New TV show for classic car buffs
Car Chronicles to air on Foxtel's Discovery Turbo channel this SaturdayA new 10-part TV series, 'Car Chronicles', promises to explore our abiding "passion for special motor vehicles" when it goes to air on Saturday, June 11.
The series, which has been put together by local production team Clear Content, comprises half-hour episodes broken into three story elements. One element will feature the restoration of an especially rare car – either contemporary or classic. In the second element, one of the show's producers pays a visit to the home of a 'secret collection' and the third element is dedicated to special events.
Four presenters have been recruited for the series. Brian Tanti, an automotive engineer by trade, and former curator of the Fox Classic Car Collection (pictured), will introduce each of the three elements of each episode. The presenters out in the field are James Nicholls, George Syder and Jeremy Best. Nicholls is a former Sotheby's Australia valuer, Syder is an expert in automotive design and graphics, and Best manages a sales team at a Sydney-based classic car dealership.
Syder has a particular interest in American and Australian muscle cars, but the producers hint that the scope of the series will run to very high-end machines – Pebble Beach stuff.
As a guide to the central tenet of the series, the producers cite the late French philosopher, Roland Barthes, who wrote: "I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals – I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion, by unknown artists."
Picture courtesy Bahnfrend/Wikimedia Commons
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