so... did anyone see that car thing on channel 5?

[michael1703]

not 5th gear, some shite called classic car rescue

 

I only got the gist of it

 

2 mongs wanting to make big profit by "restoring" a car in 4 weeks

 

so pay £12k for an etype,fuck about with it, restore by somehow not removing engine and gearbox or rear cradle, paint it red, back it into engine crane and therefore ballsing its nice fresh paint, then cladding it with whitewalls and a 1986 escort sunroof and then waiting for valuer blokey to turn up and deem its worth £30k

 

They then shout woohoo, £10k profit etc and then when the credits roll theres the chance to win the car

 

Who stumped up 30 large?

 

production company definitely wouldnt,

 

but....

 

competition entries:

Entries cost £1.53 from a BT landline; other networks vary and mobiles will cost considerably more. Texts cost £1.50 plus standard network rate.

 

just need 20,000 divs to enter

 

viewing figures must be about a dozen tops

 

http://www.channel5.com/shows/classic-c ... des/e-type

[warren t claim]

I watched it but only because I was doing an hours cardio at the gym and forgot to charge my phone up, so it was either watching baldy twat or some soap opera.

 

In all honesty it's meant to be a bit of entertainment and is probably no more staged than a Top Gear challenge.

[Spiny Norman]

Caught a bit of it. Utterly tragic, even worse than I was expecting.

And I was already expecting it to be a 'sub- ice road truckers' level of kwality....

[Guest]

I've watched everyone talk about how shit it was.

[trigger]

I can't recall ever seeing a TV program ever get such a slating all over the Internet, not even Top Gear when they destroyed those British Leyland cars.

 

It was the biggest load of shit ever to grace the TV, even worse then Eldorado, The guy who sold the E Type to them just looked pissed off with Bernie with the amount of shite he was sprouting off and the arguing and bickering through the how show was just embarrassing.

 

Talking of car shows did anyone watch Wheeler Dealers tonight?, now that's a pretty enjoyable car show, everythings explained well and you get to see plenty off shots of the cars, That Jag MkII tonight was stunning.

[RedSparrow]

I can just see some 22 year old media studies graduate, probably the director, saying 'hey guys back it into the crane, it'll be just like one of those hilarious Top Gear accidents, that'll get the viewing figures up!'.

And no, I didn't watch it.

[HillmanImp]

even worse then Eldorado

 

Eldorado was brilliant

 

[autofive]

downloading wheeler dealers raight now, even that mockney twat is more entertaining than the ch5 thing was.

[Micrashed]

even worse then Eldorado

There was talk of bringing that back you know

[trigger]

In the trailer for the 911 episode where the pair of them are just talking shite, niether of them are wearing their seat belts!, I'm surprised channel 5 posted the video online showing this.

 

http://www.channel5.com/shows/classic-c ... 1#comments

[Richard]

I watched it online to see what all the fuss was about but I kept falling asleep because of

[Formula Autos]

Managed to catch some of this. Wheeler Dealers is Citizen Kane in comparison.

 

Having said that I'll watch the rest of the series. It has cars in it, and so is 100% more interesting than the exploits of fictional Cockneys/Mancunians/Yorkeshireists/Medical staff than infects most of the TV schedules.

 

On a related subject, does anyone know why Channel 5 dropped Fifth Gear, and why it's turned up completely unchanged (bar from now being an hour long) on Discovery?

[Rocket88]

On a related subject, does anyone know why Channel 5 dropped Fifth Gear, and why it's turned up completely unchanged (bar from now being an hour long) on Discovery?

 

 

Probably so they could afford to commission this pile of steaming codswallop. 5th Gear was bad enough, Tiff makes my teeth itch, and Ms Butler-Henderson should be welded inside a Suzuki X90 for life

[cort16]

5th gear was probably a rating/advertising thing. I'm not a big fan of tiff but Jason Potato is a shit hot driver (he can make a chinese MG win races) so I think his opinion's worth something and Jonny Smith is a gold medal shitest.

[Spiny Norman]

Fifth Gear should have worked.

It had good presenters, a couple of decent racing drivers and usually good scripts but in its later years it fell too far into the 'cheap digi telly' trap of endless repetition and premium rate phone competitions to pad the thing out to its allotted time.

 

It was a programme I could never watch 'live', I always had to record it so I could fast forward through all the ads and the 'coming up next' and 'earlier on you may remember....' crap.

Of course I fucking remember what car you were testing five minutes ago before the ads, I'm not a bloody goldfish!

 

The average Fifth Gear show had less than 35 minutes of content, which simply wasn't enough in an hour long show.

[DVee8]

Has anyone watched Southbeach classics its on Quest Sunday night around 9ish.

Some stumpy fat yank with plenty of wedge and a plastic wife likes to buy,sell and swap yank classics and everything turns out fine.Drives around in a black drug dealer Bentley.Worth a look.

[In The Pit]

Has anyone watched Southbeach classics its on Quest Sunday night around 9ish.

Some stumpy fat yank with plenty of wedge and a plastic wife likes to buy,sell and swap yank classics and everything turns out fine.Drives around in a black drug dealer Bentley.Worth a look.

 

I didnt think i'd like it (as I dont know anything about American cars and not in to them) but I quite like it if you haven't seen it yet its worth a watch.

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

even worse then Eldorado

There was talk of bringing that back you know

 

They did - it's called Benidorm and it's utterly ace!

[Pillock]

I watched the C5 thing with Mrs Pillock.

She deemed it "shit" and that the cockney geezer was a "twat". I couldn't argue with that, she was bang on so we watched a recorded True Blood instead.

It was all the shit bits of Wheeler Dealers (the haggling, the moon-faced idiot pretending he knows about cars) without the good bits (actually seeing stuff repaired). I gathered they managed to "fully restore" an E-Type without removing the engine, but including mixing half a tonne of filler, and then inventing a "blown engine" by overfilling the dashpots before whinging about how it might mean a full rebuild of the engine. In the very next scene, they explain how they replaced one (ONE!) piston to mean the engine was now perfect.

[retrogeezer]

I didn't think it was possible but this episode is even worse.....it's so bad it's good. How can a supposed 'expert' buy a Porsche with that crease clearly visible on the scuttle??

[retrogeezer]

oh jeez, now they have a bloke prepping it that doesn't know what he's is doing...

[triumph1300]

My god. That bernie geeza needs a smack in the mouth. What a pair of twats though. I can't turn it over because I just can't grasp how poorly scripted this show is...

[trigger]

I really don't know why I'm sat here watching it, It really winds me up, That Bernie is the biggest cock on tele and I'm amazed he couldn't tell the difference between a cut and shut and a rotten scuttle seeing what a dodgy cowboy he is.

 

I emailed Channel 5 the other day as their trailer for the episode features them two twats racing through the countryside with no seat belts on, they got back to me.

 

Dear Trigger

 

Thank you for your recent enquiry regarding Classic Car Rescue.

 

We were sorry to read of your disappointment that the presenters were filmed driving while not wearing seatbelts in the clip from Episode 2 on the programme’s website and we are grateful to you for taking the time to make us aware of your concerns. The details of your complaint have been noted in our Viewer Enquiries Report. This is circulated throughout the company and seen by all relevant personnel.

 

Thank you for your interest in Channel 5.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Steven

VIEWER ADVISOR

[aldo135]

Just turned over to 5 from fith gear, because i thought it couldn't be as bad as you guys were saying but eff me its even worse! WTF is the wee baldy guy about? He's not got a scooby, why does he keep going on about electrics when he had to get someone else to do his job? And the pretend arguments and strops? "If you had half my knowledge" he just said! WTF would that be! Thsi is the worst thing i've seen on TV for a good while

[Negative Creep]

He was touching up that new paintjob with a massive great brush! Still, I bet it looks pretty shonky close up

[trigger]

"Reliant Scimitar, piece of fiberglass crap"

[RoadworkUK]

"...to save money, they've decided to do the job in record time."

 

To be honest, I don't understand why everybody doesn't do this. If the people who rebuilt the Cutty Sark had done it in a fortnight it would have saved an absolute fortune.

 

I had to quote a guy for spark plugs in a CLK 430 today; book time is 2.1 hrs for 16 plugs (twin-spark engine). If I'd have thought of getting the tech to do 'em in 15 minutes I'd have been able to do it for massively under quote.

[Negative Creep]

He was touching up that new paintjob with a massive great brush! Still, I bet it looks pretty shonky close up

 

Never mind the paint brush, he was using high temperature caliper paint!

 

Wasn't he just doing the calipers with leftover body paint?

[Cheggers]

And surely if you're carrying out a "full restoration", you'd change the dizzy cap rather than just having a scratch around with a screwdriver??

 

"if you don't know what you're doing DON'T TOUCH THE WIRING!!!"...if you're the expert, how come you can't even get the sidelights to work

 

Complete and utter rubbish from start to finish.

[face]

That brush business was bloody incredible! Spend all that time prepping and spraying the car and then touch up some chips (why are there chips?) with a 2 inch emulsion brush

 

I know the square root of sod-all about anything car related compared to most of you chaps and I found the voice over script patronising. And to expect that people are stupid enough to believe that those are genuine quarrels is a joke.

 

It's so shit you have to watch it.