As I've written recently on my personal blog, I am not a car person. I don't drive and I don't know anything much to do with cars. My husband on the other hand is a car enthusiast. He loves cars and he is absolutely in love with vintage cars as well. Back in HIS hometown, he keeps an old Fiat 132-2000 which is stripped down to the frame. He still has the Lancia engine and the original "cromodora" rims in hopes of restoring it back to it's glory one fine day.

So it's no wonder that one of his favorite shows these days (that he makes me watch with him - and that I enjoy) is Wheeler Dealers on the Discovery Turbo channel. Basically what host Mike Brewer and his handy mechanic, the giant Edd China, does is, they buy old cars and restore it back to it's prime, before selling it back to make some profit. It's pretty much a UK Pimp My Ride but minus the LCD TV screen and the bling.


Watching the series makes my husband even more car crazy than ever, though. Last month, he watched a Wheeler Dealers re-run episode that showed the WD team restoring a Jeep CJ-7. Host Mike Brewers has said that it's super rare to find a decent CJ-7. But they DID manage to find a really out of use, rusty CJ-7 and managed to restore it into a beauty.


Here in Malaysia, it's really rare as well. Even if you are lucky and manage to get your hands on a vintage jeep here, I doubt that jeep accessories are easy to find.

Even with that in mind, I know that the hubs is not giving up his dream on his Fiat or a Jeep anytime soon. He did mention that even if he can't find a Jeep CJ-7, he doesn't mind settling for an off road Land Rover. Where did he get that idea?


Well, from this evening's episode of Wheeler Dealer of course.