by droopsnoot » Sat Jan 04, 2020 7:38 pm
I've just finished watching it - it's just been on Quest again, and it's on again later this evening if anyone missed it.
It's just as I expected it would be, and the reason I don't generally watch this kind of thing. I know my price references are all in the past, but I was surprised at how much money they say they threw at it, and how little they seemed to get to show for it. The rear lights were terrible (only £65 each!), and as far as I was concerned "Frenching" involved recessing the lights into the bodywork, or at least it did when I used to buy "Street Machine".
If anyone's got an unloved Viva that they haven't been able sell, the people who watch this programme at least will be prepared to buy it for £3000 though, because that's a bargain apparently. And is that necessarily a bad thing? There's enough moaning about why is an Escort worth so much more than a Viva. Not so great if you want to buy one, of course.
And while I'm sure Carl can answer for himself, he advertised the car on here and on carandclassic in July last year, and it didn't go anywhere until he updated about a month later that it was sold to this TV company. So it's not like anyone else didn't have the chance to buy it. Not everyone can turn down buyers just because they think they'll mess the car up, whether that's for space reasons, or any other.