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Watch: Shropshire garage owner revved up for TV show with ex-rocker

A garage in rural Shropshire may seem an unlikely place to be filming with a former rock star, but staff at Longmynd Service Station in Church Stretton have become part of the team making car-buffs' dreams come true by repairing long-neglected classic cars for TV.

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The garage, on the town's Crossways Industrial Estate, is featuring on National Geographic's Car SOS show, presented by Fuzz Townshend, former drummer with Pop Will Eat Itself.

The show, now also picked up by Channel 4, usually only features Westgate Classics in Aldridge, Walsall, which is run by car-mad Townshend.

Lee Reynolds, who took over Longmynd Service Station from his father Bill, who started the garage in 1981, said the show had really taken off.

"It's in the third series now and they're doing more and more cars each series, so Fuzz asked if I wanted to get involved and I thought why not?"

Mr Reynolds first met Townshend, who has lived in Bishop's Castle and Pulverbatch, about three years ago, and the two now have a business franchise providing safety inspections for pre-1960 cars.

The show will air on May 21.

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