"Blue Heeler" <woof@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> 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".
>
so I gather that this is just a remake of "Junkyard Wars" as both those
scenarios have been handled by it :-)
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