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Home > Screenings > El Mirage > Treasure Or Trash?

Director: Various

Producer: El Mirage in Los Angeles and London

Writer: Roy Watts & Peter Shillingford

Genres: Entertainment

People: Peter Shillingford, Roy Watts

Shows: Treasure Or Trash?

Companies: El Mirage


26 x 60’ and or 25 x 30’ programs plus short clips

Each episode will feature automobiles – sports and racing, aircraft, trucks, buses, farm tractors, motor cycles and military vehicles. Also included will be steam trains, fairground rides, boats, hovercraft, prototypes, etc

Each episode will follow up on how the restoration is progressing in short fast paced MTV type updates. Appraisers will determine the value of the vehicle as a wreck and the value when restored.

Meet our Lady Mechanics…expert in all things mechanical and the sidekicks to…The Interrogator...surveyor of all that is restorable...

All are qualified engineers and specialist in antique modes of transport...These girls really knows their stuff and are real cheeky monkeys!

Both British and US military personnel are restoring tanks and armoured cars as apprentice schemes. Prisoners are also restoring farm vehicles.

Our associate, Lord Montagu of the U.K. Beaulieu Auto Museum has a garage restored to the style of the 1920’s, where expert enthusiasts and our cameras can work with local school children and apprentices.

Whatever your interest in the different modes of transport, we will hunt it down and bring it before our cameras for petrol heads, auto buffs and the general public, including the kids…

Surprise! Surprise! On our website www.shillingfordslate.com you will find a Buick wreck, it cost $50 bucks. After five years hard work and $10,000 in restoration; our expert appraiser valued it at $35,000.



In Jordan wrecked trains are scattered across the desert after the attacks by Lawrence of Arabia and his Arab cahoots during the great war of 1914 – 1918. Enthusiasts are trucking them back to the railway station at Amman and restoring them to their former glory.



The series will shoot world wide wherever vehicles can be found.



Production Associates are working in South Africa, Australia, China and Asia, seeking subject matter for our High Definition cameras.



A 50 minute pilot on DVD of TREASURE OR TRASH? is available.

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