One yr in the past, Matt Sager didn’t know what to anticipate.
Misplaced Automobile Rescue was about to make its TV debut, and its host wasn’t positive how issues would go.
The sequence proved common, although, and it returned for its second season this week. As like final yr, Sager will lead his crew seeking deserted automobiles in distant areas.
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“All through the season, the crew journey throughout the nation looking for numerous distinctive finds,” reads a Misplaced Automobile Rescue press launch, “together with a automobile allegedly owned by America’s most well-known mobster, Al Capone, and an iconic Twentieth-century automobile from the oil increase.”
For Season 2, Sager says the primary yr was a great highway map for what to anticipate.
“We simply needed to go seize it and go on this journey,” Sager stated in an interview with World Information. “It was far more enjoyable. We didn’t have to fret about instructing or bringing any individual on top of things as a result of our complete group stayed the identical.
“Most of our (digital camera folks) had been the identical, our producers had been the identical. And it actually helped as a result of all people knew what the look was and what our group favored. And now we are able to simply be ourselves.”
With followers lauding Season 1, Sager admits he didn’t understand his 10-year dream would show to be so common.
“The primary season, for a man who’s by no means been on TV, I used to be fearful about cameras, I used to be fearful concerning the sheer distances of the place we had been, breakdowns … the aircraft part … after which the actual fact you could have a digital camera,” stated Sager.
“So I used to be actually shocked at how clean it went. There was not a breakdown, not a single situation with the aircraft. It was virtually laborious to indicate any uphill battle as a result of every little thing went so properly.”
Like most automotive followers, Sager watched different automobile exhibits on TV, such because the extremely common Energy Block.
Solely in contrast to these exhibits, Sager’s concept concerned really rescuing outdated and deserted automobiles from gradual, rusting deaths.
“I took my time filming a reel, or pitch, and that took me a few years to do it as a result of I didn’t know something about the best way to do it,” stated Sager, who hails from Vancouver Island.
The idea, although, was bought by Historical past TV, “after which it landed on COVID-19, which pushed it again a yr. After which we had been fortunate sufficient to get out within the second yr of COVID and get Season 1 within the bag.
“So, yeah, it took some time, however I’ve been looking (for deserted automobiles) for 10 years and it’s been within the works for no less than seven (years).”
He continued, saying “the true purpose was to do one thing that TV hasn’t seen earlier than. Movie it differently; use IMAX cameras that seize it with hotter lenses. Have the cameras comply with us as an alternative of being there earlier than.
“Take the ‘cheapness’ out of the present and put extra authenticity in it in so far as making it really feel such as you’re within the co-pilot’s seat, otherwise you’re in the best seat of the restoration truck with us.”
Sager famous that he loves constructing outdated vehicles, and that his household builds a pair yearly for the love of it.
“And I’d love to indicate all people a unique sequence that’s simply constructing outdated vehicles,” he stated. “However there isn’t sufficient time to indicate that journey, to indicate the story, to indicate the hunt, in only one hour of TV.
“So we decide what we’re most obsessed with, which is the hunt. And we concentrate on the hunt as a result of not too many individuals, particularly in Canada, have ever accomplished that hunt like this or used the instruments the identical approach.”
Being on TV, although, does have its value: Being seen by folks wherever you go.
“All people has a unique concept of what being well-known is,” stated Sager. “I’m removed from well-known … however when somebody who’s a stranger acknowledges you in most buildings you go into, it’s actually bizarre.
“After which folks provide you with that look: Are you that man? I can see the look, after which I say ‘Hey, it’s Matt.’ After which they go, ‘It’s you!’”
Requested for among the highlights of Season 2, Sager smiled, saying there are a lot of.
“This season, we go to Ontario. I did a rowing competitors in highschool in Ontario, in St. Catharines, and that’s the one time I’ve ever gone to Ontario,” stated Sager, whose crew relies in western Canada.
“I’ve by no means been in Fort Frances or the Wet River district. We don’t know what we’re moving into after we go there.”
He additionally stated “Season 2 isn’t something like Season 1. It’s buckle up, right here we go. It’s totally different as a result of we’re all comfy now; we perceive TV, we perceive all that stuff round us.
“So it’s not distracting us and it permits us to suppose larger. It’s all about taking dangers and we search out some loopy storylines, like nipping on the ankles of Al Capone and the place he was in Canada and the automobiles he drove and attempting to get near that.
“We’re actually leaping off cliffs to get better automobiles on the backside of ravines, trapped by landslides. The listing goes on.”
The sequence will be watched on the Historical past Channel and on StackTV.
