locogeoff
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| posted on 7/8/04 at 03:08 PM |
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Got a box set of DVDs of the series from price drop T.V. (£25) Recon one piece of information on the drilling of fibreglass (use a blunt drill
apparently) may have saved the total cost of the box set had I drilled a nosecone or whatever with a sharp drill.
I totally agree with comments about it not being that informative but it sure beats the hell out of a lot of the other drivel thats on the box when I
get back from the garage, and the girlfriend enjoys it as well so it means I dont have to watch people arguing with each other on Ricky Lake
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tony9876
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| posted on 7/8/04 at 04:58 PM |
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I think i am about to alienate me from this forum but i am so disgusted by a lot of peoples attitude. I am a lover of all things with a motor hand
built ,machine built or knocked together in a garage. I personally was planning to build a GT2 but due to it not being ready in time i bought a
megabusa basically because i wanted something i could have on the road in a fortnight.You are judging all people by how much they spend or how much
effort they put into a car, i think that being interested in motorsport is enough. I have been to westfield meets and they dont bang on about how they
built there cars for £2.50 and 2 pints of lager nor do they go on about how expensive it was they just talk about racing driving etc. I accept that a
few of the caterham owners etc are arseholes but so are so called locost builders if they judge everyone on what they own.
I judge people on there personality and how interested they are in motorsport not how they managed to swap a 4x4 diff for 20 benson and hedges.
Mark evans who you all quickly judge is an extremely intelligent person who has a love of all motorsport,so what he bought a westfield (which he also
modified for racing).
I personally think I can smell jealousy over the fact he can spend all day building cars and whatever else takes his fancy and we have to endure 9 to
5 poo jobs.
I personally thought you where better than this and on a whole where car enthusiasts that believe in sharing knowledge not condoning people for the
kit they chose to build.Rant over.
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Benzine
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| posted on 7/8/04 at 05:32 PM |
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 I couldn't give an arse what other people build, I'm building mine and its fun.
[Edited on 7/8/04 by Benzine]
The mental gymnastics a landlord will employ to justify immoral actions is clinically fascinating. Just because something is legal doesn't make
it moral.
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Peteff
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| posted on 7/8/04 at 06:16 PM |
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we have to endure 9 to 5 poo jobs
How dare you assume we all work. I think you are guilty of the same as you accuse others of. I could spend all day on whatever I want and throw as
much money as I like at it. You've never heard me say a bad word about Westfields or their owners, but why set a deadline of a fortnight on
building a kit when you can buy one ready done for just 3 times as much. I think the guy on Sportscar is Born is fair game for anyone who wants to
take a pop at him as he is a tosser with a crew of helpers doing the donkey work, you don't think he's really doing it all himself do you?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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tony9876
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| posted on 7/8/04 at 07:33 PM |
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Snoopy i bought a a kit and built it of a night and a couple of weekends with the help of a couple of mates.
After visiting mk and speaking with martin i was certain he new what he was on about and really wanted the gt2 due to its style and quaiffe diff
option but when it didnt look like it would be ready i opted for the westfield which you should take as a compliment as mk was my first choice even
though i had the money for a westfield. I still plan on building a gt2 but this winter instead.
As for mark evans we all have are opinions and if you watch the series inbetween cut edits unless someone dirtied his overalls and completely filled
him in on the build manual yes i think he did build it himself with just help,also the programmes are made on shoestring budgets so i dont think they
could stretch to an army of helpers.
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Skirrow
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| posted on 8/8/04 at 05:42 AM |
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I think these series are pretty good.
It's TV remember, not a replacement for a build manual. It has to appeal to the general public with thier 20 millisecond attention span and it
has to all fit into x amount of episodes.
For us builders, it would be nice for a 200hour long DVD showing exactly how everything was done and all the problems, but you won't get that on
TV for obvious reasons.
As for Mark Evans, he seems very enthusiastic about it which I like, although I have found myself talking to the telly and telling him to "shut
the fcuk up"!
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marktigere1
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| posted on 9/8/04 at 08:50 AM |
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Having read the whole of this thread and the slagging off of Mark Evans for no particular reason, I thought I would mention that in one of the many
series he has done, he featured a white MK indy powered by a Bike engine and driven by a race instructor. I think it was 'A race car is
born' during his learning to drive section. Can Snoopy confirm this?
What do you think of him now?
Cannot believe the bile being shown on this forum. Probably all have a go at me now simply because I own a Nissan
If a bolt is stuck force it.
If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway!!!
(My Dad 1991)
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alfasudsprint
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| posted on 10/8/04 at 10:56 PM |
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Gotta agree with you Mark, very sad to see people so preoccupied with what othrs are doing, jeez, get a life. Get on and build that locost, come and
talk about it here with us please, but leave the bitchin.
IMHO!
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/8/04 at 11:18 PM |
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Been there done that...
Didn't make a TV programme about it, didn't make any money out of it, didn't make a spectacle of myself in public. What's
special about Mark Evans. They could have televised any of a thousand builders and got a better picture of a motor enthusiast. I wouldn't watch
it if you paid me, just my opinion, thank you for yours.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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Jumpy Guy
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 08:02 AM |
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surely anything that exposes car building is a good thing? since the series, at least vaguely interested family and friends know kinda what im up
to........
I cant see what the problem is - even if he didnt do it all himself, so what? some guys on this site make their own chassis. Some dont. They open the
wallet and buy it. I'm sure that if, for example, Hicost added the total money spend on his car, it'd scare the bjesus out of me. But not
put down in any way.
There seems to be a lot of macho b*llSh*t here sometimes about 'doing it all yourself'
Nobody does.We are all helped to some degree.
I agree with what someone else said previously - ' get on with my own build, stop fishwifing about who spent what on where'
Btw. I completely agree that the guys a bit of a tit, but thats never prevented me, or anyone else, from building a car
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blueshift
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 11:27 AM |
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I find him slightly irritating sometimes, but not too bad. anyway, reason I'm posting this reply is a heads-up that showing on H&L at the
moment is "a 4x4 is reborn" or something like that, and he just rebuilt a rover v8 engine. fairly interesting for me.
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tony9876
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| posted on 11/8/04 at 05:06 PM |
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I am glad quite a few people agree with me that although irritating mark evans beats the s**t out of soaps.
I have been watching a 4x4 is born and the v8 rebuild was very interesting.
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