Irish motor programme.

sogood

Given the sometimes woeful standard of home grown TV, I wonder what sort of job RTE or TV3 might make of a "Wheeler Dealers" programme. My personal favourite of the crop is Mark Williams "Car is Born" / "Reborn".

Top Gear has its moments, but it strays so far off track just to appeal to a wider audience, it loses its way, and doing a review on a €200.000 car isn't going to serve me personally, very well.

Fast and Loud also falls into the same category of general entertainment, with little basis in reality, and so on and on.

So, what would a good Irish equivalent consist of? Who would present it? What would the general content be? A running resto, followed week by week.
Then, general viewers questions addressed and answered, with a "How To" section.
Reviews of present day, everyday cars.

Any thoughts?

keithclancy

This week in Paddy Wheels.

The new ultra low tax car that will get you from A to B.
How pay less tax
Is tax too high ?
What has the lowest tax
Tax tax tax tax tax tax .....

:pac::pac::pac::pac:

jimgoose

The only thing that might work is a Nostalgia section in Ear To The Ground featuring a Nissan Bluebird resto. Oh and, tax tax tax diesel tax, Conor Faughnan tax the M50 tax tax...

davycc

I was a contestant on a pilot show for irish tv which never got approved. called banger for cash and made by adare productions...

3 contestants basically had to buy a cheap car and get it ncted etc and whoever made the most money won..i think i came last lol.

one of the hosts was the contuinity voice over guy announcer from rte , cant think of his name though.was in 2006? ish afik.

filmed in kilcock scrapyard and bill griffin motors and the mitsubishi garage on at newlands cross and also filmed me working on the car which was a seicento sporting

keithclancy

davycc wrote: »

I was a contestant on a pilot show for irish tv which never got approved. called banger for cash and made by adare productions...

3 contestants basically had to buy a cheap car and get it ncted etc and whoever made the most money won..i think i came last lol.

one of the hosts was the contuinity voice over guy announcer from rte , cant think of his name though.was in 2006? ish afik.

filmed in kilcock scrapyard and bill griffin motors and the mitsubishi garage on at newlands cross and also filmed me working on the car which was a seicento sporting

Did the winner leave 50 quid in the ashtray ?

colm_mcm

davycc wrote: »

I was a contestant on a pilot show for irish tv which never got approved. called banger for cash and made by adare productions...

3 contestants basically had to buy a cheap car and get it ncted etc and whoever made the most money won..i think i came last lol.

one of the hosts was the contuinity voice over guy announcer from rte , cant think of his name though.was in 2006? ish afik.

filmed in kilcock scrapyard and bill griffin motors and the mitsubishi garage on at newlands cross and also filmed me working on the car which was a seicento sporting

I supplied a corolla or something to that show IIRC

sogood

This has the potential to morph into a whole new thread!! "Stars and their Cars". Did your car ever feature in a programme, advert, photo shoot? Does it appear on Google street maps? Did it once belong to a criminal mastermind?

I actually knew someone who ( unwittingly) bought a 1600E from a rather shady character many years ago. He could never drive it anywhere without being followed, pulled over, questioned, by the boys in blue. Still, better that than the boys in balaclavas! It took quite a while before the authorities amended their database.

Anyway, I digress.......................

davycc

colm_mcm wrote: »

I supplied a corolla or something to that show IIRC

well one the other contestants bought an early 90s corolla with huge mileage IIRC.. lived off artane roundabout too I used to see the corolla in his garden for mths after he was supposed to have sold it:P

I must pop off an email to Adare prods and see if they still have a copy of it on dvd in the archives:D

my car was a lovely gleaming black 99KE446 Sei sporting-pic attached;)

davycc

keithclancy wrote: »

Did the winner leave 50 quid in the ashtray ?

i cant recall was such a long time ago..took me at least 2 tries to get the my Fiat through the NCT lol:pac: i prob should have left 50E in the ashtray on my 1st attempt instead