TLC's Overhaulin' team returns for third season

Taking a joyride has never been so much fun! When a husband's junker in the backyard mysteriously disappears ... When a brother's trashy clunker gets towed away ... When a co-worker goes to the employee parking lot and discovers his vintage car missing ... They've all been overhauled! OVERHAULIN', the hit series that tricks car owners and tricks out their cars, returns to TLC for a third season, beginning Tuesday, July 19, 2005 at 9 PM (ET/PT).

Host Chris Jacobs doubles as a repo man, tow truck driver and other pranksters to lure the keys away from the unsuspecting car owner, while auto designing legend Chip Foose and his crack team of fabricators and engineers perform surgery on the vehicle. With the help of an accomplice (the owner's father, son, girlfriend or co-worker, for example), the OVERHAULIN' team finds a creative way to separate the car from its owner - whether through a fake impound, photo shoot, or other means. During the week, the team then guts, refurbishes, renovates and paints the owner's bland or junky auto into a unique custom car, turning it from "Christine" to pristine!

The OVERHAULIN' cameras follow the twists and turns of the parallel process of both keeping the car away from its (sometimes surly!) owner - and the creative ways Chris manages to do it - while following the renovation process of the vehicle. As the car owner is inevitably fretting about the car's whereabouts and its safe return home - captured on tape - viewers will get an insider's treat when auto guru Chip Foose leads them through the vehicle's transformation, revealing his intricate designs and explaining the build.

And with the help of an accomplice, OVERHAULIN' learns what specific customizations will make the owner truly love his or her new wheels. In the final stretch of the program, the secret is finally revealed to the owner and the keys to the new set of wheels are returned. Will they hate or love it? All that's left is to get behind the wheel and drive off into the sunset, right?

When viewers go online to www.discovery.com and click on TLC, they will see a gallery of before and after photos, meet the crew of OVERHAULIN' and learn how to apply to be on the program.

OVERHAULIN' is produced by BCII for TLC. The executive producer for BCII is Bud Brutsman. Matthew Gould is TLC's executive producer for OVERHAULIN'.

TLC is the only television network that uses real-life storytelling to connect over 93 million viewers in North America to the breadth of the human experience. Discovery Networks, U.S., a unit of Discovery Communications, Inc., operates and manages the Discovery Channel, TLC, Animal Planet, the Travel Channel, Discovery Health Channel, Discovery HD Theater, Discovery Kids Channel, Discovery Times Channel, The Science Channel, Discovery Wings Channel, Discovery Home Channel, Discovery en Español and FitTV. The unit also distributes BBC AMERICA. Visit TLC on the web by going to www.discovery.com and clicking on TLC.