I haven’t been to a car show since I moved to the US.You could have one built for <$45k. It's a clone, so it's not a rare car or anything. It's a genero-resto mod. If you go to a car show, you'll see a row of 30 of these in different colors. He's driving the equivalent of an Affliction t-shirt. And this is coming from a guy who loves Mopars and has a soft spot for 440 6-Pack Barracudas.
Here's how car shows work:
The builder does the work in exchange for an episode of material.
The show buys the parts and collects advert money
The 'customer' buys the shell or contributes some base level of funding and gets to be on TV.
This was just something that a producer at Spike TV vomited up as some kind of cross-promotion.
The shows I used to go to in the UK gravitated around beautiful old style Chevys or proper American muscle cars though.
She says, when the only cars she owns are a 2014 Ford Fusion and a 2009 Mini Cooper S.