Car SOS - how good are their restorations?

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Shakermaker said:

Brand new, never seen before episodes are shown on National Geographic channel.

More4 gets them a year or so later I think, when they are "new" to free-to-air channels

If you've got Sky/Virgin Media or some other way of accessing Nat Geo, you'll be able to find them.

Thank you, found them. Must have been man eyes before! That's this evenings TV sorted

[Shakermaker]

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Thank you, found them. Must have been man eyes before! That's this evenings TV sorted

Also note that certainly on Sky, the episode numbers they show are not the broadcast order number, the Car SOS Facebook page has been fielding questions on this

Last night was the Fergie tractor which was the 6th episode broadcast in this current series, however the Sky planner/EPG shows it as "series 8, episode 9" - so don't think you are missing a few episodes, there are 6 so far to enjoy:

Porsche 356
Austin Healey
Lotus Esprit (which was the 3rd episode shown but says "Episode 6" on the EPG)
Hillman Imp
Lancia Fulvia
Fergie Tractor.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

Shakermaker said:

Fermit and Sexy Sarah said:

Thank you, found them. Must have been man eyes before! That's this evenings TV sorted

Also note that certainly on Sky, the episode numbers they show are not the broadcast order number, the Car SOS Facebook page has been fielding questions on this

Last night was the Fergie tractor which was the 6th episode broadcast in this current series, however the Sky planner/EPG shows it as "series 8, episode 9" - so don't think you are missing a few episodes, there are 6 so far to enjoy:

Porsche 356
Austin Healey
Lotus Esprit (which was the 3rd episode shown but says "Episode 6" on the EPG)
Hillman Imp
Lancia Fulvia
Fergie Tractor.

First three I've seen, last three not, so downloaded on Q. I was sure I'd series linked them, but obviously not!

[Skyedriver]

james6546 said:

He also didn't look surprised, or even that pleased by it. Though to be fair it looked nothing like his tractor.


Plus he only broke his pelvis...

No he didn't look surprised or that bothered. But there again it had lost any character that it had I suppose.

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....

Have wondered about a few over the years, the AC Aceca sticks in my mind as a bloke that looked to have a few quid in the bank to do the car if he had wanted.

[james6546]

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

[Halmyre]

james6546 said:

Jonny TVR said:

Because it left the factory grey

Interesting, I didn't know that. Why did so many end up with red bonnets?

I've seen quite a few like that

i've never seen a Ferguson with a red bonnet. A Massey-Ferguson, yes, although originally they were grey as well.

[james6546]

Halmyre said:

i've never seen a Ferguson with a red bonnet. A Massey-Ferguson, yes, although originally they were grey as well.

That's probably where I'm getting confused. Guess ours was a massey ferguson

[E36Ross]

A 35 would have been Red, kinda look the same as the Grey 20.

I think it was the fact it had lost its "Character" More a running/mechanical restoration would have been better but very hard to draw the line when the panels are rotten.

Either way, something different and I enjoyed it.

[Fermit and Sexy Sarah]

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.

[Skyedriver]

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 worked with a lady back in the early 80's. She asked her young son to move his dad's car. She was stood between it and the garage wall. She was off work a long time so accept it's not a pleasant injury.

[stevemcs]

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.

[Mariosbt]

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

[Fastchas]

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

Anyone else thought...’mmm...casting couch...’?

[Patch1875]

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

i worked with a lady back in the early 80's. She asked her young son to move his dad's car. She was stood between it and the garage wall. She was off work a long time so accept it's not a pleasant injury.

He has age on his side my mum broke her pelvis and never came home from hospital :-(

[stevemcs]

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.

[LuS1fer]

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.

[Pericoloso]

Mariosbt said:

Might have died... a few seem to. One or two have died before the restoration is completed

The owner of the yellow Integrale did whilst SOS had his car ,may have been more.....

[tim0409]

Pericoloso said:

Mariosbt said:

Might have died... a few seem to. One or two have died before the restoration is completed

The owner of the yellow Integrale did whilst SOS had his car ,may have been more.....

The Lotus Elise episode was particularly bleak at the end.

[stevemcs]

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)

Edited by stevemcs on Saturday 18th April 22:39

[Evercross]

stevemcs said:

Also for those not a fan of TIm

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5636811/C...

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.