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Car Forum / Land Rover Cars / October 2006Thunder Racers
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 ;-)  SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! : 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 [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] : 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 > 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. SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! : > Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on : > Discovery well over a year ago? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] : 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! SignatureMarc Draper > 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". SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! : > Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut : > before we got on to scrapheap. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] : 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 ;-) >> Look out for the "upside down" car episode it was the Anoraks TV debut >> before we got on to scrapheap. [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >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. SignatureMarc Draper > 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. SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! > > Is that a new series, or a repeat of the ones that started on > > Discovery well over a year ago? [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > 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. SignatureCheers, Geoff. www.anoraks.uk.net > 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? SignatureBlast off and strike the evil Bydo empire! > > Hi Ian, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > 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) SignatureCheers, Geoff. www.anoraks.uk.net |
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