Wheeler Dealers

Yep I've had two tvr's and engine aside on ajps and speed sixes he did an awesome job making that a goog purchase for someone.

A lot of people don't realise just how bad those chassis can get in the places you can't see.

I quite liked the wheels, anthracite may have looked a little better though.

Oh right thanks, I saw a small clip where they were drifting it. Didnt look too good, and yes the Subaru episode was pants. The M5 episode i Like!

Impressive thread resurrection there - did someone say 'AppleJuice' three times on Halloween night?

Thick fat southern tt

Saw what was probably one of the first U.S based shows with Edd still on the spanners.


Mike bought a Pontiac GTO from Chicago and Edd did his usual excellent work on loads of stuff (new rad and fans, waterpump, installing A/C, fixing exhaust, etc.) whilst Mike fked off to get the steering pump reconditioned.
The car, originally being a Cali car, should have sold for >$35k (it was back in Cali), but Mike accepted $32k ('old yer 'aaand aaaht!') 'cause he's a tt, and he should have advertised it for $38k rather than at the price he actually wanted for it.


I've not seen the newer shows with Ant Anstead yet, but I recall from other shows Ant was involved in that he's also very good with the spanners and fabrication.

Fat Mike took some st on Twitter about that, 'apparently' he said "the first Capri we've done in the US" which would be a slightly odd thing to say as they weren't exactly thick on the ground in the US and the director cut the end of his sentence off.

I haven't seen it yet to judge how likely true that is.

• Gets down the road well
• A little dealer tip for you

It was a strange choice of car considering there must be about 12 of them in the US and most of the UK ones now will be garage queens. It is pretty obvious that Mike's now calling the shots as far as car choice is concerned and either dementia is setting in or he has ran out of ideas as half the cars in this series have been featured before, albeit some are different generation/model variants. I miss the occasional off-the-wall Edd-influenced choice like the Bond Bug or the Amphicar (although the AMC Pacer was a totally dropped ball). I can't imagine Ant wanting to work on a bubble car, for example.

I'm sure the show could happily soldier on for a few more series like this, but its heyday of the £1k Boxster and the Lamborghini Uracco are well in the past.

Personally, my enthusiasm for the show waned when the majority of the vehicles started being US cars. The whole appeal of the show was showing work that could be carried out by anyone with 'average' mechanical knowledge on readily available and 'classic' vehicles.
Their insistence in giving MB ever increasing physical roles in the vehicles 'refurbishment' also reeks of desperation to justify his long passed existence on the show. The show could do without and his usual " 'old out yer 'and!" bks easily.

That's the weird thing about this series - Mike seems to have gone out of his way to find typically un-American cars in America, which I think has led to some reasonably interesting cars getting some pretty uninteresting work done to them, followed by some comical and contrived attempts to sell them on because yanks don't share the same level of enthusiasm for them.

I think they've tried to return to that in this series, but missed the target a bit as nearly every job seems to be 'two-post-lift, engine out' one, or easy DIY if you have access to a pipe bender.

Agreed, but there's going to be no show without Punch.