Across the UK, millions of pounds worth of neglected treasures lie buried and forgotten in the homes of Britain. From rusty motorbikes to tarnished teapots, ancient tractors to antique furniture, what looks like junk can actually be worth a pretty penny.
Find It Fix It Flog It follows presenters Henry Cole and Simon O’Brien as they journey across the UK, meeting property owners and throwing open their properties to explore the unique items lost inside.
Upcycling genius Simon and his restorer Gemma love turning everyday objects in to fantastic furniture, while for Henry and his mechanic, Guy, its all about restoring retro relics and vintage classics. From transforming a galvanized metal cold water storage tank into a modern coffee table our “sultans of scrap” will show you just how easy it can be to breathe new life into old or unwanted items.
What a plonker Henry Cole is. He always gets real mechanics on his shows, while he cleans off rust etc on said motorbikes. Get off the internet you fraud, let someone who is all knowledgeable about motorbikes be given airtime.
If this was filmed recently then you have no ideas on what classic fords are worth. This car is worth 25 to 30 k after restoration at the bare minimum . Scabby ones full of rust but roadworthy are 15k plus
Indeed, but it's also the name of a legal class of vehicle license in the UK (where this show is made), so a lot of vehicles that are and aren't "mo-peds" (motor - pedals) gets called a moped.
when I was working one day here in Pittsburgh, as a meter reader, for the company, I recently retired from after 40 years. I saw a Norton atlas sitting on the grass of a beautifully restored older Mansion on Western Avenue in the one time millionaires row of Manchester/Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It turned out that the owner of the Norton was an engineer and his wife was a old house restorationarchitect. I picked up many motorcycles by keeping my eyes opened on my routes over those wonderful years of getting paid to stay in shape by walking all day reading meters usually five hours a day. So I knocked on the door and I ended up talking to this guy, he happened to be a motorcycle junkie like myself. But he was only into ENGLISH motorcycles. He took me into his basement to show me his stash he had about 50 seats. They were from Nortons and BSA and triumphs. He had dozens of gas tanks hanging from the rafters as well as exhaust systems. He had engines on the shelves and cylinders and boxes and boxes of parts he would buy at dealer’s. it went out of business. Rows and rows of wheels, entire front ends., headlights, gauges, handlebars, panniers, very neatly categorized and sectionalized, and in order and protected. Truckloads. his name was Bart. I was riding amateur trials events at that time. And in Toronto Ohio just north of Steubenville every year there was a trials event , it was also an English motorcycle flea market. I ran into Bart there with an old old Chevy pick up, loaded with boxes of new parts and used parts for BSA, Norton, and triumph motorcycles. that was back in the 1990s the last time I saw him… I never knew anybody that owned and ENGLISH motorcycle that needed a parts source. I’ve had many dozens of motorcycles over the decades, but I’ve never had an English motorcycle I was hoping that the Hesketh motorcycles would become available in the United States when they first started showing up in the motorcycle magazines here. But something about a very noisy shifting transmission seem to have done them in before they even got started, knowing his kids experience and success in Formula One, I would be pretty confident that his engine and motorcycle would be designed properly… But it never happened. I wonder if Bought still has a basement full of truckloads of triumph, PSA, and Norton parts..
Henry is a tv programme maker who likes bikes, but I’ll wager he hasn’t laid a hand on a spanner to any good effect. We, we, we means everybody else did the work. The end condition of that speed twin is what I buy cheap at the start of the 'fettling'.
@@classicraceruk1337 Not wrong though am I. All his bike programmes are biking eye candy drivel. Now a show put out by skid or Sam would have some real content and not just the jester input that Henry knocks out.
@@AaaaandAction You are wrong, you made an assumption for a start that Henry repairs the bikes. Nowhere is that claim made. He also said the bike needed more work to the person that bought it. Fettling was done on the bike to make it start. Nowhere was it said that it was finished. Your comment was pointless as everything you said is already known. In other words a waste of time writing it. The only reasonable conclusion to come to is that you wanted your name on comments section no matter how inane they were. Well you succeed.
Sale price was around 3100 US dollars... I'd snatch that up all day long for that price. Thats the kind of deal I'm always on the look out. There was a lot of stuff that wasn't correct for the year and model, but it's a really nice looking rider.
