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- Mr Tidy
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It was a recording so it might have been a repeat, or it could have been from last week while I was away touring Wales.
Coupes because stunning!
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
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Typical.
No sheep were harmed, apart from the lamb I had for dinner last Saturday!
Coupes because stunning!
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
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Just finished watching season 9.
I genuinely like the show. In this season they upped their skills for bodywork quite a bit. The amount of work they put into some projects is pretty amaizing. They could easily make every car episode into a part 1 and 2, showing more of the restauration (they hardly show interior trimming anymore, maybe too common and easy )
You can also see that they are struggeling to give Tim a bit of a different role. The haggling gets a bit less.
I'm also amaized at what people keep as an retirement restauration project. Of course these owners get very ill, but even if they'd live a healty and sorrow free life til 80+ some of those projects would be way out of a private persons' league.
Then again, it is part of the reason this show exists, nice that they help people that have it so bad. That gives this show an edge.
I genuinely like the show. In this season they upped their skills for bodywork quite a bit. The amount of work they put into some projects is pretty amaizing. They could easily make every car episode into a part 1 and 2, showing more of the restauration (they hardly show interior trimming anymore, maybe too common and easy )
You can also see that they are struggeling to give Tim a bit of a different role. The haggling gets a bit less.
I'm also amaized at what people keep as an retirement restauration project. Of course these owners get very ill, but even if they'd live a healty and sorrow free life til 80+ some of those projects would be way out of a private persons' league.
Then again, it is part of the reason this show exists, nice that they help people that have it so bad. That gives this show an edge.
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Was that on channel 4 catch up (all 4 or whatever it's called), or somewhere else?
I've only seen a few episodes all the way through as I always forget when it's on.
All good things come to those who wait. I'm really impatient which explains a lot.
F31 320i. Good car.
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F31 320i. Good car.
E89 20i Now fully dried
Z3 'free litre'. Project and a half. Complicated!
Mazda3 sold
Tatty old R56 Mini Cooper. Money pit!
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I had to download it . Where I live there is no channel 4.
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- Mr Tidy
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I think it was on More4. When I find something like that I do "Series Record" so I don't miss any!
But some of this series have needed major rust repairs dealt with - in fact if they didn't get on Car SOS they'd probably be scrapped because it just wouldn't make economic sense.
Coupes because stunning!
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
Current - Silver Grey MC, Imola Red heated Nappa & carbon trim. Aeros, H & R Coil-overs, 224s, OE Strut brace, Nav, cup-holders, DSP Hi-Fi, pdc, cruise, MFSW, no CDV! E90 330i daily
Gone - Montego Blue
Gone - Ruby Black
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Of course. If you look at that ice cream truck.....
They said it took 2000 hours work, and that is even a lot less than I expected. 3000 or 4000 hours would have been likely too imho as they made every panel and every box section new from scrap.
If it was 2000 hours, and say 50quid/hour for a skilled panel fabricator, that alone is 100k
Parts and services from other companies still has to be added on top of that, so I estimate that that truck has cost 150k at least.
I think only that jaguar would have been feesible to restore for a private person.
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I've trawled through all episodes of Car SOS on Ch4 (More4) catch up from this latest series and there is no Ford Cortina MK3 ???
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I did like that at first,but grew to like Tims bits of bartering,lol.Pondrew wrote: βMon Apr 26, 2021 9:51 pm I do like Car Sausage but as others have said I don't like the "see how Tim can get a bargain/ stuff for free" c*ap.
I wonder what sort of contract/ conditions the participants have to sign with the production company before they start with a resto?
The one that started me thinking about this was the AC Aceca they did a while ago. It was a pile of rust in the old boy's garage. An hour (of TV magic) later it was potentially a Β£100k, ultra-rare restored car. What's to stop him (or more likely his family) selling it off to the highest bidder a week later?
As said,you'do wonder what agreement they make,as one episode not too long ago,they got e very hard to find active yaw control unit for an (import only) evo 4,and even Tim expected to pay top whack for it....then they just gave it to himfor free.
Mmmm
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