Classic Car Rescue

hisroyalblueness said:
The programme is a total sham and would only ever impress kids who know nowt about what they're pretending to do.

Caught a bit of that MGB they were doing and they bought a pair of good condition matching chrome bumpers for £30 and a pair of chrome bullet mirror for £3 from an MGB used parts specialist - absolute fantasy that you could purchase kit like that for the prices they supposedly pay . . embarrassingly unrealistic.
As for preparing car body's for bare metal respray by grinding them all over with angle grinders - well I'm not saying it couldn't be done but it would only ever be done by a cowboy - any professional would simply get the shell blasted (sand or more often baking soda nowadays) because grinders could only ever cause damage to the good metal and leave flat runs that would need taking out.

Funniest of all is that their cost figures are skewed because they don't include for overheads (premises costs, depreciation, business rates, wages, taxation etc.) and the posing wanker who values the vehicles doesn't even examine them . . in the real world the fact is that they would lose money hand over fist.
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they used a grinder?
 
I quite enjoyed classic car rescue about the mg but it was a bit fantasy i prefer Wheeler Dealers a lot better a bit more realistic
 
Even though the chrome bumpers look better than the black they weren't putting it back to its original spec. doesn't that devalue it, I thought that it always used to do so.

They used the angle grinder to strip the paint on the E-type and the MGB, didn't watch the 911 one.

That prat who values the car just goes off what they say they've done to it and the other guy (not the cockney shouty spiv) just tells him a load of old bollocks that's not relevant to the car's value.

Both cars seem to have just been fired up without so much as an oil & filter change. They've only mentioned that the HT was fixed/ changed for electronic ignition. This is despite the cars being laid up for years. They fired the MGB up without 'checking that the hoses were tight'. Even if you weren't stripping the engine down, for the length of time that the cars were laid up the hoses would most likely have perished. Anyone worth their salt would do a complete strip down, inspection & rebuild.

The paint sprayer seems to be quite good. If I were him I'd take my 15 minutes of fame from this programme and use it to find a decent place to work.

I do admit I put in for the E-type competition, merely to flog if I won.

It's a bit like these property programs where they buy a house at auction, paint & decorate it and maybe put new windows in and claim it's been fully restored.
 
bluemoon27 said:
nice mustang on tonight
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It's a heap. When they showed a close up after the paint job you could see slight orange peel effect. If I can see this on my telly then it's going to look shite when I look at it close up.

This Canadian guy is not as good as the English lad who did the MGB and E-Type.
 
Carver said:
bluemoon27 said:
nice mustang on tonight
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It's a heap. When they showed a close up after the paint job you could see slight orange peel effect. If I can see this on my telly then it's going to look shite when I look at it close up.

This Canadian guy is not as good as the English lad who did the MGB and E-Type.
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That's my fucking car* you are talking trash about.




*when I win the competition
 
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