Channel 5 BGT restoration
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What a big load of tosh, they could not do that car to ` 5k standard without at least double the amount spent. , the axle falling off was a set up the springs had been cut square they normally rip the botls with the eye!
they must think the people who will watch the show are stupid!!
PS anybody got a spare fuel filer pipe for a roadster.
they must think the people who will watch the show are stupid!!
PS anybody got a spare fuel filer pipe for a roadster.
Just watched the repeat. I agree, a few 'staged' arguments there. They say they've made a profit, but nobody has actually bought it for £5k. I doubt it would fetch that.
Even Ch 5, who are now offering it as a prize, will probably make more from the phone calls than they have to pay for it.
Even Ch 5, who are now offering it as a prize, will probably make more from the phone calls than they have to pay for it.
Chaps, you may want to catch up on the latest update where a letter has been received from Channel5. As we all knew, they have admitted the MGB GT is not the same as the scrapper bought. But read on ref' price quoted for a new shell...I've just placed my order with John Yea for 10x new shells... 
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t...
http://pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&t...
mgtony said:
But you'd need 10 chassis to put the body shells onto! 
Didn't they think to hire someone who knows just a little about cars for the series? or to answer viewers questions.
Hi Tony, those chassis things'll be from those old MGA-type-thingys then Didn't they think to hire someone who knows just a little about cars for the series? or to answer viewers questions.
It's really bloody shocking as to how & why this programme has ever secured funding; let alone be aired. It's a shocking sign of the times when the average Joe in the street 'enjoys' this genre of so-called entertainment. One can only conclude this mind-numbingly dumb type of TV has been slowly creeping up on the the British public for 20+ years now and the Joe-types know no different.
Heaven help the next generation...
I've watched a few episodes and think it is appalling. For a classic car restoration like ourselves, it's insulting to our trade, their costings are so out of whack it's ridiculous and fools people into the sense that you can have a concourse MGB for the fraction of the actual cost. The worst bit for me was when he went to the car museum to buy bumpers, and gets a lot of stuff thrown in with them, it cuts back to the car and they're not even the same!
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