MIke Brewer - Wheeler Dealers

Was on Sky again this week - You know the white GTi they turned round.

Looks nice your motor Drew - They look better being driven I think.

I am not a total techno buff on the GTI but some of the detail in Mike's script was, well wrong  :? wasn't it  :?:

Shame they didn't ask you to provide the technical stuff Drew. Its seems even more "wrong" the second time around.

Anyway at least it gave us some potential exposure.

Personally i think Mike brewer is a tw4t, i wouldn't go near a car with a barge pole he was selling  

Well quite  :!:  

I have been meaning to watch that episode but always seem to miss it!

I have that episode on DVD.
Bought it from play.com

oooo - any chance you could do a copy?

Like the photos of the golf in progress.

YOu should turn it round so you have a comfy front seat and you could watch the telly taboot     

Lots of thing wrong with the white mk1 unfortunately, but I wasn't a consultant on the programme despite getting my name in the credits!

A starter for ten.

1. It wasn't a campaign!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:
2. Fitting an ammeter in a 12 Volt negative earth car is a BAD idea!
3. Pirelli alloys were wrong for the car
4. Black centres on the alloys were wrong!
5. The side stripe decals were fitted upside down :roll:
6. It didn't have a mk2 centre console
7. Ed China initially put the steering wheel on upside down after refitting the dash….

On the positive side I found Mike Brewer was a great chap, very engaging to talk to and did know a lot about cars. Having been on the 'production' end of these television shows it's very clear that the 'on screen persona' of a presenter is totally different than in real life and that the vast majority of material is scripted, checked for all sorts of things including any potential legal issues, length, complexity and so on.

What actually gets into the show is a result of the editors decisions, not the presenter, so they don't get a great deal of say in how the whole piece comes together. The shows only exist to sell advertising space so the programme has to hit as many audience profiles as possible, so immediately attention to detail and factual accuracy tend to get compromised. That's television for you!

And littlekev, if we can perhaps be a tiny bit more subtle with our opinions of some of these media types :wink: we've had a lot of publicity and help from the press and telly folks in the past…shame to muck that up.

Cheers,

Drew.

[namedrop]I was in our canteen a few months back and noticed some loud bloke and tall lady in front. Turned out to be Mike and fellow sidekick Penny Mallory of Driven. And that rather nice Dracula chap (who owned 6 Mk1's incidentally) likes to sit at our frontgate occasionally. [/namedrop]

Ooooh i'm so sorry :roll:

littlekev said

Ooooh i'm so sorry :roll:

 

I don't want to be bashing people over the head for not doffing their caps and holding doors open for the ladies, but I know for a fact that folks from discovery channel, the BBC and the press regularly 'haunted' the campaign register forum (hence various invites for top gear etc and bits in magazines etc).

They might even be watching now… (cue twilight zone music)

Cheers,

Drew.

spooky

drew said

1. It wasn't a campaign!!!!!!!!!!!!! :evil:
2. Fitting an ammeter in a 12 Volt negative earth car is a BAD idea!
3. Pirelli alloys were wrong for the car
4. Black centres on the alloys were wrong!
5. The side stripe decals were fitted upside down :roll:
6. It didn't have a mk2 centre console
7. Ed China initially put the steering wheel on upside down after refitting the dash

I too was infuriated when I watched that episode to hear of all the things they were saying about the car which were untrue!!!

Drew - Was the buyer at the end of the show actualy an unsuspecting mug or was it a staged sale?

I can't tell for certain. Looked *very* staged to me to be honest! :wink:

Cheers,

Drew.

I know the F**d Capri  he sold was a stage sale as she is a friend

They are probably all staged then...

I have just watched this and found it quite entertaining  

I have also obtained 'The Cars The Stars Golf MK1 GTi' on a mint copy on VHS . Quinten Wilson !!

If any one can copy VHS to DVD ? Would you copy it to disk for us all cheaply ?

I know the guy who now owns that white Mk1… he brought it from the BBC because the 'sale' in that episode wasn't exactly real

incidently, pretty sure he's now given up restoring it (brought all the panels but never welded them in!) would buy it myself but I'm not allowed and don't have any space now   but if someone's SERIOUSLY interested in buying it, I'll have a chat with him, he's just down the road from me (Berkshire)

would be nice to know it goes to a member here than the local scrappy  :cry:

Chudd - you have a PM  :wink: