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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.
09:21There we are.
09:27Here we are.
09:27Here we are.
09:27The Restoration Professionals.
09:29That's the word.
09:29Been looking forward to coming here.
09:33He'll laugh.
09:33He'll obviously like that word, professional.
09:37We have met before, I think, haven't we, briefly?
09:39Did we not? No?
09:40Well, maybe you've just seen them on TV.
09:42You know, try and watch.
09:43That's what they'll be on, yeah.
09:45About time.
09:46Good. Now, which one are you?
09:47Kel.
09:47Kel, right, yeah, yeah.
09:48It's all right, mate, no problem.
09:50Good show. Nice to see you.
09:51Yeah.
09:52This is where it all happens then, is it?
09:53Great, isn't it?
09:53Just a job.
09:55And you're painting this one up then, are you?
09:57Yeah.
09:57We didn't have to go to town on this one.
09:59He just wanted it just quickly sort of blown over, tidying up.
10:02Yep.
10:03Looks as though you've done a fair old job, isn't it, about a quick going over?
10:06Yeah, I like that.
10:07You've got all the diagnostic equipment, I'll take it.
10:09Yeah, yeah.
10:10Spanness and screwdriver.
10:13Lovely, just a job. Thank you.
10:14I heard you like a biscuit.
10:16Would you like a chocolate biscuit?
10:17Yeah, I would, mate. Thank you very much.
10:19Yeah, lovely.
10:22With tea and treats sorted, it's on to the main event.
10:26Ian and his motors.
10:28Just fun to be around.
10:29He was a nice bloke.
10:31Helped us with all sorts.
10:32Good.
10:33He was, uh...
10:34Let's go light.
10:34Yeah.
10:34You know, he knew everything about everything.
10:36Yeah, didn't cost a lot.
10:38No.
10:38Yeah, brilliant.
10:40He loved adding clocks to it for some reason.
10:43Yeah, well, I know where he's coming from, because I'm a similar age, aren't I?
10:46And, uh, and when we had cars like that, and they had no clocks here.
10:49Yeah.
10:50The clocks there, like, connecting them all up and that.
10:52Stupid things we've done.
10:55His Moggy Thousand has many non-factory upgrades.
10:59It was in a bit of a sorry state.
11:01Some of the wings were gaffer-taped on, so we put new wings on it.
11:04We got the engine sorted.
11:05We did all the welding on it.
11:06Yeah.
11:06No, it's a nice, bonny little thing, isn't it?
11:08Yeah.
11:08Yeah, well, he was a handy fellow, this lad, then.
11:10That's a right honest-looking old car, this, isn't it?
11:13This one's got the five-speed in it.
11:14That's got five-speed in it, yeah.
11:16That's a nice one.
11:17Yeah, time line.
11:18It just cruises all up, mate.
11:20Lovely.
11:20Well, we'll get loaded.
11:21I'll get my ramps out.
11:22And I'll take a call.
11:23Good lad.
11:24Lovely.
11:25Right, I'll get ready.
11:30Right, mate.
11:31There you go.
11:32Well done, lovely.
11:34Yeah, go on, go on.
11:36Shock absorber conclusion, then.
11:38Well, he thinks a lot.
11:39Everything.
11:39That should drive like a brand-new car.
11:40It does.
11:41It's absolutely brilliant.
11:42I bet it does, yeah.
11:43You'd be lucky if he's driven it 30, 40 miles.
11:46Four to five grand by one of the best moggies in the country.
11:49But that's a little bit different because it ain't only quite, really, a Morris Minor, is it?
11:55It's like a sort of an MGB in drag, isn't it, really?
11:58The overall condition and presentation, and all the mods and add-ons, I think is going to take it up
12:03to six or seven grand.
12:04Yeah, I mean, I don't think it's a dear car at six or seven grand.
12:07But funny market, you know, I think it's great.
12:11I think it's lovely.
12:12MG, difficult one, the value.
12:14Motor's worth 10 grand all day long.
12:16I think it's probably going to do more like 12.
12:18Good to meet you, mate.
12:19Yeah, cheers.
12:20Thank you so much.
12:21Thanks for the tea.
12:21Right, I'll get on.
12:22Get back to God's own country.
12:25There we go.
12:26As long as whoever buys it, looks after it, appreciates it.
12:30Yeah.
12:30Yeah.
12:31But drives it.
12:32Because he loved them.
12:44A lot of lovely signs again, as usual.
12:46One or two nice original ones there, which should do okay.
12:50So, yeah, it's looking all right, isn't it?
12:53With auction day underway, it's time for a rare Italian treat.
13:001979, Di Tommaso there.
13:03We've got lots of bids here.
13:04We've got lots of bids very, very, very close to each other.
13:07So, we've got 8,009, 9,000, 9,004.
13:119,000, gone to 10,000 on the internet.
13:1510,300.
13:17At 10,300, 10,400, 10,500, 11,000.
13:21It's at 11 now, yeah.
13:23It's at 11 now.
13:2411,001.
13:25You don't want it at all.
13:26The Netherlands at 11,300, 11,400.
13:28Yeah.
13:28At 13,000 pound.
13:30On the table at 13.
13:32At 13,001.
13:33Engine's been running, sounds lovely.
13:35Father's had the engine running, so it sounds lovely.
13:37Good luck to someone, but 20 grand, can't they?
13:3913,003.
13:4113,800.
13:4213,900.
13:4415,000 pound at 15,000.
13:46Like this scenario.
13:4817.
13:49There's two guys on the computer there, isn't there?
13:51That's 17,000.
13:51Just amazing.
13:52Keep it going, Dave.
13:53I've got money on this.
13:54Have you?
13:5517,900.
13:5720,000.
13:58Can you imagine doing this with pigeons?
14:00Used to be pigeons, didn't it, all this?
14:02You know, you couldn't send a signal.
14:03It had to be a pigeon.
14:04Had to take it.
14:05Amazing, isn't it?
14:07And we've come all the way from about 12,000 to 18, whatever.
14:1218,500 in 100 pound billions.
14:16Yeah, which, from our point of view, you're like...
14:20But there's two guys there thrashing it out, isn't there?
14:23You know, simple as that.
14:24Third and last time when the hammer's down, it is gone.
14:27I can't stress that enough.
14:2818,700.
14:30Sold.
14:3118,700 pounds.
14:32There you go.
14:3318,700.
14:34All the way in 100 pound increments.
14:55The auction dust has settled, and Charlie's already sizing up the newcomers.
15:00We've got...
15:01I'm going to push the boat out.
15:03I'm going to say probably the nicest MG magnet we've had through.
15:07Every now and then, you get a type of car that's owned by a type of person that just has
15:13pride in it, I think is the right word.
15:16Doors shut.
15:18Unbelievably, they're lovely.
15:20Generally, they're actually quite a good driving car.
15:23Grandad's had a few over the years.
15:25He's always said how nice they drive.
15:27They're a bit like an MGA, apparently.
15:28There's a servo, look.
15:29I just spotted that.
15:30That's another mod.
15:31Everything is neat.
15:32Everything is tidy.
15:33Everything has a place.
15:35Every nut, bolt, cranny is just nice.
15:37You can just feel that they're...
15:39It's had a nice paint job.
15:41Absolutely lovely there.
15:43Insides are just unreal.
15:44The seats look original and headlining looks fairly original as well.
15:48So to keep a few little bits that are still relatively from the car's sort of period and era,
15:53I just think it just finishes it off and just makes it a bit better, me personally.
15:59But there is one period feature that Charlie doesn't rate.
16:04The map's a bit old, though.
16:052010.
16:06I think we might be missing some rows out of that one.
16:09Yeah, missing rows out of 2024 ones, never mind 2010 ones.
16:12I don't know.
16:13I just don't think they're the most pretty car in the world, the actual shape.
16:17I think they could have thought of a slightly prettier one.
16:26Down the road in Thornton-le-Dale, someone's off on a jolly, and they've got a lot of reasons to
16:31be happy about it.
16:33Nice day.
16:34Local.
16:36Escort.
16:37Rally car.
16:39Yorkshire.
16:40Bit of Providence.
16:41And I'm fed up with emails.
16:42So, there's seven reasons why I'm going today.
16:48And, 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.
17:04And I just feel it's maybe time to let somebody else enjoy it.
17:08Brilliant fun.
17:09I did a Lombard rally at Duncan Park.
17:11It's not really moved for two and a half years.
17:13Nothing wrong with it.
17:14Brilliant.
17:15Uses a lot of petrol.
17:16In 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 to racing legend Dan Gruer.
17:31The story of how Ian came to own the car stretches back beyond the mudguards of time.
17:37Oh, one minute.
17:37How far do you want me to go back?
17:39To the beginning?
17:40Yeah, go on then.
17:41Go on then, right.
17:42OK, then.
17:43Everyone buckled up.
17:44I think it was, what, 1971.
17:47My dad says to me, do you want to go watch your rally?
17:51It was Mini's predominantly.
17:53A few Escorts, Cortina's, Anglia's, that sort of thing.
17:56And all of a sudden, there's this car coming away.
17:59The rest of them were braking.
18:01This car just, like, he put it sideways.
18:04And I'm thinking, oh, this looks like an accident.
18:07But it wasn't.
18:08And it was Dan Gruer and his Volvo.
18:10I've no idea how he got around this corner, but he did.
18:13And after that, I was really hooked.
18:15And then when I got my own car, I bought this Datsun 1200.
18:18And I thought, oh, yeah, job sorted.
18:20I'm going to crack this.
18:20No problem.
18:22So I did my heart test, pulled back in.
18:24And then there was Dan Gruer behind me in that Escort.
18:27And he's, like, three-wheeling it around cones.
18:29He's going on three wheels.
18:30Because I'm thinking, oh, well, I haven't won this ever my own way.
18:33You know, not a chance.
18:35By way of explanation, we feel you need to know that the late Dan Gruer was a Yorkshire rallying legend.
18:42He was also known as Mad Dan and Desperate Dan, a brilliant driver, particularly famed for taking his Volvo 122
18:51to insane speeds whilst telling a caravan.
18:55Mad Dan's real name was actually Colin.
18:58I worked at a garage in York.
19:00And Colin Gruer was brother Ian.
19:02He used to come.
19:03Then he was telling me that Colin was ill.
19:05Since leaving York, Colin had gone to France.
19:08And then he'd gone to a little village near Galway in Ireland.
19:11And sadly, he passed away.
19:13By way of further explanation, just a couple more things.
19:18The engine of choice for these cars was a Ford Cosworth BDA.
19:22B for belt, D for drive, A for something else.
19:27I'm only going for what people said.
19:30They seemed to think the BDA was a little bit temperamental.
19:34I know that the Rover V8, going by the readouts we've had, it's sort of putting out the same power
19:40as a BDA.
19:41Yeah, BDAs are maybe more now.
19:43The ridiculous power they get from them.
19:46Now, there's just one more thing before we leave this invaluable lesson.
19:50As any rallying enthusiast will tell you, almost every day if given the chance,
19:55the sensible engine to put in this car is the Pinto.
19:59Strong, reliable, tunable and made by Ford.
20:03Not Rover.
20:05People say, oh, drop a Pinto in it.
20:08Oh, drop this engine in it.
20:10No, no, I aren't dropping engine in.
20:12Else it wouldn't be Dan Gruber's V8 Escort if it had a four-cylinder Pinto in it.
20:16I've done as little as possible.
20:17Put two new seats in it, put some new seat melts in it, new brakes.
20:21It's a good throwback in time.
20:22It's a blast from past.
20:24If it sells, I would love it to stay around York.
20:27I think I've done my bit.
20:28I've got it across from Ireland.
20:30It's sort of somebody else's go now.
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.
21:01What's a Krypton tuner?
21:03Something to tune sound.
21:05You took one off at the back of your lorry with you, Grandad.
21:07Oh, that fit, yeah, yeah, yeah, I remember it, yeah.
21:10What's that?
21:12A load of rubbish.
21:13Why did he fetch it in?
21:15Because it's Grandad.
21:16At long last, this mysterious device has found an admirer
21:20in former engine diagnostic technician Roy Clark.
21:26They were old when I started playing with them as a boy,
21:28but I know a lot about them and I'm willing to share it.
21:33It's school time.
21:34This is like intensive care for cars.
21:38Well, a bit like us, when we go into intensive care,
21:41nobody knows what's going on.
21:42They just know we're not working right.
21:44We've all given samples at the doctors before and we've sent it off.
21:48Well, this will analyse them.
21:49This is a top of the range for its age
21:51because we've got the introduction of oscilloscopes.
21:54You can change that picture to look at other things as well,
21:57like your exhaust gas, yeah, so your emissions.
22:00It wasn't something that your average mechanic had owned, certainly not.
22:03Derek brought this back.
22:05He did a good thing.
22:06It's not a piece of junk.
22:08If you can understand what this does,
22:10you know enough about your car, that's a living.
22:13Classic cars aren't going to go tomorrow.
22:15So if this comes up in the auction...
22:17If you've got a man cave, get one.
22:28Around the corner, Ian's Moggy Thousand,
22:31inspiring Paul's top tip for newbies.
22:34Everyone who's coming into the classic movement,
22:38in my opinion, should start off with that.
22:42Or an MGB.
22:46Me, that.
22:48That there, I think, is absolutely brilliant,
22:52super usable, and just quirky, aren't they?
22:55It's a little peach, isn't it?
22:56A little darling.
22:57And I think it's set off by the colour
22:59and the banded wheels in my eyes.
23:02Get your clubs in there, look.
23:05I think they're a great little lump.
23:07Brilliant little car, isn't it?
23:08That should appeal to the slightly younger audience.
23:12He's had a facelift, a once-over.
23:14He's got some nice upgrades and some sensible upgrades.
23:18Things like servo for the brake.
23:21You don't have to really forcefully press the brake pedal.
23:24Nice light brakes.
23:25They have light steering anyway.
23:27Slightly wider wheels.
23:28Just gives it a little bit more of a stance.
23:31And I think it, yeah, it just looks right.
23:34It just got it right.
23:35So the upgrade side of that car
23:37won't really make it worth any more, unfortunately.
23:40So whatever you spend on it, you spend on it.
23:43It's what he wanted to do, isn't it?
23:45And the next guy will have a load of fun in it.
23:47Brilliant.
23:48I'm going to suggest he's going to be like six or seven grand,
23:51but I bet he wants more.
23:52I bet he wants more.
23:55Absolutely brilliant.
23:55You'll have more fun in that car than you will in that E-Type.
23:58You will, honestly.
24:00You will.
24:00You'll use it more because you pop to the shop in it
24:03and you pop here in it because they're just a smiley car.
24:06The Jags are lovely,
24:08but you aren't going to go shopping in it, are you?
24:10You're not.
24:10You know, I'd be all right running a Jag car I don't go shopping.
24:13But most people have to go shopping a bit, don't they?
24:18So, Maurice Saleson.
24:19Who does your shopping?
24:20I'm very fortunate I am, yeah.
24:23Ange does most of ours.
24:25Yeah, I can't honestly, hand on art, remember the last time I went shopping.
24:31Yeah.
24:31I had to go for a pint of milk the other day.
24:33It would be terrible.
24:34I'll tell you what, I had to ask them where it was.
24:37Yeah, it was in some cold thing at the back.
24:40Yeah, yeah.
24:41So, avoid shops.
24:52A little Maurice Minor.
24:54Ooh, ah, now this is special.
24:56Absolutely brilliant.
24:57I could not recommend a vehicle more than this vehicle.
25:01£4,000 we got.
25:02£4,000 we're away.
25:04£4,000.
25:054-1.
25:06Super example.
25:07Probably 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.
25:12£4,200.
25:14£4,400.
25:15Go in then, £4,500.
25:17£4,500.
25:18Very, very exceptional motor.
25:20£5,100 telephone.
25:22£5,100.
25:23You're out, Mick.
25:24£52.
25:25£5,300.
25:26Back in.
25:27£5,300.
25:28£5,400.
25:30You won't buy another one like it.
25:31£5,500.
25:33£5,600.
25:34Back in.
25:34Oxfordshire.
25:35£5,600.
25:36£5,700.
25:38Back with Oxfordshire.
25:39£5,800.
25:41All done, Mick.
25:42Thank you for letting me know.
25:43£5,800.
25:44Manchester, £5,900.
25:46£5,900.
25:47Oxford, you're out.
25:49£6,000.
25:50Oxfordshire.
25:51All done, then.
25:53Bampton, the winner.
25:54£6,000.
25:55Sold.
25:56At £2,000 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.
26:12The MG Magnet, it is stunning, 5-speed gearbox.
26:15If you want a Magnet to run, A, to go to shows and win, and B, drive it anywhere in
26:21the world, that's the car for you.
26:23Busy with me, and now £12,000, £12,200, £12,200, £12,200, won the best in the country without...
26:29You'll just tell them if you want a big group.
26:31£12,400 in the way then and done, £12,004.
26:33£12,900.
26:35£12,900.
26:36£12,900.
26:36£12,900.
26:39£12,900.
26:39£13,400.
26:41£13,400.
26:42Ireland's buying it, £13,400.
26:45£14,000.
26:46£14,000.
26:46You'll struggle.
26:46Another one like it, I'll tell you.
26:48£14,100.
26:49£14,300 and sold away.
26:51£14,400.
26:53£14,500 is going to be sold.
26:56Third and last time St Ellen's to buy, make no mistake about it, bear warning.
27:01£14,500, thank you.
27:04At £2,000 over the estimate, it's an impressive result for both Ian's motors.
27:17New York, Dave's arrived to collect Dan Gruer's hybrid Raleigh Escort from Ian Bell.
27:24Hello mate.
27:26Good to see you mate.
27:27Well done.
27:27V8 though.
27:28V8.
27:29Why?
27:31Supposedly it was more reliable than the VDA.
27:33Yeah, probably.
27:35It came back from Ireland.
27:36I heard it was there.
27:37I just remember it from years ago.
27:40It just seemed a shame to leave it there.
27:42So, took my missus for a nice weekend to Ireland.
27:47While we're here.
27:47Yeah.
27:48While we're here, we're just going to go and look at this Escort.
27:52But yes, evidently this was built from an RS1800 shell.
27:56You couldn't get a bigger radiator in there if you tried mate, could you?
27:58Range Rover.
27:59Is that what it is?
28:00Yeah.
28:01Yeah, it's bloody massive isn't it?
28:02Have you used it in anger?
28:03I did one of those Lombard Raleigh festivals at Duncan Park.
28:06Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
28:07It was brilliant fun.
28:09Really, it was good fun.
28:10With it having lots of history, I just feel I've been more the custodian of it than the
28:15owner of it.
28:15Yeah, it's really bespoke isn't it?
28:18Yes.
28:19Not posterior at all.
28:20Not so bad when you get going, but no.
28:23Stood still, you don't want to be doing a three point turn.
28:26And you're wondering what that is behind seat.
28:28I'm just, before I ask a question, I was just trying to work it out.
28:31It's the heater.
28:33Hence the water pipes going into it.
28:35Yeah, what a machine.
28:36That one, that's your map light.
28:38Oh is it?
28:38Yeah.
28:39Obviously.
28:40Remind me before you go to put some more petrol in it for you because I put a tenner
28:44in yesterday and it loves petrol.
28:47How long will a tenner last you Ian?
28:49Five or six miles.
28:51It's an animal isn't it?
28:53It's an absolute animal really.
28:54Yeah.
28:55Just looking around it, it's just like a bit of a time warp thing isn't it?
28:58Yeah.
28:58It's a play thing really.
29:00Oh yeah.
29:01We've just got to find someone who just wants to have a bit of fun really.
29:05Yeah, that's all it is.
29:06And a blast about.
29:06Well go on, while you are there, just fire it up so we can hear it out here.
29:10Because it's...
29:10Oh!
29:11Yeah, this is something you don't hear every day.
29:13A 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.
29:23When your eyes are telling you it's an Escort and your ears are telling you it's a TR7 V8.
29:27Yeah.
29:30We've just got to find someone else who's as barmy as me and Ian.
29:32That's the trouble.
29:35And the clutch, I'll let you put it on the trailer.
29:38What is it, on or off or heavy?
29:39Both.
29:40Both.
29:41Both.
29:42Both.
29:43Absolutely both.
29:43Both.
29:45Both.
29:51Both.
29:52People are getting out.
29:52Both!
29:52But I can eat one of them false chest weeks.
29:55Yeah.
29:56And some sideburns.
29:58It's like life on Mars isn't it?
30:12We're there, we're there, we're there.
30:14it's not it's not viable competitively no ship sailed on that yeah so we've just got to find
30:21someone who wants to have a bit of a play it's going to be novelty factor really shouting
30:25somewhere like in the teens 30 and 14 15 ish to me when we're going to try and peg it
30:33money-wise
30:33i genuinely can't remember i'll get on i'll speak on the phone all right mate good to see you take
30:40care mate
31:04in bickering 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 grewer's escort this is a mark ii escort rally car now
31:33i do
31:34know that 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 so it's
31:45not the
31:45best shell but 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
31:59isn'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 dip would just you put a jag axle in and a jag
32:23gearbox instead of a
32:24five-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
32:34that's the end of that isn't it a provisional bid on it i know you wanted 300 pounds we got
32:42it 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
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
33:10that bike absolutely fantastic you would think it was a factory built 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 pounds right they're looking for 20 200 20 500 pound bid 21 000 pound but 21 it's
33:35still
33:3521's just gone mate no somebody jumped in on the internet 21 and a quarter says alan 21 250 with
33:42us
33:4221 250 pound at the minute and worth every eight knee
33:48where are you going to get another one they're out anymore are they who's buying that
33:51hopefully 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 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
34:371977 ford escort here we go hang on he's walking over dad collected this one i'll let him do this
34:42one
34:43it's got a real interesting history it was quite a well-known car it is a quite a well-known
34:46car
34:46the guys that used to campaign the car were um i think probably a little eccentric but i love
34:53eccentricity and i embrace it and i love that we're in a position to mix with people that are
34:58just as barmy as me and you really so yeah it's a little bit unusual it's uh obviously got a
35:04v8 jag
35:04axle jag back end you name it it's a play car but if you do sort of bit of homework
35:09on the history they
35:10were quite eccentric would turn up at events and shirt and ties and another yeah yeah yeah yeah just
35:15just real quirky and different so anyway there you go but there we're going to be we've got 12 000
35:20pound there thank you at 12 000 pound bid i see it at 12 250 pound at 12 and a
35:26quarter 12 250.
35:31it'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
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 tomaso 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 tomaso a stable mate bidding on it was quite fierce i think
36:17it went for about three times the estimate however three times the estimates probably about right for
36:21it i've done my work and worked out how much it was going to cost me to get that longchamp
36:25back to
36:25where it needed to be and i had in mind a value that i would go to and actually we
36:30were below it at the end
36:32steve's no stranger 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 to 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
36:55kit what became 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 took
37:06it to modified car shows and hot rod shows so the big job has been to unpimp this ride you
37:15can see the
37:15body kits off you can see what's underneath shapes there now the body kit was so deep so they had
37:20to
37:20build an extension to the petrol flap you can see from here it means that body kit was probably two
37:25inches deep at the back spoiler alert i mean literally this was just glued on the original
37:32wheel arches are actually still here they've been bent up and they've been cut to allow allow the
37:36foam to be stuck into it still the odd residual bit there these were original di tomaso campagnolo
37:41wheels which we found on ebay a lot of filler in here not yet sure what's underneath that and again
37:47you can see what they've done is they've bent up the original wheel arches and used that as a base
37:51for
37:51the body kit we've got four new wings a new bonnet and new wheel arches it took a while to
37:57trace them
37:58down so there's a very active owners group and then over a period of months a little aladdin's
38:02cave appeared of things that are stuck in people's garages the headlights aren't right and aren't
38:07original these would have been large single lights actually in common with the ford granada from that
38:11era and then you can see what they've done here to the bonnet which is they've cut this to form
38:16a vent shape and then to actually keep it elevated and raised what we found when we took the body
38:20kit off was actually they just propped an old screwdriver under it and glued it in i expect
38:24that bonnet's unsaveable but we found a new one there mechanically there was actually a fairly
38:28limited number of modifications done to this car the engine is essentially a ford v8 so it's pretty
38:32easy to get parts for to be fair though actually the interior is not bad original headlining which
38:38is quite rare it has a stamped pattern on it so whilst it looks pretty rough actually there's nothing
38:42in here that scares me steve's only fear when i did the assessment of this car before buying it
38:47auction the bit that worried me was the rust that runs under the back from sort of around that wheel
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 better up there than on
39:20the car
39:20it'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 interesting
39:32car shape wise looks wise everybody loves it and so do i in the heart of the cotswolds countryside where
39:40every 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 i've owned that's older than me didn't mean to do that 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
40:13i'm driving in my car
40:22it's a nice sound isn't it
40:30yeah it was really oh
40:48You're a madness fan, Neil.
40:52Toby, what do the old cars appeal to you, then?
40:55Like, do I like old cars?
40:57Yeah.
40:57Oh, yeah, I love them.
40:58They're a lot more joyful than newer ones.
41:00There'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.
41:22Right.
41:22It's just a little show car.
41:23A 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?
41:30Well, then we 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.
41:40And going back 20, 30 years ago, I was building beach buggies out of VW Beetles.
41:45I was chopping those up.
41:46So my first car was a long-wheelbase beach buggy.
41:48I then went to a short-wheelbase beach buggy.
41:52Then I started trying to build a DeLorean replica.
41:54He's grown up knowing nothing more than classic cars.
41:58When I'm at home and I'm doing stuff, tinkering in the garage, it's on a classic car and he
42:03can point to things.
42:04He knows what things are.
42:05He 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 for some bizarre reason.
42:15I think there's something lacking in the education of classic cars because he actually wants a
42:19Reliant 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.
42:28All 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?
42:36Yeah, it's going to be gone to a place where it's going to be looked after, like, done
42:41some 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, so, just going
42:50to have to keep hold of it, yeah.
42:52Why would we sell it?
42:53Why would we sell it, yeah.
42:54Why?
42:55Yeah.
42:56We'll keep hold of it for you, don't worry.
42:58So it's a keeper?
42:59It's a keeper.
43:00It's a keeper.
43:04It's a keeper.
43:06It's a keeper.
43:10It's a keeper.
43:11It's a keeper.
43:12It's a keeper.
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