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Bangers and Cash - Season 13 - Episode 04: MG Magnette/Morris Minor/De Tomaso Lomngchamp/Ford Escort Rally Car
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00:04On sale this week.
00:07Little Maurice Miner, absolutely brilliant.
00:10I could not recommend a vehicle more than this vehicle.
00:14He was a bit of a boy racer at heart.
00:16Yeah.
00:17As you can tell by his moggy thousand.
00:20It's had suspension load, big wide wheels on it, disc brake conversion.
00:261977 Ford Escort. Here we go. Hang on, he's walking over.
00:30Dad collected this one. I'll let him do this one.
00:32It's got a real interesting history. It was quite a well-known car.
00:34It is quite a well-known car.
00:36It messes with your head a bit, really, because it shouldn't sound like that.
00:40It's just like, hang on a minute, hang on, your eyes are telling you it's an Escort
00:43and your ears are telling you it's a TR7 V8.
00:471979, Di Tommaso there. We've got lots of bids here.
00:50The body kit was so deep,
00:52so they had to build an extension to the petrol flap.
00:55You can see from here,
00:56it means that body kit was probably two inches deep at the back.
01:00The Matthewsons.
01:01A dynasty of classic car auctioneers.
01:0555.
01:06The joys of an auction.
01:07Most people will go to a sale with something in mind,
01:10but come away with something different.
01:11The fun is the chase.
01:13We'll have a look and we'll advise you from there.
01:15You just don't know what's on the end of the phone,
01:17what you're going to find when you open them doors.
01:19This is a family's love affair with motors that have lived a life.
01:24Testing, testing.
01:25Most people will buy a car because they can relate to it.
01:28Maybe a car that Dad had.
01:30You're selling dreams.
01:31Right, here we go.
01:42Good morning, Matthewsons.
01:44In Thornton-Ladale.
01:45Yes, the cakes were lovely, they're really nice.
01:48We were trying to decide which we prefer, the jam or the lemon curd.
01:51While important decisions are being made in the office,
01:55Derek's off on a bit of a pilgrimage.
01:57We're off to a restorer in Croft to pick up two vehicles.
02:01Very, very sadly, the gentleman's passed away.
02:04I'm expecting them to be two nice cars.
02:06I think there's an MG and a Morris Minor.
02:08So I'm going to get the wagon out now and go and get the trailer.
02:18In Croft, the crew at Classic Car Workshop are preparing for Derek's arrival.
02:24For the last few years, Kel.
02:27Looks amazing, isn't he?
02:28Woody.
02:29It was definitely made to look pretty when it's not.
02:32And George.
02:33We've saved the Classic.
02:35Have undertaken 11 restorations for the Bangers and Cash Restoring Classics team.
02:40Including the iconic Ford Mexico.
02:44Oh, it's an Escort!
02:45Oh, my God, it's gone!
02:47Have you ever seen George Happier?
02:49We haven't even had a chance to get it out, he's in there.
02:51We've never seen George Happier.
02:53Oh, my God.
02:54It's me birthday!
02:59But today, they're having a different kind of celebration.
03:02Remembering their friend, Ian Wastle.
03:05A customer who loved the workshop so much, he just stayed.
03:10And he was a cracking old bloke, cracking old bloke.
03:13We miss him terribly.
03:15While Ian spent many hours fettling away on his 1959 Morris Minor Thousand,
03:20it was his 1955 MG Magnet that brought him into the garage.
03:26It was a customer that wanted this car to put in a five-speed box and stuff like that.
03:31He just said, oh, have you got anything for me I could do?
03:34Because I've retired and I'm bored.
03:37I tell you what, best thing he ever said to me, that.
03:40He just sort of, like, became one of the team.
03:42One of the family, didn't he?
03:43Yeah, and he was always here.
03:45He come down and tinkered with his cars.
03:47And had a laugh with us.
03:48Yeah.
03:49He seemed to know a bit about everything, didn't he?
03:51Yeah.
03:52It didn't matter what car you were doing.
03:54Cracking bloke.
03:55Cracking bloke.
03:57As a farewell, the crew are taking his two motors for a final spin,
04:01before they go under the hammer.
04:03This is the one that he played with the most, the Moggy Thousand.
04:06But they both look just as good inside as they do outside.
04:08They're up.
04:09Cracking cars a pair of them.
04:12He was a bit of a boy racer at heart.
04:14Yeah.
04:16As you can tell by his Moggy Thousand,
04:18it's had suspension load, big wide wheels on it,
04:22disc brake conversion.
04:23It's a 1300 Marina engine,
04:26with twin calves and a big bar engine in.
04:28He just went to town on it.
04:29He just loved playing with that.
04:30Just kept buying bits and putting them on.
04:32He was an OAP boy racer, really, was he?
04:36And new interior.
04:37Oh, yeah.
04:38He loved putting clocks in this thing.
04:40It's got a clock for everything in there, honestly.
04:43He spent a lot of money on it.
04:45A lot of money and a lot of time.
04:46And whoever buys this is going to get an absolute bargain.
04:49Yeah.
04:49He's done the same thing as what Restore and Classics do,
04:52didn't he?
04:53Yeah.
04:53Spend a fortune and get nothing back for it.
04:56No.
04:58Sleeper car.
04:59Stealth, isn't it?
04:59It goes like the wind.
05:01It goes like stink.
05:02It does.
05:02It goes really well.
05:04This magnet as well.
05:05This is just a beautiful car as well.
05:07Absolutely gorgeous.
05:08It's put a Ford five-speed gearbox conversion in.
05:11It was the Sierra, I think it was.
05:13Yeah, the Sierra gearbox, yeah.
05:14We put the five-speed box in and said he wouldn't mind just doing a few little bits to it.
05:19And I convinced him to bare-metally, go to town on it and get the body looking absolutely sweet.
05:23And that's all we did to it, for him.
05:27We want to remember the good times about Ian, because he'd come down here and we had, you
05:32know, many a laugh and a muck about and a tinker with cars.
05:36He absolutely loved it.
05:37He loved it.
05:38And we miss him.
05:39Yeah, we miss him like mad.
05:40Yeah.
05:40Miss him like mad.
05:41He never had a nasty word to say about, well, some people he did, but only the ones who
05:47have deserved it.
05:48We've still got his toolbox and his tools and there's all sorts of bits and pieces laid
05:52around the workshop that belong to him.
05:54And, well, they'll probably always be there and then we can remember him.
06:07Oh, my, look at that.
06:08What is it?
06:09It looks like it's doing 100 mile an hour sat there, doesn't it?
06:12I don't even know how you pronounce it, really.
06:15A Di Tommaso Longchamp.
06:19Never heard of one, mate.
06:22What Paul was trying to say was Di Tommaso Longchamp, an Italian supercar from
06:271979.
06:28It's one of only 400 made with a few bits that look familiar.
06:34It looks like a Mark V Granada.
06:36The top bit.
06:37Good Lord.
06:39You need two hands to lift a bleeding bonnet.
06:41Rover V8 in there, look.
06:43How do you think that's Rover V8?
06:44Well, I might be wrong, but location of the distributor.
06:48Rocker covers look like Rover.
06:50It just looks like a Rover V8 to me.
06:52And I reckon the base car is a Granada.
06:56But I'll stand to be corrected, because that pillar looks very much like Cortina, Granada.
07:07Alejandro Di Tommaso wasn't your typical car maker.
07:10A Formula One racing driver and businessman from Argentina, with big ideas and very little
07:16restraint.
07:16His first big hit was the Managusta, styled by Giagiaro, and billed as one of the most
07:23exciting high-performance sports cars to arrive on the scene for years.
07:28After that, the Pantera, a wedge-shaped missile with a Ford V8 that sold well in the US and
07:35was a motoring superstar.
07:38Paul was wrong about the Rover engine, but right about some Granada bits.
07:43That V8 engine was the same as in Starsky's Ford Torino.
07:47The tail lights were by Alfa.
07:49And yet it all looked a bit lancier.
07:53Sounding like thunder in an Armani suit with Versace wing mirrors, it's a bit mixed up.
07:58And, how you say, accessible.
08:04It's weird, isn't it?
08:07Yeah.
08:08That's a strange car, isn't it, that?
08:10Hey, Mickey!
08:12What's the base car under here?
08:14It sounded lovely.
08:16Had it running?
08:16Give her a pump.
08:25Let's be fair, restored up, revamped, recommissioned, all the rest of it.
08:30If you parked that next to that Aston Martin, I know which one everyone would look at.
08:33It wouldn't be that Aston Martin.
08:35They'd all go at that.
08:36Everybody.
08:37Because it's just...
08:38It's just got stance, innit?
08:40It's...
08:41Yeah.
08:42Will its stance and oddballer low bring in the big bucks?
08:46Hang on.
08:47Woo-woo.
08:48Just because it's a rare car doesn't mean it's a really valuable car.
08:52Sometimes, yes.
08:53Sometimes, no.
08:54I had in me head 12 to 15 grand.
08:56That's what I had in me head.
08:57Come back not to be me Dery Ng.
09:17We need to recover quickly, yeah.
09:24There we are!
09:27There we are.
09:27The puede trotter rick possiamo go.
09:27restoration professionals that's looking forward to coming here yeah yeah he loves you like that
09:34word professional and we have met before i think can we briefly did we not know well maybe i've
09:40just seen them on tv you know the try and watch that's what they'll be on yeah about time good
09:46now which one are you kel kel right yeah yeah it's all right mate no problem the only good show
09:50nice
09:51to see you yeah this is where it all happens then is it great ain't it just a job and
09:55you're painting
09:56this one up then are you yeah we didn't have to go to town on this one he just wanted
10:00it just
10:00quickly sort of blown over tidying up yep looks like he's done a fair old job about yeah yeah i
10:06like
10:07that you've got all the diagnostic equipment i'll take it yeah yeah lovely just a job thank you
10:14i've heard you like a biscuit yeah i would mate thank you very much yeah lovely with tea and treats
10:23sorted it's on to the main event ian and his motors just fun to be around he was a nice
10:30bloke helped
10:31us with all sorts good he was like yeah yeah yeah everything about everything yeah didn't cost a
10:37lot and just know about and yeah yeah brilliant yeah he loved adding clocks to it for some reason
10:43yeah well i know where he's coming from because i'm a similar age you know and uh and when we
10:47had
10:47cars like that and they had no clock to it yeah clocks there like connected them all up and that
10:52stupid things we've done his moggy thousand has many non-factory upgrades it was in a bit of a sorry
11:00state some of the wings were gaffer taped on so we put new wings on it we've got the engine
11:04side
11:05we did all the welding on it yeah no it's nice that bonny little thing in it yeah yeah well
11:09he was a handy
11:09fellow this lad then that's a right honest looking old car this isn't it this one's got the five speed
11:14in it that's got five speed yeah yeah yeah cruises lovely well we get loaded i'll get my ramps out
11:22and i'll take a call good lad right i'll get ready thank you
11:30righto mate there you go well done lovely yeah go on go on shock absorber conversion
11:38what do you think it's a lot everything that should drive like a brand new car it does it
11:41course absolutely brilliant i bet it does yeah you'd be lucky if he's driven it 30 40 miles
11:46four to five grand bars you're one of the best moggies in the country but that's a little bit
11:50different because it ain't only a quite really a morris minor is it uh it's like a sort of an
11:56mgb
11:56in drag in it really the overall condition and presentation and all the mods and add-ons i think
12:02is going to take it up to six or seven grand yeah i mean i don't think it's a deer
12:06car at six or seven
12:06grand but funny market you know um i think it's great i think it's lovely mg difficult one the value
12:14motors worth 10 grand all day long i think it's probably going to do more like 12. good to meet
12:19you
12:19right yeah cheers thank you so much thanks for the tea right i'll get on get back to god's own
12:23country
12:26as long as whoever buys it looks after yeah yeah yeah but drives it because he loved them
12:44a lot of lovely signs again as usual one or two nice original ones there which should do okay
12:49oh yeah it's looking all right in it
12:53with auction day underway it's time for a rare italian treat
13:001979 di tommaso there we've got lots of bids here we've got a lot of bids very very very close
13:06to
13:06each other so so we've got eight thousand nine nine thousand nine thousand nine thousand nine thousand
13:12nine thousand gone to ten thousand on the internet we have ten thousand three hundred
13:17pound at ten three ten four ten five eleven thousand one which is eleven now yeah actually
13:23eleven now eleven thousand one you don't want it at the netherlands at eleven three eleven four
13:28at thirteen thousand pound on the table at thirteen at thirteen thousand one engine's been running
13:34sounds lovely father's had the engine running so it sounds lovely good luck to someone but 20 grand
13:45can you imagine doing this with pigeons used to be pigeons didn't it all this you know you couldn't
14:02send a signal it had to be pigeon had to take it amazing isn't it and then we've come all
14:08the way
14:08from about 12 000 to 18 whatever 18 5 in 100 pound beans yeah which from our point of view
14:18you're
14:18like but there's two guys there thrashing it out in there you know simple as that third and last
14:25time when the hammer's down it is gone i can't stress that enough 18 7. sold 18 700 pounds there
14:32you
14:33go 18 7 all the way in 100 pound increments
14:55the auction dust has settled and charlie's already sizing up the newcomers we've got
15:01i'm going to push the boat out i'm going to say probably the nicest mg magnet we've had through
15:06every now and then you get a type of car that's owned by a type of person that just has
15:13pride in
15:14it i think is the right word doors shut unbelievably they're they're lovely generally they're actually
15:21quite a good driving car granddad's had a few over the years he's always said how nice they drive
15:26a bit like an mga apparently there's a servo i just spotted that that's another mod everything is neat
15:32everything is tidy everything has a place every nut bolt cranny is just nice you can just feel that
15:38that it's had a nice paint job absolutely lovely the insides just unreal the seats look original and
15:46headlining looks fairly original as well so to keep a few little bits that are still relatively from the
15:52cars sort of period in the era i just think it just finishes it off and just makes it that
15:56bit a bit
15:56better me personally but there is one period feature that charlie doesn't rate the map's a bit
16:04old though 2010 i think we might be missing some rows out of that one yeah missing rows out of
16:102024 ones
16:11never mind 2010 ones i don't know i just don't think they're the most pretty car in the world the
16:15actual shape i think they could have thought of a slightly prettier one down the road in thorns and
16:27the dale someone's off on a jolly and they've got a lot of reasons to be happy about it nice
16:34day local
16:36escort rally car yorkshire bit of providence and i'm fed up with emails so
16:44there's seven reasons why i'm going today and yeah get out of the office for a couple of hours
16:51winner winner
16:57for the past 13 years i've been the custodian of dan gruer's v8 escort rally car and i just failed
17:05it's maybe time to let somebody else to enjoy it brilliant fun i did a lombard rally at duncan park
17:11it's not really moved for two and a half years nothing wrong with it brilliant uses a lot of
17:15petrol in fact all my pension goes on petrol
17:20near york ian bell is saying farewell to a mark ii escort with a v8 squeezed in it that once
17:27belonged
17:27to racing legend dan gruer the story of how ian came to own the car stretches back beyond the mudguards
17:35of time oh woman how far do you want me to go back to beginning yeah go on then go
17:41on then right
17:42okay then everyone buckled up i think it was what 1971 me dad's sister me uh do you want to
17:50go watch
17:50your rally it was minis predominantly a few escorts cortinas anglias that sort of thing and all of a
17:57sudden there's this car coming away the rest of them were breaking this car just like you put it
18:03sideways and i'm thinking oh this is looks like an accident but it wasn't and it was dan grue and
18:10his volvo i've no idea how he got around this car but he did and after that i was really
18:14hooked and
18:15then when i got my own car i bought this datson 1200 and i thought oh yeah job sorted i'm
18:20gonna
18:20crack this no problem so i did my auto test pull back in and then there was dan grue behind
18:26me in
18:26that escort and he's like three wheeling it around cones he's going on three wheels i'm thinking well
18:31i haven't won this have a mile long way you know not a chance by way of explanation we feel
18:37you need
18:38to know that the late dan grue was a yorkshire rallying legend he was also known as mad dan and
18:45desperate dan a brilliant driver particularly famed for taking his volvo 122 to insane speeds
18:52whilst telling a caravan madan's real name was actually colin i worked at a garage in york and
19:00colin grew as brother ian he used to come then he was telling me that colin was ill since leaving
19:05york
19:06colin had gone to france and then he'd gone to a little village near galway in ireland and sadly he
19:12passed away by way of further explanation just a couple more things the engine of choice for these
19:19cars was a ford cosworth bda b for belt d for drive a for something else i'm only going for
19:28what people
19:29said they seem to think the bda was a little bit temperamental i know that the rover v8 going by
19:36the
19:36readouts we've had it's sort of putting out the same power as a bda bda's are maybe more now the
19:43ridiculous power they get from them now there's just one more thing before we leave this invaluable
19:49lesson as any rallying enthusiast will tell you almost every day if given the chance the sensible
19:56engine to put in this car is the pinto strong reliable tunable and made by ford not rover
20:05people say oh drop a pinto in it or drop this engine in it no no i am dropping engine
20:12in else
20:12it wouldn't be dan grew as v8 escort if it had a four-cylinder pinto in it i've done as
20:16little as
20:17possible put two new seats in it put some new seat melts in it new brakes it's a good throwback
20:22in time it's a blast from past if it sells i would love it to stay around york i think
20:27i've done
20:27there but i've got it across from ireland it's sort of somebody else's grown in pickering a browser has
20:48discovered a blast from the past i used to use some of these but they were old
20:54for me when i started using them quite some time ago derek returned with a krypton tuner
21:01what's a krypton tuner something to tune sound you took one off at back of your lorry with your
21:07granddad oh that yeah yeah yeah i remember it yeah what's that a load of rubbish why did you fetch
21:14it
21:14in because it's granddad at long last this mysterious device has found an admirer in former engine
21:22diagnostic technician roy clark they were old when i started playing with them as a boy but i know
21:29a lot about them and i'm willing to share it it's school time this is like intensive care for cars
21:37well a bit like us when we're going to intensive care nobody knows what's going on they just know
21:43we're not working right we've all given samples at the doctors before and we've sent it off
21:47well this will analyze them this is a top of the range for its age because we've got the
21:53introduction of oscilloscopes you can change that picture to look at other things as well like your
21:57exhaust gas yeah so your emissions it wasn't something that your average mechanic had owned
22:02certainly not derek brought this back he did a good thing it's not a piece of junk if you can
22:08understand
22:09what this does you know enough about your car that's a living classic cars aren't going to go
22:15tomorrow so if this comes up in the auction if you've got a man cave get one
22:28around the corner ian's moggy thousand inspiring paul's top tip for newbies
22:33this everyone who's coming into the classic movement in my opinion should start off with that
22:42or an mgb me that that there i think is absolutely brilliant super usable and just quirky aren't they
22:55it's a little peach in it little darling and i think it's set off by the color and the banded
23:00wheels in my
23:01eyes get your clubs in there look i think they're a great little lump brilliant little car isn't it
23:08that should appeal to the slightly younger audience he's had a facelift a once over it's got some nice
23:15upgrades and some sensible upgrades things like servo for the brake you know you don't have to really
23:22forcefully press the brake pedal nice light brakes they have light steering anyway slightly wider wheels
23:28just gives it a little bit more of a stance and i think it yeah it just it just looks
23:33right it just got it right
23:35so the upgrade side of that car won't really make it worth any more unfortunately so whatever you spend on
23:42it
23:42you spend on it it's what he wanted to do in it and the next guy will have a load
23:46of fun in it brilliant
23:48i'm going to suggest he's going to be like six or seven grand but i bet he wants more i
23:53bet he wants more
23:55absolutely brilliant you'll have more fun in that car than you will in that e-type you will honestly
24:00you will you'd use it more because you pop to the shop in it and you'd pop here in it
24:04because they're
24:05just a smiley car the jags are lovely but you aren't going to go shopping in it are you you're
24:10not you know
24:11i'd be all right running the jag car i don't go shopping but most people have to go shopping a
24:16bit
24:16don't they get so morris salesman who does your shopping i'm very fortunate i am yeah ang does
24:23most of ours yeah i can't honestly hand on art remember the last time i went shopping yeah i had
24:31to go for a pint of milk the other day it'd be terrible i'll tell you what i had to
24:35ask him where
24:36it was yeah it was in some cold thing at the back yeah yeah so um avoid shops
24:52little morris minor oh ah now this is special absolutely brilliant i could not recommend a
24:59vehicle more than this vehicle four thousand pound we got four thousand pound we're away four
25:04thousand pound four one super example probably the best i've seen in the last three or four years
25:10in fact i can't think of another one that i've seen better four thousand two hundred four thousand
25:14four hundred going then four thousand five four five very very exceptional motor five thousand one
25:21hundred telephone five one you're out nick 52 five three back in five thousand three hundred five
25:29thousand four hundred you won't buy another one like it five thousand five five six back in oxfordshire
25:35five six five seven manchester back with oxfordshire five thousand eight hundred all done mick thank you
25:42for you let me know five thousand eight hundred manchester five nine five thousand nine oxford you're out
25:48six thousand pound oxfordshire all done then bampton the winner six thousand pound sold thank you
25:57at two grand over the estimate ian's moggy is off to a passionate collector in the cotswolds
26:05next up ian's mg magnet which derek reckoned could do about 12. the mg magnet is stunning five-speed gearbox
26:15if
26:15you want a magnet to run a to go to shows and win and b drive it anywhere in the
26:21world that's the car
26:22for you busy with me and now twelve thousand twelve thousand pound twelve two twelve thousand four one
26:28the best in the country without you just tell them if you want a big drop in the way then
26:31and done
26:32twelve thousand four twelve thousand eight twelve nine twelve nine twelve thousand you want one now
26:38thirteen four now i'm selling thirteen four islands buying it thirteen thousand four fourteen thousand
26:46you'll struggle another one like it i'll tell you fourteen one fourteen thousand three hundred and sold
26:51and away fourteen four fourteen thousand five hundred is going to be sold third and last time st ellen's to
26:58buy and make no mistake about it bear warning 14.5 thank you at 2 000 over the estimate it's
27:06an
27:07impressive result for both ian's motors
27:17near york dave's arrived to collect dan grewer's hybrid rally escort from ian bell
27:25hello mate good to see you mate well done v8 though v8 why supposedly it was more reliable
27:32was that right yeah probably it came back from ireland i heard it was there i just remember it from
27:39years ago it just seemed a shame to leave it there so took my missus for a nice weekend to
27:45ireland
27:45uh um while we're here yeah well we're just gonna go look at this escort but yes evidently this was
27:53built from an rs 1800 shell you couldn't get a bigger radiator in there if you tried mate range rover
27:59is that what it is yeah yeah it's bloody massive in it have you used it in anger i did
28:03one of those uh
28:04lombard rally festivals at duncan park yeah yeah yeah yeah it was brilliant fun really it was good
28:10fun with it having lots of history i just feel i've been more the custodian of it than the owner
28:15of it yeah it's really bespoke isn't it yes no power steering at all not so bad when you get
28:21going
28:22but no stood still you don't want to be doing a three-point turn and you're wondering what that is
28:27behind seat i'm just before i ask a question i was just trying to work it out it's the heater
28:32hence the water pipes going into it yeah what a machine that one that's your map light oh is it
28:38yeah obviously yeah remind me before you go to put some more petrol in it for you because i'll
28:44i'll put a tenner in yesterday and uh it loves petrol how long will a tenner last you in five
28:50or six
28:50miles it's an animal isn't it it's an absolute animal really yeah just looking around it you just
28:56it's just like a bit of a time warp thing isn't it yeah it's a play thing really oh yeah
29:01we just
29:02got to find someone who just wants to have a bit of fun really yeah that's about well go on
29:07while you
29:07are there just fire it up so we can hear it out here yeah because it's um yeah this is
29:11something
29:12you don't hear every day a v8 in an escort it messes with your head a bit really because it
29:20shouldn't sound like that it's just like hang on a minute hang on your eyes are telling you it's
29:24an escort and your ears are telling you it's a tr7 v8 yeah we just got to find someone else
29:31who's
29:31as barmy as me and ian that's the trouble and the clutch i'll let you put it on the trailer
29:37what is it on or off or heavy on it both both both both absolutely both
29:51it's mental i feel like i need one of them false chest weeks yeah and some sideburns
29:57yeah it's like back it's like life on mars isn't it
30:12we're there we're there we're there it's not it's not viable competitively no ship sailed on that
30:19yeah so we've just got to find someone who wants to have a bit of a play it's going to
30:23be novelty
30:24factor really shouting somewhere like in the teens 30 and 40 and 15 ish to me
30:31when we're going to try and peg it money-wise i genuinely can't remember
30:35i'll get on i'll speak on the phone all right mate good to see you take care mate
31:04in pickering things are on the move and paul's pushed over the edge
31:10oh my knee oh i nearly swore oh you're mad now you're good me oh it was out of good
31:17i freaking hurt that thankfully rally car legend charlie has a better grasp when it comes to rally car
31:26legend dan grewer's escort this is a mark ii escort rally car now i do know that it's a little
31:36bit
31:36different to a standard one because she's got eight cylinders quite a famous car as well
31:41it's clearly seen some action look look at all the plates on top of plates so it's not the best
31:46shelf
31:46but if i ended up driving it i'd end up crashing it anyway so what's different
31:51it looks heavy doesn't it with the bigger wheels and bigger tires and it's quite the squat and the
31:55mud flaps are nearly on the floor it just looks heavy doesn't it but it'll go all right though
31:59won't it i hadn't actually heard it you know i haven't heard it i want to hear it but
32:04if i ended up starting it i'd end up doing donuts in the shed so i can't do that but
32:07it'd sound me
32:08though wouldn't it going through the woods sideways and lots of rev and wheel spin and all that
32:14generally in these escorts you run an atlas rear axle so you can run more power through
32:18it because obviously the standard one isn't going to take it the standard diff would just
32:21you put a jag axle in and a jag gearbox instead of a five speed zf just to be different
32:26it clearly worked though didn't it that's what it wants isn't it somebody to use it
32:31if i had more time and more money then i'd use it but i don't say that's the end of
32:35that isn't it
32:39a provisional bid on it i know you wanted 300 pounds we got it up to 250.
32:43it's all systems go in the auction engine room you might like this how was that dude i like that
32:49bike it's a lovely thing isn't it yeah five cylinder well they were a three cylinder yeah
32:53and yeah he's fabricated it into a five cylinder and it's so smooth it runs a lot i haven't ridden
32:58it of course but just had it running down in the shed down there it runs lovely it sounds a
33:03lot of money
33:03you can't buy another one though it's one of one yeah it's a lovely machine fantastic engineering in
33:10that bike absolutely fantastic you would think it was a factory build you know the workmanship is of
33:17factory spec fantastic okay here we are oh what a special machine this is kawasaki in 1978 kawasaki
33:27at 20 000 pound right they're looking for 20 200 20 500 pound bid 21 000 pound
33:34but 21 it's still 21's just gone mate no somebody jumped in on the internet 21 and a quarter says
33:40alan 21 250 with us 21 250 pound at the minute and worth every apene we're going to get another
33:49one they're out anymore are they who's buying that hopefully someone who wants to put it next to the
33:54telly because you just want to sit and look at it all the time don't you it is stunning absolutely
33:59stunning at 21 000 5 and 750 22 internet bid at 22 very very special machine they just do not
34:08come up
34:08on the market and a quarter at 22 250 pound alan your man provision lovely 22 250 provisional with us
34:18no problem thank you cheers bye-bye he's taking the money on that he said someone's got a good bike
34:26but he's happy sold to a kawasaki enthusiast who plans to ride it not just sit and look at it
34:43it's got a real interesting history it was quite a well-known car it is a quite a well-known
34:46car the
34:47guys that used to campaign the car were um i think probably a little eccentric but i love eccentricity
34:54and i embrace it and i love that we're in a position to mix with people that are just as
34:59barmy as me and
35:00you really so yeah it's a little bit unusual it's uh obviously got a va jag axle jag back end
35:06you name
35:06it it's a play car but if you do sort of bit of homework on the history they were quite
35:11eccentric
35:11would turn up at events and shirt and ties and another yeah yeah yeah yeah just just real quirky
35:16and different so anyway there you go but there we're going to be we've got 12 000 pound there thank
35:20you
35:20a 12 000 pound bid i see it at 12 250 pound at 12 and a quarter 12 250.
35:32it's a silly story i really got into collecting cars because primary school we used to get a bus to
35:36go
35:36swimming and we used to go past a high-end car dealer they used to do jensen and i just
35:41loved the
35:42sound of them as we went past on the bus as a sort of five or six year old kid
35:45i said one day i'm going to
35:46have one of those so my first collectible car was the jensen interceptor convertible and i still own
35:50that car today i still use it today in oxfordshire steve grove's collection extends from the esteemed
35:57to the exotic i own a di tomaso pantera which is a two-seater sports car 1973 very unusually this
36:05one
36:05is right hand drive i think if you asked my teenage daughter she would tell you it's fast and loud
36:10and now he's bought his sporty di tomaso a stable mate bidding on it was quite fierce i think it
36:17went
36:17for about three times the estimate however three times yes probably about right for it i'd done my
36:22work and worked out how much it was going to cost me to get that longchamp back to where it
36:26needed to
36:26be and i had in mind a value that i would go to and actually we were below it at
36:30the end steve's no
36:32stranger to restoration a couple of years ago his pantera was also a fixer-upper
36:38the plan for the car from here is to actually take it back to factory spec in terms of color
36:42is
36:42to go back to the factory color which was a metallic silver the thing that attracted me to
36:46the car is the opportunity to save a pretty rare car in a way that was actually financially viable
36:52one of the interesting things we found as we've gone along is in relation to the body kit what
36:55became very clear is it was made at home in a garage it was substantially expanding foam filler
37:00and wood um glued onto the car i think it was a show car more than anything else i think
37:06they
37:06took it to modified car shows and hot rod shows so the big job has been to um pimp this
37:13ride
37:14you can see the body kit's off you can see what's underneath shapes there now the body kit was so
37:19deep so they had to build an extension to the petrol flap you can see from here it means that
37:24body kit
37:24was probably two inches deep at the back spoiler alert i mean literally this was just glued on
37:31the original wheel arches are actually still here they've been bent up and they've been cut to allow
37:35allow the foam to be stuck into it still the odd residual bit there these were original de
37:40tomaso campagnolo wheels which we found on ebay a lot of filler in here not yet sure what's underneath
37:46that and again you can see what they've done is they've bent up the original wheel arches and use
37:51that as a base for the body kit we've got four new wings a new bonnet and new wheel arches
37:56it took a
37:57while to trace them down so there's a very active owners group and then over a period of months a
38:02little aladdin's cave appeared of things that are stuck in people's garages the headlights aren't
38:06right and aren't original these would have been large single lights actually in common with the
38:10ford granada from that era and then you can see what they've done here to the bonnet which is they've
38:15cut this to form a vent shape and then to actually keep it elevated and raised what we found when
38:19we
38:19took the body kit off was actually they just propped an old screwdriver under it and glued it in
38:23i expect that bonnet's unsaveable but we found a new one there mechanically there was actually a
38:28fairly limited number of modifications done to this car the engine is essentially a ford v8 so
38:32it's pretty easy to get parts for to be fair though actually the interior is not bad original headlining
38:38which is quite rare it has a stamped pattern on it so whilst it looks pretty rough actually there's
38:42nothing in here that scares me steve's only fear when i did the assessment of this car before buying
38:47it auction the bit that worried me was the rust that runs under the back from sort of around that
38:52wheel
38:52arch and across the car and in places it's structural so we'll have to do some work on those and
38:56it will
38:56end up quality wise very similar to the pantera that sat next to it and then frankly they'll
39:01hopefully live a happy life together next to each other in my garage and which one gets used will
39:05depend whether i'm feeling angry and aggressive or calm and relaxed it's the last time this is ever
39:10going to sit on this car i'm going to go and stick it on the office wall and it's going
39:13to stay there
39:13i've got a gift for you yeah i'll hang that back up on the wall on the train better up
39:19there than on
39:20the car it's never going on the car again there's just something about their little cheeky appeal i
39:30just think they're just such a interesting car shape wise looks wise everybody loves it and so do i
39:37in the heart of the cotswolds countryside where every view looks like a postcard sits a british icon
39:44right at home steve thomas and his almost 10-year-old son toby are the proud new custodians
39:52of ian's 1959 morris minor it's the only classic car i've owned that's older than me so
40:03didn't mean to do that i iconically coined in the madness song the morris minor where i owned one
40:09it was made in 59 which my son keeps singing annoyingly
40:13i'm not driving in my car
40:22it's a nice sound isn't it
40:30it was really oh it's a nice sound
40:35in a factory by the time
40:39it says morris on the door the gp i learned it before
40:43i drive in and for my job let's grab it
40:46it was me i stopped outside
40:47you're a madness fan now
40:52joby what do the old cars appeal to you then like do i like old cars
40:56yeah oh yeah i love them they're a lot more joyful than newer ones
41:00there's like a lot of possibilities you can do with them like
41:05newer cars like there's not that many possibilities when like old cars you can do like a bunch like
41:10off-roaders like speed racers like dune buggies like anything i presume we're not going to turn this
41:19into a dune book no we're not right it's just a little show car a little show car and is
41:25that what
41:25you like doing with it with dad and the family yeah we like going like to a few car shows
41:29don't
41:30we we go to quite a few car shows yeah yeah and it always brings a smile to people's faces
41:34yeah
41:37i'm a self-taught mechanic i own a couple of other classic cars and going back 20 30 years ago
41:42i was
41:42building beach buggies out of vw beetles i was chopping those up so my first car was a long wheel
41:47base beach buggy i then went to a short wheel base beach buggy then i started trying to build a
41:54delorean replica he's grown up knowing nothing more than classic cars when i'm at home and i'm
42:00doing stuff tinkering in the garage it's on a classic car and he can point to things he knows
42:04what things are he knows what things do he's absolutely adamant that his first car is going
42:09to be a classic will it be this classic i don't think it will be this classic for some bizarre
42:15reason
42:15i think there's uh something lacking in the education of classic cars because he actually wants
42:19a reliant robin but i've still got a bit of time to educate him so you know it's fine this
42:24car belonged
42:25to an old gentleman who sadly passed away all his friends who miss him what would you say about his
42:33car where it's gone to has it gone to a place where it's going to be looked after yeah it's
42:37going to be
42:37gone to a place where it's going to be looked after like done some really nice stuff to it and
42:43yeah it's going to be really nice all the classic cars he wants to be of an age where he
42:48can drive
42:49them all so just going to have to keep hold of it yeah why would we sell it why would
42:53we sell it
42:54yeah why yeah we'll keep hold of it for you don't worry so it's a keeper it's a keeper it's
43:09a keeper
43:12a ball to 10 from rizzi
43:17you
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