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[Steamer]

Evercross said:

Driver101 said:

The Porsche 911 has just popped up for sale after years of no MOT.

https://www.northway.co.uk/used/porsche/993/targa/...

Is the stupid price to reflect a premium for the birdst on the front bumper?

I remember that episode - didn't they replace all the shocks too?

Looks pretty tidy, and don't think its a crazy price (colour does nothing for me though)

[wildone63]

I was wondering if they film the scenes of Mike buying different cars in the same general area on the same day then later adding these scenes to different episodes?.
The scene with Mike on his way to buy the £100 scrapper from the young woman and the scene of his test drive in the Rover P4 that was in a later episode are only a couple of miles from each other and near where I live.

[Mark A S]

wildone63 said:

I was wondering if they film the scenes of Mike buying different cars in the same general area on the same day then later adding these scenes to different episodes?.
The scene with Mike on his way to buy the £100 scrapper from the young woman and the scene of his test drive in the Rover P4 that was in a later episode are only a couple of miles from each other and near where I live.

Durham area then

[Driver101]

Steamer said:

Evercross said:

Driver101 said:

The Porsche 911 has just popped up for sale after years of no MOT.

https://www.northway.co.uk/used/porsche/993/targa/...

Is the stupid price to reflect a premium for the birdst on the front bumper?

I remember that episode - didn't they replace all the shocks too?

Looks pretty tidy, and don't think its a crazy price (colour does nothing for me though)

They spent a few grand on custom made shocks. It was a few years ago so the car might not be the same.

The car never had an MOT for years and the garage says the paint needs work. Photos don't always tell the story.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

Driver101 said:

They spent a few grand on custom made shocks. It was a few years ago so the car might not be the same.

The car never had an MOT for years and the garage says the paint needs work. Photos don't always tell the story.

Yes, that was an odd episode. They took a very tired and unloved Targa with a glass roof - possibly one of the least track-focussed variants of the 911 - and lavished it with some insanely expensive custom-made coilovers and then took it out on track. I never could understand the rationale behind that, other than the fact that it allowed them to do a segment on the building of the custom coilovers.

[Patch1875]

You would think with all his experience he would learn not to buy the first thing he sees.

[Fonzey]

Golf episode was a bit meh. Hardly ambitious to trade up to a £7k Golf.

Can't help thinking this format would have worked better with a decent dream car (something in the £70-£100k bracket) but stretch it out over a full season, and make sure the full CarSOS sob story is thrown in to justify granting it to the dreamer in question.

Agree with the comments above that I would have been a bit disappointed with the Skyline, along the lines of Tiger Woods' Escalade prize I think.

[Shakermaker]

It does explain more likely why my "dream car" wasn't picked given the price was in the £50k area, with everything they have being less than half that

[raceboy]

I just don't quite get how the 'trader upper' manages their new set of bills.
A few of them haven't looked that flush, and in order to be worthy of the programme you need a bit of a sob story, so after the free car upgrade they have more expensive VED, Insurance, and all round running costs.
Good luck to the lad upgrading the MX5 to a Skyline with Insurance, the bloke getting the Cerbera is going need a few more ££'s to run it than the Pick up truck, they have the potential to throw some surprisingly large bills up if you need discs and pads at it's first service. The Golf wouldn't be too bad but again a modified GTi is going to be a load more to insure and fuel than a base Fiesta and I hope there's no speed bumps near her school.

[mattknight1984]

A quick car check showed the gti as red - but it was silver on the program?

[BossHogg]

Unless she's retained the plate and put it on her replacement car.

[anonymous-user]

BossHogg said:

Unless she's retained the plate and put it on her replacement car.

I did think it was odd that the car was sold with the plate on it

[Mcphisto]

mattknight1984 said:

A quick car check showed the gti as red - but it was silver on the program?

I thought I saw over spray on the left of the lip spoiler

[rwindmill]

I dont know if any one else does this, but when watching old episodes of WD these days, i put the cars registration into the government MOT checker website.

I have been really surprised just how many of the cars that MB claims are 'one of the best in the country' are no longer on the road.

I appreciate that some of the cars may go into storage, but that cant be the case for all of them.

The M3, M5 840i coupe, Subarau Impreza, VW campervan that they did the hideous wrap on all have expried MOT's, and have for some time.

From what i remember, the 840i lasted about a year after the 'restoration' was done.

[P1ato]

The porsche targa had hard back sport seats on the WD episode, and its original targa wheels were refurbished.
Both of those items seem to have gone now...

[MG511]

rwindmill said:

From what i remember, the 840i lasted about a year after the 'restoration' was done.

The 840i went to a buyer in Ireland so that would explain it.

[sgtBerbatov]

rwindmill said:

I dont know if any one else does this, but when watching old episodes of WD these days, i put the cars registration into the government MOT checker website.

I have been really surprised just how many of the cars that MB claims are 'one of the best in the country' are no longer on the road.

I appreciate that some of the cars may go into storage, but that cant be the case for all of them.

The M3, M5 840i coupe, Subarau Impreza, VW campervan that they did the hideous wrap on all have expried MOT's, and have for some time.

From what i remember, the 840i lasted about a year after the 'restoration' was done.

They're never true restorations, and it's never been sold as that.

They pick the cheapest, rough version they can and sort the basics of the car out and polish it a bit in a bid to make money from it. Whether the car lasts after they sell it is more down to how they're looked after rather than the work done by the show.

I feel dirty for defending Brewer now, thanks for that.

[Speed 3]

sgtBerbatov said:

I feel dirty for defending Brewer now, thanks for that.

Here you go pal

[P-Jay]

rwindmill said:

I dont know if any one else does this, but when watching old episodes of WD these days, i put the cars registration into the government MOT checker website.

I have been really surprised just how many of the cars that MB claims are 'one of the best in the country' are no longer on the road.

I appreciate that some of the cars may go into storage, but that cant be the case for all of them.

The M3, M5 840i coupe, Subarau Impreza, VW campervan that they did the hideous wrap on all have expried MOT's, and have for some time.

From what i remember, the 840i lasted about a year after the 'restoration' was done.

One of the first episodes was a Mk1 Golf GTI, it turned up on eBay as a rusty rough stripped shell a few years ago, I was surprised but if you consider almost as much time has passed since WDers got their hands on it, than had passed between it being first made and it getting to them, it's not really surprising.

In their defence they've no control over what happens to them post-filming. That wrapped Van was done in 2005, so if it still exists it's a 31 year old Van that had a mild resto 15 years ago. The M3 was 11 years ago the the Impreza 10

That 840i was done when they were probably at their cheapest - a massively complex car with rare, expensive and hard to find parts worth £5k (when they sold it) any number of things could have ended its days.

[AlexRS2782]

On the subject of WD - Quest have started running promo stings for the Freeview airing of the first post Ed series with Ant Anstead. Appears to be in a few weeks time / by the end of February.

So if you haven't got Sky, Virgin, etc, you'll finally get the joy of an EsCos with the extra rear wing extension

Edit - Starts Thursday 20th February.

Edited by AlexRS2782 on Saturday 8th February 00:16