£3000 CLASSIC CAR CHALLENGE! 

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scrap the mini body and put the super charged A series in the Alegro and do like the Late Break Show is doing.

Please add a content warning before jumpscaring us with the appearance of an Allegro

“Andy, fair play you’ve done me over” 😂😂😂😂😂😂 brutal honestly

Alex "Are you going to be sad to see it go?" Andy "Not really...." 😂😂😂

A British Leyland car is the only car that Alex could rebuild himself to the same standards as the original factory

Get Ethan a welder from the middle aisle of Lidl and let him watch an “intro to welding” RU-vid video. See how he gets on 😂

I love how Taylor naturally and organically quotes Jeremy Clarkson “a symphony of brown” in his general vocab. Just goes to show how much underlying influence that show had on all us car nerds.

“If you wanna buy a classic car for 3000£, DONT” spot on 😂

Alex wobbling the gate was killing me 😂😂 but it looked close to the car I was like 😮 but all good

Allegro + Supercharged Mini drive train! Done!

That gate coming soooo close to rubbing against the car as Alex was shaking it... eek!

honestly guys, its not a AutoAlex challenge without Taylor using a green mini and taking the piss with the budget.

There’s a number of comments suggesting putting the Mini engine + supercharger in the Allegro. STOP!!! The Mini is a 998 and the Allegro is a 1275. Far better and easier to whip the supercharger off and bolt it to the Allegro! The allegro is 53 BHP (stock), so you’ll end up with around 100 BHP. You’ll L need the modified timing cover (minus breather) off the Mini engine and a second or thicker head gasket (decompression plate). Other option would be to enlarge the chambers in the head.

Call in good old Tom right up his street, he'll swear at it a bit and it'll be right as rain😂

Alex 12:28 just shaking this guy's fence to bits 😂

Thank you guys for 2 amazing years of great content ! With the two other channels and the V2, we are really spoiled :-)

Great video, that mini is fitted with oversills, that's why it's rotten, it's a common bodge on classic minis.

Guy's Love the channel, but Shedfest today was a nightmare. I like many drove a long way to see you all and was presented with a nightmare. I manged a whole hour in the venue after a 2 hour drive and a 3 hour queue, many others turned round and went home. Mallory Park were unable to cope with everything and everybody. Concession stand queues where ridiculously long, toilet queues where the same. An apology and ticket refund would be a decent gesture. Sorry lads a lot of us feel quite let down at the moment and some sort of proper apology post might help keep us watching.

Andy had a Quantum 2+2 too!! What a guy!

Andy barely tried to hide his excitement there 😂

Every time I see an Allegro I always feel bad for Harris Mann (the guy that designed it) as his original drawings and models looked great. Then BL made the whole car taller and rounder so they could fit a larger (and taller) engine. Completely ruining all his efforts to make a good looking small car. That said I think they are a bit over hated, badly made but for a small car they rode well and the old A-Series is a tough old lump! I look forward to seeing this disaster again!

I tell you what I love about this channel - you highlight the downsides and bad purchases. It’s not all sunshine and rainbows!

You can still buy floor pans and sills for a classic mini, cut the rot out, weld the good in. This is what REAL car guys do!

“Andy fair play you’ve done me over”😂 What goes around comes around!😂

I never knew that Fred Flinstone had a supercharged mini, because that is the only person I know who has a hole that big in the bottom of his car 🤣 you learn something new everyday 🤣😆👍🏻 looking forward to this series already

If you knew your minis, prices are still mad. That’s the price people are asking for rust buckets. You’d have to spend triple that for a decent one but likely still have rust hiding.

Great episode and wonderful to see this type of content back on the channel. Looking forward to this classic challenge that can only be good ❤

TWO YEARS!!!! Congratulations Alex, I really can't think of anyone more deserving of your success. Fantastic squad, even better content. Can't wait for the next 2 years!

Haha, mai gawd, standard rust on a Mini, sills (inner and outer), doorsteps, floor pans, toe boards, heel boards, a-panels and valance. Luckily, you can get a complete prebuilt floor sections - saves a lot of time. Probably rust around the scuttle, lower rear quarters and front wings too. You can buy a complete shell from Heritage or panels - to suit your budget. Be good to remove the patchwork quilt repairs it had, never understood why people will do 3,4 -8 repairs on a panel when one slightly larger one would do it. Oil leak will be gear selector shaft seal - its a given, rocker cover and maybe the upper rear plates. Sometimes the mechanical fuel pump can leak. You could learn to weld, it would open up your project builds massively! Learning on a Mini is ideal. Check out BOM - Project Binky and also Urchfab - Mongrel build - for welding pr0n. Then you can avoid getting worried about rust and rot. "A grinder and paint - makes me the welder I ain't" is a great saying. Be interesting to see how many repairs over repairs the Mini has - most people are too dumb to cut the rot out first, then wonder why it rotted away again in 18months. You might be suprised and find they cut the rot out first - rare on a car with underseal used to hide rot. I'm keen to see - I love judging the bodges people do on cars - so I can question their family lineage. As for the all-agro - check out RetroPerformance - they are doing two spicey ones - their workmanship is top shelf. Superb entertainment as always fellas, looking forwards to this series.

Shedfest was the worst thing I have ever seen organised #shitfest 3hours to park 30 mins to get in 1 hour for a drink never again money grabbing ticket sales no staff joke never again shame love you guys

Shedfest was a complete nightmare!!! 3 hours of queuing in the traffic chaos. Really appalling planning 😡

I can't believe I slept on this channel so long. I've been spending the last few days watching (nearly) all the old videos, and it's been great!

Sick car mate.... Can I get the £40 back for my shed fest tickets please? Spent 3.5hrs trying to get there after all! Much love 😘 P.S. that guy from petrol.hedonism shouldn't be allowed to do traffic control or social media stuff 🤣🤣🤣

That's a classic example of someone putting oversills on and not treating the rust underneath, it just silently rots the floor out of sight. My Mini is nowhere near that bad (is road legal and young enough to still need an MOT) and I've had quotes of £13-15k just to de-rust and paint the shell! That Mini needs a lot of work to be safe, that shell is almost as bad despite appearances as the firewall is rotten. Sell the Mini on Taylor (it's worth around £1500 for the engine and drivetrain) and take the Allegro.

I was looking for a classic mini myself and actually saw this on facebook a few months ago, I am so happy i had self control that day and passed 😂

Loving the Quantum! My dad had a H4 in the late 90s

Rory is never gonna live this down is he? 😂

I'll admit Andy was a really good swindler! He even started showing more corroded areas since he knew the deal was closed. Aside from the frame swap idea (if you are even able to find a clean Mini shell without rust), the other option is to sell it as parts, I'm sure you will be able to gather together at least £2000 from all the parts that aren't rusty.

Im not sure why Taylor is saying he was done. He had all time to do these checks, knew it was rusty and said himself it was cheapest in UK.

I can’t believe it’s been two years! It’s been an absolute treat to watch the channel grow, as well as seeing you boys having an absolute blast. Cheers to many more years!

Rain started to drop and the new video came out, ideal.

12:15 I though you will crape that car with a gate lol, Jesus how close that is :d

You know its wrong alex, the ones who couldn't get in today deserve full refunds! It was over sold. We sat in traffic for hours and had to leave because of hunger!

I Really Enjoy your videos cant wait for this series

Engine from the mini should slot into that allergo nicely…just a idea

Thank you soo much! This is the video I’ve been waiting for. Love, love, LOVE the classic mini. One day I’ll get another one. Great series guys, really looking forward to this one ❤✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻

Mini supercharged drivetrain + Allegro + sporty upgrades = a fun project. You can then do a road trip to Ireland to see that bonkers project putting a Metro bodyshell onto a Boxster chassis.

Holy shit already been 2 years... Still remember your first video like it was last week :D

Heritage body shell? If not, bring it to Norway, I'll weld it - not very well, but I'll give it a go...

My mums first car was an allegro 1.3 in Brazil (metallic brown) with a brown vinyl interior, it apparently drunk oil like a Glaswegian

16:45 “That’s flex” he said as the whole side skirt disconnected from the car. 😂

This entire episode is giving me flashbacks to when I wasted £1K+ on a 1966 MG Midget back in 1983 which turned out to be bodged and under sealed over rust. The rear suspension mounts collapsed after I’d had it for around 6 months and I couldn’t find anyone who was willing to weld it as there was. Toning left to weld to. I sold it as a breaker for £100 and went careless while I paid off the bank loan on it. Lesson learned. Always take a rubber mallet and a magnet to any car inspection 🙈

That Quantum 2+2 also in green, looks lovely! And rare! 😍

Stuck in traffic for shedfest. Absolute f**king joke

Classic car content, that sounds brilliant 😁 cant wait

Buy a Celica GT4 and swap all the bits in. A moment’s work.

Andy must be laughing hard watching this 😂😂😂❤❤❤

Great number plate on the allegro 1:09

12:32 - That Mini S owner has one of those Kit Cars based on a Ford Fiesta! 🤔😏👍 😎🇬🇧

I've got a feeling that supercharged a series is going to go in the allegro, I reckon that was the plan all along anyway 😎👀

Andy must have been laughing his ass off that he managed to sell that rust bucket for £2.5k. 💸💸💸

Put the supercharged motor in the Allegro. Be hilarious! 😂👌

Hilarious, blokes! Laughed all the way through that 😂

Andy can spend most of that £2500 repainting the front of his other car caused by someone bouncing a gate against it………

Maybe put the mini drivetrain into Allegro and do some weight reduction of that's possible ig

I can’t believe it’s been two years! Felt like a fever dream and had to slap myself when I heard two years! Absolutely flying lads keep it all up

Ahhh that's classic mini rust. It's had corners cut like they all did to keep them on the road. Oversills, fiberglass, paper 😂 just like mine. Good thing id , complete sills, floors and any panel you could ever need are readily available from a variety of suppliers. Just get the sparkle spanner out and crack on boys.

Am I the only one who was not surprised by the actual state of it? Was extremely obvious before they even bought it that it was a complete rust pit that was painted over, stuffed up, and never once repaired properly anywhere.

Not Alex scratching the sellers other car at 12:30 with him wobbling the fence 😂😅😂😅

Mini Solution - weld the doors closed for some extra rigidity and weld some angle iron along the sills. Job done. Enjoy watching Taylor trying to in and out via a window.

How could you not talk about the Quantum 2+2, a crazy and super rare two car green pairing!! I am mid 30’s and have a cheap red MGb roadster, I love it!!

Buy some heritage panels (floorpan, sills), someone will weld 'em in for you.

Next week, Taylor sweeps his new project into a bucket, drops the supercharger in the top - done!

Great video Love the Allegro looks very original, the Mini look Awesome but on closer inspection 😢. Look forward to the next episode 👍🏻.

Transplant the Mini powertrain into the Allegro, do a proper job of tidying it up and DO NOT damage it - it is a survivor that deserves to have a future, and not be trashed like most idiots manage to do. Taylor - you KNOW it is the right thing to do.

should've got a Lada Niva

As the owner of a British racing Green (with white roof) mini I approve of this video very much. All the panels including a complete new shell are available to buy

I love this challenge already!

Supercharger that Allegro 💪

I’m sure you can afford a new shell from the oversold shedfest tickets fiasco 🤬

Oooh, a British classic? Lovely jubbly!

Really looking forward to this series

When Alex’s fist disappeared into a hole at the back of Taylor’s Mini I just laughed 😂

Any announcement on the farce of shedfest? Looking likely over a 1000 people never made it into the event with 1000s more only able to see the last hours of it. Love the channel and all that you do but come on do what’s right please. People had kids in their cars for 3 to 4 hours queuing after hours of driving to get there.

i am loving the old top gear chalanges vibe.

I own three classic mini's, my turbocharged one was a nut and bolt restoration and has 155hp. It might not be the fastest thing on the road but it is definitely the most fun!

Hey guys I'm a long time (ct days) watcher but never comment. Just need to say love the work you guys do and my days are always better when you've uploaded. Keep smashing it, hopefully some much needed love if you come across this!

My Dad had an Allegro, the suspesion collapsed in Girvan and it overheated on the Broomielaw. 😂

Alex beating all the old farts out of the seats with a shirt over his face while the Gears and Gasoline guys wore hazmat suits to clean their RX8 😂

Alex - "Are you sad to see it go? Andy - "No 😂" That should of been the tell for me right away haha

That's actually not a bad Mini shell for it's age. You can get all the pieces to weld in, they were made like a jigsaw and spot welded together, it's nowhere near as bad as you're thinking! Find a Mini specialist and they'll get that back roadworthy in no time :)

I'm 1 minute in and you've brought on my second ever car at 18 years old a pretty much exact replica of it "WUP 846R" but mine had headrests, I loved that car, burned oil like nobody's business but I agree with the "your Gran" comments 😂. Slate me all ya want, I don't give a 💩, I loved my Allegro!!

I’ve been waiting for a classic Mini. Excellent Video 👏

Ahhh, memories - Allegros used to suffer a blocked fuel tank breather, resulting in the tank imploding, and if that didn’t send it to the scrap, jacking up one rear corner often caused the rear window to pop out 😂

This was my dads car the guys where like a bunch of kids with excitement, they knew what they was getting before buying, obviously, my dad was pissing himself watching it back , they was all over his quantum aswell 😂

Alex getting his revenge with the screwdriver this time

pls i beg you guys take the allegro to the nurburgring lmfao imagine it 5 guys and misha behind the wheel 🤣

Hi Taylor, there was a 1750 cc powered Allegro which you might consider or the Crayford convertible which means a lot of rear bodywork strengthening if you intend to chop the roof off. There's always the Vandan Plas with the 1500cc engine.

Take the engine out and put it in the allegro.Always wanted to see someone do one of them up