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Wheeler Dealers 944 Turbo

This car keeps turning up for sale over and over again. Maybe people buy it and then get sick of the burgundy interior really quickly?
 
That episode of WD was also on last night. When they take it round the track at the end of the program it is chucking out a fair bit of blue smoke.

The mileage it says on the ebay ad is also nearly the same as when it appeared on the program. I managed to freeze frame it when they showed a shot of the speedo. How sad am I !
 
I wish TV shows would stop fucking around with 944s. Mind you I watched the top gear £1500 challenge again last night on Dave. Did anyone notice both the 924 and the 944 have glass sunroofs?

Orange alloys with a burgundy interior? /cringe. Actually orange alloys full stop. Just stop!
 
Yes its been sold on quite a few times (or else it never sells and the guy just keeps trying to off load it !)
 
It was up for sale when I bought my Black one as far as I recall, so around October ?

If it goes really cheep I'll buy it just so I can change the colour and save the community the repeated embarassment of it popping up its ugly head ( especially those wheels) [:D]



 
Ive watched this episode many times and I cant get used to the orange wheels[:'(][:'(]
also the trashing around the track afterwards puts me off buying it
 
ORIGINAL: dirtydirtyharry

Lets all chip in a few quid and group buy it. We could then just lock it in a shed or something to save it appearing again.
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I'll put a few quid in, but only if we can burn it. [;)] (oh can I have the cage out of it 1st).
 
Is it not worth a few quid for the plate / seats / cage and anything else salvageable?.... then burn it.

I see that his reserve is obviously higher than a 'few quid'
 
.....and the gaz dampers

There's the makings of a good car there - but who knows how much it might need to finish it off...?
 
This car gets a lot of stick on the forums but I think it's brilliant that they did a double episode on the 944 at all, regardless of whether they took a questionable route with it and regardless of whether they even picked a good car to start with.

Likewise, I enjoyed watching the old episode of Monster Garage from the States, where they tore a apart a 944 and created a sort of Mad Max style golfball collecting machine out of it.

I think Wheeler Dealers failed a bit because they didn't take a very "˜Porsche-like' approach to their car. They sort-of modified it for track use and they sort-of kept it usable on the road "¦ but there was no finesse, no attention to detail. Fair enough, that wasn't their intention. They wanted to whack on a few basic but useful mods and leave it at that.
 
Yes it was disappointing that they went down the route of a rather healf hearted track car conversion rather than bringing a car back to its road going former glory. IIRC it was because the car they sourced allegedly didn't have all that much wrong with it which is a testament in itself I guess.
 
If the normal format was to find an old car and restore, then I suspect an episode about creating a trackday toy is a very sensible way to break the series up a bit. A 944 is a fairly appropriate choice for that.

It's just the half-hearted approach that was disappointing, but I suspect budget driven.

 
It's just the half-hearted approach that was disappointing, but I suspect budget driven.
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More logistics than budget. The original plan was for me to help them find a car, work through it with them and then the buyer would get a year's membership. It would have been good fun to do.

In fact, they only had, IIRC, a week to source and buy all the cars for the series. Filming would be done on a similar ridiculous schedule. The company behind it were so busy the whole thing got forgotten, and they ended up with the half-done job that keeps coming up for sale. [&:]
 
I have been waiting to see that episode for ages and i watch it last night. It just made me wish i had bought one like that for 2.8k!
 
As we all know though many of these cars can scrub up well on the surface they could be hiding a wealth of sins under the skin. Mike never mentioned anything about the sills. But having said that if the car is cheap enough you can sort out the sills relatively cheaply and with the roll cage, Gaz coil-overs and a chip re-map already carried out there may be the makings of a fun car there.
 
It is worth remembering that TV is not always what is seems. They did not mention repairing the broken rear tailpipe during the 944 track day program. And if you watch the other wheeler dealers you see brand new parts already fitted that were not mentioned or even costed for in the program, but the cars obviously had more faults than they were presented with in the program.

I read on another forum that all the buyers and sellers featured, in at least the earlier series were not the real buyers and sellers but friends, family and neighbours of those involved in the program, production company and channel. For instance in series 1 Mike Brewer buys the green Mini from a suspiciously tall (6 foot 7 again!) retired man who has to be Ed China's dad.

I have also heard that the "finished" cars were not really sold to the public as portrayed in the program but quietly disposed by the production company via Ebay!

Wheeler Dealers is fake! http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&f=23&t=625462&mid=0&i=20&nmt=Wheeler%20Dealer's&mid=0
 
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