Anyone want their 300 series on TV????

Before I start I am not joking, nor am I selling anything.
I work for Granada television in Manchester as a researcher. I am working on a car "makeover" programme, which will be transmitted on Granada's "Men and Motors" cable channel and also on the ITV North region in the 7.30pm weekday slot.

The basic synopsis is that an owner has a car that either needs work, or modifying to fit into the owner's lifestyle. We take the car away and work on it keeping into mind the owner's wishes. We then take the owners away to a location roughly connected with his or her car (i.e. keep them occupied!) until the end of the show when they are reunited with their car.

The basic rules are:

1. The car has to be taxed and Moteed.
2. The car and owner must be located in North Wales, or the North of England, (as the programme will only be transmitted in the northern region and Men and Motors)
3. The owner has to be willing and enthusiastic enough to appear on television.


My Dad works at a Volvo dealer ever since I can remember & hence we have been graced with Volvos all our working lives including various 360 models. Dad went to the original launch of the 343 where volvo dealers were taken out by a Finnish rally driver! I myself have owned a 340 auto (D reg sold last year with 30,000 on the clock) and I currently look after a 1980 343 for an old friend (40,000 miles) I have also read other postings on this forum and I recon that there are enough interesting characters on this board who may be interested or may know of someone who is interested in a car makeover programme.

I would like to feature a 66 / 300 series. I am open to suggestions from fairly sublime to the daft. A 340 rally car, or a 66 modified with driving controls suitable for the disabled would make an interesting show.

As always we are limited to a spending budget of around £3K per car and we need to consider and meet any interested people by mid July. We do not really want any di-hard enthusiasts, just somebody who likes their old car and who just needs work doing to tailor his / her individual needs.

Anyone interested in having themselves and their car featured or who has any ideas whatsoever can either e-mail me on marshallrk@hotmail.com or phone on 07773 714 416.

Thank you for your time.

ROB

Unfortunately I don`t meet your geographical criteria but the idea sounds fantastic.

Personally, being very interested in green issues and the use of renewable energy (one of my main reasons for running and maintaining an older car (88 340GL CVT)), I`d love to get an LPG conversion done - even better would be a diesel lump transplant & preheater so I could run it on old chip fat.....

Let us know on the board when the show is going out - I`ll get me Mum to tape it - she`s up in N. Wales.

Will Plummer

[foggyjames]

Do you think there would be any interest for a different programme for unlikely performance cars? There are quite few hot 360s out there now (some *very* hot!), and I hope to add mine to this list in around a years time.

cheers