Reliant Rebel First Start, Pete C Interview - Classic Car & Restoration Show Pt2 

Cheers for the love for my Sprinter Carib, it was my first time as an exhibitor and I was surprised how much attention it got. If you're ever up in the North East you're welcome to have a go.

Really enjoyed that. Loved the life of Brian references.

I would love to have a Saab 96. Too many nice cars to comment on, thanks for showing us all the beautiful eye candy. 🙏🏻👏👏👏👏

Totally agree with you regarding young folks with old cars. I don't even mind when I see kids "blinging" their cars with Halfords tat because at least it means they've got some interest in working on cars and, out of every ten who slap on fake bonnet vents and caliper covers, there'll be a couple who decide to fit an induction kit and one who decides to take his engine to bits (probably breaking it in the process) and ends up getting properly into car repair.

Hello Ian, thanks for the great walkabout. Glad you caught up with Pete and James (Nitrosilvia). I had a great time chatting to them and with you. I hope I didn't make too much of a nuisance of myself. All the best, Mart in Solihull.

It's great to see my dad's Ital camper at the end of the video! To clarify though, it's not actually a Sun Tor, it's a Brownhills conversion. One of only 6 made and quite possibly the only one left. Edit: It's a Brownhills conversion. I misheard it as Brownell's.

Great video as always, Ian. I'm just to where you find the row of American cars. I will try to give you details. Lime Green Mustang is a 72 Mach 1 Sport Back, and most likely has a 351 V8 (5.8 litre) "Cleveland" engine. Cleveland, Ohio is where the foundry and factory where the engine was built are located. That colour was, I believe called "Grabber Green" and was an extra cost high impact paint. Next to it is a 1973 Ford Gran Torino wagon. Not a Squire, as no wood grain. The engine from the factory could have been anything from a 302 (5 Litre) Windsor V8 through the 351 Cleveland, to the 385 block displacing as much as 460 cid in a mid-sized wagon. This one would haul anything as quickly as you wanted. The white with stripes is a 1970 Mustang GT 2+2 with non-standard stripes. The scoop in the hood indicates it may have a 385 block V8 displacing 429 cid in Cobra Jet form. Yes, that white one is a Pontiac Firebird Trans Am. Looks to be a fairly late generation 3 car, so early 90s is my guess. The red Falcon convertible is a 65/66 and looks to have the Sprint option package. A Mustang in everything but name, it is mechanically identical to the same year Mustang with different body panels. Next to the Thunderbird is a 64 Chevrolet Impala SS. Under the bonnet could be anything from a 250cid inline 6 to a 409cid V8. In between there was a pair of 283cid V8s and a pair of 327 V8s. Transmissions could 3 speed column shift, 4 speed floor shift, and 2 speed Powerglide automatic. The Powerglide was available with all engines. I believe the 3 speed manual was standard across the board, with the 4 speed available in some body styles and with certain engines. The green Volvo Estate appears to be a 72 145S. 1 Series platform, 4 cylinder engine, 5 door (wagon) body. The S mean a 1.8 litre engine with dual side draught carburetors. Depending on the market and local regs, carbs could be Zenith or Stromberg. I have to say I would about kill to get to a show like that one.

I always love it when you and Matt pop up in each other's videos.

Brilliant as ever and always nice to see Pete C too. It was you driving his yellow Cortina that introduced me to his channel

Pete C is amazing! That new project is probably just a weekends work for him!

Youngsters like their 'slammage' That's because they can still get in and out of them! Great tour. Thanks Ian.

It was an excellent show, first time visit for me but hopefully not the last. A pleasure to meet you again Ian 👍

Half of these cars I last saw at the motorshow when they were new! Makes me feel old to see 90's cars entering the collectable phase.

Nice job. Good to see project Bramble and PeteC too not forgetting Papa the bench seat mk3👍😊

Thank you Mr HubNut, wonderful report, so much to see👍

Great tour video and your knowledge of weird facts is up with the best. BTW the '4' in the 145 Volvo indicates the number of cylinders

Definitely an interesting show, my favourite was the Jowett Bradford ice cream van

Love your videos from shows Ian, I really feel like I’ve visited the show so thank you for that. I hope your holding up well, take care 👍

Great show, 2 things important about it, first is people tinkering on site and sharing knowledge and helping out, second is encouraging young people to tinker with what they've got. I mean it's how we started (buying s/hand bits from scrap yards as it was all we could afford)

So many memories of cars of my youth and early adulthood. One of my favourites was the Hillman Imp that I paid £130 for with one years MOT. I had it for several years, after which my dad ran it for many more before it finally gave up. Now thats what I call value for money 😀 Thanks for this video and thoroughly enjoyed watching and look forward to the Imp review 👍👍👍.

A friend of mine had one of those holdens but to be fair he has emigrated to Australia. 👍👍

The Jowitt javelin Must’ve been well build cars I started 1977 and there was still a few left on the road I had the pleasure of driving one absolutely brilliant

Thank you Ian for another classic car show video. It was nice to see how many cars that I can remember from my childhood. It is nice to hear that the younger generation are getting involved with classic cars as well.

Another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts

Just found you. Thanks for excellent channel! So good to see that there are people prepared to spend a fortune on the restoration of these classic vehicles and only receive appreciation rather than £s as a profit.

A great selection of cars. I think the Saab stand would be my favourite (that red Saab 900 Turbo 😍) but the selection of cars in the auction looked stunning. Great to see Pete C too...what a nice chap! Great stuff 👍

I've been following this Reliant rebuild on here, thanks for the update .

Great work HubNut. Thanks.

Those Simcas brought back memories, my first car was a simca 1100 pickup 👍 good times

Another fantastic video, Mr Hubnut! Thanks for these wonderful tours ;)

My first memory of vehicle was a Jowett Bradford van my father owned. Green in colour. We were going on holiday and dad stopped on a hill and had trouble starting.. Not sure if it overheated maybe fuel evaporation. I was only 3 yrs old. It was the start of my love of cars. Now my current baby is a 2003 Bentley Arnage. Love to watch your videos and the Aussie/NZ ones were great as Aus has been my home for over 40yrs. Also have a 98 Ford AU Fairmont hearse..

Fantastic video. My favourites are the Simca coupé and the Volvo 145.

loved that felt like i was there !

Memories of my dad's M-reg Marina 1.3 "deluxe" in teal blue and (horribly sun faded) cream vinyl roof. UPG512M. Crazy I can still remember that. Bet it's been in car heaven a long long time 😞

Thank you for your tour, what a brilliant range of classics! Good to see the Maxi at the end, saved the best till last Ian!

Another enjoyable upload so many interesting cars on display thanks for sharing 👍👍👍

Marvellous!

Incredibly knowledgeable as ever, must try to get to this show next year

Thanks for the second walk! My favorites this time: the SIMCA stand and the Cortina City man. Very sympathic. I hope that I can go to the Retro Classic in Stuttgart in 4 weeks... Take care, cheers --- Martin

Glad you touched on the Jowett Ian, I live 5 miles from the factory site now a Morrisons supermarket. As a nod to Jowett they have enlarged photos of the factory interior and assembly lines dotted around the store. If I'm correct, the Jupiter was entirely built in house but the other models bodies built at Briggs in Doncaster ,who as you rightly say bought by Ford and destroyed the press dies.

Would love to see you test drive Bramble as you did with Ruby. It is because of your feature of Ruby that I started following Pete C on his channel! Cannot wait to see what progress was made on Foxann!

The FIAT stand reminded me, I was out and about for work the other day and saw a Niki 650, aka the Polski FIAT. I remember them being sold new here in Australia in the late 80's/early 90's. I also remember the salesman proudly boasting that they were capable of 120kph downhill. Sadly or happily they have nearly completely disappeared from the roads around here.

Excellent coverage. Thanks Ian

Brilliant video Ian 👍 awesome cars

Some great cars my favourite must been the white capri in the auction keep up the great content

Another great video, that sierra xr4i you were talking about was bought from Laidlaw's Ford in Edinburgh 5 mins from my house, unfortunately the garage is no more it closed in the pandemic, it was a Ford dealer for many a year, before it became Brammals Laidlaw and then Evans Halshaw ford and a Evans Halshaw car store.

Great review Ian, thank you. Got to do this Show next year.

Imp van, haven't seen one for years. And the Jowett Jupiter, one of the best looking British sports cars ever.

Pink Holden Torana GTR XU1 at 1:46. Colour was called Strike Me Pink as was the jokey colour names around this era for US and Australian performance cars in this era. The price was a bargain, go for much higher prices in Australia. Six cylinder triple carb 3.3 litre with 185hp off the showroom floor in a car developed from the HB Vauxhall Viva. Won the Bathurst 500 mile race in 1972 with Peter Brock driving against 5.7 litre V8 Falcons. The GTS Commodore seems a bargain too

A great round up. Fun to see some of the things I really enjoyed as well as some that I seem to have accidentally missed. What this further does is to strengthen the case for a Hubnut Scottish Social - You can see your mate Nick - You could come to the Grampian Transport Museum which as well as many quirky classics has some quality moderns including EVs and a hydrogen bus. - You can take Miss Hubnut to Scotland for the first time - You can take Betty even more global - If you want to do an Imp feature you can go to.the remains of the factory at Linwood (no more) - You can sample the most amazing donuts known to man - You can compare its driving roads to your Welsh faves

Great video and lots of lovely car’s Ian 🚗🚙🚘🚘👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

I remember seeing that green Jowett Javelin raced around Castle Combe Race Circuit for the Autumn Classic event in 2019

Excellent report Ian.

For as long as I remember, I thought Bergerac drove a Morgan of some sort. I was a small boy when it ran in Finland in the late eighties/early nineties. It never reran here. Thanks, Ian!

So finally, you have seen the mighty Velorex, the brother of your Invacar! There is a channel on RU-vid of a guy who has several of them and runs them like crazy.

Nice 👍

Great vid again. Your voice holds up well

Tremendous 😍

A great part two, very enjoyable.👍 Pete has some real skills, shame you bottle them I'd buy a crate full.

Good show!

Velorex are still in business, though better known as a sidecar manufacturer. I have a 1990 Velorex 710 sidecar sat in my back garden. Production of the "Oskar"3 wheeler cyclecar ended in 1971. Spares support is better than excellent, due to the comprehensive use of the globally popular Jawa & CZ motorcycle running gear & powerplants. Brand new crankshafts, piston, CDI / alternator upgrades, etc. are readily available for all Jawa motorcycles, purveyed by a host of 3rd party manufacturers. EBC even make ceramic brake shoe for Jawa & CZ motorcycles. All Jawa & CZ engines are the easiest to rebuild, being very novice friendly. Everything is, "Ah, I understand how this works", helpful.

I have noticed that all the cars that attract Hubnut look just like the ice cream choices at the seaside🙂

The distraction of the SD1's headlamp wipers also made me notice the blue SD1 beside it, the 2L one my dad had back in the 90s was that shade of blue, a comfy car, just riddled with problems like rot and electrical infidelities...

You were doing OK Ian, until you came to the Marina stand. I had the misfortune to drive an X reg 1.7L Ital estate, in the same cream colour as the saloon featured on the stand. Fortunately the one I drove was a company car, I wasn't paying for it. I was a water treatment engineer and had the vehicle for just over 2 years, November 1982 to February 1985, during that time the vehicle covered around 55,000 miles, travelling all over the country. I left the company due to a dispute over them cutting my wages, but during my period of notice, the crown wheel on the back axle suddenly gave up the ghost and was taken in for repair. The last time I drove it was to my solicitor's office in Bury, where, due to a financial dispute, my former employers had paid funds into the solicitor's account, in order to get their vehicle back, as they were terrible at paying monies owed. Two months later, I got a phone call from the garage demanding payment for the repairs, by then I'd left the company , so it wasn't my problem. I was without a company car for the next two years, so I went back to driving my trusty old R Reg Mk IV 1.6L Cortina. Although made in 1976, it was a far better car than my 1982 X reg Ital Estate, in virtually every respect. It merely illustrated that by the early 1980s, with the Ital, Allegro and Maxi still in production, how far British Leyland had fallen behind the competition, especially Ford.

Really liked that purple Escort. Very Max Power but unlike most cars of that time that had similar work done, it doesn't look like a shed now.

Those Imps have quite a few styling ques from Corvairs , interesting

My dad used to love bench seats i think the last car he had with one Fitted was a Vauxhall Victor FD..👍👍

The blue escort with body kit on is famous car called Big Cab 😎

AY UP MR HUBNUT

Thanks for the usual nice video. I would also very much like you to drive a Velorex.

Ian,I think you'll find that DVLA issue imported cars plates relating to the year of first registration, not when they are imported.

I thought I knew of all the models Reliant made, never heard or seen the Rebel before :)

Yes you are right you really need to do an Imp please

Ian, I've chatted to you on Facebook but my brother has a Hillman Imp Californian near St Davids. When we meet up this summer I'm sure he will let you do a video on it :D

Note @2:57 the SAAB 96..Their 2 strokers were SAAB's own in house engine design, that car, based on the turn signals is a 1965. Their engines are based loosely on the old DKW engines, but they are better engineered. Slanted over at 60 degrees to the left, with an integral water pump/housing built into the engine head and a Bosch distributor with vacuum and flyweight advance, they are better than the DKW in how the SAAB engines drive, which the DKW had fixed ignition timing.

The white Pontiac at 4:51 is a Fiero, a mid-engined 80s designed car.

Ian great walkaround there were three things that l liked firstly the Holdens the Torana and the Comadore good to see them the Simca when l much younger they were everywhere in Dubbo NSW but l have not seen one in many many years and the Toyota stand all the reliability you want hopefully more classic Toyotas next year just another thing it would be great to see Betty lined up next to the Comadore the Torana and also the Chrysler Valiant that would something to see

Fantastic as allways, keep it up, did i see foxanne in the background with part of the front off

Purple TWC Hoodie arrived today.........it looks smashing........first oil stains will be on it shortly, probably around the cuffs

The community should encourage more women to engage in restoring cars! It's almost men only job, which is a pity. And they are physically more capable to work on cars, because of their smaller hands😊

Were those Merc Baroque alloys on the Blue HiAce van?

A pchooooh on a Maxi, you star 🌟🤣👍👍👍

I never knew Ford made a 2 door GXL Mk III Cortina, I thought they were all 4 door. I had a more humble 1600L, 4 door saloon, K reg, in Monza blue, The garage I bought it from in Manchester had just sold a 1600XL K reg in Saluki Bronze (?) that I'd originally come to see. I think that's the same or similar colour to the British Guyana Cortina (one of my mates is from there, it's just off the north coast of South America)

Those Volvo 400 saloons look more like an afterthought design than most others I can think of. They look as if the designer just rubbed out the hatchback and drew a boot on the back.

See the Gilbern. Love these cars

26:28 When I was a kid there was a Toyota dealer in the main road round the corner from us. I was walking past one day with my mum and they had one of those camper vans at the front of the showroom. My mum popped in and asked how much it was and the salesman told her it was £4000 which she thought was too expensive. This was probably about 76/77. Strange how insignificant little snippets like that can stay with you for nearly half a century. I even remember that it was white.

The middle digit on the Volvo designation of the time represents number of cylinders, hence 144 and 164 withn4 and 6 cylinders respectively.

British Guiana/Guyana and Suriname (formerly Dutch) are the only countries in the mainland American continent where they drive on the left.

24:58 the woman in the background 😂

That Gilbern Invader is a dead ringer for a Jensen Interceptor, or should that be the other way round?

"As happy as a wiper salesman at a HubNut festival"

Interesting Panda fact - on the Mk1 the slatted grille was on different sides depending whether it had the 2 cyl air cooled motor or the 903 CC water cooled 4

My mate owns the blue capri just in shot 😎 @3:04

When will you do a van conversion?

You were a tad disparaging about the " fake plastic 2 cv " , but hey it would prevent the typical 2cv rampaging rust issues would it not ? Nice to see , the early and later Husky's , i would love to own either .

Isn't it just great that developers were given free reign to make all sorts of weird and wonderful cars, it's sad that everything is quite safe nowadays.

Watched both parts and didn’t see one ford anglia , which is my favourite car , I’ve owned 2 cars and 2 vans .

That UK price on the Torana is cheaper than they are here now.

1:43 could have gone all day without showing a VW Transporter identical to one I had, and sold for $950...yep, I R stoopid...

What a way to finish….a chocolate brown Maxi. Is it better than beige????? 🤔