After 11 years, Overhaulin', the television show staring automotive designer/builder Chip Foose (where hot rod owners are tricked into believing their pride and joy project car has been stolen, set afire, crushed, or just misplaced by an inattentive impound lot employee only to be customized and rebuilt better than new by Foose and crew), has come to an end.

Beginning in 2004 on The Learning Channel, the show ran until 2008 before a four-year hiatus stopped production and after dozens of cars had been totally dismantled, the body blasted, redesigned, rebuilt, painted and polished before being given back to their flabbergasted owners. The show's sixth season started back up in 2012 (only without the car-stealing aspect) on the Velocity/Discovery channel and the last episode ran in November of 2015.

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Entertaining on several levels, viewers were treated to the genuine camaraderie between Foose and the show's co-host, Chris Jacobs, which was as funny and spontaneous even when the cameras weren't rolling. You also got to see how a professional hot rod shop should work, without all the fake drama some other hot rod-themed TV shows sometimes air. But, best of all, you always got to watch Foose, one of the finest hot rod builders in the country, apply his talent from drawing to fabrication to finished car, typically all done in a truly remarkable four week time window.

Viewers also got to see a wide range of vehicles being built, from "standard" Impalas and Mustangs to one-off custom builds, such as an oval-window 356 Porsche or an El Camino with a Camaro RS nose and grille added (yes, the design works!). In each episode Foose would get his hands dirty alongside a talented group of craftsmen (nicknamed the A-Team) and, over the years, they turned out over 100 cars—quite an astonishing feat for a television show! The last show filmed on the Overhaulin' set, located in Huntington Beach, California, was the "Marcus and Morgan Luttrell" episode featuring a '67 Ford Mustang.