Only 4 Days To MOT This Parked Up Vauxhall Frontera V6 And Drive It 100 Miles! 

That bloke in the TR6 said “Blimey! There’s a Frontera coming the other way. You don’t see many of those nowadays “

"Batt'ry's insecure, better give it some therapy" proceeds to waterboard it in stagnant washer liquid.. Big admirer of your methods Ben, good on ya!

That moment, when you crack a beer on a Friday evening, after a long week at work and you’ve finally got the kids in bed, and then realise you’ve got a 80+ minute Tasty Classics video to enjoy…bliss! 🍻 🍻

Wasn't that bothered if i watched this episode or not. But im so glad i did. That old vauxhall came out really nice. It does look like it was someone's pride & joy for a long time. Just hope it goes to a good home. Another great save. Respect to you, sir.

Reminds me of very happy times in the late '60's when I painted my £65 A35 with paint from dad's shed and made a floor pan from an old tea tray and tinkered about with the points,tappets,brakes and filled the dashpot with 3 in 1. Now just stirring my tea with my old screwdiver! Thanks,Ben.

Excellent ❤ A sunny Friday evening, beer in the garden and Tasty Classics. Get in 💪

My new friday ritual, food drink and some adult treats and a Tasty Classics video to chill out to 👍

The Frontera was built in Luton - that Isuzu 3.2 V6 was the engine they used for the Opel Calibra Super touring car (tuned up). Honda also sold the Frontera in the states as the Honda Passport

Yet another fantastic video Ben. I can already preempt your professionalism way before I even start to watch you. How on earth did you learn so many skills I’ll never know. I can guarantee that you don’t ever try to be somebody you aren’t just for your videos and actually the person you portray is how you are everyday. You must be really proud of yourself when you watch yourself back in the knowledge that you make a lot of people happy who may not have the best of lives or who don’t have any family. You certainly give me something to look forward to and I get ridiculously excited as soon as I get notified you’ve created another video. I love being a patriot of yours it’s a wonderful feeling to just do a little bit to aid your growth. You’re gonna be huge make no mistake. Thank you for what you do.

Glad you saved it job well done

I’ve been patiently waiting for the Friday video 🤣🤣🤣 can’t wait for a good spend of my night ! Love it Ben 👍👍

@ 40-42 was that fudgy from 6d diesels spying on your capri for parts for his own rebuild 🤣

Friday, weekend, and this Nice

Before we all got posh with BMWs and Mercedes we all had Vauxhall and Ford cars,I love it and actually ahead of it’s time- everyone drives SUVs these days

This is much more than a car channel, Ben. A thoroughly enjoyable watch.

Friday evening and a feel good video from Tasty classics. Thank you. 🤗

Great episode as always......and it was very kind of alan to send the box of goodies 👍

"You dont remember me do you" is the my least favourite phrase when returning to the pub!

Another fantastic video look forward to Friday night viewing

Always liked these Fronteras, great to see this one saved and back on the road! Think you should put a picture of those brakes in the joke book tho, have people laughing for hours😂 Nice job Ben 👍

@27:00 that combined drum/disc brake is cool...whoever came up with that concept did some lateral thinking ! 👍

So glad this failed to sell on eBay and decided to get it up and running. I had one for 5 years and it was a beast. If you pull the key fob apart and put some tin foil between the battery and the contact, it will solve your starting issue. It's a common fault. There is a button on your dash, to the left of the wheel, has four wheels and a drive shaft on it. Press that with wheels straight ahead and you can engage low and high range 4WD.

The old frontera is a good old 90’s bus. Well done Ben.

Hey Ben - it’s an Isuzu! Please could you add a playlist of all the great music you have as a soundtrack to some of these vids? Thanks Richard

came for the capri .. stayed for the excellent content and the laughter - cheers

That’s now one fine family bus put back on the road. Top work, Ben. 👍🏻

Ah, okay, now I understand it, after watching all the way to the end. Yes, we got both the Opel Frontera and the Isuzu Trooper. While they certainly had a lot in common, if you scratched the surface, much like badge engineered VW/Audi/SEAT/Skoda products, they were very different from the original buyer’s perspective. Completely different front end treatment and sufficient differences inside to know what you were sitting in. They appealed to different demographics. They also suffered from vastly different depreciation rates. The Opels fell off a cliff, once you took them off the forecourt and kept right on falling, to such an extent that almost none survived their banger years. Many were broken to keep Isuzus on the road. By contrast, the Isuzu was quick to acquire a cult status, much like the Pajero/Shogun. They held their value well and several early ones are now cherished classics.

Well done Ben, another one rescued

Brilliant episode Ben that box of goodies from Alan and his lad was nice love the videos mate

The old Corsa 'C' is so basic ,but such good fun to drive . The Fontara look almost classic in it's own right. Well done man. I omitted to comment on the Capri...had to away at the end of vid....but, sincere nice one for that ,it really pulled together nicely, the new engine is a must for that....brilliant. [Where do cars go to the toilet??......in the Bath..vroom !!😂😂] 👍👍

I love Vauxhall's i had a Carlton 18 TC in the colour gold, electric windows drove like a tank nice car.

Hi Ben, always look forward to your videos on a Friday night, and as a life long Vauxhall enthusiast I especially enjoyed this weeks episode. Why are Vauxhalls so overlooked as a modern classic, I love my 2.5 V6 GSi Vectra, keep up the good work mate, all the best, Neil

Nice one, great watch and lovely to see the old Fronty surviving. I liked my 3.2 V6 and you made me want another one now! They were made in Luton, same as me.

Evening Ben , your content makes an old man very happy 😃 and also the music choices you play …… brilliant keep it coming young man , here’s to many more .

Nothing beats watching this ivideo enjoying some cold cans of IPA - Ben you truly are the Chesire Derek Bierey! The surname fits you as you certainly love your beer!

Hi , since you’re handy with your multimeter, you can test the resistance of each abs sensor looking for around 1k or thereabouts. If this doesn’t isolate the culpruit it may be a corroded dirty or broken reluctor ring which isn’t being read properly by a wheel sensor. You can also check the output of each on an oscilloscope on a vehicle of that age as the sensors will be self-inducing and give you a good signal if they’re working properly. Hope this helps. Enjoying your adventures.

I used to work at IBC vehicles in Luton where we made these 🤓 ! Back in the day Vauxhall was next door making Vectras ! Loved seeing you bring this back to life 👍🏻, the V6 was a lovely smooth drive, and loved driving them around on overtime getting them ready for shipping when these were just being released, great video again Ben 👍🏻

What a cracking motor, well done you for saving it.

Good that it didn't turn out a Izuzu Fron'tear'a and it got back on the road. Nice to see one again. Enjoy the vino - hope it lasts the weekend.

great to see the frontera back in action again, Id have been temped to spray underneath with the Schutz, just to finish that off.

Nice car and nice episode !! Love to see this beauty back on the road again ! Who ever is buying this car is a lucky Devil !!!! Keep making more of these great restorations of old but still beautiful cars !!! Thanks for sharing !

I love my Vauxhall's, old and new. The reason i didnt buy it off ebay was 2 main factors. 1, i didn't have the money to buy it, 2, if i did have the cash to buy it, i wouldn't have the money to fix it up. I would have used it for my RU-vid hobby as the towbar would have been a great addition. Keep up the great work and look forward to the next project. P.S., if your thinking of donating free please consider me 😂😂.

Brought back memories of the late 80s when I bought one brand new on the Caribbean island of Anguilla. It was the ISUZU AMIGO and was a convertible...an amazing little car! Later Isuzu did a deal with Vauxhall to supply these and badged it the Frontera. Great video...hope someone buys it. ❤

I think you have single handedly raised the Vauxhall Frontera profile up to a potentially cool modern classic choice .

Love these old buses. Over an hour long?? Yes please! ❤

I have always loved the frontera's

Why not raffle it? Donate a percentage to your favourite charity and use the rest to buy another project.

Joint project developed by GM, Isuzu and Honda, the Frontera came as the Vauxhall Frontera, Isuzu Amigo, Holden Frontera or Honda Passport. Honda V6 petrol or Isuzu diesel, GM assembled.

Top tip for you with plastic bumpers. Teak oil with a microfibre cloth. Just wipe in one direction with a liberal bit of teak oil on the cloth. Lasts bloody ages, doesn't streak when rains. Be mindful not to get it on your paintwork directly. Got mine in b&m, was about £2 for 250ml. Better than back to black etc and 1/4 of the price. Love the videos

Weekend is saved again, great car and video, another car saved😎🔥

I do love a Frontera. I had one many years ago.

Hello from Florida. We know about auto a/c. It's life and sweaty death here. First get a new cabin air filter (if equiped). Less Legionaires disease. Outside air setting can flush the Vesuvious heat from a freshly parked vehicle after starting off but only for a minute or so. I always drop the front windows about halfway for a city block or two. Then set to recirculate. (the circley arrow label) You want to re-cool what you've already spent fuel cooling...not hot outside air...might as well leave the window down. 🙂It was 100 here last week, all week. Love the show sir.

your definitely dad material. strong, handsome, and an insane ability to fuck eveything up ! Briliant. Keep it up Ben !

another tasty classic brought back to life vauxhall frontier I've had vauxhalls for nearly 30 years i've tried changing it and it's never worked out my old Vauxhalls ran at 85 to 90° whatever the weather never overheating and just as a footnote vauxhall is part of the PSA group which is the ninth biggest automobiles maker in the world like 90% of vehicles on the road today they're all part of a group

Have been involved with these vehicles for many years and can say that they are very capable on and off road. Our understanding is that they originate as a Opel product in conjunction with Isuzu imported in bits and assembled in Luton hence the Vauxhall badging. Your ABS problem is likely to be a wheel sensor and the item is obsolete and unobtainable. You can use a Mazda 6 item with abit of re-wiring to configure it

Another one rescue nice one. I was a steel worker always got iron splashing when using oxycuting torch the works keep up great vlog 👍

my mates neighbour worked for vauxhall,he knocked the door one dark night and chucked the keys to one of those at us,said right lads its a test car with any driver insurance and a full tank of fuel,enjoy your selves,i think we ploughed a few fields that night

If the ABS light goes out but comes on when you go over 30 mph, it usually points to a problem with reading speed from one or more of the wheels, ABS only works above 30-35 mph.

Great vid ben,boy can you weld.clever man.love your vids ,my wife enjoys watching.grèat job ben.regards alan❤❤ n suzy

Greetings from west Australia. Been here for 30 years miss a rusted cill and a seized calliper. Jus won’t rain ouf here. Great vid viewed with a few cans of IPA. Nice way to spend an evening.

RU-vid Gold Ben. Awesome video

Wasn't expecting a video on the Frontera but I loved it! A wild card thrown in there!! ❤ Great watch and I'm glad you've made something usable out of it. Keep um coming Ben 😁

Hey Ben, Another great fun Tasty Classics video. Fantastic turn around of the Frontera it looks fabulous. Looking forward to your next video. 🍷🍺🔧🔨🚘

Cheers from the U.S.!!!! I'm relatively new to your channel,but I absolutely love every episode! Kind of like Practical Classics in video form! Aces! I would love to order merch,but shipping costs are probably prohibitive. Great content,keep up the great work and I love every episode! Currently wading through the Panhard playlist! Good luck with that! I love the variety of cars as well! Cheers Ben!!!

i had a few frontys, the 3.2 are proper guzzlers. I preferred the 2.2 with the bull bar and steps, really made.it.look better. Great video as always 👍

Good Evening Ben. I am really Glad i waited for this Excellent Production, of You giving this Beautiful Classic Vauxhall Frontera 3.2 V6. I really Enjoyed seeing your Fabrication, Welding, taking her out for a Well Earnt Road Trip. I really did like the footage of you visiting the Wine Merchants and the Gorgeous Record Shop. This is what i really Love about your Channel Ben. Giving her a very Good and Thorough Wash and Hose down. She looks Incredible as she Shines in the Summer Sun. She is Absolutely the Perfect Summer Road Trip Companion for You Ben. What a very Kind and Thoughtful Gentleman to send that Beautiful Gift of Goodies. I really Loved seeing the Panhard Key Ring. The Brand new Endescope should very Interesting, looking at all sorts ehh Ben. Thank you very much Ben. Have a Fantastic Weekend, Enjoy a few glasses of that Top Class Wine. Cheers. Jonathan.

Really pleased you finished this one off.

Always look forward to your vids ……. Keep it up 🎉

Loved my Frontera B's had 2 both DTI models, slow but very good cars. Only sold the last one as I had a baby son and wanted the isofix and better safety in general.

I had a Frontera from work in the mi 90’s for a while great car to drive it was a diesel one though but fun anyway, great channel Ben loving the content and I’m looking forward to more old car shenanigans. Cheers

I own 2 vauxhalls 1)is my trusted Astra 1.7 dti (isuzu engined ) van that iv owned for 14 years. And 2 is my Calibra 2litre 16v which iv owned 7 years. Owned my first Calibra in 1995 Before that i was a ford man , and owned Many Capri, Cortina, Escort

Love watching these videos your work process is just the best, bringing old cars back to life keep up the good work ,look forward to watching more .

Thanks Ben lovely sunny day and nice feeling from that video, really enjoyed watching.

I am a vinyl dj and a classic car nut ... love this

In Australia it's a Holden Frontera, but it's still an Isuzu under the rebadging program operated by general motors.

Love it, I had an S reg 2.2dti frontera and I loved it mine was an ex Scottish police motor it white.

A Tasty Classics video always cheers me up.

I used to like these cars back in the day

It's turned out really good it's good to see one in the Rd

I remember the Frontera coming onto the market. I liked its looks then, and still do - haven't seen one in the flesh for many years. Good job I don't live in the UK these days, or I'd have had it from you...

The song from 1:04:17 is Sway Together by Hannah Juanita

Grate video ben love the vauxhalls Just after adding a opel manta 1977 to my colection that's been sitting in a shead since 92 but love the videos keep up the grate videos looking forward to the next one 👍

Great watch love it.

I think we can all agree the new borescope should be called Alan's endoscope when used.

This car is amazing, I love it

I bought a Frontera Sport not long after they came out. It was a great thing and I sold it two years later for the same price I paid for it. Oh, and I replaced it with an Isuzu Trooper.

Yet Another great episode. My brother gave me his old iPad. Now watching on a larger screen. 🎉

You could do a resistance check on the a b s sensors to see if theres any readings?

Good to see it back on the road. Whenever I see 90s cars like that, makes me wish I'd kept my 1999 Mk IV Golf. Had that until I traded it in back in 2012, most likely cubed by now :-(

Glad you saved it :)

ABS sounds like it could be a reluctor ring broken and rotating when moving giving a false reading. Basically gets rust between the CV joint and the ring making it snap so it can expand when spun quickly. Should be able to visually inspect. and see if you can push one round with a screwdriver and hammer. Good luck!!

Sorry ignore last comment about air conditioning working 😂, only just managed to watch the video today, been busy fixing my own , car , motorcycle, and push bike lol , great video enjoyed it Ben 😊👍

Great video Ben . Nice to see the Frontera finally get on the road. I always look forward to your videos . Can’t wait for your new video in wales. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

If it has electronic milage counter then keep hold of the trip rest button while you turn ignition on it will give you any code it has

You've had me fascinated again, from start to end and every episode is a blessing while our lass is watching her soap c**p again. As for Vauxhall's, I spend way too much money on our 2004 Zafira because it's a godsend carting grandchildren around and taking detritus to the tip!!!

Nice one fella.... End of speed ctr magnet will be covered in old brake wear. Clean and might clear abs fault.... Tidy vid fella.... Cardiff boy here. Enjoy wales visit...

Great song 👍🏻

i like the 2 door frontera this is the first 4 door one i've seen .if it hadn't needed welding i might have taken a bus all that way down to buy it at close to 500 quid.

great vid ben looking forward to the next instalment keep it up

Awesome channel. Such a varied collection of resurrections. Friday evenings have some purpose again.