jackbadger56 wrote:
> Watched this last night for first time. Two teams were let loose in a
> scrapyard to gather whatever they needed to build a fire boat each. It
> had to float, move across a lake, put out a raging fire and return.
> Awesome stuff! One team modified an old Land Rover which they cut in
> half and connected a (fabricated from scratch) water pump, the other
> team cut the roof off a van for the hull, got an engine from an old
> Fiesta running to power their water pump made from a short motor.
> Tonight they have to build a dragster for a quarter mile challenge,
> all from junkyard bits!
> Interesting stuff ;-)
It is contrived - but I agree fascinating.
In fact, I'll quietly admit that I'm planning to buy the DVD when I
find it to get the episodes I've missed.
I rather do wish that they had shown just a few more details of how
they modified the engine into a pump, they showed it with its head off
and then a drawing of some pipes and one way valves, but never of the
finished article or its intermediate construction.
Likewise the "jet" pump the other team made - details of it's drive and
the suction and outlet arrangements were omitted.
I smell a TV production "rat".
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