A cloned cross between Extreme home makeover & Hotel Hell.Pros: This is a great show for seeing a drastic change from your average dirty, congested junk filled corner garage to a beautiful facility. Amazing to see how poorly some of the shops are trying to operateCons: It appears that the only help that Richard's crew is providing is cleaning up their facility and providing a bunch of new equipment. It is lacking any connection one how these business' are operated or how they move forward with the new equipment provided. The shots of the beautiful sponsored equipment they are installing gets old. Removing perfectly capable equipment to install sponsors equipment is unrealistic and the human connection feels fake.Summary of a typical episode: Tough Love / Richard is your new business partner. 1-800-Got-Junk - Start cleaning everything out of garage. Kick owners out of garage. Show the business owner new opportunities or what their shop should look like. Owners start to adapt to the idea of change. Renovate building. Install tens of thousands of dollars worth of sponsored equipment. Reveal renovated shop to owners.

As the reviewer from Oz stated and exactly what I thought when I watched it for the first time this afternoon, this is great , Richard has thrown a tonne of money and expertise at these failing businesses but what I really wanted to see was how the businesses were doing 3-6 months down the line, did the investment help the flailing businesses or drown them in more debt ? Perhaps there will be a new show to follow: GARAGE REHAB REVISITED ? I would love to know how the business owners got on.

Richard does what he does. He's motivated, believes in people, tells it like it is, and builds brand new garage shops with brand new equipment. The product placement is a bit too obvious, and worst of all, there is no ending... The point of these shows is to actually make the business work, but it doesn't show that... Each episode ends after the makeover, and that's it. No "3 months later" to see what happened, while EVERY other show of this type does it... So you're left with a bitter ending, and you don't see the point of watching it anymore... It would be like Fast N' Loud without the cars being ever sold or used by anyone...

Anyone paying attention to cable TV knows Richard Rawlings. He's the man behind Gas Monkey Garage. And the Gas Monkey Bar & Grill among other things. After doing a number of things. He managed to turn a two-door garage to a major shop in Dallas, a great restaurant/bar and he continues to demonstrate his abilities are promotion, marketing, picking markets, measuring people, and recognizing businesses that have value. And we get to see how with a lot of hustle, money, and talent how he can turn a failing garage around in a week. It's remarkable seeing the just how bad some of these businesses are. And that they can in fact, be saved. With Richard's and his teams help. These one-hour episodes fly by. Very interesting watching a man who really knows what he's doing. Do his thing. AND, he's helping people. Good people save their businesses. Everybody wins.