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Anyone else catch it?

Was pleasantly surprised. Didn't follow quite the same format as the others, wasn't the bandwagon jumper i expected. Will be watching the rest of the series.

Heavy on the cars history,and cult following but not a lot showing what was done to it during resto!
Dissapointed!

A bit lame , but i watched it .
Wasn't the Chinese Grand Prix stunningly exciting though ?

Pikie wrote:Heavy on the cars history,and cult following but not a lot showing what was done to it during resto&20%
Dissapointed&20%

No shortage of that, the difference being that because they settled themselves in with a Ford, all of the panels used were - roof apart - OTS and split new, lucky, lucky Escort owners. I guess the viewer either got the significance of the engine builder or they didn't, there's always going to be someone who misses the key points when the subject matter isn't their thing. I'd be equally lost around, say, the specialists that surround the Vipond or the Iso but there'd be plenty soaking either of these in, if they were to go down the esoteric route in the next series.

You watch though, next thing is someone will come along after watching the first few minutes to complain about the stripes, the white respray and other things that were in there to catch out these folk who don't watch beyond then yet feel that they earned the right to whine. Especially in view of the double bluff with the later car shewn in the multi-storey scenes either end of the breaks.
History could have been better had they read a book about the World Cup rally but on the whole I loved it, the Land Rover episode will be interesting as they restored that to a factory finish too, so we can compare it with the personal touch found in Phil's show on that other side.

8 from 10 on a scale where Phil's show is the 10 and CCR is the baseline, showing a promising start to the series.

JPB wrote:CCR is the baseline

Since when does that "car show" deserve a 1/10? if you want to know how to plaster a house with very curved walls, it could be a useful source of information

Just finished watching for the love of cars on sky+ (no adverts ftw). It was definitely worth watching. Not as much "how we did it" as I would have liked but SWMBO enjoyed it so it means I can watch in future without her complaining

which channel is it on chaps.. although at the moment i have wifeys parents visisting so its all the frenchist tv for a while...

TerryG wrote: Since when does that "car show" deserve a 1/10?

Yeah, I was being extraordinarily generous there, let us put that down to the rather pleasant rum (Pussar's, for any aficionados wondering) that the sis-in-law beast gave me for Easter. On the other hand, the 928 episode was quite funny because the portly Italian/Canadian one seemed genuinely peeved to have been locked in.

TerryG wrote:if you want to know how to plaster a house with very curved walls, it could be a useful source of information

I went to view a disused lighthouse recently, thinking that perhaps something could have been done with it but planning consent for permanent residential use wasn't an option , holiday lets have to be wheelchair accessible yet installing a lift was a definite no-no and other such obstacles to developing the tall, round thing were there in their dozens but it did have some spectacularly curved surfaces so with Bernie and Mario in mind maybe I should go back for another look?


Rich, it's on Channel Four at 8pm on Sundays and on C4+1 at 9pm so you can watch each episode twice in rapid succession though that would mean missing the brilliant "Fargo" which also got away to a promising start. Recommended even if you didn't see the original film.

cheers john!

Pilkie wrote:Heavy on the cars history,and cult following but not a lot showing what was done to it during resto!
Dissapointed!

Agreed. There was so little on the restoration I wonder why they bothered with it.

Too many boy racers, tw*ts doing donuts and cockney geezers being geezerish!

Agreed. There was so little on the restoration I wonder why they bothered with it.

......I wasn't really expecting much anyway- it'd make for extremely dull tv.......hours and hours of cutting, welding, wrestling with seized bits, paint prep, etc, etc,..........it was basically a rehash of wheeler dealers but with a bigger budget, it followed the format of an average wheeler dealers show pretty much down to the minute.