Dyed within the wool petrolhead Tim Shaw and his mechanical maestro buddy Fuzz Townshend are again for one more model new collection of everyones favorite automotive restoration present, Automotive SOS. The dynamic duo return for the exhibits unimaginable twelfth collection, which sees them and their staff restore one other gorgeous listing of uncommon motors.

Tim and Fuzz! It’s nice to have you ever each again for the model new Automotive SOS Collection 12! Followers of the present have a juicy line up of nice basic automobiles to sit up for. Plus the life altering moments for the automobiles deserving house owners, who get a properly deserved increase.

Tim – I hope so, I hope so! We’re 12 years in now Niall… it’s laborious to imagine it! I bear in mind after we did Automotive SOS collection 10 after which Automotive SOS collection 11. Occasions flown by! We’ve had some fantastic automobiles this collection however we’ve really actually centered extra on peoples tales. Each collection we by no means actually know who’s going to use and this 12 months we’ve had some actually emotional tales. Fuzz and myself have had loads of fallout over the extent of restoration we go into. I’m all the time “lets get it again to the house owners as fast as potential as time is of the essence”.

Fuzz – Hear I’m all the time pushed to get as a lot performed as potential as a result of lets face it… why not?! It’s a good bar to set… get in there and truly push ahead and get as a lot performed. I do know we are sometimes working with restricted time frames however it doesn’t imply we should always relaxation on our laurels and simply stick with getting the engine performed and the tyres and so on. However Niall we’ve bought to push it on a regular basis.

Talking of emotional tales on this collection of Automotive SOS, the Ford Standard owned by Andy, what a troublesome deal he was dealt. A heartbreaking story.

Fuzz – Inform us a number of the issues that occurred to Andy… he’s been by it. Cerebral Palsy is a troublesome hand to be dealt from start after which to finish up being deserted by his dad and mom. Fortunately he discovered a fantastic foster dwelling to be introduced up through which was nice however then… to must endure by the hands of horrible horrible bullies, round him and the place he and his spouse Kim had been dwelling. Andy bought stabbed due to these varieties of folks. It was completely disgusting, there’s no different phrase for it.

Tim – And it makes you realise what his Ford Standard meant to him. It was an actual studying curve for us and also you’ll see it within the episode. For Fuzz and me it was very a lot concerning the scorching rod scene and the way welcoming and non judgemental it’s. And to grasp what this Ford Standard means to them, giving Andy and Kim an open door and past it’s a group of individuals with open arms who’re welcoming. It gave them one thing to look ahead too and it was like giving them their life again! Fuzz and I really felt slightly bit embarrassed that we didn’t know extra concerning the scorching rod scene… we simply hadn’t stumbled throughout it.

Fuzz – Sure in case you don’t comply with that interest and a part of the basic automotive group, you simply don’t know something about it. You already know I most likely wouldn’t purchase a scorching rod myself however these folks had been wow one thing else and you could possibly that that was Andy and Kim’s household. We had been the friends and the outsiders and it was Andy and Kim saying “that is our world come on in”, reasonably than us presenting one thing to them in a kind of alien setting. They had been a part of this large household and it was nice to see it. And you understand so folks will go as much as you at a automotive present and ask you what your automotive is price… to me the worth of a basic automotive is just not in its materials price in case you ask me.

It exhibits how necessary the basic automotive group is… classics should not simply objects or property, they imply a lot extra. It might probably create this glorious sense of group and inclusion.

Tim – And extra so with the new rod scene than every other scene I’ve come throughout, all these guys there, some fairly burly wanting guys with simply heat smiles on their faces saying come on over and let me present you spherical my automotive. Not the picture you’d anticipate in any respect.

And who knew Workshop Phil had a tattoo as properly!

Fuzz – Ha he’s lined in them… simply in locations you possibly can’t see!

Tim – Locations you wouldn’t wish to see!

Talking of worthwhile automobiles, the Alpina E30 belonging to Mazz that you simply restore on this collection… that was a particular automotive… the last word BMW and an icon of icons. And Tim while you had been driving that automotive you could possibly see you had been doing the psychological maths understanding what number of kidneys you’d have to see to purchase one!

Tim – Higher than an M3! Oh yeah that was a meet your heroes second for me. Look once I grew up the E30 was all the time the one for me. When everybody else was obsessive about the M3 I used to be extra into the Alpina. And once I had my BMW I used to be accumulating the badges and the wheel and all the opposite bits to make it seem like an Alpina. So to be engaged on a real Alpina on the present after which to exit to Germany… that was a kind of moments… I can nonetheless see the signal and bear in mind wanting up and going what the hell! It really exists, it isn’t just a few legendary manufacturing unit… they really exist and make these automobiles. It was wonderful!

Fuzz – However Niall the priceless second in that episode got here simply earlier than we gave the automotive again to Mazz… when Tim put his arms round… the flawed man!!! Ha ha ha! I hope it will get included in some outtakes someplace. It was actually excellent! However joking aside it’s one thing that has been ready to occur for a really very long time. After practically 120 automobiles now it was certain to occur sooner or later.

Tim – No no no! You see what occurred was, we don’t get to see the house owners clearly and on that individual day, we had been in Sandringham, we’d many to obtain one of many Royal residences to present the automotive again. And it was a kind of moments “fast he’s right here he’s right here” and I got here working out of nowhere. So we made the rule from right here on in that they’ve to point out us a photograph of the proprietor as a result of we don’t typically get to see what they seem like. So yeah for about 0.1 of a second I had my arm across the flawed man after which was like oh flawed particular person. It’s so a lot stress as that second falls to me. Fuzz and the fellows work so laborious on every little thing else after which all of it comes all the way down to these 5 seconds when the large reveal occurs.

The lineup of automobiles on this collection actually is excellent. One of many actual standouts is the Citroen SM. It’s the zenith of the unimaginable line of DS automobiles. A design and a thought course of that has by no means been repeated since.

Tim – Niall I simply love the French designers, when different automotive designers had been simply maintaining issues easy and never doing funky issues like with the headlights to make them look spherical corners… no person else is doing it. And the French go that’s precisely why we ought to be doing it! Self getting into steering… no person else is doing it… good there’s a possibility! We are going to by no means see free considering like that once more. I actually don’t assume it would occur once more and I really like the French for that.

Fuzz – Thats proper. Mainly most automobiles that you could possibly purchase within the late Nineteen Sixties/70s, in the event that they concerned any know-how in any respect, you had been higher off avoiding them. A number of strings and cables and dodgy functioning electronics and plenty of stuff like that. How anyone bought to the moon I don’t know! How fortunate had been they!

Tim – In the event that they did get to the moon!

Fuzz – Ah sure Tim is Mr Conspiracy Concept

Effectively Tim did really go full on Space 51 with the Citroen SM, however in actual fact it was extra Quai de Javel… the manufacturing unit in Paris the place they had been constructed.

Tim – Completely! I find it irresistible! It’s the one automotive I fell in love with throughout the collection that I wouldn’t wish to personal. I would like Fuzz to personal one and also you to personal one Niall so I can come and see.

Fuzz – Sure are you able to think about becoming a member of any kind of street restoration service and also you instructed them you owned a Citroen SM… thats the one the place the screens go clean… “Sorry Sir we don’t cowl these specific motor autos”.

Tim and Fuzz had been speaking to Niall Julian

“The brand new season 12 of Automotive S.O.S is on Nationwide Geographic each Thursday from Thursday 7^th at 8pm”