CAR SOS star shares tips on TV success, Top Gear’s failings and how to make viewers cry.. For all the right reasons
Plus Tim Shaw’s expert advice on buying secondhand cars
HE’S got one of the oddest jobs out there.
Tim Shaw wears disguises to surprise classic car owners who’ve fallen on hard times. Think Beadle with bangers - or Top Gear with tears.
Car SOS presenter Tim Shaw is a self confessed “out and out petrol head” who enjoys making “dreams come true”.
“It’s the best feeling ever, to give the cars back to someone deserving. To put a smile back on a petrolhead’s face.”
The format is a hit, hence the 5th series starting this Thursday.
So as his profile’s grown, is he worried he’ll get recognised when he’s undercover, despite the blacked out visors and fake nose disguises?
So what do you make of the new Top Gear with Matt Le Blanc, Chris Harris and Rory Reid?
“It’s the best car show on the television behind all the other ones. To me it’s Fifth Gear five years ago.” Ouch.
“TV shows are all about relationships. You can’t manufacture that?
"You can put together Boyzone or One Direction, but you can’t do that with TV shows.
“Rory [Reid] is the best car TV show presenter of the three of them. He’s got a podgy face. Like me and Fuzz.
"We’re not that arsed about how we look either.”