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TV kanál National Geographic |
tagy sport, 90s, automoto, dokumenty |
(Car SOS: Season 8: Hillman Imp) Auta & Motorky Making motoring dreams come true for an eighth season award winning Car SOS is back, and this time its bigger and better than ever. Everyones favourite petrol heads Fuzz Townshend and Tim Shaw continue their mission to seek out classic cars with deserving owners. Using all their guile and restoration knowledge their aim is to sneak away clapped out classics without their owners knowing then in a blizzard of grease and grime and hard graft get the much loved motors back where they deserve to be, on the road .In this series the boys take on their biggest challenges ever. Chronic rust, hard to find parts and broken engines test the boys to their limits. Car ranging across eight decades from a vintage tourer to a 1990s Japanese supercar, from an iconic German sports coupe to a very rare British rally winner, and, for their lucky owners the surprise they will never forget. There will be tears, there will be laughter on this automotive rollercoaster and one thing that will be guaranteed - there will be some very beautiful cars. Tim and Fuzz travel to Stroud in Gloucestershire to take on a 1973 Hillman Imp which has been abandoned for decades in a dusty barn. The car belongs to former NHS theatre nurse Margaret (70) who has owned and loved Imps since she first started to drive. Her beloved car nicknamed Tin Lizzie was her pride and joy until it started to need a lot of work to keep it on the road. Aided by her husband Margaret started work on the car but mid restoration her husband passed away with COPD. Her father who took over the project but he also died shortly after, leaving mother of two Margaret without the time or the knowhow to complete the job. By the time Tim and Fuzz take the car on it has rusted away so badly its barely a car. The Hillman Imp was compact saloon manufactured by the Rootes group in the 1960s and 70s and was their answer to the popular Austin Mini, it was a hugely innovative car with a rear mounted engine that was completely made of aluminium, but due to high production costs and frequent strike action in the 1970s it ended up getting the reputation as the car that killed off the company. MN 12 (United Kingdom)
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