Discussion
P-Jay said:
As above, that's the one and only time they've had to do and given the Bloke's story how could you say no?
In fairness to this particular case, the man had no real connection to that shell, it wasn't a car he'd driven as a younger man or anything like that, I don't think it ever ran during his ownership - he wanted to restore a 500 for his wife, the connection was to an old reg plate, which they used.
Oh I completely agree. But they have done it before before - can't remember what it was though.In fairness to this particular case, the man had no real connection to that shell, it wasn't a car he'd driven as a younger man or anything like that, I don't think it ever ran during his ownership - he wanted to restore a 500 for his wife, the connection was to an old reg plate, which they used.
Saw the Mercedes 230SL programme last night. A real shed after it was dipped, and a pity that they zoomed through the bodywork rebuild after showing us how bad it was. Even showing the section where they cut the back end off could have had a bit of time about setting reference points to make sure it went back in the right place. Looked lovely when it was done. A cynic might wonder whether the other SL shell that formed part of Tim's ridiculous play-acting segment was involved elsewhere.
I've vague idea I've seen something on Youtube a while ago, probably when it was first shown on non-terrestrial TV. It did look terrible, I'm just (as always) disappointed that we didn't get a bit more of a view of them repairing. After all, they spent enough time over-acting about how it was the worst car they'd ever ever done, pretending to storm off and so on.
Elroy Blue said:
There's a You Tube 'extra' that shows the months of work they put into rebuilding the car. It wasn't re-shelled, but there wasn't much left of the original
Good shout - here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OvOe2VYkYthegreenhell said:
Good shout - here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OvOe2VYkY
That was thoroughly entertaining. It should have been in the programme. There was some brilliant fabrication. 1357 hrs.I've always wondered whether the recipients' relatives/friends paid the restoration costs or contributed. How much would they have been looking at for this one? So perhaps that's answered me.
Good work. As they said: lots of measurement.
Derek Smith said:
thegreenhell said:
Good shout - here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3OvOe2VYkY
That was thoroughly entertaining. It should have been in the programme. There was some brilliant fabrication. 1357 hrs.I've always wondered whether the recipients' relatives/friends paid the restoration costs or contributed. How much would they have been looking at for this one? So perhaps that's answered me.
Good work. As they said: lots of measurement.
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