Car SOS - how good are their restorations?
Discussion
Skyedriver said:
Broken pelvis isn't nice but not the most worthy cause of the series(s). But if he's suffered his daughters voice over the years then maybe....
My mum broke her pelvis a few years ago when she fell off a wall chasing a pheasant! It did take her off her feet for a long time
p.l.edmonds said:
I posted a few pages ago to say I knew one of the cars in the upcoming series - this was it (the Imp). The son and daughter-in-law are friends of ours.
Those saying the owner deserved it are spot on. And of course the timing was ideal given the pro-NHS sentiment around at the minute!
I've not seen the car myself but I'm assured that the work was all superbly done and it really looks (and is) the part. And goes pretty well (for its modest power output).
This might be the most dramatic example of 'not really worth it, financially' and it would never have been done but for Car SOS, but I know Margaret the owner was completely blown away.
I'm just 10m minutes in to this episode, and as far as I can tell she really seems a deserving recipient. Those saying the owner deserved it are spot on. And of course the timing was ideal given the pro-NHS sentiment around at the minute!
I've not seen the car myself but I'm assured that the work was all superbly done and it really looks (and is) the part. And goes pretty well (for its modest power output).
This might be the most dramatic example of 'not really worth it, financially' and it would never have been done but for Car SOS, but I know Margaret the owner was completely blown away.
james6546 said:
Skyedriver said:
Broken pelvis isn't nice but not the most worthy cause of the series(s). But if he's suffered his daughters voice over the years then maybe....
My mum broke her pelvis a few years ago when she fell off a wall chasing a pheasant! It did take her off her feet for a long time
I tend to check to see if the cars have an MOT - although being a classic they don't always need it, the imp owner and the healey owner most certainly did deserve the cars being rebuilt, the imp looks like its being used too.
I watched the R5 rebuild earlier this week and then found out it was sold at a n auction a few years later and then appeared on a youtube channel covering just 30 miles from the restoration, no idea about the owners circumstances but there should be a clause saying they must use them after being rebuilt and cannot be sold if they mean that much to the owners.
I watched the R5 rebuild earlier this week and then found out it was sold at a n auction a few years later and then appeared on a youtube channel covering just 30 miles from the restoration, no idea about the owners circumstances but there should be a clause saying they must use them after being rebuilt and cannot be sold if they mean that much to the owners.
stevemcs said:
I tend to check to see if the cars have an MOT - although being a classic they don't always need it, the imp owner and the healey owner most certainly did deserve the cars being rebuilt, the imp looks like its being used too.
I watched the R5 rebuild earlier this week and then found out it was sold at a n auction a few years later and then appeared on a youtube channel covering just 30 miles from the restoration, no idea about the owners circumstances but there should be a clause saying they must use them after being rebuilt and cannot be sold if they mean that much to the owners.
Might have died... a few seem to. One or two have died before the restoration is completed I watched the R5 rebuild earlier this week and then found out it was sold at a n auction a few years later and then appeared on a youtube channel covering just 30 miles from the restoration, no idea about the owners circumstances but there should be a clause saying they must use them after being rebuilt and cannot be sold if they mean that much to the owners.
james6546 said:
Skyedriver said:
Broken pelvis isn't nice but not the most worthy cause of the series(s). But if he's suffered his daughters voice over the years then maybe....
My mum broke her pelvis a few years ago when she fell off a wall chasing a pheasant! It did take her off her feet for a long time
Skyedriver said:
james6546 said:
Skyedriver said:
Broken pelvis isn't nice but not the most worthy cause of the series(s). But if he's suffered his daughters voice over the years then maybe....
My mum broke her pelvis a few years ago when she fell off a wall chasing a pheasant! It did take her off her feet for a long time
Mariosbt said:
Might have died... a few seem to. One or two have died before the restoration is completed
I can understand that, but the Cosworth, rs1600i never looked like they were used and neither was the R5, surely after its rebuilt you would put a few thousand miles on the clock. It seems - and I think it’s already been mentioned that most of them leave the to rot, car sos restore them and then they go back in the garage to rot again.stevemcs said:
I can understand that, but the Cosworth, rs1600i never looked like they were used and neither was the R5, surely after its rebuilt you would put a few thousand miles on the clock. It seems - and I think it’s already been mentioned that most of them leave the to rot, car sos restore them and then they go back in the garage to rot again.
I've often thought it odd that if you pull a car out of a shed/garage where it has rotted, the problem is often the storage and any restored car will still have no suitable place to park itself.. What they need is a Car SOS and a Garage SOS.
The owner of the Triumph passed away earlier this year too.
Also for those not a fan of TIm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5636811/C...
(sorry about the daily fail link)
Also for those not a fan of TIm
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5636811/C...
(sorry about the daily fail link)
Edited by stevemcs on Saturday 18th April 22:39
stevemcs said:
Tim's a bit of an infantile knob at times but his heart is definitely in the right place. The interview he did with Holocaust survivor Kitty Hart-Moxon (all seven hours of it, which he insisted was broadcast in full) was probably the turning point in his career when he decided to grow up a bit.paulw123 said:
Never understood people that are so ‘in love’ with their car that they leave it to rot in a garage.
Because they are so in love with their car, when they fall on bad times/ill health and they can’t afford or manage to repair or restore they’d prefer to store it in the faint hope that they will one day get it back to how it once was...How you can’t understand that is bizarre. It is literally the whole premise of the show. 150bhp said:
paulw123 said:
Never understood people that are so ‘in love’ with their car that they leave it to rot in a garage.
Because they are so in love with their car, when they fall on bad times/ill health and they can’t afford or manage to repair or restore they’d prefer to store it in the faint hope that they will one day get it back to how it once was...How you can’t understand that is bizarre. It is literally the whole premise of the show. Thankfully i was finally in a position to get it running again & back on the road last year which was a very happy moment as i hadn't driven it in so long. Just a shame the car's now had to be stored away again, as all my plans to get the turbo, ecu, etc, updated have been pretty much shafted as a result of the Covid situation and i can't see me being able to get anything sorted easily this year. So annoying when the car was finally running again but it is what it is.
Edited by AlexRS2782 on Wednesday 22 April 22:23
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