Wheeler Dealers Cars, Where Are They Now? 1968 Austin Mini Mk1 Mercedes 230E Ford Capri Laser Pt 2 

I always wondered why in recent years WD havent made some special edition shows featuring cars they had previously done, so this is brilliant! Love it...

Mikes face when Edd showed him the wings on the capri, you would have thought he had taken a leak in his tea.

I have also heard on the grape vine over the years within our Capri Club that the lady buyer of the Capri was part of the tv crew. She pretended to be the buyer after they couldn't find a genuine buyer for the car within their filming schedule. I heard the car was sadly scrapped not long after the programme, which corroborates with your findings.

Fantastic. Please do more.

The Capri comes up with a certificate of destruction date of 18/02/2004. Weird that the dvla site shows a change of keeper after this date 🤷

Apparently the female buyer of the capri was part of the crew.. They couldn't find a buyer for it for the show, so the young girl from the crew was used.. it didn't last much longer after the show.. i often checked after seeing repeats if any of the cars were still going?.. Surprise surprise, the majority of them didn't last long.. a year or 2 at most.. Which sends an alarming message to any potential buyers of a brewer banger.. DON'T DO IT!..

I always enjoyed WD show but as a former cameraman and now, independent Producer, the 'Budgets' always made me chuckle somewhat. Wheeler-Dealers was a TV show - the purchase and cost of repair was totally immaterial lol. While those early shows were very low-budget, they would still cost around 15- 20,000 a show! As the show took off, the budget would increase exponentially and the last series, probably had a budget of at least $150k per show. They can justify these budgets simply because the show was sold to networks around the word, each episode making literally millions of dollars in profit. So as you can see, worrying about a couple of hundred quid was just a laugh really!

nice, I did a similar thing for myself a few years ago up until the end of series 10. Even back then a lot of the cars were MIA. I won't post because it's spoilers for your videos

Looking forward to these, very interesting!

Saw a. Idea a few years back and it followed up previous cars , several had very soon failed MOTs due to rust . Impression given by show was that the cars were near perfect and had many years life felt , glad I didn’t buy any .

Loved Wheeler Dealers from the first seasons. Sad to see almost all of them scraped... Subscribed, waiting for more!

Great series so far, ive subscribed 😊 Often wondered where some of the cars are now....hopefully you will find some of them 😀

Subscribed👍. Should be an interesting popular series. Did a bit of research into some of the cars whilst watching a few years ago and found in most cases, the same as you, they appear to be no longer running. Also found that in most cases when they initially purchased the car they'd MOT it and complete the minimum work necessary to obtain a new MOT, then add some kerb appeal by changing the seats/wheels adding Bluetooth and the like. According to Mike it was often like standing in a 1980s showroom and looked like new once Ed had finished 😂 but in truth I think they did the bare minimum with selective camera angles for TV. Of course financially the figures would never stack up in real life but a very entertaining enjoyable TV show nonetheless. They did do a "revisit" TV series themselves but I don't think there were many episodes 😂. Anyway look forward to more videos from you and good luck 👍.

I've owned a Mrec W123 230e, along with a Capri Laser, though the one I had had a 2-litre engine.

Great idea to do this. Makes one wonder a bit about how cosmetic some of these renovations were. Presentation tip. Don't start every other sentence "Now,..."! Eventually the listener is just counting and wincing at the "Now"s!

Most of these cars were bangers, and ready for the knackers yard . I wonder what happened to the white Stag they did

About fore years ago I sold my 2007 Jeep Cherokee diesel it was in good condition no rust not low miles I just wanted it to go so I sold it for £1800 the problem with the car was road tax for that year it was over £500 but what I cannot understand is when the MOT ran out it just disappeared it probably was worth more in parts engine gearbox transfer case the list goes on its a sham really it was a nice car and being rust free would have lasted for many years looking on the bright side it may have gone out of the UK .

I do remember all these cars its a pity some if them are no longer around that Mecedes Benz W123 had the cheapest fix on Wheeler Dealers the sun roof didn't work there was no fuse Edd put a fuse in and it worked

Love the "7" behind. A Robin Hood? Given the daft prices of Caterham now, what is it and do you recommend it?

Great content. Used to enjoy WD and seing some of the modern classics being worked on and the end product on the show. I know this is the end of cars from Season 1 but I'd love to know what happened to the blue mx5 from season 1 and the silver WRX from one of the latter seasons

i can tell you that some of the buyers were stooges a friend of mine was asked to came to the filming and pretend to buy a car

Satin black rattle cans at the ready!

You are talking about cars from 20 years ago, my car from then isnt on the road either, lol.

The car scrappage scheme 2009 ish took out a large number of usable or repairable classics along with less valuable bangers.

Be interesting to do another on Pimp my ride, but we can be pretty much sure they were still scrape-worthy even after all the nonsense... Or because of it!

Some more info from my archives Oscar. Austin Mini Mike and Edd restored an old Mini from the 60's, however restored is rather far from the truth. It was rotten and was a pile of crap truthfully and they didn't fix it properly at all They paid just £300 for it so plenty left in their £1000 budget to fix it up. After the show, the family actually had it back off them and then it turned up on ebay in 2009. It was exported early 2003 before they bought it. Not sure where to! Was mot'd until June 2007 and passed it's previous mot with no advisories, the one before that is one of the biggest lists I've seen lol. Last owner change in 2009, The car had around 98,000 miles. It's been on a sorn ever since and no info about it after that as far as we know. Mercedes W123 230E Another one of Mike and Edd's projects during Series 1. They took on this old Merc after finding it in a local newspaper. The car failed it's mot badly in 2006 and we have no more info on the vehicle. Almost certain it was scrapped but you never know! Last keeper change 2003/2004. Two sites give different results so unknown on that one! Ford Capri Laser Mike and Edd took on another old banger, a Ford Capri Laser. This one is well known again for being possibly one of the shortest lived cars from the show. Was on the road in 2003, but disappeared within a few months of the show being aired never to be seen again. 4 Owners registered before it was scrapped, Certificate of destruction date - 18/02/2004

The mini is showing to me as SORN and it’s mot exempt so it might be stashed somewhere and only used in the summer

I understand that the show was really about repairing cars yourself how ever for legal reasons eg not being road worthy and accidents etc they made it about professional repairs and selling on. This may be considered by not including the hours spent on the repairs it would be not worthwhile.

What has happened to the 1983. Bentley

Volume low dude

You haven't included inflation to current VAL.

Sometimes you think did Edd really check these cars out properly