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They missed a huge opportunity IMHO
Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
Jazzy Jag said:
They missed a huge opportunity IMHO
Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
Loved the cars and the concept - as you say, it could have filled several episodes. But the editing, direction and production was rubbish. Such a shame to see the show get worse rather than better. Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
Leithen said:
Jazzy Jag said:
They missed a huge opportunity IMHO
Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
Loved the cars and the concept - as you say, it could have filled several episodes. But the editing, direction and production was rubbish. Such a shame to see the show get worse rather than better. Rebuilding that car and competing in the Peking to Paris could have been a series in itself.
Too much glossing over the details for my liking just like the Humvee episode.
Did diagnosis my mental telepathy, one minute Ed is cutting metal for a cover and talking about where to put the sink and in the shot the hood is finished, interior done and it's been resprayed.
It's a bit too "here's one I prepared earlier"
zeb said:
That was poor last night and the continued obsession with trying to woo america will ultimately start to pee the core uk audience off.....shame really
if I want to watch an American Car show there are plenty enough to choose from I don't get why there doing this other than the production team got bored in the UK and fancied a change.zeb said:
That was poor last night and the continued obsession with trying to woo america will ultimately start to pee the core uk audience off.....shame really
Ironically I think it was the other way around, well, sort of.I think Discovery US showed a series of Wheeler Dealers in between series of Fast n' Loud, b
hing Rides or any of the others they make and it did far better than expected, so they showed some more - a new production company brought on, a 'UK' series filmed in the US and the rest as they say is history - so it seems odd to me that they're changing the format to be more like the US series - perhaps to them it's a few tweaks to increase the appeal, but to me it seems they're tearing the arse of out what made it, what it was. I noticed that the Americanisms have pervaded every aspect now... on that Cadillac build they costed up for "axels" rather than "axles", for example.
I think we've lost them. Such a shame. As already pointed out, aren't there enough American car resto shows already without bdising our home-grown ones? 
I think we've lost them. Such a shame. As already pointed out, aren't there enough American car resto shows already without b
dising our home-grown ones? I haven't even watched last nights, and I have been a fan from the very start! Judging by the comments, I may as well just delete it from my planner. US car resto shows are already over-saturated, WD has just become one of these, lost in the void of banality, it seems. As per every US show, they have decided to make it about them, rather than the cars, with the result being quite cringe-worthy.
Jazzy Jag said:
And Mike manages to make a point of converting every price into Dollars...
The dollar thing annoyed me in that 'wheeler dealers - trading up thing' where Mike stated that the dollar was the international currency for trading cars. They'd already planned on leaving the UK behind back then. I don't know if I've even seen Ed don his famous orange gloves this series, although it would have been a waste seeing how he doesn't appear to have been filmed doing any work. I do prefer the very early one, buy and restore for less than a grand, ones. He still used to brandish a spray can from Halford and everything else was covered in satin black. There are tips and tricks from some of those early series that I still use now but lately it's been more "look what my behind the scenes guys..... I mean me and Ed have done this week". And watching Mike with tools just gets too painful to watch sometimes.
generationx said:
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND QUID. No result, no rally, no buyer.
I used to love and look forward to every episode of this show: £800 205 GTIs, four grand Integrales etc. We turned a corner at Ferraris and Lamborghinis and sadly I fear we may never return.
Same here. I enjoyed it, even if pre-war cars aren't really my thing, but it seemed a missed opportunity - a mini series would have been great and of course a few episodes covering the rally (Edd said as much on Twitter a few days ago). I used to love and look forward to every episode of this show: £800 205 GTIs, four grand Integrales etc. We turned a corner at Ferraris and Lamborghinis and sadly I fear we may never return.
Too much of a thing to show over 20 mins, which is pretty much all the build gets when to detract the Mike gawping and adds.
generationx said:
ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND QUID. No result, no rally, no buyer.
I used to love and look forward to every episode of this show: £800 205 GTIs, four grand Integrales etc. We turned a corner at Ferraris and Lamborghinis and sadly I fear we may never return.
Have to agree, this series was dire. They need to think about what sort of program they're trying to make. If it's an American program about classic cars, well too late, Wayne Carini already does that and does it a lot better. If the next series is filmed in America, I really can't be bothered watching.I used to love and look forward to every episode of this show: £800 205 GTIs, four grand Integrales etc. We turned a corner at Ferraris and Lamborghinis and sadly I fear we may never return.
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