“Hold on, I saw this in a
cartoon once and I’m pretty sure it will work!”
In Vintage Adventures five
guys who have been traveling the world for the last eight years
researching and producing documentaries about machines, inventors,
history, ideas and the greatest gear ever conceived take a break to
explore some of what they’ve learned. In each amped-up story the guys
recreate, relive, repair and reuse some of the world's most interesting
and collectable classic stuff. Most of the stories happen in the
backyard but the show goes wherever the story takes it - from the deep
ocean to the Andes Mountains.
History, by and large, is
not made by professionals or experts. History is made by dreamers and
fools - risk-takers in the extreme.
In this spirit we present
Vintage Adventures. Our guys don’t just recreate - they relive some of
the most painful and fun moments of history. Lost and forgotten among
the official pages of history, the spirit of adventure lives within the
vintage gear and ideas that everyone comes across from time to time.
Whether the guys are sinking
to the bottom of the ocean in a diving bell made from an old bathtub or
soaring uncontrollably into the air in a homemade hot-air balloon,
Vintage Adventures captures the thrill of discovery like no other show
on TV.
In the first six vintage
adventures the guys: relive the whole history of diving with homemade
gear and dive deep with 1950’s era Cousteau SCUBA gear; dig an escape
tunnel like the stories of prisoners of war from the Civil War to WWII –
only they have to travel over 30 feet under the garden; bask in the
personal hygiene ideas of the Victorian age with straight edge razors,
ice cube baths, electrocution, bleeding with leaches and build a working
toilet; drive ancient and unreliable British motorcycles 500 kilometres
across country like Che Guevara; pan for gold in freezing cold winter
streams; strap-on a human kite and build a fireball of a hot air balloon
where the biggest problem is getting down.
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