Counting Cars

Counting Cars
The cast (from left to right): Kevin, Danny Koker, Horny Mike and Scott
Genre	Reality television
Directed by	Jonathan Wyche
Starring	Danny Koker
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	3
No. of episodes	49 (List of episodes)
Production
Executive producer(s)	Brent Montgomery David George Shawn Witt
Editor(s)	Ducan Adams Eric Dow Phillip Chernyak
Running time	23 minutes
Production company(s)	Leftfield Pictures
Broadcast
Original channel	History
Original run	August 13, 2012 (2012-08-13) – present (present)
Chronology
Related shows	Pawn Stars American Restoration
External links
Website

Counting Cars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series, which is the third spinoff of Pawn Stars, is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at Count's Kustoms, an automobile restoration and customization company owned and operated by Danny Koker, who previously appeared as a recurring expert on Pawn Stars. In a format similar to another Pawn Stars spinoff, American Restoration, the series follows Koker and his staff as they restore and modify classic automobiles and motorcycles. Counting Cars made its debut on History on Monday, August 13, 2012, at 10:30 pm ET after Pawn Stars, before assuming its regular time slot on Tuesdays at 10 pm ET, beginning on August 14, 2012.

Guest appearances have been made by Rick Harrison of Pawn Stars,^[1] Ziggy Marley,^[2] and Cassandra Peterson (aka Elvira, Mistress of the Dark).^[3]

Production history

Counting Cars is an American reality television series, shown on History, and produced by Leftfield Pictures. The series is the third spinoff of the TV series Pawn Stars, following American Restoration and Cajun Pawn Stars. It is filmed in Las Vegas, Nevada, where it chronicles the daily activities at Count's Kustoms, an automobile restoration and customization company owned and operated by Danny Koker, who previously appeared as a recurring expert on Pawn Stars. In a format similar to American Restoration, the series follows Koker and his staff as they restore and modify classic automobiles and motorcycles, and also documents the occasional conflict among the cast members.

The opening title sequence features Koker narrating the following introduction:

The series made its debut on History on Monday, August 13, 2012, at 10:30 pm ET after Pawn Stars, before assuming its regular time slot on Tuesdays at 10 pm ET, beginning on August 14, 2012.^[4][5]

Episodes

Cast

• Danny "The Count" Koker – Koker is the proprietor of "Count's Kustoms", a shop devoted to the repair and restoration of motor vehicles, automobiles and motorcycles in particular. The shop's name is derived from Koker's stint as part-owner of local independent station KFBT (now KVCW), during which he hosted a weekly B-movie showcase, Saturday Fright at the Movies, as "Count Cool Rider".^[6] Danny, who grew up in Cleveland and Detroit, is a self-taught mechanic who comes from a family of Ford Motor Company employees.^[7] He has over 50 cars in his personal collection,^[8] and is so obsessed with finding, buying and converting classic American muscle cars and motorcycles that when he sees a vehicle he admires, he will go out of his way to acquire it,^[7] even making on-the-spot purchase offers while cruising around Vegas with Kevin,^[9] or searching through parking lots at car shows.^[10] While he enjoys classic vehicles, Danny dislikes working on newer vehicles, and generally rejects offers to work on them.^[11] He has been running his business for over 15 years by the time of the series premiere,^[7] and was a recurring motorcycle and automobile restoration expert on Pawn Stars, first appearing in the third season episode "Getting a Head" in September 2010.^[12][13] He has also appeared as an expert on the Pawn Stars spinoff, American Restoration.^[14][15] In addition to Count's Kustoms, Koker also owns the Count's Vamp'd Rock Bar and Grill,^[16][17] and Count's Tattoo Company, a tattoo parlor at the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino,^[16] that was formerly a partnership with Vince Neil.^[18][19]

• Kevin – Danny's right-hand man and best friend for the past 20 years by the series premiere.^[9] He and Danny enjoy cruising around Vegas to look for vehicles to buy,^[9][20] and Danny tends to use Kevin as "collateral" when he takes a stranger’s car for a test drive.^[20] He has a son named Devin who has been racing^[21] the Legends Car that belongs to Count's Kustoms since he was 13. Nicknamed "Cheeky", Devin started racing go-carts when he was 8, and appears in the episode "Dream On" (when he was almost 17), in which the Legend Car requires repairs.^[22] Kevin's brother, Steve, is a Las Vegas attorney and judge who also owns a tow yard.^[23]

• Horny Mike - An airbrush artist whose nickname is derived from his practice of putting 3-D horns on everything from vehicles to helmets to clothing.^[9][24]

• Roli - Roli Szabo^[25] is the shop's detailer, responsible for cleaning and polishing of all the vehicles that Count's Kustoms works on. His thick Hungarian accent is often the source of amusement at the shop.^[26] According to Roli, the jobs in which he previously worked include driving an ambulance in the Army, working at a PVC pipe company; working as a transportation executive and working as a bodyguard, personal assistant and driver for the world's smallest man.^[23]

• Big Ryan - At 6 feet 7 inches and 350 pounds, Ryan is Danny's project scout,^[3] parts expert and picker with over 15 years of experience.^[27]

• Scott - Scott is the manager of Count's Kustoms,^[28] and Danny's bookkeeper, who maintains an accounting of the money on each project to make sure that they are profitable. Danny concedes that Scott is very good at his job, but can be "a real ass" at times,^[9] as Scott sometimes comes into conflict with Danny and the others over project budgets,^[3] project schedules,^[28][29] or instances in which Danny wishes to keep a vehicle instead of reselling it.^[10] Scott leaves in the third season and is only mentioned by name in the first episode.

• Shannon - Bike shop manager and lead builder whom Danny lauds for his fabrication and engineering skills, referring to him as "My A-Number One in the bike shop".^[17][21]

• Ryan - (not to be confused with Big Ryan) works with Shannon in the bike shop.^[30]

• Grandpa - Employee who does body work at the shop. Though his nickname is derived from the fact that he is older than any of the other staffpeople, he says he can do twice the work they do.^[21] He is first identified by name and given dialogue in the Season 2 episode "Size Matters".^[31] Grandpa works with his son, Harry, a family man whom Grandpa describes as "the responsible one", in contrast to Grandpa himself.^[32]

• George - One of the mechanics who has worked at the shop for years. One of his most prized possessions is a green, 1940 Ford street rod pickup with purple flames.^[33]

References

External links

• Official website
• Count's Kustoms