Backroad Gold is American Pickers meets Chasing Classic Cars

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Backroad Gold

Not all reality television is a guilty pleasure. Sure, there's stuff like Keeping Up With the Kardashians and Real Housewives that give the genre a bad name, but some reality TV can be genuinely fascinating. Take this latest reality show, set to air tomorrow on the Travel Channel. It's called Backroad Gold, and as you can see from our handy headline, it promises to be a mix of American Pickers and car restoration shows like Chasing Classic Cars.

Starring Corky Coker (of Coker Tire and Honest Charley Garage fame) and his daughter, son-in-law and father, the show follows the team as they scour the land looking for "anything that's cool." This can include memorabilia like signs and gas pumps, as well as some very, very interesting barn finds.

Once the team discovers something worthwhile, it's bartered for, and then returned to Coker's base of operations - Chattanooga, TN. There, it's restored and then sold. So yes, it's like a lot of other reality shows out there, but we're guessing that this one will be decidedly more car-centric than some of the other programs that find something, make it pretty and then sell it. That's enough to get us to tune in, at least to check out the first episode.

Backroad Gold debuts on February 5 at 9:30 PM Eastern on the Travel Channel in the United States. Take a look below for the trailer and an official press release from the Coker Group and the Travel Channel, and then hop into Comments and let us know if you think this looks promising.

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