For The Love of Cars

[Bluedot]

Struggled with the 'recap' episode if I'm honest.
Enjoyed the series but the episodes did all get very 'samey'
Be surprised if they try and eek out another series, they'd need a bit of a rethink on the format.

[S10GTA]

Bluedot said:

Struggled with the 'recap' episode if I'm honest.
Enjoyed the series but the episodes did all get very 'samey'
Be surprised if they try and eek out another series, they'd need a bit of a rethink on the format.

Or they could just return to the original format, which was excellent.

[SydneyBridge]

It became more like car SOS with the back story, but you go from a chap that wants an expensive wedding ring to the chap with cancer. They should choose what cars to do each programme about, they don't need the back story, and just buy a wreck and do it up and sell it at auction.

[Smollet]

SydneyBridge said:

They should choose what cars to do each programme about, they don't need the back story, and just buy a wreck and do it up and sell it at auction.

I agree but then they might not get enough viewers to warrant its prime time airing without the usual hype

[MarshPhantom]

SydneyBridge said:

It became more like car SOS with the back story, but you go from a chap that wants an expensive wedding ring to the chap with cancer. They should choose what cars to do each programme about, they don't need the back story, and just buy a wreck and do it up and sell it at auction.

I enjoyed the last series but haven't been too bothered about this one.

[droopsnoot]

SydneyBridge said:

Same here, very interesting but nothing mentioned at all about the actual cost of the restoration. Would be interesting to know. Sure all but the Aston sold for tons less than the restoration cost, not that it really matters..

I guess the trouble with talking about the costs too much is that it dates the programme when they're repeating it in 2019.

[PH5121]

I also gave up watching it after the first few episodes.

I like cars but there wasn't enough detail of the projects they were undertaking to keep me interested, the contrived 'pressure' and 'deadlines' for the auction date was tedious and Philip Glenister is a plank.

It was a shame as I enjoyed the first series.

[rohrl]

Were the cars in the auction room really as dirty as they looked? It wouldn't have taken too much effort to wipe them over with a cloth and a spray bottle would it?

[Winky151]

rohrl said:

Were the cars in the auction room really as dirty as they looked? It wouldn't have taken too much effort to wipe them over with a cloth and a spray bottle would it?

Thought the same myself.

Week after week they get a new project but as has been discussed on here at the end of each episode you could 'see last weeks car in the background' etc now we see that they did all arrive together on a transporter & drove the last little bit (or around the corner) for the cameras. They also tended to give themselves 3 weeks to get them to auction but one clip of Ant fixing the Transit last night he said they had 10 weeks.

I didn't watch the first/previous series but the Mk1 Escort they showed last night from the first series, the guy paid £18k (?) for it & now values it at £22k-£28k IIRC but wouldn't take £50k. I know they go on about the provenance of the car & I know lots of Mk1 Escorts were raced or rallied but was this one & did it win? If it didn't then its just a Mk1 Escort & I don't understand the massively inflated price.

[Mad March Taffy]

rohrl said:

Were the cars in the auction room really as dirty as they looked? It wouldn't have taken too much effort to wipe them over with a cloth and a spray bottle would it?

They seem to be filthy (as though they have been driven there) and then some appear clean when the hammer goes down - very odd

[Mr_B]

Mad March Taffy said:

rohrl said:

Were the cars in the auction room really as dirty as they looked? It wouldn't have taken too much effort to wipe them over with a cloth and a spray bottle would it?

They seem to be filthy (as though they have been driven there) and then some appear clean when the hammer goes down - very odd

It doesn't seem that much of a leap to say they filmed maybe the day before on setting up and wheeling the cars in to the auction and in which it shows Ant driving up in the pissing rain in each one, only for them to either be removed after filming that sequence and cleaned, plus using a mixture of footage when representing the auction day.

[confused_buyer]

I wonder if there was some last minute editing in this series and that it was originally meant to be like Series 1 with 7 episodes and one at the end covering the auction (which we got to see) but some TV Exec decided the episodes had to be "contained" and tacked on the auction part to each episode.

[Jonesy23]

confused_buyer said:

I wonder if there was some last minute editing in this series and that it was originally meant to be like Series 1 with 7 episodes and one at the end covering the auction (which we got to see) but some TV Exec decided the episodes had to be "contained" and tacked on the auction part to each episode.

The whole series was inconsistent in how it worked.

The first episode was a lot like series 1 in that they bought a knackered car, fixed it with various decisions on colour & spec along the way and sold it at auction.

The rest of the episodes were variable in how they were put together and the actual car restoration was sometimes a complete afterthought, but they had the common thread of fixing and selling someone else's car for them. The actual content though was all over the place.

I imagine there is some interesting background to how this series came together, things didn't go to the original plan and the whole lot was slung together in no time at all.

Series 1 was worth watching. Series 2 wasn't.

[benjj]

Thought this series was very poor indeed.

[RichB]

I only saw the Aston, the Rover and the SAAB. I wasn't interested in the Transit van and didn't switch back after than. Sounds like I didn't miss much.

[SpeedBall]

There was too much vagueness with this series; not much detail regarding the actual restoration of the cars, it felt like that time was dedicated instead to showing the X Factor-style back story behind the vehicles - which some of the owners didn't exactly have lifelong attachments to, did they? And Philip Glenister appeared to playing the part of someone trying to show a slight interest in cars. They should stop trying to rip off Car SOS and go back to buying a rare care then restoring it and selling it, because this series has been pretty terrible.

[Funkycoldribena]

SpeedBall said:

There was too much vagueness with this series; not much detail regarding the actual restoration of the cars, it felt like that time was dedicated instead to showing the X Factor-style back story behind the vehicles - which some of the owners didn't exactly have lifelong attachments to, did they? And Philip Glenister appeared to playing the part of someone trying to show a slight interest in cars. They should stop trying to rip off Car SOS and go back to buying a rare care then restoring it and selling it, because this series has been pretty terrible.

It would of been much better without Glenister,absolutely ruined it.

[Mcphisto]

Didn't enjoy this as much as series 1 and for some reason Ants soft spoken whispery voice got on my nerves.

[nicanary]

Mcphisto said:

Didn't enjoy this as much as series 1 and for some reason Ants soft spoken whispery voice got on my nerves.

His voice is similar to George Clarke on "Restoration Man". It annoys me too. I just want him to clear his throat with a massive hawk and spit out the biggest oyster ever seen.

[droopsnoot]

I finally watched the last episode though I generally sped through the restoration "recaps" so it didn't take long. It was nice to see the update on the Golf, and one or two other bits, but it was largely filler. I thought the days of not daring to scratch your nose in an auction for fear of buying something were long over.