For The Love of Cars

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RichB

51,435 posts

283 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Fishtigua said:
I've not seen it yet, is it just the same as the 5 previous ones?
Yes, an enjoyable program when there's bugger all else on.

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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RichB said:
Fishtigua said:
I've not seen it yet, is it just the same as the 5 previous ones?
Yes, an enjoyable program when there's bugger all else on.
RichB sums it up perfectly.

Halmyre

11,148 posts

138 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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gareth_r said:
The script seemed to make a point (repeatedly) that the SAAB's engine was a four-stroke, but I don't recall any mention of the fact that it was originally powered by a 2-stroke. Did I miss it? Perhaps that info was lost in the edit.

I suspect that the fact that the engine was a 3-cylinder 2-stroke running on pre-mix may have been a major factor in the car's lack of popularity in the UK. smile

They didn't even mention, except in an almost inaudible background discussion, that the engine was a V4 that came from Ford in Germany.


EDIT:
Noticed that the Transit in the preview at the end seemed to have the extended bonnet... doesn't that mean it's a diesel frown or a V6 smile?

Edited by gareth_r on Monday 18th May 10:33
V4, surely? An absolute bd to start, from what I've heard.

aeropilot

34,302 posts

226 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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gareth_r said:
EDIT:
Noticed that the Transit in the preview at the end seemed to have the extended bonnet... doesn't that mean it's a diesel frown or a V6 smile?
My uncle bought a brand new Transit van in late 1972, which had the V4 engine in it, and it was a 'twin rear wheel extended bonnet version'
(don't think you could get a diesel engine version back then, and nor could you get a factory V6 version either. The V6 engined Tranny vans used by Boreham as service vans at the time were built by the mechs at Boreham IIRC)

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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gareth_r said:
The script seemed to make a point (repeatedly) that the SAAB's engine was a four-stroke
I'm pretty sure this was whoever wrote the script not understanding what a V4 engine was, and saying "four stroke" all the time instead!

Podie

46,630 posts

274 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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At the start of the programme, did Ant's Disco have a trailer - then lose it - then magically appear when he came to leave with the SAAB?

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Max_Torque said:
gareth_r said:
The script seemed to make a point (repeatedly) that the SAAB's engine was a four-stroke
I'm pretty sure this was whoever wrote the script not understanding what a V4 engine was, and saying "four stroke" all the time instead!
As someone esle said, I suspect they cut a bit out that described the original 2 stroke (in the SAAB 92?), and that the 96 had a 4 stroke engine. But they left in all the four stroke comments that came afterwards.

Willhire89

1,327 posts

204 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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Podie said:
At the start of the programme, did Ant's Disco have a trailer - then lose it - then magically appear when he came to leave with the SAAB?
Yep

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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My wife likes this programme, but says she prefers Car SOS.

I don't like this series 2 so much, and I have no desire to watch a whole programme next week on transit vans! Almost as bad as that Rover Police car!

Edited by chris watton on Monday 18th May 18:48

Smollet

10,467 posts

189 months

Monday 18th May 2015
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chris watton said:
My wife likes this programme, but says she prefers Car SOS.

I don't like this series 2 so much, and I have no desire to a whole programme next week on transit vans!
Unless it's one Dan Gurney had a hand in building in the late 60s.
http://www.commercialmotor.com/big-lorry-blog/the-...

Edited by Smollet on Monday 18th May 18:36

gowmonster

2,471 posts

166 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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i kinda like a car is born, bar the dodgy jokes.

any show that would go into any great detail just wouldn't keep the majority interested sadly frown I think the only way you could do it is like https://www.youtube.com/user/badobsessionmsport but they probably won't make much money out of it...

Dakkon

7,826 posts

252 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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I am watching the series and it is ok, but the Aston episode was great becuase they went into detail of the restoration and the work / effort involved to get it to auction, some of the episodes since then have barely gone into any detail, the Rover SD1 police car, case in point frown

croyde

22,709 posts

229 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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I was watching the Fiat 500 one last night. The car was an absolute mess yet they barely dealt with it's resto and just filled the programme with stuff about other small cars.

Basically we saw the bits, we saw it after being painted and we saw the engine, then again in bits, then shiny and new. A few minutes on how he replaced/repaired the body work and floorpan would have been good.

I'm thinking that all the cars are auctioned at the same time as in the last series but it's all shot as if it's a different auction. Yesterday I could see the Rover SD1 in the background.

gowmonster

2,471 posts

166 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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croyde said:
I was watching the Fiat 500 one last night. The car was an absolute mess yet they barely dealt with it's resto and just filled the programme with stuff about other small cars.

Basically we saw the bits, we saw it after being painted and we saw the engine, then again in bits, then shiny and new. A few minutes on how he replaced/repaired the body work and floorpan would have been good.

I'm thinking that all the cars are auctioned at the same time as in the last series but it's all shot as if it's a different auction. Yesterday I could see the Rover SD1 in the background.
I think they just changed the format a bit, as the last series had the auction at the end and they must not have got the viewing figures they thought they would have...

droopsnoot

11,817 posts

241 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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croyde said:
I'm thinking that all the cars are auctioned at the same time as in the last series but it's all shot as if it's a different auction. Yesterday I could see the Rover SD1 in the background.
It is the same auction, at the Autosport show at the NEC. I don't think there's any attempt to disguise that, as you can see the same people in the crowd, the same cars in the background, and so on. They probably thought it would work better if the average viewer didn't have to remember all the earlier cars in the series for the last programme, and it completes the story in one concise programme.

Must mean that the reason they have so much trouble restoring the cars "in only ten weeks" is because they're doing all of them in the same ten weeks.

SydneyBridge

8,500 posts

157 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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The auction for the first series was done before anyone knew about the programme, this series everyone knows what they are doing and they also have the 'stories' this time.
Must have been a busy day filming at the NEC with each car and the relatives etc, then all edited for each show.

croyde

22,709 posts

229 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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Barchettaman said:
This other presenter (not Glenister) - is he Mister Maker off CBeebies?

Parents of kids of a certain age will know who I mean!
Haha. Mister Maker is an old workmate of mine. I see what you mean biggrin

JonRB

74,404 posts

271 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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droopsnoot said:
croyde said:
I'm thinking that all the cars are auctioned at the same time as in the last series but it's all shot as if it's a different auction. Yesterday I could see the Rover SD1 in the background.
It is the same auction, at the Autosport show at the NEC. I don't think there's any attempt to disguise that, as you can see the same people in the crowd, the same cars in the background, and so on. They probably thought it would work better if the average viewer didn't have to remember all the earlier cars in the series for the last programme, and it completes the story in one concise programme.
Indeed. I must say that I prefer it this way because, as you say, it makes each episode self-contained and gives immediate closure.

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Tuesday 19th May 2015
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What was with the errant screw on the driver's seat? It seemed to be there on quite a few of the photo shoots...

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Sunday 24th May 2015
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Heads up.