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While watching on PBS the show Motorweek they had a Sunbeam Tiger on. Didn't run it but used it as a model for what to look for when buying a used car. Problem was, they were going through things to look for with a modern car with electronics rather than a near 60yo classic. For example, telling buyers to get in and switch on the ignition and all the dash indicator lights should come on for a couple seconds so you can determine if the computers are working and to release the column lock. Can't actually do that with the example car since none of those things exist in it. They would have been better off borrowing one of the crew's cars so they could really do what they were telling folks to do as checkouts. Just had to shake my head...
 
That is weird. Like "Let's learn financial management by following the British laws of the 1730s".

Would be funny for Motorweek to test turn signals, and see semaphore arms pop up while they're staring at the indicator lights.

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Haven't intentionally watched "Motorweek" in decades. Any time seeing it en passant makes me shake my head in disgust. New cars are just appliances, IMO, to be relegated to "Consumer's Digest" at best.
 
I watch the Hagerty shows - "Barn Finds Hunter",etc.,
although I'm getting really tired of seeing them run the
same episodes over & over (& OVER).
I also can't stand to watch the "filler" commercial -
the one that has an in-car camera driving on a European road.
The driver takes the wrong lines through every corner.
Anyone else notice that?
 
I saw it because PBS ran an advert for it and showed the Tiger, so I thought I'd watch thinking it would be more LBC as a segment, not what it ended up being. Usually I don't pay that much attention to it.
 
Some of the Antiques Roadshow episodes include rich British folk driving "classic" British cars. Unfortunately the car is almost ignored in the show - but we do see some rather obnoxious "pommies" driving it.
 
I dont know if you can get to watch "Bangers and Cash" over the pond, but its a great show about an auction house owned by Mathewsons.
They auction all sorts of vintage and classic cars and memorablia.
They even have a side show called the restorers where they buy something in the auction from peddle cars, motor bikes and cars,
they then restore them and stick them back up for auction, They have never made a penny out of it up to now, lost thousands though
 
mezy said:
I dont know if you can get to watch "Bangers and Cash" over the pond, but its a great show about an auction house owned by Mathewsons.
They auction all sorts of vintage and classic cars and memorablia.
They even have a side show called the restorers where they buy something in the auction from peddle cars, motor bikes and cars,
they then restore them and stick them back up for auction, They have never made a penny out of it up to now, lost thousands though
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"They have never made a penny out of it up to now, lost thousands though."

Sounds like many of us here ...
 
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