Finally, he was contacted by Fischer Productions in Park City - the producers of “Bitchin’ Rides,” the other Utah-based Velocity series - with the promise that “they were not going to make us into something we’re not. The cameras are there to document the work that goes on in the shop.īizek had been approached by TV producers before, but he rejected pitches like one that would have had him teaching teens how to restore cars. “ JDM Legends” is a reality show that’s actually real. “ I remember we would go to the local DI and buy a couple bikes and I would modify them,” said Rosales, who owns his own shop in Provo (Cio’s Restoring the Dream) and is an instructor in UVU’s automotive technology department. Rosales, 37, started out customizing model cars and then building custom bikes. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Eric Bizek at his Salt Lake City based shop, JDM Legends, Thursday, May 3, 2018. I get a huge amount of satisfaction from the build process.” The cost on projects underway at the shop in Murray range from $65,000 to $250,000.īizek’s original plan was to import and resell cars, but, what with their condition - think rust, rust and more rust - “restoration quickly became a really big part of it. “ We really try to retain what made these cars special in the first place,” Bizek said. They make some modifications, but the goal is to achieve an “understated, classic, timeless style” that’s as close what the car was originally as possible. The show follows Bizek, Martin and Rosales through the restoration process, from rusty wreck to pristine gem. “ They always got the best stuff because their tastes and their standards were different over there,” Bizek said. Viewers can see them rebuild and restore a 1972 Datsun 240-Z, which was imported, but the episodes include a 1966 Bluebird, a 1972 Skyline GT-X, a 1986 Toyota Levin and a 1989 Nissan Pao, which were not.
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