Scrapheap Challenge - S1E0

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The Scrappy Races: Hill Climbers

Series 1, episode 0

Four teams of madcap mechanics had six weeks and just £1,500 to build multi-tasking vehicles to race them across Britain. They've now started their epic 1,000-mile road trip, which sees them tackling the greatest challenges man and Mother Nature can throw at them. The teams race north to the Yorkshire Dales, where they have just eight hours to tweak their road legal vehicles into vertigo-inducing hill climbers that can race up a terrifying one-in-two hill. This madcap motorcade is made up of home county bobbies the Cops and Bodgers, with their hot-rodded panda car complete with prison cell, suburban bovver boys the Knuckleheadz in an SAS-style dune buggy, Scottish engineers the Tartan Starlets in a mini limo, and reigning champions the Chaos Crew in a V8-powered ice cream van. The historic hill climb track has been used since the 1920s; which team will get up the