by OllieParkes » Tue Aug 27, 2019 8:31 am
Hi all,
I coincidently bumped into someone who is a part of this show this weekend. Allan Weston was his name. I happened to be speaking to him about his 504 rally pickup he was showing off at BBC's Carfest, and Viva's of course sprung up into the conversation. He said they had a budget of £8k for the entire car, and were apparently going the route of modifying the engine and keeping the same dual carb setup. The car was being presented as a barn find, and the carbs were going to be 'magically found' halfway through the show. He mentioned he was giving it a new exhaust system also and blacking all the chrome. I think there was more but I can't remember. He said that Jimmy De Ville, the shows main presenter, was going to be given the car as payment for working on the show.