Classic Car Rescue, tonight 8pm, C5.
Discussion
911legend said:
oh dear and i thought last weeks episode was painful ! wipers parked on right so its been LHD too.....they should have left it narrow bodied and original bumpers to go with new interior or put some rear arches on it with cage and buckets and made a track car with it...i may have bid the £1,50 then but dont want to encourage them....MG with my initals on the plate next week...why didnt they just buy a nice 3.0 sc and polish it cudda been a 10 minute show and save listening to bernies rants...
It IS a 10 minute show, with 50 minutes of filler (pun intended).I'm glad I didn't bother to sky+ this now, it is being lambasted on here and on the Mustang Owners forum (but then some on there would look at me funny for putting a K&N oil (re-badged mobil afaik) filter on rather than a ford motorcraft one (its non original)).
RE: wheeler dealers, yes there is a lot of script on there (as there is but when ed is working on the cars at-least you actually learn something about the part of the car he is working on.
By the souds of it this is the ideal program to watch if you want top build a corsa with a wide arch body kit using a badly fitting e-bay kit and ten gallons of filler to smooth it.
RE: wheeler dealers, yes there is a lot of script on there (as there is but when ed is working on the cars at-least you actually learn something about the part of the car he is working on.
By the souds of it this is the ideal program to watch if you want top build a corsa with a wide arch body kit using a badly fitting e-bay kit and ten gallons of filler to smooth it.
RZ1 said:
70,000 really how do you know that?
Do channel 5 get the whole £1 per text, if so that's £70k??
The net from the provider might be as much as 70p but C5 will be running it via a service provider who will take another slice. Do channel 5 get the whole £1 per text, if so that's £70k??
I'd hazard 50p tops. But it is essential as they won't ever be selling this turds.
As an aside, wasn't a tV researcher on here a while back asking for a TVR to restore in TV?
Dreadful show.
I'm by no means an expert in valuing old 911s, but I'd expect a proper valuer to be wearing overalls with the car up on a ramp taking a poke around underneath. Also for a £22k valuation I would expect a recent documented engine and gearbox rebuild otherwise that's another ~£8k.
I'm by no means an expert in valuing old 911s, but I'd expect a proper valuer to be wearing overalls with the car up on a ramp taking a poke around underneath. Also for a £22k valuation I would expect a recent documented engine and gearbox rebuild otherwise that's another ~£8k.
anonymous said:
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I'm glad you've said this. Whilst they did the bit where he was driving to value the car I was sat thinking "oooh a nice old 8-Series" and then it turned out to be a boring old 3-Series. I'm assuming the first part is just library footage as part of that sequence.You get a good engine for your £22,000 though!
Bernie said in his description of how the distributor works that the rotor arm spins at up to 7,000rpm!
This must surely mean then that the crank turns at up to 14,000rpm!
Distributor turns at half crank speed as far as I know...
14,000rpm flat six, should sound superb!
More true facts from Classic Car Rescue.
Bernie said in his description of how the distributor works that the rotor arm spins at up to 7,000rpm!
This must surely mean then that the crank turns at up to 14,000rpm!
Distributor turns at half crank speed as far as I know...
14,000rpm flat six, should sound superb!
More true facts from Classic Car Rescue.
thecurleyone said:
You get a good engine for your £22,000 though!
Bernie said in his description of how the distributor works that the rotor arm spins at up to 7,000rpm!
This must surely mean then that the crank turns at up to 14,000rpm!
Distributor turns at half crank speed as far as I know...
14,000rpm flat six, should sound superb!
More true facts from Classic Car Rescue.
to quote channel 5 - "Bernie is a highly experienced automotive manager, master technician, workshop controller and technical engineer" Bernie said in his description of how the distributor works that the rotor arm spins at up to 7,000rpm!
This must surely mean then that the crank turns at up to 14,000rpm!
Distributor turns at half crank speed as far as I know...
14,000rpm flat six, should sound superb!
More true facts from Classic Car Rescue.
tter extraordinaire'. hedgefinder said:
to quote channel 5 - "Bernie is a highly experienced automotive manager (he shouts at his staff), master technician ( he swears at his tools), workshop controller (he shouts at his staff and his tools) and technical engineer (he shouts at the car)"
Edited for accuracy.This show is unbelievable!! Bernie (supposed 50 years of experience-what he don't know ain't worth knowing) can't even spot a real shoddy repair job on the porker and then his supposed mechanic is 80-90% certain it's a cut n shut until the supposed 30 years experience of classic cars and self styled porsche expert Mario 'Romero' Pacione saves the day by identifying the 'real' problem, Come on Channel 5, you're having a giraffe! (That's rhyming slang for 'laugh' by the way Mario)
Aside from the copious amount of set-up arguing, shouting, shoddy, amateur, cowboy filler happy T*ts and general dumbing down, one of the many things I just couldn't believe was Mario painting the calipers with a poundland paint brush and 'touching up scratches' with it too!!
Then the numpty in the E46 this week, who supposedly is an industry expert on classic car valuation, no offence to E46 owners, but why ain't he driving a true classic himself? He turns up, doesn't get under the car, no paperwork, as far as he knows this car could be a Cat D in the past, comes to the conclusion that this bright orange lump of filler on wheels with a few second hand porsche bits attached, is worth £22,000!!
Channel 5 no doubt would try to explain that he does a much more thorough valuation etc etc but for purposes of a tv program that is approx 40 mins with adverts they need to portray it that way. However come on channel 5, it's a poor poor production using unknowledgeable cowboys who don't know their stuff basicly bodging 'restorations' of two cars and you charge unsuspecting people £1.50 a pop to enter to Win these cars. Which, in reality, need their supposed value and more besides spending on them by proper restorers with real knowledge, just to put them right.
Shame really, don't you think.
Rant over- Just my Humble Opinion
Can't wait to see em butcher an MGBGT next week- literally car crash tv!
Aside from the copious amount of set-up arguing, shouting, shoddy, amateur, cowboy filler happy T*ts and general dumbing down, one of the many things I just couldn't believe was Mario painting the calipers with a poundland paint brush and 'touching up scratches' with it too!!
Then the numpty in the E46 this week, who supposedly is an industry expert on classic car valuation, no offence to E46 owners, but why ain't he driving a true classic himself? He turns up, doesn't get under the car, no paperwork, as far as he knows this car could be a Cat D in the past, comes to the conclusion that this bright orange lump of filler on wheels with a few second hand porsche bits attached, is worth £22,000!!
Channel 5 no doubt would try to explain that he does a much more thorough valuation etc etc but for purposes of a tv program that is approx 40 mins with adverts they need to portray it that way. However come on channel 5, it's a poor poor production using unknowledgeable cowboys who don't know their stuff basicly bodging 'restorations' of two cars and you charge unsuspecting people £1.50 a pop to enter to Win these cars. Which, in reality, need their supposed value and more besides spending on them by proper restorers with real knowledge, just to put them right.
Shame really, don't you think.
Rant over- Just my Humble Opinion
Can't wait to see em butcher an MGBGT next week- literally car crash tv!
rohrl said:
There's a US hotrod equivalent on Discovery right now. It's called Fast n' Loud and they're doing a Ford Model A.
not anywhere near ... they do proper bare metal restos with funnily enough - new or refurbished parts and actually knwoing what they are doing at least the valuations are a little more realistic..davamer23 said:
Channel 5 no doubt would try to explain that he does a much more thorough valuation etc etc but for purposes of a tv program that is approx 40 mins with adverts they need to portray it that way. However come on channel 5, it's a poor poor production using unknowledgeable cowboys who don't know their stuff basicly bodging 'restorations' of two cars and you charge unsuspecting people £1.50 a pop to enter to Win these cars. Which, in reality, need their supposed value and more besides spending on them by proper restorers with real knowledge, just to put them right.
That's the point. They are only trying to raise revenue from the texts recieved so if their 'expert' valuer told the truth that they had if fact bodged a car of dubious origin and in fact it's worth much less and is likely to be riddled with issues who would enter the competition?There is sooo much wrong with this program, not least the fact they have left both cars so badly 'restored'. Not only that the true nature of the work is fully documented for all to see.
The previous owners build thread on the other forum was an interesting read too...
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