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Well I may not be ready and the car may not be ready. But Olivia is keen to see dad out on the track with new ear defenders at the ready

How wonderful. What a little homemaker you are!!

Mike, I’m not going to make it this year unfortunately as I’ve somehow got signed up to take part in an ultra marathon around the Isle of Wight, so my room at the Stoneleigh Hotel on the Sunday night will be going spare. Let me know if you want me to call them and switch the name over.

We are bit short of car shows that are 'pleasant' to watch currently. We had lost Wheeler Dealers Ed, Top Grind er Gear . Also from what the 'general consensus is Grand Tour is pretty drab too. So, what does it leave us with ? Not a great deal. Even all the USA stuff is dire . So, we have Car SOS left. And to be honest, its the best of a bunch .

Yeah hopefully it doesn't go to being like the American shows As much as I love the workmanship and money the americans spend on doing the cars as dave says the whole confrontation/deadline part is just boring and no one believes it surely? I met Fuzz one day at work on Shrewsbury station, really sound and down to earth bloke.Was truly appreciative of me saying I watched the show and liked it,and thanked me for watching it! I have been told by someone that works in the garage they used to use in church Stretton though that Fuzz only shows up with the camera crew,films then leaves

Just to let you know, I have put this in our Diary and we'll be there

Sorry, I wasn’t being clear! It wasn’t those sections I was having a moan about. I like hearing the back story too, and for the same reasons TJ said, I recognise that they’re an important part of broadening the shows appeal. It was just the daft filler pieces like the balloon, the teeth etc. I’m not even saying they have to be replaced with straight (boring!) technical stuff either; you could have included larger biographical segments about the relevant suppliers, or more back story, I was going to add, as long as we don’t go down the US route of fake confrontation/deadlines all the time, American Chopper style. And then I remembered the “he’s collecting it early” phone call, followed by you’ve only got a day left. Yet the handover was still carried out at a pre arranged L7 Club gathering at a Shellsley Walsh event. Doh!

I do think people look too deeply into this We are a minority as grease monkeys. To be honest the wheels from Matt Neal probably cost him pennies to give away and may have made him more than he lost. Its a car show which could be boring to the majority of viewers if it was circlip here, split pin there.

He's got his quote so I'll put on my best dress and see if he wants to take me out instead of his wife if he wins I've actually got a chance myself as my renewal dropped through the letter box today