Counting Cars

For the most part the show is a success - however there are two characters who add nothing to the overall value - Mike and Scott - both are horrible actors and their parts take away from the cars and interactions of Danny with the customers. I enjoy seeing Danny ride around and find vehicles, talk to the owners and sometimes purchase a flip - the end products of the creations are fantastic to see but the yelling of Scott and the lack of credibility of Mike take away from the entire show. I turn the sound off whenever Scott or Mike come on.

Counting Cars is of the Reality TV genre, featuring Danny Koker and his crew of 5-6 body painting enthusiasts. In India we are lucky to watch the episodes on History channel every Monday-Friday 6.00 p.m. - 6.30 p.m. Danny has some great, creative people working for him including Ryan, who is mainly the artist, Big, Kevin, Scott Jones, and a 5-6 others. Whether its a well-maintained Ford-T, or a Mustang, a Cadillac, or El Dorado, a Toyota or Nissan, or any other vehicle, Danny and hard working crew can restore almost any vehicle how so ever old, derelict, rusted or useless it might be and make them almost new, of course , for a price. Worth watching.

I have no education or workplace experience in shop, mechanics, or engineering... & I've been a fan of this show for about eleven years.

After being discovered & featured as a recurring guest star on the hit series Pawn Stars (2009), Danny Koker, owner of Count's Customs, a maverick Las Vegas autoshop enterprise, was given his own show by History Channel.

It (almost) could not have gone better.

Danny has one of the most infectious likeable personalities in reality television history. His passion for sports cars & choppers is unrivalled - not merely from a materialistic perspective, but from the history & the experiences they hold, for himself & for his customers.

But, as the maxim goes, "never mix business with pleasure". This is a frequently broken rule in life, & a major pillar in the dynamic of this show is the need to balance Danny's passion for the pieces of art he & his team creates with the financial demands of running a business. This is where Kevin Mack (and in Season 1, Scott Jones) comes in, as a foil to Danny's often unrestrained personality. To add even more character notes to the show, the antics of some of Count's Customs' talented but adolescent staff (especially Horny Mike) create some amusing side stories.

I would give this series a 10/10 for packing a potent punch of entertainment, but I deduct a star for one reason. Loud muscle cars & shiny, tweaked-up choppers may make for more exciting television than other road vehicles. However, for a guy like me who has a penchant for quiet, smooth sedans, the Count's Customs focus on rubber-burners has become repetitive, detracting from my enjoyment of the series as the seasons rolled on.

Regardless of my personal motoring preferences, I still insist that this is one of the greatest reality television series of all time.

That guy with the horns, yeah – horns and horny ha ha .. very funny but this gag got old the first time they used it. He's a great airbrush artist this guy, can't they show how he works instead of the stupid horny jokes all the time? There's some immigrant guy with an accent that cleans the cars or whatever it is that he does, that they made fun of in one of the shows, seriously? That is so stupid, why are you trying to "dumb down" the show? It's a shame. Danny tries to be "sly" and pretend like he isn't the big boss, and instead they brought some loud mouth that is pretending to be the guy who's running things – also dumb, who's brilliant idea it was to portray this guy as obnoxious I don't know, but it's really not smart and unpleasant to watch. Why not just be more natural? This show is really interesting when the guys are respectful and show the parts with the cars, but all those silly "sub plots" that they pretend that they're real, damn that is so annoying and makes this show that could have been awesome like "Pawn Stars" to slightly higher than mediocre, because Danny is great and the cars are great, change the rest if you really want to give your audience something good to watch.

The production value of the show is excellent. Danny 'The Count' Koker and his crew are extremely talented and are, for the most part, fun to watch. The only caveats are 'Horny Mike' and Danny's business manager, Scott. Horny Mike's and Scott's screen time is abysmal and needs an extreme make-over. Where the heck is Ty Pennington when you need him?

I agree with previous posters: the whole 'Horny Mike' thing gets old in a hurry. All of the horns on everything from his helmets and vests, to even some bicycle he hammered together, are quite juvenile. Just a little bit of that adolescent nonsense goes a very long way. While I'm sure he's a nice guy and excellent at his craft, he just comes across on screen as the sort of not-quite-there kid you tolerated in high school shop class but never invited to the swim party because you thought he might try to eat the lawn furniture for a goof.

Scott, The Count's business manager, falls into pretty much the same category as 'Horny Mike' - great at what he does but an absolute pig on television. Whether he intends to or not, Scott comes across as a loud-mouthed boorish type who would try to out-yawp Chewbacca in normal conversation just because he can. There is nothing subtle about him. He's a middle-aged, hulking, mountain of a man with the booming voice of an air raid siren. His behavior on camera gives you the sense that he is well-aware of this fact and has probably used it to his advantage since adolescence, where, like 'Horny Mike', he seems to be permanently wedged. Another irritating facet of Scott's is that he tries desperately to 'look cool' by dressing in the same style as Danny and the rest. While it works on them, it just makes Scott look like the proverbial fat kid that never fit in on the playground and is still trying to make up for it 40 years after the fact. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't mention the disdain Scott appears to have for the shop's customers, if you can believe that. He tipped his hand in one episode during a typical interview after a scene in which a customer haggles with him and the guys for one of their creations. Scott, true to his overbearing and piggish nature, actually said to the camera, "I just wanted him to give me my money and get the f&%# out of here!" What a disgraceful old gonk. The net effect of his performance is to make me cringe and change the channel... a lot. He needs much less face time on my television.

All in all, the show is great entertainment. I predict it will be another gem in The History Channel's crown if they ever manage to sort out the 'Horny Mike and Scott' conundrum. It is definitely worth a watch.