"Classic Car Rescue" Channel 5 on Mon 24th Sep 20:00

[quiraing]

Anyone know what year / type of Caddy is on tomorrow?

[Liquid Knight]

quiraing said:

Anyone know what year / type of Caddy is on tomorrow?

Looks like a 50's model.



They paid $4.20 for it and gave it a quick T-Cut.

[hedgefinder]

thats a '54.

[Liquid Knight]

hedgefinder said:

thats a '54.

..and a 53 with bits of 55 and Corvette probably.

[radlet6]

Didn't Johnny Cash write a song about this one?

All together now......

It's a 51, 52, 53, 54...... ..

[Liquid Knight]

I'm surprised they haven't painted it pink and said it used to belong to Elvis.

[e21Mark]

So what's this weeks elusive part going to be then? I'll put dibs on the front bumper.

[JCW]

Whitewall tyres...

Run flats mind, not radials.

[nicanary]

e21Mark said:

So what's this weeks elusive part going to be then? I'll put dibs on the front bumper.

Them bumpers iz called bullets, coz they're called ahter Katie Price. Nah therz notalot o' peeple know that.

(Wonder if they'll work out where the filler cap is?)

[hedgefinder]

Bernies mastery of the electrical arts will no doubt come in useful when ensuring that the autronic eye and self seek radio are all in working order...

[williamp]

here we go...

[93Jay]

His collection WOW

[AndyLeysh]

Wow! the farmer had a really nice tripod in his barn, should have bought that instead...

[nicanary]

nicanary said:

Them bumpers iz called bullets, coz they're called ahter Katie Price. Nah therz notalot o' peeple know that.

(Wonder if they'll work out where the filler cap is?)

They were lucky - the rear light fitting was missing. the cap was visible.

All the usual CCR cliches, now there's smoke out of the exhausts like a destroyer's smokescreen.

[dockertrigger]

"Bernie is the electrics genius" yet he had to get a expert in to rewire the MGB's headlight a few weeks back.

[nicanary]

They're talking about "tranny fluid" - I went to a "special" club once and got some on my kecks. Pile of bother trying to explain that to the missus.

[nicanary]

That meeting with hard man Rocco to buy the rear bumper was the worst acting yet.

Front seats not fitted properly so the trim didn't align, and the worst panel fit since BL in the days of Red Robbo. Take a dekko at the bonnet/scuttle fit, and the passenger door/front wing.

Why restore it in a colour which was not period to that model?

[digger the goat]

Art Deco chrome....
On a 54 car !?

[Flares&Chestwig]

Paint finish was better than the Mustang, although its a real art to get an orange peel finish when using metallic

[quiraing]

digger the goat said:

Art Deco chrome....
On a 54 car !?

I noticed that too. Thought Art Deco was 1930s but am no art / design expert. Sounds good to say on a car prog tho, makes people think you know what you're talking abaaaaaht. Luvvvverly.