owelly
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:09 PM |
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I have always been a bit of James Martin fan as he was born and lived not too far from me and went to the same college as me. He picked up a different
leaflet as he did catering and is now a squillionaire and I did engineering and I'm skint.....
My other half was shouting rude words at him for not talking his missus in the car and to be fair, she would have had as much of an idea about fixing
the car as the other bird!! Obviously, the pretty female co-driver was for TV purposes as I'm sure there are many more folks who can drive,
navigate and fix cars, far better than she managed!
The car was bought as a business venture to enable him to fulfill his dreams. The programme made a big thing about how he was asking his accountant
for the funds. This will obviously have tax implications and as such, does detract any sympathy some may have!!
As far as I'm concerned, it was a good programme thatt didn't glamorise things too much. It showed him as a grumpy Yorkshireman and his
co-driver as a female trying to make a point. And failing....
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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owelly
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:13 PM |
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And if I was in that situation, I would have had the head off and hawking it around to find a valve or someone to make me one!!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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Mark Allanson
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| posted on 29/12/08 at 09:54 PM |
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Its all showbiz, I am sure his own money wasn't at risk, did you notice that his mrs was said to be taking pictures for 'the'
book.
There was more than one massa at his home, perhaps there was some corporate sponsorship going on. I would have thought that a phonecall to massa HQ
would have got the car back running overnight, just for the publicity of it all.
Superb car, the show was a bit plastic
PS 3k for a piston as total boll@cks
If you can keep you head, whilst all others around you are losing theirs, you are not fully aware of the situation
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02GF74
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| posted on 31/12/08 at 10:05 PM |
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was gonna post about this but a search reveals this has been discussed. for thosethat don;t know, here is a bit about it:
BUT what a plonker? For what I could tell, the first time he drove it was at the event - couldn't believe he did not run the engine and drive
it to iron out any teething problems like the oil leak.
How much for a piston? Unless he was after a factory original, I am sure they could have been made up for a fraction of that - do I remember
correctly that the engine rebuild cost £ 30 K?
What I found frustrating was that the program did not confim if it was a broken valve - weird diagnosis of it being the radiator - how could a
radiator cause such nasty noises?
and I did also wonder how much cheaper it wall would have been if you have bought on original seven.
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the_fbi
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| posted on 31/12/08 at 10:12 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
For what I could tell, the first time he drove it was at the event.
It was driven before the event, there was something said alluding to that.
quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
do I remember correctly that the engine rebuild cost £ 30 K?
I thought they said £300K for the whole rebuild.
I'm sure there would be lots more car enthusiasts would have wanted in the program, and lots more that cooking or Italian touring fans would
have wanted. Far too much to fit into 1 hour to please everybody.
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