New Wheeler Dealers

It was not very often that Edd said this.

The unmentioned overheads, going to USA to buy a car, hotels, car hire, meals, bringing the car back etc, etc and a lot of etc were reasons why I took the show with a pinch of salt. But it was a SHOW. If anybody is interested:

You had a job once? Amazing!

Actually, he does, in most episodes.

No he doesn't.

Yes he does. I admit I've only seen a dozen or so episodes in total but in the ones going out on Quest at the moment he does.

I remember speaking to him at Sata Pod many years ago (around the mid-90s) and he was building all sorts of things then. While he was reclining in his four-poster bed, he was telling us that he was stopped by the police on the way there - they couldn't believe that it was legal for a four-poster bed to be towing a settee (complete with table and standard-lamp) on the road!

SteveW

'OH YES HE DOES!'

They did specifically state a few times that labour costs were deliberately excluded on the basis of it being a demonstration of what you could do yourself and therefore there would be no labour costs - which was fair enough in the early series where they were doing mainly relatively simple mechanical repairs.

SteveW

I never saw this statement about the labour costs, and I did look for it. Bollocks. As for doing the jobs at home, that was 90% bollocks. Unless you have a ramp/pit/welding gear etc.

DON'T SHOUT! IN THIS MEDIUM SHOUTING IS REGARDED AS BEING RUDE. ARE YOU ONE OF THOSE PIKEYS THAT MRS POUNDER HAS WARNED ME ABOUT?

Pity I missed it. It's the only horror film I've ever seen that genuinely creeped me out. And Carpenter's They Live was amazing for other reasons.

Just looked at They Live. I was not impressed. But, never mind.

This was good, Dr Loomis is talking about Peter Hucker.

Yup - that's more like it for a proper job. And remember few cars with perfect bodies require a repaint. There will usually be damage of one sort or another to be repaired first.

Never heard of either of them. What's the context/relevance?

Yes, it can be a total horror story once you start chipping away! :(

but it's pantomime season.

True. It does show the difference between true car restorers and those who merely pontificate about it in the pub.

TV "producers" don't usually tend to bother with those details (don't think they include maths in Media Studies degrees).

There have been many home renovation/house flipping programs on TV in recent years that all followed the same approach ("took 2 years to do up instead of the promised/planned 2 months? who cares about the extra £5k in council tax payments during that time...")