Bangla Bangers
Discussion
I watched this at 10:00pm last night on the Discovery Channel. It was a good program to watch and was quite an eye opener in how things are done in Bangalore. The Bernie chap can swear a bit, but so would I in his shoes, I think. Did Leepu (the car designer) really put 6" wheel extentions on, all around the car ? Anybody else watch it ?
Here's the blurb from here :- www.discoverychannel.co.uk/ontv_highlights/promo4/
Maverick Bangladeshi car designer Leepu Nizamuddin Awila is the developing world’s answer to Enzo Ferrari. He takes old heaps and turns them into the ultimate supercar with nothing but sheet metal, hammers and a Bangladeshi wind tunnel! No good at fixing the actual mechanics of a vehicle, Leepu can only create a car that looks the business. So he has invited no-nonsense cockney car mechanic Bernie Fineman to his backstreet workshop to make something that also drives like a supercar. Together, they plan to turn a clapped out 30 year old Toyota Sprinter into a vehicle worthy of opening the Bangladeshi International Car Show, in just one month!
Bernie throws himself into the challenge, testing an engine on a crowded Dhaka pavement before delivering it back to Leepu by rickshaw, while Leepu’s chaotic design process sets fire to a half-built car and nearly blows up the street. Inevitably, designer and mechanic soon clash when Leepu’s insistence on a low slung look plays havoc with Bernie’s suspension during a test drive. After the fireworks the duo resolve to work together to finish the car. But will they make it to the show on time?
Here's the blurb from here :- www.discoverychannel.co.uk/ontv_highlights/promo4/
Maverick Bangladeshi car designer Leepu Nizamuddin Awila is the developing world’s answer to Enzo Ferrari. He takes old heaps and turns them into the ultimate supercar with nothing but sheet metal, hammers and a Bangladeshi wind tunnel! No good at fixing the actual mechanics of a vehicle, Leepu can only create a car that looks the business. So he has invited no-nonsense cockney car mechanic Bernie Fineman to his backstreet workshop to make something that also drives like a supercar. Together, they plan to turn a clapped out 30 year old Toyota Sprinter into a vehicle worthy of opening the Bangladeshi International Car Show, in just one month!
Bernie throws himself into the challenge, testing an engine on a crowded Dhaka pavement before delivering it back to Leepu by rickshaw, while Leepu’s chaotic design process sets fire to a half-built car and nearly blows up the street. Inevitably, designer and mechanic soon clash when Leepu’s insistence on a low slung look plays havoc with Bernie’s suspension during a test drive. After the fireworks the duo resolve to work together to finish the car. But will they make it to the show on time?
minimax said:
is this the subject of that peugeot 206 advert a few years ago? the one where they fashion a knackered old car in to one that looks a bit like a 206 then go cruising..?
May be related - but the stuff this guy came up with turned the worst banger you've ever seen into the most stunning ferrari-esque kit car imaginable.
The show made my jaw drop
I found BB (and the follow up series Chop Shop) a bit disappointing... At about the halfway point, when the car is half finished and they take it out for a spin, you start to get the feeling that it really could look brilliant... a little thing here, something there, and it would look amazing. And then they take it away again and it comes out for the final reveal and it looks hideous. Every time without fail. The Bangla Bangers one was by far the best looking, Chop Shop cars were fabulously ugly.
Hmmm... no idea what he's gonna do with this.
Heyyy... that actually might not be bad... with the right headlights and a couple of smoothing tweaks and so on... blimey he might actually do it
Ermmm
edit: The test drive of the half-done car is always the best bit. The two of them sat in the car, with no glass and no sound deadening and (normally) no seats either, ragging the b
ks out of it while screaming the entire time, is absolutely classic.
Hmmm... no idea what he's gonna do with this.
Heyyy... that actually might not be bad... with the right headlights and a couple of smoothing tweaks and so on... blimey he might actually do it
Ermmm
edit: The test drive of the half-done car is always the best bit. The two of them sat in the car, with no glass and no sound deadening and (normally) no seats either, ragging the b
ks out of it while screaming the entire time, is absolutely classic.Edited by OwenK on Monday 31st March 00:03
Liszt said:
There was *a lot* missed out saw the car being primed but no real detail about paint and trim. Oh and those 6 inch wheel spacers! Yoikes!!
They do just the same trashy engineering on the show when they moved it to London! Unbelievable, and I'm sure there are people watching who think it is acceptable on real road cars.I've seen Indian mechanics at work, in India, rebuilding cars and trucks at the side of the road, after a crash. Don't even take them to a workshop, just slowly pound them straight and weld the mess up, and send the car/truck on its way.
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