I watched all three of those shows and you assessments are dead on. The background music for CCR was annoying as hell and, as much as I enjoy watching cars get rebuilt they could have selected a car that I might actually care about. Do you really think watching a beat up Ranger pickup get cleaned up for 26 episodes is going to be exciting? Oh, and what was with the Chevelle they found in the barn? We see it get pulled out of the barn and that's it; I thought that was the car we were going to see them fix up.
Tuner Transformation was so staged it wasn't funny. Take an RX8 slap some wheels and decals on it, throw a nitrous kit in the trunk. Wow that's never been done before
They could have, at least, showed us the awesome exhaust that they had spoken about or the kick ass stereo that created an arguement because of the NOS bottle.
The only show with any promise is the Barrett-Jackson car search and it's still too early in the game to formulate an opinion on that.