New series of Car SOS on Thursday

Nick Moss · Post by **Nick Moss** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:45 am

http://natgeotv.com/uk/car-sos/about

Nice selection of cars:
1964 Volvo P1800
AC Aceca
1974 BMW2002 Turbo
Datsun 240z

Disco · Post by **Disco** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:59 am

national geographic? - isn't that topless Amazonians and girls with electric blue eyes?

jtparr · Post by **jtparr** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 12:24 pm

Excellent.. Quite fancy an 1800 coupe as another project

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 2:05 pm

If you've never driven one make sure you try one (or better still, a few) before you commit ...

jtparr · Post by **jtparr** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 3:01 pm

Lightweight_911 wrote:If you've never driven one make sure you try one (or better still, a few) before you commit ...

....doubtless good advice Andy....speaking as a person with 2 classics, that I had never driven examples of before buying..!....tell me more when we are at CLM
Best
Jonathan

Grindon · Post by **Grindon** » Wed Apr 13, 2016 5:59 pm

Lightweight_911 wrote:If you've never driven one make sure you try one (or better still, a few) before you commit ...

Good advice!

I had one for a few years a while back. It was beautiful to look at but a bit of a pig to drive imho. It could have just been my car, but it was quite slow and wandered around the road like an old bus. I did like it though!

Cheers,

Kevin

Splitpin · Post by **Splitpin** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:19 am

The AC Aceca on tonight's show was beautiful

Splitpin · Post by **Splitpin** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:24 am

And here is the P1800 having some finishing touches at around midnight before the reveal!!

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:15 am

One of the very best car related programs currently on TV imho.
Last night was good, the AC.

How that all gets done in 3 weeks is a slice of magic.
Plastic rear screen forming was a cherry on the cake.

Informative and entertaining with real dirty hands with real people. No F'in and Blindin' too, whatever next?

11/10

DustyM · Post by **DustyM** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 8:40 am

It is a good show however I do find the staged "blagging" to supposedly get parts cheap a bit irritating and the show would be all the better without this...

Lightweight_911 · Post by **Lightweight_911** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 9:31 am

Is it on any other channel(s) apart from National Geographic ?

I watched previous series (although that 'Tim' gets on my nerves) but can't remember what channel it was on.

smallspeed · Post by **smallspeed** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 11:15 am

love this show - its one of the few "makeover" type shows where they do a good honest job, with a focus on what the owner would actually want or need!

911hillclimber · Post by **911hillclimber** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:47 pm

^^ Totally Agree^^

Andy,
wife seems to remember that it is available on another channel, but not the current series, just the old ones.
I think you have a soft-spot for these cars, so worth a look on google?

I with the 'Tim time' blagging was spent on the actual bonding of the lower body sills to the original alum body, that would have been interesting!
Glad that the fab interior was left 'as-is (was)'.

Just a very nice car, and the metallic green one from the owner's club was rather nice too on black wires.
There should have been more on the TR engine re-build as the place used looked to do a great job.

Still a good episode.

Splitpin · Post by **Splitpin** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 7:22 pm

It will be shown on channel 4 later in the year, episodes from previous series are available to view on more 4.

I must say its a pleasure to work on the show, seriously hard work with tight deadlines but seeing the owners surprise makes it all worth it.

Next weeks is great episode...

jb · Post by jb » Fri Apr 15, 2016 10:00 pm

I enjoyed it but must admit that I cringed when Tim started telling porkies and fast forwarded through them.
They do a good job and seem like genuine enthusiasts so I am not sure why they think they need to do this shifty stuff.
What happened to integrity?

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