“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.
