Chop shop tonight

[BIGS]

Just seen the add for tonights show and they are putting a scooby engine into a mk2 golf gti. hmm wonder if that works :wtf:

[Shaun_O'Donnell]

Yeah, saw that add too. For Jonny Vegas.

Didn't look like they were using the running gear from what I saw/made of it....

[BIGS]

no it didnt, well the car they got the engine from doubt they could of used the gear anyway. think i might watch it to see how they do it and to have a laugh

[Shaun_O'Donnell]

One thing I've noticed from watching these is, they miss out a lot of the finishing of the car. All the footage is really up to the point of the "Test Drive" then all of a sudden the car's finished with completed interior........hmmmmmmm

[BIGS]

Yea whats the bets they always get other people to come in and help them finsh it

[NovaBoi92]

is this a program? ive never heard of it whens it on

[Shaun_O'Donnell]

Yeah, it's a follow on from "Bangla Bangers", "Chop Shop - London Garage"

[NovaBoi92]

what channel is it on? what time

[Shaun_O'Donnell]

Discovery Turbo iirc

[Steve]

Sounds interesting although I dont quite 'get' leepos styling, the v8 capri was quite cool and too other top unlike some of the others they've done.

[ant_tay]

its on the discovery channel 520 at 10pm

[NovaBoi92]

thanks

[dj_wudgey]

ive seen a white mk1 golf a york dragway which does use a impreza turbo lump its 4 wheel drive aswell but not shure what running gear it uses??

[The Simps]

what did people think?

I thought it was alot better than I expected. Considering how they'd bodged a lot of the mechanics on previous cars it looks like they've done this one very well.

Just needs Loopy to ruin the styling and fit 30cm wheelspacers now!

[BIGS]

I missed it, forgot i had to go out. is it a repeat on any time?

[twin40s]

sky mate everythinks repeated.

[BIGS]

ok cheers

[Ste L]

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7026-16840.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7037-16884.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7031-16860.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7038-16888.jpg

lol

[jord4n]

shocking, nothing else to say. good intentions but dreadfull outcomes.
send him back to bangladesh where there he turned crap cars into something good, over here hes turning good cars into crap.

[dj_wudgey]

that looks well ****in horrible if you ask me!!! could you imagine some one with no clue on cars asking for bits at the likes off alan kays lol

[kc_08]

i watched this last night, it werent to bad, but they had to use the scooby sub frame for the engine, as the golf one was wider, and the engine had to be mounted a different way, so they looped the front of the golf off, and welded the scooby one back on the front, which now it wont be a solid structure, it will be cut and welded, but on the test run it looked pretty good, although slap head didnt do alot, it was mainly the other guy that done it

[The Simps]

please tell me thats not what loopoo is gonna do - thats awful!

[Steve]

The first episode he hadnt started on the bodywork so thats obviously whats to come later on.

I cant stand the look of it, then again I cant stand that tw@t johnny vegas either! IMO they should have kept it looking like a golf, maybe wider arches but that really does look awful!!

[Adam]

Impressive mechanicals, good skills.
Shame pretty much every car they do gets ruined by the body work.
Theres only a few cars they've made that i actually like the look of

[L14MNP]

Same old, as Adam says! JV wanted it to look like an original mk2 gti too! leepu is a knob if he thinks his 'designs' look good 99% of the time!
Someone at the VIC test centre gets a back hander too me thinks lol

[Big_Chap]

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7026-16840.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7037-16884.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7031-16860.jpg

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7038-16888.jpg

lol

So what do we have here, standard (although mutilated) panels with an impreza tailgate and tigra roof?

Looks like a half baked DeLorian!

So close and yet sooo far!

[The Simps]

rims are too big too. Rides well high.

[elgan]

im seeing 206 roof and door tops and boot top and skyline rear lights.

[bmw156]

just watched some of the ones based in bangladesh or how ever you spell it and the one i watched was immense, turned some old banger into a ****ing ferrari rep!!

[GDN16v]

Think they styled that off a TR7!!lollollol

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7038-16888.jpg

[mowgli]

http://www.tuning.sk/images/news/discovery_bangla_bangers_14122006/discovery-channel-bangla-bangers-text_2.jpg
I wouldn't call it a ferrari replica.....
it looks like a good seventies kit car, but it was made out of a jap scrapper.....

until the jet1 replica, he hasn't made anything like a decent looking car

http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/dni-media/mu-13/media-7275-17520.jpg