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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.
09:15DERRICK'S ARRIVED AT THE CLASSIC CAR WORKSHOP IN CROFT TO COLLECT IAN'S MORRIS MINOR AND HIS 1955 MG Magnet.
09:26here we are there the restoration professionals that's the one looking forward to coming here
09:31yeah yeah he'll laugh he'll obviously like that word professional and uh we have met before i
09:38think haven't we briefly did we not know well maybe you've just seen them on tv you know the
09:42try and watch that's what they'll be on yeah about time good now which one are you kel kel right
09:48yeah
09:48yeah it's all right mate no problem good show nice to see you yeah this is where it all happens
09:52then is it great isn't it just a job and you're painting this one up then are you yeah we
09:58didn't
09:58have to go to town on this one he just wanted it just quickly sort of blowing over tidying up
10:02yeah
10:02looks as though you've done a fair old job about going over yeah yeah i like that you've got all
10:07the diagnostic equipment i'll take it yeah yeah spanners and screwdrivers lovely just a job thank
10:14you i would mate thank you very much yeah lovely
10:22with tea and treats sorted it's on to the main event ian and his motors just fun to be around
10:29he was a nice bloke helped us with all sorts good he was uh like yeah yeah knew everything about
10:36everything yeah didn't cost a lot and just about and yeah yeah brilliant yeah he loved adding clocks to it
10:42for some reason yeah well nobody'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
11:00sorry state some of the wings were gaffer taped on so we put new wings on it we've got the
11:04engine
11:04side we did all the welding on it yeah no it's nice that bonny little thing in it yeah yeah
11:08well he
11:09was a handy fella this lad then that's a right honest looking old car this isn't it this one's
11:13got the five speed in it that's got five speed yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah cruises all right lovely
11:20well we'll get loaded i'll get my ramps out and i'll take it all right i'll get ready thank you
11:30all right mate there you go well done lovely yeah go on go on shock absorber conversion what do you
11:38think it's a lot everything that should drive like a brand new car it does it goes absolutely brilliant
11:42i bet it does yeah you'd be lucky if he's driven it 30 40 miles four to five grand bars
11:47you're one of
11:48the best moggies in the country but that's a little bit different because it ain't only a quite
11:53really a morris minor is it uh it's like a sort of an mg being in drag isn't it really
11:57the overall
11:58condition and presentation and all the mods and add-ons i think is going to take it up to six
12:03or
12:03seven grand yeah i mean i don't think it's a dear car at six or seven grand but funny market
12:08you know
12:09i think it's great i think it's lovely mg difficult one the value motor's worth 10 grand all day long
12:15i think you're probably going to do more like 12. good to meet you thank you so much thanks for
12:21the
12:21right i'll get on get back to god's own country as long as whoever buys it looks after it and
12:29appreciates it 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 d tomaso 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 gone to
13:13ten thousand on the internet we have ten thousand three hundred at ten three ten four ten five eleven
13:21eleven thousand one which is eleven now yeah eleven thousand one you don't want it at eleven three
13:27eleven four yeah at thirteen thousand pound on the table at thirteen at thirteen thousand one engine's
13:34been running sounds lovely father's had the engine running so it sounds lovely good luck to someone but
13:3820 grand can't it thirteen thousand three thirteen eight thirteen nine fifteen thousand pound at fifteen
13:45one like this scenario there's two guys on the computer there isn't there just amazing keep it
13:53going dave i've got money on this have you seventeen nine twenty grand you imagine doing this with pigeons
13:59used to be pigeons didn't it all this you know you couldn't send a signal it had to be pigeon
14:04had to take it amazing isn't it and we've come all the way from about twelve thousand to eighteen
14:10whatever eighteen five in hundred pound beans yeah which from our point of view you're like but
14:20there's two guys there thrashing it out in there you know simple as that third last time when the
14:26hammer's down it is gone i can't stress that enough eighteen seven sold eighteen thousand seven
14:32hundred pound there you go eighteen seven all the way in hundred pound increments
14:55the auction dust has settled and charlie's already sizing up the newcomers
15:00of course we've got i'm going to push the boat out i'm going to say probably the nicest mg magnet
15:06we've
15:06had through every now and then you get a type of car that's owned by a type of person that
15:12just
15:13has pride in it i think is the right word doors shut unbelievably they're they're lovely generally
15:20they're actually quite a good driving car granddad's had a few over the years he's always said how nice
15:26they drive they're a bit like an mga apparently there's a servo look i just spotted that that's
15:30another mod everything is neat everything is tidy everything has a place every nut bolt cranny is just
15:36nice you can just feel that that it's had a nice paint job absolutely lovely the insides just unreal the
15:44seats look original and headlining looks fairly original as well so to keep a few little bits that are
15:50still relatively from the car's sort of period and era i just think it just finishes it off and just
15:55makes
15:56it that bit better me personally but there is one period feature that charlie doesn't rate
16:04the map's a bit old though 2010 i think we might be missing some rows out of that one
16:09yeah missing rows out of 2024 ones never mind 2010 ones i don't know i just don't think they're the
16:14most pretty car in the world the actual shape i think they could have thought of a slightly prettier one
16:26down the road in thorns and the dale someone's off on a jolly and they've got a lot of reasons
16:31to be
16:31happy about it nice day local escort 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 winner
16:51winner
16:57for the past 13 years i've been the custodian of dan grewer's v8 escort right here and i just
17:05failed it's maybe time to let somebody else to enjoy it brilliant fun i did a lombard rally at duncan
17:10park it's not really moved for two and a half years nothing wrong with it brilliant uses a lot of
17:15petrol
17:16in fact all my pension goes on petrol near york ian bell is saying farewell to a mark ii
17:24escort with a v8 squeezed in it that once belonged to racing legend dan grewer the story of how ian
17:32came to own the car stretches back beyond the mudguards of time oh boy mate how far do you want
17:38me to go
17:38back to beginning yeah go on then go on then right okay then everyone buckled up i think it was
17:46what
17:461971 me dad's sister me uh do you want to go watch your rally it was minis predominantly few escorts
17:53cortinas anglias that sort of thing and all of a sudden there's this car coming away the rest of
18:00them were breaking this car just like you put it sideways and i'm thinking oh this is looks like an
18:07accident but it wasn't and it was dan grew and his volvo i've no idea how he got around this
18:12corner
18:12what he did and after that i was really hooked and then when i got my own car i bought
18:17this datsun 1200
18:18and i thought oh yeah job sorted i'm gonna crack this no problem so i did my heart test pull
18:23back in and
18:24then there was dan grew behind me in that escort and he's like three wheeling it around cones he's going
18:30on three wheels i'm thinking well i haven't won this have a mile long way you know not a chance
18:35by way of explanation we feel you need to know that the late dan grewer was a yorkshire rallying legend
18:42he was also known as mad dan and desperate dan a brilliant driver particularly famed for taking
18:49his volvo 122 to insane speeds whilst telling a caravan mad dan's real name was actually colin
18:57i worked at a garage in york and colin grewer's brother ian he used to come then he was telling
19:04me that colin was ill since leaving york colin had gone to france and then he'd gone to a little
19:09village near galway in ireland and sadly he passed away by way of further explanation just a couple more
19:17things the engine of choice for these cars was a ford cosworth bda b for belt d for drive a
19:25for
19:26something else i'm only going for what people said they seem to think the bda was a little bit
19:32temporary mental i know that the rover v8 going by the readouts we've had it's sort of putting out the
19:39same power as a bda bda's are maybe more now the ridiculous power they get from them now there's
19:47just one more thing before we leave this invaluable lesson as any rallying enthusiast will tell you
19:53almost every day if given the chance the sensible engine to put in this car is the pinto strong
19:59reliable tunable and made by ford not rover people say oh drop a pinto in it i'll drop this
20:09engine in it no no i am dropping engine in else it wouldn't be dan grower's v8 escort if it
20:14had a
20:14four-cylinder pinto in it i've done as little as possible put two new seats in it put some new
20:19seat
20:19melts in it new brakes it's a good throwback in time it's a blast from past if it sells i
20:25would
20:25love it to stay around york i think i've done my bit i've got it across from ireland it's so
20:30somebody
20:31else he's grown up
20:46in pickering a browser has discovered a blast from the past
20:51i used to use some of these but they were old for me when i started using them
20:57quite some time ago derek returned with a krypton tuner what's a krypton tuner something to tune
21:04sound you took one off at back of your lorry with your granddad oh that yeah yeah yeah i remember
21:09it
21:09yeah what's that a load of rubbish why did you fetch it in because it's granddad at long last this
21:18mysterious device has found an admirer in former engine diagnostic technician roy clark
21:25they were old when i started playing with them as a boy but i know a lot about them and
21:31i'm willing
21:31to share it it's school time this is like intensive care for cars well a bit like us when we
21:39go into
21:40intensive care nobody knows what's going on they just know we're not working right we've all given
21:45samples at the doctors before and we've sent it off well this will analyze them this is a top of
21:50the range for its age because we've got the introduction of oscilloscopes you can change
21:55that picture to look at other things as well like your exhaust gas yeah so your emissions it wasn't
22:00something that your average mechanic had owned certainly not derek brought this back he did a good
22:05thing it's not a piece of junk if you can understand what this does you know enough about your car
22:12that's a living classic cars aren't going to go tomorrow so if this comes up in the auction if you
22:17got 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
23:34got it right so the upgrade side of that car won't really make it worth anymore unfortunately so
23:40whatever you spend on it you spend on it it's what he wanted to do in it and the next
23:45guy will have a
23:46load of fun in it brilliant i'm gonna suggest he's gonna be like six or seven grand but i bet
23:52he's wants
23:52more i bet he wants more absolutely brilliant you'll have more fun in that car than you will in
23:58that e-type you will honestly you will you use it more because you pop to the shop in it
24:03and you'd pop
24:04here in it because they're just a smiley car the jags are lovely but you aren't going to go shopping
24:09in
24:09it are you you're not you know i'd be all right running the jag i don't go shopping but most
24:14people have
24:15to go shopping a bit don't they get so morris salesman who does your shopping i'm very fortunate
24:22i am yeah and just does most of ours yeah i can't honestly hand on art remember the last time
24:28i went
24:30shopping yeah i had to go for a pint of milk the other day be terrible i'll tell you what
24:35i had to
24:35ask him where it was yeah it was in some cold thing at the back yeah yeah so um avoid
24:42shops
24:52a little 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 thousand
25:04pound four one super example probably the best i've seen in the last three or four years in fact i
25:10can't
25:11think of another one that i've seen better four thousand two hundred four thousand four hundred
25:15going then four thousand five four five very very exceptional motor five thousand one hundred telephone
25:22five one you're out nick 52.53 back in five thousand three hundred five thousand four hundred you
25:30won't buy another one like it five thousand five five six back in oxfordshire five six five seven
25:37manchester back with oxfordshire five thousand eight hundred all done mick thank you for you let me
25:42know five thousand eight hundred manchester five nine five thousand nine oxford you're out six thousand
25:49pound 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 derrick reckoned could do about 12. the mg magnet is stunning five
26:15speed gearbox if you want a magnet to run a to go to shows and win and b drive it
26:21anywhere in the world
26:21that's the car for you busy with me and now twelve thousand twelve thousand pound twelve two
26:26twelve thousand four one the best in the country without you just tell them if you want a big
26:30rod in the way then and done twelve thousand four twelve thousand eight twelve nine now the
26:35eight hundred twelve nine twelve thousand you want one now go on thirteen four now selling thirteen four
26:41ireland's buying it thirteen thousand four fourteen thousand you'll struggle another one like it
26:47i'll tell you fourteen one fourteen thousand three hundred and sold and away fourteen four
26:53fourteen thousand five hundred is going to be sold third and last time st ellen's to buy and make no
26:58mistake about it bear warning fourteen five thank you at two thousand over the estimate it's an
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
27:24hello mate good to see you mate well done v8 though v8 why supposedly it was more reliable
27:32is that right yeah yeah probably it came back from ireland i heard it was there i just remember
27:38it from years ago it just seemed a shame to leave it there so took my missus for a nice
27:44weekend to
27:45ireland um while we're here yeah while we're here we're just gonna go look at this escort
27:52but yes evidently this was built from an rs 1800 shell you couldn't get a bigger radiator in
27:57there if you tried make range rover is that what it is yeah yeah it's bloody massive innit have you
28:02used it in anger i did one of those uh lombard rally festivals at duncan park yeah yeah yeah yeah
28:07it was brilliant fun really it was good fun with it having lots of history i just feel i've been
28:13more the custodian of it than the owner of it yeah it's really bespoke innit yes no posteering at all
28:20not so bad when you get going but no stood still you don't want to be doing a three-point
28:26turn
28:26and you're wondering what that is behind sea i'm just before i ask a question i was just trying
28:31to work it out it's the heater hence the water pipes going into it yeah what a machine that one
28:36that's your map light oh is it yeah obviously yeah remind me before you go to put some more petrol
28:43in it for you because i'll put a tenner in yesterday and uh it loves petrol how long will a
28:48tenner
28:48lost you in five or six miles it's an animal isn't it it's an absolute animal really yeah just
28:55looking around it it's just like a bit of a time warp thing isn't it yeah it's a play thing
28:59really oh yeah we've just got to find someone who just wants to have a bit of fun really
29:04yeah that's about well go on while you are there just fire it up so we can hear it out
29:09here
29:09yeah because it's um oh yeah this is something you don't hear every day a v8 in an escort
29:18it messes with your head a bit really because it shouldn't sound like that
29:21it's just like hang on a minute hang on your eyes are telling you it's an escort and your
29:25ears are telling you it's a tr7 v8 yeah we just got to find someone else who's as barmy as
29:31me and
29:32ian that's the trouble and the clutch i'll let you put it on what is it on or off or
29:39ebby on or
29:39both both both both absolutely both
29:51it's mental but i could eat one of them false chest weeks yeah and some sideburns
29:58yes 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 14 15 ish to me when we're going to try
30:32and
30:32peg it money-wise i genuinely can't remember 40 grand back and be good okay i'll get on i'll
30:37speak to you on the phone all right mate good to see you take care mate
31:04in pickering things are on the move
31:07and paul's pushed over the edge oh my knee oh i nearly swore what you're mad now you're good
31:15me oh it was out of good i freaking hurt that thankfully rally car legend charlie has a better
31:24grasp when it comes to rally car legend dan gruer's escort this is a mark ii escort rally car now
31:33i do know
31:35that it's a little bit different to a standard one because she's got eight cylinders quite a famous
31:41car as well he's clearly seen some action look look at all the plates on top of plates
31:44so it's not the best shell but if i ended up driving it i'd end up crashing it anyway so
31:49what's
31:49difference it looks heavy doesn't it with the bigger wheels and bigger tires and it's quite the squat and
31:55the mud flaps are nearly on the floor it just looks heavy doesn't it but go all right though
31:59isn't it i haven't actually heard it you know i haven't heard it i want to hear it but if
32:04i ended
32:04up starting it i'd end up doing donuts in the shed so i can't do that but it'd sound me
32:08you know wouldn't
32:08it going through the woods sideways and lots of rev and wheel spin and all that generally in these
32:14escorts you run an atlas rear axle so you can run more power through it because obviously the standard
32:19one isn't going to take it the standard diff would just you put a jag axle in and a jag
32:23gearbox instead of
32:24a five-speed zf just to be different it clearly worked though didn't it that's what it wants
32:29isn't it somebody to use it if i had more time and more money then i'd use it but i
32:34don't say that's
32:35the end of that isn't it a provisional bid on it i know you wanted 300 pounds we got it
32:42up 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
32:49it's a lovely thing isn't it yeah five cylinder well they were a three cylinder yeah and uh and
32:54yeah he's fabricated it into a five cylinder and it's so smooth it runs a lot i haven't ridden it
32:59of course but just had it running down in the shed down there it runs lovely it sounds a lot
33:03of money
33:03you can't buy another one though it's one of one yeah it's a lovely machine fantastic engineering in that
33:10bike absolutely fantastic you would think it was a factory built you know the workmanship is of factory
33:17spec fantastic okay here we are oh what a special machine this is kawasaki in 1978 kawasaki at 20 000
33:28pound right they're looking for 20 200 20 500 pound bid 21 000 pound but 21 it's still 21's just
33:36gone
33:37mate no somebody jumped in on the internet 21 and a quarter says alan 21 250 with us 21 250
33:44at the minute and worth every eight knee where are you going to get another one they're out anymore
33:50are they who's buying that hopefully someone who wants to put it next to the telly
33:55because you just want to sit and look at it all the time don't you it is stunning absolutely stunning
34:01at 21 000 and 750 22 internet bid at 22 very very special machine they just do not come up
34:08on the
34:08market 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
34:22he's taking the money on that he said someone's got a good bike but he's happy sold to a kawasaki
34:30enthusiast who plans to ride it not just sit and look at it 1977 ford escort here we go hang
34:40on
34:40he's walking over dad collected this one i'll let him do this one it's got a real interesting history
34:44it was quite a well-known car it is a quite a well-known car the guys that used to
34:48campaign the car
34:49were um i think probably a little eccentric but i love eccentricity and i embrace it and i love that
34:56we're in a position to mix with people that are as just as barmy as me and you really so
35:01yeah it's a
35:01little bit unusual it's uh obviously got a v8 jag axle jag back end you name it it's a play
35:07car but if
35:08you do sort of bit of homework on the history they were quite eccentric would turn up at events and
35:12shirt and ties and another yeah yeah yeah yeah just just real quirky and different so anyway there you
35:18go but there we're going to be we've got 12 000 pound there thank you at 12 000 pound bid
35:22i see it
35:22at 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 swimming and we used to go past a high-end car dealer they used to do jensen and i
35:41just loved 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
35:46to have one of those so my first collectible car was the jensen interceptor convertible and i still
35:50own that car today i still use it today in oxfordshire steve grove's collection extends from the
35:56esteemed to the exotic i own a di tamaso pantera which is a two-seater sports car 1973 very unusually
36:05this one is right hand drive i think if you asked my teenage daughter she would tell you it's fast
36:09and
36:09loud and now he's bought his sporty di tamaso a stable mate bidding on it was quite fierce i think
36:17it
36:17went for about three times the estimate however three times yes much probably about right for it
36:21i've done my work and worked out how much it was going to cost me to get that long shot
36:25back to
36:25where it needed to be and i had in mind a value that i would go to and actually we
36:30we were below
36:30it at the end steve's no stranger to restoration a couple of years ago his pantera was also a fixer
36:37upper the plan for the car from here is to actually take it back to factory spec in terms of
36:42color is to
36:43go back to the factory color which was a metallic silver the thing that attracted me to the car is
36:47the opportunity to save a pretty rare car in a way that was actually financially viable one of the
36:52interesting things we found as we've gone along is in relation to the body kit what became very
36:56clear is it was made at home in a garage it was substantially expanding foam filler and wood um
37:03glued onto the car i think it was a show car more than anything else i think they took it
37:06to
37:07modified car shows and hot rod shows so the big job has been to umpimp this ride you can see
37:15the body
37:15kit's off you can see what's underneath shapes there now the body kit was so deep so they had to
37:20build
37:21an extension to the petrol flap you can see from here it means that body kit was probably two inches
37:25deep
37:25at the back spoiler alert i mean literally this was just glued on the original wheel arches are actually
37:33still here they've been bent up and they've been cut to allow allow the foam to be stuck into it
37:37still
37:37the odd residual bit there these were original di tomaso campagnolo wheels which we found on ebay a lot
37:44of filler in here not yet sure what's underneath that and again you can see what they've done is
37:48they've bent up the original wheel arches and used that as a base for the body kit we've got four
37:53new
37:54wings a new bonnet and new wheel arches it took a while to trace them down so there's a very
37:59active
37:59owners group and then over a period of months a little aladdin's cave appeared of things that are
38:04stuck in people's garages the headlights aren't right and aren't original these would have been
38:08large single lights actually in common with the ford granada from that era and then you can see what
38:13they've done here to the bonnet which is they've cut this to form a vent shape and then to actually
38:17keep it elevated and raised what we found when we took the body kit off was actually they just
38:21propped an old screwdriver under it and glued it in i expect that bonnet's unsaveable but we found a new
38:26one there mechanically there was actually a fairly limited number of modifications done to this car
38:30the engine is essentially a ford v8 so it's pretty easy to get parts for to be fair though actually
38:35the interior is not bad original headlining which is quite rare it has a stamped pattern on it so whilst
38:40it looks pretty rough actually there's nothing in here that scares me steve's only fear when i did the
38:46assessment of this car before buying it auction the bit that worried me was the rust that runs under the
38:51back from sort of around that wheel arch and across the car and in places it's structural so we'll have
38:55to do
38:55some work on those and it will end up quality wise very similar to the pantera that sat next to
39:00it
39:00and then frankly they'll hopefully live a happy life together next to each other in my garage and
39:04which one gets used will depend whether i'm feeling angry and aggressive or calm and relaxed it's the
39:09last time this is ever going to sit on this car i'm going to go and stick it on the
39:12office wall and
39:12it's going to stay there i've got a gift for you yeah i'll hang that back up on the wall
39:16better up
39:19there than on the car it's never going on the car again
39:27there's just something about their little cheeky appeal i just think they're just such a
39:31interesting car shape wise looks wise everybody loves it and so do i in the heart of the cotswolds
39:38countryside where every view looks like a postcard sits a british icon right at home
39:46steve thomas and his almost 10 year old son toby are the proud new custodians of ian's 1959 morris minor
39:57it's the only classic car of home that's older than me didn't mean to do that i iconically coined
40:06in the madness song the morris minor where i owned one it was made in 59 which my son keeps
40:11singing
40:12annoyingly
40:29it's a nice sound isn't it
40:30Oh, yes. It was really... Ooh, 15, 19.
40:48You're a madness fan, though.
40:52Toby, what do the old cars appeal to you, then?
40:55Like, do I like old cars? Yeah.
40:57Oh, yeah, I love them. They're a lot more joyful than newer ones.
41:01There's, like, a lot of possibilities you can do with them.
41:04Like, newer cars, like, there's not that many possibilities.
41:08And, like, old cars, you can do, like, a bunch.
41:10Like, off-roaders, like, speed racers, like, dune buggies, like, anything.
41:18I presume we're not going to turn this into a dune buggie.
41:20No, we're not. No, right.
41:22This is just a little show car. A little show car.
41:24And is that what you like doing with it, with Dad and the family?
41:27Yeah, we like going, like, to a few car shows, don't we?
41:30We go to quite a few car shows, yeah.
41:31Yeah.
41:32And it always brings a smile to people's faces, doesn't it?
41:34Yeah.
41:37I'm a self-taught mechanic.
41:38I own a couple of other classic cars, and going back 20, 30 years ago,
41:42I was building beach buggies out of VW Beetles.
41:45I was chopping those up.
41:46So my first car was a long-wheel base beach buggy.
41:48I then went to a short-wheel base beach buggy.
41:52Then I started trying to build a DeLorean replica.
41:55He's grown up knowing nothing more than classic cars.
41:58When I'm at home and I'm doing stuff, tinkering in the garage,
42:01it's on a classic car and he can point to things,
42:04he knows what things are, he knows what things do.
42:06He's absolutely adamant that his first car is going to be a classic.
42:09Will it be this classic?
42:11I don't think it will be this classic.
42:14For some bizarre reason, I think there's something lacking
42:17in the education of classic cars, because he actually wants a Reliant Robin.
42:20But I've still got a bit of time to educate him, so, you know, it's fine.
42:24This car belonged to an old gentleman who sadly passed away.
42:29All his friends who miss him.
42:30What would you say about his car, where it's gone to?
42:34Has it gone to a place where it's going to be looked after?
42:37Yeah, it's going to be gone to a place where it's going to be looked after,
42:40like, done some really nice stuff to it and, yeah, it's going to be really nice.
42:46All the classic cars, he wants to be of an age where he can drive them all.
42:49So, just going to have to keep hold of it, yeah.
42:52Why would we sell it?
42:53Why would we sell it?
42:54Yeah.
42:54Why?
42:55Yeah.
42:56We'll keep hold of it for you.
42:57Don't worry.
42:58So, it's a keeper.
42:59It's a keeper.
43:00It's a keeper.
43:06But that's the keeper.
43:11I like that.
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