Caught an epsidoe of the UK-produced show Chop Shop: London Garage this evening which airs on my DirecTV channel Discovery HD Theatre.

It re-airs everyday through the weekend and I highly recommend it as it was very entertaining.

The premise is much like the late Boyd Coddington's show American Hot Rod where they customize an old clunker (in this case a late model vehicle of UK origin) all in under 3 weeks (compressed into 1 40min episode!)

This episodes base vehicle: an early Gen1 SWB UK-spec Mitsubishi Pajero.

They chopped the roof off completely, welded on a new roof from some Euorpean sedan, and did a veggie oil conversion on the Diesel engine.

Some radical body modifications and they wound up with this:

Chop Shop - The Frog

What suprised me most is they paid 550GBP for a hulk of junk (albeit a running diesel). Equivalent to 800USD!

Gives you top-choppers any ideas?

MI-Mitsu