Has anyone else discovered the great motoring programme on the “Yesterday Channel” called “Bangers and Cash”.
Presume you people in the North Yorkshire area know the Mathewson Auction Rooms very well.
If you haven’t seen it and are interested in old cars, bikes and restoration, then highly recommended.
Saturday night.
Yes - been watching the programme and enjoying it. It’s first shown on Thursdays at 8pm on the ‘Yesterday channel’.
Great watch, Yorkshires answer to Chasing Classic Cars.
It’s a really interesting program
I’ve enjoyed watching it so far.
I gave it a chance. Dull as dishwater, I’m afraid. Mk2 Jag looks like it ended up in a scrapyard, and likely to remain there. Spectacularly nerdish Bond Bug expert; probably the fake part of the show (that a used car dealer can routinely get a club member to appraise a car, so he can slap £1000 on the sticker price). The main characters need to adopt raffish or eccentric clothes, or stupid head gear (oversized flatcap, or floppy beanie), rather than dirty polo shirts.
People might “like” the lack of fakery, but its going to be hard going when all they have to auction is a Fiesta 1100 Pop, in beige, or a crusty Maestro.
These programmes always run out of steam, because it turns out Joe Public aren’t that interesting, and most can’t string a sentence together on camera. So the presenters have to invent personas. The ones that last the course have strong characters; we tune in (an anachronistic phrase) because we are interested in what our favourite people are getting up to (hence internet meltdown when Edd China left). Of course there is a balance. Too much character can kill it. Bernie Fineman is the “star” in several shouty car shows; his persona is undoubtedly strong, but its a real turn off.
I’m not sure yet about "Flippin’ Bangers, which also has a similarly stupid title like Bangers and Mash. The characters are a slightly crazed looking boat builder, who is the mechanical one, and a car photographer, who is the dreaming amateur, Their weekly task; buy some modern classic, do it up, and sell it on. Its likely all faked, but so far interesting, as I can more easily relate to, say, an old Mk2 MX5 or a Porsche 924, than a Riley or Morris. Its likely to be consigned to scheduling oblivion like that old motorbike show on the Travel Channel.
Bangers and Mash is likely to suffer because it hasn’t got enough about Germans, secret weapons, impossible engineering or murderers.
For motoring type entertainment, these days I am mostly watching youtube channels, watching them big bald eagles, boggin’ deep, rippin’, having a heavy dose of freedom, doin’ it for Dale, while swiggin’ the Dew. Realism, but also escapism.
https://www.youtube.com/user/GARRETTmitch
Then you have curiously therapeutic channels, such as Yamaki Yard; a Japanese chap who silently tries to fix old broken stuff. Such as his Old Man’s late 80s Galant, which has been sitting up to its axles in a farmyard for 20+ years.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyh1Qc9BjZvDkslS_OM9-Rg/videos
There’s no commentary, no lift music, only occasional titles. After perfoming an absolute miracle in getting the car going (cylinders were full of water), he’s now attempting to weld up a severely rusted exhaust?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIF1HlfSqgk
I saw it yesterday and also found it a bit dull.
I’ve seen two episodes of Flipping Bangers, the most recent, where they did up an MGB-GT.
The amount of welding that went in to that car, and then rattle canned, it ought to have been scrapped in my opinion.
I pity the poor woman who bought it, or did she, was this a fake sale ?
I guess most of these programs make thier money from selling the show to TV, than they do selling the car.
Oh yes, all of these kind of shows are a stunt. Like the home improvement shows.
At least a show like Lizard Lick Towing is blatant with it (Ronnie having run ins with either the KKK or, when in England, organised crime gangs, debts to be settled on the cobbles by his MMA wife.). That show is so bad, Rednecks I know are ashamed of it.
Well I have to disagree with the earlier posters who find bangers and cash dull
(but do agree than the name is naff:-)) - comment withdrawn, see below
This is a real business and real people with some sort of story to tell. They know their cars and collect cars/motorbikes themselves.
Aside from that not film stars but ‘real’ in front of the camera.
Nothing contrived about the auctions and interesting to see the prices some of these cars sell for.
I will agree that the guy that bought the Bond Bug and his showroom pet were unnecessary. Given the condition of that car and the price paid I can’t see much margin in it but what some folk will do for their 60 seconds of fame.
Anyway if you want a little less dull entertainment and opportunity to criticise ‘technique’ I suggest Love on the beach or Geordie Shore
At least it’s British, some of the American crap coming out at the moment is hideous, Garage Rehab being prob the worst, just three loudmouths bigging themselves up. And that one chap is a walking HSE nightmare, brake fluid in his eye, knocking a wall down in a forklift that falls all over him with no safety gear on
I’m enjoying watching “Bangers & Cash”, I think that it’s quite a good programme. Mathewsons always seem to have an interesting array of classics on their forecourt whenever I drive past!
The narrator, Toby Foster, is a Radio Sheffield presenter & he took part in last year’s “Bangers & Cash” charity rally in aid of local youth homelessness prevention - this was a sponsored trip with various teams aiming to drive from Sheffield to Monaco in cars worth £650 or less - so I guess that’s probably where the name for the series originated?
Thank you for that Andy - makes a bit more sense now - comment about naff name withdrawn!
I agree with the majority it’s a good programme to watch and interesting to see what the cars and memorabilia go for. Certainly a successful business with the owner seeming a fair person to deal with. In the episode last week it showed the owner in the pub he owns at Langdale End above Dalby Forest not far from the business. What a place opens 2 days a week (more for locals I suspect) and you have to pull your own pint and put money in the honesty box as you leave - great.
I guess it’s horses for courses on who likes it but I shall keep watching.
No worries rhino666 - to be honest, the programme’s name is quite naff!
I’ve only just discovered this terrific little show (three years behind everyone else as usual !), probably because it’s on a channel I don’t normally watch, and I find it totally absorbing. I’ve recently been binge-watching it from the first episode.
Many of the cars on there are ones I came into contact with when I was a motor mechanic in the 1970s, and so it’s pure nostalgia for me.
I’m currently on series two, so have plenty of shows to go through yet.
They’ve also done a Bangers & Cash restoration series, well one series so far. The TV filming crew buy at auction a couple of items, one usually a car and do a restoration on them. They then put it back to auction to find out if they’ve made any profit. It also includes catch ups on past auction buys, sort of where are, what happened to the auction buys?
Yes, I’ve seen this series too.
Derek Mathewson is shown at the start saying that they’ll never make a profit restoring classic cars, and so far, he has been proved correct.
The thing is I suppose, people do it for the love of the subject. Yes, it may be possible if you keep a car long enough, and judge the market correctly, but so far it’s not happened for the B&C team !
Yes most of the time it’s for the love of the car, never really get your money back. Much like us MX-5 nuts (sorry, that’s me I’m describing really:grin:) I only lost around £2k in value on my last NC when sold, kept it for 8 years. In reality I must have lost another £3.5k spent in mods over those years 
Think ive seen every single episode the new ones good where the film crew do a car . Bit disapointed about 1 thing thay buy it and it goes to a garage and gets done . So then its like car S O S have not seen the cameraman under the car changing the exhaust