Car SOS - how good are their restorations?
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wow....youre really good at this. I cower in your reflected glory.
For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
I still enjoy this show, but I've recently ended up either muting or fast-forwarding through Tim's supposedly amusing skits. For instance, if you work on the basis of the current season being repeated on More4, dressing up in military fatigues & night vision goggles and undertaking a smoke bomb exercise to sneak some alloys into the refurbisher, rocking up at Rimstock and blagging a free set of wheels for a Caterham off Matt Neal, turning up unannounced at a pub that just happens to have all the important people from the Dino club having a meeting, etc.
I'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
I'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 5th March 22:06
Unfortunately it's the production companies that dictate the formats. This is why Edd China left Wheeler Dealers and why the likes of Ant Anstead, who not averse to taking credit for other people's work, stepped into his shoes.
You can see there style over content priorities in Godawful Worst Garage too. Beards, a bit of totty, some arty grinding shots with sparks and there you have it.
You can see there style over content priorities in Godawful Worst Garage too. Beards, a bit of totty, some arty grinding shots with sparks and there you have it.
e30m3Mark said:
Unfortunately it's the production companies that dictate the formats. This is why Edd China left Wheeler Dealers and why the likes of Ant Anstead, who not averse to taking credit for other people's work, stepped into his shoes.
You can see there style over content priorities in Godawful Worst Garage too. Beards, a bit of totty, some arty grinding shots with sparks and there you have it.
Judging by tbe actual footage Ant is more hands on than China.At least he gets his hands dirtyYou can see there style over content priorities in Godawful Worst Garage too. Beards, a bit of totty, some arty grinding shots with sparks and there you have it.
I spent a day at Bruntingthorpe watching the filming (to write a feature about it )and friends were at the Shelsley Walsh reveal. Obviously we didn't forensically track every move Fuzz and Tim made but from talking to them and their team there was nothing to suggest it wasn't exactly as you saw. In the flesh they are very likeable guys , utterly straightforward and utterly lacking any pretence. They endeared themselves to everyone.
Programme is fine , not really my sort of thing at all as nearly all TV car stuff is to a similar format but I won't deny the back story of the Seven piece was actually very moving. Might have been better to take the engine to DVA in the first place (noticed the logo) rather than Dartford - and who'd have thought it - duff oil pressure reading ....
Programme is fine , not really my sort of thing at all as nearly all TV car stuff is to a similar format but I won't deny the back story of the Seven piece was actually very moving. Might have been better to take the engine to DVA in the first place (noticed the logo) rather than Dartford - and who'd have thought it - duff oil pressure reading ....
zeb said:
wow....youre really good at this. I cower in your reflected glory.
For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
To be fair, it is exactly how he portrayed it. For the sake of clarity, what if any, motoring programmes do you actually like ?
Be handy to know why too. I like old wayne on chasing classic cars and the jay leno series too....
see...having endured that god awful goblin stuff, SOS comes across a lot better, and not as you portrayed it.
Two grown men noncing about to a low functioner’s script where every week they s
t their pants repeatedly over completely fabricated devastating crises that are going to kill everyone. They might as well stick them in dresses. The modern TV format of everything needing to be a crisis like a bunch of theatre lovies on a day trip is just grating.
And it is further irritating because the two actors aren’t remotely like that but working to a script and instructions. Which means the people making the show believe quite firmly that you the viewer are a low functioner who gets a boner from fabricated drama. Exactly like that Essex and Chelsea stuff.
AlexRS2782 said:
I still enjoy this show, but I've recently ended up either muting or fast-forwarding through Tim's supposedly amusing skits. For instance, if you work on the basis of the current season being repeated on More4, dressing up in military fatigues & night vision goggles and undertaking a smoke bomb exercise to sneak some alloys into the refurbisher, rocking up at Rimstock and blagging a free set of wheels for a Caterham off Matt Neal, turning up unannounced at a pub that just happens to have all the important people from the Dino club having a meeting, etc.
I'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
Exactly. Two blokes who are good at their job, collect a car, fix it and return it. No one sI'm not sure whether it was this thread, or another one, but I think someone said he'd figured out the show now has roughly 15 to 20 minutes max of actual car related content, and the rest of the hour is filled with Tim wanging on, 10-12 minutes of advertising space, and at least 3 minutes worth of just back from the advertising break recaps.
I just wish they'd tone down on Tim's faked skits and stop with the "the team worked all through the night and only just finished it with hours to spare in advance of the handover the next day" fake jeopardy. Especially when in some episodes you can see the other cars from the same series peeking out from behind covers in the background / up on the ramps and also in cases where the handover of the car is done miles away from the workshop, so if they've worked on the car all night, they'd have failed to get it to the handover in time.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Monday 5th March 22:06
ts their pants, no one runs around like a mincing queen, no one fannies about with staged off site scenes that only a vegetable would think entertaining. They are likeable people who are good at what they do. Just why they then have to ruin it with all that tripe is depressing.
Ironically, if the two lead actors were ladies we would get that exact show as they have to all act like Fed Dibnah these days while all blokes have to behave like dear old Biggins at Christmas time.
I guess they have to appeal to a wide audience where, in the main, people are more interested in the back story and faux jeopardy, than actual mechanics etc? I can forgive Car SOS but Godawful Worst Garage tell blatant lies and I found them deliberately misleading. Their social media pages must have someone employed full time to delete negative comments and block those making them. You'd think it was more popular than Top Gear at its heyday by what's left.
AlexRS2782 said:
rocking up at Rimstock and blagging a free set of wheels for a Caterham off Matt Neal
That was a bit weird in the Caterham episode last night, just from a continuity point of view, because he said "nice to meet you", except that he's already me him in another episode where he was blagging some free wheels a few weeks ago.waynecyclist said:
Just been watching the Caterham episode, was that really the same car at the end, looked very different
That was probably because all the outer panels were replaced, with the current ones modified to fit the older chassis. In one of the rare interesting bits, they showed the Caterham bodyshop people customising and fitting new alloy panels to their chassis.They did make a big thing about how they couldn't replace the engine and chassis without the car losing its identity (from a DVLA point of view) so I think all the changes were cosmetic. Bloke didn't recognise it either, other than the gear knob.
I really enjoyed the Caterham episode, with a deserving recipient at the end too.
I wasn't sure why they replaced the wheels rather than refurbishing the originals, and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red, but it did have me looking in the classified for one and the owner, his wife, and daughter all looks suitable chuffed.
I wasn't sure why they replaced the wheels rather than refurbishing the originals, and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red, but it did have me looking in the classified for one and the owner, his wife, and daughter all looks suitable chuffed.
The Surveyor said:
I really enjoyed the Caterham episode, with a deserving recipient at the end too.
I wasn't sure why they replaced the wheels rather than refurbishing the originals, and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red, but it did have me looking in the classified for one and the owner, his wife, and daughter all looks suitable chuffed.
Likewise, also thought it was a good one. The car did look completely different but I suppose that is one of the appeals of the Caterham in how easy it is to change things. Shame they didn't show much of the chassis repair, but I see how it needs to appeal to a wide range of viewers which a few minutes of welding metal may not! I wasn't sure why they replaced the wheels rather than refurbishing the originals, and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red, but it did have me looking in the classified for one and the owner, his wife, and daughter all looks suitable chuffed.
waynecyclist said:
Stupid question time 
Just been watching the Caterham episode, was that really the same car at the end, looked very different
I think so, but with every external panel changed and a different colour it looked about as different as it's possible to be with a Catherham I guess. Just been watching the Caterham episode, was that really the same car at the end, looked very different
Good episode.
The Surveyor said:
I wasn't sure why they replaced the wheels rather than refurbishing the originals, and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red, but it did have me looking in the classified for one and the owner, his wife, and daughter all looks suitable chuffed.
I thought it was a chance to get Matt Neal / Rimstock on screen for a bit, I don't mind, they must spend a fortune on the cars so a bit of sponsorship isn't a bad thing. The Surveyor said:
and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red
There was some mention in the beginning about the colour as they were loading it on to the trailer, but I was skipping through stuff so I don't know what was said. There was also mention that the blue was the chaps favourite colour and everyone seemed happy with the end result, so it couldn't have been "don't change the colour, whatever you do". droopsnoot said:
The Surveyor said:
and for me it should have been repainted in the original green and red
There was some mention in the beginning about the colour as they were loading it on to the trailer, but I was skipping through stuff so I don't know what was said. There was also mention that the blue was the chaps favourite colour and everyone seemed happy with the end result, so it couldn't have been "don't change the colour, whatever you do". The Surveyor said:
His wife had said that blue was his favourite colour and it did look fabulous in the end so my comment wasn't a dig, it was just that if that was my car, I'd have liked to have been involved with such a big decision.
Me too - I'd be very angry if anyone changed the colour of my car, however kind they thought they were being. That's mainly because they were only made in one colour. I had thought it was perhaps more than that - I have a favourite colour, but neither of my cars are painted in it, and I wouldn't want them to be.On that note, is anyone else starting to mention key things like that to their family and close friends, just in case? "I had this awful nightmare last night dear, someone had rebuilt my car thinking they were doing me a good turn but made loads of little niggling changes. You'd never betray me like that, would you?" kind of thing.
Must admit I do like Car SOS, and even Tim has grown on me to the point that he doesn't annoy me any more. 
Looking forward to the new series this week.
Recorded (nearly typed taped) an old episode this week with the Traction Avant and it drove me mad at the end that they'd put a Slough built car chrome grille on a Paris built car that should have had a black grille. 
Looking forward to the new series this week.
Recorded (nearly typed taped
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