Hello everyone. It's very interesting for me to hear all your comments about our show. I am the creator and producer of Tank Overhaul, and I found this site from a google search of show title. I agree with a lot of your points about the show.
The main reason only one episode features a restored tank is, unfortunately, schedule. As was pointed out above, these things take years. We had a production schedule of 1 year, with 6 months filming time for 4 episodes. We tried the best we could to get as much payoff as possible for each episode, but a completed tank just wasn't going to be an option. You might notice the one episode where we do have a completed tank at the end (Hellcat) features virtually *no* restoration, or reconstruction. That's not a coincidence.
As for why all the Leopard and M1 footage; I created and made this show for me I love tanks and AFVs. I wanted to go see these things for real, so I wrote them into the show. But there's another, more important reason; I knew if I was watching this show, that's what I'd want to see. We milked the workshop footage as much as we could, but at the end of the day it wasn't enough to hold 46 minutes, so the modern stuff is a)cool filler, and b)attempts to compare state of the art 1944-1945, to today's MBTs.
Filming with Jacques, Kevin and Dave was great. They were all extremely generous guys, and alot of fun to film with.
We are making more shows, so if you have anything you want to tell us now is the time
Also, we're actively looking for people who go out and salvage AFVs, or any other military vehicle. By that I mean the "t34s out of swamps" kind of people. Tanks, planes, cars, ...minisubs even. Please get in touch.
All the best,
John Moores
Producer
Windup Filmworks Inc
Toronto
john@windupfilmworks.com
416.410.7618