Wheeler Dealers-British car show (vehicle, brakes, best, buy)
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Saw this show on Velocity channel. They hunt for a particular model car, try to bargain down the price, buy the car, bring it back to their shop, fix and improve the car, and then try to sell the car for a profit. This episode was a 1957 Chevy Bel Air sedan. Bought in Florida, shipped to England, and restored. They bought it for about $6,000. Total on purchase, parts, paint, chrome refinishing, import tax & shipping, and travel expenses was $21,297.60. They sold it for $25,297.60; a profit of $3,946.60.
Really entertaining show.. although MOST of the cars only end up with a few hundred dollars in.profit. Good for fun, not great if actually trying to make $$$.. still a great show though..
Really entertaining show.. although MOST of the cars only end up with a few hundred dollars in.profit. Good for fun, not great if actually trying to make $$$.. still a great show though..
Watching another episode. They're working on a Subaru Impreza WRX. They changed to larger brakes and rotors, increased intake flow with K&N filter, increased flow with new muffler. Took it to a dyno shop and it showed the filter and muffler hurt the horsepower thanks to the ECU. Re-configured the ECU and went from around 220 factory to 243.
Great show, it really makes me sad at some of the cars we don't get, and the ones that we do have the prices are just insanly low compared to what we get here. Mike Brewer has another show Autotrader that was enjoy able as well.
I love the show. Mostly because it is not very exaggerated like overhauling, also most of the repairs they do, one can do with some basic tools and skills. The biggest reason is that I used to do the same thing with a friend of mine in our 20's. We would buy a good car, fix it up, drive it for 6 months to a year and sell at profit. It was fun and we made money too.
Yes, it's "staged" - after all, it's television. Note too that poor Ed's time is never factored in the final $$$, either. Who cares, though - it's entertaining as all get out, esp. with the slang - "good nick", "quid", "proper motor", and more...
Oh, and there's usually a waiting list of buyers for the show's "results".
I love this show, Mike and Ed are hilarious, specially Mike. And I like the way Ed sort of walks you through the "DIY", just enough for you to understand what he's up to.
Some of my favorites were the Jaguar E-type, Karmen Ghia, Dodge Charger, and Delorean.
Some intro highlights, but not the actual cars they ultimately bought and work on.
Great, great show. Yet another example of how much better British television is when it comes to car shows. Amazing how that happens when you don't have to be plugging someone's product every 2 seconds to justify your existence.
Mike's a lot of fun, and Edd does a fantastic job of explaining the basic concepts of the things he's working on. It's a bit formulaic for sure, but it's still a lot of fun to see under the hood of some cars you'd never see here, plus the episodes where they do take an American car are fun because they're so enthused over stuff we see everyday. My one small gripe, though, is that they seem to 'somehow' make a profit on everything. If I remember back to the older episodes, that didn't always happen. It'd be nice to see them take a fall every once in a while, especially to show that what they do isn't always that realistic. Take the episode with the Subaru, for example. Maybe it's different in the UK, but I have NEVER seen a vehicle sell for MORE based on the it having a bunch of aftermarket stuff on there. AT BEST you may break even, but most car guys will tell you that you're better off taking the parts off, putting it to stock, and selling those parts separately. And those 'custom' stripes with their signatures? Come on!
I loved Autotrader as well. It was an amazingly simple yet brilliant format that gave lots of great info while being entertaining at the same time.
Mike
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