About this season
Rides is an automotive reality TV show produced for the TLC Network. The show's host is automobile enthusiast and amateur racer Jason Priestly. Rides debuted in the Summer of 2004 and became TLC's highest-rated series of the year.
Episodes (12)
1. Soccer Mom
Aired 13 July 2004 • 60 min
Comic/gearhead Christopher Titus is tricking out an SUV into a one-of-a-kind super-machine he affectionately calls "Killing the Soccer Mom." This refers to taking a kids-and-shopping family tank and getting rid of all that screams "suburban female head of household." Outspoken family man Titus has big plans for this rig, working with Wings West and making it into a ride that you'll WANT Mom to pick you up in.
2. Eleanor
Aired 20 July 2004 • 60 min
Look at her — beautiful lines, curvaceous, ultra-sleek and the star of one of the biggest car flicks of all time. She's now being handcrafted, one part at a time, in Dallas. The place that makes this beauty is Unique Performance. She's Eleanor, the leading lady in Gone in 60 Seconds, and you too can have one of these way-cool GT-500E rides for yourself. But before you open the checkbook, check out the episode where we'll see an Eleanor get built from start to finish.
3. Drifters
Aired 20 July 2004 • 60 min
The sport is drifting, and Rides will build, test and enter top drifting cars into this crowded circuit of high-speed grace. We'll trace this growing movement from its Japanese origins, seeing how drifting has single-handedly revived the rear-drive compacts of yesteryear.
4. Rat Rods
Aired 3 August 2004 • 60 min
It's a car culture—flat paint, flathead engines, chopped roofs, rockabilly themes and usually no hood. Rat Rods are for the independent garage dudes who prefer comfort, funk and speed to show cars or high priced restoration.
5. 702 Motoring
Aired 10 August 2004 • 60 min
The town of Las Vegas is just one of the stars in this hour featuring the shop where Sin City residents and visitors go to get their high-end vehicles tricked out beyond reason. 702 Motoring in Las Vegas works on cars belonging to casino owners, prizefighters and the occasional dancer.
6. Power Tour
Aired 31 August 2004 • 60 min
Actor Christopher Titus and owners of top custom cars make a seven-day run from Arlington, Texas, to Green Bay, Wis.
7. Darkside
Aired 7 September 2004 • 60 min
A gothically tricked-out BMW X5 for Jack Osbourne features skulls and ghouls.
8. Raging Bull
Aired 14 September 2004 • 60 min
A trip to the Lamborghini Automobili plant in Italy to observe construction of the hand-crafted Gallardo and the Murcielago roadster.
9. Ford Black
Aired 14 September 2004 • 60 min
The Ford Cobra.
10. Skin
Aired 28 September 2004 • 60 min
Tattoo art and car culture.
11. Hollywood Hotrods
Aired 5 October 2004 • 60 min
Troy Laddl's projects include two 1932 roadsters built simultaneously for two Los Angeles clothing moguls.
12. Sick Fish
Aired 12 October 2004 • 60 min
A 1971 Barracuda belonging to TV show host Joe Rogan is souped up.