"Classic Car Rescue" Channel 5 on Mon 24th Sep 20:00
Discussion
Motown Junk said:
Sunroof?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
At least put a Webasto in FFS
How much would it have cost to weld it up? 80's sunroof.Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
At least put a Webasto in FFS
Why not convert to manual and right hand drive too.
Left hook, sunroofed auto E's are of course the most desirable.......
Well I managed to watch the whole episode, do I get a medal? Couldn't believe what a load of twaddle it was. Most impressed they managed to "repair" a piston without the engine even coming apart.
Think I'll give the rest of the series a miss.
Shame they'll be buggering up some more cars...
Think I'll give the rest of the series a miss.
Shame they'll be buggering up some more cars...
Humper said:
Come on, staged? No way! ALL my local scrappies just happen to have all the E-Type parts i need on the back of a pickup for a fiver............
No, it happens all the time...if all you want is one second hand shock absorber and one brake disc that you then proceed to drop on the floor. I'l bet the handling and braking of that oh so desirable ('it's got the 4.2 litre XK6 engine') Series 2 2+2 auto is as strange as the shape of the offside rear wing!Edited by Humper on Monday 24th September 22:22
That is an hour of my life I won't get back...heaven help the famous clients of the bloke that valued it!
Yes , it was dire , really dire,but it could and Should have been far better.
They were set to buy my 68 2 seater S 1 E Type for the show, but Bernie didn't get up to see it fast enough, it was way way better than the tosh cars that they featured. To pay 12 Grand lol , for a Series 2 Two Plus 2 , Auto , left hooker And with a ruddy glass sunroof ..... And then Colour change it...to Lip Gloss Red, yee gods , the Kiss of Death !
That Willow Green late series 1 two plus two Auto E Type, used to sit rotting in the front garden of an empty essex house for years, with the front jacked up and the front wheels removed to stop it being swooped I presume . I passed that car Lots in the late 90s.
They were set to buy my 68 2 seater S 1 E Type for the show, but Bernie didn't get up to see it fast enough, it was way way better than the tosh cars that they featured. To pay 12 Grand lol , for a Series 2 Two Plus 2 , Auto , left hooker And with a ruddy glass sunroof ..... And then Colour change it...to Lip Gloss Red, yee gods , the Kiss of Death !
That Willow Green late series 1 two plus two Auto E Type, used to sit rotting in the front garden of an empty essex house for years, with the front jacked up and the front wheels removed to stop it being swooped I presume . I passed that car Lots in the late 90s.
cahami said:
What a load of piss boiling bks that was, Feel really sorry for the person that wins that car especially if they have to meet the ace mechanic aswell.
Couldn't agree more ... made my blood boil."New" parts such as shocks and brake discs salvaged from a junkyard and all major mechanical components remained in place while the body was treated to a full bare-metal respray and new trim. Car bought for 12k, £6.5k and four weeks (!) allocated to the "restoration" by these cowboys. I do pity the new owner - the finished car looked OK on the surface but goodness knows what horrors were lurking under the surface.
XJ13 said:
cahami said:
What a load of piss boiling bks that was, Feel really sorry for the person that wins that car especially if they have to meet the ace mechanic aswell.
Couldn't agree more ... made my blood boil."New" parts such as shocks and brake discs salvaged from a junkyard and all major mechanical components remained in place while the body was treated to a full bare-metal respray and new trim. Car bought for 12k, £6.5k and four weeks (!) allocated to the "restoration" by these cowboys. I do pity the new owner - the finished car looked OK on the surface but goodness knows what horrors were lurking under the surface.
This type of programme should not be made. Found myself cursing at the appauling presenters and the TV[!] in utter shock at what they were doing to the E-Type. Boiling blood? Everything was boiling. The poor soul who wins this car will not have a £30K E-Type, they'll have a car that needs another £15k+ just to put partially right.
Dylan Miles http://www.rmauctions.com/specialists-bio.cfm?name... of RM Aucions wouldn't know a decent car if it hit him head-on. Arriving on screen without a moments look underneath the car. I strongly suggest he leaves his suede loafers in the office, dons' a pair of overalls, and gets the car up in the air.
I did have some sympathy with the paint shop lad. Excluding the copious amounts of filler it appeared he did a reasonable respray. Though next time he should learn how to 'lead-in' the bonnet nose.
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