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00:04on sale this week in the 1968 A35 lovely condition runs really well I think the
00:14cars they don't make massive money after being a commercial there's very few of them around
00:19it's surely gonna run 12 grand and I'd like to think a bit more that's it everyone loves
00:25commercials they've got a place in our hearts I think really you remember dad coming home
00:29with a van or uncle coming home in a van it's just a lovely little thing to own oh this
00:35is a
00:36fair machine the Hummer blimey what a motor there's something about being in a Hummer and driving a
00:41Hummer it's all American when you're in a Hummer you can do anything you want and we can see over
00:47the hedges go anywhere you want up down Dale across anything this is nice old tractor there very very
00:57special being one owner from new Wow well it's looking good isn't it oh this will
01:04be happy memories driving it yeah great fun it's like a little Aladdin's cave he's a visual expert at
01:13reversing Wow goodness just mind your toes
01:24the Matthewson's a dynasty of classic car auctioneers 55 the joys of an auction most people
01:32will go to us out with something in mind but come away with something different the fun is the chase
01:37we'll have a look and we'll advise you from there you just don't know what's on the end of the
01:41phone
01:41what you're gonna find when you open them doors this is a family's love affair with motors that
01:46have lived a life testing testing most people will buy a car because they can relate to it maybe a
01:52car
01:52the dad had you're selling dreams right here we go we're just trying to get everything out obviously
02:09um after auction really for the usual routine just been busy we don't know anything else do we just go
02:14on
02:14don't you go on get stuck in just shove this forward are you pushing no not yet these next two
02:23weeks will
02:24just be hard out flat out all the time oh that's easier it's just a big clear out and then
02:30within
02:31sort of two weeks another load coming back in with all that going on I haven't actually seen Derek
02:41well yeah to be fair he did pop up for a couple of hours yesterday um and then went oh
02:47three years
02:48of birth I actually don't know where he is I don't know how was it in the office busy yeah
02:56keep it
02:57round I've seen a lot of people here today the person I have not seen is Derek yeah tend not
03:03to see
03:04him after auction to be honest tends to stay down at Thornton and Dale or he's usually out collecting
03:09something Derek's not laying low he's been at Thornton and Dale prepping for a visit to an old friend in
03:19the East Midlands just if we see something and we like it it's a reasonable price well that we'll have
03:26it there's a point that many collectors reach when they simply run out of space too many bikes
03:34too many cars and they're just not getting used enough so it's time to have a bit of a move
03:38around Robin rests Leicestershire nest is overflowing so he's identified some items for auction starting
03:46with a BSA Bantam d14-4 it's too uncomfortable to go far on it and a rather smart Honda CD
03:55175
03:55Japanese bikes are far superior better brake the a lot better ride some of the old British bikes now
04:02when you get on them you have a job to stop the things Robin plans to deliver the bikes to
04:12Yorkshire
04:13at a later date but today he's saying his farewells before Derek tips up to collect three of his motors
04:20yeah little Austin A35 van lovely condition runs really well I think the cars they don't make massive
04:29money but being a commercial there's very few of them around they are really saleable things on the
04:34Willis Jeep it's a lovely old thing that is I did in France we've done a couple of the D
04:41-Day anniversaries
04:42taking some American veterans round it's just a really really nice thing it's French built and
04:49it's a 1952 odd kiss and it was in the French army and finally there's a hefty 1954 stepside Chevrolet
04:57pickup with 51,000 miles on the clock I bought it on a win one day all I've ever used
05:04it for really is to
05:06go and fetch me firewood in it so you've got the original straight six engine in I believe the 3
05:10.8 not the fastest
05:12thing on the road it's quite noisy you get to about 40 and you know you know you're doing 40
05:16mile now
05:19let's have a rattle for all prices the Honda I would hope it's going to do somewhere around about
05:252,000 pounds the SA I'd like to think it'd do between 15 and 1600 the little Austin van we're
05:31hoping
05:32that's going to be about 12,000 pounds and the Jeep that has got to be 17,000 and then
05:39finally the big
05:40Wilburra my feeling is somewhere around about 15,000 pounds there's lots of cars there but I don't
05:55think I'll ever see so yeah it's a very nostalgic trip and you've come to see some lovely
06:02old cars motorbikes you know I've got his little wallet with him but yeah we'll have to see
06:11fantastic I love seeing them just you know can't get you take your blood can you
06:21iconic yeah it's huge there's something about being in a Hummer and driving a Hummer
06:27it's all American when you do see one over this side of the water it's like wow that's cool
06:33or it is in my book anyway and it's the fact that sitting in the driver's seat you actually
06:38can't reach the other side that's that's quite funny but yeah yeah no they are cool
06:48the Hummer's origins lie with the American military when the Pentagon made a one billion
06:53dollar order for a high mobility multi-purpose wheeled vehicle Humvee for short the beast of a
07:00vehicle had a suitably well muscled fan the one and only Arnold Schwarzenegger who was so impressed by
07:06the Humvee that he persuaded the manufacturers to make a consumer version the Hummer was born these
07:14gas-guzzling beer moths ruled the roads for almost two decades until a combination of General Motors
07:19financial problems and high fuel prices saw the Hummer range axed but it wasn't the end because
07:27the Hummer is back with 80,000 pre-orders for its relaunch as a gargantuan electric vehicle the
07:33big beast still costs a small fortune though I think it's too nice to take off road I mean I
07:45assume they'd be good wouldn't they I mean they're big and tall and wide and that but this one's done
07:5028 or 29,000 mile I think so no I won't take it off road no way it's too good
07:56they have to be a
07:57pavement princess for me I think yeah everything's just twice the size it is over here in it really
08:04ah it's just you know everybody says stuff's like a magic carpet that's a magic carpet it really
08:10really is there you go yeah it's just huge isn't it it's taking up the space with about three cars
08:17in here anyhow isn't it no I don't think it is very practical I think it'll use more fuel to
08:22get
08:23anywhere than anything else would I mean you can get lots of people in it can't you and you can
08:27travel
08:27in comfort but yeah I suppose when you drive around if you want to get looked at all the time
08:32then
08:32you buy one of these don't you in the showroom no space is wasted awkward small lots are carefully
08:47placed in small spots but in the yard another gigantic vehicle has rocked up the veteran of the
08:58vietnam war weighs in at 10 tons and is 25 feet long I genuinely think it's fab this m-series
09:07us army
09:08truck was built by kaiser jeep in 1959 and it impressed Dave a fantastic bit of kit I think these
09:17are
09:17brilliant they just may make everything strong and durable and it lasts forever I love over-engineered
09:24stuff why just about make it so it'll just about do the job why not make it so it'll do
09:29the job
09:29easily and forever you know and that's what these guys do quirky little things I think are brilliant
09:37absolutely brilliant yeah I love it to bits I wish I could justify buying one but I don't really need
09:43one I just really like them though even down to the axles all interchange so if you've got a problem
09:49with that one it'll fit that one and this particular truck has even got a multi-fuel engine which does
09:55exactly really what it says on the tin just brilliant idea isn't it really that engine will run on just
09:59about everything apart from jam sandwiches really apparently there was three companies that built the
10:05engine I think the only one that's really sought after is they do a turbocharged version which they
10:11called the whistler apparently because I mean they're a big ebby numb thing anyway aren't they add the
10:15factor that they were whistling and apparently you could hear them coming miles away so so the enemy
10:21were waiting for you before you got there they're the ones that people are sort of really are looking
10:25for the owners perhaps being a little bit optimistic personally I think it's six seven eight thousand
10:33pounds now I mean that's a fantastic bit of kit for that sort of money in it really the vendor
10:37is
10:38hoping for north of ten there's only one open it's Bob open it and so he ain't gonna do that
10:46it does give me the impression that it would just go on and on forever you know and it has
10:50done so
10:50far isn't it here it is now yeah what a brilliant bit of kit
11:14made it a lot quicker if it weren't the bloody traffic after more than four hours of frustration
11:20Derrick's landed in Leicestershire oh thanks right let's go and see oh right then rub yeah not bad
11:32there we are all right good to see you yeah that's your job keeping well yeah not too bad how
11:37about
11:37business busy oh it's right surrender it's amazing Derrick and Rob rest they're old mates from the trade
11:43Rob runs a local MOT and service centre and knows what makes Matthewson senior tick
11:49Derek Derek your cakes on that pallet apparently oh oh good good good what do you reckon do it
11:56lovely gorgeous I'm a nice bit of take I've ever a while so we're taking these three then yeah
12:02yeah the van the Jeep right on this whole beast lovely so she'll go on last first up Rob's dug
12:09out a
12:09bit of Matthewson's treasure original catalogue tell you what we saved some money by not having them
12:17printed they used to cost us six thousand pound an auction now but that's uh we don't have to do
12:22it
12:22now because it's all around the computer see that good old days I can remember a load of these cars
12:29you
12:30know no I can't remember people's names let alone much much else excuse me but I can remember the cars
12:37reminiscing over it's back to business the Chevy pickup just not doing it anymore but it is an
12:45exceptional vehicle the motors worth 15 grand because it's so good but it's going to struggle
12:50to make it I think the little Austin really might surprise you it's surely gonna run 12 grand and I'd
12:58like to think a bit more but that sounds sweet that old bus don't you what genuine I'll know where
13:05that is gonna have Jeep up top little van underneath truck on the back no trouble that one I'm not
13:17sure
13:17sure that I it's somewhere between 15 and 20 in it I think it all would be auctioneers discretion and
13:24then
13:24I'll go for 17. Sure do. They are bloody awkward things aren't they? Yeah they are especially when
13:33you're a bit fat. Here we are. I'll watch you on with that Austin. Steady on mate hang on that's
13:44it yeah
13:46hang on a minute yeah yeah we'll have wear on then Rob a bit more lovely that boy well done
13:55thank you
13:58right okay thanks ever so much okay look after yourself I'll see you soon see ya right I'm gonna love
14:03and leave you
14:25they look robust let's put it like that I mean yeah they are right for what they are it's it's
14:30unusual
14:30it's different especially in Pickering we don't see many of them flying about oh this is a fair
14:40machine the Hummer blimey what a motor it speaks for itself there look at it really expensive brand new
14:46I can imagine I dread to think what they cost new yeah she's the H2 she's a 2006 model a
14:52six litre
14:52obviously petrol automatic 4b4 yes this is you less compliant believe it or not 28,000 miles showing
15:00one owner since the import into the UK there we go look what a machine where are we then I
15:04see 16 16
15:06thousand and then away in one at 16,000 one hundred and two three four sixteen four hundred five here
15:12with me at sixteen five tell me when you want to jump in five hundred and six sixteen six and
15:17seven
15:18then that looks a lot of car for that it's sixteen thousand seven hundred and eight he says nine back
15:22at
15:23you slide down a little bit long it's sixteen thousand nine hundred seventeen thousand he says at
15:28seventeen it's provisional but we'll make a phone call think it's worth more seventeen thousand and we all
15:33done yes for the first provisional for the second third and last time right it's seven eight thousand
15:39provisional all right nice to speak to you all right thanks a lot take care bye thank you he was
15:46pleased he he wanted to sell it so I think he's yeah he's happy oh we'll have fun with this
15:51one then but
15:51yeah all right thank you bye-bye he had a brand new Hummer at fifty thousand pounds some years ago
15:59he just
16:00loves them more comfortable than his Bentley so there you go
16:08Derek's Leicestershire collection has attracted attention across the whole Matthewson family
16:13you can't help but smile can you Dave's casting an admiring glance at the little Austin van
16:18everyone loves commercials they've got a place in our hearts I think really you remember dad coming home with
16:24the van or uncle coming home in the van you remember as kids because as a kid we all just
16:28jumped in the
16:28back of the van didn't you didn't have any seat belts you can genuinely remember an adventure with the
16:35commercial they're absolutely great and the nice thing about this one it's got a rear seat conversion
16:41as well so you can take the kids out yeah they have a tendency obviously to rot that front wheel
16:47throws all the
16:48muck in there and you don't knock it out next thing you know all this area around here is as
16:52rotten as
16:52a pear so the quick way of repairing is you take the headlamp out you take the indicator off you
16:59take
16:59that plinth off and they fill that all over so there's no seam they fill it all over and then
17:06put the indicator
17:06on the front with this little van obviously it still retains its seal down there and the indicators on a
17:14nice plinth
17:15so to buy that van what is it going to cost someone you can buy them cheaper but I think
17:20that van will hit 10,000
17:22I could make the decision as to whether to buy that van or not in less than a minute
17:26yeah if you need longer than a minute yeah maybe you need to get out a bit more
17:31it's just a lovely little thing to own
17:39Charlie's a fan of the pickup
17:41it's not a show winning one but it's so honest you could polish it so that it's nice
17:47oily rag it and just quick service up and away you go got a chip in it there
17:51but that to me is originality if you stood 10 foot away you probably won't see that
17:57it's just patina because if it was rusty they'd be all there wouldn't there
18:01and in 10 years time when that's got twice as big then I'd probably paint it but for now I
18:05think I'd leave it as it is
18:10and Dave's second pick is the Willis Jeep
18:15real
18:16so we just leave it at that
18:17I think they're absolutely brilliant
18:19obviously they were designed for a purpose and the purpose wasn't a particularly nice one was it
18:23you know who wants to go to war
18:24we're very lucky we do a few every year
18:26they're smart and up and running
18:29you need 15,000
18:31if they're quite exceptional and they've got a load of bits on I mean some come with the guns and
18:35all the other fittings and things then they can push on as much as 20
18:38yeah not particularly quick on the road though 40-45 mile an hour but that's quick enough when you've got
18:42no door
18:44this particular Jeep it's got about the bare minimum it's got the rope on the front everyone tends to have
18:48the rope on the front but we haven't got a pickaxe
18:50but you don't often see the case for the gun
18:53obviously the spare wheel's always on
18:54the can's always on
18:56and the shovel and the axe are just about always on
19:00and you can get everything for them
19:02that's dead straight in there
19:04I love all the little things like that
19:06I mean you know that's obviously got a light guide on anyway
19:08so you know you don't get shot at by a Messerschmitt on your way home tonight
19:12yeah if you want to see what's happening what's gone wrong there
19:14you just turn your headlamp round
19:16I mean real cool
19:24we have a clear out and then we have a refill
19:29as promised Rob and his wife Sarah have brought in the bikes to add to the vehicles Derek collected
19:36I didn't use them very often
19:38we'll have a bit of a change
19:39yeah as long as you don't change your wife
19:42you never know
19:44you never know
19:46it's cruel
19:48I'll have a bit more space
19:49oh a lot more space
19:50I'll be able to get something else to put in the space
19:52there'll be something coming along
19:59the bike market
20:01it's peaks and troughs a little bit
20:02I think we've just had a bit of a trough
20:04there seems to be a bit more interest
20:06hmm
20:07Paul spotted Rob and Sarah's bikes
20:10right yeah little Honda
20:11little 175 look
20:13lovely little lightweight
20:15ideal for you guys
20:18sick of these heavy
20:19British iron
20:20and thinking of something a little more user friendly
20:24good little runabout bike really
20:26hmm
20:26so I right rate them
20:28good little bike
20:29or if you're on a British version
20:31you got BSA
20:33little BSA
20:34little Bantams and such like
20:35brilliant little machines
20:36again
20:37nice user friendly
20:39lightweight
20:39lightweight
20:40easy aren't they
20:41don't take up loads of room in the garage
20:43put them at the back of the garage
20:44still fit your car in
20:45make a lot of sense
20:46value wise
20:48how are they standing up these days
20:50thousand pound
20:51twelve hundred maybe
20:52maybe
20:54a little bit more Honda
20:56I would expect the Honda
20:57mid to late teens
20:59bit more usable
21:00different generation
21:03dare I say
21:05older generation
21:06younger generation
21:07bit more in demand
21:09supply and demand isn't it
21:27I know you get a lot of tourists in Pickering and Peltendale but
21:31you're not happy in your work
21:32do you think I'd make a profit doing this
21:34not if you can't go any further than that
21:36we suck it
21:37it's a bit of a short trip innit
21:38well we've had it that long
21:41we're just shorter space so we're going to have to put it outside
21:44and hope somebody puts a bid in for it
21:46Peekaboo
21:47he has to see if your customers are alright to get the money out of them
21:51do you think I'll get a Yorkshire man to ride in this
21:53well I'm not buying it
21:54and pay
21:55and pay
21:55oh no you're not
21:56I presume that's a foot brake for you
21:58and this must be your handbrake
22:00that looks to be in a slightly dangerous position
22:03yeah
22:04you've got your ding-a-ling there as well
22:08oh dear
22:08I think my ding-a-ling has gone rusty
22:11I suppose it would do up wouldn't it
22:13but in fact
22:14could be a winter's project
22:16oh
22:17muah
22:18need some new tyres though
22:19because these are flat
22:29this
22:30yeah they're both run
22:31yeah
22:31I've seen them both running
22:32yeah
22:32okay
22:33no problem lads
22:34alright
22:34speak to you later
22:35thank you mate
22:35we seem to have got some pigeons moving to the barn
22:38so
22:39yeah it was a bit sticky
22:41but anyway
22:42we like to be somewhat like tidy don't we
22:44so I thought we'd just give it all a quick slush off
22:47today we are going only down towards Moulton
22:50to an undisclosed location really
22:53and we are collecting an old case tractor
22:56that hasn't moved for some time
22:59and I believe it was purchased by grandad
23:02their grandad
23:04not my grandad
23:04their grandad
23:05when it was new
23:06so it's around about 1948
23:11rings a bell
23:12don't hold me to that
23:13so I'm going down there to meet mum and daughter
23:17they're only local to us
23:18so I know exactly where I'm going
23:27my family on my mother's side
23:30have actually farmed round here for generations
23:35well the tractor belonged to my grandfather
23:37when he died it would then be passed on to mum
23:42a short hop from Thornton-le-dale
23:44Sophie Hamilton and her mum Marion are preparing for Paul's arrival
23:49okay are you ready there?
23:51I am
23:52yeah
23:54wow
23:59right
24:00there we go
24:01yes
24:03well it's looking good isn't it?
24:04it does look good
24:05she was a bit dusty wasn't she?
24:07just a little bit
24:08well it's hardly surprising
24:09I mean how long has it been sat here?
24:13other than well 30 years
24:1530 years?
24:17this case tractor arrived on the family farm in 1946
24:22it's typical of the machines that helped transform British agriculture
24:26after the second world war
24:28it also comes in a very fetching shade of orange
24:31so you would see a case an orange tractor in the distance and you would know it was a case
24:36brilliant advertising
24:37but also it was health and safety
24:41because you could it was so bright that if there were people about in its way they would instantly get
24:49out of the way
24:49which is brilliant
24:51it's almost like you know high-vis back in 1946
24:57my father had a thrashing business
25:00a contracting business
25:02just very locally around here
25:04you know the winter months were taken up most days going to different farms
25:11it would have been really exciting
25:13you know it would have been like getting the absolute high-tech of today arriving
25:19thrashing and baling all day long
25:22when it wasn't being used for thrashing it was being used for ploughing
25:25so a total workhorse
25:28oh in fact the chimney's here
25:31it goes on that bit over there
25:34oh this would be happy memories
25:36sitting on here
25:38yeah
25:39and driving it
25:41yeah great fun
25:42well I'm one of five
25:44so there's five girls in our family
25:46all my sisters live in the south of England now
25:49none of us are in farming
25:51none of the family you know are sufficiently interested to you know to carry on with it
25:59so you know I'm in my late 80s and you know there might be somebody out there who would just
26:09enjoy having it
26:10that's the important thing
26:20in Pickering
26:21auction time sees activity ramped up
26:24Robin's vehicles are up for grabs
26:27oh it is absolutely original isn't it
26:29it's got a rear seat in it
26:34the 1968 A35
26:36do you want to do this one did you?
26:38I can do
26:39only because I've sold it before
26:41a very good friend of mine bought this some years ago
26:4314,000 pound I think it was then
26:46lovely lovely lovely van
26:48super thing start me on it
26:50ten let's get away at ten
26:51ten two fifty ten five ten five seven fifty eleven eleven thousand pound absolute stunner
26:58I think it's worth more
26:59eleven one eleven thousand one hundred
27:01might be out put a deal together bring you both together
27:04provisional
27:05eleven one provisional
27:07yeah you had a reserve on it of twelve thousand pounds
27:10we've got eleven thousand one hundred
27:13yeah what's the minimum you'll take
27:15okay lovely I'll go back to him and see what he says
27:18okay thanks Robin
27:19bye-bye
27:22oh well what's eleven and a half twelve grand for it
27:25hello
27:26you've just had a bid on the Austin A35
27:28I've just been speaking to the vendor
27:30and he did have a reserve on it of twelve thousand pounds
27:32but would be willing to sort of meet you halfway if necessary
27:36yeah eleven five
27:37what are you going to do with it
27:38oh perfect
27:40I'm sure he'll accept that
27:42bye-bye
27:43so he owns a deli
27:45and a couple of pubs
27:46so the plan is to have it sign written
27:48and then have it's a little run around for his business
27:51perfect
27:55oh the Chevrolet GMC
27:58we collected it again
27:59same group of cars
28:00and I've never seen one more original
28:01is it really original he says
28:03really original
28:04there we go look beautifully mellowed interior and so forth
28:07most definitely a keeping vehicle
28:09oh yeah there we go then
28:10where are we
28:10I've got ten ten two fifty ten five
28:13ten thousand five and seven fifty
28:15at ten seven fifty eleven
28:17at eleven thousand pound then in two fifty
28:19eleven thousand two hundred fifty bid and five
28:21eleven thousand five hundred
28:23that looks cheap
28:24we'll make a phone call
28:25I think they want more
28:26eleven thousand five hundred then for the first
28:28second third and last time
28:31and five
28:33you've got to do quite a lot of negotiation
28:35a lot of talking
28:36yeah
28:37when you're making that call
28:38you just never know
28:39what the outcome's gonna be
28:40by the time Friday night comes
28:41I've had enough
28:42yeah
28:43it's like take me home
28:44put my pajamas on
28:45and don't talk to me
28:46the eleven and a half grand offer was rejected
28:49but the pickup sold for twelve and a half thousand
28:51at a later timed auction
28:55sixty-one
28:56Hotchkiss to Willys G
28:57beautiful example
28:58well dressed up
29:00super thing
29:01whereabouts then
29:02start loads and loads of interest
29:04ten eleven twelve thirteen thirteen thousand
29:07thirteen five fourteen thousand
29:08fourteen fourteen five
29:09fourteen thousand five hundred only
29:11fourteen five fifteen
29:13fifteen
29:13got you fifteen
29:14fifteen thousand pound
29:15all done then fifteen thousand pound
29:17very provisional fifteen
29:19fifteen
29:19we all know they're worth more
29:21but we're trying to put a deal together for you
29:22fifteen
29:24provisionally only
29:25fifteen
29:27so the reserve of seventeen grand
29:28we've got an offer of fifteen grand
29:31they have a great following
29:33and if you get the right one in at the right price
29:35it'll sell
29:37Robin took the fifteen grand on offer
29:39and the jeep went to a military vehicle aficionado
29:45it's Paul
29:46good afternoon
29:47how are you
29:47how are you
29:48nice to see you Paul
29:49how are you keeping
29:50very well thank you
29:51good
29:52good
29:52Paul has made the ten minute trip
29:54to pick up the very orange case tractor
29:57it's here somewhere
29:58yes it's hiding
30:00in this shed
30:01it's only had one owner
30:03one driver
30:05and what a wonderful wonderful thing
30:07I think it's great
30:08absolutely great
30:09anyhow
30:10what are we thinking money then Miss Hamilton
30:13what are we thinking
30:14apparently you said to Charlotte
30:16three to four thousand
30:18yeah
30:18but what are you thinking at the end of the day
30:21oh golly
30:22well no
30:22I think we're being advised by you
30:24aren't we
30:25we are being totally advised by you
30:26right
30:26with it being a case
30:28with it being in your ownership all this time
30:31I think it wants guiding in three to four
30:34and let's hope we're pleasantly surprised eh
30:37it does seem a bit of a shame
30:38stuck in the barn not ever really being used or seen
30:41no
30:42it needs to be
30:43somebody needs to be using it
30:45and getting a lot of enjoyment out of it
30:47yeah that's right
30:47yeah and I'm sure it's done plenty of work
30:49but of course
30:50it's clear to see innit
30:52it's been nurtured and looked after
30:54which is how it survived
30:56well we better get her out haven't we
31:00like a little Aladdin's cave
31:01yeah
31:03a day of reckoning
31:05a day of reckoning
31:07he's a bit of an expert at reversing as well isn't he
31:10oh
31:12crikey it is a machine isn't it
31:14I don't know quite how this is all going to work really
31:16but we'll see
31:17oh
31:18wow
31:19oh that's what we're after
31:27just mighty toes
31:28thanks
31:33we've got some funny noises going on today haven't we
31:41isn't that a bonny old tractor though
31:42lovely
31:44yeah it is
31:46right well I shall hit the road
31:48I've got a long way to go you know
31:49oh you have
31:51thank you very much Paul
31:52no problem at all
31:52nice to see you
31:53so well it's very nice to see you as well
31:55excellent thank you very much
31:56thanks for coming across
31:57ok marvellous
31:59see you soon
32:01oh well
32:01bye Chris
32:03bye
32:03oh there it goes
32:04bye Chris
32:06yeah
32:06bye
32:06bye Paul
32:08and with all the blossom out
32:09well done
32:1279 years
32:12yes it is a long time
32:16my lifetime almost
32:33you know when it first came I didn't really like it
32:36and now the more I look at it the more I like it
32:38I don't know what it is I don't know why
32:39but the family bought it new to run a thresh earth which basically is combined isn't it really
32:461946 this was well advanced wasn't it
32:49it was almost too much wasn't it a tractor with a PTO shaft and they still have them today
32:53and it's like you know from 60 70 80 year ago that was thought of and it's still working now
33:00so it was over engineered so so much put anything you want on the back of it it's either going
33:05to do like
33:06I don't know
33:07I don't know 6,000 quid or 10,000 quid or 10,000 quid isn't it you know it could
33:10be anywhere
33:11so yeah I think I know it's a big bracket but it'd be somewhere in that bracket I would have
33:16thought
33:20oh this is nice old tractor there I collected this year and it was purchased new back in 1946
33:27here in Rydale just down the road very very special as you'd want to find one
33:32there we go 18 19 2,000 pound bid then and away at 2,000 lovely bit of history with
33:39the tractor there
33:39at 2,000 pound bid at 2,001 2,1 at 2,000 2,2 it's still provisional Moulton we'll
33:46make the phone call we'll see what we can do
33:48nice if it stayed in Moulton
33:50it would be good yeah staying local there you go look yeah at 22 then provisionally for the first second
33:55third and last time
33:562,2 Moulton hello is that Marion it's Jill here at Mathewson's we've got the bid at 2,2
34:03yeah no that's lovely all right all done that's great thank you very much thank you bye bye
34:09there they were happy to accept that
34:11well it's not going too far away it's going probably about another 10 miles west so lovely that's a really
34:18nice story isn't it
34:22a little under 175 I believe that one you know the auction news Robbins motorbikes had a mixed reception
34:29hook 1,500 then that's very provisional at 1,000
34:32the Honda sold for 1,850 in a timed auction
34:37you all know what they're worth
34:381,000 pound to start me 1,000 pound 1,100
34:411,100 12 1,200 pound absolute bargain surely
34:46but the bantam had no takers and went back to Leicestershire
34:49I need more
34:51what are you gonna do with that?
34:53oh lord
34:54that's a bit interesting a bit quick
34:55no
34:57engine will run on just about everything
34:58if you pee in the tank it'll run by the sound of it
35:01so 8,500 what a bit of kit
35:039,000
35:04250
35:05got more on my sheet
35:06we need a bit more money
35:07the kaiser truck also failed to attract a buyer
35:13and there's one other item that looks like it will never sell
35:16what we got here?
35:17bloody rickshaw
35:18bloody thing's been around forever innit?
35:20how long has this actually been here?
35:22about five years I think
35:23they're good sellers you know
35:26you know we get a lot of this stuff abandoned on us you know
35:29someone brought it down and thought
35:31I bet that will make 500 quid
35:34and it's getting bid of 45 quid
35:36and it makes them realise then it ain't worth anything
35:39so leave it with them
35:40they'll sort it out
35:41I ain't got the legs for pedals anymore
35:43so it's of no interest to me whatsoever
35:47in fact to be perfectly truthful look
35:50it's a death trap innit?
35:52you know what I want really?
35:54rather than this sitting here
35:55I want this bit here clear
35:56that's what I want
35:57whoever owns it come and get it
35:59get it gone please
36:00Derek's wish was granted
36:02the rickshaw is no longer in Yorkshire
36:04the owner came back to collect it
36:19when you're in a Hummer you can do anything you want
36:22we can see over the hedges
36:24go anywhere you want
36:26up, down there, across anything
36:30we're so lucky having this you know
36:32so lucky
36:33the resplendently blue Hummer
36:36hasn't travelled much further than its hefty wheelbase
36:38to find a new home
36:39it stayed in Yorkshire
36:41it's now owned by retired businessman John Paley
36:45and he's loving it
36:46oh it's just like riding on air
36:50it's just pure elegance
36:52it's just pure comfort
36:53it's just so silky
36:55it just takes everything in its stride
36:58you know
36:59you feel absolutely nothing
37:00with the big tyres
37:01and the air suspension
37:03the ride comfortability
37:05and everybody has said
37:06oh I can't believe it
37:07I can't believe it
37:09John loves showing off his new purchase
37:12it's a main machine
37:14look at tyres
37:15you know
37:16it just looks the part
37:17yeah
37:18today it's his grandkids
37:20Connie, Will and Jacob
37:21it is yeah
37:22it's like new isn't it
37:23I mean handles come off
37:24that's brilliant isn't it
37:28even the odd fault is easily sorted
37:32that's it
37:32that's it
37:33it's back on
37:34that's bloody typical isn't it
37:37and this is no short term fling
37:40it's a long term love affair
37:42that started when John hooked up with a friend who was a car dealer
37:45let me have a look at one of the numbers
37:47and as soon as I heard it
37:49as soon as I saw it
37:50just poised lovely
37:52I said right
37:53order me one
37:54and that was my first one
37:55in 2002
37:57it was a black one
37:58I had that two or three years
38:00and I got a pickup one called a soot
38:02which had the bull bar on the front
38:05and then I woke up one morning
38:07and I realised I had eight cars
38:10and I thought
38:11why do I need eight cars
38:13and we had them all sold within a week
38:15everybody thought I'd gone bankrupt
38:17because I sold all these cars
38:19which I haven't
38:21but the Hummer bug never totally disappeared
38:23and a trip to Pickering revived it
38:26this Hummer was sat there
38:28and I just walked around it
38:29opened the doors
38:30looked
38:31I said it's mine
38:32I'm having it
38:33simple as that
38:35the bug was well and truly back
38:37after buying the blue Hummer
38:38he bought a black one to go with it
38:41it's cool isn't it
38:42yeah
38:42I mean it's not the first one
38:44but maybe not not might not be it last one either
38:46but
38:47er
38:48definitely a head turner
38:50all the seats are like feel rock hard
38:52nice and comfy
38:53go to sleep if you're on a long car drive
38:56if you want
38:56they just go anywhere
38:57you can take them off road
38:58and go anywhere you want
38:59and people get out of your way
39:01so you feel like
39:02the boss
39:05it's great to look at on the drive
39:07but it's out on the road
39:08where John and the Hummer are happiest
39:11the Hummer
39:12well
39:13there's nothing like it
39:14it is
39:15to me
39:16the vehicle
39:18well I think
39:19I'm having a midlife crisis
39:23even though
39:24even though
39:25I'm 87
39:28so she says
39:29if another one comes
39:30she's going
39:43I've always loved the look of the Willys Jeep
39:46and
39:47then my father
39:48he was in the army
39:49during the war
39:51and he said that he drove one
39:53and he said they were absolutely brilliant
39:55he said you could drive them anywhere
39:59the Hotchkiss Willys Jeep
40:01which has stood in a civilian garage for the last few years
40:04has been reunited with some fellow military travellers
40:08new owner Errol
40:10now has the chance to trundle through the fens that surround his home
40:13in Ramsey in Cambridgeshire
40:15with some nostalgic enthusiasts
40:17well you have to watch a road all the time
40:20especially around the fens
40:21because the roads are sinking
40:22and you'd soon be in the doke or wherever
40:26it's a job to explain
40:28it just puts a smile on your face
40:32buying the Jeep means Errol can now team up with a gang of local aficionados
40:37Mark, Chrissie and Lindsay
40:39who have a vast amount of experience when it comes to military vehicles
40:44I love the noise and the smell of it
40:45I really do
40:46go in the garage and go
40:49as Errol is finding out
40:50it takes some handling
40:52when you're driving one of these
40:53you're really in contact with the road
40:55you know
40:55when you're driving a modern car
40:57you can steer it with one finger if you like
40:58you know
40:59don't take your mind off the road or other drivers for a single second
41:02you get Arnhem arse cheek
41:04one buttock goes to sleep
41:05if you've been driving it for too long
41:07and you keep shifting around in the seat
41:08trying to make it a little bit more comfortable
41:09it's just a shame that dad weren't alive to see that I've got one
41:13it's like my grandson
41:14he loves anything to do with the second world war
41:18I'm going to take it to the junior school where he is for a day
41:22just so the kids can sit in it and everything
41:27it seems that perhaps accidentally Errol has bought a fine example
41:31although there were teething problems
41:33a bit disappointed when I got there
41:35because I couldn't get behind the steering wheel
41:37what?
41:38why?
41:39how?
41:40I come back and I had a word with Mark
41:43I said I couldn't get behind the steering wheel
41:45he said take the padding off the back of the seat
41:47that's why I've got no padding on the back of the seat
41:51how the hell did John Wayne get in a Jeep?
41:54there's no way
41:55how did that happen?
41:59the driving might not be about comfort
42:01but it's an experience all the same
42:03oh, people always stop and turn
42:06and look at it
42:08put their hand up and wave
42:10the wife's been in it
42:12yeah, she wasn't very keen at the start
42:14oh, no seat belts
42:16no airbags
42:18but when you're in there, you have to smile
42:20you smile
42:21because you ain't doing 100 miles an hour
42:23you're only doing 30, 40 miles an hour
42:27but there's also a serious side
42:29to running around the fens in convoy
42:32when you ride these back rows in these vehicles
42:34you instinctively know you're retreading the path
42:37that the Americans did prior to D-Day
42:39these rows were absolutely littered with these vehicles
42:42yeah, whenever I drive mine
42:44I mean, I forever think of my uncle
42:46drove one in the desert
42:471942 in Benghazi
42:49and then got captured for the next umpteen years
42:52in prisoner of war camp
42:53you can't help but think about those things
42:56yeah, I agree
42:57these are linked to remembrance
42:59these vehicles are a symbol of freedom
43:01that was a hard-fought freedom
43:05oh, I love it to bits
43:06love it to bits, you know
43:08me grandson, I took him out
43:10backed in his drive, his mum come out
43:13and he said to his mum
43:14I hope Grandad don't sell this
43:17yes
43:17I am
43:18I am
43:46alright
43:46this area is a matter of
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