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00:04on sale this week so the rover van den Plouwer here we are you can argue they're probably
00:14underrated it is the final drive it's not quite a Rolls-Royce but it's as good as you feel like
00:21you're on a nice ocean liner just cruising it's up there it's van den Plouwer it's a bonnie color
00:27it's a lovely condition car sensible on the miles very very genuine little car 1992 Peugeot 205 GTI
00:37wow these are romping on dad have you seen this guess the mileage guess the mileage no more than
00:4615,000 oh you're right yeah 11 the smell give it away a wartime 1942 Harley-Davidson motorcycle
00:56yeah oh my god we've got some bids here don't come across many of these dear big V twins hey
01:03you got
01:04to remind the Yanks really empty I mean they're make an ostentatious machine but at the same time
01:08it's purposeful in it I mean it's amazing bit of kit the Matthewsons a dynasty of classic car auctioneers
01:2055 the joys of an auction most people will go to a sale with something in mind but come away
01:25with
01:25something different the fun is the chase we'll have a look and we'll advise you from there you
01:29just don't know what's on the end of the phone what you're gonna find when you open them doors
01:33this is a family's love affair with motors that have lived a life testing testing most people will buy a
01:41car because they can relate to it maybe a car that dad had you're selling dreams right here we go
01:51whoa whoa wait wait wait oh no I'll carry on with handbrake
01:59it's the start of another working week and Derek's already reached a state of inner bliss
02:06every Monday morning I go out a Monday particularly I go out and think to myself no matter where I'm
02:12going or what I'm doing and I think brilliant this I love this I've got this collection or whatever it
02:20might be to do today and then I've got the rest of the week to catch up with things and
02:25all the rest
02:26of it so it's the starting of a new week so I love Mondays I absolutely adore Mondays I don't
02:32like
02:33Fridays you know you look back and you think I wish I'd have done a bit more I've underachieved this
02:38week I'm not done as well as I would have liked but on Mondays you're optimistic in front of you
02:42you know
02:42brilliant good old Derrick hmm but there's every reason to be happy the garage is filling up nicely
02:55with space being made for a new arrival from just up the road a 1985 Rover SD1
03:03the owner's more than prepared to drive it over I can remember the first time I went out in one
03:08my dad took me out in one and then the dash was like something out of Concord at the time
03:12you know
03:13like this long as a kid they're like you know and the choke down by the you know down here
03:19by the
03:20handbrake with just about every other car had ever been in the choke was under the dash somewhere and
03:24yeah just great and I remember it being a v8 manual which is the ones I have really this one's
03:30a 2.6 I
03:31thing that's coming in it looks absolutely lovely deep in rural North Yorkshire Alistair Broadway did
03:40getting ready to say his goodbyes to an 80s classic and in doing so honor the memory of one of
03:46his
03:46closest chums it's a parto red it's a lovely color British Leyland they had some really good colors in
03:57the 1980s and this just epitomizes the 1980s what was coming out of Longbridge at the time when you
04:05said it when if you first said a portal I don't know why but I thought red wine well that's
04:09how I
04:09remember it because of port the Rover SD1 belonged to Mark Elliott Alistair's best buddy for the last 20
04:22years who's recently passed away and being a vandenpla it's luxury on wheels Mark was the third owner of
04:30this car it was originally a bank managers it's that sort of middle-class you know 1980s scenario I mean
04:40the Germans there were the BMW 5 series we have the the Rover range VW they have to like the
04:48early
04:49Passats so and then there was the Audi's of course which were competition really for the Rover car
04:55and it's when Rovers were good and with it being a vandenpla you know it's a little bit more plush
05:03are inside so you know you've got your pipe in the interior the roof is really good quite well
05:10appointed inside really we're going to pick her in and hopefully they're going to do a good job at
05:16selling this car for us oh look at these yeah something special aren't they wow look at that
05:35oversized and over here and lurking with the motorbike squad a 1940s military spec Harley Davison one of
05:43three that's been brought in big V twins hey you gotta remind the yanks really I mean they're
05:49they make an ostentatious machine but at the same time it's purposeful and I mean when this is running
05:54along at 60 miles an hour it's probably only doing 1200 revs and it's like a like a great big
05:59V8 almost
06:00in this almost a V2 it's amazing bit of kit it's absolutely incredible yeah a little bit of a limited
06:07market amongst the older guys because I mean it's so big and so heavy to lug about but then again
06:13it's iconic and it's military makes a difference yeah clutch this side look at the even that's made
06:19for army boots and the size of the thing and hand change I love hand change but of course our
06:26hand
06:26changes over here there's left-hand drive it's a left-hand drive motorcycle how about that yeah oh
06:34yeah well I've got a big ass do you all get on here no let's try yeah no sit on
06:40the front go on no go
06:42on no they won't get on there look what if I get my leg over it and don't I'll tell
06:45you the right go on
06:45no you're all right go on that's it yeah yeah oh yeah you got it yeah yeah yeah marvellous she
06:52looks
06:53like an American cop got the uniform on look hey yeah she does look apart yeah Derek yeah no so
07:02I'm
07:02just checking if that is a stand but it's not I think it's a bomb I'm on me both feet
07:06you're
07:06all right oh it's not gonna right well we're done are we now yeah crack on is it holding it
07:10yeah it stands all right yeah you got it yeah well well I'm Jill right out guys suits you yeah
07:15oh yeah
07:15I'm not buying it though right crack on come on so a genuine wartime bike so I suppose it's going
07:22to fall into the category of a willys jeep and a good willys jeep is 20,000 quid 25,000
07:28for something
07:29that is absolutely stunning especially like a 1942 with proper wartime history these I don't suppose
07:35will achieve quite that money but probably 15,000 quid on a good day this is a very niche market
07:41but
07:42an ever so strong market do do do do do look at that paint with the Sun coming off it
07:53blimey yeah
07:54that is nice well some vehicles have been to hell and back wowsers others have had it easy I saw
08:01it
08:01pull up on the on the lorry and I thought blimey that looks clean and then the more you look
08:06around
08:06it it is immaculate that is really nice isn't it look at the interior as well oh that's probably why
08:14Phil 11837 I'm not very good at maths but that's 11,837 I think isn't it blimey is that all
08:25it's done
08:29there'll be a lot of interest in a restored 1992 1.6 Peugeot 205 GTI a one-owner motor that's
08:38been
08:38garaged for 18 years let's face it you know your stereotypical one what comes in they've all been
08:43used they're all all right you know they're all a little bit mediocre aren't they you know every now
08:48and then you get one yeah taking me by surprises a little bit it is lovely yeah dad have you
08:57seen
08:58this guess the mileage guess the mileage guess the mileage can I look at the seat you can have a
09:06look
09:07at the driver's seat but don't look at the dashboard you've got to stay from this angle Dave's getting
09:11the whiff of an underused car you can smell it that's likely to send the punters into a feeding
09:17frenzy no more than 15,000 oh you're right yeah 11 11 11 you can the smell give it away
09:29yeah it's
09:29right away first thing you can tell yeah you're not gonna find a nicer one are you no no it's
09:35really
09:35really nice the vendors hoping for upwards of 25 grand everything looks correct and period on the
09:41car so so should the wheels yeah I would put 1.6 wheels on it straight away and I'll put
09:50a set of
09:50mud flaps on its trail try and get the Peugeot mud flaps you store Peugeot 205 right and I'll try
09:54and get them in yeah that's what I would do yeah and really just finish it off hang on it's
09:59my bank
09:59magic can I yeah can I buy a Peugeot yeah there you are it all boils down to a sensible
10:07reserve at
10:08the end of the day it must be nearly the lowest mileage one in the in the UK surely and
10:13in this
10:13condition now it's going to be an interesting one but yeah no cause a lot of interest I'm sure
10:33the sun's cracking the flags in North Yorkshire just the sort of day that lingers long in the mind
10:38and for a 40 year old Rover SD1 it's one to remember too it is the final drive Alistair Broadwith
10:46is taking
10:47his best friend's motor for a final spin destination the Mathewson's auction quite emotional sort of the
10:56last connection I have with Mark's car but it's an honor and a privilege to do we're celebrating you
11:03know mark and and how he loved the car I met Mark he was delivering parcels for us in our
11:12area he became
11:13sort of on the bit of the blue really because he'd seen the route master bus which I owned at
11:20the time
11:21not knowing that mark his great passion in life was buses and especially London route master buses he
11:30was one of my best friends and you know I look at it now it was very hard you know
11:35a year ago when we
11:36lost mark but I just have to be grateful for them 20 years that we spent together it was great
11:47it's not quite a Rolls Royce but it's as good as you feel like you're on a nice ocean liner
11:55just cruising
11:57and that silky smooth six cylinder it just burbles away they were looked upon as a poor man's jack but
12:06what
12:07makes this car a little bit special Mark and me quite like the film Bob Sue and Rita too and
12:15of course what
12:17was in that film and a port or red Rover SD one but it is a great film I think
12:27it's very fitting really
12:29that the family has sort of entrusted me to to look after the car and make sure it goes you
12:39know to the
12:39next home and custodian mark would have looked it today and going to Matthewson's mark was quite
12:47emotional and I'm quite an emotional and I think you know it's a fitting thing to take it on its
12:55last
13:04journey I think it's quite rare isn't it Harley army bike there's been loads of interest in these old
13:11bikes they really have they must be somewhat a bit special I don't see it myself like but
13:15bikes haven't been selling particularly well have they as a rule no but one or two this sale actually
13:20have so the vendor of the three Harley Davidsons brought them in one Saturday and he said I'll
13:25please get them in this auction because I need a new roof so the money is funding his new roof
13:30it's like a church appeal isn't it really there might be a bit of dust on it it might have
13:36been
13:36stood around a little bit but but you know look beyond look beyond so well that's right a little bit
13:43of stubble a bit overweight maybe possibly maybe look look look further a wartime
13:551942 Harley Davison motorcycle yeah oh my god we've got some bids here don't come across many of these
14:02do you right 13 4 13 6 13 8 14 14 2 14 4 14 6 they're looking for 14
14:13800 14 7 14 8 who's got 9 are you all done
14:1914 9 15 15 15 15 1 15 100 on sale and selling then 15 100 here's the two be
14:29quick 15 100 15 100 for the first second third and last time
14:37christopher phall Galgen Thank You
14:37I'll stop him 51, thank you Graceed my hammer went down at 15 .
14:44Maybe you could get a guarantee with
14:45he made the gold plated or something He must have a fair room It's double disaster made
14:50be thrilled to bits you'll be having double the depth of insulation in it now it will be a massive
14:55u value now all that's sorted there's collections to be made and derek's heading west to the other
15:04side of the pennines strange thing is i'll spend more time in bolton after like 10 o'clock at night
15:11than i have during the day because it's it's one of them places that i call in and pick a
15:17car up
15:17on the way back and it always seems to be evening time and so i've only really really seen bolton
15:24after dark but they tell me that's the best time to view it so we'll see
15:32while derek works on his application to join the bolton tourist board
15:36former bus driver paul hoskins is waiting with a pair of triumphs
15:40a two-tone herald and a sporty vitesse i've had this car for 20 years and the time i had
15:50it on
15:50the road and run it and maintained it i thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it unfortunately now the
15:57amount of work that's required on the vitesse is beyond what i am physically capable of doing
16:03and the herald was purchased as a stopgap but it's time now to have a complete change
16:10our family had standards and triumphs for as long as i can remember
16:17this is a 1963 triumph herald which has a 1200 engine in it we we had one of the first
16:26heralds off
16:27the production line in 1959 it was lichfield green all over oh it was horrible because a herald is
16:36crying out for the two-tone it was a lovely car but it would have been nicer if it was
16:41green and white
16:42they might seem similar but of the two it's the vitesse that's the nippy thoroughbred
16:47i'd always fancied one simply through a comment that my dad made in 1962 he was reading this sunday
16:56paper and he saw the advert for the brand new vitesse which was a herald with a 1600 six-cylinder
17:04engine in it and he looked at the advert he took his glasses off he looked at the advert he
17:10put his
17:10glasses on again and looked at me and he says good god you wouldn't drive that you'd point it it
17:18was
17:18the grand tourer of the time this particular model is what they call a single dial it only has a
17:26speedo
17:26in it and the sales people at triumph were having difficulty selling them because the opposition had
17:36far more instrumentation and within about 12 or 18 months triumph had put rev counters and other
17:44instruments in the dashboard so the single dial ones now are actually quite rare there's only 10 1962
17:52models known to exist so it's something special it's time to have a change i'm afraid i can no longer
18:00stand the cold a little bit of model railway i've always been interested in railways which i can work
18:07on in the house in the warm with a wee glass of scotch at the side of me oh right
18:13well in that case
18:13i better come and film model railways and not stand out here in the cold filming your car then you're
18:18welcome any time
18:31a few days ago a very low mileage peugeot 205 tipped up
18:37clean isn't it well not clean but clean now look what else has landed
18:43it's 4 000 oh it is 4 000 i didn't see the last did you yeah 4 987 mile in
18:50and out
18:58the volvo 300 series might look as swedish as meatballs but its roots lie in the netherlands
19:04when volvo took over daft's car making division in the mid 70s
19:10it was an attempt to break into the compact car market and early models used daft's quirky
19:15transmission system unlike virtually every other car it was basically propelled by a rubber band
19:23traditional engines soon took over peaking with the two-litre four-cylinder 360 which was a gateway
19:30for many to the tank-like durability that became volvo's hallmark
19:40well that's a new car isn't it really
19:43so that screams 4 000 mile that doesn't it yeah all nice and puffed up not not saggy and horrible
19:54it's probably worth six and a six and a half but i can see it doing more by the time
20:01we've cleaned
20:02it and and sort of got it ready um it won't look far adrift just just staff little bits like
20:09that
20:09exhaust look that would annoy me if it was mine because it's not the right color and it's all rusty
20:14and horrible just just daft stuff like that if you do them it'll just just finish it just be lovely
20:41hello nice to meet you all right nice to meet you all right you're going
20:46derrick's landed in bolton to collect paul hoskins two triumphs
20:51it's a posh spot john isn't it hey bolton's gone up in my opinion the heralds are running
20:57unlike the vitesse which hasn't moved in 15 years and needs some tlc there's a starting procedure with
21:05this if you leave it overnight or for a few days pull the chalk slowly out when you go to
21:10start it
21:11push the chalk into about three quarters right pump the accelerator pedal twice to prime the carb
21:17right and she'll be straight on the bottom right no problem now this is the left hand one's clutch
21:24john isn't it left for you i think it's one far left yeah well try them all and see what
21:29happens
21:38oh power steering ain't working
21:43i'm going to get that on here push that one out loader on tea cake all the rest of it
21:49and away
21:52this is a sad moment this very sad moment stock i think so
22:01this is there right what's the plan here then derrick just pull it right simple as that
22:10you're gonna get up cup off what for they were quick they were the xr3 of their day
22:17yeah well 1600 cc six cylinder engine way on top of the job little tiny body oh yeah and of
22:24course
22:24they went up to two liter as we know in about 1967 or something 66. triumph sort of got it
22:31right didn't
22:32they for once only thing they forgot was that all the running gears 15 20 years older but having said
22:39that they were good kind of day i like them i'm a fan of them definitely fan of them
22:46such italian flare everybody wanted them you name another car that has such flare and even the flare
22:54of the back of the roof matches the flare of the fins
22:57it's nice but they had to be two torn grand to meet you paul lovely absolute pleasure got the keys
23:06in
23:06the car yeah both lots of keys in the car i'll do me um time sheet and then back to
23:12god's own country
23:15somebody out there will say that will make a nice car when it's done and i'm hoping that they will
23:20buy
23:20it do the restoration and one day i'll see her back on the road again maybe even have a wee
23:26ride in
23:26there that would be lovely
23:33609 mark three rally chopper 210 pound and away then 210 all done 210 pound but more on the sheet
23:41i can't do
23:41that it's auction day and they're up and off with some serious selling out of gas gasoline whereabouts then
23:4855 pound that's one lot down just another 800 to go next up the pristine peugeot gti with less than
23:5912 000 miles on the clock
24:051992 peugeot 205 gti lot number 630 wow these are romping on right here we go then we're um on
24:13south
24:13in the world go 26 000 26 27 28 29 29 29 loads of interest in it 29 29 29
24:21going then 29 000 pound who's
24:23going to fill it up 29 000 pound all done then 29 000 5 29 000 5 29 000 5
24:3230 30 000 30 000
24:3730 000 30 30 000 30 31 31 31 000 on sale it's lovely it's down there back wow it's
24:45beautiful
24:46on sale and selling 31 000 pound going for the first i know it's not worth 30 grand but it's
24:51lovely
24:56the low mileage peugeot has exceeded everyone's expectations
25:01now who's up for a hardly used volvo
25:07it's a 1986 volvo 360 glt now i'll just tell you where we're going to start
25:13he bought it new it's done 4 800 miles that's all it's done it smells new and looks new inside
25:21going then six thousand look there's six eight six thousand eight on there six thousand eight seven
25:26thousand seven thousand pounds seven two seven four seven thousand four smells like a brand new car
25:33inside i can't really i've got so much interest 76 i'll take seven six seven thousand six i'll put a
25:51seven seven eight hundred rexham right somebody jumped in now job will be right seven thousand
25:57eight hundred eight thousand eight thousand eight thousand going then going to submit it eight
26:01thousand pound eight thousand pound lovely car eight thousand submitting for the first
26:06eight thousand eight thousand pound with us second third and last time provisionally eight thousand
26:12pound alan goodbye well done eight thousand pound it is yours we've got it
26:18okay the office will be in touch all right thank you very much thank you thanks bye
26:24all right the 360 isn't going far a volvo specialist garage in york has snapped it up
26:39looks a nice usable car random plaque how are we then alistair good nice to meet you mate nice to
26:46meet
26:46you good lad here she is look all the way from the sticks mark elliott's 40-year-old rover
26:53drive all right it's never missed a beat all the way over so well it's only done just over 38
27:00000
27:00miles is that all this done with every single bill from new original owners all the mot's yeah so
27:08i mean if you look at the seats you can tell yeah look at them seat bolsters and so forth
27:14look
27:14prove the mileage yeah that's it pedal rubbers mats carpets yep just general dashboard and so forth
27:20hopefully um well to be fair that's the main thing for this one isn't it you know go to a
27:24good
27:24home oh at the end of the day it's all about that isn't it and mark would have loved that
27:28i wish i'd met him good
27:32lovely car really nice car once tucked up in the showroom the rover reveals its finer points
27:40i mean the vitesse was the sports version wasn't it but in a luxury car world it's the next thing
27:47down i know it's not a v8 but on the ladder it's up there you know it's up there it's
27:53vanden
27:53plaer it's a bonnie color it's a lovely conditioned car sensible on the miles nice wheels nice finish
28:00you know very very genuine little car but it's 2.6 so it could be worse could be a two
28:06liter couldn't
28:07it if it was a v8 it would be a chunk more money as well if it was a vitesse
28:12it would be a chunk more
28:13money again so balance it all up not a bad option at all in my book yeah it's had a
28:22it's had a reasonable
28:23a bit of paint over the years i would suggest but it's been done nicely the good thing about it
28:30is
28:31it's been done some time ago so any paint that it has had is going back a bit nobody wants
28:39to buy
28:39anything that was painted last tuesday afternoon i don't think it's had a full house i just think
28:44it's had bits and pieces to keep it looking nice if a car looks nice in this bright sunlight like
28:49now
28:49this is here it'll look fantastic in the shade yeah i would think you're going to be looking around
28:57the 8 000 pound mark i would think
29:07the lots keep on arriving including derek's load that's made a triumphant return from bolton
29:16turn up
29:22i'm going to ask you how long that's been packed up for
29:25it's not going to be every man and his dog wanting it but i'm sure that there'll be two or
29:30three or four people that will want to buy this one or that one or whatever the marketing really
29:36should be all right for them as long as we do our job right
29:42me vitessa every time six cylinder i love that six cylinder um the little fours are great little
29:48car don't get me wrong little 1200 lovely little thing little sweetie i bet you want a six pod don't
29:53you really there's no substitute to to pistons is there the more the merrier
30:15the showroom's filling up i don't mind them i think they're a good little car amongst the lots
30:20two triumphs a non-starting six-cylinder vitesse that needs a bit of love it's all about that badge
30:27in it but not a big money because of the work required on the car i would say it's probably
30:33going
30:34to hit around the three thousand pound mark and a two-tone herald that's ready to rock
30:41in the world of herald's you're not a bad herald at all that door fit for a herald is good
30:48you can
30:50normally get into a herald through the gap whereas these are an absolute mechanic's dream because you've
30:58got full access to everything and not only have you got full access to everything they've even thought
31:07about giving you a seat to do it i mean what other car gives you a seat to sit on
31:13and somewhere to put
31:15your cup of tea that put your cup of tea there horia you've just got a tray there yeah so
31:20you can have
31:20tea sandwich biscuits yeah lovely isn't it everything is simple if you can't work on one of these triumph
31:29heralds then basically you can't work on anything mechanical not in our industry no way you know if
31:36this beats you then life's beat you really to be honest with you yeah now so for that reason alone
31:45they've got to be on your list haven't they a little herald like that four four and a half thousand
31:52pound which is a lot of little car isn't it for that you know in in our world that's not
31:58a lot of money
32:05we picked this up yeah it was over the border wasn't it yeah we took a risk getting over there
32:10really didn't we we don't like going over there particularly do we what a lovely day we had yeah we
32:14had a good day we had cake and all the rest of it didn't we and all that you did
32:17yeah it was great
32:19462 63 triumferral 1200 nice old car do you know what i've got a bid here absolutely bang on
32:26in line with the reserve how about that that's spooky isn't it 4 000 pounds 41 4 100 4 100
32:344 100
32:34on sale and going 4 100 all done then i'm selling it 4 100 and away all done then 4
32:40100
32:414 100 4 1 there you go now the second car we picked up which is the vitesse start me
32:49on it where
32:50abouts 2000 2002 2004 2004 2004 nice old car 1600 early one 1600 better still smoother still 2400
33:002400 pound 24 not enough 24 25 worth a lot more this car 25 2005 only selling it provisionally
33:07only are you all done then 2500 won't be enough got to find some more money 25 provisional 463 snap
33:15-on
33:15solace ultra diagnostic tool hey it's a proper tool you got there mate in the end 2400 clinched the
33:24deal the vitesse is heading south to essings i think i've only put 50 miles on it but it will
33:38get used
33:40the ultra low mileage perjo that was sold with 11 800 miles on the clock is still being pampered
33:47it's not like it's going to be a daily driver it's just going to be high days and holidays kind
33:52of
33:53thing it'll never see rain that's for sure even in newcastle yep even in newcastle it's uh the only
34:00water it's going to see is for the radiator and the washer bottle and that's it this is the second
34:07perjo 205 gti that tony sayers has owned mine was red exactly the same spec sunroof red 1600 perfect
34:19well 30 years after i sold the other one i saw that one come up on matthewson's website they
34:25seemed to think it was it was a cracker and i went down and had a look and they weren't
34:30wrong
34:31it was a case i had to have it i'd always said if i could find one that was it
34:37was a good condition
34:38one i'd i'd have another one and i couldn't believe it when that came up i left 35 000 pounds
34:46hoping nobody would go anywhere near it but unfortunately somebody else was of the view that
34:52it they had to have it and they must have left 30 30 and a half something like that
34:59so it cost me 31 but i'm not bothered it's a brand new car to all intents and purposes
35:08and i love the bits it's all obviously been garaged because particularly with the reds they
35:14they sit out in the sun they fade eventually but that one hasn't faded at all so it has
35:19been kept undercover which has done it a lot of favors
35:26well they're very good to drive they're quite quick well they were quick in the day and uh
35:32they're still not a slow car and they handle very very well i think that's why a lot of boys
35:38used to rally them and things like that because they're quite good on uh cornering and things like
35:44that it's uh it's just a joy to drive really somewhere around eight eight and a half seconds to
35:50sixty which is was quick back in the day but it's not slow now so it's uh you know you
35:57can keep up
35:57with anything on the roads it's just a lovely thing that to own to drive there's the memories as well
36:06you know happy days but yeah that one's gonna stay with me for a long time and just drive around
36:13with a smile on my face until they take my license up that's the second best car i've ever bought
36:22which was the first there's your 205 gta need acro
36:40but i've let him know that your offers on the table so no no extra charges it's all included in
36:45your
36:45entry fee two thousand pound to mongolia he's working in the in the desert and it's minus 16.
36:52it takes all sorts two thousand pounds provisionally mr mongolia fantastic
37:05they're big they're wide they actually handle not too bad they're a bit floaty but they actually
37:10because of the width of them they're a wide car and they actually handle quite well yeah no they're
37:16a good car they're all right they're a good old car ah now then lock number eight three six sadly
37:23mark
37:24is no longer with us i'm sure mark would rather be with us and he'd rather be driving his rover
37:28on a
37:28nice day like today but sadly he isn't and alistair his good friend has stepped in and he's handled the
37:34sound of the car for the family i ran one for a couple of years on and off an early
37:38v8 on carbs
37:39i think that was a six cylinder one i think i haven't had a lot to do with this particular
37:42car to be honest but it looks a nice car on the face of it lovely car not concourse just
37:47there you
37:48go there you go it indeed does look a lovely car not a concourse but a lovely lovely car just
37:52the
37:53type of car that you you'd like to own so for you mark thanks ever so much mate we'll do
37:58our best for
37:59you so the rover yeah the vandam plaria we are we have got six thousand pound there we've got six
38:04six
38:05two fifty six five seven fifty seven thousand pound you can argue they're probably underrated
38:12underrated car then granadas all that sort of thing you know granadas do more money than rovers
38:18for some reason for that's why in it just shows doesn't it good ones do good money and 250 9
38:25250
38:259 350 9 350 9 450 at 9 450 we done there we go at nine five fifty nine six
38:34fifty here at nine thousand
38:36six hundred and fifty pound we've got nine seven fifty in devon nine eight fifty but we all done
38:43making sure i'm missing no one at nine thousand eight hundred and fifty pound nine eight fifty
38:51there you go nine eight fifty it's not bad money really was it all in all it's a happy ending
38:58for
38:58the rather lovely rover it was bought by nigel mead from northamptonshire who recently pressed it into
39:05service as a colleague's wedding car i've got a nice jaguar i enjoy driving over on the essex coast
39:21tony blunden has been patiently building up a tiny collection of motors that he's been restoring bit
39:28by bit i've got the jug from a few since not so long ago but i've done a lot on
39:33it all because
39:34there was quite a bit of chrome work missing off of it and um bits and pieces missing nothing which
39:38i've located and done i just keep myself busy and doing bits and pieces on them all the 1962 mark
39:46ii
39:46is definitely a head turner and so is this one 1958 hillman minks convertible uh bought it from derrick
39:56about four or five years ago i think you've got pictures of it then and it's a little bit different
40:02now very very attractive old thing got the makings of a lovely car now you look at that the way
40:08the
40:08seat goes to gain access to the back it's lovely isn't it the last time we saw the minks in
40:14whitby
40:14well it was a shell of its current self the engine didn't run the gearbox wasn't connected
40:2290 of the interior was missing off it no bumpers no lights no nothing
40:27it's taken me a good four years to get to this stage but i was waiting for bits and pieces
40:33to come
40:33like the door panels and all that i wanted to get the original stuff for it all the inner seals
40:38out of
40:38seals absolutely pristine you just can't find them like this which brings us nicely onto tony's latest
40:47acquisition a 1962 triumph vitesse that used to belong to a bus driver from bolton i only finished
40:55it under two days ago and i'm going to take out for a ride in a bit and hopefully if
40:59it drives as
41:00nice as i think it's going to then i'll um i'll spend some time on the body work and get
41:05the paint
41:05work done and sort it out it's called triumph white triumph 19 it's called the color code it's got the
41:14black stripe down it which i like try it for the test see there's so much paperwork it's unbelievable
41:22even the old brown logbook with it loads and all all the mo2 stacks of mo2
41:35the engine sound it's got the umph in it ain't it six cylinder and a small car it's you know
41:40it's
41:41like a sports car apparently they do around well very well it's a noted thing on the time parallel
41:48turn on a sixpence which you can do there's no luxuries in them at all is there in the old
41:54cars
41:54but think yourself lucky if the windscreen wipers work i'm happy with the car i'll keep it and um
42:02same as i do with all the others i can't drive them all can i but i've got i've got
42:08to carry on doing
42:09work keep yourself busy that's it oh there we go sound as a pound yeah absolutely sounds about all
42:20over the vitesse just needs a paint job with all the work being carefully chronicled by tony's
42:26granddaughter renee she's always drawing it's come to a classic car show with me and she draws all the
42:33classic cars and she's sitting there while i'm working out in the garage here she'll sit and draw me
42:38because they've got lines the new cars they've not really got lines in them have they although
42:43she didn't like you're not too keen on the spoke wheels are you in the meantime it's back to the
42:50drawing board for tony as he searches out his next project and did we mention that he likes a sing
43:07song
43:07i feel up
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