According to the Huffington Post, who reached out to several past contestants as well as co-executive producer Larry Hochberg, some of the more outlandish work done to the vehicles was removed after the cameras stopped rolling, and some of it was just plain shoddy work. As well, other parts of the series were staged specifically for on-camera effectiveness. This isnt to say that everything the show did was baloney and/or bad mechanics, but all it takes are a few exceptions to destroy the rules.
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