[jims69camaro]

yeah, i had thought about that when this idea first surfaced, but never said anything about it for the reasons you list.

i get an antsy feeling involving anyone outside of our little group. call it a control thing (yes, i am a control freak) or whatever, but i just get the willies thinking about losing our project to someone not even involved in the website/car club. there are no copyrights involved, and there really is nothing to copyright at this point other than the idea, which is kind of pointless until we have something else.

what does this guy's shop look like? i mean, cleanliness is next to godliness and all, which is why i had the idea of someone's garage which is an extension of their home, and thereby an extension of their image (mostly clean, is where i am going). take a look at any of the shows on TV at this point, and you'll see elaborately decorated sets. they really are just rented space in an industrial park (look at Two Guy's Garage the next time they are outside). this could be something we could shoot for after some money looks at our project and decides to back us for serious production - i am getting way ahead of where the project is at this point. i always have tried to stay on the ground, which is why you'll see way back when this post started i said "don't think we'll make anything on this" and stuff like that. we may be way off base as far as what a producer would want to see in the saturday line-up of the powerblock, but that's not the reason i wanted to get this project off the ground to begin with. i'd lose my job, at the very least. which would make me very happy. seriously.

it's an awesome idea - Average Guy's - plain and simple. it's something i would enjoy watching, not to mention getting in there behind the scenes.

so, i guess if this guy's shop is halfway decent, and it's not a major trek for anyone to get to, and no one objects to it, and we can get him to sign a waiver, and we sign waivers against his insurance (if we get hurt there we are on our own, just like if we were in our own garages)... i guess we could make it work.

that is, unless someone with a garage will let us film there.