Horrible taste ("distressed" everything); horrible show

I agree that AR has always argued against refinishing. It seems the catalyst was a couple who brought in Stickley furniture that had been refinished. The value according to the appraiser was significantly reduced.

Trouble is, when AR shows are repeated, the cumulative effect is appraisers dissing refinishing instead of saying the owner should always have the item appraised first and then ask whether it should be refinished.

As for drama, Cook said it was a show about value and therefore drama is inherent. That said, AR is still light years ahead of the cheap imitators.

It probably is, and I never doubted that someone might pay within that range for those items. I am still convinced that rat rods are déclassé and in poor taste. The way I look at it, to make vintage 1932 Ford Roadster pieces into a rat rod entails attaching them, by drilling and/or welding, to a custom chassis; and this means disfiguring those items.

Even if the disfigurement can be avoided or minimized, a rat rod is not itself a priceless historical object, but a custom piece of degenerate art (incorporating many new parts) whose statement is, "My owner is a proudly unsophisticated ruffian who values loudness, belligerence, churlishness, and everything wrong with American low white culture."

I am only on this message board complaining, essentially, about this show's low status because I see my family, which moved south years ago, becoming sucked in by the filthy Appalachian white trash Teabagger culture; and when I see them do things like watch History Channel or listen to Glenn Beck, I become very, very angry; and ranting on Internet message boards is an easily accessible outlet. (To give you an idea of where I'm coming from, my father called me "a queer" for wearing a polo shirt like my friends and classmates in the advanced classes.)

If you are someone who is turned on by rat rods, lifted pickups, Confederate flags, and such, that is your right; however, I ask you to understand why not all of us would share your tastes. For an analogy, look at some of the modern art which also sells for outrageous amounts of money (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fluids_in_art) to help yourself partly understand how I feel.

The Queen of the Trolls has spoken!

Notice how she has nothing positive to add to the discussion -- but is only here to stir the shít.....💩 and to talk about other posters.

That's all she ever does.

You are one prissy little crybaby! Op, go stuff a manpon up your cruddy hole, pop a midol and bite your pillow till you feel better.

This is either a troll, a leak from 4chan, or one of those sleeveless Middle American troglodyte morons to whom much of reality television is targeted.