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oh my son my God that’s holier than the cine Chapel he’s got trouble with his feet hasn’t he can’t keep them out of the Kebab [Laughter] shop a few months ago I bought five cars for £10,000 from a young guy Alex whose dad had very unfortunately suddenly passed away the family were Keen to get the cars gone so we headed to Dorset loaded up a few trailers and headed home after which the cars in their various states of disrepair were fixed up and sold on as part of my trading up to a 993 series The Transporter went to Taylor the damler went to Robin from Viking detail the Brian James trailer was sold to a friend of Taylor’s the MGF went to Mike Fernie and the big Mercedes S600 was sold recently to photographer Thomas howorth that left one car on the table namely an l322 Range Rover that was parked up somewhere in Wales Keen to get it looked at I asked Bigfoot transport to get it back to Tom lol’s workshop for us to look at get over and speaking of Tom’s Place you rejoined the action 4 months ago in December and this is it this is the Range Rover Vogue that none of you guys have seen that I haven’t seen for a while and that has been sitting Tom at your workshop and I’ve seen too much of it you have indeed yeah yeah so up until up until um the Classic Motor Show at the NEC you told me this was scrap get rid of it for a grand and that was going to be my plan and then everything changed didn’t it because it did we met Alex for the first time and we saw how much seeing his dad’s S600 meant to him we’re in the process of trying to get that fixed at the moment but the plan is sell the S600 whatever profit I make on that doesn’t go towards trading up to a 993 put the money back into this big old piece of and then we’re going to tart it up and then we’re going to come for Alex not like come for you but we’re going to drop it off to you and uh give you back your dad’s old Range Rover in working condition cuz at the moment it’s very sore yeah it needs a little bit of attention I think it’s fair to say so you’ve got a list I have got a list yeah do you want to talk us through it right can I go and get it yeah Tom you’re supposed to be ready I know I’m supposed to be professional okay to start with we’ve got a list of uh mechanical things which I’m really not too worried about because they’re all pretty straightforward to do so excessive travel in the in the foot pedal brakes are corroded so we’re going to need disc pads we might have a seize caliper or two so we might need some calipers I think you’ve got some wheels and tires which you’re going to from a P38 we’re going to swap we get some TIR from Tire streets UK all these bits or as many bits as possible we’re going to get from Feb as well Feb is going to help us out the rest of the suspension needs a bit of attention so there’s some bushes that we need on the rear hubs uh front lower arms and then we’ll have to do a full alignment we’ve got no rear lights most of the front lights aren’t working but as you can see oh for crying out I am never going to financially recover from that so mechanically we got some problems nothing too scary when I was driving it down the road the other day the gearbox felt a little bit laggy it was slow to respond how much is a gearbox for one of these oh you don’t even want to go there you don’t even want to go there more more than your budget so look there’s a there’s a lot to do y um you’re going to do the Cosmetics yep yep um so Alex is going to not me not me I can’t actually reach the roof but Robin for Viking detail I’ve actually already messaged him want to have a look in at the interior State at the no it’s no we we shouldn’t no it’s F it’s fine no it’s fine it’s oh look at the mold in there you got to get rid of that that’s that’s bad mold that isce fortunately your man from what’s his Viking detail yeah yeah I reckon left some have killed that off and make it smell will are you going to do one of your super duper headlining I think we might now that you are now officially a trimmer yeah I’m an auler an upholster I can give anyone the snip I might even um line it in leather like hot purple leather something you know just a bit you know Pimp My Ride style yeah just put my personality no okay but yeah everything everything works as it should before we continue looking around grab yourself a beer because the financial mistake that Rory will be making later on in this episode is best enjoyed with a cold one but wait you don’t have any interesting beers in the fridge with st Patrick’s Day around the corner you need to fix that and what better way than with my friend’s beer 52 who will send you a pack of 10 amazing beers free of charge all you need to do is go to beer 52.com Auto Alex and cover just £55.95 postage which you’ll definitely want to do because beer 52 offer the ultimate immersive beer drinking experience and this month they’re showcasing the world’s best independent breweries with an exclusive selection of beers from 10 different countries including Sweden Belgium and the USA to kick you off we’ve got mechanical engineers meral IPA that’s a smooth and flavorful juice bomb with a gentle bitterness also included is a hoppy logger from Craft Beer Legends omnipollo and a dynamic Porter from Spain’s highest rated Brewery Bas gland if you don’t like dark beer just choose the light case and don’t forget you get a couple of tasty snacks as well as the award-winning ferment magazine even if after all of that you’re still unsatisfied you can cancel or pause at any time so go to beer 52.com for/ Auto Alex to claim your free case now that is beer 52.com Auto Alex [Music] cheers notice the wing mirror is a little bit floppy as well yeah it retracts at speed does it for fuel economy uh yeah at the front of the motor vehicle we’ve got the finest engine ever made BMW M57 Bonnet stay um it needs a little bit of clean underneath there as well oh Robin from Viking detail you don’t know it yet but you’ve got this to do as well this looks disgusting so engine wise we don’t quite know but it’s an M57 I mean it runs it starts it drives the engine seemed okay it was a little bit Smokey when I first start out but then that might be something to do with the glow plug system and yeah by the time I’d um got a couple of hundred yards down the road that cleared up a bit so hopefully that’s not going to cause us any problems so but bodywise I don’t see any massive scratches or cracks in the bumpers or the body I don’t see any rust what you mean like this crack it oh mean like that bit there but you can get some very very very nice reasonably priced aftermarket Jazzy front grill so there you go is that what you’re going to give to the project I’m gifting I’m gifting me all right should we get this in the air yeah come let’s stick up in the air because I think re wants to get to his tool box anyway I just love how agricultural it is under here it has got one area of R actually which we might have to do something about on one of the back wheel arches there’s a there is a bit of a hole which is a common place for these to rot anyway one of them’s like lightly corod and one of them’s actually got a bit of a hole in it but well let’s add that to the list as well yeah yeah yeah then we’ll put a little sum in there but it’s dry yeah but look at look at the suspension arms look he’s been sat in a field is it that is nice look at those calipers look how Rusty they are so I got a funny feeling that there these are all going to be pretty much seized we got new drive shafts on the front there right yeah yeah someone has put some effort into it somewhere down the line oh that is so rusty though yeah yeah know it is Rusty it looks like it’s been at the bottom of the sea yeah so on the back here we got some Hub bushes I the top Hub bushes that are a bit worn out up here but again you know it’s the it’s these the calipers are all corroded and stuff and I think they’re going to causes problems and we’ve also got um the the metal brake pipes uh corroded on this so we’re going to have to replace those as well for theot but um air suspension air suspension is working yeah yeah yeah bags seem to be okay I’m hoping that the gearbox I see I sit there and hope that it’s just a little bit low on oil so so would it be worth giving this a full service we’ll we’ll what we’ll do is we’ll drain all the oil out stick a new filter in it and um yeah do that and then hopefully that will get rid of that sight gearbox issue that I had all right okay so it’s not all doom and gloom but it will cost an amount all you got to do is find me a ton of Parts y a ton of money of money and then Away We Go Away We Go Happy Days Happy Days all right Tom all right no wor it’s cars in very good hands so um yeah we’ll see what we can do we’ll see what we can do indeed so it is a few months later we are now in Scotland on a completely separate road trip with our 1,000 most unreliable cars and um yeah we’re back at it so uh a couple of days ago Rory spotted something on eBay why don’t you tell everyone what you spotted um so I found a Range Rover l322 uh it’s 2004 so it’s got the same engine it is blue and it also looks like it’s got the same blue interior as well with the cream uh piping cuz the thing is there’s a lot of stuff that is wrong on on Alex there was a lot of broken bits and yeah like lights work in good Nick the interior so we can literally just rip all of these parts out of here door cards I think even the door cards had all got moldy and it was just horrible just all the easy stuff to swap over we can literally just take it straight off and the one last thing we haven’t mentioned is uh it’s an eBay auction y um and there is currently how long time 3 minutes and 30 seconds left on it uh the car is actually situated an hour south and we are like in Scotland Scotland so we need to get this and then pick it up and then take it with us we just drive it back tomorrow or the day after yeah current bidding is 12,220 would you reckon 15500 quid yeah I think so look you know if I can rob everything off of that and turn uh Alex’s car into a car that um I canot and sort out and I can spin it around in a couple of days you’re putting two grand I’ll do a re then we’ll get it I I’ll put two grand in when it’s got 30 seconds oh she going to bid snip yeah yeah but then yeah yeah there’s no way no well I say there’s no way anyone’s going to put in a high bid of but ideally we’ll get it for 1,30 quid okay right all right here we go here we go here we go 35 34 33 32 31 review bid oh oh oh no we should have done this earlier come on oh no come on why is this doing this get on your laptop get on your laptop there’s no time there is literally no time oh for crying out now just whatever no for sake were you signed in yeah yeah I’m signed in it’s internet’s gone sorry we were going to get that one but now we have to go to plan D I don’t know what that is yet but it’s going to involve this man it’s I bet someone’s downloading or something or whatever the internet’s just gone where’s Aiden young Aiden he’s probably looking at porn isn’t he however after the disaster that was our failed eBay bid there was still hope because after sending a cheeky message we got a reply from the Range Rover owner and it came with a telephone number hello hello there uh we’ve been speaking on eBay about your lovely Range Rover yes how are you doing you’re all right my name’s Alex all right Alex my name is Martin hello Martin um yeah obviously we missed out on the on the eBay listing but we did try to bid but then the Wi-Fi went out so we were very disappointed about that we would love to make something work because because we’re doing it for a really really good cause well to be honest with you it hasn’t sold because I wasn’t going to let it go that cheap oh I see I see I see so what what kind of price would you be happy with or were you hoping with I was hoping to get two grand for it it’s worth two grand all day long what’s your good cause tell me so I actually run a YouTube channel and we just really need a car um that we can kind of use to help us in this kind of mission of getting Alex his dad’s car back on the road that’s cool 1,800 credit is yours hold out your hand let’s do it let’s do AAL let’s do a deal Martin i’ got a receipt here that’ll show how much it cost me about two months ago for two and a half Grand oh have you just given up on it now no I’ve got 30 plus cars I live in a giant house in the middle of the countryside and I think they’re going and playing about on New York in the Caribbean instead fantastic have a right clear out fantastic I think we’re all going to get on like a house on fire to be honest but for now we’re going to say yes to the Range Rover and if it’s all right with you can we have a little poke around and and maybe if we can do a deal on a few other bits potentially you never know never know excellent well I’m going to have uh the rest of the evening watching uh also Alex cars fantastic there you go I’m the short one but yeah fantastic thanks very much have a great Sunday and we will see you tomorrow look forward to you mate you take care cheers you too bye bye bye by bye well me hasn’t that worked out well unbelievable fair play that was very very to the eBay who won that car [Laughter] [Music] legitimately uh it is now the next day and as you can see we’ve got a new best friend Martin we’ve made it to you yeah yeah you are the current owner/ former owner of this lovely Range Rover this hangover uh so yeah Martin obviously invited us down we’re going to collect this but before we do that obviously we’re going to have a poke around this place because it is amazing Martin like I think you have lived you really have lived we trying not to do it by halves so should we have a quick poke around the Range Rover yeah and we’re actually going to be driving this back down to uh reading tomorrow so marvelous yeah and and I also said to Martin it’s got 12 months mot with no advisories is it a moody mot he said no you don’t have a man over the phone that does it no no no you want I mean he is blind my emoj should we start it up see how she runs go for it oh oh that sounds right’s on the but there’s nothing wrong with it guys I told you and and we’ve got three cors of a tank oh yeah I’ve got to I’ve got to invo you for that oh oh oh Tom my phone why the air suspension doesn’t work there’s an airbag in the boat there’s two two Spar so will this get us back to reading reckon yes yes yes recovery trucks are great yeah obviously we’re going to take this deal done but for now there is so much interesting stuff should we ever poke around who wants to have a Parke around where’s good to look first Martin where can you lead us to well we could have a look down at the bottom here at my workshop this is like an episode of the bearded [Music] Explorer [Music] what’s in here then Martin well basically this is my workshop but the walls the walls are closing in oh wow look at the beetle you can always tell a proper workshop with a good old proper engineer when you have a shadow toolboard you know all nailed up and everything’s all organized and everything like that sometimes the tools actually end up on there depends how much you’ve had to drink that night well what else have we got Martin oh God and everything’s for sale apparently everything you can see is I just want to have a good clear out oh look at the 125 how much would you sell this for 1,00 quid quid 6,000 miles if you Gareth used to have this and then he sold it I’ll I used to I used to have a ktmg oh yeah does it still run yeah yeah it’s battery’s probably a bit flat at the moment but yeah it runs no bother runs like a blood new bike mate Rory you want buy buy this would this fit right in the back of the Arena yeah of course it of course it would you haven’t got the guts to buy this oh I love it Martin how about how about this in the Range Rover and then this is500 Quid how about no T we got next oh I like this Sprinter this is nice you are just weird T you like that Sprinter yeah it’s nice we could put your 1300 quid motorbike in the back of this when we leave yeah yeah we found a motorbike somewhere to pick up as well B I’m trying I’m trying oh he’s looking again can I have a little sit on it Martin of course you can how much would you take for it Martin 15 if you want it deal oh we’ve done a deal yes I’m going to miss that thing if if it runs I’ll I’ll take it off your hands, 1500 CR if we can get it into the back how do I let you rich buggers make myself shoot myself in foot you’re calling us rich look you live in a man Tom have a have a quick look over he spent he spent far too much time with us Tom is it is this worth, 1500 quick I don’t know cuz it’s not really my bag it’s got to be Rory surely yeah I think um I think can we actually get this in the back of the Range Rover no it’s not we’ll put it in the back of my Alpha no just just drive it back guys there’s a battery there and there’s some jump leads and there’s a key right all right I’m not selling you cheap I’m working for you you’re you’re a bike expert right oh such a bik have a question yes how how does one go about category ding a bike is this category D it is a category D Oh Martin I’m glad I’m glad you don’t want it now it was rebuilt and and uh was it rebuilt cuz it was crashed though I don’t know why don’t we push out even to the workshop yes why don’t you do that get it inside in the light that’s why Tom’s here he has good ideas broom broom bromomo oh those brakes are a bit tight same Rory are you still interested in this I am interested in it but it is a cat D now what price would you be happy with, 1500 quid oh still still there a cat wow you are a hard man to bargain no I can’t go and buy one of those tomorrow for500 quid no matter what it was you could if it was a cat d i find one oh oh he is this bringing back memories already so I had the older version of this yeah yeah this one’s much better I’m not so sure Martin what what are we looking at pricewise I’ve just told you have you got Alzheimer I’ve got very selective hearing so what would you offer Martin and then we can all just move on from this 1,00 crib n hold out your own not a chance oh come on no go on in yes oh my god well done well done oh Martin well done just add it to my stash you’ve can p yourself a motorbike I want to buy Martin’s coat now that’s going to cost you about five grand well Martin you know there will be one deciding factor what’s that will it fits in the back of a Range Rover V oh it will if it doesn’t then I’ll have to buy a van so you have buy a but before we attempted to load Rory’s new bike into the back of the Range Rover Martin took us to see some of his other unique vehicles oh you like me this actually looks in good Nick it’s in great Nick it’s just my son my he said it needed a bit of welding oh it’s uh standard standard jimney interior he now okay I’ve just decided I don’t want to buy it that is something else that’s holier than the cinee chapel Martin I’ll give you 50 Quid for it TL he’s got about five grand in one pocket a gun in the other don’t have you seen the Bedford van around here look have you seen the Jag the oh my God the Jag the Jag oh look at the Jag Jay last time that Jag was on the road years ago was when I was in Ireland visiting Shane mcgaan who recently died in Tipperary and I came back from Ireland with a hangover that took me 3 weeks to get over and that Jag’s only moved once since from the house to here and it was looking a little bit ropey then but now it’s just beyond it a Tain full of whiskey we were wait if this starts on the button you have to buy it Luke oh it’s not on the button if it don’t start again it’s for free yeah don’t forget I make the rules around here Taylor Just A pre-warning I have just oh for sake oh my word right everyone evacuate what did what did you feed him on he’s got trouble with his feet hasn’t he can’t keep them out of the Kebab shop well we have had a laugh haven’t we yeah it’s been good to see you guys we’re going to have a bit more of a laugh oh we got to put the motorbike in the range driver should we back the range driver down to the workshop so we can see the Carnage yeah yeah that would be good yeah let’s do that good idea let’s do that all right let’s do that okay Aiden is this a terrible decision horrendous DEC funny it I mean it is funny but it is terrible isn’t it like a it’s a 2013 plate but well no it’s a 2012 plate but the model of the actual bike I believe they didn’t bring those out until like 2017 or something 2018 do you feel like this is dodgy ohing dodgy it’s like the dodgiest thing I’ve done and I’ve done a lot of stuff with Taylor and Alex what’s happened so the VIN is not there right is it stolen I think this is stolen oh nice Tom how do you feel about driving back to ring with a boot open I’m just hoping it doesn’t fit cuz I’m going to miss my little bike are we sure it’s [Laughter] yours right come on let’s get this thing [Applause] in wait oh you run my foot over sorry sorry fell 3 2 one go back on oh yeah this is going to fit right then if you take one handlebar side I’ll take the other what my done oh whoa whoa whoa whoa watch out oh Tom push the back ass over that way a bit oh oh yeah perfect there go Tom Rory’s crashed his motorbike look would you like a ratchet strap it’s been double Crush Rory it’s in is that in if you is that in what Rory look we can just oh go on girl go on girl I do believe you only need a few more inches same same three two one oh I F A motorbike now loaded up with our new purchases we were ready to hit the road but before we headed off Martin invited us in to have a look around his Manor which as it turned out was as unique as it was surprising would you like to meet Rambo who Rambo hey Rambo come and say hello come here then oh wow that’s amazing oh wow hello Rambo you good boy say hello say hello say hello hello hello so after meeting Rambo it was time to say our goodbyes and head back home after what had been by far the best and most interesting car and unexpected motorbike purchase experience any of us had ever had join us next time when the clock is ticking to get Alex’s Range Rover fixed up and delivered back but not before a stupid mistake by me puts the whole project into complete Jeopardy what have you just done okay so I’ve just up this and more coming [Music] up