The trio were safer driving through Iraq Africa Alabama with extremely offensive things spray painted on their cars then they were driving through a 1st world country with a license plate on one car
Let's face it. If WD was a real pukka garage they would have gone bust years ago. Ignoring labour costs and forgetting all that equipment Edd had in his garage makes the costs ridiculously low. They had a Fiat Dino in one episode that Mike brought over from Italy. They sold it for around 15k which was around 2k profit. They are currently going for between 50k-150k. MB obviously doesn't plan for the long term. Nice to know though that the vehicles they do work on don't just fall apart the moment the cameras turn off. Much better than some of those 'We rebuild your house for you while you're on holiday because you're a nice person' crap TV shows where the ceiling cracks after a few weeks and the doors won't open.😂
From across the pond: Thank you for the update on the "Chelsea Tractor". I remember the original episonde where it appeared they actually acquired it from a farm setting. Narragansett Bay
Well done Trev a fascinating insight into motoring over there. Interesting to see the dreaded Lada Samara there, I used to have to take the odd ones in part-ex sometimes, IMHO the most uncomfortable car to drive with possibly some of the worst build quality of the day. 😀
Have to say I was not impressed by the auctioneer. I wonder if it's possible to be less enthusiastic and offputting. If I went to that auction it's a day wasted. I'd be interested to know if all their auctions are this dull or if they actually do sell more cars at other times. Eg. if it won't start at the bottom of the estimate drop the starting point and see if that brings up some interest and see if you can get a couple or more bidders to come in and push it up. If you do that they often meet or exceed the estimate. And if it doesn't you've lost nothing compared to a daft high starting point from where it's bought in or passed.
I confess Uzbekistan in October is not at the top of my holiday destinations list, but I'm sure it's quite interesting. Have a great time and we'll see you when you get back.
I will confess it was not my idea, she who must be obeyed had a significant birthday and it was her choice! But did enable me to create some different content though.
I left a comment on your Where are the final Grand Tour cars video but it kept getting deleted for some annoying reason. I said you can see the cars in one of Clarksons insta posts.
🤔 Best not to take it personally. RU-vid censorship removed half of all comments immediately. I myself usually make at least 3 comments, before one will make it through !
These classics are a great investment, you just need to factor in a complete rebuild every now and then and the upkeep including storage and so on. Mechanics love you if you have one and you drive it regularly.
Mechanics only love them because it's much nicer to work on a classic car than on a newer car. You have to take much less of the car apart to get to bits, and older cars were designed to be accessed, newer ones not at all. In general it takes less time to change, let's say an aux belt or alternator on a 70's, 80's, or 90's car than anything after the 2000's. Also, classic owners actually care about their cars, rather than modern car owners who will not change the oil for 50k
The rover SD1 brings back memories as it use to be my fathers car. That exact one silver and the rust from when us kids damaged it and dented the door sadly.
Wouldn't be surprised if the SL is in Spain with someone who spends part of the time here the Rest in Spain unless it was just sold to someone who lived in Europe.
I owned this P1800 the mot's for 2019 20 and21 Were mine. For safety I always have classics done each year. Templer and wilde did some more work on it and it was close to concourse when I sold it. I am sure you are aware that when it comes to that level guide and auction values go haywire. If you want the best then it doesn't come cheap. The end value was near £40k. Brilliant car often wonder if I did the right thing selling it to fund the next project. But never look back!! Regarding Roger Moore ,it was the car SoS P1800 he signed not this one
Had p1800, s in the 80s and 90s,they were rotten then, had sills, arches, wings on, you could go to speeds of Alfreton and buy parts then, I used to go to a big breaker, volvo village in Sheffield and get bits to keep mine going, went to the south of France in a 1800E,fast car, was doing a 100 sometimes, unburstable engines.
So both vehicles are still going and of course the Volvo P1800 with the very reliable red block motor you would expect the P1800 to still be running as with any vehicle with any very reliable engine as for the Land Rover that is also good to see its still going and through your persistent automotive detective work
@@oscarsgarage447 l do enjoy Wheeler dealers l do catch the odd episode on you tube and recently caught shorten versions of a couple of episodes in Australia and they bought a Toyota Hilux and it had only done 300000 kilometres and the comments were in relation to how many kilometres it had done what would be wrong with the engine well guess what nothing where my 1997 Toyota Hilux has done 439000 kilometres and there is nothing wrong with the engine 300000 kilometres for any Toyota us nothing there are many examples of Toyota's reaching 1000000 million miles on there original engine so 300000 kilometres is nothing to a Toyota l suppose there used to British and European vehicles that need a couple of engine rebuilds to reach 300000 kilometres after all there is a 1993 Toyota Corolla that has done 2000000 kilometres with its original engine
