Car SOS

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Dewi-asl8m

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60 posts

76 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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I am addicted to this program and watched a couple of episodes last with the AM DB6 and Jaguar Mark 2. I have always wondered though, are these people allowed to sell these cars once they have been completed. Especially with the Aston Martin DB6 value being well in to 6 digits

vixen1700

22,669 posts

269 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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If I remember rightly, it was mentioned on here that the Scottish bloke with the DB6 sold it more or less straight away.

Don't know if it's true, but just something i sort of remember reading,

MaisiesDad

50 posts

110 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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It’s totally spoiled it for me. Million pound properties, working in Singapore etc etc... no disrespect but they can afford to restore their own cars. More deserving people out there who genuinely need the help to finish the car. Not just a free meal ticket to a very valuable car to sell on.

davidc1

1,544 posts

161 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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Normally the chap they restore for is very unwell. Db6 man however... they dropped the ball on that one , blinded by the lure of doing the car...

4rephill

5,040 posts

177 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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MaisiesDad said:
It’s totally spoiled it for me. Million pound properties, working in Singapore etc etc... no disrespect but they can afford to restore their own cars. More deserving people out there who genuinely need the help to finish the car. Not just a free meal ticket to a very valuable car to sell on.
I watched the Aston Martin episode and something just didn't ring true about it.

I didn't buy the "emotional attachment" to the car aspect of the show, and it struck Me as a bit odd that the guy was supposed to be in agonising pain and discomfort for so much of the time, but was still able to travel the World working on construction projects.

Then, at the end of the programme when he was told that the car he was looking at was really his own car, it seemed as though he was expecting it and wasn't surprised or overjoyed at all - It was like: "Yeah, cheers for that", as though he was simply picking his car up from having some minor service work carried out.

I was left thinking that it was either a set up that everyone, including Tim Shaw, Fuzz and the owner was in on, or Tim, Fuzz and the entire production team got played by the owner and his wife to get the car restored on the cheap in order to sell it.

Whatever the truth is, something definitely wasn't right about that episode!





jamieandthemagic

619 posts

191 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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MaisiesDad said:
It’s totally spoiled it for me. Million pound properties, working in Singapore etc etc... no disrespect but they can afford to restore their own cars. More deserving people out there who genuinely need the help to finish the car. Not just a free meal ticket to a very valuable car to sell on.
Agree completely.
Would rather they do 3-4 more programmes for the time and money they spent on that episode too.

TR4man

5,207 posts

173 months

Thursday 8th February 2018
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I'm glad I wasn't the only one dubious about the DB6 episode.

I'm sure that there were a lot more deserving cases and the owner didn't seem that bothered about the car, nor did he seem particularly incapacitated by his illness.

My wife said it was because I was just jealous and she may be right.

steely dan

237 posts

192 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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I haven't seen that particular episode but I think the whole ethos of the programme is questionable now . The big silly schoolboy presenter 's face is too well known now to believe that the recipient is completely unaware of what is happening and the format is just repetitive " Ooo lovely car , Ooo it's worse than we thought , Ooo we'll never do it , Ooo look how good it's turned out , High five ...........
Fuzz should have his own programme on the interesting cars in the background of the workshop.

lowdrag

12,869 posts

212 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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C'mon fellahs, it's cheap reality TV and anyone who believes they do it all in three weeks is delusional. It may be better than some, or most of the others but it is still just another programme. I haven't seen this one but even the wreck of a DB6 must be into six figures now and they shouldn't have gone for it, as you all say.

rene7

535 posts

82 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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A sad Program that gives the impression that anyone with a box 'o spanners could do it too.
Still its a zillion times better than eastenders or coronation st. At least each episode has a different car, unlike the soaps which are continuous re-runs of last week/month/years episodesmile

cjb44

671 posts

117 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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rene7 said:
A sad Program that gives the impression that anyone with a box 'o spanners could do it too.
Still its a zillion times better than eastenders or coronation st. At least each episode has a different car, unlike the soaps which are continuous re-runs of last week/month/years episodesmile
Yes I believe that most of us with any sense would agree, bring back Edd China but definitely not that idiot Brewer or Ant Anstead who is just pretentious, some of the cars he (supposedly) did on, "saving cars" was it, came up to Suffolk to be repaired!

roscobbc

3,306 posts

241 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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To put things all in reality we should have a series of follow-up shows a year or two later titled 'Car SOS Re-Visited' - no, it would never happen. And if the work done by this show on my buddies car was anything to go by a 're-visited' show would never be allowed to happen. Here is a warning for you all - when the cars are 'taken' for restoration the relative allowing this to happen is required to sign a 'disclaimer' - effectively allowing them to do what they what to the vehicle - and they do, with no comeback..........

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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roscobbc said:
To put things all in reality we should have a series of follow-up shows a year or two later titled 'Car SOS Re-Visited' - no, it would never happen. And if the work done by this show on my buddies car was anything to go by a 're-visited' show would never be allowed to happen. Here is a warning for you all - when the cars are 'taken' for restoration the relative allowing this to happen is required to sign a 'disclaimer' - effectively allowing them to do what they what to the vehicle - and they do, with no comeback..........
Series 4 episode 10 they revisited some of the old cars

What was your buddies car ?

williamp

19,213 posts

272 months

Friday 9th February 2018
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Remember "For the love of cars" which had an Aston DBS on it which sold for a record breaking £173,400 at auction. When it was resold at auction later on, the blurb said:

"...Although the DBS looked stunning, he felt that a marque specialist with proven experience of the model could improve it still further and so instructed Oselli to work their magic. Some £78,000 later, the Aston Martin has been debugged and fine-tuned to the seller's satisfaction!..."

Its ben resold at auction since then.

Ouch

Mr Tidy

22,065 posts

126 months

Saturday 10th February 2018
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Brewer seems to be a total kn*b-head IMO!

"Old out yer 'and" - !

So annoying! banghead




Plinth

713 posts

87 months

Saturday 10th February 2018
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williamp said:
Remember "For the love of cars" which had an Aston DBS on it which sold for a record breaking £173,400 at auction. When it was resold at auction later on, the blurb said:

"...Although the DBS looked stunning, he felt that a marque specialist with proven experience of the model could improve it still further and so instructed Oselli to work their magic. Some £78,000 later, the Aston Martin has been debugged and fine-tuned to the seller's satisfaction!..."

Its ben resold at auction since then.

Ouch
I remember that one - not a record price for a DBS, though.
Bonhams sold one previously...

2014 Aston Martin Works Sale:
"Roger Moore's 'The Persuaders!' Aston Martin DBS sets world record for DBS sold at auction, selling for £533,500"



Doofus

25,732 posts

172 months

Saturday 10th February 2018
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Mr Tidy said:
Brewer seems to be a total kn*b-head IMO!

"Old out yer 'and" - !

So annoying! banghead
Just think how much worse it would be if he was in Car SOS!

gareth_r

5,712 posts

236 months

Saturday 10th February 2018
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New series 8th of March on Nat Geo (according to Virgin).

First four cars - MGA, Integrale, Karmann Ghia, 205 GTi


Jim the Sunderer

3,238 posts

181 months

Sunday 11th February 2018
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MaisiesDad said:
It’s totally spoiled it for me. Million pound properties, working in Singapore etc etc... no disrespect but they can afford to restore their own cars. More deserving people out there who genuinely need the help to finish the car. Not just a free meal ticket to a very valuable car to sell on.
They can fix my Jag if they'd like, I'm skint but without the face or charisma for telly.

I've got a sob story about my nan missing Coronation Street in 1983 if that helps.

liner33

10,642 posts

201 months

Sunday 11th February 2018
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Jim the Sunderer said:
They can fix my Jag if they'd like, I'm skint but without the face or charisma for telly.

I've got a sob story about my nan missing Coronation Street in 1983 if that helps.
I'll write in for you , can you put on a limp if required ?