Channel 5 Classic Car Rescue

[RichardA]

Anyone been watching this? Some of the other car forums are foaming at the mouth over this series.

Bernie Fineman and Mario Pacione restore shameful rust buckets to their former ‘classic car’ glory in this new six-part series. In a TV first, viewers will also get the opportunity to win the restored classic car at the end of each episode by entering weekly competitions!

The fiery duo will restore a Jaguar E-Type, a Mini Cooper, a Cadillac, a Ford Mustang, a Porsche 911 and an MGB Roadster. Working to a tight deadline and an even tighter budget, they scour scrapyards, wasteland and backyards to find bargain wrecks with great potential. Having found the cars, they then need to source the rare, original parts and piece together the vital organs of these sleeping beasts to re-create their classic beauty.

But will the job be good enough to impress an expert valuer and put a glittering price tag on the gleaming bonnet? Sparks and spanners fly as Bernie and Mario meet designers, engineers, owners and lovers of these magnificent cars and discuss why these models turned dreams into reality, how they introduced new technology and why they were such a success.
After hard work, some late-nights and last-minute sorties for spare parts, the day arrives for the official presentation and viewers can finally see why these cars became such classics.

http://www.channel5.com/shows/classic-car-rescue

Last one is on tomorrow (Monday 29th) at 8pm. You can watch the previous episodes on Demand 5 (probably won't work if you are outside the UK).

[malcolmgb]

Yes I have watched some of the programs, what a load of rubbish.

[Ozzie]

Bernie overplays it, and spoils what could have been an interesting series.

[madasafish]

The series is designed for those car enthusiasts who think Emmerdale is interesting (or Coronation Street or Home and Away.or  ...)

In other words full of invented crises.

It will all end in a big bang with most of the cast wiped out ready to reappear as ghosts:-)

[olduser1]

The series is for entertainment, the only car worth having is the BMW 840 the expert arrives in on UK restorations

[Ozzie]

I prefered kit car crisis, and campervan crisis, where a film crew follow  people with an interest in building a car from little more than a rusty shell, a few grand and spare weekends and a few good mates, it makes you realise that car renovations are for those with more money and time than I do.

[madasafish]

Yes: the VW programmes following the rebuild of a camper bus was really interesting - if only for the real dramas...

[RichardA]

New series starts on Monday 14th April at 8pm on Channel 5.

Watch it if you dare....

[madasafish]

I think I'll give it a  miss: again.

Beetle Crisis  (or similar) is far better..

[RichardA]

Another classic car restoration show starts tonight - 8pm Channel 4 - For the Love of Cars, presented by actor Philip (Ashes to Ashes) Glenister:

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/for-the-love-of-cars

Wheelers Dealers with Mike Brewer and Ed China is still going. New episodes on Discovery with older episodes (2004-2010) on Discovery Shed:

http://www.discoveryuk.com/web/wheeler-dealers/

[degzi]

For the love of cars was quite good, better than most. It was more on the history etc, but it is entertainment tv at the end of the day.

Wheeler dealers is getting annoying now too.

When will TV producers realise we don't need or want all this drama. Just as it is stuff