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On the Repair Shop. Some punter bought in a Raleigh Chopper that needed restoring. The chroming took no time to get back. If that was me,I'd still be waiting for it. They must have paid double to jump the queue. And Ed China rebuilds an engine. Drops it back in the car and it starts first time. They don't show the fcuk ups, like forgetting to connect the battery or forgetting to put juice in.The magic of telly innit.
Quote from: mike the bike on January 28, 2020, 01:27:12 PMOn the Repair Shop. Some punter bought in a Raleigh Chopper that needed restoring. The chroming took no time to get back. If that was me,I'd still be waiting for it. They must have paid double to jump the queue. And Ed China rebuilds an engine. Drops it back in the car and it starts first time. They don't show the fcuk ups, like forgetting to connect the battery or forgetting to put juice in.The magic of telly innit.Yes on the other hand. It annoys me when those programmes with a deadline to meet always have an issue when it wont start at the last minute.....
Watch carefully in the background on Car SOS, they say were at the last few hours and will have to work all night to get it done (again). Then the camera pans around and lo and behold two other almost finished projects (that were both down to the wire in earlier episodes) are on a ramp and half under a sheet behind them. Utter bullshit to just try to inject some tension for the viewer. Nobody, and I don't care who you are, can restore an E-Type Jaguar in three weeks.
Car SOS and Wheeler dealers have a few things in common apart from doing up old cars obviously. You have the cheeky chappie and the mechanic. As others have said already, in the case of both shows the mechanic works for free, but another thing I've noticed on Wheeler dealers is when they buy a sporty car with ropey looking alloy wheels, they get the wheels refurbed for say £50 a corner. Thats fair enough, but they often omit to mention the brand new set of tyres they invariably put on too, when chummy Brewer is doing his outlay totting up at the end of the show. I have to say I do like both shows, but like Sumpmagnet I can't stand Henry Cole. He has one of those whiney voices that irritates the hell out of me. I watched the Phil Read replica episode of his show, but had to turn it off half way through. If I was Sam Lovegrove, I'd hit him around the back of the head with a Vincent Black shadow cylinder head when no one was looking.