Car SOS

Car SOS
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Genre	Motoring Entertainment
Directed by	Stephen Taylor Woodrow Stuart Readfern Jon Scorer Steve Bonser James Redgate Ben Mann
Presented by	Tim Shaw Fuzz Townshend
Starring	Car restoration team
Narrated by	Jim Smallman (series 1-3) Phil Cornwell (series 4-)
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of seasons	12
No. of episodes	122 (including 2 specials) (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Charlie Bunce Theo Williams Carolyn Payne Simon Raikes
Producer	Stephen Taylor Woodrow
Production locations	SOS Workshop Ltd in Oldbury, West Midlands, England
Editors	Del Kersting David Barry Steve Wey Graham Carr
Running time	44 mins approx (not inc. advertisements)
Production companies	Renegade Pictures (seasons 1–10) Wall to Wall Media (season 11–) National Geographic Channels NGC UK Partnership
Original release
Network	National Geographic Channel Channel 4/More4 (repeats)
Release	7 February 2013 (2013-02-07) – present
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Car SOS is a British automotive entertainment television series that airs on National Geographic Channel as well as being repeated on Channel 4 and More4.^[1][2] The first eight series are also available on the Disney+ streaming service. The series began in 2013 and is presented by Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend.^[1] Series 1 - 10 are also shown on the Australian network ABC and streamed on ABC iview.

Tim and Fuzz work closely with a specialist car restoration team helping to restore owners' classic cars from across the UK and Europe, often beginning in a serious state of disrepair. The owner, unbeknownst to them, and their car are nominated by a relative or friend because the owner is unable to continue the restoration of the vehicle, due to unforeseen medical or financial reasons. The owners are then surprised with their finished car in a staged event, usually set up by Shaw.

In a special series-three episode, a 1962 Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite destined for the British Motor Museum was restored with the owner's knowledge, breaking the show's format due to the car's significance, having been driven by a racing team that included Steve McQueen and Sir Stirling Moss, who appears in the episode.