Two teams compete to fabricate unlikely machines from castoff parts found in a junkyard.
Showing Season 13 of 16
2004
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2004-02-01
In the Scrappy Races series, five teams - The Barley Pickers, The Megalomaniacs, Chaos Crew, Boat Buoys and The Green Goddesses - build road-legal vehicles capable of being adapted to take on a different challange each week. The first episode follows the teams on their initial build, leading up to the vehicles being put through the government roadworthiness examination and then a spin round the Scrappy Races test circuit.
2004-02-08
The teams travel to South Wales for their first proper challenge. They have eight hours on a local scrapheap to adapt their vehicles before taking them out for speed trials on the Pendine Sands, home to attempts on the World Land Speed Record since the 1920s.
2004-02-15
The Scrappy Races motorcade travels to Tong in Yorkshire, where the teams adapt their vehicles to take on a torturous all-terrain course.
2004-02-22
The final leg of the Scrappy Races tour takes the teams to the banks of Loch Lomond where they must adapt their vehicles for a race on water.
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