A few of the stories from know how tv
Story-first: What happens when a car girl walks into a Harley shop?
From Cars to Chrome: Rolling Thunder is a documentary-style series following Nicole Elise as she trades four wheels for two — walking into an independent Harley repair shop with zero motorcycle experience and a camera rolling. No script. No safety net. Just a self-taught mechanic learning a new craft in real time, alongside the kind of no-nonsense shop guys who don't hand out compliments easy.
Every episode pulls back the curtain on real shop culture — the tools, the tension, the breakthroughs, and the moments that don't go according to plan. Rolling Thunder isn't about being perfect. It's about showing up, getting your hands dirty, and earning your place at the bench. If you've ever wanted to know what it actually looks like inside a working Harley shop — the good days, the frustrating ones, and everything in between — this is the series for you.
Ryan Evans — The Artist Behind the Paint Forty minutes with one of the most gifted automotive painters and airbrush artists in the world — and a conversation I'll never forget.
There are talented people, and then there are people who make you question everything you thought you knew about talent. Ryan Evans — known to millions as the master painter from Counting Cars and Count's Kustoms — is the latter. I had the privilege of sitting down with Ryan for a full forty minutes, and what I walked away with wasn't just a great interview. I walked away with a friend.
What most people don't know about Ryan is where his gift actually came from. As an Army brat, Ryan spent over nine years in Germany while his father was stationed there — and it was there, surrounded by some of the greatest art the world has ever produced, that everything changed for him. He doesn't just talk about being inspired by art. He talks about walking into a shop and watching an artist hammer real gold leaf by hand — gold leaf destined for the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Michelangelo's ceiling. That moment didn't just inspire Ryan. It wired him differently.
When a kid grows up watching craftsmen gild the Sistine Chapel by hand, it tends to raise the bar for what "good enough" looks like. For Ryan, there is no good enough — there's only extraordinary.
That standard lives in every panel Ryan touches today. He works exclusively with House of Kolor paint — a deliberate, deeply personal choice. Ryan speaks about Jon Kosmoski and the culture he built around House of Kolor with the kind of reverence most people reserve for mentors and heroes. To be part of that legacy, he'll tell you, is an honor he doesn't take lightly.
Ryan calls himself a "nutjob" — and honestly, he might be right. But the best ones always are. The obsession, the precision, the refusal to cut corners — it's not a personality quirk, it's the whole point. He is without question the most talented artist and airbrush painter I have ever met in my life, and I've met a few.
What struck me most wasn't the résumé or the TV credits. It was how kind he was. How genuinely humble and respectful — the kind of person who makes you feel like the most important person in the room even when he's the one everyone came to see. Interviewing Ryan was one of the greatest honors of my career at KnowHowTV, and I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
Ryan has mentioned he may be making his way into the Wisconsin car scene this summer — and I am very much looking forward to crossing paths with him again, both on and off camera. Stay tuned. This friendship is just getting started.
Dr. Todd Moran & the 1941 Ford A radical custom built from grief, love, and a photograph he never saw...until it was too late.
Stories Behind the Build · Austin, MN
Dr. Todd Moran & the 1941 Ford
A radical custom built from grief, love, and a photograph he never got to see in person.
Dr. Todd Moran is the kind of person who makes you glad you showed up. A natural storyteller with infectious charisma and a laugh that fills the room, Todd hails from Austin, Minnesota — and behind his easygoing personality lives one of the most quietly profound build stories we've come across at KnowHowTV.
His build is a 1941 Ford Radical Custom — a jaw-dropping machine that turns heads everywhere it goes. But the real story isn't in the bodywork or the chrome. It's in why he built it. Todd's late father owned a 1950 Buick — a car with a strikingly similar presence. The catch? Todd never saw it while his father was alive. It wasn't until after he passed that a photograph surfaced, and Todd found himself staring at a car he never knew existed — a piece of his father's life he'd never get to share with him.
He couldn't let that be the end of the story. So he set out to find a car just like it — and make it his own. Every mile he drives in that 1941 Ford is a mile driven in his father's memory.
There's one more layer to this build that says everything about who Todd is. The rear window of the car is nearly impossible to see out of — so Todd, a frequent traveler to Egypt and a devoted admirer of ancient culture, placed the Eye of Ra in the back glass. In Egyptian tradition, the Eye of Ra is a symbol of protection, power, and divine watchfulness. For Todd, it's simple: if he can't see what's behind him, he'll trust something greater to watch over him.
Interviewing Dr. Todd was an absolute honor. His warmth, his humor, and the depth of love behind this build reminded us exactly why we do what we do. We hope the car scene hasn't seen the last of him — and neither have we.
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