Scrapheap challenge on in half an hour...

[uk_senator]

Just to let everyone know theres a new series of SHC starting @ 5:25 today on channel 4, theres usually a few gutting cars laying around the scrapyard (& occasionlly a glimpse of the competitors shite projects at the start).

 

[Minimad5]

Thanks for the heads up

[RedSparrow]

Nice one, cheers.

Just time to nip to the shop for 8 ACE to enjoy during the show.

[CreepingJesus]

Thanks for that. Ah, the joy of SHC; or My Fantasy Back Garden, as I like to think of it. It'll make up for forgetting to watch the MotoGP earlier.

[RedSparrow]

Says on the blurb its the Chariot racing one. Seen it before.

Ill still watch it though.

[Alexg]

They've done it before but I think this is a new episode. Gotta say not liking the new format....

[RedSparrow]

Yeah, I retract my last statement, new show, same challenge.

AlexG, you have a PM.

[Minimad5]

Gotta say not liking the new format....

Me neither.

 

Ac Invacar for the win though

[Claypole]

A piss poor patch on the original format and they ruin anything interest by showing the stuff they end up making at the start or in the adverts.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

Apparently the change in format is due to cuts in Channel 4's programme making budget.

 

I do miss Lisa Rogers though, here she is just in case you forgot what she looks like:

 

 

Oh, is Dick Strawbridge pregnant?

[RedSparrow]

Yeah the new format isn't great but you have to admit the old style was a bit tired - especially as it must be hard to think up new challenges.

I personally wouldn't mind if they re-did challenges from the early series, it was so long ago I wouldn't notice the similarities.

[CreepingJesus]

I don't much like that format either. I like Dick Strawbridge, so I'm a bit conflicted. The home-build aspect of the format loses all the welding accidents, and abandoned ideas, which made the old format fascinating.

Still, TT's on, that'll cheer me up.

[Minimad5]

Autoshite team in Scrap Heap Challenge

 

Pick your team .... NOW !

 

Mine would be the folk that helped out yesterday

[uk_senator]

I wasnt overly impressed with the repeat task either, but you have to admire a man with a mostache like Dicks...

 

In the yards/garages I saw:

 

3x Datsun 260Z`s 2 in red 1 in burgandy

Porsche 924 in red

Cortina Mk5 estate in blue

Mercedes W123 estate in blue

Xantia estate in white

Safrane estate (or was it a Meganne) in silver

Mk3 Capri in red with vinyl roof

Land Rover in brown

MGB in white

early Audi Coupe GT in red

Escort Mk3 5 door in brown

Escort XR3i Mk4 in red

4x Mk2 Sierra in blue & 3 in white

1 Sapphire "K510SAD" in burgandy

2x blue Astra Mk3`s (K112KYC +?)

Astramax in white (K463???)

Fiat 126 (ac) in burgandy

Polish registered VW Passat estate in green

Fiat Panda in red

Rover 4 series in grey

3x Rover 2 series in red, white & a 3 door in green

Renault Clio in blue

Cavalier Mk3 in blue

Skoda 120/130 in beigey white

Mk2 Fiesta in blue

2x Mk5 Escort in white & red

Volvo 7 series estate in silver

Comma PB (chrome bumper) 76 Preg in green

Ssangyong Musso in green & gold 2 tone

 

As well as the obvious Consul

 

I also noticed Diks workshop was behind Cloverleaf Car Services in Gloucester...

[outlaw118]

That Lisa Rogers bird.....yum yum, althought not the only reason I watched it!

Worked with a bloke who used to be a runner on The Big Breakfast, and apparently Lisa Rogers is not just a name, it's a statement.

 

Dick Strawbridge is fine in small doses, but I preferred Robert Llewellyn and his "experts" tbh..

Anyway, here's some footage of Lisa Rogers getting shagged in a toilet.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVxJ-jM2 ... playnext=1

[brammy777]

Sorry for the question, but whats it actually like now? I used to watch it all the time when it was first broadcast, I think I was seven when they started making it. To be honest, its quite suprising its survived these budget cuts, who would have though a program about making contraptions out of scrap would survive 12 years so far?

[GJR 11L]

....I 'do' Miss Lisa Rogers though......

Jack, I hope for your sake that Mrs H doesn't read that frank and rather alarming confession.

 

But... Why the piccie of Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

Surely Lisa looks like this:

 

I like Dick

 

Scrapheap? Bugger! Missed it, best download it then I s'pose.

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

....I 'do' Miss Lisa Rogers though......

Jack, I hope for your sake that Mrs H doesn't read that frank and rather alarming confession.

 

But... Why the piccie of Alfred, Lord Tennyson?

Surely Lisa looks like this:

 

 

 

Aaah yes, a fine figure of a woman - I remember her well .

[FredTransit]

I liked the old format, not seen the new one yet. The problem with the old format was looking out for the stuff in the background and not watching what they were doing! That and then cutting up stuff that was better than what I have on the road!

[Jack_Harpers_Teeth]

I liked the old format, not seen the new one yet. The problem with the old format was looking out for the stuff in the background and not watching what they were doing! That and then cutting up stuff that was better than what I have on the road!

Yes rather like watching The Sweeney/The Professional etc... I'm too busy watching the traffic in the background to actually follow the storyline!

 

Another aspect of what I liked about the old format of Scrapheap was when teams used to swap and barter for items needed:

 

'I'll give you two tractor wheels for that length of chain...'

 

Classic stuff!!

[jonny69]

Apparently the change in format is due to cuts in Channel 4's programme making budget.

Yes, this is true. I was trying to get on the engineering team last year but they had slashed the budget to the point that it was only a small number of tried and trusted people getting work. And Dick Strawbridge is epicly fussy about who he works with so I'll make a guess that it's Jem Stansfield and his cronies that got it, unless the BBC stop him working there under contract.

[GJR 11L]

I haven't downloaded it yet for a look, so tell me; now that Hadrian Spooner drives traction engines over teflon-coated planks for Richard Hammond's benefit, is he still featured as one of the specialist engineers on Scrapheap?

 

Top bloke he is, and one of the factors that made the last series watchable in spite of Dick's 'tache.

 

like watching The Sweeney/The Professional etc... I'm too busy watching the traffic in the background to actually follow the storyline!

There's a storyline? Damn, missed something there then.