Wrecks to riches

[WiNgNuTz]

Anyone seen this program on Discovery Turbo? Stumbled across it this morning while flicking through my stepdads sky channels, and I must say I was appalled!

They basically get given a budget by someone looking for a new car, which they then spend on fixing up some random heap salvaged from a scrapyard. The one I saw this morning featured a guy who loves the mk2 Capri, but wanted something more modern, so gave Dominic Littlewood (the host, says it all really! ) £7000 to play with. He then salvaged a busted up MGF for a grand, spent nearly 3k putting it straight, then the rest putting a truly awful bodykit on it, and painting it jaffa cake orange, then calling it a sex machine, before giving the bloke an amazing £100 back from his 7k.

I don't know how old this program was, but surely for starters you could get an MGF for less than 7k without the gash bodykit and garish paint? Let alone one that's already seen the wrong side of a scrapyard gates?! Poor!

/rant

[Ed Doe]

The fact he started with an mgf in the first place says more about the program than anything else...

[WiNgNuTz]

^^Exactly my point. And people pay to have this crap on their TV's! hock:

[C.A.R.]

Bloke in the office has an MG TF160.

He's convinced it's the holy grail of sportscars. Nothing can touch it. He out-ran a BMW M3 the other day at 140 after the BMW driver 'bottled it'.

He's an utter c*nt.

[Ben Jay]

Bloke in the office has an MG TF160.

He's convinced it's the holy grail of sportscars. Nothing can touch it. He out-ran a BMW M3 the other day at 140 after the BMW driver 'bottled it'.

He's an utter c*nt.

you need to remember the rover engine was the best engine ever made...

[Ed Doe]

Bloke in the office has an MG TF160.

He's convinced it's the holy grail of sportscars. Nothing can touch it. He out-ran a BMW M3 the other day at 140 after the BMW driver 'bottled it'.

He's an utter c*nt.

Ask him about the radiator design.... They put the rad at the front, and pipes running from there to the engine. IIRC they're known to corrode and dump the coolant causing very broken engine symptoms...

[4WayDiablo]

Yeah it quite old. I've seen most of then as the body work and jig work interests me
I do remember the one your on about and yeah its bad!
Another one that springs to mind was a 17 yr old with a 106 that they end up putting on some halfords special wheels on and some ripspeed decals
But don't let it spoil the show. Most of them are decent overhauls

[pistolpete]

ask him how many times he has had to change the headgaskt!

[Eeyore]

anywhere to watch this online? D:

[4WayDiablo]

well lets say it looked like this...

[HDIkyle]

Seen that before myself, Watched alot of them, some are ok and can get some good advice off it. Albeit very overpriced!

[Ruan]

K Series y0h!!! The pinnacle of performance engineering and modern reliability...

In fairness, they're fecking good engines, shame they're just poorly executed.