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T H E A N SW E R TO T H E Q U E ST I O N , “ H OW M A N Y G R AV E YA R D C A R Z G U Y S D O E S I T TA K E TO I N STA L L A D O O R ? ”
Only the coldest shiver of professional envy could prevent
a person from feeling profound admiration — if not awe
— for Worman’s accomplishments. This not-so-average
mechanic has become a cinematic autodidact, creating his
own crash course on the fi lmmaking process.
Worman says he’s at the point where restoring a car to
original manufacturer condition is “fairly simple” compared
to producing television. “Making a reality series is far more
challenging to me,” he says, noting that with restoration,
“it’s done when I say it’s done.” Every episode of the show,
on the other hand, “has to be viewed by everyone here, and
is at risk of constant input and change.”
To learn this new trade, Worman immersed himself in
reality TV, “watching as many shows as I could to gain a feel
for pacing, content, timing.” He paid particular attention to
Discovery’s American Chopper, mostly to absorb and analyze
the style of the program’s executive producer, Craig Paligian.
“Probably the single most valuable knowledge I walked
away with from that series is the importance of character
interaction, confl ict and drama,” Worman says. He adds that
a lot of early character confl ict in American Chopper was
inorganic and had to be extracted by Paligian.
“In GYC,” Worman says, “Daren and I, as you saw,
have a natural bicker-confl ict going on, and I think it comes
across more realistically.”
Once he began the editing process, Worman says it didn’t
take him long to fi gure out the single most important rule of
the fi lming process: “If you didn’t shoot it, you don’t have it.”
THE WILD BUNCH
Graveyard Carz fi res on four cylinders, a patchwork
posse of pranking piston-freaks, each as idiosyncratic and
interesting as a character in a work of fi ction. At the lead
is Worman, who might be described, paradoxically, as an
ethical bully — the faux-grumpy boss with heart-valves of
gold who can take it as well as dish it out.
As much as anybody is in charge, Worman is. But things
like power, status and decision-making run along a wobbly
vertical axis at Welby’s, meaning everyone is fair game.
Worman’s best friend and go-to guy is Royal Yoakum,
a quiet, unassuming man with an easy manner and a vast
knowledge of cars; new guy Josh Rose (he of the car
necrophilia query) plays the youthful foil, both as the
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