Wheeler Dealers is a British television series produced by Attaboy TV for the Discovery Channel, fronted by Mike Brewer and mechanic Edd China with assistance from technical advisor Paul Brackley. The premise of the show is that Brewer and China are on a mission to save repairable enthusiast vehicles, by repairing or otherwise improving an example of a particular make and model to a budget, then selling it to a new owner.
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There have so far been nine series of the programme. Series 1 originally aired in 2003. The second half of Series 6 was aired in Autumn of 2009 on Discovery Real Time. Series 5 was renamed to Wheeler Dealers: On the Road; in this series Mike and Edd expanded their searching of cars by heading out into Europe hoping to find classic cars to buy and restore.
In the United Kingdom, the programme is shown on Discovery Channel and is regularly repeated on Discovery Real Time, Discovery Turbo and Discovery Shed. In the US, the programme is shown on Velocity. In Germany, the programme is shown on DMAX.
Each project spans a pair of 30-minute episodes, in which Mike buys a vehicle, turns it over to Edd for repairs, then sells it on. For the first series, the budget was ￡1000, for Series 2, ￡2000, and for Series 3, ￡3000. Budgets in subsequent series have varied, depending on the target vehicle. For example, a ￡10,000 budget was set on buying and restoring a Ferrari Dino 308 GT4 in Series 6.
In Series 7, the format was changed from 2 x 30 minutes episodes to a single 1 hour episode.
Each project car is completed over two episodes, the project presentation usually following a format similar to this.
