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Posted: 20:08 - 18 Jan 2022 Post subject: Scrapheap Challenge |
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Remember Scrapheap Challenge on C4? Think it ran from 1998 to 2010.
Various teams building working vehicles that had to perform a specific task out of scrap cars, vans, trucks and assorted industrial machinery?
I used to love that show - I was just getting properly into doing my own spannering at the time so it was an inspiration - particularly as many of my bikes at the time were close to scrap anyway
Another great show in the genre was 'Wheeler Dealers' with Ed China fixing up older cars.
Great era of TV for beer drinking, DIY spanner monkeys - these days 99% of terrestrial TV seems to be about baking fairy cakes and puffing up meringues! everything was better in my day moan, grumble etc etc . . . (ok - maybe that's a massive exaggeration . . .) ____________________ Even more boring in real life . . . |
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Posted: 20:31 - 18 Jan 2022 Post subject: |
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It's probably rose tinted spectacles on my part, I tend to remember the 10% of the past that was all beer and sunshine and filter out the other 90% that was mostly boring or just plain shite
And yes, I think the scrap parts were strategically sourced and placed rather than just random findings ____________________ Even more boring in real life . . . |
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I was working in a scarapyard in the back end of east london when they were filming an episode there.
One of the contestants came by where I was working on his wy to the lav when I looked up and said...
"You're Ben aren't you?"
His face made all sorts of crazy contortions trying to figure out where he knew me from or how I knew his name.
I didn't know him, nor he me, his name was written across the front of his overalls but his face was a picture. ____________________ VFR800X - TTR250 |
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Posted: 22:02 - 19 Jan 2022 Post subject: Re: Scrapheap Challenge |
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Zen Dog wrote: |
My problem with it was always that they never included Ed's labour costs, so you got a really misleading impression of how much money was actually to be made when fixing up and selling old cars. |
Yes, when you calculate the cost of labour plus the cost of the garage space, hydraulic lift and equipment the figures probably didn't add up, especially as some of the profit margins were very thin.
Nobby the Bastard wrote: | They did include them in later series, it moved from the hobbyist to the expert and quite frankly f1 elvis sucks balls on screen. |
Yeah, I prefer it when Ed China was doing it.
TbirdX wrote: | I didn't know him, nor he me, his name was written across the front of his overalls but his face was a picture. |
lol! Classic!
Polarbear wrote: | I really enjoyed it. Some of the constructions were epic. I expect if they tried to do it now it would be so sanitised by H&S it just wouldn't work. |
Yeah, some of the engineering/mechanical work was very clever and inventive - even though it wasn't that long ago it does seem to be from another age when people were a bit more into dirty, oily potentially dangerous mechanical stuff - artifical intelligence, software and baking seems to have taken centre stage since then.
Yeah - The Strawbridge guy seems to have done ok with his chateau. ____________________ Even more boring in real life . . . |
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Nobby the Bastard wrote: | Because of scrapheap challenge I realised that, when I was messing around with a scaffold pole chucking lighter fluid and stuff in and lighting it to watch the flame front run repeatedly from one end to the other and back, if I'd used a U shaped tube it would have been a pulse jet.... |
On the pulse jet theme, and the scrapheap challenge theme generally, have you guys seen Colin Furze?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1EHZPjLNHk ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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Yes, they look good - much more reassuring than axle stands.
If I was gonna seriously work on cars I think I would save up for a low rise hydraulic lift.
I reckon I'll stick to bikes though because in terms of practicality they are so much easier to take apart and work on. ____________________ Even more boring in real life . . . |
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Posted: 16:08 - 20 Jan 2022 Post subject: Re: Scrapheap Challenge |
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MarJay wrote: | Not at all. The idea was and has always been about what an enthusiastic amateur can do given time and tools to work on cars. If you're an enthusiast and want to own an M3, or a 911 or something but can't afford anything other than something that needs work you can do it economically. Loads of people seem to have the misconception you have but it's always been made clear right from the beginning. |
I wasn't a dedicated watcher, but in the few episodes I watched I don't remember that ever being mentioned as the intent. Most amateurs don't have access to a massive workshop, or a dedicated team. If it was meant to be representing the enthusiastic amateur, who was occupying that role on the show? Brewer didn't do any of the work, and Ed had access to way more kit than your average amateur. They don't make any reference to whether the particular work they do is viable for your average amateur either. If they said things like "obviously you'd need access to a spray booth/chassis jig/whatever if you were doing this yourself" I could see it, but they don't. I'm not saying you're wrong, but that intent wasn't clear at all, to me at least. ____________________ Current - '94 VFR750FR, '00 VFR800FI Previous - '10 Street Triple R, '92 MZ ETZ301, '05 TTR250, NSR125R, KMX125, "Honda" Win (chinese copy of an old Honda design with a C90 engine)
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 2 years, 89 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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