For the love of cars, channel 4 8pm- Air cooled content

[PiperCub]

IIRC mocney Brewer and Edd did one a while back.

 

Yes, and in typical TV style it showed how dead easy & quick it is to do the cambelt on these engines...... mmmm, a week after it took me seven hours and I've done the job before!

Also, it showed how long ago this was shot as China-man ripped off all the plastics and replaced them with new, just try and get anyting like that from your Pug main stealer these days, if they don't laugh, they'll look at you with a vacant expression and ask what a 205 is.

 

FTLOC is OK but I just find Glenister annoying to watch, I'd prefer there was less of him and more on the resto being done but I guess that might switch off some viewers.

Prefer 'Car SOS' myself, that Tim Shaw bloke is a bit irritating (but that may just be for TV) but Fuzz is a genuinely nice, highly knowledgable bloke with a real love of old cars and their preservation. I met him in person a couple of years back and also congratulated him on doing a cover of one of my favourite tunes as he is the drummer in the band The Wonderstuff as well these days (he used to be in PWEI).

[nisfan]

Really wanting to do a run up to applecross this year, not bad for them, get shipped up to inverness with a saab 96 waiting and then a drive up to applecross!

[Cavcraft]

Anyone else spot Drew Pritchard from Salvage Hunters in the auction audience? I think he a soft spot for old cars.

[doobietoo]

Saw Fuzz cut the cambelt in half lengthways slip the new one on up to the cut one then cut the other half off and slide it on ....I can see a few amateurs getting that wrong but great idea....

[PiperCub]

Saw that trick done years ago but never had the balls to do it myself!

[Taff]

Off topic,but can we see Taffs Galaxie pleeeease?

 

it's in the Garage section, mate

[colino]

_{The current series of FTLOC has went down dramatically and I guess they now work to whatever the producer decided had to be, "improved" over the last one.  They have now decided the blokey bits between the presenters fill most of the screentime, no matter how dull the chat is; Drew Pritchard is contractually obliged to be seen in every auction; the "restoration" must have a howler that will devalue it - but it's telly, so it wont; and no matter what the real conditions are, the episode will be shot as per the story board, not what the actual true-life conditions will show.  Hence the blizzard swept road to Applecross (as trotted out in winter rescue/snow plough nightmare shows) will be shot in a not particularly dramatic way in perfect conditions, but then claim to be treacherous, and the spanner-twirling will be carried out by someone else and Ant will present it in a, "here's one I prepared earlier" style.  TV by formula stinks and here's an example of it.}

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Aye. I CBA to watch the Saab 96 one all the way through. A pity as the first series really was good before some 5"4 cortana using vegetarian 24 year old ginger with a big beard and a degree in media studies fucked it all up.

[Joey spud]

Was the guy who bought the Saab not the same guy who bought the Aston too?

 

 I thought that too.

 

Strange there was no mention of the 2 strokes,the near unique free wheel device or the fact the engine was a V4 Ford unit...

[Uncle Jimmy]

^^^yup, that's why I never watch any of that stuff. 'Made in Dagenham' was on a bit later, rather a good film about rather average cars.

[Talbotman]

As it has seemed to happen.....TV people dip their toe in the water with the concept....a limited run of shows is produced with a mildly carte blanche timescale....less cars to do, more time for the featured resto done by the core team. Show becomes a success...whoops....TV people demand more shows....Cars get farmed out to various shops to do the work, airtime gets filled with more flannel and show suffers as a result. Shame.

[stripped fred]

I think they're trying to attract as many Top Gear viewers before they get back on stream. Most people aren't that interested in spending 10 mins watching a gearbox being put back together and would much rather watch the presenters doing something silly.

[Bear]

Not illegal to fit, but it is illegal to supply them.

But, but get this.

 

That don't matter, because the cops can't search you. That's a right the cops in Amsterdam DON'T have.

 

 

Oh. Sorry, wrong show.

[Bear]

I spotted the 500 they're doing next week In the background at the auction. Omg all tv iz fake .

 

Not all. I've seen some behind the scenes stuff from Car S.O.S and it's very real. Grubby, swearing at stubborn shit, just the same stuff we all get to deal with on our cars, real.

 

But condensing it into a TV show... I mean, who wants to see 5 minutes of a middleaged bloke losing his rag at some recalcitrant, inanimate bit of autotmotive shit.

 

Oh, yeah. They have Classic Car Rescue for that. With the bonus that it also gets middleaged car nutters yelling at the TV at home, too, like an army of chimps wound up because one of them found a bone to hit stuff with.

[HMC]

I did cringe a bit when they took that floppy top 900 around that Belgian pave test at milbrook, They are more than a bit flexible if my old one is anything to go by.

[HMC]

Reading ahead a Mk1 transit is restored. With Glenister's form I'm expecting a bank heist set piece with stockings on heads, the full sweeney etc.

[beko1987]

Im gonna watch it later as its recorded, but expect 20 minutes of vague restoration then 40 minutes of crap.

 

Must be time to dig out my mark evans downloads...

[jonny69]

Was that lass were any of those people Fredtransit?

[fairkens]

Quite a good one but then I like transits.... and tanks

[sheffcortinacentre]

no surprised they didn't contact her, esp as she supplied the stuff for ashes to ashes.

[Asimo]

 

I like Glenister as an actor and I like Mk1 Transit's, but what a dissapointing programme.

Wouldn't that have been a better bit of TV if it had majored on the skills and techniques required to rebuild a rotten van, and been honest about the costs?

Has there ever been any Car TV that did not dissapoint? Why bother with special interest programmes that don't interest the specialist?

 

I have driven loads of different Mk1s, but never a Diesel. They must have been SO SLOW with Perkins "power"

[beko1987]

Dig out mark evans "an xx is born". Ive got the landrover, mg and jag one and their awesome!

[Felly Magic]

Petemate and the bloke from Stoke Proper car telly, with the odd bit of cocking about

[dugong]

Whinge, whinge, whinge.

[hairnet]

pot kettle etc

[hennabm]

The 4/108 Perkins was the forerunner of the "York" 2.4 diesel in the Transit. They were very slow and noisy. The York was a step forward, once you could get them started.

 

I've always preferred the flat front MkI for looks but the bull nose also appeared on the V6 versions - they were some tool and able to spin the wheels from 2nd to third, unladen.

 

Ahh those were the days...........

[cort16]

I recon even at that money it was cheap. I mean when are you ever going to get one that's been restored to that standard?

 

It's a pity it wasn't a v6, big petrol powered vans like v8 Sherpas are for winners. In the states you can buy a rwd transit with a 3.5 litre 300bhp twin turbo ecoboost motor.

[Joey spud]

You are not going to get a show on terestial tv showing a full 60 mins of 'nuts n bolts' stuff.

 

With a title For the love of Cars they have been smart,it's a programme where they can go off in different diirections as its not billed as a resto show as such so i guess the thinking is the appeal is increased and a larger audience share can be attracted so more revenue can be generated from their advertisers at 8pm on a sunday.

 

For me its a good hours easy viewing AND i find i actually laugh at some of the one liners and jokes the guys deliver,which is more than can be said about the last few series of Top Gear.

 

What is irritating me though is Car SOS and Wheeler Dealers have both got all american with a wanky rock guitar backing track being dropped in to scenes.this really boils my pee.

[Bear]

Car SOS probably gets music dropped in 'cause Fuzz is a musician. PWEI and Bentley Rhythm Ace, I think?

 

I don't get why they were so surprised by van values. They were standing next to a splittie in the auction house. If a restored VW bus went for 'just' £10K I'd be amazed - yet it's just a van. If anything I reckon a Transit minibus or camper would show how undervalued they are compared to the plentiful and made until very recently VW.

 

Thought the Transit they drove with the lobsters in sounded off until I remembered the V4!

[Timewaster]

The how it's made dream car series was made completely unwatchable by the wank rock music constantly jangling in the background like bloody tinnitus.