Channel 5 - Classic Car Rescue

I recorded it and have just finished watching it. Staged c*ck is a good description. I won't bother with the rest of the series.

What a load of cowboys. I pity the mug who ends up with that car.

Jim

Quite. It was full of factual errors in the commentary - let alone all the bollocks talked on screen.

And who in their right mind re-sprays the car before doing the mechanical work?

The main one being that the XK engine was a road car engine developed for racing, not the other way around.

Did they have to fit the cheapest and nastiest sunroof they could find?

-- Halmyre

Didn't watch to the end but I'll bet the "win this car" was a premium rate phone-in. That is the real reason for the hour of crap that preceded it!

Paul DS.

Exactly so. I turned it off after fifteen minutes.

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they didnt.

It was. £1.53 a minute.

I resisted the temptation. I felt a big enough mug watching it to the end, without helping to pay for it on my phone bill.

Jim

Were there E-Types factory fitted with Strombergs like their one was? It is many years since I looked under the bonnet of one, but I thought they were SUs. Mind you, that was a RHD. Perhaps the Yank spec was different.

Jim

It was a US spec car - the twin Strombergs rather than triple SUs - gave better emission figures. At the expense of performance.

That car with auto transmission would have a top speed of under 120 mph.

BTW, the 150mph quoted as the E type top speed was only ever achieved with the original road test car which was fitted with a D type engine. Production versions were more like 135 mph. It wasn't until the V12 arrived that a production E-Type could make 150 mph.

There's also the danger that you might actually win the wretched thing.

-- Halmyre

That thought crossed my mind too.

Yet another reason to avoid the prize from the programme

I read somewhere that the original 3.8 was a few MPH faster than the

Jim

I'm sure you could sell it for more than it cost you. ;-)

Quite possibly. The 4.2 engine was more about torque than maximum power. And the car likely heavier. With more drag.

BTW, the 150mph quoted as the E type top speed was only ever achieved with the original road test car which was fitted with a D type engine. Production versions were more like 135 mph. It wasn't until the V12 arrived that a production E-Type could make 150 mph.

Know what you mean I wanted too but I was like a rabbit caught in headlights... I just couldn't believe what I was watching!

Goes to show - "Buyer Beware!" - there as some mega gash bastards around !

Slatts

Anyone thinking of buying a 40 years old car should get skilled help.

I didn't think the prog guilty of actually bodging things. But if you win it for the price of a phone call, it would easily cover that in scrap value.

I started watching it (my wife recorded it, thinking I'd be interested) but I disliked the two main characters, the tone of the show and the factual errors got up my nose, so I stopped & deleted it just after they bought the car. Utter crap.

I watched it this morning, I thought it was a bad comedy show.

Martin P

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