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UnForgiven

20 posts

247 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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Which is exactly why I dont watch tv.

AJLintern

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4,239 posts

270 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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Is anyone else watching this on Channel 4? How could they do that to a classic Lotus Europa?! Very sad, looked mint - before they turned it into a hovercraft

FourWheelDrift

89,640 posts

291 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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I was just about to ask the same thing, never seen the programme before so wondered what condition it was in before they got it.

silverback mike

11,290 posts

260 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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B'stards...why use a car like that, why not a sierra or something

gt5s_1985

703 posts

263 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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I saw the American version of that last year... They used a Delorean to make their hovercraft... I'm with you though - I'm not sure I'd deface a Europa...

FourWheelDrift

89,640 posts

291 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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The voice over is also one of the most irritating voices I've ever heard on TV.

The TV guide also called it an Esprit

thebluemonkey

1,296 posts

247 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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"x days ago this was just a classic car, now its a fully working hovercraft"

NO

x days ago it was a beautiful peice of incredible engineering with a top heritage. Now its a shitty bodged hovercraft that sinks.

silverback mike

11,290 posts

260 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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I have had to turn it off....Bloody bootneck numpties.

FourWheelDrift

89,640 posts

291 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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The program is a farce, I've just seen who is on next weeks "team". Ed China is one of the team, he is a very well known car modifier having worked on several TV series the latest beeing Wheeler Dealers on Discovery H & L.

He makes modified cars for a living for film & TV. www.cummfybanana.com/

Teppic

7,505 posts

264 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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I turned it off. The chav doing the voice over was annoying the f**k out of me.

Edited because I've just read the thread about annoying phrases and "getting on my tits" was mentioned quite a few times.

>> Edited by Teppic on Friday 30th April 20:46

littlegearl

3,139 posts

264 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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FourWheelDrift said:
He makes modified cars for a living for film & TV. www.cummfybanana.com/


i'm sure i've been to cummfybanana.com before and it had a completely different style of content!!!

yeah i agree, shit program... though there's nothing else on so see myself seeing out the series!

vrooom

3,763 posts

274 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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i switched on tv pretty late on tv programme and regonised lotus. grrr what a waste!

Jay

deltaf

6,806 posts

260 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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Time to write a letter of disatisfaction to the nobheads in charge.
Only saw a bit of it in passing to go out and recognised it as a Lotus Europa.
Cant understand just wtf they did that for!?

Bunch of spanner monkey morons.

Pigeon

18,535 posts

253 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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Coming soon, Salvage Squad... restoring a Lotus Europa that some bunch of twonks had turned into a shitty bodged hovercraft that sinks.

veewhy

708 posts

259 months

veewhy

708 posts

259 months

Podie

46,645 posts

282 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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FourWheelDrift said:
I was just about to ask the same thing, never seen the programme before so wondered what condition it was in before they got it.


Likewise... very sad... looked like a nice example as well...

seafarer

1,278 posts

260 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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I have never understood crap like this. It's a display of wasteful destruction. They also set things on fire for no readily apparent reason. I think this program is shown on...wait for it... "The Learning Channel" in the US. They also used to have "Battle Bots" where people would make small remote control robots to destroy each other. Junkyard Wars wasn't so bad in concept, at least it was trash to begin with instead of destroying something. It's cultural decay.

V8 Archie

4,703 posts

255 months

Friday 30th April 2004
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Having somehow forced myself to watch last week's to the end I decided that enough was enough. I've got perfectly good doors to slam on my fingers if I want that much pain again.

cazzo

14,853 posts

274 months

Saturday 1st May 2004
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Gazboy said:
Last week they used a mint Supra and turned it into a lawn mower


Yes but a Supra is hardly a rare classic like the Europa