Is Horny Mike still on 'Counting Cars'? The airbrush artist has been with the reality collection since day one, but did he make a decision to hang up his equipment?
On June 3, History Channel’s insanely widespread reality collection, Counting Cars, returned for a ninth season. But throughout the premiere, some enthusiasts expressed fear over the noticeable absence of airbrush artist Mike Henry (aka "Horny Mike"). Did he hold up his equipment and quit Count's Kustoms?
Is Horny Mike still on 'Counting Cars'?
Not to fear, Mike remains to be right here! It took the customized car enthusiast nearly 20 mins to make an look within the first episode of the season, but when he after all did display up, lead painter Ryan Evans wasn’t too happy to catch him messing around with the automobile store’s new 3-D printer.
"When are you going to get to car parts… like dash pieces, consoles?" the graphic artist asked as he watched the gadget assemble a helmet. "Something you can show [owner] Danny [Koker] to justify this [expensive piece of equipment]?"
Mike reasoned, "I had to figure out how it worked! It’s not just plug and play… I have to practice first."
The likable technician has been with the collection since day one, and prior to now defined how he came to paintings for Danny’s Las Vegas-based restoration and customization company.
"I’m a dirty white guy who used to live in a trailer park in Michigan," Mike advised Manila’s The Philippine Star in 2017. "I lived in a van after graduating high school."
He tried to begin his own car and motorbike repair industry, "but I ran it badly," Mike confessed. "It didn’t work out. I had to move on. You learn as you go." The misstep led him to relocate to Nevada.
"Before Counting Cars, I was merely airbrushing T-shirts and license plates for tourists on Fremont Street in old Las Vegas," he shared. "I would put goofy hearts and draw those things even in jackets. But heck, it was paying the bills. Then, Counting Cars came about and that is a much better gig."
Mike admitted that even after eight years, he hasn’t been in a position to wrap his head across the degree of success the display has accomplished. "I can’t believe that I’m known all over the world now," he stated, adding, "We’re having a blast… I didn’t realize just how many people truly see us and know us."
Horny Mike printed that shooting 'Counting Cars' is amazingly hard.
The Midwest native told The Philippine Star that the pressure to complete sure projects for the sequence, coupled with the shop’s standard workload can be overwhelming. "You’re not just filming the show and the stuff we get to work on," Mike noted. "We take all day. It’s like doing three jobs."
"The actual work that goes into getting the show done and the timeline, that’s the hardest to meet," he continued. "Sometimes, we have to finish in three months because we need to get the episode done."
Mike also isn’t a large fan of purchasers who are unwilling to compromise on their designs. "Sometimes, the customer wants something that’s nasty and will not look good necessarily," he lamented. "You came to me for a reason. We’re good at what we do. Let me take your idea, tweak it a little bit and I guarantee you’re going to love it."
New episodes of Counting Cars air Wednesdays at 10 p.m. ET on History Channel.
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