Scrapheap Challenge and a month to build a vehicle to compete in a varied set of trials, such as auto "bowling", a race through a flooded course, a "car coaster", car "sumo" and other tests. The winners were the Aquaholics from the UK. Hosted by Cathy Rogers and Henry Rollins, it lasted one season. Another spin-off series was instituted from 2004 to 2006 and was broadcast following the main series. It was also presented by Robert Llewellyn and Lisa Rogers. It involved several teams being allocated a budget and several weeks to construct a road-legal vehicle which, if classified as a car,
Scrapheap Challenge Scrapheap Challenge Scrapheap Challenge is a British television show where teams of contestants build a working machine that could do a specific task, using materials available in a scrapheap. The series features teams of four or five given ten hours (based around sunset) to build vehicles, or machines to complete a specific task, such as being a trebuchet, or complete a racecourse whilst acting as a gyroscope. The series ran for eleven series, and originally shown on Channel 4 The format was exported to the United States, where it was known as Junkyard Wars. The US show was also produced