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For The Love of Cars
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Actor Philip Glenister and car designer Ant Anstead explain what their new Channel 4 classic car show is all about. They bicker a bit, talk fast cars, dream classics and their worst cars. It is certainly emotional, but mostly it's all about the love of cars
For those who didn’t see series one, explain what For the Love of Cars is all about? A: It celebrates our love affair with classic cars. In each episode we look at the history of various types of car, and we restore one back to its former glory. P: We look at the car’s history through people we meet, the restorations we do, the stories that we tell, and we do a few road trips on this one to test the cars out. It’s sort of a combination of three shows rolled into one, in many respects. And we hope that people will come along for the ride. You’re both passionate about cars, but in different ways, aren’t you? A: When it comes to understanding motors, Phil’s a very good actor. P: I’m more on the design side. I pick the colours and the cloth for the interior. And Ant… A:…does the actual work. P: Ant gets covered in grease.
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So Phil, is it fair to say that Ant can sometimes bore you with his excitement about obscure technical details of the cars? P: I think it’s incredibly fair to say that. A: Yeah, but Phil bores me with his Shakespeare lines. P: I was doing The Hollow Crown while we were filming this, so I used to bring my Shakespeare lines in and test them on Ant, to see if he could do received pronunciation. He can’t. The first series was basically just British cars. You’re widening the net this time, aren’t you? A: Well, more than that, the first series was an episode on an individual car. Now each episode isn’t just on an individual car, but a family of cars. So we’ve widened the net in that respect as well. And we’ve tweaked the format in that we’re no longer buying a car, fixing it up and selling it, we actually take someone’s pride and joy, someone’s stalled restoration that they can’t go any further on, and we finish it for them. So there are a few changes, and I think series 2 is better for it. And the car is auctioned at the end of every programme, isn’t it? A: Yeah. Series one had a specific auction episode, whereas in this series, each programme will finish with the car being sold at auction. It gives the programme a start, a middle and an end. In this series, did you ever have any owners who were so pleased with the finished results that they didn’t want to sell their car after all?
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A: I think all of them. You have to remember, these cars have a special place in the hearts of these people, for various different reasons. For somebody to let go of something that important to them is hard enough, but when they see the results at the end of the restoration, it’s really tough. These are jobs that they’ve not been able to finish themselves… P: So along come a couple of suckers… A: Yeah, we finish it for them and then give them the money. P: What a brilliant business plan. Where do both of you get your passion for cars from? P: Mine sort of started off from seeing cars on TV. And being on two shows where the cars were very heavily featured, and were almost stars in their own right – the Cortina in Life on Mars, and then the Audi Quatro in Ashes to Ashes. I’ve always had a fascination with the role that cars play in TV and film. Indeed, in this series, I get to drive the original Volvo P1800 from The Saint, in the
company of a man called Johnny Goodman, who was the producer on The Saint and on The Persuaders. He regaled me with a few groovy stories. They only ended up using a Volvo because they approached Jaguar, who were a bit sniffy about it. So Johnny approached Volvo who couldn’t have been more helpful. They said “How many do you need, and when do you need them by?” The rest is history. As the show became a worldwide hit, the car became a global phenomenon. What about you, Ant? Where does your passion come from? A: My dad couldn’t change a wheel. But I bought my first car when I was 16. As a kid I always had Lego and Mecchano, model sets. I built Go Karts when I was 10 or 11, and threw my brothers down the hill in them. I built my first car at 16. I was really lucky, because at the back of my parents’ house, there was a block of about five garages. My parents had one of them, the rest belonged to neighbours, but within about a year I’d filled all the garages. I managed to convince the neighbours that I needed the space. I’ve been building and restoring cars ever since then, and that’s what I do full time now. Have you ever fallen in love with cars you’ve restored and not been able to bring yourself to sell them? A: A couple! Most of my cars are commissions. Clients come to me with a project and a brief, but there have been times when I’ve come across a wreck and just had to buy it and do it, yes. Too many times, my wife says.
What was each of your first cars? P: The first car I actually owned was a Peugeot 205 GTI. It was great. A: Mine was an MG Midget. Vermillion orange with a black hood. What’s the best and worst car you’ve ever had? A: I’d say the worst car I’ve ever had was a Fiat X19. My wife broke down in it once, and she ended up screaming at me. It was just rubbish. P: The worst car – actually, it wasn’t mine, but a friend of mine had just passed his driving test and I was working for a company at the time, and the guy who was in charge of transport had a Mini to sell. It looked really nice – it had ice white stripes on it, it looked really rally-ish. But Christ, it was a danger. Anyway, I persuaded him to buy it, and it was just awful. I remember driving back, and him saying “It drifts to the right quite a lot.” It was like a boomerang. It would just go round in circles if you’d let it. It was terrible. A: I had a Lotus Elan – an early one. Great car. And I was rebuilding it, and I had the engine in my dining room for two years. Your wife is a long-suffering woman! A: That’s true. For her 21st birthday present, I bought her a set of Weber Carburettors. She didn’t want them, obviously – turns out they fitted on my MG perfectly. Ant, what would you say to people who wanted to get into doing restorations full time. Is it a good way if making a living? A: There’s a whole romantic vision that restoring cars is cupcakes and rainbows. It isn’t. Car restoration is hard work. It’s graft, its long hours, it’s a horrible, dirty, sweaty job. You cut your knuckles, you tear your hair out, no two cars are the same, parts are impossible to come by. It requires a
degree of patience, but I’d say a bigger degree of passion. I would say that someone interested in getting in to it should try it out first. Do a project in the garage, get involved, see what it’s really like. If someone comes along in 30 years’ time, wanting to restore cars that are made today, will it be as simple? A: No. The car sector’s moved on – some might say it’s improved – but of course everything is electronically driven now. It’s all computerised. P: If something goes wrong with a car now, you’d have to go to the manufacturers. Everything’s computerised now, and the only people who have the codes are the manufacturers. It’s just another way of them making a few quid. A: I suppose as the car industry moves on, it just illustrates how beautifully basic classic cars are. Things like Citroen 2CVs and VW Beetles are beautiful because of their simplicity. So does that mean that restoring cars will become a dying art, the further we get from that simplicity? A: It kind of is. The way cars are manufactured used to require a great deal of skill. But are we training new apprentices to pick up the skills that the old guys had 50 years ago? The answer is no. The volume of skilled labour is disappearing at a faster rate than the introduction of new labour. Ultimately we’re going to run out of those skills in this country. Luckily, there are still some great apprenticeship schemes out there that will teach people how to do up old cars. P: That was a party political broadcast by the MP for Hertfordshire. A: I employ a number of people to build classic cars, and staffing is really difficult. It takes a vast amount if skill before you can even get in the door. These people are really hard to come by, so when
you get hold of them you try to keep them. Phil, do you reckon you could go back to school and retrain? P: Listen, if the acting all goes tits up, I’ll be there. A: If all else fails, you can always make the tea. P: Exactly! I make a great brew. How many cars do you both have? P: I have two. I have one, and my wife has the other one. I haven’t got room for any more than that. I’d have nowhere to put them. A: I’ve got over a handful. We won’t mention how many. If you could find any car from history and restore it on the show, what would it be? A: I’d want to find a significant car. You hear all these stories about cars being unearthed in barns. I’d want to find one of those holy grail cars – not necessarily because of the car, but because of its history. Maybe a missing car that won Le Mans, or a famous car in a film. James Dean’s missing Porsche, that kind of thing. The thing about classic cars is it isn’t just the car, it’s the car’s story. I’d want to do a car that was significant because of what it did. P: I would like to find the Ferrari Dino that Tony Curtis drove in The Persuaders, because apparently it’s out there. Nobody knows where it is. I would like to make a programme about it, and call it Finding Dino.
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he two legendary chopper craftsmen set out to regain their place as the kings of customized bike building. With A-list celebrities and world famous athletes as clients, millions of pounds and their brands’ reputations are on the line with every signature build. The estranged duo also hope to reconcile their infamously fractured relationship in the new series of AMERICAN CHOPPER. The father-son duo vow to begin a new chapter and put the past behind them in the new series, but now that Paul Jr. has a son, there are more parties involved. Will the Teutuls chopper businesses continue to survive, or will their complicated father-son relationship pose a threat to their shops?
WHAT WAS THE MOST BADDEST BIKE YOU EVER RODE? Paul Teutul Sr One of the cool bikes that I – it’s not my favourite bike, but as far as I could ride, it was the Aragon bike, which is a real cool bike. But I enjoyed riding that bike.
WHERE DOES YOUR PASSION FOR BIKES COME FROM? Paul Teutul Sr It was the early 1970s and the reason for that is I had a partner in the steel business – steel fabricating business that I had for 26 years. And he was a guy that was totally into bikes. And because we had the steel shop, we were able to do things other people couldn’t do. What was unique about him is he didn’t buy a bike. He built it from the ground up. So, he did the frame. He pretty much handcrafted everything and that’s really where I got my inspiration from.
ARE YOUNG BUYERS STILL INTO CHOPPERS? Paul Teutul Sr Everything is a trend. And yeah – I mean, we just did a really nice café racer. So, it’s kind of like – for me, going to that style is refreshing from building the wide-tyre bike. It’s more traditional. Personally I ride a chopper. That’s all I ride. I do have quite a few Harleys, but I choose to ride a chopper and that’s what I’ve been riding all my life.
BRITISH BIKES – ARE THEY ANY GOOD AS CHOPPERS OR DO THEY JUST LEAK OIL ALL OVER YOUR SHOP? Paul Teutul Jr Well, it’s not just British bikes. It’s a lot of different bikes leak oil, especially the older bikes. But I, personally, am pretty fond of Triumph motorcycles. I don’t know that they make great choppers for me, personally, but I do feel like they make a great bike. And I like the way they look, you know?
THAT IF YOU HAD TO RECOMMEND A BIKE TO A GUY WHO IS GETTING HIS FIRST BIKE EVER, WHICH BIKE WOULD YOU CHOOSE AND WHY? Paul Teutul Jr Well, first of all, I think it would depend on the guy. First of all, if he’s a big guy, I might recommend a full-sized Harley or maybe a Goldwing, depending on what he likes. If he’s a smaller guy, I might suggest a Triumph or a – or just a smaller, more nimble bike, more manageable. I have found that sometimes, people try and start on smaller bikes and they very quickly outgrow them once they learn to ride. So, if you could manage a larger bike, it’s a better way to go. A little bit of more horsepower, you’re going to want that, I think, long term. Especially if you’re riding with a group, then you want to keep up. So, I don’t think there’s a cutand-dried answer. I think it would be really specific to the individual.
DOES IT MAKE SENSE TO START CUSTOMISING BIKES THESE DAYS, AND WHAT’S LEFT TO SURPRISE PEOPLE WITH? Paul Teutul Jr Yeah. That’s a good question. I mean for me, yes, I – the way I build motorcycles is with a theme. So, when the theme changes, then the look of the bike changes. If you noticed, the bikes that we build are always different. So, it always makes sense because we’re not doing the same thing over and over. A lot of custom builders will come up with a look and just repeat that look through their whole career. But because we
build theme bikes, it’s ever-changing. So for us, it makes a lot of sense.
WHAT ARE THE MAIN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN YOUR STYLE AND YOUR FATHER’S? Paul Teutul Jr I would say that we both build theme bikes because I started out there, being the lead designer. And then, when I – when we separated ways at the end of 2008, the style came with me and they kept doing theme bikes as well as designer there. I would say maybe I’m much more of an emotional designer. I’m a very expressive designer. I think one of the biggest differences in our process is when I build, I don’t use any drawings. I don’t have anything – any guidelines. I work strictly out of my head, from my hands onto the lift or the frame.
HOW DO YOU MATCH OWNER’S STYLE, CHARACTER AND HABIT AND WHAT – WHAT’S THE CRAZIEST THING YOU’VE DONE SO FAR? Paul Teutul Jr Okay. Well, what I try and do is I’ll take what’s important to the client, whether it be a charity, an individual with certain tastes or a corporation, and I’ll take the things that are most important to them and then I’ll incorporate those things into the bike. And I do that in a way where in the end result, it looks like it was built by the individual himself, had he been able to build motorcycles. That’s always my goal. As I said earlier, I don’t use drawings. So, the clients out there – whether it be Microsoft or Cadillac or Bill Murray, for that matter – every single one of them has trusted me implicitly with their IT or their ideas or the things that they’re fond of. So, we’ve had a great success rate at exceeding expectations and it just kind of the way we build. I would say two of the more outstanding, most – more unusual I would call them vehicles, not even really motorcycles that I’ve done is we built these two platforms, I’ll call them, for World of Warcraft. We built them and we came up with the design. And then, they took them and reverse-engineered them.
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HEELER DEALERS is back as the new team begin work on an array of second-hand motors in need of a second chance. From their southern California shop, automotive valuation expert Mike Brewer (MB) and new master mechanic and fabricator Ant Anstead (AA) go to work finding, fixing and flipping a wide variety of unique used cars from manufacturers in Germany, Sweden, Italy, Japan, the US and the UK.
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MB There is one big, significant change, which is a new co-host. Ant Anstead has now joined me as the master mechanic in the workshop. Other than that, the show is sticking true to its traditional format. Continuing where we left off, we are making sixteen plus two specials in the United States.
HAVE YOU USED UP ALL THE CARS IN THE UK?
MB That is part of the reason, we had got through a lot of cars, but we were being drawn by the prospect of Mustangs , Camaros and Corvettes. And the audience tend to like it a lot so we have stayed there for another series.
ARE YOU MATES?
AA We can’t stand each other to be honest. MB They have to pay me to work with the guy. Me and Ant have known each other professionally for five years. We have done live stage shows and we are involved in some charitable work together so we have become very close buddies. When the change was inevitable, that Edd China was leaving, there was only going to be one mechanic beside me in the show and that was Ant.
WHAT SHOULD VIEWERS TAKE AWAY FROM WHEELER DEALERS?
AA My role as a mechanic in the show is to give people the confidence to do it. In the last century cars have fundamentally remained the same, so you should have the confidence to be able to tackle this in your own garage. Yes there has to be an entertainment element to grab people’s attention. There is only 42 minutes in the American Show so we have to get as much
in as possible. The format of Wheeler Dealers has been the same for years. Mike finds a wreck, we do four primary jobs and we have to be selective about what those jobs are and tell that story in a way that makes the viewer think, ‘oh I’ll have a go at that’, but if they don’t want to have a go, then they can still learn about that particular car. Normally we do get cars that have particular problems and that is the issue we deal with. Knowledge is given as how you tackle a problem, but also if you buy this car then this it is notorious for doing that. So we are sticking to that Wheeler Dealer DNA, which means it still feels like the same show.
AA We don’t just pick cars that we both like, Mike picked a Wagoneer on this show and it wasn’t a car we liked, but the market demand means that there is a story to be told. It is irrelevant whether either of us like the car.
WHEN DOES THE SHOW START?
AA Happy New Year, it is the perfect hangover cure, if you’ve had a boozy celebration the night before then this is the perfect programme to watch at 9pm on Discovery UK. Plus the first car is a proper one, it is a Ford Escort Cosworth. It is the most requested car in the history of Wheeler Dealers. Now getting hold of a Cosworth WERE THERE ANY CARS THAT has been difficult and Mike has been on the WERE DIFFICULT TO LOVE? lookout for a long while. The story behind AA In this series Mike bought the Ford how we got this is very interesting. The Ranchero, an absolute heap. I was surprised show has moved on and the viewers will that he bothered, I wouldn’t have, however, the see that. It is not just a change of host it is a car was amazing by the end. I am not going lot more ambitious than that. We brought to be in love with every car, everyone knows one of the original designers in. We actually I have a reputation for not liking Triumph reveal a hidden history of that car which has Stags, I am sure that if one turns up I will be remained a secret. It is all about the third professional and get on with it. wing which split opinion and for that reason alone I am very proud of Wheeler Dealers. MB Funny you should say that because I’ve YOU HAVE MADE THE COVER just bought a Stag.
WILL YOU EVER RESTORE A NISSAN LEAF ?
AA The car market changes and people are always asking us what are the classics of the future, I don’t know whether I can tell you, but I will, we will be doing the BMW MINI. There is no doubt in my mind that the early MINI will be a classic of the future. Even though they have built thousands, some of them are going to become a classic. We have to tackle one because it is an affordable car at the moment, it accessible to a lot of people. It is a Wheeler Dealers car. So would we do a Nissan Leaf? I think absolutely not.
GENTLEMAN, ANT, IT’S THE SECOND TIME FOR YOU.
MB So I’ve never been on the cover of Bangernomics Mag? That is unbelievable. I want to be the main picture and Ant as a small sidebar. AA I sell magazines and Mike has the face for radio.
MB I can answer that, what makes a classic car and worthy of being on Wheeler Dealers is when a car creates its own fanbase, so you get a owner’s club. When people gather in a car park to look at a car and stare at it and I can’t ever imagine a future where people are going to stand around staring at a bunch of Nissan Leafs.
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Land Rover SIIA Strike
H O L L I DAY T I M E Bangernomics watched Strike for two reasons: Holliday Grainger and that Land Rover. We catch up with the star who plays Robin Ellacott in the series and chat Land Rovers. At the end of The Silkworm, Robin finally gets the partnership with Strike - where is she in Career Of Evil? Strike pays for her to do a surveillance course, between Silkworm and Career Of Evil, so by the time we’re in Career Of Evil, Robin has some more detective skills than she had in the beginning. So she’s come on in leaps and bounds in her aptitude for the job. Within that, as a detective partner, she has the freedom to make her own decisions in the business. But Strike is the boss it’s his company, but he’s also been doing this for years and years and Robin’s only just started. What do you think makes Career Of Evil different to the other two stories, in terms of narrative? All three books are set in London, but they focus on different aspects of London, and therefore how Robin and Strike fit in to those worlds. Career Of Evil is a lot darker and this time it’s set on the London streets. We’re not in the publishing houses or lofty supermodel apartments - we’re 24 Bangernomics.com
in bedsits in Catford Through that story, a lot of Strike’s and Robin’s back stories come out and Strike’s involvement with the Army and the various men that he’s met throughout his career. The same with Robin, her past history comes out, so it feels a lot more personal and a lot darker. Was it interesting to take the show out of London and did it change the dynamic between Robin and Strike? On our first week we went up North on a road trip, and so it broke us into the tone of a new book, by giving us that break while we were shooting. Strike and Robin, outside of that London world, do feel very different, and that’s where they learn more about each other. Their relationship dynamic changes once they’re out of the office. And you get to do a bit of driving? Yes oh I love that Land Rover, I fell in love with it. That’s a great description in the book, where it says Robin was the only person whom Strike could
stand to be driven by. That’s what you really love about Robin even more, she’s really practical and she can drive really well. She took an advanced driving course, she’s so cool. The Land Rover that she has in Career Of Evil is fantastic. Every detective series has to have a cool car. Robin brings it to Career Of Evil in the shape of a battered old ‘60s Land Rover. When we opened it, it literally did have straw on the floor and did smell like dogs and horses. It’s really hard to drive because it’s so old, but once I got the knack of it I loved it. I loved it more because Robin’s supposed to be a great driver. I’m not. But this Landrover was very specific in how you drove it and the gears were quite difficult. If anyone else would get into the car to re-set it, they couldn’t put it in reverse. I was like, don’t worry love, I’ll re-set the car! It made me feel one step closer to Robin, bonding with her car. If you missed strike on BBC One, find it on iPlayer.
REGISTERED IN JANUARY 1962 THE STRIKE LAND ROVER WOULD BE AN EARLY SERIES IIA. IT IS FITTED WITH THE 2286CC PETROL ENGINE.
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Land Rover SIIA Strike
BURKE’S STEERAGE Mind you, there was a faction at bangernomics who watched Strike mainly for Tom Burke, so here’s a quick chat and even more pictures of that sensational Land Rover Series IIA. Could you introduce Career Of Evil to us and tell us where we are with it? Career Of Evil is very different to the other two stories so far, because the stakes are set at the beginning of the first episode - they land on the doorstep - and it’s more a kind of whirlwind, a ‘what are we going to do now?’ from the get-go. In a sense, it’s a more straightforward story to tell. But interestingly, with just as much room, if not more, for the growing relationship between Cormoran and Robin. They’ve got out of London, gone up to Barrowin-Furness and have had to stop at a hotel, and so suddenly they’re stuck in a hotel together. Charles Sturridge [Director] was brilliant at encouraging little moments to happen like these, quite ambiguous moments, really. Career Of Evil is a much darker story than the other two. You and Holliday work even more closely together on this story. Yes, totally. And there are moments that need real tenderness and pain. It’s nice to 26 Bangernomics.com
feel that you’re in a completely safe space to do that. I think the main thing you want to feel with somebody else when you’re acting with them, is that you’re acting with them. You’re not being scrutinised or tested. I think its trust, you have to offer up trust, and I think that’s why it went as smoothly as it did. Do you have any moments when you just thought, this is exactly what Career Of Evil is all about? I really love all the stuff we did driving from London to Barrow-in-Furness in the Land Rover. I watched it the other day and it was just a lovely moment to think, oh they’re there now, that’s their friendship now, that’s their relationship now. It took me by surprise. It really felt like I believed it. It’s just a particular thing isn’t it, to share a long car journey with somebody. What makes him different from other detectives that we’ve seen? What makes him different as a detective and as a character, and what sets him apart from other
detectives, is that Strike has grown up witness to, and has encountered, evil. He knows what it looks like and smells like and he’s ready to act on it if it needs to be confronted. He’s always an individual and he doesn’t pretend to know why. He tries to find out and is curious. I feel we’re very much living in a time where people are pointing a lot at groups, and going it’s the left, it’s the right, it’s the leavers, it’s the remainers, it’s the UK, it’s the other lot. I don’t think he creates those monoliths in any way. We know that he’s had this Oxford education and it’s probably something to do with that and, on a deep level, something to do with who he is. Life is tricky for most people, it is for him. I think he comes at everything with that. It’s not just tricky because he lost the bottom third of his leg, it’s not tricky just because his mother was murdered, or just because of what happened to him in his childhood. You could almost say he’s a cynic in that sense.
I think Cocteau described life as ‘an infernal machine’ - it almost pushes people to do bad things. Strike has an understanding of that and that’s where his compassion comes from. Do you think that’s where his choice of work comes from?
Yes and no. In Career Of Evil it’s very clear that he struggles with the justice system and the fact that it’s not perfect and he knows he can’t fix it. There’s a bit of a conflict with Robin in that because she just wants to go out and save everyone and that’s not the way it works.He
talks about certain cases that haunt him because they were left and they weren’t wrapped up. Somebody could just not want anything to do with that. I think he knows it’s what he’s good at. If you missed strike on BBC One, find it on iPlayer. Bangernomics.com 27
Salvage Hunters
good car hunting Drew Pritchard: breakfast with a Manx Norton on the table... Paul Cowland: it couldn’t pull a baby giraffe over... 28 Bangernomics.com
Two blokes buying, fixing and flogging motors. Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars on Quest
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antiques supremo Drew Pritchard. whose first love is cars – he is a huge petrolhead, with a keen eye for collector vehicles is joined by Paul Cowland, (star of Discovery’s motoring series Turbo Pickers) who has years of experience in the industry,
PLEASE INTRODUCE YOURSEVES TO FREE CAR MAG READERS?
DP I’m an antique dealer and a classic car aficionado, a collector, dealer and racer. I front Salvage Hunters, the programme, that has been on for almost a decade and I work up in North Wales.. PC I’m an ex-car dealer and I sold Saabs and Subarus back in the day. I have spent my entire working life, from school, in the car trade. I now run two businesses. One is an automotive PR company looking after, amongst others, Isuzu, Subaru, Autogylm and Pioneer. Then I have a classic car restoration business called Landspeed, which is where we actually film the show.
CAN YOU EXPLAIN SALVAGE HUNTERS: CLASSIC CARS?
DP For me, ever since working with Discovery I have been pestering them to do a car show. I always wanted to make a classic car show for the petrol heads. For the guys who got and are really into it, they live and breathe it, like Paul and me do. I have always watched classic car shows and thought, oh, you got that wrong, which really bothered me. So we wanted to make something that was close to reality as possible. In fact the reality is that it is our money, mine and Paul’s. These are real cars, with our money and time wrapped up in them and we have to make real world decisions. We are doing it with my style as I do with my antiques business. This is what I do to my collection of classic cars, so I will modify them in a subtle way with period modifications, just to make them more pleasing and put them in a different context that other enthusiasts might not have thought about owning one of those in the past. I want the viewer to come on a journey with us, as a petrol head. We are not taking prisoners and not trying to convert anyone to our way of life. PC It is the realism that we have gone for here. We went and bought the cars then worked on
them in a real garage, which is still there when the cameras aren’t. The cars are resold at the end to the people you see buying them for the actual figures that we show. That makes it much closer to reality to me. We love all the other cars shows, but some are set-ups, all that happens on Salvage Hunters is we are followed around by camera filming what we always do.
ANY FAVOURITE CARS FROM THE SERIES?
DP For me it was the Mark 2 Jaguar. I think Paul found it and it was a right hand drive 1968 340. The guy who owned it shipped it to California just a year after buying it. So it has never rusted, a Mark 2 Jaguar with no rust, or welding ever? And it also ran beautifully. I instantly knew what I wanted to do with it. I remember reading that they were remaking the Dunlop racing wheel for restored racing Jaguar D-Types and I thought god. that would look fantastic on a Mark 2. We put these wheels on it, then I went for a Coombs look with a louvered bonnet, flared rear arches, and slightly lowered suspension. It looks like a clubman racer, when it was race on a Sunday then driven to work on a Monday. I loved it, it just came out so well. The best thing about it is that the lad who bought it. He bought it because of what we had done to it. That made me very happy.. PC Also he lived ten miles down the road from where Coombs racing was based. He understood why it was so special.
the time. DP The enthusiasts will get it. This brings me back to all those other programmes where the presenters claim to be petrol heads but show themselves up so quickly. I know more about cars and motorbikes than I do about antiques. I think when you go to school in a rusty Jaguar XK120 with the boot held down with baling twine and you have breakfast with a Manx Norton on the kitchen table, then you are in it for life.
PAUL, WAS THERE A STAND OUT CAR FOR YOU?
PC I loved the Golf, but we did do a slight mongrel, a ’68 mini that had been rebuilt with a slightly later shell. The way that car turned out in terms of looks, with wide ten-inch Minilite wheels, arch extensions, we painted it Tweed Grey with a black roof and a little funky red interior. There were some really lovely touches to it. It was just 998cc, so it couldn’t pull a baby giraffe over. It was just a lot of fun. DP It was so much fun to drive the mini. I toyed with an 500 Abarth, then it made me go out and buy one. The sheer fun of a small front wheel drive fizz bomb of a car again that’s what we want to get over, the sheer excitement of owning and driving cars.
SO THERE ARE CARS THAT VIEWERS CAN BUY, WHICH ARE GREAT VALUE?
PC Our advice has always been to buy classic cars. First of all do your research, buy PC Half the cars we have restored, like the a car you have half a clue about, you can’t Porsche 928 we did that was a nut and bolt, do too much research. Secondly, always buy how the factory intended it to be. The cars we something close to your heart. If you make haven’t done as straight restorations have been a good future investment then great, but if very light, tasteful modifications, using items not doesn’t matter if you enjoy owning and that would have been available at the time, or driving it. look exactly like them. There was a really nice DP For me, I started buying, selling and 1982 Volkswagen GTI Mark 1, which is one of enjoying classic cars for the fun of it. The my favourites, we did a few things on that like value didn’t come into it. I think the classic a Kamei three piece roof spoiler which wasn’t car value thing is ruining it. I love the fact that standard, but was period. We had a really nice I used to have a car for a month and it would set of P slots on it, which are not correct for blow up and then I would buy another. For the year, but are right because of what people £300-£400 another Mark 2 Escort, Morris did at the time. Taking them off a Campaigns Minor or Volkswagen. That’s gone now. What and putting them on their Mark 1s. Not one we do show on Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars hundred percent accurate for the purist, but is that for a fairly modest sum you can still so right for the people who owned the cars at have a hell of a lot of fun.
DID YOU MODIFY ALL THE CARS?
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Flipping Bangers
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“More people out there can afford Bangers than they can Ferraris...”
Will Trickett and Gus Gregory are fixing and flipping old bangers which is our sort of show on Blaze
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rom the producer of Wheeler Dealers, Flipping Bangers sees Will and Gus, give themselves a simple but touch mission: fix a dead car and double their money in just one week! They have ditched their jobs in order to make a go of flipping and selling old motors that anyone else would walk away from. In each episode, they go hunting for a once-cherished car, drive hard deals, and try to fix and sell it before their time runs out. Their livelihoods are at stake and the jeopardy is real!
WHY FLIP BANGERS?
Gus It was a fun thing to do and I wouldn’t have done it unless Will and I could keep it as genuine as possible. So we have bought the cars ourselves, the money is ours. The shooting schedule meant we could muck around with cars for four months. Will We wanted to focus on cars we loved when we were little. It was either us buying the car or the scrapman would get them it was a serious as that.
SO THESE CARS ARE BANGERS RATHER THAN CLASSICS?
Gus We had a price limit and that dictated where we went. That meant the cars were all late ‘80s, early ‘90s. Those are the cars on the cusp of the scrapyard. We dragged a phase 1 16 valve Citroen BX out of a hedge. The day before we got there it was under 6 feet of brambles. So that car could have gone either way. Now it is up and running and owned by someone who loves it. Will It literally started and could be driven minutes after we pulled it out of the bushes. That was a testament to some of these cars that you could claw them back from the edge of death,
ARE YOU GOING TO SHOW PEOPLE HOW TO FIX CARS?
Will I think that could be as exciting as watching paint dry. This isn’t intended as an educational , I think that this can be an enthusiasm builder for people. Will Hopefully we can inspire other people to say, ‘You know what, I have that knackered old car in the garage, pull it out and get that going again’.
SO YOU HAD TO MAKE MONEY?
Gus The jeapordy is in the vehicle build and the deadline we have set ourselves. All cars will throw things up that you don’t expect. We look at he best case scenario, which is what you do when you go and get the car. That meant we didn’t make as much money out of it as we thought we would. But there was always money to be made, as there are not big margins in this. Will We have given up our day jobs to do this especially as we are spending our own money, so we are trying to make it profitable. Gus We haven’t worked it out precisely. At the very least we wanted to break even and then make some money. It was a great thing to do. Sometimes the cameras would get in the way of what we wanted to do. We set ourselves a five day time frame to get it in the workshop, then MOT’d and up to scratch to sell it on.
Gus If you were evangelical about it you could say that this is recycling in action. In the end we had a very cheap and very nice GTI, I drove it from my house to reigate in Surrey and thought it was best drive I will ever have in a GTI.
ARE YOU BETTER THAN TOP GEAR OR THE GRAND TOUR?
Will & Gus More people out there can afford Bangers than they can Ferraris.
ANY BANGERS GIVE YOU TROUBLE?
Gus There are certain cars that you fall in love with that you might never dream of owning, but once you drive something like a Mercedes 190 you realise what a brilliant car it is. They have their own personality, as all cars do. Will With the 190 we were quite lucky and managed to pull it all off by the skin of our teeth. There has been a lot of luck, but because it was a well made car that did make it easier. .
ANY ADVICE FOR BANGERNOMICS MAG READERS WHEN BUYING BANGERS?
Gus As a rule of thumb when you buy a secondhand car you want to spend a much as possible to get the best car you can as that will save you money in the long run. We bought a brand new engine for the Golf GTI for £200 from Ebay, it could have been terrible, but we got lucky. Will The Golf itself was literally a basket case gearbox in the footwell, engine in the boot. A lot of what should have been on the car was in the car. We did manage to find all the bits and then screw them to the car. It proved to us that it was worth taking a bit of a gamble. I think anyone else would have scrapped that car. With a bit if time and effort it was possible to get it back on the road.
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Goblin Works
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A trio of mechanics makeover hopeless classics into something spectacular • Goblin Works Garage on Quest
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oblin was a great British engineering company and now Jimmy DeVille (JDV), engineer, adventurer, petrolhead and former soldier, is bringing the business back to life. He is joined by Ant Partridge, (AP) a veteran custom bike designer and builder, and Helen Stanley (HS), the renowned custom car designer, who established the Skulls and Pistons garage. Bangernomics Mag grills them...
WHO ARE THE GOBLINS?
JDV I have built all sorts of extreme vehicles my entire life, so I come at it from an engineering perspective. AP I have been designing and building custom motorcycles for about fifteen years. I had one of the biggest custom shops in Spain. Two years ago I gave that up to work with Jimmy and start this business. I begrudgingly got into cars by doing this, the guys have flipped me on my head, and I’ve sunk my teeth into cars and now really into them. HS I have been a petrol head forever. I have a custom garage called Skull and Pistons where we predominately work on Fords at the moment. Before that I worked in fashion and I wanted to put everything I have I learnt about fashion into this business. I am trying to inject a bit of rock and roll into classic cars, which is a bit of a sleepy industry.
HOW DID YOU GET TOGETHER?
JDV Helen built a car that I saw and proved to me that she really understood what customising is all about. As for Ant, my feeling was that the custom bike industry is way ahead of cars and I wanted to bring what the motorcycle world had going on, into cars. So it was a logical move to work together.
SO THIS ISN’T THE USUAL RESTORATION SHOW?
AP A lot of the cars we have to fully restore before we can start to customise them. When you buy a car they are not always in great condition. If you did buy a perfect car then you would have spent most of your budget on the donor car to begin with. JDV Yes, the first thing we have to do is bring them up to a good standard. That is normally bare metalwork, then we move onto the next stage, which could be performance, or
improving the styling. It always depends on the vehicle involved. We are just trying to take them onto the next step.
WERE THERE CARS YOU LOVED AND THEN HATED BY THE TIME YOU FINISHED? OR VICE VERSA??
AP Not being a car guy that certainly happened to me the other way around. When Jimmy showed up with the Land Rover, I really detested that car. I just thought that it was a silly farm truck. By the end of it I was absolutely in love with it. Now I drive around the streets, going, look there’s a Land Rover whereas before I would just ignore them. The same thing happened with the MG. When it showed up at the shop it was just the most heinous car I had ever seen. By the end it was a very cool, which turned an awful lot of heads. JDV I would say that we only go from love to hate and back to love again. With the Capri we had to put some custom arches on it, by the time we had finished getting that job right there was an awful lot of hate. The thing is that you don’t stop until you get where you want to be. You push through the boundaries and you get something you love at the end. We don’t really have any favourites as in many ways these are our children. HS The thing with custom work, like Jimmy said we like what we start with generally, but we can get to the stage where it starts to kill you and you really need to love cars and bikes to do what we do. We literally do put blood sweat and tears into every one of them. We just end up loving them more because we are so passionate about what we do and if weren’t then we would not be customising..
DO YOU HAVE ANY CONNECTION AT ALL WITH THE ORIGINAL GOBLIN COMPANY?
JDV I was sat in a chicken shed in Norfolk getting a jet engine part for a car that I was building. I found a piece that said ‘Goblin Works Surrey’ on it. That triggered me, because originally I was going to call this Skunk Works after the American Lockheed Aircraft special operations. So this was a big, pin drop moment. It made me realise that we had our own industry making custom components for the jet fighter industry. Here was a company famous for making the Goblin Teasmade and vacuum, but it also had a separate military division. That company is now gone and I have purchased the name.
BANGERNOMICS MAG REMEMBERS THE GOBLIN VACUUM, WHICH WAS ART DECO COOL. JDV That is exactly the point. Great British engineering, with good styling it was just wonderful to discover that they had a special products department. That whole ethos sums up what we want to do.
WHAT IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP, AS THIS ON THE FACE OF IT SEEMS LIKE QUITE AN ODD GARAGE SHARE?
JDV We are all individuals, we do kick off and do fight, but we all have the same massive overriding passion, which brings us all together. AP We each have our own skill sets which SO CAN WE BRING A FREE CAR makes the team unique. MAG MOTOR TO YOU TODAY AND JDV I don’t make the tea. ASK YOU TO CUSTOMISE IT? HS We get on so well, I do consider these JDV Yes of course, have you got something guys my best mates because we have such for us? mutual respect and our skill sets are so distinctive which is why we get along. We’ve ERRRRR...(BANGERNOMICS MAG got that and a sick sense of humour. START WONDERING WHICH JDV Quite often we want to do something VEHICLE TO CHOOSE..... quite radical to a vehicle and the others will JDV Doing this with a TV programme has say, ‘I get that’, whereas others might say, been interesting and since we have completed ‘that’ll never work’. Until we finish the vehicle six cars and four motorcycles we have had they don’t make any sense, so you have to lots of other commissions come in. The order go all the way, if you didn’t have that trust, books are full. Goblin wouldn’t work. Bangernomics.com 337
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