Classic Car Rally CHALLENGE - Buying Cars at the Auction | Top Gear - Day 1 - YouTube

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we took our seats this is the it's in
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the past
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normally I'm the drunk in London no
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documents the first 1,000 pounds give it
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to me thank you sir what do you mean go
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ugly because you go in nightclubs when I
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was in Ripon as it kid brought if you
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walk into the nightclub first girl I
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love your pull that's it job done your
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mates thinking or in a minute I
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surrender she's gonna turn up the next
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lot was a tasty Ford Cortina on my right
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- 22 2014 to forty sixty to sixty eighty
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to eighty to eighty three hundred three
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twenty three twenty three twenty four
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twenty forty I'm not so long to convert
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a one two convertible
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come on several terrible cars came and
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went
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what the hell's this it's an Austin SEF
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I'm not interested then finally a
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convertible and tog is auctioned new boy
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well at least he done something unlike
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James who was car after car went by
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still refuse to buy you'll see my
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patience will be rewarded has been so
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stubborn I decided to bid on his behalf
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fifteen hundred did he just spit on that
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you have which will be your number see
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if you don't buy something in a minute
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this is my it's a Bristol but it's not
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the wrong engine so it's not worth but
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watch this
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someone stop me five thousands get me
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away five thousand bit at five two five
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four five six
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what are you up to the last it was time
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to inspect what we bought in here by
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driving around in a radiogram listen to
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that this has not got an MOT is it
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booked in and get a ticket on the first
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thing they're going to say is you're
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running on I'm just
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three three
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forget the fourth ongoing and it'll be
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fine I'm very confident this is a
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classic and it was a damn sight bigger
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than Jeremy's classic this is gonna be a
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remarkable thing watching you fold
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yourself into a it isn't a
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it's an austin-healey it's a hairy
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chested man's go that's the big Haley
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this is just a little tiny Haley built
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in the same factory as the MG it
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isn't it all the only difference between
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this and a is an mg badge the
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windscreen still at least my car wasn't
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medieval in 1977 you couldn't drink the
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water in France and they hadn't heard of
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an ignition key it was time to receive
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our challenge you have been entered in a
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classic Time Trial rally on the sunshine
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island of Majorca ah Yorker means bad
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food frog shells and everything driving
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on the other side of the road well they
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do they drive of the wrong side of the
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road and my steering was on the wrong
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side of the car okay so you have two
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weeks to prepare your cars and ship them
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there for a classic time time travel I
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know what they are my wife does these
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they're those ones where you have to get
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from A to B on difficult roads and you
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have to average a certain speed which is
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within the speed of it but you have to
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average it we are talking some what on
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the anal stuff here how do you make a
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car ready for a rally odds a known
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to find out we took our cars for a spin
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so false let's just go through the
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faults that window won't wind up no big
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deal and the hood here where doesn't fit
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properly
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other than those tiny things it's ready
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to rally this one
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our 32 horsepower to be precise while
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waiting for a booking at the MOT Center
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I discovered something amazing hold on a
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second
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my granddad worked at Mullen as' the
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coachbuilders and in the 1950s when he
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was there they were making Hillman
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Humber standard and Lanchester this cars
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1953 so my granddad built this car this
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natural car he was working at Mona's
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when when it was and this is what he did
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he was a coach builder he built this car
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while Richard was having his who do you
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think you are moment I was not very far
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away still not going very fast nought to
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60 I'll give you a few seconds to have
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an educated guess
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no 31.7 seconds