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Ian Rawlings

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Don't know if you lot have seen the latest addition to the scrap-yard
build-it-in-a-hurry type programme, but thunder racers isn't too bad
and has Rachel Simmonite on it, landy racer extraordinaire. Also the
next episode is about making vans into off-roaders with 6-foot wheels
which looks interesting. Most of the programmes so far have had
something to do with off-roading, although usually they're car-based,
even the off-road-course then 10-foot-wading challenge.

Unfortunately I've only just noticed and it's on at 5:20-6:20 tomorrow
morning on channel 4 ;-)

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"Ian Rawlings" <news06@tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message
news:slrnejsvdn.ljp.news06@desktop.tarcus.org.uk...
: Don't know if you lot have seen the latest addition to the scrap-yard
: build-it-in-a-hurry type programme, but thunder racers isn't too bad
: and has Rachel Simmonite on it, landy racer extraordinaire. Also the
: next episode is about making vans into off-roaders with 6-foot wheels
: which looks interesting. Most of the programmes so far have had
: something to do with off-roading, although usually they're car-based,
: even the off-road-course then 10-foot-wading challenge.
:
: Unfortunately I've only just noticed and it's on at 5:20-6:20 tomorrow
: morning on channel 4 ;-)

Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on Discovery well
over a year ago?

At least they have an "engineering expert" im some of them.

Si


 
On 2006-10-25, GrnOval <simonk@merlion-consultants.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:

> Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on
> Discovery well over a year ago?

No idea, I'm a Murdoch-free zone so don't get Discovery. I've seen
the one involving wading cars, there's the 6-foot-wheel vans, and
recently there was one about making minis wheelie backwards. Ring any
bells?

> At least they have an "engineering expert" im some of them.

If you mean Rachel, she's just there to say "first, second, third" and
to drive them around the course, she doesn't offer any expertise.

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"Ian Rawlings" <news06@tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message
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: On 2006-10-25, GrnOval <simonk@merlion-consultants.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
:
: > Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on
: > Discovery well over a year ago?
:
: No idea, I'm a Murdoch-free zone so don't get Discovery. I've seen
: the one involving wading cars, there's the 6-foot-wheel vans, and
: recently there was one about making minis wheelie backwards. Ring any
: bells?
:
: > At least they have an "engineering expert" im some of them.
:
: If you mean Rachel, she's just there to say "first, second, third" and
: to drive them around the course, she doesn't offer any expertise.

That means its at least the 2nd series then, cos Pat someone or other was
the bod that drove them round the proposed course in a blue rangie, and then
offered "technical expertise" (in the way that back street garages offer it
by the looks!)

I remember the "Monster Trucks" one, so it must be repeats

Si


 
>That means its at least the 2nd series then, cos Pat someone or other was
>the bod that drove them round the proposed course in a blue rangie, and then
>offered "technical expertise" (in the way that back street garages offer it
>by the looks!)
>
>I remember the "Monster Trucks" one, so it must be repeats


It was filmed 4 years ago and is the second series.

Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut
before we got on to scrapheap.

I still have the car in my yard . . . . . why we wanted to keep it I
don't know!
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Marc Draper
 
On 2006-10-25, Marc Draper <marc@mdeng.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut
> before we got on to scrapheap.

Dunno about you but I reckon I prefer Thunder Racers to Scrapheap
Challenge, there's less "oh look we've found just the right diameter
bushes for that obscure hydraulic setup we found under a bath in
perfect condition".

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"Ian Rawlings" <news06@tarcus.org.uk> wrote in message
news:slrnejudq3.ljp.news06@desktop.tarcus.org.uk...
: On 2006-10-25, Marc Draper <marc@mdeng.demon.co.uk> wrote:
:
: > Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut
: > before we got on to scrapheap.
:
: Dunno about you but I reckon I prefer Thunder Racers to Scrapheap
: Challenge, there's less "oh look we've found just the right diameter
: bushes for that obscure hydraulic setup we found under a bath in
: perfect condition".

defo - scrapheap always seems too contrived, thunder races at least seems to
involve proper "man on the street" bodges ;-)



 
In message <slrnejudq3.ljp.news06@desktop.tarcus.org.uk>, Ian Rawlings
<news06@tarcus.org.uk> writes
>On 2006-10-25, Marc Draper <marc@mdeng.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut
>> before we got on to scrapheap.
>
>Dunno about you but I reckon I prefer Thunder Racers to Scrapheap
>Challenge, there's less "oh look we've found just the right diameter
>bushes for that obscure hydraulic setup we found under a bath in
>perfect condition".
>


Scrapheap was just so much better to make than Thunder Races.

The scrap heap technical team really new their stuff and were fun to
work with.

But I can see what you mean, but if they did not plant the stuff you
would have a very boring program.

Scrapheap is filmed over 3 days, all finished. As compared to TR which
after the build you left the "machines" with them for a week before you
came back to race... And then if the director did not like the look of
the way a race was going he would stop it and start it again. The
"spider cars" race in TR was in fact filmed over 2 weeks because all the
cars failed to finish the first time and had to be rebuilt.

In the 6 episodes of SH that we did, that was never the case. What you
saw on TV is what happened on the day.
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Marc Draper
 
On 2006-10-25, Marc Draper <marc@mdeng.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> Scrapheap is filmed over 3 days, all finished. As compared to TR
> which after the build you left the "machines" with them for a week
> before you came back to race... And then if the director did not
> like the look of the way a race was going he would stop it and start
> it again.

Hehe, so you get a fake scrapyard and real races, or a real build
followed by fake races and rebuilding! Don't you just love TV.

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In article <slrneju8fj.ljp.news06@desktop.tarcus.org.uk>,
Ian Rawlings <news06@tarcus.org.uk> wrote:

> On 2006-10-25, GrnOval <simonk@merlion-consultants.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on
> > Discovery well over a year ago?
>
> No idea, I'm a Murdoch-free zone so don't get Discovery. I've seen
> the one involving wading cars, there's the 6-foot-wheel vans, and
> recently there was one about making minis wheelie backwards. Ring any
> bells?
>
> > At least they have an "engineering expert" im some of them.
>
> If you mean Rachel, she's just there to say "first, second, third" and
> to drive them around the course, she doesn't offer any expertise.

Hi Ian,
 
Rachel does/did offer advice and criticism and she knows a hell of a lot
more about oily bits then Adrian Simpson does !

Pictures and a writeup are here http://www.anoraks4x4.com

I'm not sure if CH4 have shown ours yet.

--

Cheers, Geoff.
www.anoraks.uk.net
 
On 2006-10-26, Geoff <grt@anoraks.uk.DELETE.net> wrote:

> Hi Ian,

Wotcher Geoff,
 
> Rachel does/did offer advice and criticism and she knows a hell of a lot
> more about oily bits then Adrian Simpson does !

Sure, but I meant that she wasn't there in the capacity that the
provided "expert" was in other shows, i.e. one per team acting as part
of the team. Scrapheap was like that I think.

> Pictures and a writeup are here http://www.anoraks4x4.com

No pics for over a year now, what's the current wagon?

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Blast off and strike the evil Bydo empire!
 
In article <slrnek12un.ljp.news06@desktop.tarcus.org.uk>,
Ian Rawlings <news06@tarcus.org.uk> wrote:

> On 2006-10-26, Geoff <grt@anoraks.uk.DELETE.net> wrote:
>
> > Hi Ian,
>
> Wotcher Geoff,
>  
> > Rachel does/did offer advice and criticism and she knows a hell of a lot
> > more about oily bits then Adrian Simpson does !
>
> Sure, but I meant that she wasn't there in the capacity that the
> provided "expert" was in other shows, i.e. one per team acting as part
> of the team. Scrapheap was like that I think.

They never had that in Chunder Races in both series you were incharge of
your own destiny, in series one they had Pat Jackson who did what Rachel
Simmonite did, in that they kick the tyres and say if the build is any
good.

> > Pictures and a writeup are here http://www.anoraks4x4.com
>
> No pics for over a year now, what's the current wagon?

That's Lyndons site, current pics are on the main Anoraks site (URL in
sig)

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Cheers, Geoff.
www.anoraks.uk.net
 
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