Classic Car Rescue, tonight 8pm, C5.
Discussion
m8rky said:
GTIR said:
The Mockney is on The Wright Stuff this morning.
Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
So the Krays were arrested in 1968,can't find a date of birth for Bernie but reckon he is 60ish.I stand to be corrected but something doesn't add up there.Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bernie-fineman/8/2b/9b
Education
Upton House
EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, NO DEGREES
1956 – 1960
WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL AT 13, OR EXPELLED I COULD NOT READ AND WRITE. AFTER SERVING AS AN APPRENTICE AT THOMAS AND DRAPER ROLLS ROYCE I LEFT 11 YEARS LATER WITH A MIMI AND M.TECH.ENG QUALIFICATION.... I AM PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS
UPTON HOUSE HACKNEY LONDON
1956 – 1958
fomb said:
I still fail to see why anyone would want to enter the competitions to win the cars that they build in the show. After seeing the butchery and pain the cars go through, I wouldn't want to be anywhere near it.
they have to get rid of them via competition as clearly no-one is going to offer them anywhere near what the funky-trousers expert valuer says.AndyLeysh said:
m8rky said:
GTIR said:
The Mockney is on The Wright Stuff this morning.
Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
So the Krays were arrested in 1968,can't find a date of birth for Bernie but reckon he is 60ish.I stand to be corrected but something doesn't add up there.Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bernie-fineman/8/2b/9b
Education
Upton House
EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, NO DEGREES
1956 – 1960
WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL AT 13, OR EXPELLED I COULD NOT READ AND WRITE. AFTER SERVING AS AN APPRENTICE AT THOMAS AND DRAPER ROLLS ROYCE I LEFT 11 YEARS LATER WITH A MIMI AND M.TECH.ENG QUALIFICATION.... I AM PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS
UPTON HOUSE HACKNEY LONDON
1956 – 1958
AndyLeysh said:
m8rky said:
GTIR said:
The Mockney is on The Wright Stuff this morning.
Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
So the Krays were arrested in 1968,can't find a date of birth for Bernie but reckon he is 60ish.I stand to be corrected but something doesn't add up there.Yes. He really is a tt.
Going on about being the Crays mechanic and how you kept quite if you saw anything dodgy in the boot.
What a tit.
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/bernie-fineman/8/2b/9b
Education
Upton House
EXPELLED FROM SCHOOL, NO DEGREES
1956 – 1960
WHEN I LEFT SCHOOL AT 13, OR EXPELLED I COULD NOT READ AND WRITE. AFTER SERVING AS AN APPRENTICE AT THOMAS AND DRAPER ROLLS ROYCE I LEFT 11 YEARS LATER WITH A MIMI AND M.TECH.ENG QUALIFICATION.... I AM PROUD OF MY ACHIEVEMENTS
UPTON HOUSE HACKNEY LONDON
1956 – 1958
What exactly is DRAPER ROLLS ROYCE?
I Googled it and there is not really anything.
GTIR said:
I spoke to a Rolls Royce dealer today (Dropped a customer off). Established since the late 60's and I asked if he'd heard of Thomas and Draper.
He'd never heard of them and he did his apprentiship at RR.
http://www.channel5.com/shows/the-wright-stuff/cli...He'd never heard of them and he did his apprentiship at RR.
In Croydon apparently.
Yet Googling with this added detail still reveals nothing,Googling Upton House school reveals a thread on friends reunited of memories from the late 50's and 60's yet no mention of their "celebrity" fellow pupil
Edited by m8rky on Thursday 11th October 06:48
I also think there must have been a switch. To shape a roof panel so well as for it to be invisible is very hard indeed and involves hand rolling, and the guy simply looks too young to possess such a skill. We didn’t see any repair of the very rusty bodywork at all. If the under-side were so bad that the suspension (which was not something that made the B good, it made it cheep) fell off, and the panels were crumbling, then the underside would look like Swiss cheese. In a passing mention the voice-over said “and they rust-proofed the underside” would that mean ‘they sprayed some black st around’?
When Bernie was looking at the yellow BGT, why wasn’t he also looking at the red one next to it, I mean, wouldn’t you? Perhaps he did, and that was it we saw from the stripped point onwards. I can just see it; the guy takes Bernie to see a nice but dusty red BGT and the producer sees the heap next to it. He must have creamed himself!
The funniest bit was when the voice-over said they lost a day over the water leak, for which the fix was to tighten the hoses!!!! A DAY!!!!
I would like to have seen the fitting of the chrome-finishing strip on the front and rear windows. You don’t get these second-hand, as they are too fragile and rotten to ever survive. They cost about 100 quid alone and take a day to fit, and if you don’t know how to do it you will bugger them up. Theirs were perfect.
Restored MG BGT GT owner (and E-Type)
When Bernie was looking at the yellow BGT, why wasn’t he also looking at the red one next to it, I mean, wouldn’t you? Perhaps he did, and that was it we saw from the stripped point onwards. I can just see it; the guy takes Bernie to see a nice but dusty red BGT and the producer sees the heap next to it. He must have creamed himself!
The funniest bit was when the voice-over said they lost a day over the water leak, for which the fix was to tighten the hoses!!!! A DAY!!!!
I would like to have seen the fitting of the chrome-finishing strip on the front and rear windows. You don’t get these second-hand, as they are too fragile and rotten to ever survive. They cost about 100 quid alone and take a day to fit, and if you don’t know how to do it you will bugger them up. Theirs were perfect.
Restored MG BGT GT owner (and E-Type)
Another thought...
I have just sold a Vauxhall Zafira tonight at auction in Southampton. The valuer said he thought I should get something like 2200 puonds to 2500 for it. On the second attempt at sale at a well attended meeting it sold for 1500. Valuers over estimate so that you will place your car with them, they just can't help themselves. Or rather they like to help themselves; to the commission!
Don't forget, record the show and fast forward the bits we can't stand, then you only waste half an hour of your life and you can still come to this thread and have a good laugh
p.s. My Microsoft wireless keyboard has swopped some funtions and cannot now make a pound sign - it does # instead. Thye # key does \, & " has switched with @. Anyone know how to fix it?
I have just sold a Vauxhall Zafira tonight at auction in Southampton. The valuer said he thought I should get something like 2200 puonds to 2500 for it. On the second attempt at sale at a well attended meeting it sold for 1500. Valuers over estimate so that you will place your car with them, they just can't help themselves. Or rather they like to help themselves; to the commission!
Don't forget, record the show and fast forward the bits we can't stand, then you only waste half an hour of your life and you can still come to this thread and have a good laugh
p.s. My Microsoft wireless keyboard has swopped some funtions and cannot now make a pound sign - it does # instead. Thye # key does \, & " has switched with @. Anyone know how to fix it?
Here's an idea.
Bernie is an experienced & knowledgeable motor engineer. He has a decent touch & knows his way around a motor car. He puts on a persona of belligerence & incompetence for the benefit of the cameras & because it sells & he reaps the reward.
No idea if that's the case or not. Just throwin' that monkey out there.
Bernie is an experienced & knowledgeable motor engineer. He has a decent touch & knows his way around a motor car. He puts on a persona of belligerence & incompetence for the benefit of the cameras & because it sells & he reaps the reward.
No idea if that's the case or not. Just throwin' that monkey out there.
Justin Cyder said:
Here's an idea.
Bernie is an experienced & knowledgeable motor engineer. He has a decent touch & knows his way around a motor car. He puts on a persona of belligerence & incompetence for the benefit of the cameras & because it sells & he reaps the reward.
No idea if that's the case or not. Just throwin' that monkey out there.
I think you might be right. There was a thread on another website that included a post from someone who was on the programme either selling Bernie a car, or almost selling him one, and he said something like "Bernie was a lovely bloke until they turned the camera on"Bernie is an experienced & knowledgeable motor engineer. He has a decent touch & knows his way around a motor car. He puts on a persona of belligerence & incompetence for the benefit of the cameras & because it sells & he reaps the reward.
No idea if that's the case or not. Just throwin' that monkey out there.
You could see when he was painting the car that he was doing it in a ridiculous way and deliberately painted the wheel. The look on his face when he realised he'd sprayed over the rag we were expected to believe he had forgotten to take off the roof said it all. The only bit I liked more was the moment the axle fell off because they had cut through the leaf springs and removed the propshaft -I thought Bernie's acting wasn't bad at that point, but poor old Mario Romero looked like he was trying not to laugh and had to hide his face behind his hand.
Update on the MBG being 2 or even 3 different cars, I sent channel 5 questions which I don't have a copy of but along the lines of confirming if indeed the car was the same as the wreck "rescued " from the barn and about the validity of the 2 week restoration claim. This was the reply I recieved:
Dear David
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Classic Car Rescue.
While the production team were filming in Canada, the mechanics in London discovered some serious problems with the MGB, midway through the restoration, which meant they felt it might not be entirely safe to drive. Their original plan was to buy a new chassis, which is a common way that people restore MGBs (you can buy an entire new monocoque chassis for just £1000) and build on top of that. But wanting to stick with used parts, they bought another car and used the chassis from that, transferring much of the first MGB, right down to door-handles, and windows. The cost of the second car was included in the figures mentioned and the end result was a combination of the two.
The programme aims to show how Bernie Fineman and Mario Pacione cope with restoration jobs with a “tight deadline and an even tighter budget” in an entertaining fashion while also giving some background into why each selected model is held in the high regard that it is. It is not intended to, and does not claim to, demonstrate the detailed effort and finance that can go into the high end restoration of classic cars.
Nevertheless, this does not diminish the validity of your opinions and we are grateful to you for taking the time to make us aware of your concerns. Your comments have been logged in our Viewer Enquiries Report. This is circulated throughout the company and seen by all relevant personnel.
Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.
Yours sincerely
Ian
VIEWER ADVISOR
Dear David
Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Classic Car Rescue.
While the production team were filming in Canada, the mechanics in London discovered some serious problems with the MGB, midway through the restoration, which meant they felt it might not be entirely safe to drive. Their original plan was to buy a new chassis, which is a common way that people restore MGBs (you can buy an entire new monocoque chassis for just £1000) and build on top of that. But wanting to stick with used parts, they bought another car and used the chassis from that, transferring much of the first MGB, right down to door-handles, and windows. The cost of the second car was included in the figures mentioned and the end result was a combination of the two.
The programme aims to show how Bernie Fineman and Mario Pacione cope with restoration jobs with a “tight deadline and an even tighter budget” in an entertaining fashion while also giving some background into why each selected model is held in the high regard that it is. It is not intended to, and does not claim to, demonstrate the detailed effort and finance that can go into the high end restoration of classic cars.
Nevertheless, this does not diminish the validity of your opinions and we are grateful to you for taking the time to make us aware of your concerns. Your comments have been logged in our Viewer Enquiries Report. This is circulated throughout the company and seen by all relevant personnel.
Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.
Yours sincerely
Ian
VIEWER ADVISOR
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