What a load of staged c*ck.
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11 years ago
What a load of staged c*ck.
I recorded it and have just finished watching it. Staged c*ck is a good description. I won't bother with the rest of the series.
What a load of cowboys. I pity the mug who ends up with that car.
Jim
Quite. It was full of factual errors in the commentary - let alone all the bollocks talked on screen.
And who in their right mind re-sprays the car before doing the mechanical work?
The main one being that the XK engine was a road car engine developed for racing, not the other way around.
Did they have to fit the cheapest and nastiest sunroof they could find?
-- Halmyre
Didn't watch to the end but I'll bet the "win this car" was a premium rate phone-in. That is the real reason for the hour of crap that preceded it!
Paul DS.
Exactly so. I turned it off after fifteen minutes.
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they didnt.
I'd suggest you actually watch the prog.
I did.
It was. £1.53 a minute.
I resisted the temptation. I felt a big enough mug watching it to the end, without helping to pay for it on my phone bill.
Jim
Were there E-Types factory fitted with Strombergs like their one was? It is many years since I looked under the bonnet of one, but I thought they were SUs. Mind you, that was a RHD. Perhaps the Yank spec was different.
Jim
It was a US spec car - the twin Strombergs rather than triple SUs - gave better emission figures. At the expense of performance.
That car with auto transmission would have a top speed of under 120 mph.
0-60 about 11 seconds. A far cry from a decent UK manual.BTW, the 150mph quoted as the E type top speed was only ever achieved with the original road test car which was fitted with a D type engine. Production versions were more like 135 mph. It wasn't until the V12 arrived that a production E-Type could make 150 mph.
There's also the danger that you might actually win the wretched thing.
-- Halmyre
That thought crossed my mind too.
BTW, the 150mph quoted as the E type top speed was only ever achieved with the original road test car which was fitted with a D type engine. Production versions were more like 135 mph. It wasn't until the V12 arrived that a production E-Type could make 150 mph.
Know what you mean I wanted too but I was like a rabbit caught in headlights... I just couldn't believe what I was watching!
Goes to show - "Buyer Beware!" - there as some mega gash bastards around !
Slatts
Anyone thinking of buying a 40 years old car should get skilled help.
I didn't think the prog guilty of actually bodging things. But if you win it for the price of a phone call, it would easily cover that in scrap value.
I started watching it (my wife recorded it, thinking I'd be interested) but I disliked the two main characters, the tone of the show and the factual errors got up my nose, so I stopped & deleted it just after they bought the car. Utter crap.
I watched it this morning, I thought it was a bad comedy show.
Martin P
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