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[lawrie124]

Didin't see the first one, but this weeks Porsche wasn't TOO bad.

Best quality piece of work was painting the brake callipers with a brush while they were still on the car!

[afrance94]

really hope channel 5 gets fitfh gear back, this classic car restoration is unter sh*te am only 18 but even i know its rubbush, with the roof on the porsche shouldnt you try panle beat it back as close to the original shape as you can without using 1" thick load of bodge, hope they do the mini propily (dont think they will tho) seen so many mini bodged sadly by garages.

[charie t]

morris minor, rare as hens teeth?

[JustSteve]

morris minor, rare as hens teeth?

Split screens are pretty rare

But yea, not really rare. I think there were atleast 3 in that 'yard'

[the boy howard]

Should have painted that Porsche in silver, the orange just want quite right i reckon.

[mab01uk]

This excellent review was posted on Pistonheads!

benjj said:
I see everyone has had a right good go at panning this show. I decided to invest an hour of my time last night to give it a fair chance. I watched every minute of it. So, I'll feel completely within my rights to comment too...

The presenters:

What in the name of holy fk are these two clowns doing on TV? Several years ago I got food poisoning after a curry in Manchester. The pints of fetid yellow water that I passed during that horrific night had more talent than these two absolute wasters. The fat cockney bald one was like a Lock Stock reject, the red lipped North American joker would be more at home eating aerosol cheese than presenting a 'factual' car programme.

The car:

Who in their right mind would buy a knackered 2+2 Auto? I'll tell you who; a complete fking .

The 'restoration':

AAAAAARRRRRRGH. BODGE BODGE BODGE. Absolute st.

My 4 year old daughter brought home some of her school artwork yesterday. We all smiled and told her how great it was but we all recognised just how talentless she is with a paint brush. That was until I saw the masking and overspray on the Jag. THE TYRES WERE RED YOU fkING RETARDS. fking cobblers.

Cut to bald parading around some East End slum like he is a low budget Don Corleone. Cut to the 'old mucker' who has a crate full of old E-Type parts readily available for a 'hand'. Cut to the rubber lipped yank making some urgent phonecall. Lets just hope it was to his agent asking for a one way ticket to Kabul to perform a stage version of that Danish cartoonists life work. £6.5k budget for paint, bodywork, 6 full time mechanics etc. I absolutely pissed myself laughing when the costs were given at the end. It was just lies. They had obviously spent way more than they suggested and, guess what, the car was still absolutely st at the end of it. I wouldn't let these two spastic oafs near my lawnmower, let alone an actual car.

Misc other grumbles:

The narrator was a daft , error after error.

The editing was horrible, shots grafted together backwards and forwards in time.

The RM bloke doing the valuation must have been concussed at time of filming, what a dribbling snatch.

In summary: the very worst car show I have ever watched, and that inclused all the American yee-hawing st that they put on Discovery Turbo at 3am on a Wednesday.


I must commend your full and fair review of said programme. Ever thought of doing reviews full-time?
http://www.pistonhea...Sep 20:00&mid=0

Edited by mab01uk, 03 October 2012 - 11:00 PM.

[Simont]

So, tonight with an MGB gt
they jack it up, and the rear Springs happen to fall off
did anyone else see the clean cuts where they should attach to the spring hangers,
they botch cars worse than wheeler dealers,

[myredmini]

This programme is terrible.

On the other hand. I do like wheeler dealers!

[Cerberus]

Almost makes you wonder if they buy two cars, one scrapper that they do all the stupid scripted rubbish on, like the rear end falling off, and painting it like a 2 year old (that's probably not fair on most 2 year olds though ), and then the other car which they actually restore.

Someone on Pistonheads found a build thread for that Porsche, it was in much better condition before these monkeys went to look at it.


Really hope they don't do a mini, it'll just be a rust death-trap covered in filler, which they seem to love.

[myredmini]

Im sure they do a mini

[miniyellowmini]

They do a Mini Cooper in a few weeks time

[Thorpsta]

There was a blue mini in the background, I can't wait so I can sit at the tv going wrong! wrong! wrong! while everyone looks at me thinking I'm delusional

[Simont]

Just checked dvla,
they have resprayed the cars other colours, and they havent upgraded the V5 to match

[Midas Mk1]

Watched the previous weeks last friday, laughed so much when they were using grinding discs to remove paint, not even using flap discs or a DA!
Nearly spat my drink out with laughter too when I saw the Yank touching up the paintwork with a massive brush, then painting the callipers like a nursery child.....

[Ryang556]

I like the part where it tells the 'audience' what they have to do.

'remove corroded metal'

I'm sorry but who do they think are watching this, 10 year olds..?