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Basil, you may be a bit disapointed, the guy is a bafoon......you see very little of the restoration process. In fact the car's body has no dents so this guy hits the rear fender(wing) with a sledge hammer so you can see how to take out a dent........but at the end the car is impressive but cost more that it is worth to restore.
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mdallaire:
Basil, you may be a bit disapointed, the guy is a bafoon......you see very little of the restoration process. In fact the car's body has no dents so this guy hits the rear fender(wing) with a sledge hammer so you can see how to take out a dent........but at the end the car is impressive but cost more that it is worth to restore.<hr></blockquote>
Well, I don't really expect this to be a detailed nuts and bolts restoration "how to" but it does seem like a good bit of fun and he seems to intersperce his restoration with clips of different classic cars. If nothing else it shows an EType coming together and hopefully will inspire me to keep cracking on mine! Its been off the road way to long now!
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Basil, you may be a bit disapointed, the guy is a bafoon......you see very little of the restoration process. In fact the car's body has no dents so this guy hits the rear fender(wing) with a sledge hammer so you can see how to take out a dent........but at the end the car is impressive but cost more that it is worth to restore.<hr></blockquote>
Well, I don't really expect this to be a detailed nuts and bolts restoration "how to" but it does seem like a good bit of fun and he seems to intersperce his restoration with clips of different classic cars. If nothing else it shows an EType coming together and hopefully will inspire me to keep cracking on mine! Its been off the road way to long now!
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<blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by mdallaire:
Basil, you may be a bit disapointed, the guy is a bafoon......you see very little of the restoration process. In fact the car's body has no dents so this guy hits the rear fender(wing) with a sledge hammer so you can see how to take out a dent........but at the end the car is impressive but cost more that it is worth to restore.<hr></blockquote>
I don't think the show was intended to be a step-by-step restoration series, but an entertaining overview of what goes on during restoration. In that light I think the show turned out ok.
I'm not sure why they decided to use the newly mounted replacement wings for the dent demo when they could have used one of the old rotted wings - I guess it made sense to them at the time.
Basil probably didn't get to the end yet so he didn't hear about the us$140,000 price tag on the project - and that's high even considering that the latest auction prices in C&SC put the highest selling S1 E-Types as high as us$114,000.
Basil, you may be a bit disapointed, the guy is a bafoon......you see very little of the restoration process. In fact the car's body has no dents so this guy hits the rear fender(wing) with a sledge hammer so you can see how to take out a dent........but at the end the car is impressive but cost more that it is worth to restore.<hr></blockquote>
I don't think the show was intended to be a step-by-step restoration series, but an entertaining overview of what goes on during restoration. In that light I think the show turned out ok.
I'm not sure why they decided to use the newly mounted replacement wings for the dent demo when they could have used one of the old rotted wings - I guess it made sense to them at the time.
Basil probably didn't get to the end yet so he didn't hear about the us$140,000 price tag on the project - and that's high even considering that the latest auction prices in C&SC put the highest selling S1 E-Types as high as us$114,000.