Wheeler Dealers
- TV Series
- 2003–
- 22m
Car enthusiast Mike Brewer teams up with mechanics to repair and restore classic cars in order to resell them.Car enthusiast Mike Brewer teams up with mechanics to repair and restore classic cars in order to resell them.Car enthusiast Mike Brewer teams up with mechanics to repair and restore classic cars in order to resell them.
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Did you know
- TriviaIn 2005 Mike Brewer sued the BBC over a Top Gear (2002) episode which featured Richard Hammond the episode was very similar to Mike Brewer's wheeler dealers (2003)
- ConnectionsReferenced in Jay Leno's Garage: Road Trip (2020)
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Fantastic telly - with a relevant message for our times
First of all, I must say that this program works mainly because of the personas in it:
Mike Brewer is top boy salt-of-the-earth car dealer of the Frank Butcher variety. It's fun to watch him search and negotiate the purchase of a car and you can see that he is really holding back the greasy negotiation skills that most forecourt dealers have.
Edd China is the uber-tall and genial mechanic, who you can imagine came to this through pottering on dad's old E Type in their summer house in Anglesey - he is not your average grease monkey.
Together they create TV magic by taking old but classic well made cars and then bringing them to life and selling it on for a nominal"profit".
Don't expect to learn anything here - I have watched most of the Brewer/China partnership programs and I still don't have a clue what to look for if I were to buy a "smoker" to renovate.
However, this program is not really of that variety - in my mind, it is about realising the value and craftsmanship that went into making some of the better vehicles in the past - and celebrating it by giving them some TLC in China's workshop. I'd say this is true recycling (as opposed to putting all your rubbish in a plastic box, eventually bound for a landfill)
Of course some episodes will interest you more than others but on the whole, there is enough honesty, good intentions and humour to make it worth your while.
Warning: watching Edd and Mike will be much to the chagrin of everyone else who tries to watch their favourite programs on telly in your household. I certainly get a few withering looks when I try and watch it. Enjoy at your peril.
Mike Brewer is top boy salt-of-the-earth car dealer of the Frank Butcher variety. It's fun to watch him search and negotiate the purchase of a car and you can see that he is really holding back the greasy negotiation skills that most forecourt dealers have.
Edd China is the uber-tall and genial mechanic, who you can imagine came to this through pottering on dad's old E Type in their summer house in Anglesey - he is not your average grease monkey.
Together they create TV magic by taking old but classic well made cars and then bringing them to life and selling it on for a nominal"profit".
Don't expect to learn anything here - I have watched most of the Brewer/China partnership programs and I still don't have a clue what to look for if I were to buy a "smoker" to renovate.
However, this program is not really of that variety - in my mind, it is about realising the value and craftsmanship that went into making some of the better vehicles in the past - and celebrating it by giving them some TLC in China's workshop. I'd say this is true recycling (as opposed to putting all your rubbish in a plastic box, eventually bound for a landfill)
Of course some episodes will interest you more than others but on the whole, there is enough honesty, good intentions and humour to make it worth your while.
Warning: watching Edd and Mike will be much to the chagrin of everyone else who tries to watch their favourite programs on telly in your household. I certainly get a few withering looks when I try and watch it. Enjoy at your peril.
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- Nov 28, 2010
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- Махінатори
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- Texas, USA(charger)
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- Runtime22 minutes
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