TV now camper restore. Monday22/12

On more four channel 133 on sky. They are doing up a bus. prototype bay but should be good. It will be on plus 1 in an hour.

 

Car S.O.S. It is good so far. Unmoved for 17 years. But a very n e project motor.

 

Cant help myself already passing comment as we go - other half getting fed up! I knew it would start, never had an aircooled engine that didn't no matter how long it was stood!

 

New plugs and leads and them bad boy engines always turn over.

 

Exactly a bit of a clean up and squirt of carb cleaner for really bad one and pop off we go!

 

looked sweet when done, the old boy had a proper blubber and so did I !!

 

Especially as he purchased it new in 1971! I said I wonder if my daughter will do that for me and my van when I am 70!!! She is 4 btw!

 

Am doubting anyone buying a T5 now will be restoring it in 2060.


Would imagine the carbon wrap
would be a bugger to get off for a start.

 

I was thinking the exact same as I have a five year old. Probably flying cars by them.

 

Me buy a T5 - How very dare you! They wont last past warranty period hahaha! No I mean't my Bay van!! Wonder how many replacement repair panels it will have by then?

 

I mentioned the VW T97 electro hover van aready in another post!
VW have watched that documentary on hover boards from the 80's and perfected the technology

 

What an absolute garbage !!
I suppose I was dumb to have expected any better!
Tony

 

You wont see any actual restoration work just the 'drama' around it!

 

not much of resto programme, more for the drama, that Tim bloke gets on my tits sometimes,

Haven't seen the van about to be honest, and I only 15 mins away

 

I've not watched any programmes with that tim bloke in for some time - he's still an idiot. Surprised he didn't get punched in the face by a couple of those suppliers tbh.

Van looked good when it was done, thankfully they didn't try to "upgrade" like some other recent makeover shows. Shame to lose the good original paint that was there but i guess for most the "patina" approach would not be understood.

 

I've not seen it yet, just found it on catch up so we'll be watching it later. From what I've seen posted above about the engine it sounds like the 1.6tp long block in my lock up should be OK for a while yet. It's only been stored there for about 6 years.

 

Same here cant stand that eejiot!!
Yes thank goodness they didn't lower it put Audi R8 alloys on, paint it Dynrod Orange and chop the roof with some chavvy surfing logo on the engine lid plus all the Taiwanese chrome money can buy! Poor guy would have popped his tappets if they had haha... Mind you he didn't seem a confident driver in it though did he!

 

in fairness i tweeted fuzz a few weeks ago saying i liked the show but tim shaw was a tad irritating, he replied that it's all directed by the producers that tim acts a cock for "entertainment" and actually he's a total car nut in real life.