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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 4:53 pm    Post subject: Classic Car Rescue - C5 Reply with quote
Tonight, 8pm, might be worth a look...?

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:29 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Oh dear! Just switched off... a couple of geezers on an ego trip, couldn't take any more when they picked up the shock absorber in the breakers yard. Would you want to sell a classic at a knockdown price to this guy?
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 8:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
What a terrible programme. Why on earth did the production company choose that foul mouthed cockney bodger to front it? I'll watch this one until the bitter end out of curiousity but that's it for me, no more of this rubbish.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've recorded it to watch later, I might give it a miss now Sad
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Deary me, "restore" something and leave that awful glass pop-up sunroof in it, not to mention the junk they bought from the other fella. Good to hear that they repaired a piston, and cleaned out the cylinders though ... Smile

£30k?

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I'll probably watch the next one though, out of curiosity
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
what a load of rubbish .arthur daley would have done a better job . poxy modern sunroof ,nice pinky red paint then bangs it into an engine .would you buy a car from these two plonkers . Razz
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
47p2 wrote:
I've recorded it to watch later, I might give it a miss now Sad

i wouldn't bother. Wink
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
One and half days to sort out the 'too much oil in the carb' issue just after he had boasted that he'd been doing this for thirty something years Shocked I can truly say that I was awestruck Laughing
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
those diagprahms in the carbs looked new too.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi
The e type was the first car designed using a wind tunnel??
I think not, Bristol Cars used Bristol Aeroplane's wind tunnel in the design stages of the 401 introduced in 1948.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 1:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
I turned off before it was half way through, about where he pulled some supposedly E type parts of the back of a pick up truck.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Penman wrote:
Hi
The e type was the first car designed using a wind tunnel??
I think not, Bristol Cars used Bristol Aeroplane's wind tunnel in the design stages of the 401 introduced in 1948.


and as far back as 1934 Chrysler used the wind tunnel for their "Airflow" series.

I haven't seen the programme that is the subject of this thread, but poorly researched and gross presentations are quite common this side of the "pond"
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 6:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
It was dumbed down to a point where I thought I'd switched on Eastenders by mistake. I believe there are a load of 'Toff' producers with a very strange idea about what many of us 'Plebs' like to watch. Surely they could have asked someone who knew about restorations to look it over.
Having switched off before halfway through I can only assume, from comments on here, the programme didn't redeem itself in the second half...
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 25, 2012 7:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Times like this I wish I had shares in Isopon Smile

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