enough Engine Masters is gone, now this? Why don’t I just cut the cord, Velocity was one of the few reasons I am hanging on too it as is it a refuge from our cultural rot on the lame stream channels. Guy channels as I call them, fixing houses, cars, doing things in Alaska etc. I guess it was just too much toxic masculinity for front office dweebs….
I bet Dan told MT producers how it was going to be and they probably said BYE<BYE and canceled the show. Dan you and your crew will be missed.
You guys really screwed the pooch on this one. Famtom Works is one of the best shows around. No yelling, screaming and mostly NO DRAMA!! When the final episode is done I’ll say goodbye Motor Trend.
What the h!!!, why would you cancel Fantom Works, motortrend you are morons and don’t know a good show if it was thrown in your face. If this is all about money, then I think you should get rid of other shows. Everyone I speak with is shocked that FantomWorks is being cancelled. You should get rid of Texas Metal and Wrench’d. Just my two cents, which to you means nothing. I use to love Motortrend, but you’ve lost my love.
Truly disappointed.
Dan and his talented team at Fantom Works is one of the best car shows on the air that many of us have watched in a long time.! Dan is very talented at what they do with helping the team build some beautiful cars and help lots of people have their dream car. This is what the people in your viewing audience love to see on T.V. Not sure who or why your team of intelligence decisions makers at Motor Trend come to this as being a great idea to cancel this great show. Dan and his team are like family to many of us and taking him out of our homes is not the right thing to do MT. And we thought your were so cool and everything about cars…..
Maybe you really don’t care about what your dedicated followers want to see.
Should think a little more about it.
Signed : possibly losing most of your viewers. 🙁
Was my favorite show! Dan represented good old honesty and hard work. He and his team of experts are incredibly skilled. Really sorry to see them go. I will miss them. ????
This is reason number one for me to cease watching MotorTrend television. They haven’t been merged with Velocity for a full month yet and they’re already losing viewership. How do I get the job of chasing viewers away from otherwise good television channels?
I was hoping Motor Trend was going to make the network better not worse! You guys just made one of the worse decisions you could have made. I’m not sure I want to hang around to watch you destroy what has been one of my favorite channels. I’m sure your competition will be tickled pink over your decision to drop Fantom Works. Good luck with keeping viewership up.
canceling Fantom Works is the worse decision Motor Trend could have made! Your viewership will suffer because of it. I had hoped that Motor Trend would be an improvement for the channel but I was wrong.
Fantom Works is one of your best shows, kill this and you will kill your audience. Dumb move MT.
I will truly miss this show. Its refreshing to watch true knowledge of automobiles and no sugar coating of issues. Just stupid that they would cancel this show and keep some of the others.
Read what your viewers are saying MotorTrend…you’re off to a lousy start if you cancel the best show in your lineup.
Add me to the list of people dissatisfied with this bonehead decision to cancel FW. My all time favorite is Stacey David back in the early 2000s and Trucks! on Spike TV. He was one of the rare ones that built stuff instead of bolted on parts. FW is a distant second, and now that’s gone too…
Why would you even think of cancelling this show? I think it’s time to cancel you. Goodbye motortrend.
the best,most realistic car show on T.V. gets cancelled ?W T F is wrong with with the pencil pushers?
best show on cars get rid of some of the the crappy showes that just distroy cars bring it back
That’s sad news. I really like the show. Best to Dan and his crew. I hope they bring you back.
Contrary to what’s reported here, Dan Short pulled the plug on FantomWorks. It was taking too much time and effort away from their main job – building customers’ cars. It cost Dan business, money and staff turnover, and put him almost $1,000,000 in debt. Google Dan’s statement.
I think a lot of viewers like to see the fabrication and restoration skills many of these shows have. I am like others. I can live without roadkill. Can’t believe roadkill gets permits or licenses to drive that junk they put together down the road. West coast customs any of RICHARD rawlings shows. Those are drama shows not fabrication or restoration that many of us enjoy.
It’s nice we can all vent our frustrations here about the cancellation of our beloved programs.
Too bad the network powers that be aren’t listening and don’t really care anyway!
There going to FEED US what they want us to watch and work$ out for them and their bottom line.
If your old enough you’ll remember TV was GREAT when it was FREE! Now that you have to PAY FOR IT,
IT S U C K S !!! And with all the many channels we now have, you still can’t find what you are interested in!
Glad Fantomworks is cancelled. Owner is a freaking drama queen. He acts like everything is life and death.
Cesar ur dumb as hell. Ur probably the drama queen……
Let’s face it I’ll say it we all know it motor trend was only read when you were at the dentist or getting your car inspected it was never in touch with motor heads it was for new cars only lol joke now they bought a network. Great ruin it like speed channel and. Wait till someone buys it back.
Well none of us knows the “real” why. But I will miss the people and the fun of seeing old tough builds, turn into family heirlooms . Wish fantomWorks the best. Guess it’s more of Billy Bob putting a 80 Corvette on a 4 bye chassis channel now. Good luck with that
What a terrible decision to cancel FantomWorks!! It was the only good show left on motor trend! Will not be watching this channel any longer!
Unbelievable, what was Motortrend thinking! I don’t own a classic muscle car, but if I did it would be restored at Fantomworks. Wish Dan and his crew only the best.
I’m older but still a big fan of Fantomworks. After being hurt and left disabled 19 years ago and still having 30 plus years of doing auto body work under my belt Fantomworks is one of the few shows that keeps people like me dreams alive. Your network has many other shows that aren’t worth a guys time watching. Please reconsider keeping Fantomworks on the air!
MT must have some real fucktardsworking in their programming dept.
Quit watching when Ed left. Iron resurrection and Fantomworks were the nay othershows I was interested in. Watched Live, love, wrench seeking info on Grand National am restoring – terrible!
Just cancelled package that includes Motortrend. Hope those viewers left behind enjoy all the fake BS on the remainder of their lineup.
I am done! Thanks for wrecking my go to channel for the past 4 years dumbass asshats!
I really appreciated how Dan and his crew worked hard to get things done correctly as they try (sometimes unsuccessfully) to stick to the client’s budget. I have restored four cars in the last 18 years taking my time and trying to do things the way the factory intended. I’ve learned so much from FantomWorks and I’ll miss seeing the challenges they face in restoring vintage works of art back to their original glory. If anyone cares about what the viewers would like to see, it should be a shop like Dan Shore’s where everyone works together as a team to do a quality restoration. Much more enjoyable than watching a show where everyone in the shop is at odds with one another (real or just for the sake of a producer’s idea). Please reconsider cancelling this program! Thank you
Probably one of the best shows in the line up and it’s cancelled not a wise decision. Bring backVelocity they knew good programming!
This is why FantomWorks is over. Dan wrote this Dec. 21st.
Why DRS quit…
By the first few days of 2019, we will finish filming the television series FantomWorks. The shop will continue to build cars for years to come but the show called FantomWorks will conclude. Our weekly tours will continue as they have since long before the show began. A few weeks back, the network officially posted the cancellation of our television show. Because of that announcement, I decided it was time to explain why I quit and thank all involved.
I want to thank my crew of amazing technicians and the film crew that gave a group of mechanical artisans the chance to be in the spotlight. The crew of FantomWorks maintained the utmost professionalism building cars while dealing with cameras in their faces, sound equipment stuffed into nooks and crannies, radio wars (they were turned off 25 times a day), takes and retakes, working lunches, early mornings that turned into late nights, unwanted travel, and the general difficulties associated with being in front of the cameras 5 days a week, 51 weeks a year, 6.5 years non-stop. Right after the show began, employee turnover increased tenfold; stresses in the shop skyrocketed, and attacks on my company (bloodsucking leeches trying to suck “riches” that never even existed) came out of nowhere. In 2017 I announced to my crew my decision to leave the television show. To my relief, the crew responded very positively. As the cameras are now closing out the final segments of filming, the crew’s morale has skyrocketed and the love of building cars is effervescent again.
I am told that filming a television show on a “set” designed for filming and utilizing paid actors is a reasonably easy thing to do. However in the case of the show FantomWorks, filming was never easy by anyone’s standards. My thanks to those members of the network and film crew who truly cared about the shop. Some understood how difficult it was and helped in any way they could. We had eleven directors in six years, most of whom agreed this was the most difficult show to shoot they’d ever worked on (most one-hour cars shows are shot in a 2-30 day window while this show averages 548 days). Car restorations that averaged almost two years were a reality while we had to display “continuity” during the builds so it looked like they were seamless done in only days. Shop dust and oils affected film gear resulting in an unusual number of equipment issues that then resulted in countless “do overs.” We never filmed less than five days a week, many weeks six. Film crews worked 7AM till 6 or 7PM most days alongside our crews. Often times, filming went well into the night. All this while trying to keep 65 to 98 cars in build at a time. It was never easy. To add insult to injury, many customers were upset as they were never reimbursed for travel or other expenses. The film schedule was so demanding that during the final weeks of my father’s life, I was not able to attend to him. The show took over my life and to make matters worse, my wife and I now face almost a million dollars of debt we incurred keeping the production going.
I have only one regret related to leaving the show. That regret is that we have to say goodbye to our many fans. I have been honored to meet thousands of viewers of the show during the tours at the shop, in local car shows, and national events like SEMA. I’ve travelled the globe and been truly delighted and humbled by meeting so many people who have openly expressed their love of our the shop and the show.
Just a few months ago, a very emotional fan of the show shared a wonderful story. He and his father would watch the show FantomWorks together during the months before his aged father passed. His father suffered from severe dementia had forgotten almost everything; his surroundings and family. It was only during the hour that they watched this show together that his father’s mind became alert. He’d been a car builder in his younger years. While the two watched the show together, his father could “remember” and for that hour, they’d connect… they’d talk. When he told me about what the show had done for his relationship, I rationalized that all the financial hardship we’d been through to make the show and even dealing with the gutless faceless internet trolls for six and a half years were somewhat justified.
So when one of the senior executives from the network and I had a long talk. He suggested that if it doesn’t make any sense to keep going, it’s time to call it done. It was time…
God Bless.
Dan Short
Thank you Dan for sharing although you and your crew will be greatly missed. Sounds like bad management on behalf of Velocity/Motor Trend. You know they made mega bucks from advertisers and we subscribers. God’s speed and blessings.
I respect your decision, Dan, but you have a huge following that wish you’d change your mind. You and your people are the best around. Congratulations on your goal of perfection.
I can understand your position, and you did right by going on with out the series. Me and the wife watch every show and tape to watch later. You have a respect for your customers safety and your work is great. No fake drama but real life on the set… We will miss you..
Whatever Dan’s reasons are for not wanting to renew the series with MT we may never know. Us baby boomers who grew up in the muscle car era and are now reaching retirement age, have time, ambition, and a little pocket money to have an iconic muscle machine to drive through the remainder of our years on this good earth. We don’t drive foreign POS cars, we dont drive daily in trucks that can crush cars or slam so close to the ground that a ant’s pecker can’t even squeeze under. I drive a Ford Ranchero. It has a nice motor and can scoot. So the peeps of my generation, which happens to be the largest living generation at this time, represent a vast majority of the folks who would rather see a show were real cars are worked on and that we can relate to. So the dumb fucks at MT management need to understand who their real viewship is, what they drive and what they like to watch. Just about every commentator on this thread has denounced MT, with the exception of a few assholes. So either make Dan happy enough again to renew the show with MT or find some alternative automotive shows that replicate the integrity of Fantomworks. MT network is in a spiral downward because of it’s inability to utilize marketing data to support it’s viewing selections. Like someone else said, some dumbass corporate junky with both hands in his pants is quickly losing his game if pocket pool….
Yeah, What he said
What the hell is wrong with you idiots???
Fantomworks is one of the best! Motortrend sucks!!!
I agree screwed Motor Trend I live in Virginia Beach Virginia about 20 minutes or so from fantomworks that shop is awesome it was great to see it on the air and it was a great show they screwed up bad by canceling the show
bullshit call – show rocks
Motortrend “jumps the shark” by canceling Fantomworks. This could be and indication of Management’s understanding of their audience.
Fantomworks needs to stay.
Huge mistake – HUGE!
it was the backbone of Velocity and kept me coming back. Can’t watch the newer shows like Texas Metal- just not for true “car guys”. Looks like Inwill be watching more Discovery and History for my car fix.
I don’t think there is a single comment that supports cancelling Fantomworks. I have to add my two cents to the list of those who are missing that show (along with the loss of Edd China on Wheeler Dealer) already. I have watched the other shows, but none of them had the sense of reality that Fantomworks has. Maybe another channel will pick them up.
This is not a good start for motortrend. This was my favorite show
Philip Gowens says
January 23 2019, 2139
I Love Fantomworks so much. I always looked forward to watching the show. As far as I,m concern Fantomworks was the best show on Motor Trend. I will miss you Dan and your crew. May God Bless you all with your future adventures.
Stupid Cancelling Fantomworks!!
Motor trend ruined their Magazine, now it’s bought a great network, and about to ruin it, they have lost their way!
unfortunately you are cancelling one of the most knowledgeable car person alive. Dan is hands on in all of the builds and we wills sorely miss his cantankerous personality. Shame on you Motor Trend. I am sure you could have made it work.
I have been a big fan of FantomWorks for many years. This is a sad thing. Did Motor Trend Network even ask us the viewers if we want it gone? Or did someone who never watched the show just wave his hand and made it go away? Maybe I should call direct TV and tell then I no longer want Motor trend network. My wife is also upset. One of the few car shows she will watch with me. Brad Kershaw
Why did you take fantomworks off it was the best show on really enjoyed watching it sure hate to see it go wish you would change your mind about it
I really enjoy a number of shows on Velocity. And Fantomworks was one of the ones I enjoyed the most. Motortrend can kiss my back side. I will not watch
Well, I have to put in my 2cents. Fantomworks was truly the best show on TV no matter what channel. Most of the other shows are hard to watch because all they do is “we’ll slam it put 24s on the front and 26s on the back” then put tires that look like orings! In my opinion completely destroying the look of the car. This may have its place, sometimes, but they do it on every car & truck! Fantomworks does all type of builds and I can watch the repeats over&over.
If this was MotorTrend s decision it was a BAD one! However, if Mr Short doesn’t want to do it anymore, it saddens me but I understand his decision, no sense continuing when your heart is not in it. I will truly miss Fantomworks, I hope reruns will be someplace.
Good luck& God Bless you, your family & your crew Mr Short, maybe I’ll stop by next time I vacation down south.
Really hate that you’re canceling fantomworks please do not cancel fantomworks it is a real good show really like Dan and all the crew
Why cancel the best show on TV, I have been watching for the whole run, I love fantomworks. Please bring it back.
I think that Fantomworks should not have been canceled. One of the best restomod show on. Never have been a fan of Motortrend.
I fully understand Dan’s reasons but I don’t have to like it. Nothing lasts for ever, I just wish it had gone on another season or two. MT should be paying Dan a couple million a year.
Class show!!
Someone has lost their mind!! I love this show!!! What the heck dude??
FIGURES!!!!!!! First Overhauled with Mr. Foose and now Fantom Works with Mr. Short. My Grandmother was right; ain’t nothin’ on TV worth watchin”!!!!!!!!
Are you kidding me? They do lots of stuff other shows don’t do. I don’t want every project to be a Foose job. And the best part is they don’t strut around like a banty rooster like that yahoo from the Monkey Garage. -Rawlings what a buffoon.
What idiot made the decision to cancel the absolute best car show on Motor Trend? First Velocity fires the best mechanic and screws that show up and now this. Somebody there making decisions is NOT A GEARHEAD; he’s just a damn bean
counter.
I am a 65yo grandmother who has learned a lot from FantomWorks! It is one of the best shows on MotorTrend and I am so angry that some pinhead decided to cancel it!!! Who in the world would do something like that?? I will now stop watching MotorTrend TV. They have some stupid shows on, cancel them and keep FW!!!!!
Wow, never thought Motor Trend would cancel one of their best shows right after the took over.
I guess I am not alone saying this just by viewing other comments.
Please keep Dan and the crew on!
Absolutely ludicrous to cancel this show! Well, I guess I have one less channel to watch now……
MotorTrend cancelled their best show. Well i just cancelled my MotorTrend subscription. FantomWorks is better than all the other shows on MotorTrend, FantomWorks is better than Fast and loud.
Stupid Move Motor Trend!
Just goes to show that the big wigs in charge are not smart enough to remember to wipe their asses after they take a dump. Maybe that is what I smell !!!!!!!
So now I can cancel my subscription to the Motor Trend Magazine and delete the former VELOSITY channel from my favorites list. With all of the crap on tv now, Fanthom Works was one of the few programs that was informative and entertaining not only for men but women as well. I suppose “Chasing Classic Cars” will be next. I guess you don’t have to be very bright to be scheduling programming for cable and satellite television!
One of the best episodes for me was ‘Bo’s Corvette’. As soon as he came on the screen I said to myself, ‘Hey, I know him’. I lived across the street from him and his mother and sister while I was stationed at Offutt AFB. He was in zoomie school then. I knew the car as well. A good show, too bad Dan has his challenges. But, that’s business.
Bring back FANTOMWORKS IT A GREAT CAR SHOW.
RIP to a great show and fun, talented team. Sad. A definite fav. Jerks.
Oh. I see it was Dan’s choice. Bummer.
What a dumb idea it was to cancel Fantom Works! This was one of the better shows on Velocity/MT. I suspect they will fill the slot with a bunch of yokels from Texas who can’t put together a sentence without the word “ass.” Real brilliant you dopes!
Fantomworks is one of the shows that me and my wife love to watch together. All of their shows are interesting and we love the cars they do. I can think of a few other shows you could take off besides this one. It would be great if you would reconsider this is a great show.
Can’t believe your cancelling Fantomwork’s One of the best vehicle restoration shows on TV. I like the fact that Dan doesn’t compromise his values regarding the cars. He is as great in person as on he show. Any of you who are in the Norfolk area he opens his shop on Fridays and does tours and spends a lot of time just answering questions. Straightforward nice guy. Guess I need to stop watching the Motor Trend Network.
I am in shock and greatly saddened by this latest news. Fantomwork’s was only one of a few TV shows that I actually looked forward to viewing. It kind of made me feel like I was hanging-out at the garage and watching the rebuilds. Hope that some miracle may occur.
Really? One of the most authentic reality shows ever produced being pulled for what? Girls garage or some other show that promotes and installs bolt ons? I am cancelling my subscription to MT if his is the direction they are headed. MT Minimal Thinking here
Fantom Works is the best restoration show on car TV. Canceling it makes no sense to me. It is a draw to velocity and watching other car shows. A very short sided decision.
I agree Fantomworks was the best! I hope someone else picks it up so i can change my subscription.
Can’t believe your canceling a show that actually restores cars correctly and you leave Graveyard cars, Bad Chad, Texas Metal , etc on , Graveyard cars has gone down hill, Bad Chad is just Crazy and Texas Metal either jacks things up so high you take a chance of rolling it or even more stupid is dropping everything on the ground. What’s wrong with classic cars being done correctly and at the height they rolled off the assembly line at along with actual door handles!!
I too am sad to see Fathomworks go. As these “Reality” type car shows go it seems to have less of the Faux Drama BS then most of the rest. Bitchin’ seems to get worse and worse as the years go by, Please for God’s sake stop all the Soap Opera Faux Drama and just build cars. Done right there is enough to hold the audience interest. It just really erks me when a shop suddenly discovers a “Unusual” issue on something as common as say installing an LS into a Tri5 or a Chevy Muscle car..Please, really? This has been done like a thousand times, it just makes the shop look stupid!
I have tried giving shows like Bad Chad, Roadkill, Wheeler Dealer a chance but they are just so bad.
Why would you cancel a great show like this one. Some of the new shows should never had made it to air they are just stupid
You are definitely cancelling the best show on MotorTrend. I don’t understand. Nobody builds cars better than Dan Short and FantomWorks. I never missed an episode! PLEASE bring it back!
I love this show! There is nothing pretentious or “kitchy” about these mechanics. Yes, Dan Short can be blunt, but he is a perfectionist and every client has been delighed with his work. All the mechanics are down-to-earth and very talented.
BRING IT BACK!
Just by changing from Velocity to MotorTrend does not mean you should move in a stupid direction.
Johnny says it don’t surprise me they got rid of phantom works his personality was terrible and what he charge these poor People he legally rip them off sad we have crooks in this world good move motor trend
Dan, I salute you for being a patriot and a true car guy. You and Danny Coker have a passion for American classics that alot of us out here share.
Hope to see you and your talented crew show up somewhere else soon.
Who’s brainstorm of an idea was it to cancel “ Fantomworks”? That was one of the best car oriented shows you had on the Velocity Channel; Dan Short and his crew of technicians are one the best car restorers in the business. It was an original show in itself, not alike all the cookie cutter shows that are on now, he has an ‘old school’ approach to his methods not alike the other shows who go off on the same exact format and are somewhat predictable by the end of the show. Damn, you got something good going, don’t screw with it! Sure his show ran 9 seasons, but his projects are unique as for the people who incited the visions, and he made their dreams a reality with outstanding results every single time. Every project was different and kept your interest throughout the whole show without losing your focus in it. The show is very educational and Dan always had some funny one liners to add to different situations which made it amusing as well. To sum it up, it seems like all the tired shows hang around and the good ones get bounced; as far as I’m concerned, he could of ran several more seasons with the same quality and style his shows have earned through the seasons. Sincerely, Mark C. Parise
Get rid of Wayne Carini, with his smug arrogance. That’s not a tv show. “Look at all the money I have”. Motortrend has made a serious mistake!
Fantomworks one of best car shows on cable, period.
One word Shmucks at MT
Fantonworks the best show on TV period I don’t know what your thinking oh. Maybe your not. You have a few shows that suck but this is not one of them This is a man’s show that’s the reason
Fantomworks is by far one of the best car shows on TV. It is a HUGE mistake to cancel. I hope the response to this devastating news is read and acted on
FantomWorks was the BEST show on Velocity – wait now MotorTrend. And I hear you’re cancelling Iron Resurrection. too. WHAT ARE YOU GUYS THINKING AT MotorTrend. These 2 shows are the BEST on T.V. and your taking them away from us, your viewers ! If MotorTrend cancels Iron Resurrection then I for sure will cancel my subscription to MotrorTrend and find another channel that will provide the entertainment that these 2 shows gave us.
Come on guys (MotorTrend) please LISTEN TO YOUR VIEWERS ! We all like these 2 shows. No bad comments about FantomWorks. Everyone Loves it ! Cancel one, or 2 of those other silly shows you now have on.
And THANK YOU Dan Short for your service and the entertainment you gave us.
Really?Who the hell is runnin the insane asylum? The patients? If you want bullshit,packaged in 1/2 hour format with bullshit builds,great. Count me out. I will
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to Netflix. Screw your Madison Avenue,pole driven crap!
WHAT CORPORATE idiot thought of this?
I CAN NOT BELIVE THAT MOTOR TREND WOULD CANCEL SUCH A GOOD AND INFORMATIVE SHOW , THERE ARE MANY MORE SHOWS ON MOTOR TREND THAT SHOULD BE GONE LONG BEFORE FANTOM WORKS , I AND MANY OF MY FRIENDS ARE DISAPOINTED IN MOTOR TREND , VERY FOOLISH ON YOUR PART
I also agree, i think they are cancelling the wrong show. Fantomworks is one of the best automotive restoration shows around. It’s one of my favorites of all time. Guess I’ll just have to watch a different network. Just doesn’t make any sense at all.
Bad decision Motor Trend. Fantomworks was one of the best. Please don’t cancel Carini.
Greatest show on tv . From the first episode to the last . There are so many shows that nobody watches and every time I find a show I watch the networks cancel it . They keep the shows on that one of the so called “ Critics” love and keep canceling the ones I like . They ran off edd China and I no longer watch wheeler dealers anymore typical morons .
What a shame. Fantom Works is my favorite out of all the restoration shows on Velocity now Motor Trend. No extra hype or drama. Not trying to do it in a week, some projects take months, and that’s OK. Big mistake and I hope they reconsider.
Been a car guy for 50 years. Raised in late 60’s to early 70’s and really enjoyed this program. The different vehicles and just old dirty mechanic’s like we used back then was fun to see their end result. Hope the show lives on somewhere else.
Yeah let’s put some more stupid rednecks cutting the roof off of a 90’s sedan and run it around an old race track. BONEHEAD MOVE MOTORTREND!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantom Works was one of the few shows I watch on what used to be Velocity network and is now Motor Trend. Just like most everything on TV, Motor Trend has chosen to abandon the Boomer Generation and market only to the punk kid crowd. MT already has far too many shows that destroy classic cars by turning them into gaudy ground draggers with 22 inch wheels. Fantom Works is the only car program to feature a full service restoration shop, manned by true craftsmen who could build a variety of cars, ranging from stock restorations to full-blown customs. Motor Trend can go to hell as far as I am concerned. Dish channel 246 no longer exists after the last Fantom Works episode.
Big mistake Motor Trend . Fantom Works was one of your programs that I looked forward to watching . Sorry to see your abandoning a group that enjoy watching craftsman return a car to its original glory . Sad !
Agreed this is one of the better shows on Motortrend. They’ll cancel this and keep a completely useless show like Live,Love,Wrench. I hoped this namechange/merger was just in name only but we see the beginning of the end of the good shows.
I had found Fantomworks late in its lifespan and can’t believe they are killing it but letting Last Chance Garage survive. I made it through one episode of LCG and cancelled the record season button. My favor falls to those shows that actually fabricate something. Not just bolt some premade plastic kit on a new car.
The same thing happened when Speed changed to Velocity. Now we see some Motortrend suit make his mark by cancelling PhantomWorks. Why not relieve us all of the misery of Richard Rollings and Mark, the showboat, Worman? The entire country would benefit.
I totally agree with all that is said above. While I could do without some of the swearing on the Fantom Works, it did address great restorations and all of the staff provided intelligent restoration commentary. Too many of these shows are moving toward less than mature topics. We need more shows like Fantom Works and Chasing Classic Cars. I look for intelligent and educational car programs not those where fights break out among the employees (too much fake drama) or cars are destroyed or absurd modifications are made in the name of entertainment. I understand there is a vast audience but a balance is needed. Sure hope they keep the World Endurance Championship on MT.
The sad fact is that the lowest common denominator viewer – the dumfuk walmart Jerry Springer white trash with sub-100 IQs – could care less about how to build/rebuild cars, houses, or anything else. What they want to watch is the totally phony crap with other scraggly beard tattoo-covered redneck ‘bro country dumfuks running around and high-fiving each other when something falls off their lift, or they dump a chassis off a trailer, or a big log hits someone in the head, or someone gets into a fight, or rocks clog up the “wash plant” for the 1000th time, or whatever other slapstick nonsense the producers of reality detritus conjure up. The typical viewer doesn’t know jack shit about anything, probably couldn’t find the USA on a globe if their lives depended on it, and have no interest in actually learning how things work or how to create things. What they want to watch – endlessly – is the modern version of “The Three Stooges.” Stupid manufactured slapstick situations acted out by a cast of modern day clowns. The more outrageous, the better. And.., since that’s what Joe Six-Pack wants to watch, that is what advertisers are willing to support. It’s really no more complicated than that. I’d rather watch some guy cut a board in his garage on YouTube – but even those “makers” are learning the hard lesson – stupidity, not quality, is what sells
Great Show. NO DRAMA away from shop. Have watched from the beginning. BIG MISTAKE. Normal hot rods and restoring. Several show could go……
Most frustrating channel on TV!!! They can never seem to find their identity. Always trying to stay one step ahead of what? They really have no competition in their market place. They always outsmart themselves. Kinda like the whole “New Coke” thing when it came out. This channel has become a total wreck. No pun intended.
I have watched this show since day 1 and am really disgusted that this show which is the most realistic restoration show on TV today. You have made a huge mistake by cancelling!
Dan, you and the rest of the FantomWorks family will be missed in my home every week. R.I.P. to the very best automotive restoration show on television.
Well… Another great show on the scrap heap. MT will surely ruin this channel! As said earlier, I know I’ve had enough of Richard Rawlings and his ilk! These new shows are just cookie-cutter copycats! Fantom Works was a bright spot, though Dan always getting frustrated over something got a bit old. ESPECIALLY as they are the consummate professionals and can tackle any problem thrown at them!
like others commenting here , I think this was by far the best show of it’s kind. stupidity reins at MOTORWEEK
keep politics out of it you Trump imbecil….
I’ll quit watching this channel after final episode.
How many ways can you say dumb. My favorite show. Im going to write them ans see if they can get on another channel. Every one do the same if we can all shout loud enough it might do something. Or boycott Motor trend or the Velocity channel.
Me too
This is really stupid, I am not a car guy but I enjoy watching this show with my hubby. Not much else on your network that I do enjoy!!!!!!!!!
Motortrend didn’t cancel Fantomworks………………….DRS pulled the pin himself…………..read the Fantomworks Blog on their website………………………………..ffs
Thanks Dan for having the best car restoration programs. Can’t believe Motortrend would cancel your show. We now only have those drippy customizied car shows to watch where all the style of the cars is changed to some thing that looks like a dog being dragged on its belly. I suppose Chasing Classic Cars is next. Just lost another viewer.
so why not pull the plug on shows like bitching rides or one of there outher chop a car shows that suck i watched m/t for fantomworks guse ill be droping them they droped the best show they had just save a bunch of money by droping motertrend
Have to agree with anyone else. This is one of the few decent car shows out there. Can’t stand those shows that take old classic cars gut them and turn them into some sort of monstrosity.
Have you seen the crap that’s on Motorweek (Velocity) I would see what’s on Velocity first but now I don’t even look I do watch Bitchen Rides but they will probably get axed because too many people like it..I can’t stand watching the motorweek guy driving all those expensive foreign cars telling us how wonderful they are what happened to the American cars they’re just as good Motor week should be canceled..I’ll miss ya Dan.
I was afraid when I saw Motor Trend name on the channel. More BS garbage will take the place of a real show. I do classic cars and sports cars. Fantomworks was a real no BS “shop conflict” nonsense like Monkey BS garage..
Yea, Dan says he quit. I’ll miss that show, but after reading his story I don’t blame him. I didn’t realize the people on those shows don’t make much money. It’s the network that reaps all the rewards? Now I understand why so many of the shows suck. (a.k.a Graveyard Di@% Heads), and others are more about advertising products with the “Equipment Corner” segments.
Long live Road Kill and Full Custom Garage. See them put in the work and not the drama.
One more reason not to watch Motor Trend Channel. One of the few shows I still watched on this channel. I guess that I will just have to remove this channel from my watch list.
I hardly ever comment on things such as this, but to take the best show on the Motor Trend network and cancel it is unforgivable. I do not watch the “reality” shows that focus on the drama between mechanics and participants and not on the cars. True car guys could care less about the drama and want to see the cars. Those shows that focus on a diversity of cars are too few and far between. Real car guys do not want to see some gutted monstrosity with 40″ wheels, half of which are buried in the fenders. I will miss Dan and his show. I live about an hour from Norfolk. The next time I am there I think I will stop in and tell Dan just that. Shame on you Motor Trend. You are doing to Velocity what was done to the original Motor Trend magazine years ago. No longer a subscriber there either. Look out Wayne Carini, you are probably next.
Thanks you idiots for getting rid of ANOTHER great show. This one I always looked forward to. I agree completely with many of the comments above; bullshit like gas monkey garage and other crap – I can’t believe still have an audience. This was one of my favorite goddamn shows. I could relate with so many of the hurdles and problems that they found in the shop as they were retiring cars, as I have restored my 65 Corvette and did an engine swap (along with everything else) to my 94 RX7. We’ve upgraded my SL55 (duel intake and customer supercharger) and I am now working on my new 1970 GTX clone resto-mod. The next time I renew my cable I’ll think twice about whether I even want motortrend on the list of channels I require or not. Fantom Works was one of the reasons I kept the goddamn channel to begin with. I’ll miss ya Dan. FU motortrend
I too was shocked that they are taking this show off, it was my favorite.
This was one of the best car shows on TV, who ever made the decision to cancel it is stupid. This was one of the most realistic car shows, and i loved the fact that Dan diddnt take crap from the customers. If its in reruns somewhere else i’ll watch that, instead of the other B/S shows they got on TV.
Fantomworks was one of the show’s that kept me watching MT. I don’t enjoy some of the dumb shows that they have added to the lineup .
There magazine started sucking years ago. I guess they needed something else to ruin with what little money they probably have left. Someone else will start a automotive channel and put mOtOrTrEnD in the grave where they belong!! Total IDIOTS.Good luck to the Fantom Works people. I’m sure they will be picked up by a good network. ALSO, Live Love Wrench……WHAT A PIECE OF CRAP!!
I know that you did not cancel FantomWorks because it was not a good program. You can not possibly be that stupid,,, I will have to believe that Dan thought the production schedule was too invasive to continue.
I will be watching the last episode and lament its’ passing,,
Stupid decision. I enjoyed watching Fantom Works with my husband.
WOW I really liked that show! Cancel My Classic car or All Girls garage those are both 1 big commercial for whoever pays to be on their show.
Who is the idiot at motor trend that thinks this is a good idea. FantomWorks and Iron Resurrection are the best car restoration show on TV……..
Motor trend did not cancel Fantom Works.. Dan said in a statement that he is over a million dollars in debt and couldn’t handle the stress of running the business and the filming schedule.. His work supposedly was lacking quality because of it so he decided after talking with executives that it was time to end the show…
Guess Motortrend has lost its mind. One gteat show for everybody and some exec who has never seen it…axes it. Good move. No more MOYORTTEND at our house. Not on tv or in the mailbox. Bring back Dan and the boys
I just cannot believe that MotorTrend cancelled or at least failed to stop cancellation of Fantom Works program! This is THE ONLY show on restoring cars that we watch, so I think they need to step back, get your thoughts together and then approach Dan about saving the show, this is a horrible shame and I will not continue to watch the Motor Trend Network any longer. Also am passing this on to my employees and friends.
FW is my favorite car show on TV! What do you mean you’re canceling it? I record and watch every episode! Please reconsider your decision and take a stupid show off instead. FW Rocks!
The people who made the decision to cancel this show don’t have a clue to what is being watched on their network . Phantom works is one of the best 3 car restoration / make over car shows on . They are honest, caring and very talented . Do the right thing and get this show back on the air. If you want to kill a show do it to Roadkill that’s a worthless waste of time.
Was the cancellation Dan’s decision or a decision made by Motor Trend only? If Dan was not ready to end the show, Motor Trend needs to rethink this. In my opinion Fantom Works was at the top of Motor Trend’s shows. I will certainly miss it.
I have to agree with so many ofof t previous comments. Fantom Works was without a doubt my favorite show. So disappointed you are cancelling it. With the other recent cancellations it looks like I need to move on to another station. You have very little left that interests me.
i knew motortrend would screw everything up the magazine is a joke too
Once again corporate tripping over the dollars to pick up pennies. Brilliant..:(
Big mistake canceling this program.. This is one of the best car restoration shows on the air.. BIG MISTAKE!!!
The people that actually have cars they tinker with, actually watch the real CAR shows, watching guys that act like idiots is just for the beer guzzling idiots (not that having a beer is a bad thing, but) their Main money
contributors, Barrett Jackson and the advertisers do not understand that the people that actually have money for their products are not the people they want at their events. And on the car note, I have an 80 and 84 Corvette, 79 MG Midget, 78 Trans Am, a converted S-10 p/u, an 11 Charger R/T and a 12 Mustang, we love cars in this house, don’t screw with the good shows.
I totally agree fantomworks was a great show and hate to see it leave. Maybe they can find a new home. It seems like many shows are copies of another.
Honestly I thought FantomWorks was one of the most genuine car shows. I would be surprised if the viewership was low and or they were not getting the sponsorship to sustain the program.
In either case it was probably one of my favorite programs on the channel. It’s a real shame to see it go 🙁
Fantomworks is one of the best car shows on TV, it’s unbelievable it would be cancelled. Meanwhile they air a really bad show like Live, Love, Wrench. It’s not just bad but dangerous! The poor quality work and incorrect information I’ve seen on that show could get someone killed! They leave out and never show the fixes and redos of the stuff they screw up, improperly set or assemble. For example: Emily tightening down front wheel bearings as tight as she could make it, they never explained it’s important not to over tighten. Aaron was talking about using two secondary brake shoes to increase braking power on the rear brakes! It’s like they don’t even understand how the primary and secondary shoe’s work together to create braking force. This show better get a technical guy to make sure these two aren’t going to encourage a viewer to incorrectly repair his car resulting in someone’s injury or worse. If not, a lawsuit will be coming their way.
To make room for more Ant Anstead, no doubt. Ugh.
They should cancel Graveyard cars. I can’t stand self-important jerk Mark Worman. Also who really wants to watch Barrett Jackson auction off cars to a bunch of rich people!!! What’s next cancel Bitchin’ Rides? FantomWorks was they best show on their network!!!
I can not believe you cancelled Fantom Works, one of the best shows on Motortrend. Then you add a show like Live, Love and Wrench, REALLY??? Hopefully another network picks up Dan and his team.
While I liked the actual restoration of the cars, I could not stomach Short. He is the world’s biggest Drama Queen, always throwing in the requisite “damn”, “hell” or “son-of-a-bitch”. He sounds like a third grader who just learned the swear words and is determined to use every one of them. The facial contortions were beyond belief as well. Made watching the show difficult. The man must be a horror to work for.
Take a lesson from Foose, Short…. just get the work done, children’s swear words aren’t needed. You’re not the show, the cars are.
Can’t stand the midget on Chasing Classic Cars, either. If you’re not going to tell me what the cars bought or sold for, I ain’t watching.
I totally agree Ted…a total drama queen. A classy car show would not put machine guns on a cobra…give me a break. I’ve been in the automotive business over 40 years. Not impressed with him. Will not be missed!!!
I, like so many others think you made 1 heck of a mistake by killing Fantom Works. In my opinion that was the best car related show on Motor Trend . Grave yard cars would be a good show if Mark Worman was off the show. Where did you find Bad Chad. Watching Bad Chad is like watching paint dry. I certainly hope you can do better.
Worman knows his stuff, but he is an egotistical bastard and impossible to stomach. He IS a turd. Bitchin’ Rides and the replays of Overhaulin’ are the only MT shows I’ll watch now. Wheeler Dealers was a good show until fatso got rid of Edd….don’t watch that anymore. Edd should have his own show. Iron Resurrection is OK, Amanda is HOT, but the guys say “hey man” too much for me.
Brake check….3,2,1 ~ goodbye FantomWorks !
can someone please explain the purpose of the texas metal show. I personally dont learn anything new from this show We need fantomworks back
Are you out of your minds Phantom Works is one the best shows on. Why not get rid of wrenched or road kill. Well you just lost another viewer
I’ve told my wife many of times, FantomWorks is the only place I would take my car to get worked on.
I watch all of the fantom works shows from start to finish including commercials,can watch one show after another but quickly change channel as soon as I see wheeer dealers and bad chad come on- keep fantom works!!
Let’s all boycott motortrend. Some of the best auto repair I’ve watched lately is on YouTube. Fandom works is definitely the best show on the channel. Bad Chad. Is bad bad bad. I mean that show sucks. Who makes the decisions anyway. The viewers I would think. Rating will definitely go down. They lost my support.
I’ve really enjoyed Fantomworks. So disappointing to see it leave.
I agree that Fantom Works was a great show. They showed the step by step renovations. Motor trends sucks ,they show you unreal shows about junk. I will miss Fantom Works been watching show from the start,it is sbout the only shoe I watch on Motor trend network, I quess no need to watch the channel any longer. Bye Dan
Why would you cancel educational and entertaining programming that actually keeps multigenerational audiences interested in the classic cars!? Foolish of MT to do this, I mean seriously, what are you trying to do phase out anything pre 80’s, or you dont want to have shows that dont have website info and a side moneymaking scheme attached to it? If I want to see imports and trucks lifted 3 feet with low profile tires I can go to the shop up the street and laugh at that crap. Cancelling Fantomworks and possibly Iron Resurrection will just cause many to change and/or change the channel.. But if it is meant to be then Goodbye MT…
Motor Trend just lost another viewer. Fantom Works was the best show on Velocity. Sure hope someone from MT sees these comments…
The best show on the network what a bunch of blannnnk
Dan is a total mercenary due to his insistence on excellence. But some people want that level of correctness in their renovations. I loved the show but didn’t care for Dan. Can’t believe i’m saying this but I’m gonna miss him.
Get rid of bad Chad. A really crummy show and live love wrench. What a waste of TV time.
I agree with boycotting MotorTrend. Fantomworks is a great show and shows the most unusual and varied selection of cars being worked on. I have followed the shop since day 1, and have actually spoken to Dan a couple of times in the past about working on my 1939 Hupmobile – Still saving my pennies for that trip to Norfolk!! Good Luck, Dan, I hope another network picks up the best restoration show ever.
I’m 64 been tracking the hot rod seen for a long time and motortrend was always the worst magazine, so they should end up following sute with tv..
Why DRS Quit…
Dec 21, 2018 | FantomBlog | 294 comments
By the first few days of 2019, we will finish filming the television series FantomWorks. The shop will continue to build cars for years to come but the show called FantomWorks will conclude. Our weekly tours will continue as they have since long before the show began. A few weeks back, the network officially posted the cancellation of our television show. Because of that announcement, I decided it was time to explain why I quit and thank all involved.
I want to thank my crew of amazing technicians and the film crew that gave a group of mechanical artisans the chance to be in the spotlight. The crew of FantomWorks maintained the utmost professionalism building cars while dealing with cameras in their faces, sound equipment stuffed into nooks and crannies, radio wars (they were turned off 25 times a day), takes and retakes, working lunches, early mornings that turned into late nights, unwanted travel, and the general difficulties associated with being in front of the cameras 5 days a week, 51 weeks a year, 6.5 years non-stop. Right after the show began, employee turnover increased tenfold; stresses in the shop skyrocketed, and attacks on my company (bloodsucking leeches trying to suck “riches” that never even existed) came out of nowhere. In 2017 I announced to my crew my decision to leave the television show. To my relief, the crew responded very positively. As the cameras are now closing out the final segments of filming, the crew’s morale has skyrocketed and the love of building cars is effervescent again.
I am told that filming a television show on a “set” designed for filming and utilizing paid actors is a reasonably easy thing to do. However in the case of the show FantomWorks, filming was never easy by anyone’s standards. My thanks to those members of the network and film crew who truly cared about the shop. Some understood how difficult it was and helped in any way they could. We had eleven directors in six years, most of whom agreed this was the most difficult show to shoot they’d ever worked on (most one-hour cars shows are shot in a 2-30 day window while this show averages 548 days). Car restorations that averaged almost two years were a reality while we had to display “continuity” during the builds so it looked like they were seamless done in only days. Shop dust and oils affected film gear resulting in an unusual number of equipment issues that then resulted in countless “do overs.” We never filmed less than five days a week, many weeks six. Film crews worked 7AM till 6 or 7PM most days alongside our crews. Often times, filming went well into the night. All this while trying to keep 65 to 98 cars in build at a time. It was never easy. To add insult to injury, many customers were upset as they were never reimbursed for travel or other expenses. The film schedule was so demanding that during the final weeks of my father’s life, I was not able to attend to him. The show took over my life and to make matters worse, my wife and I now face almost a million dollars of debt we incurred keeping the production going.
I have only one regret related to leaving the show. That regret is that we have to say goodbye to our many fans. I have been honored to meet thousands of viewers of the show during the tours at the shop, in local car shows, and national events like SEMA. I’ve travelled the globe and been truly delighted and humbled by meeting so many people who have openly expressed their love of our the shop and the show.
Just a few months ago, a very emotional fan of the show shared a wonderful story. He and his father would watch the show FantomWorks together during the months before his aged father passed. His father suffered from severe dementia had forgotten almost everything; his surroundings and family. It was only during the hour that they watched this show together that his father’s mind became alert. He’d been a car builder in his younger years. While the two watched the show together, his father could “remember” and for that hour, they’d connect… they’d talk. When he told me about what the show had done for his relationship, I rationalized that all the financial hardship we’d been through to make the show and even dealing with the gutless faceless internet trolls for six and a half years were somewhat justified.
So when one of the senior executives from the network and I had a long talk. He suggested that if it doesn’t make any sense to keep going, it’s time to call it done. It was time…
God Bless.
Dan Short
As usual. All the really good shows get cancelled
I agree boycott
I can’t believe you are cancelling Fantom Works. If I had a classic car to restore I’d take it the. Get rid of Wheeler Dealers instead.
I really hate all the reality shows where its all about the personalities and not the cars. Fantomworks was excellent in this respect. They went into pretty good detail on restoring the cars from all aspects. Other shows focus on one or two aspects of the cars and then show the car with its engine magically dropped into place.
I respect Dan Short’s decision to end his participation but will miss the show.
Are you serious? Who is making decisions and what is the basis for this decision?
Hopefully someone (another channel) with more insight will make a deal with Dan. We will follow him if it happens.
Watching FantomWorks as I type this comment. As a first time viewer I can right off the bat appreciate the professionalism of the employees and the cleanliness and orderliness of the shop. I have also watched episodes of Misfits/Fired Up Garage and though entertaining I would never in a million years pay those glorified shade tree mechanics bigtime money to build me a big ticket item. But for what they do they do a good job.
Disagree 100%. Bad Chad is must see TV if you grew up learning the mechanics of cars the hard way. By the hard way I mean your tool box consisted of a pair of pliers, a hammer, and the holy grail of tools aka vice grips. Plus he is quite the character and spews words of wisdom he has learned the hard way.
motortrend, they say how great this channel is,and yet the first thing they do is start canceling shows it must be an attempt to make room for the shows ,that real car guys cant stand,i don’t really care about cars that drive on right hand side ,or shows about an asshole like Richard rowlings,,I would have loved to see jessie james kick his ass,in the biker buildoff,,that would have been entertainment,anyway thanks motortrend,for letting us see whats instore for us if we subscribe ,hey heres an idea try listening to what car guys like ,not what people who sit at a desk, never get greasy,and should consider retireing say,in closing a lot of people like to see the process of turning a piece of junk into something cool,that the average guy can afford to do later john
What a shame ! A great show sorry to see it go . Motortrend get your act together . Dan thanks it was a pleasure watching you and your crew do extraordinary work .
The best show of all and now it’s gone!!! Doesn’t make sense. Maybe I’ll call my cable provider to register a complaint also!
How sad, one of my favorite shows i can relate the show is real and they care about cars and the owners, but cars first. Trust what he says about cars and how they fix and the time it takes, will miss it, hops it goes to another network
Well, I believe they should change their name from Motor Trend to Motor Trash cause that’s what they are doing to their network by cancelling Fantom Works.
another stupid decision made be some exec who wouldn’t know a good car show if it ran him over. That person or persons should be fired
A great show real car guys , average Joe customers not needing million $ builds. Probably replace it with some guys wearing cap on backwards, with lip rings putting 26″ wheels on a chopped and channeled 60 Cadillac.
Bad decision, one of the best shows on auto restoration. Many others should be canceled, this show should be renewed. Stupid decision on some morons part!!
Cancelling Fantomworks is probably going to be the end of motortrend. Fantomworks and Bitchin rides were the only interesting down to earth car shows on tv. Won’t be watching motortrend much. Up to now motortrend was on in my house and garage most of the time.
Unfortunately a great car show has been cancelled to make room for another show that builds a massive engine, wide tire, dragging the pavement car. Too bad bringing a classic car back to better than original condition doesn’t interest the “car guys/women” of today.
How sad, I love Fantom Works. I’m a 47 year old female and look forward to Fantom Works. Some of the new shows are a joke. Smh. I hope for the sake of your consumer base you folks listen.
Im very disappointed to see that they took the best show they have off hope they will rethink this stupid decision
I don’t know which person or persons decided to cancel Fantonworks. As Ron White says, you can’t fix “stupid”. Bad programming decision. It was one of the best shows on Velocity. Some at the worst are a couple of the new ones, which I watched for an episode or two and discarded. Bring Fantonworks back! It is a quality show.
One show on all of Direct TV that has my dedication as a fan: Phantom Works. So these bimbos at Motor Trend cancel it? Put my name in the “pissed off” column.
It is incredible and absurd that Motor Trend can keep some of the dumbest shows I have ever seen, and turn around and get rid of Fanthom Works and this is coming from a car crazy professional woman who has gotten very good information from Fanthom Works and some of the dumbest information from of those other goofy shows. Gloria S. Stein at DJF007@gmail.com P.S. RIdiculous
Thanks Motor Trend Network. You just cancelled the best show on TV!
Seems like any time you have a car show where the mechanic actually gets the camera with them under the car so you can see what they fix and how, then they yank the show….dumb, dumb, dumb move Motortrend
Terrible decision. Fantomworks was fun to watch. Hope another network picks it up.
The only show worth watching on your has been canceled by some idiot!!! 01/30/219 is the last night your channel will be selected on my television. You have kept all of the crummy shows and dumped the only one with class1 I hope this leads to the whole cannel being canceled>
Dan Short is military tough and exacting in what he wanted his techs to accomplish with each and every vehicle, but his demands for perfection results in safe, better than new cars and trucks and very happy owners.
I don’t want some chopped, lowered to the asphalt mess of a car that the other car builders like to do. Canceling Fantomworks is a boneheaded mistake!! Shame on MotorTrend.
Why all the hate on Bad Chad? The show is fun and entertaining to watch, he is definitely quirky and quite the character. I also like FantomWorks, they do some jaw dropping work, no doubt about it. Why the show is being canceled I haven’t a clue. If a show needs canceling it is “Misfit Garage” I wouldn’t let those clowns work on my lawnmower, much less an expensive classic muscle car.
I can only add more of the same… MotorTrend is obviously uneducated in what makes good TV for car people… more shows from around the globe in which NOBODY relates to as well as well as charging for on demand episodes, etc. will only make for a Huge Failure. FantomWorks has come a long way and is a perfect fit for their primary demographics. With Velocity, I rarely changed the channel [When I had control of the remote] but now since Motor Trend has taken over, they continue to implement terrible strategies and I watch it less and less every week. I will now watch it even less often! Listen to your viewers MotorTrend… we are not enjoying your signature moves!
Wow such fans talking all this cap and no one reads his site. He wanted show to end. Wow. Get ur info straight before complaining and attacking
I agree with just about everyone. MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD. Go to Motortrends web page and at the very bottom click on contact us and let them know how you feel. I just registered my complaint.
I would love to know why you cancel the show. It is one of the best car restoration on TV today. I don’t know what motor trend is doing maybe I should rethink my motor trend viewing.
I would much rather listen to Dan rant and rave and use fowl language than watch that bunch of morons on Dallas Car Sharks! Maybe Motortrend is using the bottom up approach to selecting their prime time listings by choosing the worst shows from Velocity to keep and get rid of the best in hopes of boosting their ratings??? Good luck with that!!!!
Fantomworks and DCS are two totally different kind of shows. One is a flip show and the other is a restoration show. If you’re looking for a classic car to drive and have fun in, DCS is your show. The Cyclone episode that was just on cost the owner well over a $100,000 for a car that will NEVER be worth it. Frankly, with that kind of money into it, I’d be afraid to drive it on the road.
I did like watching the cars being restored on FW, I just can’t stand Short. “Now, why does MY trim not fit?” He doesn’t do spit except order the real craftsmen around who actually make him the money. Get rid of DRS and his stupid childlike swearing and and ego and it would be a great show.
The price tag for the repairs has to do with the owner wanting something that was not originally installed in his vehicle and the only way to get that now is to find a downer car hence the high cost.
The people at Motortrend should keep one of the car restoration shows on the air in instead you put shows on with women who could not fix a flat tire or bad Chad and car auctions shows which I do not watch
I truly will miss this show. It is one of the best actually the best show on MT. If it is because Dan wants to give up his show because it’s slowing down his shop production as someone else had mentioned I understand but it is still the best show. I wish Dan the best he is awesome.
It’s so sad that some Motor trend folks don’t know their ass from a hole in the ground. Their programming is getting worse every time they cancel a great show like this and replace it with some phony brainless sitcom or whatever.
You just canceled the only show I watch on MOTORTREND, Maybe I need to consider canceling MOTORTREND as you have done with FantomWorks. Very disappointed in your network
Wow with Fantomworks and Iron Resurrection gone I guess I will watch Food Network. My 2 favorite shows.
Watching the Wednesday January 30th Fantomworks end of series day long special now. I’m going to miss this show! It’s about 1 hour up the road from me and it was really neat knowing it was so close! Interesting to read that Dan is the one who wanted to end it but I guess I can understand…it probably was quite an interference to a daily work schedule. So Dan…good luck, keep the cars coming and your show will be missed!! And I’ve read that Iron Resurrection is going away too??? Well damn! That sucks too! Anybody know if this is a fact???? I really liked Joe Martin and his crew too!! Some have commented on Chasing Classic Cars…I feel they need to change the name to Chasing Classic Foreign Cars…they are way to fixated on Ferraris, Porsches, Astons and such. Wayne just doesn’t seem interested in American made unless it’s a 1903 Cadillac or such…and comments on Mark from Graveyard Cars, if he just didn’t try so hard to be funny or clever and that grin…..creepy! I guess its wait and see time to find out what the future brings!
I love his knowledge but his comedic abilities stink. Just show you’re knowledge of the cars and build the period correct challengers and chargers please don’t do funny.
Horsepucky does not leave a little leeway for a good show then I guess I’ll have to go back to mavtv
Only show worth a S*(& on your channel and you cancel it? Agree with most of others here.. there are more quality builds and restorations without BS adds, that it makes sense. maybe that is why?
Good riddance. Dan short appeared to be a real jerk on television and too much drama for the show. Besides that. Sounds like he’s a con artist. Accused
of ovoverchargi people and running a fake charity for veterans. I looked it up and he’s been sued at least a couple of times. I’m not saying he is a crook. But one case I read about. He looked pretty shady. And his wounded wheels charity is under intense scrutiny. Not much worse in my opinion than scamming people with a veterans charity.
Really? Of all the shows Motor Trend TV cancels, Fantomworks is the on they picked? Yes, Dan’s kind of a prick and a drama queen, but I like the fact he does STOCK cars and restomods (and actually sometimes tells us how much he charges). Dallas Cars Sharks, Girl’s Garage, Junkyard Empire, Chasing Classic Cars (even Wheeler Dealers), and many more are all worse shows. Bad decision.
Between this show and chasing classic cars are the only two shows that are not fluff Trendy bull sh$@. I’m sad to hear they will not be doing another season.
What else would you expect from wannabe car experts that named the 4 door Chevrolet Caprice “Car of the Year” back in the early 1990’s. I am sure Fantomworks will be replaced with a show about building 8 foot tall pickups for rock stars or sports figures with no taste. No doubt they will be covered inside and out with lights, have ugly black wheels and guaranteed to go bad air suspension. This is unquestionably the dumbest decision ever made !!! These people need to consider what the audience wants and forget about their goofy dream vehicles.
This is one of the few car shows about cars, not over drama queen personalities, that show very little about restoration or repairing cars.
FanthomWorks is by far the best show on the CHANNEL . Whoever yanked it needs a lobotomy and is obviously not a Car guy . I’M DONE WITHE THE CHANNEL ! ESPECIALLY AFTER WATCHING THE MECUM AND B & JACKSON AUCTIONS ..I timed the commercials close to 45% of the air time . Good thing I record them first , and FF thru them ! I think the NFL has fewer commercials .
Motor Trend is the land of the living dead. Fantom Works is the best show period. Dan Short shouldn’t have any problem going to a different network. This Fantom Works is the best show on right now.
he is kinda of a strange guy and a bit of a drama queen but he seems to have a heart and it appears that he runs a pretty good shop!!!! He will be missed
You really screwed up on this move.
You cancel FantomWorks and keep crap like Graveyard cars with the smartass Mark smirking and regurgitating useless crap to show how smart he is… I guess I’ll have to find another station to watch.
Motor trend you just lost a customer,canceling your programming!!!
Look forward to subscribing to the new channel that picks up FantomWorks..good luck with your low riding,paint jobs crap that you show
Just my opinion but Motor Trend has been on a downward spiral since Loh took over. I hope someone will see the light and pick up this show
Cant believe you cancel a good show like fantom works but leave stupid ass wheeler dealers on dumb asses that show is horrible
One of the best car shows going and it’s being cancelled. Unbelievable! I’m highly disappointed with MotorTrend for making this move. Other shows don’t hold up to the quality and detail this show actually describes.
Whoever makes these decisions should be frying hamburgers at a greasy spoon. Velocity is/was a car show and being a car guy took me right to the different problems I could relate to.
THIS SUCKS!!!! It’s a great show and cancelling. CRAP!!! He turned out some beautiful work. Truly bad idea.
I know everyone has their own opinion, but cancelling this show was a huge mistake! I agree with all these folks. They keep the worst shows and get rid of the great ones. Good job Motor Trend!
I agree with all the comments and I will no longer be watching MT.
Hopefully someone with brains picks up the show, it is by far the best resto show on t. V. Period. What a huge mistake.
Well I guess I won’t have to watch this chanel any more. The is the only show worth watching.
I can’t believe you cancelled the most authentic car rebuild show on your network. Unlike the others with their hip shirts and hair gel, Dan sweats through his t-shirts and is hands-on, working directly with his guys (unlike the other Hollywood-like prima donnas; Foose, Wheeler Dealers, Kindig, etc). He cares more about the cars than his image. He’s interesting, knowledgeable, and he and his guys actively work on solutions. Now your network just has car auction shows and millionaires with good hair. Bad move.
Can’t believe the final show of Fantum Works will be tonight. One of the best shows if not thetbest show that’s on this line up of auto resto shows. Hope another channel will pick it up and I will not look for a carrier that has Motor Trend in it’s line up anymore.
I have no words! This show is one of the best, you have to be nuts to cancel this show, Dan is awesome, the work is the best, Motor Trend can kiss off!!!!! Get rid of a great show and keep ones that are no good! I guess I will watch other channels if this is the new Motor Trend!
I agree! I have a love hate relationship with this show. Love watching the more indepth restorations but hate the obscene prices and obscenely rich who pay the prices. It is shows like this coupled with the televised auctions that have yanked our old car hobby from us and put us into the dreamer status. Even those of us that who work hard and are a little better off financially than many others who can only dream but nowhere as financially at the levels of those with who appear on these shows with wide open checkbooks and are adding old cars to their investment portfolios along with their 401ks.
Wow just read that “Motorjerktend” cancel one of the best car’s show’s on TV. Now very sad when real TV. is taken of the air.
“Fantomworks” was the best show on the now Motor Trend channel. Can’t believe shows like “Chad’s Customs” that show a guy making a car out of 55 gallon drums remains. By the number of comments I read, this is a bad decision.
If Dan Short needs added incentive to continue production,GIVE IT TO HIM!
He’s the only guy on TV that I would trust my car to.
Worst decision ever!
This was the best car show by far!
Motor trend is trending in the wrong direction!
Never was impressed by the magazine either!
Mike P
Going to sadly miss. I feel like its a funeral and I’ve lost a family member. I hope they reconsider.
Looks like the Trend is nosediving and the Motor needs an overhaul of new management!
Motor Trend has no idea of what people want. I have seen the line up for the new shows and I won’t be watching this channel anymore. They canceled the best Show and put a bunch of junk on.Who is in charge. anyone want to bet on how long he is going to last.
Oh great! We get Richard Rawlings instead of a show that is by far the best show on you’re sorry network. Wake up idiots.
Frank Taormina
Weslaco Texas.
Can’t believe they cancelled one of the best shows on tv. A very informative show helped me restore my 1973 corvette. Have to watch the reruns. Very disappointed in motor trend.
Hi I wasn’t a big fan motor trend taking over velocity channel then you had to go cancel fantomworks what’s the matter with you guys that’s one of the reasons I watch the station I loved it I dealt with you taking over I’m not really a big fan of Barrett-Jackson for a whole week now you’re going to take fantomworks off you should be ashamed of yoursi t’s a great showings one of the reasons why I washed this channel so now I won’t be watching this aa
much thank you for nothing
Motor Trend. As you read all these comments, 99% will tell you that you made a huge mistake canceling Fantomworks. Now, show us that you have true integrity and correct your mistake of canceling one of the best car shows on the planet. All will be forgotten. If not, I suggest to everyone to boycott all your sponsors. Let me guess that the person, who canceled the show, has no real clue about muscle cars. Please admit and correct your mistake today, or we will boycott all your sponsors. Life is a chess game, and it’s your move.
Motor Trend what are you thinking you cancel a great show like Fantom Works for some of these new shows that suck! Bring it back!
I am also very disappointed that FantomWorks is being taken off the air. Some of the new shows are really missing the mark in terms of classic car care and restoration. FantomWorks has always been informative and entertaining and I always appreciate the military/service orientation of the show. Motor Trend is REALLY missing the mark!!
What the hell’s the matter with you guys it’s a great show I love watching the show and it’s one of the reasons why I watch his channel so maybe I’m not going to be washing this as much as you want us to bring it back do the right thing
Haven’t seen any recent advertisements for the Iron Resurrection show either. Is Motor Trend pulling the plug on that one, too? And yet they bring on crap like Road Kill??!! You insult our intelligence as classic car enthusiasts!
I am so glad I DVR’d some of my favorite episdoes of FantomWorks. Now I can watch them as often as I like without having to deal with MT. What a crazy idea to get rid of one of the best auto restoration programs on TV. What is MT thinking? It’s not all about slamming and airbags! I want Velocity back!
Big mistake cancelling this show. Bad Chad, Wrenched, Gas monkey Garage, Richard Rollins “I fix up your garage show”, and Wayne Carini’s ” gotta be a millionaire to even relate show” should have all gone before FanthomWorks. Big disappointment.
Bring it back next season Velocity. Oops, I’m mean MotorTrend, you were
A crappy magazine too.
At least we now what Motor Trend thinks is good TV. Cartoon cars, $$$$$$$$builds, they are just NOT relatable. For all his faults, Dan & his crew do correct, proper & most of all SAFE projects. They are also the ONLY ones who show how LONG these builds take. Motor Trend– REALITY CHECK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ditto, it is unbelievable that Fantom Works is being cancelled. As the movie line goes, big mistake, BIG, BIG MISTAKE. The shows coming onboard are putrid.
Awesome show. Motortrend already has way too many all alike cut up and customize classic cars md reducing the amount of original cars out there. Quit running re runs after re runs and money up and make more new shows of Fantom Works and you might be surprised how highly successful it will be. Renew Fantom Works !!!!
This is b******* somebody needs to get a rope . Everything went to hell when speed vision went away.
If everyone sends a note to Motortrend maybe will reconsider?
YOU TOOK OFF THE WRONG SHOW, I WATCH YOUR NETWORK ALL THE TIME MORE THAN ANY OTHER NETWORK. FANTOMWORKS SHOW IN DOWN TO EARTH AND PEOPLE RELATE TO IT. I MUST SAY YOUR NETWORK SCREWED UP .AND WE WANT OUR FANTOMWORKS BACK ON OUR TV’S.
Who is the dumb ASS that cancelled Fantom WORKS IT IS A VERY GOOD SHOW AND VERY INTERESTING. I hope that YOU CHANGE YOUR MIND, THE SHOW IS VERY GOOD AND GIVES IDEAS OF HOW VEHICLES SHOULD BE FIXED THE RIGHT WAY.
I to am sorry to see it go. Dan ran a tight ship.He didn’t seem to hire clowns to be on camera but skilled techs. Dan appeared to value and treat his employees with dignity and respect but would not tolerate short cuts and bad behavior.
There are so many other shows where the paid help would disrespect their employer and complain about their job or what they were assigned to do.
As best as I can recall no one on the show was filmed taking a nap, dancing and acting the fool. You see that in many of the other shows on your channel.
Motor Trend we are car people watching these shows and we demand a quality show and Fantomworks is.
Motor Trend what kind of bone heads are running this channel and Magazine? Both are destined to be gone. What a shame. As stated in these posts take a second look at who is watching your channel and cancel a few of the garbage shows that need to be cancelled,or have them clean up their act. Some are so bad they should never have been on the air.
Thanks Dan and best of luck to you.I hope to see you on a quality channel in the near future.
Lyle
No greasers, no loud mouths, no mocho BS, no boasting about how much they know, Just a variety of vehicles with people that know how their customers want them to be modified. O yea, no knuckle headed customers, with the exception of the man and woman who wanted their hearse tricked out with a bunch of junk. Motor Trend, please bring back this show. It is one of my top two shows on your network.
My favorite car restoration show. What a pity it is being cancelled. Big mistake.
Its all about money. You guys don’t care if people are enjoying a show, its about max profits. That’s why your channel is filled with low budget shows that are laden with commercial advertising.
Motor Trend. Are you listening ? If Dan Short was tired of dealing with the TV cameras, I understand. If MotorTrend decided that FantomWorks wasn’t their style, shame on you. Your viewers are evidently gear heads that love engines, top of the line craftsmanship and no silly ass drama. If Mr. Short is just tired of the TV pressures, let the guy get some rest and find another high quality auto restoration company have a shot at some TV time. Either way, I believe your viewers deserve an answer.
One of only a very few shows that truly captures true car enthusiasts interest. No bs made up mistakes, lame jokes, corny dialogue and mind-numbing project cars of no interest. This show is one of the very best of all car shows on TV because of it’s interesting mix of technical work, selection of cars and respect for it’s audience.
Listen to the viewers and bring back this show!!!!
Huge mistake my wife and I really enjoyed Fantomworks now we must find something to watch on Wednesday night and it will not be playing on Motor Trend. We would cancel Motor Trend however it is not an option we can and will change the channel. Really a bad idea.
Come on MT….this is the type of shows we want. Keep FW on the air.
I get this nasty feeling that this came down to MONEY! Five will give me Ten that MT tried to put the squeeze on Dan and he told them to go fly a kite. You don’t drop a highly rate show in mid-season namely 9 with 10 being planned already unless money is at the heart of it. Well MT to quote a movie “you choose poorly”. I will inform you that 95% of your current shows just plain Suck. Too Bad!!
I think this was a bad move on MT behalf . I loved this show. This is one of the few shows that hits the realty mark as it relates to car restoration. Shameful.
it seems networks like to cancel shows that you actually learn from
Absolutely one of the BEST shows that was on,getting rid of Fantomworks ranks right up there with getting rid of Edd China on Wheeler Dealers and keeping Mike Brewer I haven’t watched it since. Hopefully it was Dan that got tired of them and not the other way around!
Dude I agree! Edd was the only reason I watched it. Sad chad, roadchum, warman and his clowns including his no-nothing daught, the brits and BJakson all stay but fantomworks is cancelled. Loser move MTrend, Dan was one of the last reasons I tuned in, now I’m tuning out…money can’t buy smart and we’ll see them on the ratings trash heep along with trash mnky, msnbc and qvc!
Open message to Motor Trend Television/Network:
Who/whomever is running the programming operation, needs to be FIRED.
Fantomworks is one of the best shows on your line-up!!!!
IF anything should be cancelled, “What’s My Car Worth” should go.
Post production work, including sound ‘up’ and ‘down’ and never consistent.
Want to cancel another show????
Graveyard Cars. Or, just get rid of that MORON (Mark Worman) that thinks he can fight and/or dance.
Don’t cancel the good shows. Cancel the STOOPID shows.
Fantomworks is the best show you have that really represents what motortrend should be behind. Its It’s about showing the car lovers how to save the cars we love. Please bring this show back and put more shows like this on instead of the loud and crazy crap that has been showing up.
Thanks and we really enjoy chasing classic cars and wheeler dealers as well.
Fantom Works without a doubt is the best show on television. I am so angry with Velocity/MotorTrend that I will never watch another show their channel and up to now I watch many shows on MTRND 870LF. I am just stunned.
I loved the show! Who make that dumbass call?
Bad decision, one of the few shows I watched every episode. Not interested in some of the new CRAP that is coming on.
This was a great show AND one my wife actually watched with me and liked! What gives?????
Dan is THE MAN! Best show EVER! Kept cars looking as intended. No slamming or BS rubber-band tires. MotorTrend can suck my exhaust pipe.
One of the best shows MOTORTREND had on the air… I can’t believe you cancelled it! Your loss!
Refreakindiculous!, Worman and his clowns, including his dim witted daughter must be scratching their heads wondering how their still part of programming. Falll on the sword worman and let the Pros take your slot! Barre Jackson and warman proves MT is outa touch with the working man…and women!!
Figures. They cancel one of the top two car shows on. Evidently the new bosses have no idea what their audience likes. But theres a lot of that going around these days.
Motor Trend you are some sort of special kind of stupid for this one.
It will be missed
Motor Trend is a dead magazine. nice start for a dead cable channel.
Motor trend, a dead magazine. No brains. Now they will bring in a shop that slams cars, screws up the car’s looks and then have an ignoramus talk about the car’s ‘stance’. The car’s stance is one: the one the designer’s gave the car at design time. The rest is puke. Wish Car and Driver were owner’s. Never liked Motor Trend, useless.
Don’t understand. Not worth spending time. Thanks FantomWorks for the good days.
Fantomworks, Bitchin Rides and Garage Squad are my favorite shows. Now MotorTrend made a big mistake. I agree with everyone, it seems the stupid shows are getting a new season I.E. Last Stop Garage, Wrenched, Graveyard Cars, etc. The quality of MotorTrend’s programming is going downhill….
Don’t blame Motor Trend. From Dan…
“Because of that announcement, I decided it was time to explain why I quit and thank all involved.
I want to thank my crew of amazing technicians and the film crew that gave a group of mechanical artisans the chance to be in the spotlight. The crew of FantomWorks maintained the utmost professionalism building cars while dealing with cameras in their faces, sound equipment stuffed into nooks and crannies, radio wars (they were turned off 25 times a day), takes and retakes, working lunches, early mornings that turned into late nights, unwanted travel, and the general difficulties associated with being in front of the cameras 5 days a week, 51 weeks a year, 6.5 years non-stop. Right after the show began, employee turnover increased tenfold; stresses in the shop skyrocketed, and attacks on my company (bloodsucking leeches trying to suck “riches” that never even existed) came out of nowhere. In 2017 I announced to my crew my decision to leave the television show. To my relief, the crew responded very positively. As the cameras are now closing out the final segments of filming, the crew’s morale has skyrocketed and the love of building cars is effervescent again.”
What the hell is wrong with you Motor Trend. You keep stupid junk shows on the air and get rid of a real good one that’s been on a long time. Maybe you should reconsider your actions.
What gives, Fantonworks is one of the best car shows you have. You guys suck for canceling it.
I agree why cancel this great show…..get rid of the other crap you have on this channel. Gas monkey is one for sure as he is an asshole that thinks about his beer more than anything else……
To me Fantomworks is one of the cars show I about in the off season but when it starts up again it’s like Oh yeah! Love this show. The only thing I would change in this show is that they tell you how much it cost to build the cars. Other then that it is definitely one of my favourite car shows. Dan seems down to earth and genuine. Keep up the good work Dan!
I agree with everyone (well almost) that this and Bitchin’ Rides are the best shows on MT. The guy who said Dan gets through techs like water is an idiot. I’ve seen the same faces week after week like Steve, and Bobby.
To be honest Dan did not always do the best work,but he always made sure the cars were safe and ran well. This is not an insult to Dan, its a reality in the car rebuilding business. These were real cars, real owners who had to make cost based decisions. The other stuff on there now is crazy, either cut corner Dallas car sharks, or $250,000 stupid vehicles from Houston. Will miss his pissy attitude!
Sad to see this happen! I do not watch to much TV and this was one of the only shows I watched for years now. I understand that networks make choices like this when a show really is not that good and ratings tank. But, FantomWorks is one show that has not got to the point where it is boring or old. Like i said i do not watch much TV and ther is not much i watch on this network.This is just another reason not to watch MotorTrend Network when there is not much i enjoy they broadcast.
Any body that did not like that show is a, will you know! Dan is the man! I hope something happens and it comes back on somewhere. I wish I knew how to work on cars cause I”d move and hire on.Only I’m damn near 70. I,ll change my VCR to record reruns and just hope after a brake they get picked up and we all can thank him for returning. Can you believe he had 2 ZL1’s. That car is probably worth 1/4 mill anyway. Thanks go out to all involved. I wish them the best. What is a URL?
Dan was the real deal. I had the pleasure of visiting his shop when I was in the area. He had an open house every Friday at 3 pm where he took the time to tell the story of how he got started. He then gave a tour of his facility.
I will miss his show as all the others are a waste of time.
I am done watching that Chanel.
Thank you Motor Trend for killing a great show. You can take your channel and your magazine and stick it where the sun doesn’t shine.
Rich
Port Jefferson, NY
Why? This was my favorite TV show. Please reconsider. My other favorite “Chasing Classic Cars” only has re-runs. I guess I’ll have to find another channel to watch car shows. Terry
Bring FantomWorks BACK! Huge error to cancel this very informative and genuine automotive restoration and how to upgrade your ride!
I love FantomWorks because it shows talent. No arguing and yelling between people, but disagreements which everyone has. Also discussing cost shows the viewers just what it takes to get that level of quality and honesty. There is a bit of foul language that seems to come from one person, Dan, but I believe he does it just because he can. The show being cancelled caught me by surprise, but in hindsight I can see the reason.These builds take so long it would be impractical to try continuing the show and showing the finished result in the time frame TV needs. They could take on faster projects which would only make them fit into the class of those other shows that are simply remove and replace parts. No offense, but I will fall back on Bitchin’ Rides now. Farewell FantomWorks. If I am ever in the area I WILL swing by for a tour.
Best auto show on today I watch the first auto show over thirty years ago nothing comes close only Fantom Works thank you Dan Short Motor Trend only wants people to be movie stars and not a car show shame on you
Fantom works is one of the very best car shows to ever be produced. I have no idea why they were cancelled. Every car guy that I ever talked to knew and respected Fantom works. It was a no bullshit car restoration operation. If you wanted something done right you took it to Fantom works to get it done.
Fantomworks is good show and it’s a shame it won’t be back. All the new shows look like product infomericals. Looking for a new favorite channel for my TV to live on.
My husband and I love this show so much. Every time a great show comes on that we both enjoy some money grubbing executive pulls the plug. We had just decided to get his 1970 Chevy Caprice 454 engine restored. He bought this car brand new and when we moved from CA to TX we paid $1k to transport Clyde yes we name.the car. We wanted Dan to do the restoration. Please Dan give us an address that we can get in touch with you. It shows you are in Virginia and I own property in West Virginia so not a problem we will move. I am sick of the property management people bugging us about Clyde and all the other silly restrictions. We will watch repeats but that’s not the same. Dan is for the love of cars and how the customer feels about their autos wonderful attribute don’t change Dan. Stay strong remain caring all will work out. In my prayers. Don’t forget get in touch we want you and your crew to restore Clyde. God bless Deborah and David Reynolds
This was one of the best shows on the network. The thing that made it good was the realistic attitude of Dan, he was a no BS person and you appreciated that. This is a big mistake.
Typical network bs….great show Dan is the most realistic true heart car guy I have ever seen….that is what this channel was all about down the tubes it goes….
Hi, I do what this show does. I correct and improve older vehicles, cars to Mack trucks. This show WAS the closest to real life and dollars to save classics.Dan is a little stuffy, but so am I. Motor trend is a magazine to me. Good luck with whatever you fill the time slot.
Motortrend is Bing very stupid to cancelling FanrhanWorks, it is the best car show on TV,, what you people should do is get of some of the other trash, get your heads out of your butts and get FanrhanWorks back in the schedule.
You just took off one of the best shows on Motor Trend. Its more how cars are really done in a shop. Most of the other shows are unrealistic. You really screwed this up.
I think the Network needs to fire the Assholes that cancel Great programs like Fantom works! We the people should have the final say so, Not some DumbAsshole pushing a pen!
Dan Short explains his reason for leaving Motortrend….
“By the first few days of 2019, we will finish filming the television series FantomWorks. The shop will continue to build cars for years to come but the show called FantomWorks will conclude. Our weekly tours will continue as they have since long before the show began. A few weeks back, the network officially posted the cancellation of our television show. Because of that announcement, I decided it was time to explain why I quit and thank all involved.
I want to thank my crew of amazing technicians and the film crew that gave a group of mechanical artisans the chance to be in the spotlight. The crew of FantomWorks maintained the utmost professionalism building cars while dealing with cameras in their faces, sound equipment stuffed into nooks and crannies, radio wars (they were turned off 25 times a day), takes and retakes, working lunches, early mornings that turned into late nights, unwanted travel, and the general difficulties associated with being in front of the cameras 5 days a week, 51 weeks a year, 6.5 years non-stop. Right after the show began, employee turnover increased tenfold; stresses in the shop skyrocketed, and attacks on my company (bloodsucking leeches trying to suck “riches” that never even existed) came out of nowhere. In 2017 I announced to my crew my decision to leave the television show. To my relief, the crew responded very positively. As the cameras are now closing out the final segments of filming, the crew’s morale has skyrocketed and the love of building cars is effervescent again.
I am told that filming a television show on a “set” designed for filming and utilizing paid actors is a reasonably easy thing to do. However in the case of the show FantomWorks, filming was never easy by anyone’s standards. My thanks to those members of the network and film crew who truly cared about the shop. Some understood how difficult it was and helped in any way they could. We had eleven directors in six years, most of whom agreed this was the most difficult show to shoot they’d ever worked on (most one-hour cars shows are shot in a 2-30 day window while this show averages 548 days). Car restorations that averaged almost two years were a reality while we had to display “continuity” during the builds so it looked like they were seamless done in only days. Shop dust and oils affected film gear resulting in an unusual number of equipment issues that then resulted in countless “do overs.” We never filmed less than five days a week, many weeks six. Film crews worked 7AM till 6 or 7PM most days alongside our crews. Often times, filming went well into the night. All this while trying to keep 65 to 98 cars in build at a time. It was never easy. To add insult to injury, many customers were upset as they were never reimbursed for travel or other expenses. The film schedule was so demanding that during the final weeks of my father’s life, I was not able to attend to him. The show took over my life and to make matters worse, my wife and I now face almost a million dollars of debt we incurred keeping the production going.
I have only one regret related to leaving the show. That regret is that we have to say goodbye to our many fans. I have been honored to meet thousands of viewers of the show during the tours at the shop, in local car shows, and national events like SEMA. I’ve travelled the globe and been truly delighted and humbled by meeting so many people who have openly expressed their love of our the shop and the show.
Just a few months ago, a very emotional fan of the show shared a wonderful story. He and his father would watch the show FantomWorks together during the months before his aged father passed. His father suffered from severe dementia had forgotten almost everything; his surroundings and family. It was only during the hour that they watched this show together that his father’s mind became alert. He’d been a car builder in his younger years. While the two watched the show together, his father could “remember” and for that hour, they’d connect… they’d talk. When he told me about what the show had done for his relationship, I rationalized that all the financial hardship we’d been through to make the show and even dealing with the gutless faceless internet trolls for six and a half years were somewhat justified.
So when one of the senior executives from the network and I had a long talk. He suggested that if it doesn’t make any sense to keep going, it’s time to call it done. It was time…
God Bless.
Dan Short”
FantomWorks was one of my favorite car shows and it’s a shame they are leaving,but from what I gather it was for the good of the shop and Dans sanity.Thank you for all the great show,great builds,and great storys.
You’ll be missed by thousands of fans.
Your MBA disappoints me. You couldn’t monetize an experience we all dream of in our 40s and 50s. Make no mistake, this is a business issue, ask anyone. I tire of bankers, you fail, society fails. This show is America’s salt of the earth. Like others, I admit, but dammit, I don’t quit, why did you? I can’t handle that cut and grind stuff on glam cars. Meaningless to everyone but the owner.
Motor Trend have you lost your mind!!!! Fantom Works is by far this best show you have and you cancelled it!! What a MORON move! I hope another network picks it up!!!! Keep doing it right like you always do Dan! I love your work and I’m going to bring you my 69 Mustang to fix!!
The best car show and you MT idiots cancel it. Yet keep the stupid shows.GFY!
Dont buy anything thing motor trend sponsors are selling. Yet they leave trash like garage rehab and gas monkey garage and watch the drunk drink his beer that trash should have been cancelled hell with motor trend.
Fantomworks is a great show, I can’t wait to see Dan and his crew… Usual TV when a show is good it gets cancelled…
This is insane to cancel THE BEST car show on TV His vision and commitment to automotive excellence in restoration and repair is unmatched in the authenticity of the format is again… unmatched in ANY other car show… and i love a lot of them,,,,,, this is MIND BLOWINGLY STUPID!
What a shame. I’ve been watching Dan for awhile now I like his style and his honesty He,’s honest about the hours and the money. It’s difficult to watch the pain in customers eyes when they finally understand what it takes to build a car… For real. The expense, the hours, the talented techs. Not just anyone can do these things. Dan doesn’t bullshit anyone into thinking these things can be correctly done in a week. It is a refreshing show, that is interesting, informative, honest and fun to watch… . Of course it was canceled. I’m sorry, I can’t watch Texas Metal, or Roadkill… Or Graveyard cars. Worley is knowledgeable ….. I just can’t listen to him talk
Some MBA idiot thinks he or she knows more about what car people want to watch more than they do. This is one of my favorites and way less BS than the other shows. I don’t watch any of the west coast shows or any of the newer supposed car shows. Hopefully Discovery will replace the clown in Texas with a real car show. Great way to start off MotorTrend!
I just hope another (smarter) network can take this great show.
What a Bone Head move by Motor Trend. This is the best by far car show, on TV. Right next is Garage Squad. Why not cancel Chasing Classic Cars with that arrogant little Wayne guy who looks like the General from the car insurance Ads, He’s an overbearing know it all. At least Dan talks the talk and walks the walk.
What a bad idea. I always looked forward to watching Dan and his crew do their magic. I guess those of us that like cars done right and a little “old school” by some one that loves their cars as much as we do,just don’t count. Who do they think laid the ground work for all of these cookie cutter “gangsta” cars that most other shops are doing. I hope others are right and some other network picks them up. And if so, I only hope Dan and his guys feel like having all the disruptions that a TV production causes is worth the price to entertain and inform all of his fans. Boooo Motor Trend.
Big mistake. Its a great show without the stupid antics you find at Kindigs shop and at West Coast Customs. I can do other things besides watch t.v. now that Fantomworks is gone.
if you check out the Fantomworks website, you’ll see that Motor Trend ended the show at Dan Short’s request. He felt that the constant filming had become to disruptive and costly to his business…
if you check out the Fantomworks website, you’ll see that Motor Trend ended the show at Dan Short’s request. He felt that the constant filming had become to disruptive and costly to his business…
Motor Trend is screwing up from the get go. Best show on the network cancelled? Not everyone one like cars worth a million dollars or cars where they POR. Fat low pros, airbags, and cut tops are not interesting. A lot of us like cars as they were DESIGNED! You lost a viewer.
Its all been said… But there really are a lot of Boomers and their Kids that are devoted to this show and its unique slice of automotive history. Sad to say, someone at Motor Trend is not listening to the audiance, and if the tend continues, Motor Trend will vanish the way of other programing of the past, like Paul Allen’s TECH TV. More bad decisions by television exectutives that just dont get it. When you have a winner, just as season after season of Fantonworks has proven, just let the magic run its course. More of the same cookie cutter crap is not going to make great television, but a proven clasic will.
It didnt work with Tech Tv when Allem killed Call for Help, and it wont work for Motor Trend with the premature death of Fantomworks.
I really enjoyed fantomworks, I also do hate bad chads customs but wrench’d and iron resurrection and overhaulin are good shows too.I really would rather you cancel bad chad and bring back fantomworks. Oh and I seriously hate those huge tires on cars,they are stupid and pretentious, they make cars look ghetto, and I understand why he wanted off camera. I still hate bad chad though, would rather watch fantomworks re-runs.
Smooth move motortwit. You have just lost a lot of viewers, including me. This network has been going downhill with its programming, and now you’ve hit bottom. I just blocked your lame channel because there is now going to be absolutely nothing worth watching on it.
The only car show I regularly watch. Fantomworks is top notch. Why is motor trend so ignorant. No wonder interest is declining. They have lost focus on their fan base. Not going to be a banner year for motor trend.
I just don’t understand their cancellation. One of the best garage show Fantomworks is a very up class show.
Where Dan Short always believed in making the vehicle road safe first, all the systems gone through before anything was tore down, and replace/rebuilt and Dan always made everything wright. Nothing went out of that shop, unless it was a 100%. Interest may have been reclining on cheaper shows since M/T took over but Fantomworks was no one of them.
Dan Short I hope you keep on doing what you do there in Norfolk, the next time I am up that way I stop and shake your hand for giving me 9+ years of Fantomworks. Damn I just don’t get it.
I didn;t like the show because it was all about the mega bucks. Dan looks at a car says someone who didn;t know anything messed it up but for many mega bucks he can make it like new. Also has to throw up his hands and cuss a few times before he suddenly becomes the most knowledgable guy ever and can fix it. Just my opinion. I like graveyard cars, they do great work and don’t discuss who pays for anything.
I think motor-trend network should be renamed “The Barret Jackson Network”. I do not think hours and hours of the 1 per-centers buying overpriced automobiles is entertainment. At least Rock Auto you can avoid by not visiting there website……
The best show of your line-up & you yank it!! What are you thinking??! And the only automotive show where the body ink and extra hair wasn’t competing with the real content.
This show is as phony as a 2 dollar bill.Pay attention and watch VERY closely.since when do you do 100 mph road tests and 321 brake checks in cars with no roofs no doors etc. and then stop in the middle of the street with doors open to check your brake skid marks?all the so called finished and delivered vehicles are either in the line up inside the shop or outside in the for sale line up.the customers are either friends or paid to be a fake owner.otherwise why are all the finished vehicles back in Dans possesion after they are supposedly delivered.when a car is on hoist and the so called gu-rus are inspecting the pay real close attention to what is going on around them as well as the vehicle itself.they are far from restored or even finished the way they are portraid.nuf said.
Hooray!!!Lousiest show on TV !!! Alley mechanics , don’t even clean the dirt and grease off the cars they work on . SUPER ARROGANT owner !!! I never could imagine why anyone would take a car to that place . You guys must be as dumb as the show to say it’s the best ??? Now they need to cancel all the reruns .
These people that put FantomWorks down are funny (and sad) they know nothing of working on cars, or should I say restoring cars. FW was one of the best on TV and I agree with the people on here that said they are canceling that station, now that the great shows are gone, there is no sense in watching that BS channel any longer, I agree 100% that station sucks now, it was great before MT took them over, and they ruined a great thing. True gearheads can watch those 2 shows and learn something; I worked on cars for 25 years before getting hurt and losing that as a trade. I am another one that agrees Motor Trend is making a big mistake, and watch in a few years they’ll be selling that channel to anyone that wants it.
We see Fantomworks in the UK. Very poor decision to cancel an outstanding car programme showing quality professional restorers at work. A class programme featuring the actual quality work undertaken and how difficult issues were solved by class restorers, absolutely, not the usual drek which will no doubt replace it. The programme showed the real quality work done and you didn’t have to listen interminably to some ‘personality’ spouting uninformed hackneyed patter. This was an outstanding programme showing the exceptional work expertly completed by the exceptional crew at Fantomworks, in other words all the interesting stuff without the inane chat. Motor Trend Network …. misleading name …… this decision shows …… er ……. you are not.
What a stupid decision by somebody at MT. I may just stop watching this Network. I can think of at least 10 shows like this one to go before FW.
I also agree with the rest of the comments. This was just straight up TV.
No macho, self aggrandizing, giant tires and rims stuff. Those shows are OK, but should not have been cancelled.
Probably, this Email will land on deaf ears, but I tried.
Thanks.
Bruce