tuning Competiton for Wheeler Dealers

[Prefect]

Have you clocked For the Love of Cars Sunday night Channel 4.

 

"Car fanatic Philip Glenister and internationally renowned car designer Ant Anstead are on a mission - to scour the barns and lock ups of Britain for wrecked treasures to bring to life"

 

The 1st prog was last Sunday (Harris Escort Mexico - unmissable) but can be seen on 4oD catchup.

 

There is a Stag on the list but no TR

[mike3739]

Brilliant a must see!!

 

Cheers

 

Mike

[Crawfie]

The number of classic car shows on the telly is unbelievable at the moment.

Wheeler dealers, classic car SOS, fast 'n' loud, chasing classic cars, that new one with mario and bernie (can't remember the shows name) and few more on sky.

Beats the usual girlie slop I normally have to endure!!!

[Rodbr]

Escort Mexico.

£8000 for a wreck!!!! Eek!" back in the day we gave £100 for good one.

 

Is it really worth more than a restorable TR.

 

That one did turn into grandpa broom a bit.

 

RS1800 well now your talking!!!!

[Nigel 628]

There is certainly a rash of such programmes cropping up on both side of the pond, mostly over here along the same format: a professional mechanic/restorer who does the work plus a 'layman' presenter who does the jokes and goes shopping for a few parts.

 

The new show was quite watchable but being a 'techie'I would prefer more restoration details, Ashes to Ashes fan though I may be (well, I watch it for Keeley Hawes really.....). Interesting that the relatively mundane Mexico (it's a Mk1 with a Cortina GT pushrod engine, used for the World Cup Rally because the 16v RS engines would struggle with low octane fuel in far-flung countries....) was presented as the ultimate Escort performance car, no mention being made of the more famous and competitive Twin Cam/16 valve models. I enjoyed the stories but is this a 'history and social culture' car programme, or a 'practical resto' feature? I'm afraid Wheeler Dealers is still the original and I love watching Edd doing his stuff, lots of techniques to learn from even though the latest episodes are getting rather modern 'computerish' with increasingly expensive equipment way out of the average amateurs' reach. Bound to happen with the more modern cars featured of course - sign of the times. The 'specialist techniques' businesses bits are interesting too.

 

There is quite a bit of repetition starting now - many of the new shows featuring cars which WD have already done. SOS did a Series 1 Landie last week, guess what Mr Glenister is doing next week? (OK WD haven't actually done a S1 but they have done many Land and Range Rovers) Then we are getting a DeLorean, a Stag, a Mini - I think the MG T series is the only one of the new show's selected cars which hasn't already been done by WD,.... but one was done recently by Car SOS!

 

Only one programme has covered a TR (WD TR6) to my recollection, but DeLoreans get two bites of the cherry; well, they are far more popular and common than Triumphs of course. (Or should that read notorious?)

 

I'll still watch them all, though, with the odd wince when a presenter refers to a TR6's injection as 'carburettors', etc.....

 

Nigel

 

 

 

 

[AlfredHitchcock]

As a former owner of a Twincam I was also hoping that the show might have mentioned its significance in the Mexico development.

 

I also prefer to see more a technical content. I enjoyed the show though and look forward to next week - I quite fancy an early LR swb.

[foster461]

Someone has kindly uploaded some episodes to YouTube so I got a chance to watch a few of them. Really quite well done with a balance of history, some technical/restoration and owner/enthusiast aspects.

 

Here's the Stag episode:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIDkLP6d4Ls