Richard.Hammonds.Workshop-S03E03
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00:00I want to go back to the original look.
00:03It's a Delahaye with a French Rolls Royce.
00:06Big moment, get this painted.
00:07I'm scared.
00:10It looks absolutely brilliant.
00:13Oh God.
00:14What are you going to say?
00:14I think it's time we raise our hourly rate.
00:19How much can you spend to get it ready for sale?
00:21About 15 grand.
00:23To actually be able to help an animal that is on the verge of extinction,
00:27where could you say no?
00:29No matter how much he wants to do it, there's no way is this car coming home with us.
00:39Something worked!
00:41Two years ago, I set up a classic car restoration business with the Greenhouse family.
00:45We can recover any vehicle.
00:48Turning my passion into a successful business with my family in touch
00:53hasn't exactly been plain sailing.
00:55No, mother, shush.
00:57But things are finally on the up.
01:00We've got work.
01:01How far do you want to go with it?
01:03New stuff.
01:05We're racing again.
01:06Never drive that quick on the way to work.
01:08And we're going international.
01:10We're finishing.
01:11I just hope I haven't taken on too much.
01:14I've got that gone wrong feeling.
01:27All is good with our little workshop business.
01:30Any problem right now is Neil has taken on an Italian rust bucket to save some leopards.
01:39Long story, but the idea is he's going to restore a Lancia Delta Integrale
01:43so the owner can sell it to raise funds for a leopard enclosure at his wildlife park.
01:48Only problem is it's going to require a lot more work than the budget will allow, I think.
01:55So I'm going to have to have a word with Dr. Doolittle before he gets carried away.
02:08Ah, Neil Greenhouse.
02:11Hello, how are you?
02:12You timed that just right.
02:13I made you a cup of tea there.
02:14You made me a cup of tea?
02:15Yeah, come on.
02:16I did put a bit of sugar in because you're sweet enough.
02:19Here, have a biscuit.
02:21I don't want a biscuit.
02:22Have a biscuit.
02:23Oh, look at that.
02:24Animals.
02:26Eh?
02:28Neil?
02:28What?
02:29How much is a car going to cost to do?
02:31I don't think it's bad at all.
02:32And that's why I've made you a cup of tea, biscuits,
02:35because for once in your life you've done the right thing.
02:37When there are animals involved in any way, you go mental, don't you?
02:43It's the decent thing to do, isn't it?
02:46But it's expensive.
02:47How much is it going to cost me?
02:49How much is it going to cost me?
02:50Yeah, but it's not a case of money, is it?
02:52Yes, it is.
02:52It's a bill.
02:53It's an invoice.
02:54It is specifically and definitively a case of money.
02:58Look, look, look.
02:58I can see that you haven't grasped the fact that you've actually done the right thing.
03:03How much are we going to spend on it?
03:05Well, it ain't all about the actual figures money, is it?
03:07Not everything is down to money.
03:09Look, look, look, look.
03:10What are you asking me?
03:10Just ask me straight.
03:12How much is it going to cost us to save the leopards?
03:16It's all down to the hours.
03:16So if we can keep to the hours, when he gets the invoice and pays it,
03:20he's going to sell the car.
03:22And then we'll stop two leopards going extinct.
03:24So it's all just down to hours.
03:26And we can sort the hours.
03:27It's nothing to worry about, honestly.
03:29Really.
03:30I'll tell you what, I've never admitted this,
03:32but I think you're actually taller than me.
03:33I've never noticed that.
03:35You win.
03:36You broke me.
03:37You will be.
03:38I'm just, I'm broken.
03:40I think I've got to weigh you up, I ain't sure.
03:42What that man is doing, basically, is putting his hands in my pocket,
03:46ripping out my wallet,
03:48rifling through it for whatever notes he can find left in there,
03:51and throwing them over the fence to feed them to some leopards.
03:54It's what he's doing.
03:56Absolute madness.
03:58It's not all about the money.
03:59It's a business, you muppet.
04:11Neil seems intent on blowing our profits.
04:14So today I'm on the hunt for high-end customers.
04:17I'm in London, coming to quite a special car show.
04:20It's at Saffol Row, which is the sort of famous street in London
04:25where all the tailors are based,
04:26and it's kind of a posh car show,
04:28so it'll have the right people there.
04:31If I want to move our value rate up to £95 an hour,
04:35and work on cars at a higher level,
04:37these are the people that will allow that.
04:51You're not going to crash any of these, are you?
04:53I'm not allowed near them.
04:54This is the closest I can get.
04:57That's spectacular.
04:59You're not shy in retiring, are you?
05:01No, I can't.
05:03I feel so underdressed.
05:09I'm intrigued.
05:10This is an electrified GT40?
05:12Yes.
05:12Yeah.
05:13Bloody hell.
05:14It's an amazing car in the first place.
05:16We're all respectful and honourable of its value.
05:18We're all respectful and honourable of its roots,
05:20its character, its soul.
05:22We're recovering petrol, so we don't come in...
05:24Recovery.
05:25Yeah, recovery.
05:25Genki recovery.
05:26Stay with it.
05:27Combustion as well.
05:28No, we're not wedded to EV being the only solution.
05:31It's part of the picture.
05:32Correct.
05:33Fully electric, hybrid, petrol, diesel,
05:35with synthetic fuel.
05:36We'll have all of those.
05:36Couldn't see more on the same paper, is it?
05:38Good.
05:40So this is...
05:41That's electrified.
05:43Oh my god, tell me they haven't done this.
05:45I'm from Area 6C, one of my favourite cars.
05:51It's an electrified E-Type.
05:53Not sure how I feel about throwing the engine away in an E-Type.
05:56If it is a Series 2, that has the engine derived from the 3.8 straight-six in mind,
06:00which is one of the best engines ever made, and it's been thrown away.
06:04I mean, why make that...
06:06There are electric cars, just buy an electric car.
06:08You don't have to destroy the engine out of this one.
06:14I came to the show today to tout for business,
06:24but I got distracted by how much focus there was on electrifying classic cars.
06:29Electrification for new cars, I get it.
06:31For old cars, I'm not so sure.
06:33There are other ways of keeping cars running without destroying the planet we live on,
06:40and I need to know more about them because it affects my business,
06:42my passion and the world I live on, so investigation is required.
06:56I was hoping to wow the cogs with a hatful of high-end customers at the morning meeting,
07:01but I do have one new lead.
07:04Right, I'd had a conversation with a mate of mine,
07:06and he's got a Jaguar XK120 that might be a job we could do.
07:12It was owned by a Thai prince who was into racing, and it's been restored,
07:16but there's micro blisters on the paint.
07:18So does that mean it's probably going to have to be bare metal?
07:20That would have to be bare metal, yes.
07:21Oh.
07:22It is booked into an event.
07:23Is it actually competing in an event?
07:25No, it's a sort of salon privé type event.
07:28Basically, it's a really posh car show where all the cars can be bought.
07:32What if I were to look at the car?
07:34How would you price that job? It's a bit tricky.
07:36Very, very expensive.
07:38Okay, I'm going to draw this to a close.
07:39Right, get on.
07:41Do you want a cup of tea?
07:42Yes.
07:43I do, actually.
07:44Let's have a cup of tea.
07:55Chaps, I'm off to see the Jag.
07:56Well, boys, now.
07:58Yeah, but I'm taking the trailer, because if it's right...
08:01You want to take somebody with you, really.
08:02Not being funny, because it's quite a complex thing.
08:06What? I know what I'm talking about.
08:08Well, you know what I mean.
08:10Just in case you're looking at it more, you could have...
08:12Look, I can do it.
08:13I can do this on my own.
08:14I'm a big boy.
08:15Stay here, get on with your work.
08:17I'm going before you're not going to persuade me.
08:31I could have done it.
08:33You could have, but the problem is with it,
08:35it could all go so terribly wrong with one of these, couldn't it?
08:39Well, what I know is it's a 120,
08:42and it was owned by Prince...
08:44Byron, was it?
08:45I don't know.
08:46Yeah, well, wasn't this...
08:47Do you know the story of Prince Byron?
08:49No.
08:50Well, when Jaguar very, very first made the first XK120s,
08:54we built three.
08:56He put Prince Byron in one, and they raced at Silverstone.
08:59This isn't that car.
09:00It's just a car owned by him.
09:02HKV455.
09:03That was the registration.
09:04Really?
09:04That's who's sick.
09:05You are such an animal.
09:06I get very excited about XK120s.
09:08They're one of my favourite cars.
09:11Here we go.
09:11We're here.
09:17I promise not to commit us to anything we can't do.
09:19I won't let you.
09:22Hi, Richard.
09:22You're the owner.
09:23Good to see you.
09:24Nice to see you.
09:25This is Anthony.
09:25Hello, Andy.
09:26Nice to meet you.
09:26He knows about these cars.
09:28Good.
09:28Is it there?
09:30Yes, it is.
09:30Right, let's have a look.
09:31Oh, I love that colour.
09:33That's original colour, isn't it?
09:33Beautiful, isn't it?
09:35What are your intentions for it?
09:36Well, I want to take it in a few weeks to Salon Prouvé
09:40and I want it to look good.
09:42If you have a look around, you're going to see that
09:44some of the paintwork isn't perfect.
09:47I'm going to apply my glasses.
09:49Andy, stop standing there laughing at me, looking at it.
09:52I'm just doing what I can.
09:53Right.
09:54You can see quite a bit, yeah, on that wing.
09:57So there's something there.
09:58Yep.
09:59There's a bit of micro blistering there.
10:01Yeah, it's got it all over, hasn't it?
10:03Why are these bubbles?
10:04That's all micro blister.
10:05What's causing it?
10:06So when these cars are restored, what usually happens
10:08is they're bare-metalled and you do the bodywork
10:11and you spray fill them.
10:12Right.
10:12Now, what can happen, spray filler is very porous,
10:15so if any moisture gets in it, it can create micro blisters.
10:19Yes, we could make it look shiny and good,
10:22but it ain't going to last.
10:23Right.
10:23To make it last, you'd have to take it back to bare metal.
10:26It's only going to get worse.
10:28It's not going to get better.
10:28Yeah.
10:29It's not normally this gloomy.
10:31Problem is now, you're in the stage with this car
10:33where you could go for concourse with it.
10:34Yeah.
10:36That's it, I can build upon it.
10:37Here you go, I'll let you do it, so you're the expert.
10:40The early grills had a separate little pip on the front,
10:43so where the rain is, the fin comes round.
10:46Yeah.
10:46It's supposed to have like another little fin in front of it,
10:48so it's got like a little indent.
10:50When you talk to people about this in pubs, do they wander off?
10:54So the only way a concourse can get,
10:56I can actually remember filing head bolts
10:58so all the nuts pointed the same way.
11:01So how long would you spend getting
11:02so that all the head bolts align the same way?
11:06Days.
11:07This is hundreds and hundreds of pounds.
11:09So that these are pointed the right way.
11:10Just to fit your bolts in the right place.
11:11Exactly, but we don't want to go that far with this car.
11:14No, I tell you what, I've suddenly got a slight, yeah.
11:17We do bring a defibrillator with us.
11:18I knew he was bad.
11:20Right.
11:20So meanwhile, back on planet Earth, where I suspect Johnny lives,
11:24what could you do to it in the time available, Andy?
11:26How could you?
11:27I've got a plan for you.
11:28Right.
11:29People want to come and see the car because we owned it.
11:31It doesn't have to be 100% perfect.
11:34So why don't we have it,
11:36polish it up, we can get rid of a lot of the little scratch marks.
11:39And I think it would still look beautiful at Salon Privé.
11:41Yeah, yeah.
11:42Take it to Salon Privé and then when you're ready,
11:45I'd still love to do the car.
11:46That would be perfect.
11:47Right, well, let's get it on the trailer and get it gone and made beautiful.
11:52We've got two fights then, haven't we?
11:55Because we've got the job of cleaning it and touching it up
11:57and sending it off to Salon Privé.
12:00But then hopefully, I think I've convinced him
12:02to have it done properly in the winter months.
12:04What makes that car interesting is its story.
12:07The other car I know of in our lives that has a good story
12:10is a certain massive blue Delehaix.
12:14Because that was Chiron's car.
12:15What if we got that back into the workshop as well?
12:18Yeah.
12:18And gave that a similar bit of loving and get that to Salon Privé as well.
12:22So this is a way of us getting associated with the right kinds of cars.
12:26They've got great stories.
12:27People want to hear about it.
12:28Oh, this morning's cold worked on this.
12:30That is pretty cool actually, you know.
12:32Well, yeah, let's get this car back.
12:34So,
12:48the Savile Row car show last week got me thinking.
12:51The necessary and inevitable ban on fossil fuels
12:54is going to impact my industry and all of us.
12:57What puzzles me is there are alternatives as well as electric,
13:01but no one's really talking about them.
13:03I'm heading into West Sussex for my first physical encounter with synthetic fuel.
13:10And I've lined up the perfect chance to do that.
13:11William Medcalf is a well-known specialist restorer of vintage Bentleys.
13:16He runs his cars on synthetic fuel.
13:19So if synthetic fuel works, it apparently does,
13:23as 1.3 billion cars can stay on the road.
13:27Obviously, as somebody running a classic restoration business,
13:29that's quite good news.
13:31It's make do and mend on a global scale.
13:34My business is saved, my passion is saved,
13:36and I can run my old Mustang and look my daughters in the eye
13:39and know I'm not destroying the planet they live on.
13:41Everybody wins.
13:47Oh, my goodness.
13:48Oh, look at those.
13:52It'll tell me about my phone.
13:54Just a moment.
13:55Oh, what?
13:56Forgotten your phone.
13:57Oh, thank you very much, my dear.
13:58Just a moment.
13:59Your flies are undone.
14:06That smell.
14:09I got goosebumps.
14:11I have.
14:13It's these cars, they do it to you, if you love cars.
14:17I'm gonna like it here.
14:20William.
14:20Richard.
14:21How you doing, you all right?
14:22All right, how are you?
14:22Last time I saw you, you threw a bread roll at me.
14:24R.S.E.
14:25Yeah, sorry about that.
14:26Did I hit you?
14:27Yeah, of course.
14:28There you go.
14:28Nicely in your home territory.
14:30I've never asked you, is this like a family thing?
14:33Yeah, father's influence.
14:34Yes.
14:34He was a toolmaker by trade and he rebuilt one of these on the kitchen table
14:38and when it was finished, he said we need to test it.
14:40So family holiday was 28,000 miles around America and Canada in nine months
14:46with three kids in the back, mum and dad in the front.
14:48Nine months, that was your life?
14:49That was a life.
14:50And you came back and said, oh, I really enjoyed being in that car.
14:52I want to base my life around it.
14:54Here it is.
14:55I mean, let's talk about this in the fuel part.
14:57Can I have a look around your business?
14:58Yes, certainly.
14:58You're in charge.
15:01Can I have this?
15:10So this is what you come to see?
15:11Oh, yes.
15:13So hang on.
15:14This is a four and a half.
15:15Four and a half litre Bentley, 1929.
15:18This is running on synthetic fuel.
15:20Right.
15:21How green is the fuel?
15:22We've chosen one because it's green from end to end in the manufacturing process.
15:26So you're recycling the carbon that's already in the atmosphere.
15:29So manufacturing process being hydrogen is made.
15:32From water.
15:33So hydrogen is cracked out of the water using renewable energy.
15:36Yeah.
15:37So zero carbon footprint to that point.
15:38Yeah.
15:39Then carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
15:41So they're removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,
15:44combining it with the hydrogen.
15:45Sticking in a biomass liquid.
15:47It's waste product.
15:48That's the ethanol element.
15:50Yeah.
15:50And then...
15:51Put it all together.
15:51Yeah.
15:52Bit of magic.
15:53Yeah.
15:53You've got petrol.
15:54This is the future.
15:56We changed nothing.
15:56The car came, just put it in the fuel tank.
15:58So no changes at all?
16:00Today we're going to take the Goodwood and we're going to get some hot laps.
16:02Are you testing the car or the fuel?
16:04Testing the fuel.
16:05What else are you doing to test this?
16:06I'm interested.
16:08What does it do to the paint?
16:09What does it do to the leather?
16:09Does it mix?
16:10Does it mix with water?
16:11What do you do?
16:12So we've got a whole little laboratory set up where we're just messing around with this.
16:16I want to see that.
16:17You want to see that as well?
16:17I want to see that.
16:18Right, let's go and have a look.
16:26Where's the laboratory?
16:28Is it in the container?
16:34Hello, this has all gone a bit breaking bad, hasn't it?
16:37Well, you know.
16:39Oh, wow.
16:40Right, so what are you doing?
16:42So here we are testing every material we know today that comes into contact with the fuel on a Bentley
16:48and comparing it against regular pump gas.
16:50So you've got...
16:51Synthetic.
16:52Synthetic.
16:53Cork washer with synthetic and ordinary fuel.
16:56Yep.
16:56Can I have a look at it?
16:59So that's it.
17:00That's the stuff.
17:02It looks exactly the same.
17:03So you've just dropped a cork washer in because
17:07as the fuel goes around the car's fueling system, it will come into direct contact with cork washers.
17:13And if this melts it...
17:15That would be a problem.
17:16So you're not just testing it by driving around in the car.
17:18Oh yeah, it works.
17:20This is all part of that process.
17:22Yeah, I just want to know it's not going to melt my gaskets.
17:24Yeah, so this is actual engineering and testing in action.
17:29Okay, absolutely.
17:30Should we go and drive the car?
17:31Yes.
17:32Yes, I'll do.
17:32Lead on.
17:33This is see it in action.
17:34Hello.
17:52All right, love.
17:54What?
17:55You're joking?
17:56Yeah, well, don't do nothing.
17:57I'll be there now.
17:58I've been called away on a mission of mercy.
18:02It's a jackdaw and he's come down the chimney liner
18:06and he's sat in my fire grate, in my log burner, now looking at my missus in the front room.
18:12So she can either watch the TV or watch the wildlife without leaving the house or looking out the window.
18:18It'll catch on in years to come.
18:20Everybody will want one.
18:23Ah, here we go.
18:24I'm going to get the jackdaw.
18:26Ta-da.
18:26Ah, here we go.
18:27And what do we have here?
18:30All right, come on, Mr. Jackdaw.
18:33Don't you bite me.
18:41There we go.
18:44Now, what have I told you about coming down the fireplace?
18:47That's naughty, isn't it?
18:49Naughty.
18:49No, no, no.
18:52You ready?
18:53Go on.
18:56Another good deed for the day done.
18:59Just two leopards to go now.
19:04Ah, one of my favourite, favourite all-time motoring cars.
19:08So we're on it now.
19:09This is it.
19:09We're on our synthetic fuel.
19:10We are going into the future in our best part of a hundred-year-old car.
19:16Let's go.
19:17Oh, it's got guts.
19:18Yes, you can feel it.
19:19Oh, yes.
19:20It's exactly the same in terms of torque, power.
19:23We're going to drive through town now of the greenest car here.
19:27We're greener than him.
19:29Greener than him.
19:30I want to see a Tesla or an electric car of any sort.
19:33Because we're greener than that.
19:35Well, we are.
19:45Right, I'll be the observer.
19:46I'll be the driver.
19:47I'll be the driver.
19:48I'll be the driver.
19:48I'll be the driver.
19:49Right, I'll be the observer.
19:50You'll be the driver.
19:51Right.
19:52Have you got to get your romper suit on?
19:53Yeah, race suit and helmet.
20:03It's with very good reason that Motorsport is the place where we're first seeing this
20:08whole synthetic fuel business picked up.
20:10Because at the heart of it, why are they doing it?
20:13There's no excuse.
20:15You can't say to the world, well, I was delivering organs to a hospital.
20:18I was trying to see if my green car would go a bit faster than that blue car around this circle.
20:23Everybody's had an amazing time.
20:24Yeah, but is that worth pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere for
20:28and worsening the very real issue of global warming?
20:31No, it's not.
20:32Which means they've got to clean it up.
20:34And they are.
20:36I mean, that's planet saving.
20:38And a bit of me had begun to think, wait a minute, all of this is over.
20:45But it's not.
20:48But why are we hearing about it?
20:52I don't know the answer.
20:55But we should be.
21:18Yes!
21:24Hello, come in.
21:27Hello.
21:28Come in, sit down.
21:29Right.
21:29So I wanted to catch up with you on the Jaguar XK.
21:32Yes, that is exciting.
21:33It's a nice looking job, that.
21:34And is that our first one at the higher rate?
21:37No, because it's not like a full respray job.
21:42Right.
21:43And it might lead to one.
21:45So the car is lovely.
21:46We've still got the hours though.
21:47The lads are still working.
21:48Yeah, that's true.
21:49But you see, I want to tempt him in.
21:52OK, so what we need to take into account, though,
21:54we've got extra two headcounts now with Sophie and Isaac.
21:58Overheads have gone up.
21:58Yeah, so our overheads have gone up.
22:00In fact, our utilities have gone up as well.
22:02So we do need to start charging 95 pounds.
22:05And I noticed the Lancia down there as well.
22:07Yes.
22:08Please tell me that one's at 95 pounds an hour.
22:10Anna, that is an interesting one.
22:11It's owned by a man who owns and operates a wildlife park.
22:17OK.
22:17And he's going to sell it to fund a new enclosure for his leopards.
22:21That's very different for us, isn't it?
22:22I know.
22:23But he has a strictly limited budget.
22:26So he's paying 15 grand.
22:29Can I ask how you came to the 15,000?
22:33Are you confident we're covering our labour and parts?
22:36That's how much he's got.
22:38It's a bit like I was once fined.
22:39We can't agree to jobs on how much somebody's got.
22:41It's the other way around.
22:42We tell them how much a job is costing.
22:44We cost it out.
22:46So what if he'd come to you with, I've got 10,000?
22:49Neil would probably still have done it.
22:50He is Dr. Doolittle with a spare.
22:53So long as we're not making a loss, though, Richard.
22:55I do at some point want to start repaying your loans.
22:58We've hit 400,000 now.
23:00So that's how much you're owed.
23:01And the only way we're going to start repaying you is by making a profit.
23:06OK.
23:06I will introduce.
23:08I promise.
23:09New hourly rate introduced.
23:10I will charge 95 pounds an hour.
23:11Please.
23:13See you soon.
23:13Bye.
23:16That was a very disappointing meeting with Richard.
23:20He's not rolled out the 95 pounds an hour that we'd agreed.
23:23I feel like we're going backwards because Neil's agreed a fixed price on that.
23:28The thing we shouldn't be doing is fixed price jobs.
23:30I think this is another vehicle that we're going to make a loss on.
23:39Mindy?
23:41Hello?
23:43What?
23:44Are you joking?
23:46Where?
23:48Yeah.
23:48Yeah, I know it.
23:50No, no, I'll come get you.
23:51No, I'll come now.
23:52I'm on my way.
24:00Mindy was in our Discovery, which is our old school run car that's done good service
24:06and should have been retired and put out to graze years ago.
24:08And she has broken down on the way back from a visit to the doctors
24:12where she was told she has a virus and has to go to bed.
24:16Um...
24:20Hello?
24:21Got it.
24:22We're going to have to do something.
24:24Yes.
24:24Because I meant to use the Discovery on Saturday and now I don't have it on Saturday.
24:27I need to sleep in it.
24:31Right.
24:31Why wasn't she in the G-Wagon?
24:33She wanted to test out the Discovery because I'm using it on Saturday.
24:37Well, we've got the answer to the test.
24:39Yeah, otherwise I would have broken down in the north.
24:41So, thank God.
24:45You're in trouble now.
24:47Yeah, I think it's going to be fixable.
24:48If it's the fuel pump, it's going to cost more than the car's worth.
24:52Okay.
24:52Yeah.
24:53So, I think we should get a new car.
24:56What, you want me to buy a new car so that you can go to a party in it on Saturday?
25:00I think actually we do need one anyway.
25:02Yes, I bought the G-Wagon.
25:03Because that's Mummy's car.
25:04But I bought it as the family car.
25:06Well, that hasn't happened, so let's just move on.
25:09But I can't just buy another car.
25:11I'm not a Kardashian and neither are you.
25:13But, Tommy, we need a family freaking car.
25:17I bought a family G-Wagon.
25:18I really don't like this attitude.
25:20We need to get this sorted and buy it Saturday.
25:23This is bullying.
25:24Your poor wife is on the side of the road.
25:27Maybe think about that.
25:28Yeah.
25:29I'll be home later.
25:30Love you.
25:31Yeah, love you, bye.
25:32Thanks for calling, Angel.
25:36Yeah, there you go.
25:36That's my life for you, Isaac.
25:39Oh, brilliant.
25:40There's more roadworks than chuffing road in Herefordshire.
25:43There's nothing there.
25:45They're cutting some trees down, I think.
25:47You don't close the road to do some frigging gardening.
25:58This is proper dodgy.
26:00We need the world's fastest ever recovery.
26:04Hello.
26:05So, good thing you found this out before Izzy broke down.
26:08In the north.
26:12Sorry.
26:13Sorry.
26:16If I didn't have a workshop business,
26:18and I'd have said, oh, I better call the AA or the RAC,
26:21none of this would I have had to have been involved with.
26:27Min, do you want to get in the pickup?
26:32Sorry, mate.
26:34Right, Min, I'm going to have to drop you off at the gas station.
26:37I'm going to have to drop you off at the gate.
26:39So, are you in a position to be able to tuck yourself in bed and feel better?
26:43Yeah, I am.
26:44Good.
26:45Thank you very much, everybody.
26:47You're more than welcome.
26:56It's a good area.
26:58See you in the morning.
27:08Everybody's gone home, and I'm here working on the lancia.
27:13Well, I think with this, I might have bitten off more than I can chew.
27:17Anthony's managed to do the mechanical work that needed doing it,
27:20but the problem with that is I'm miles, and I mean miles behind in it.
27:24It's basically rotten.
27:28So, it's a lot of work.
27:30It's hours and hours and hours.
27:31But I've got to keep the books balanced.
27:34I think what's going to have to happen is,
27:35I'm going to have to have some early mornings, late nights,
27:38and not tell anybody, and just try and move it on and get it done.
27:40But I just can't have anybody knowing, especially Kamala and Richard.
27:45So, I've got to just keep cracking on, and hopefully, nobody will notice.
27:49Unless somebody does pay attention for once,
27:52and then they'll think the wilding fairies have been in.
27:57Good thing, it's going to be a really nice day
27:59when I can look at those leopards and see them in their enclosure,
28:02and it'll make it all worthwhile.
28:05I require the discovery this weekend.
28:20So, for Pa's sake, I hope it's done.
28:26That's not done, is it?
28:28It's time to go and have a little word with Pa.
28:36Daddy?
28:37Yes?
28:41Hello, Rayleigh.
28:41Hello.
28:42Come in.
28:43Okay.
28:45So, like, the discovery?
28:47Yes.
28:48Yeah.
28:49It doesn't look done, does it?
28:50How would you know? I'm looking at it.
28:51Like, all the tools surrounding it.
28:54That's because it's being done.
28:55Yeah.
28:56And how...
28:56It's in...
28:57How do you know it's being done?
28:58Well, I've got to look at it.
29:00I've got to look at it.
29:01I've got to look at it.
29:02I've got to look at it.
29:02I've got to look at it.
29:03I've got to look at it.
29:04And how long?
29:07Well, timescale is...
29:09Well, no, I'm going to stop you right there.
29:11Timescale is Saturday.
29:13And if it's not going to be fixed,
29:14we need to look at other options.
29:16So I would spend, in your world,
29:18£100,000 on a new car
29:21that you would go and be sick in at a party.
29:24No, that's a little bit uncouth.
29:26I wouldn't be sick in it.
29:27I will get the car done.
29:28Isaac's looking at it,
29:29and the flump is good with the car.
29:31He's on it.
29:32Okay, I'm going now.
29:34Isabella, Darcy, Alana, Hammond,
29:35come in here immediately.
29:37I've just opened this.
29:39What is it?
29:40Last chance reminder, tax it or lose it.
29:42I don't...
29:42Like, I...
29:43It's not...
29:44No, because it's not in my...
29:45Because if it's addressed to you,
29:46then it's addressed to you.
29:47This is something you need to learn about.
29:48I want you to come see how much it costs.
29:51In the grown-up world,
29:53we have to tax your vehicle.
29:55That's extortionate.
29:57Have you got your card?
29:59I don't...
29:59Like, at this point,
30:00I'm in, like, a bit of a tricky situation.
30:02How much money have you got in your bank?
30:04No, because...
30:05How much money have you got?
30:06It's a tricky one.
30:07I've got £1.13 is what I've got.
30:11Yeah.
30:11What about your savings account?
30:13£1.13, I said what I said.
30:16I'm sorry, I'm not very good with money.
30:17Right, I'll pay then.
30:19Thanks.
30:21Okay, I'm just going to leave you with this, I think,
30:22because I don't really want to have to...
30:24I'm just... I've got to go,
30:25because, like, I'm going to go now.
30:28Okay.
30:29So I'll see you soon.
30:32Yeah.
30:33See ya.
30:33Bye.
30:46That's nasty, that is.
30:51Oh, yeah.
30:53That is a bit of glamour in the workshop,
30:55but not you.
30:56I mean, your cars, they're looking fantastic.
30:58Yeah, we've got rid of all these, look.
31:00I'll demonstrate to you.
31:02I hate it when you put sandpaper on fresh paint.
31:05What he's trying to do is cut back the layers of paint
31:08on the top where it's bubbled,
31:10but the problem with that,
31:11you're risking going through the layers of paint
31:13and causing holes in the paintwork,
31:15so it's a bit tricky.
31:17Oh, that is amazing, though, isn't it?
31:18They're the right cars to go to the event.
31:20Both of them bring a brilliant story with them.
31:22And with that in mind, it's quite a smart event.
31:24What were we talking, trousers?
31:26I'd wear trousers, definitely, yeah.
31:28And maybe a different hat.
31:33I'm all right.
31:34Summer's almost here, we'll be all right.
31:35We'll get rid of the hat.
31:36Can I have a go at doing one of those looks?
31:37No, no.
31:38Let me just do one.
31:39Oh, he's got the jacket off and everything now, look.
31:41What if I cut?
31:42See those there?
31:43Yeah.
31:43Like a little squirt.
31:45How much pressure?
31:46Two fingers.
31:47Yeah.
31:48You'll feel it under the paper.
31:49Don't soar it.
31:51Caress it.
31:51Gentle with it.
31:53Do you offer a telephone service as well?
31:55We could do.
31:59Just over a month ago, Neil returned this Delahaye
32:02to its original striking blue colour.
32:05It'll be joining the Jag at the event.
32:07I'll be honest, I've never taken a car to a salon privé.
32:11Not one I've ever painted.
32:12So that's quite a big moment for me, in a way.
32:15It's not a concourse event.
32:16That's more like cars for sale.
32:18Oh, right.
32:19So they take them there and then people make a big offer
32:21and they let them go and then...
32:22Exactly.
32:25A lot of people will be looking at this car.
32:27So I'm a bit nervous to what people would expect to see.
32:31You always get that thing, is my work good enough?
32:34So we'll just have to see.
32:36You know, get it as good as we can.
32:37We can't do no more than that.
32:52That car's done 200,000 miles with us on the school road.
32:57It's part of the family.
32:59It's a bit like watching a vet work on the family pet.
33:03Please, Liv!
33:05The girls are very fond of it.
33:07And it represents part of my wallet.
33:14I've checked all the electrics and all the fuel pumps work.
33:17So we'll give it a start and see what it does.
33:20Come on, Isaac.
33:21Work your magic, young fella.
33:23Moment of truth.
33:25Oh, he should be happy now.
33:30It lives!
33:30It was out of fuel.
33:32That was it?
33:33Yeah.
33:34The fuel gauge is reading wrong though.
33:36It said it was half full.
33:37Yeah, there's nothing in there.
33:39Completely bone dry.
33:40You can have a packet of crisps.
33:41Flavour of your choosing.
33:43Prawn cocktail.
33:44That's redeemable for me anytime you like.
33:46Well done.
33:48Yes!
33:49That is a huge relief.
33:51Ran out of fuel.
33:52I've just realised that means I've got a phone call to make.
33:57I can enjoy this.
33:59Izzy, sweetheart.
34:01Good news.
34:04Even better news.
34:06The Jaguar and Delahaye are ready to be picked up for the show.
34:10Neil, transport here.
34:11Better get these out.
34:12You ready to go?
34:13Yeah, you all right?
34:14Yeah, I think so.
34:15Looks nice.
34:16Hopefully it'll start now.
34:21Right, watch out.
34:22Come on, you all right?
34:35I don't think you'll get it looking much better than that, will you?
34:37No.
34:38It's come out better than I thought, to be fair.
34:40One day, one to go.
34:41Yeah.
34:42Get rid of the Delahaye now and see what she looks like.
34:44It's a stand-off pre-road, but the weather's like that.
34:47Bet the sun will come out tomorrow?
34:48Tomorrow.
34:49Tomorrow?
34:50I bet my bottom dollar it'll be eight tomorrow.
35:00All the cars at Salon Privé are for sale.
35:03I'd better brief the chaps.
35:06So, today, if somebody does come along and they're interested,
35:10you both have got to go into super slick salesman mode.
35:13If, um, you know, we get a bit of a fail on the go and a bit of a...
35:17It's because you've got a hat on.
35:18You think it's appropriate to start going for a ride like that?
35:21You're like something out of Dad's Army, all of a sudden.
35:23I've sold quite a few cars in my time.
35:25Have you got any watches in there?
35:27No, well, I've got a...
35:28There it is.
35:28I've got a... Look at that, look.
35:30The Buff log book.
35:31When's the last time you had fun in the Buff?
35:33Corgi bicycle.
35:34It's not a bicycle, it's a motorbike.
35:36Is there a whole different business going on here?
35:40No, no.
35:40I presumably got in there.
35:41Well...
35:44What?
35:45Is this your truck?
35:47Why have you got this...
35:48Oh, my God.
35:49This is because they sell things at this event.
35:51Well, it's sale to sale, isn't it?
35:53It's money, look.
35:54That is a crappy old pickup that's in your garden.
35:57What else have you got in there?
36:00Well, I've got an MHE there, but that wouldn't be an MHE.
36:02And a VW Caddy.
36:04Is this your van?
36:05Yeah, the gas van.
36:07So, because you're coming to the...
36:09The Salon Privé, at which they sell multi-million pound cars.
36:14We're there to represent Adelaide.
36:16You've got in your pocket a Buffalo book from a 1949 motorcycle.
36:21That appalling pickup that's bouldering next to your garage on your drive.
36:25And your own truck.
36:37Oh, look at that, look.
36:38Yep.
36:40Right, let's do it.
36:44Come on, Alfredo.
36:45Do you want a hand up?
36:49Right, let's go and find our car.
36:50Look at all that.
36:52It's an Alfa Romeo, it's a static display.
36:56I reckon it's that one there, I reckon.
36:58I would say that's our little blue beauty there.
37:04The first of our two classics on show today is the 1947 Delehane.
37:10We've invited a specialist classic car auctioneer to value it.
37:14So this guy looking at the car, that is James Goode.
37:17So I want to know if we've added value to it.
37:20There was a lot of pressure in painting that car.
37:22I'm hoping it's going to be worth more than when it came to us.
37:25Hi Richard, nice to see you again.
37:29Right, so there is a Delehane.
37:31Yes.
37:32Valuation, what do you need to do to look at it?
37:36Now I've seen it with this gleaming, fabulous original colour on it.
37:40I think this car has been brought to life.
37:42And it looks absolutely resplendent.
37:44So we know that his son paid...
37:47£255,000.
37:48Yeah.
37:49Value there, what do we think?
37:50Well, I think its value today is £275,000 to £300,000.
37:55Right.
37:55Because of who it was, you know.
37:57Let's face it, you know, Louis Chirot was a debonair womaniser.
38:01He had the right car.
38:03And I think the story with him and the car and his racing prowess, etc.
38:07I think you could top the £300,000 and go above it.
38:10So we've certainly added more value to it than its cost.
38:14Absolutely.
38:15Right, James, thank you.
38:16Nice to see you.
38:16Thank you very much.
38:17Right, so we've added value.
38:22So importantly, we are here with not just one car that we painted,
38:26but there is also the other car, the Jag, that we've refinished.
38:29Why don't we leave Captain Sales here?
38:31Let's go and have a look at the XK.
38:32I'm a bit worried leaving him by himself though.
38:35Not a problem.
38:36I might need Anne to carry the cash to the car then.
38:39No cash.
38:41It's a very handsome car and it could just do with a new handsome owner.
38:46And you look just the man.
38:49Our wives confiscated checkbooks before.
38:52Let's have a word with the missus.
38:53Buy us some flowers on the way home.
38:55I couldn't interest you in a nice Mazda pickup or a Corgi motorcycle?
39:00No, no, no.
39:01But it could be.
39:02I've got a pen.
39:03Time to see if the customer is happy with Andrew's clever quick fix on the Jaguar.
39:10Oh, there she is.
39:12Well, it holds its own much better than it would have done.
39:14A lot of better, isn't it?
39:15Ah, hello, how are you?
39:17Nice to see you, John.
39:17Nice to see you.
39:18How are you, mate?
39:19Yeah, good, thanks.
39:19Very good.
39:20It's looking really fantastic.
39:22Well, as far as you can get it without...
39:23It's only like a temporary fix.
39:25It's going to come back.
39:26Yeah.
39:26If you do decide to go ahead and you want to go ahead and fix it,
39:29it's going to come back.
39:30Yeah.
39:31If you do decide to go ahead and you want it sorted,
39:33you'll love to get it as crisp as it can be.
39:35No, exactly.
39:36No, that's the plan.
39:37Yeah, definitely.
39:37And what's the love?
39:38Good.
39:38No, it's great.
39:39Right, well, lovely to see you.
39:40Yeah, and you.
39:41Thank you very much for all the hard work.
39:43Enjoy your day.
39:43Yeah, cheers.
39:46Well, he was happy.
39:47He likes it.
39:47It's great, isn't it?
39:48And rightly so.
39:49Imagine how happy he'd be if he had it done properly.
39:50That's my worry.
39:51He's done too good a job.
39:52I haven't, because...
39:53Because he's going to look at that and think,
39:54well, I don't need to paint it.
39:56He won't, because those blisters are still there.
39:58Yeah, that's true.
40:02I wonder how Neil's getting on.
40:04On this lovely sunny day,
40:06a car that we've all worked on,
40:08and I've had the honour of painting,
40:10has now got to be driven around on the grass
40:13at this lovely event.
40:14It's just an amazing feeling.
40:17There she goes.
40:18There's our neighbour going.
40:19We've got to get cracking.
40:25Hello, hello, hello.
40:26Is this your car, sir?
40:27Yeah.
40:28Don't get it hot.
40:29If it gets hot and overheats,
40:30can I literally just depart?
40:31Just don't walk away.
40:32Don't look back.
40:32I'll just leave.
40:33Right, ready.
40:34Contact.
40:36See you later.
40:39I'm a bit concerned it's going to overheat.
40:41Although we only done the paintwork,
40:43people will judge the whole car.
40:45I don't want it to break down here.
40:48It's smelling hot.
40:49You're all right.
40:50Don't panic.
40:50Don't panic.
40:51Don't.
40:52I'm anxious.
40:53Our reputation is at stake.
40:55Enjoy the day.
40:56Look, everybody's happy.
40:57We're happy.
40:57It's too late.
40:58I'm anxious.
40:59Have faith.
41:00It smells warm.
41:02Yeah, I'd say turn her off
41:04and wait for that one to move.
41:06Let's knock her off.
41:07Second move.
41:08You're a little bit nervous, aren't you?
41:10I'm just anxious.
41:11Is your heart not racing now?
41:13Benny, when you're happy,
41:14you're really happy.
41:15I am?
41:15Yeah.
41:16I'm very happy.
41:17Delahaye.
41:18It's owned by Louis Chirot.
41:19Yes.
41:20And I'm about to drive it
41:21through Stamford Creek.
41:22Well, if it starts.
41:23Yeah.
41:27Oh, no.
41:29No, you don't want that.
41:30Oh, no.
41:31Not now.
41:36Oh.
41:38Did you do that just...
41:41You did.
41:42You're not funny.
41:43You're not funny.
41:45I don't find you funny.
41:47Please, can you tell us a little bit about this?
41:50I don't know what we find out.
41:51It was commissioned by Louis Chirot himself.
41:53Restored in 2012,
41:55but in the wrong colour.
41:56All we had to go on
41:58to identify the original colours of this car
42:00was a black and white photograph to start with.
42:02Thank you very much, Richard Hamlin,
42:04this morning for Mr. Chirot's very car,
42:06ladies and gentlemen.
42:07Thank you very much, Richard.
42:09Absolute pleasure.
42:11There you are.
42:12Well done.
42:12I don't know what you were worried about.
42:14I was worried about you.
42:15I don't know what you were worried about.
42:21I'd say this was a key moment
42:23in what's happened to our little business
42:25since we started.
42:26I did promise them
42:27we will one day have a car
42:29on the lawns at a top event,
42:30and there is a car we've done
42:32next to a £3.8 million Ferrari.
42:35And it earned its place on the lawn next to it.
42:36And that says it all.
42:38It's...
42:38I'm so, so...
42:41pleased for and proud of the guys.
42:45The thing is, it's very nice to be here,
42:47and it's very nice to see these cars,
42:48but it's not our world as such.
42:51Whatever car you look at here,
42:53that doesn't matter what it is
42:55or what it's worth,
42:56it was made by a working class man.
42:58I don't look at a car for monetary value.
43:00I look at it for the styling,
43:02and I think of the chap that made it.
43:04That's what I think.
43:10The only thing is,
43:10the show goes on for another three days.
43:13No, I'm not having three days out at work.
43:15We have got too much to get done.
43:17Well, we have got a...
43:18We had a bit of a back-up plan.
43:19Is it in the boot of the car?
43:23It can't be here, can we?
43:24No, it can't be here.
43:25Three days of this, it's like we're here.
43:27Are you ready?
43:28Yeah, yeah.
43:29Ah, perfect!
43:31See?
43:32Look, it's like I'm there.
43:33And now we can escape to the pub.
43:34Right, let's go then.
43:36See you later.
43:38Don't look back.
43:39Never look back.