Presenters

Mark Evans and his restoration team

Mark Evans, 39, a former vet and TV presenter for over ten years, led a seventeen-man team. All of them had a mountain of the knowledge, know-how and up-for-it enterprise to tackle the rebuilding of machines as diverse as a mid-engined Ferrari and a customised truck, a 70mph VW Beetle and a 200mph Ford GT40.

Although still a practising vet, Mark is an acknowledged petrol-head whose work for TV already encompasses building his own Supercar, a 200mph two-seater private aircraft and a helicopter. He clearly loves working on anything with power, speed, and guaranteed excitement. Even so, he has also had time to write best-selling books on animal care, and his TV work also includes DIY and household makeover subjects.

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Mark's team of mechanics includes Les Dale, Ian Graham, Adrian Gregory, Tim Harrold, Russell lee, Mick Price and Paul Wilkins. Professionally or privately, all have either rebuilt, restored or maintained cars and motorcycles. All have a passion for the machines you see in the series, all of them having at least one classic of their own.

Amanda Stretton

Although action-girl presenter Amanda Stretton looks as if a broken fingernail would be a personal tragedy, and an oil-stained jumper a disaster, she is no helpless girlie. She has been racing very fast cars since she was 19 years old.

Well-known to TV motorsport viewers, she has already presented a number of TV motor sport series concerning Formula 3, GT, ALMS, Rallysprint and the MGF one-make Championships. She has also taken part in the big, brash, and definitely muscular ASCAR Mintex Cup series at Rockingham, becoming the first-ever female driver to tackle those man-sized machines.

Already described as 'motor racing's glamorous successor to Murray Walker', Amanda enjoys hosting this workshop-orientated series on the world of classic motoring. Given time (and if the men would let her get involved) she would have completed some of the restoration work herself.