I missed the first half, welled up on the second.
Glenister spoiled it for me tbh. Such a great car, great history, and an amazing collection of people that were involved with it (like the seat trimming guys!) and he's a bit "meh, so what" ish....
Also, such a nice original example, i'm in two minds if a "better than factory" resto was the right thing to do. I wonder if it would have been better to just fix the chassis, rebuild the engine/transmission etc but leave the bodywork broadly untouched and original?
Glenisters a dick
Also chassis should not have been painted green and seats should not have been green either.
what did it drive into to snap the chassis where it did !
Great car. Great restoration. Get over yourselves and enjoy the show. Jeez.
great show.
just wish they'd show a bit more of actually putting the car back together besides the rolling chassis and engine.
even if it was a stop motion video.
Gears suck .
On of the first things the mech said was that they were going to restore this car to how it left the factory and retain its colourways .
Glenister walks in and tells him it will be green .... Then to throw in a green chassis and seats....kick in the nuts for what is almost rivet counter perfect car by the looks of it.
This is the 2nd in the series and I can't fathom how someone that has almost zero interest in cars gets the gig. Completely ruins the programme. Agree on the colour, if they'd done it in the original it would have been great but in green it's just generic. A real wasted opportunity.
Have to say the restorer, while a bit "enthusiastic" for the camera, he looks like he knows what he's doing. Both this and least weeks Mexico have been really well done.
What have they done?
Jeez that was a timewarp car. You could restore anything to that pitch, but you could never replicate the patina of originality.
My neighbours in Orkney had a Series II Safari in an elephant grey. The paint was matt flat, the seats were grey rexine. It was a totally original locally BS registered car. When they eventually sold it to a collector, it realised a good chunk of the purchase price of a newer 110 CSW.
I remember meeting a guy at the Uath Lochans in the Inshriach Forest whose folks had kept their Series IIA hardtop. It too was original and unrestored. It was 45 or so years old and had only done 11000 miles. It had just been used occasionally on a local estate. It had been used but really cared for. It would have been criminal to have restored it.
I agree about the over-restoration. All that history was lost under a coat of green.
As for Glenister, i thought he was alright. Without a comedy bellend character, you just have some boring old men talking about how 'they just don't make them like this anymore'. Great if you're an enthusiast, but it doesn't make for very good TV.
Bloody green , it should not have been touched at all
Oh and maybe I'm a little upset I can't even buy a crappy series 1
just started on 4 7