"Classic Car Rescue" Channel 5 on Mon 24th Sep 20:00

[na]

I didn't see it all but I thought the smoke out of the exhausts after two days of looking turned out to be the carb dampers overfilled (!???!)

ETA: it was a LHD auto so Strombergs weren't a surprise to see(?)

Edited by na on Thursday 27th September 12:59

[dr_gn]

neutral 3 said:

BUT..... What a real shame that didn't make a really Good Informative program about bringing an E Type back from the dead

That would be a 6 month series - at least.

Looking at Classic Car magazine price guide, and a concours S2 2+2, rhd, manual is £30k.

Based upon their critera that p.o.s. was worth less than £10k.

The valuer was a bellend.

[Tyre Tread]

dr_gn said:

That would be a 6 month series - at least.

Looking at Classic Car magazine price guide, and a concours S2 2+2, rhd, manual is £30k.

Based upon their critera that p.o.s. was worth less than £10k.

The valuer was a bellend has several E-types stashed away as his pension fund.

EFA

[LuS1fer]

I watched 10 minutes and want them back. Cockneyed sh*te.

[tvrgit]

Just found this

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4260080.htm

Absolutely brilliant.

Hopefully the producers will see it for their next series.

[hedgefinder]

tvrgit said:

Just found this

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4260080.htm

Absolutely brilliant.

Hopefully the producers will see it for their next series.

but does it have a log book?

[kwak]

There are no words to describe how hilariously awful this is. I wouldn't take that car if they payed me for it.
Somebody should make a montage of this with the benny hill theme tune.

[Roy C]

hedgefinder said:

tvrgit said:

Just found this

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/4260080.htm

Absolutely brilliant.

Hopefully the producers will see it for their next series.

but does it have a log book?

I'm sure they can "restore" the log book with a photocopier and some tippex.

[Yertis]

God forbid they should get their hands on something genuinely rare and worth doing properly.

[hedgefinder]

looks like we have found their intended audience...

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...




I fear for the future of our country....

[HustleRussell]

Wow, this is entertaining!

[derektrimblitz]

I just watched this.

What a set of tts.

[S0 What]

benjj said:

Blink Films UK's track record:

Nazi Titanic.

Meet the Sloths.

The Great Sperm Race.

Married to The Eiffel Tower.

Miliband of Brothers.

Strange Love: My Car is my Lover.

Jesus fúcking wept.

"Jesus fúcking wept"
I missed that one, is it on I player

[Travis Mcgee]

My Sagemcom freeview box allows me to record programs for play back later. Having seen the original OP, i set my recorder to pick up the Monday show on CH5. However, when i came to watch it the next day, i noticed that the machine had took it upon itself to record the Monday CH 5+1 show as well. After watching this travesty of program making, I hastily deleted both shows.
Last night, i noticed that the recording light was on again. I hadnt programmed it, so i quickly checked what it was doing. Again, it was recording the repeat on CH5. I quickly stopped the recorder, only to find that an hour later it started to record the +1 show again.
Help!! Make it stop! It seems that the machine has found a way of torturing me with drivel.

[XJ13]

Here's the "Technical Consultant" for the show.

Presenter's CV

Check out his academic achievements ... judging by his use of English in his own CV I don't think its a wind-up?

Upton House

EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, NO DEGREES

1956 – 1960

WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL AT 13, OR EXPELLED I COULD NOT READ AND WRITE. AFTER SERVING AS AN APPRENTICE AT THOMAS AND DRAPER ROLLS ROYCE I LEFT 11 YEARS LATER WITH A MIMI AND M.TECH.ENG QUALIFICATION.... I AM PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS

("loser" icon removed so as not to upset sensitivities of any readers of this thread)

Edited by XJ13 on Friday 28th September 15:54

[na]

XJ13 said:

that's a bit elitist

[XJ13]

na said:

XJ13 said:

that's a bit elitist

Could be ... but the quality of the programme makes me think he should have been expelled from there as well. Perhaps my comment was in a similar vein to your own comments relating to presenters?

na said:

the two sycophants and the stack of st

Edited by XJ13 on Friday 28th September 15:51

[na]

XJ13 said:

Perhaps my comment was in a similar vein to your own comments relating to presenters?

na said:

the two sycophants and the stack of st

fair point

they seem very much sycophants to me

but there's no doubt in my mind about the sack of st, as a person not personality because he was like this well before getting anywhere a camera or national newspaper, and he was/is well educated

[Jagmanv12]

From the dates in his CV he is 67. Maybe he should think of retiring.

As to the programme, what a load of rubbish.
The 2 presenters bickering like little children. Mario totally unrealistic in expecting to pay £10k for a running car. "25k-35k for a good car", maybe the top estimate might buy an auto 2+2 but that's all. "An E type for the price of a hatchback", so they think you can get a good E for 10-15k??

Using a rotary grinder to remove paint!! No wonder they had to use filler - to replace the metal they'd ground away. Picking an old bit of exhaust and a shocker out of a skip to use. At the end of the programme they said they'd fitted new shocks!

They said the valuer had sold £20m worth of cars. No, the company he works for has auctioned cars to that value. Slight difference. As he valued it at £30k the competition winner should ask him to pay that for it.

To get a proper cost to restore an E they should have asked Henry Pearman when he appeared later in the programme.

The best part was the archive film.

[keefr22]

jackpe said:

Yes, it was for the car in the second show... next episode is a 911. dread to think what they will be doing on it.

This clip shows them talking complete st about 911s.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/classic-car-rescue/c...

Thank you for posting the link to that clip, as the 911 is my all time favourite car I'd almost resigned myself to torturing myself by watching next weeks enthralling episode just to see what a hash they could make of one. But that 30 second clip of the pair of wkers talking absolute
ste has made me realise that life really is too short to waste any more of it on this crap.

And to think I almost insured our rally Mini with Adrian Flux a few weeks ago - I feel I had a lucky escape by choosing a local broker instead, as they must be a really unprofessional organisation to 'sponsor' such a load of drivel. Let alone to offer a £1000 worth of insurance on that shed....

K