It’s turbo speed ahead as Steve Darnell and his Welder Up’ gang return to Sin City for a second season of Vegas Rat Rods, featuring 10 killer new vehicles.
Premiering Thursday, January 7th at 9pm on Discovery, the 10-part original Canadian series from Toronto’s Proper Television (Canada’s Worst Driver and Masterchef Canada) follows Darnell and his crew at their custom car shop as they create rolling works of art from everyone else’s junk. This season showcases builds created in the spirit of rat rods that are bigger, badder and breaking the mold. Sometimes the best action in Vegas happens off the strip!
In the Season 2 premiere of Vegas Rat Rods, “Wagon Rod” (Thursday, January 7th at 9pm), Darnell is asked to transform a Chevy wagon into something faster and meaner, complete with a corvette suspension, a new LS3 engine, and all the modern conveniences any family man could ask for. The Welderup crew makes this Wagon Rod a kind of Jekyll-and-Hyde creation: badass to the eye, but comfortable enough to throw in the kids and dog for a weekend of adventure. Twiggy takes on a new responsibility as “parts girl,” but Steve puts a wrench in her first assignment. And new guy Grant is brought on board to help with the heavy workload, and naturally the crew initiates him.
Also, on Thursday Jan. 7 on Discovery, Megaspeed, produced by Bell Media’s own Exploration Production Inc., returns for a third season at 11pm. A six-episode documentary series, the Canadian original circuits the globe from Jamaica to Iceland and Belgium, profiling personalities from the world’s most iconic motorsports events.
This season features a wide variety of dreamers and schemers, including a visit to the home of Craig Jackson, CEO of Barrett Jackson, for a private tour of his extensive vehicle collection and one-of-a-kind garage. When Jackson isn’t running his world famous Barrett Jackson car auctions, returning to Scottsdale Jan. 23-31 (airing on Discovery Velocity), he’s out driving rare, exotic cars.
