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I was working in my shop today with the tv tuned to the Velocity Channel when the show 'FantomWorks' came on. One of the cars they were featuring was a red mk1 tiger.
Boy, was that show hard to watch. Their complete absence of tiger knowledge was only exceeded by their lack of interest in learning anything about the car.
They took the job of replacing the dash and soon there was a worker ripping stuff out using a cordless drill. After the dash was almost out he speculated that he he was working on some sort of British car.
They took out a home made plywood dash of some sort, glued walnut veneer to it, applied a clear coat and then started hand drilling holes for new 'original' Smiths gauges.
They then realized they forgot to drill the mounting screw holes and 2 guys walked over to the drill press and took a shot at drilling them freehand.
Soon thereafter they arrived at the point where they became baffled at how to attach the cardboard cubby and had to get a third guy involved.
The new guy became the hero when he randomly stapled through the edge of the box into the inside edge (not the backside) of the dash cutout, took some universal trim strip off the shelf and proceeded to over staple that onto the top of the whole thing.
One of the guys commented that since Carrol Shelby had designed this car they had to make it 'pop'.
Apologies to the owner of this car if he reads this, otherwise your car looked great.
Boy, was that show hard to watch. Their complete absence of tiger knowledge was only exceeded by their lack of interest in learning anything about the car.
They took the job of replacing the dash and soon there was a worker ripping stuff out using a cordless drill. After the dash was almost out he speculated that he he was working on some sort of British car.
They took out a home made plywood dash of some sort, glued walnut veneer to it, applied a clear coat and then started hand drilling holes for new 'original' Smiths gauges.
They then realized they forgot to drill the mounting screw holes and 2 guys walked over to the drill press and took a shot at drilling them freehand.
Soon thereafter they arrived at the point where they became baffled at how to attach the cardboard cubby and had to get a third guy involved.
The new guy became the hero when he randomly stapled through the edge of the box into the inside edge (not the backside) of the dash cutout, took some universal trim strip off the shelf and proceeded to over staple that onto the top of the whole thing.
One of the guys commented that since Carrol Shelby had designed this car they had to make it 'pop'.
Apologies to the owner of this car if he reads this, otherwise your car looked great.
