Resurrecting a Reliant Kitten - Flipping Bangers - S02 EP02 - Car Show

[Music] this time on Flipping bangers  we wanted to try something new and this orange Oddball has the power  to please high five and the ability to annoy having an engine that works doesn't  make the card does it no if we can put it together we'll win but there's a gap [Music]  between the dream and the cold hard cash brother caught me out it's  gonna have to go back up again I'm Gus Gregory and I'm will Trickett together  we're risking everything to follow a dream it's something I've wanted to

do for a long long time  we've packed in our day jobs and invested our own hard-earned cash as we try to make a living in  a Cutthroat world of second-hand cars it's all in the chase you've got to buy well you've  got to sell well why would anybody buy this car we've got a goal we want to double our  money if we put 500 quid in we need to see a thousand pounds back we're targeting the  very bottom of the market we buy cars that nobody else wants can we keep our business  afloat flipping bangers

it needs so much work one year ago we turned our backs on our regular  jobs rented this garage and attempted to carve out a new living by buying and selling cheap  cars and made enough money flipping bangers just to return people dream of giving everything  up but we're doing it for real and it's scary we've emptied our pockets again and this time we  have enough to spend 500 to a thousand pounds on each car if we want to cover our costs and  pay ourselves wages it's essential we double our retu

rn on every pound we put in and we  can only afford five Workshop days per car we've swapped to salaries and a wage possibly for  nothing [Music] Workshop is ready for occupation and we are primed for action but we've had so  many headache cars lately we need a change I tell you what I'm so fed up and complicated  I think simple would be brilliant yeah lion it's weird it's different although  with only three wheels it's also unstable well that's almost what I was thinking but um  something with

a little bit less risk yeah they did The Fox and the kitten kitten very cool little  car nice little car let's have a look for kittens and we should absolutely look for a kitten they're  brilliant cars right I think there's any kittens in captivity anymore how do you spell kitten oh  hold on a minute don't answer that I've got it I've got it I can work that one out myself I put  in puppies by mistake look I got yeah now I got kids so although neither of us really know how  to be at one with the

internet we do locate a reliant kitten remember that's the one with four  wheels in the Mean Streets of Lincolnshire we have everything we need to feel positive this  is going to be a bit of fun isn't it the idea of us driving around in a kitten makes me laugh  yeah us too sad together in a tiny weeny little kid rubbing shoulders our kitten is owned by an  ex-engineer who Tinkers with cars his non-running project which is a mashup of different Reliance  would send most people running for the hil

ls but we like to tease out profit from tough places and  gamble there could be decent money hidden in this 70s wedge I have got some worries because because  you know this guy's done a lot of work on us and he's putting a new chassis into it I believe I  think he's done all the body he's done the chassis he's put I don't know which engine he's put in it  but he said he's put an uprighted engine in it he sounds a really nice bloke very very genuine he's  got a lot of cars yeah he bought it as a

project he spent a lot of time a lot of money on it and I  think like like a lot of projects yeah my fear is this it's been a parts for a long time by the  sounds of it yeah ah all of those parts still in a box all connected to the car or are they  scattered to the Four Winds I guess that's what we're going to find out just outside Woodall  Spa we think we've arrived at the right place wow that's special isn't it yeah it is beautiful but that's not our kitten no  but it is worth a fortune yeah g

ood morning good morning have a little look  at your kitten Ah that's not it no but that is very nice it is beautiful where's our kitten  then the kittens in the garage well our kittens in the garage and this is out here that doesn't  doesn't seem right really it's not right no no is that why the kitten's got to go yeah whoa  that's brilliant Gus it's orange we were I was saying you can't really tell from the  pictures whether it was orange or red but it's orange it's it's funny in my mind's eye

  and from the address I was kind of imagining that the the body wasn't going to be bolted to  the chassis or at least on it yeah if you run the Shashi but there's only the steering rack  and the steering column that's attached that's so neat isn't it yeah yeah so you've put a lot  of work into this I am yes I am more work than I wanted when I bought it I wanted to have it done  in two days to a week how long have you had it so this car has a replacement engine although  not from a kitten I've h

ad it really it just run okay okay gearbox axles it's a new wheel  cylinders and all that brand new tires on the front wow there's a lot of spares in the back are  they bits that need bolting off shirt treasure there are spares yeah I think we are very much  in the valuable spares Club aren't we we are yeah yeah Priceless prices Antiquities well it's  so fantastically dated wonderful condition look at that you know it's it is still like you but  that's the joy of plastic yeah someone's loved it

someone's been a long way yeah yeah oh yeah that's  great should we get it outside yeah push it out oh we're going to open the door people love to laugh  at Reliance but this was actually a clever car in the late 70s with lotus inspired front suspension  and this DL version standing for deluxe even had vinyl map Pockets a radio and a rear parcel shelf  there are only 50 left on the road and a good one is up to three thousand pounds ha all right chaps  I'll let you have a look around it oh they m

ake all right isn't it great but all this it's  just it's some really good Nick isn't it it is yeah what I'm saying in here I'm really really  excited I can't wait to have a go in it no I wish it I wish it ran yeah so do I let's go and have a  quick look see what it means just to get it going hearing an engine running can tell you a lot about  the car's health and the work you have to do well it's not going to be able to run it for long are  we because it's got no water going around that but it

doesn't mean we can't start it up yeah we can  Jerry rig a little temporary fuel tank onto that no problem first things first yeah safety  safety first yeah you don't want to be hit by that because that's going to do you right  yeah because we're clever we quickly locate the old battery from the boot stick it in and pray  it has juice the starter needs to be connected and a little fuel is needed  I'll be enough to get it started which will deliver straight into the  carburetor of this little 40

horsepower 850. basically ether into the  car to help it fire [Music] when I thought one was a choke and the other one  was a throttle yeah I did the wrong way around yeah if we can get it going the kitten becomes  a much more tempting proposition for us oh sounds very nice I'll tell you brilliant hello  high five five men hug yeah back to where then so we need a bit of a  reality check don't we yeah we do having an engine that works doesn't make a card  does it no [Applause] [Music] it's got to

be logic before emotion that  dictates whether we make an offer what we've really got is and an intentions  list yes we have and watch this look the entire body shell is not connected onto the  entire chassis but we need to work it out what do you reckon this car's worth a good one two  to three yeah this is a very good one 700 quid we'll offer him that it'll never take 700 quid a  thousand pounds this is worth a thousand pounds let's go to a thousand pounds yes definitely  definitely a week of

us lavishing care on it so we've got a car that's mot'd and running that with  all this patina on it and that fabulous interior definitely definitely work your magic  then I'll get it for underground you watch and learn watch and learn  William and see how those pants out Mick oh yeah yeah guess what you don't  want to no we do want to we do want it and we think it's probably worth 900 quid no no  no no I think it's worth well over a thousand what about 1010 that's just above a thousand isn't 

it no no no 1020. no 1030. well soon as that look in your face and I'm badly you need go on then it  seems like Nick really does have a sense of humor 1030 pounds isn't a lot of money to Son  but our comfort zone is usually around three to four hundred quid so this Reliance is an  enormous risk for us but at least it's not heavy and with the straps battened down onto  the plastic Bodywork we head back to the workshop where we're literally  unpack it and find out whether this funny little car mig

ht be able to pay back  our enthusiasm for it [Music] [Applause] success eh people who think this is a joke are  going to be laughing on the other side of their faces because we're going to make some serious  money out of this car we are because that's going to be an absolute Corker when we put it all back  together yep all of the bits seem to be there the work that's been done by Mick is brilliant he's a  good engineer if you're going to buy an unfinished project then you've got to buy it off o

f someone  who knows what they're doing when you just look at the bits that he's put back on if you look  underneath it it's all been painted it's all been uh it just looks great he knows what he's doing he  knows what he's doing all the nuts and bolts have been greased they're all Nylock so he's put them  on just brilliant he's just brilliant but back at the workshop it's time for a reality check there's  a huge amount to do in a relatively short amount of time yeah but we know what the list is

that's  a great thing we know the engine almost works yeah we do so we assume the gearbox works we definitely  know this wheel's not very well attached we didn't we definitely know that it needs some carpets  yeah we know the body's not attached as well oh yeah the body's not attached is it going on then  I very much doubt that anything else is attached there's good points though in there because the  Finish is great A Bit of Polish that's going to look great but we've got our itinerary things

to  do yeah and if we're going to get top money for it we've really got to cross the t's and Dot the eyes  mechanically haven't we it's got to be perfect Workshop time in our rented garage is costly for  us so we advertise the cars as soon as we get them in so we can sell them faster I take some pictures  for an ad that will start running right away I list the car as mot'd complete and running with  no issues yes this is projecting into the future but hopefully in five days these lies will becom

e  true when we bought the car there were several of them available so you could sort of see roughly  how much they were going for but there's nothing available now and it's really difficult to  gauge where to price the car so I've put a starting price on the 50 pounds just to get the  ball rolling but realistically if we're going to double our money we've got to have a reserve  price of 2 400 and a sort of cheeky bite now price of 2795. it's a lot of money for a kitten  but we paid a thousand p

ounds for the car and there might just be someone out there desperate  and this might just be their their car mightn't it and now it's time for the good bits the car enters  the hallowed workshop and we get our first good look underneath but this time the body isn't  attached so we've got a different treat in store we can inspect the entire chassis  which apparently is from a later car a reliant Fox that's pretty  good isn't it yeah yeah wow I'll tell you what is nice it's nice seeing the  top o

f this isn't it because seeing these these do tend to rot don't they tin tanks under plastic  cars yeah they do yeah so he's put a lot of paint and he's painted the diff hasn't he which is  nice uh he's got new shocks on there brake pipes all lovely um all the Junctions look nice  the flexible is nice looking quite nice difficult to say but there doesn't seem to be any play in  the prop shaft either oh it's really good it's been pretty good Nick isn't it I mean he's done  his job hasn't he he ha

s yeah and we know the engine is okay and the gearbox looks okay so it's  just fingers crossed off can get every gear in it can't yeah you can you can so front suspension  well the bushes all look okay steering rack that looks okay brake pipes all shiny and new so with  all this good cheer there has to be a morsel of bad news doesn't it top ball joint looks [ __ ]  to me how's yours yeah this one's at it as well yeah luckily we've been gifted a box of mixed bits  will it contain a spare ball joi

nt or two Parts on rare cars are difficult to find so if the boot box  doesn't have the ball joints we might have found why Mick decided to park company with the kit so  mix obviously put everything in here that he's ever taken off the car some of which I have to say  I really like this fetching blue with the orange we're going to use but a lot of which so these  are the old cart Springs then he's put single leaf springs on there which will have more compliance  than these old carts so these are

going to go out old suspension unit well that's clearly going to  go out but what we're looking for is ah here look the anti-roll bar and these are the these  are the bushes which are shot so hopefully he'll have put new bushes in with ah look  here hey new bushes and clamps that goes on there so that's perfect oh that's good so we got  those that's something else we don't have to buy but annoyingly new ball joints I think there's  old ones beating up ones and I think the reason why he hasn't c

hanged them is because clearly  they're very very difficult to find which is going to be a problem for us but someone has got  to go and find some and wills found another issue everything seems to be where it's supposed  to be apart from warm glaring a mission and that is should have an exhaust pipe in it  from here to about here and hanging on that which is a real pissy because it means that  that's got to go into the parts list now and it's another thing we've got to try and find while will ju

mps online to Source the missing  bits I'm going to kick things off by using the booty that's here but not on the car first up is  the anti-roll bar which keeps the body in check during fast cornering so these are the bushes  for our anti-roll bar and normally when I fitted these before they've always been split so they go  the clamp goes over them and they go over the bar but these aren't split and that worries me so I'm  going to try and get them on in one piece and to facilitate that I'm goin

g to pop them in Wheels T  there and wait for them to get nice and malleable if they split it'll save me splitting them  but they might just go on oh yes look at that perfect and not split with an old car it's these  little quite difficult jobs that can be pleasing maybe that sounds a bit Old Manny but it feels  good to win now it's time to attach the anti-roll bar which is the key part of the desirable DL  spec the anti-roll bar bolts into place beneath the suspension arms we're one step closer

to the  state-of-the-art double Wishbone suspension being a thing of beauty but it's not going to be a thing  of beauty without the ball joints and they don't seem to be on sale anywhere we decide to tackle  the issue tomorrow it's the second day on our Reliant kitten project which is an experimental  way for us to see whether quirky equals cash but it set us back more than a thousand pounds already  I've sent will to find the missing ball joints and the knowledge the complete knowledge  guru's

status in the world of Reliant kittens and luckily enough I found one [Music] I've come to Birmingham to see Simon who runs  a parts business from his home his reputation is that if you can't find something he's either  got one or knows where to find it I hope that's true because I've come a very long way wow  I rely on Rebel that is a really rare car a look a little kitty as well and I bet you that  one actually works hi are you will yeah Simon that's it yeah I'll see you around the side about

  you by the brown gate oh brilliant cheers mate oh hello sorry hi we're nice  to meet you man good day sir yeah good to see you Simon takes me to  his sprawling industrial complex wow so this is Aladdin's cave well  yeah I can see it really is Simon we think we're probably after  you've got an exhaust silencer trust you picked the one thing I haven't  got but yeah right behind your head but it will fit it's uh well how strictly kitten  do we need to get well it will silence it that's what scien

ce needs to do um it doesn't look  like he's gonna silence it a great deal but the other stuff in drowning outside well that's  me I mean it looks lovely you seem to have a lot of Reliant kitten I don't know just basically you  know Reliant bits in here yeah I've kind of Saved what I could you know people are checking it out  people are retiring whatever and the bits come up for sale and I try and get what I can when I can  I've got two cars to keep on a road you know so this is more of a hobby

than a business oh it's  a hobby yeah it's about keeping the cars on a road then yeah because you can't use all of these  bits on your own can you not in a million years 10 brake drums is more than I need you know the other  thing is so we were wondering do you have any um any ball joints for the top wishbones upper ball  joints yeah um yes yes yes yes yes let me think yeah I think you might be in luck really cheating a hobble joint that's exactly the sort of  thing we're after that's exactly be

cause that goes in and there's a circlip that holds it yes that's  it two of them two of them in a box Reliant Parts unfortunately the box is time oh oh I think I  think we can do something on price because of that yeah fabulous is that you sorted now well it is  we've got the ball joints we want we've got the um the exhaust pipe that we want as well  last thing is yeah how much you want for the whole lot I have to lay 60 on the ball  joints I'm afraid okay okay I just call it a tenor for the si

ze 70 quid audio okay  let's um that sounds fair let's have a look because the thing is I mean you're a bomb you're a  poor man I've got 60 quid go on is that all right go on Simon you're a star no thank you very much  good to see another kitten be inside and put back on the road so uh yeah look forward to seeing it  down it should be it should be a great project well thank you very much well you know where I am  for anything else I shall give you a call without missing bits now in custody we're

in a good spot  Gus has found more of the suspension in the parts bin and need putting back on the car so these  are our kitten tie bars the basic function of the tie bar is to attach the bottom Wishbone of  the suspension to the chassis and it stops that movement there these are kitten Thai bars  and they're going onto a fox chassis so if we put that in there put the bolt through now I can see roughly this has got a right  angle at the end of it which needs to come off but I can roughly see ho

w much I've got to  cut off which I might Mark that while I'm here low-tech modification of metal parts that you  can't buy is definitely a DIY job and it's part of the reason cars of this era keep men of  a certain age entertained in their workshops the issue with my new shorter tie bar however  is that it can't bolt on properly so I cut down a long bolt as a fixing point and  then cut a channel across the top of that so I've got the head off my Bolt and I've cut the  head off the torsion arm a

nd I've consulted our torsion engineer will and he reckons I should  cut a channel in the torsion arm to fit this into so I can have two worlds at the top Two  Worlds at the bottom structurally much stronger I need to cut as close to the diameter  as possible to allow for a snug fit this is slightly less DIY and if you  need to make something like this but can't weld just wander around an  industrial estate and look for a car body shop they often have skilled  welders who'll sort it out for a dr

ink [Music] it's not beautiful but it is finished I'll wait  for that to cool down put it on tomorrow morning I've had enough I'm going home it's the end of  day two and the Charming kitten which owes us less than Eleven Hundred pounds is still proving to  be a pleasant distraction from the usual monsters that we buy and sell it's day three out of five  on the Reliant kissing project after shelling out over a thousand pounds on the car which is a lot  of money for us we've managed to spend only

60 griddles fares and we want to keep it this way but  this is an unfinished project with a later engine and Chassis and we've got to join them to the body  so you've got ball joints and the silencer yes love excellent which means that all  I need now is a lovely cup of tea after a nice Brew I can fit my modified tie bar it fits like a glove and is going to give the  kitten the sharpness to the handy help him make this an unassuming driver's car another way this  funny little orange vehicle has

the capacity to surprise I suppose tie bars on anti-roll  bars on so the suspension's in good shape the work that was done on the car by the previous  owner was to a nice standard but he ran out of time and patience and this might have something  to do with the suspension we've got to get the rebuild exactly right now with the wheel removed  I can see the ball joints and access it the ball joint is a part of the suspension and steering  components that's let the steering turn then the wheel move

and also let's see the suspension  articulate as well like that now as you can see the dust cover on it is completely perished and  if it's perished that means it's going to let in water and grit if it lets in too much water it  will go Rusty and seas and if it lets in loads of grits it'll just wear out quickly making  our little kiss and unsafe because the body is off I've got fantastic access to work but you  don't need access to swapper ball joints it's a bit like a hip replacement you just

need Force I  need to get the taper part of the ball joint to come apart now I can do that by Shocking it with  a hammer for a fraction of a second the round bit is squashed into an oval shape ball joint pops  apart so an order stir so I'm going to put a backing hammer on one side and I'm going to hit  it on the other side with this Hammer like that which has worked perfectly first time winner  and I'll remove the bolts and we're good to go the wishbones containing the old ball joints are  out b

ut the new ones aren't ready to go back in these ball joints are held in with sir clips and  because that circlip has been in there for many many years and is quite Rusty and covered in  paint my delicate little circulate Pliers are not going to get it out so there's a handy little  tip on the edges of the circlip the ones you want to push apart you can just tap them apart with  a punch and a hammer just to loosen it enough to make it easy to get off ready Circle if it's the  last and only thing

holding the ball joints in and with that out of the way I do  what some say I do best [Music] now it's a reversal of what I did earlier the gator is removed it'll go back on once  the ball joint is back in the wishbone I'll just put a little copper slip where the  metal Parts meet to prevent rusting [Music] it goes in there now I beat that out with a  hammer didn't I I can't go beating it back in with a hammer that was smash at Smithereens it  needs to be pushed in squarely and firmly so I'm go

ing to go to this bigger Vise over here and  whilst using this socket which is going to push against the metal of the wishbone and this socket  which is going to push against the ball joints I'm going to carefully put those in the jaws  of the vise nip them up until it just touches check that it all looks okay which it does  and then turn the handle and push those two quick check [Music] and with the ball joints installed I put the  circlip around which seems snug [Music] the gator one more clip

and then back on the car [Music] stalls which is great and along with the other  jobs that we've done such as the installation of the anti-roll bar and the track control arms  that's as good as the suspension is going to get on our little kitty for the time being  no I'm not just destroying the chassis I'm making preparations for the big push these  bits stretch the body coming off so when it goes back on hopefully quite soon they've  got to go and just before the end of the day there's one mor

e job to do well dust preps the  chassis the kitten is very noisy having had the interior stripped plus we need carpets so I'm  hoping to find some acoustic limiting carpets there's a trimming supplier that's really  celebrated amongst the classic car fans hello there I'm will Hello nice to meet you I'm  Louise hello Louise we've got a reliant kitten and we're going to need various things for it  as well we've got vibration sort of resonance problems with the car and we're also going to  need so

me carpets as well there's so much Choice here that the only way to know what I want is to  check what's in stock and go from there the first Stop acoustic panels right so what it is we've  got large flat fiberglass body panels we need some sort of damping for that yeah absolutely I  think we've got the right product yeah it's a bit tea drumming and vibration sheet you know that's  that's a nice finish on that as well isn't it yes it is yeah so this is what self-adhesive yeah  so I can use it in

my floor pans inside the doors any other large flat areas that might  drum once yeah resonance starts building up yeah and then we need a carpet to go over the  top I'm wanting something 1970s right oh crikey yeah that is a lot of carpets well I can see  immediately that most of these are not in the game because they're the one color we're off to  a black black carpet oh look at that that's nice yeah that's a lovely carpet actually gorgeous  isn't it yeah yeah that's a Jaguar quality one really

it's a wool carpet that is nice  isn't it it's a bit pricey that one that's 55 pounds a meter I'd better lower my sights  Gus won't go for a carpet that dear this one here propylene and it's a lovely carpet and  it is nice isn't it what's this one like for stitching it's not too bad to stitch at all and  we sell carpet binding that you can stitch on carpet bindings that's what it's called brilliant  well we've been eating a little bit of that too excellent well that's the sort of thing we're lo

oking for could we get a couple  of meters of that absolutely yeah that weighs in at 180 quid [Music] day four on kitten Resurrection two days left  do you think we can get that running by tonight I'd say so wouldn't you if we're going so we're  gonna have to sharpen up our spanners pretty quick I I know we were saying being able to drive  this car out would be a great thing to stay but I'm just thinking if you think about  what we've got here this is an 850 we know that yeah and the kitten had

a 750. so  this is an engine out of something else yes we've got a fox chassis we've got a kitten body  we don't know what the rear axle comes off of so we've got an amalgam of three different cars here  none of which we know work together do we we're just assuming it's all going to work but we're  going to just have to use our wits I suppose and be careful and work for it methodically before we  can start the engine the biggest job on this car is to get the body to line up with a chassis from 

a different car yes it's a better chassis and is rust protected but there are no Factory mounting  points so it's not a small job before the body goes on we need to make sure that everything  is in top shape that means stripping the brakes and cleaning the shoes and drums reconnecting the  cooling system checking the tension of the belts and refresh anything that  might be loose or blocked then we can fix the cruddy silencer in place I know that this exhaust pipe isn't  going to fit perfectly an

d I can see why now I've got it all in place  it needs a bracket adapting [Music] yet again no brackets exist for this job but  where there's a will there's a way get it will have nearly put his hammers away luckily  for this job they were still to hand go well go and then a smidgen of weld to  the Bendy bolt and that's done next we replace any gaskets or use a bit of  a bodge when Replacements don't exist this is essential for a car that's been off the road so  long I'm not driving halfway arou

nd the country for another gasket for this non-standard pipe  when instant gasket seal can do just as well and suddenly we're ready to lower the body right I'm done are you done should we get the  body on yes I'm ready I've run out of things to um bolt on and tighten up so because all up there  in the body yeah you know what I've been thinking when we when we lifted it up do you remember  that hilarious moment when when the seals cracked around the the cut off Fox chassis one of  the advantage o

f having a fox chassis obviously is that it's wider yes yeah well so we're going  to have to tease those aren't we down very very carefully and also we've got the clutch cable the  brake pipe the steering column and the radiator which is dangerously close to the old fan isn't it  yeah slowly that's the key in it I'll watch okay right ready and here we go quite a moment  for this little car and for us if we can't get the body to fit it'll remain a project  and our plans of adding cash will disapp

ear we don't have any kind of clever laser-based  system to help we lower the car we keep an eye out and if we hear the sound of something breaking  it's time to stop remember a skilled engineer Mick never fitted the body to the chassis that he'd  sourced did he look at it and throw in the towel well quitting is an option that we cannot  entertain ment is touching somewhere [Music] it's just touching on the on the frame at  the back here on the chassis and in actual fact it's going to have to go

forward a touch  somehow because otherwise it's going to hit the fuel tank if you let it down I'll pull the  balance out and get it over the petrol tank okay you ready yeah come on so down this isn't  exactly what we had in mind it looks like Gus has slightly cracked the body now it's stopped on  something else now we'll all right leave it there oh you're right yeah I'm fine that clunked  back yeah it's gonna go up well it can't come down now because it's resting on the lid it's  going to break

how much you need to go by well it just needs to go a fraction so I can move it  forward if it gets really horrible we'll stop yeah stop rather caught me out it's gonna have to go  back up again that's okay go on that we go right okay now down okay [Music] because it goes down I think that's on that's down so the body is  on but we still don't know if it's in the right place and this final nudge would either line  up the chassis perfectly or this job will never work [Music] weren't too bad was

it in their major  traumas no major cracking I don't know why it's so far it's still a bit of a gap on this radiator oh  hold on a minute if we put the top hose in place we can see that he's come back another 20 mil  yeah Chef C20 move forward there you go next job and do you think we're going to put our backs out  doing this because maybe oh there I'm on there I'm back on let me put some screwdrivers in the hole  it's got to grab some after a multi -teachers we can start bolting the body to the

chassis  okay the extremities done first bolt is in there are just a few final hoses to connect a cooling system to replenish [Music]  and put the battery a little spin over it and a little fuel so if we've done our  jobs right the kitten will Roar into life right that's it here's the moment  of Trace we give it a go come on yes I shall operate throttle and choke  you ready ready giggle fingers it takes a minute for the fuel pump to suck  the petrol into the system try a little Bash yeah I mean

I'd like to use the cheesy joke about  the kitten purring but you know yeah just look at what we've done in a day that's a good day isn't  it yeah it feels like a huge day yeah [Music] sometimes you have to Revel in your achievements  and we're off down the pub to do just that E5 we have a business flipping cars that people  generally avoid this Reliant has loads going for it but projects carry a huge risk to our  fortunes however with a modest spend we've got it running but it's far from showr

oom fresh  and we've got one day left to make it shine first job it needs a proper clean since  will is scared of the Hoover he's given the owner a task of cleaning the detritus  from the back and there's plenty of it I'm getting rid of mold fingerprints and then working on the paint with a cutting  compound I was looking at the outside of the car and the paint is faded but with a cut and a  Polish it comes back and I want to keep true to our philosophy and I want to keep it honest so  where the

chips are down here I'm just going to leave them it looks a bit Tatty but when the  rest of it's clean it will look good but the radiator cover is worth painting while will  works on the interior so here's our carpets I'm just going to make it kiss and shaped for  that I'm going to need to make a template [Music] so using the black art of a pair of  scissors and brown paper I make a panel for the driver's side and reverse  it for the passenger side [Music] I'm trying to get the surface to be un

iform  and use a little filler it goes off in 10 minutes and Sands flat [Music] will  cuts the carpet his perfect template he Tides up the edges and puts on his granny  glasses and sews a nice edging on the carpet I spray the panel black and  get it on the car [Music] before the carpet goes in there's one more job  this is the acoustic mat that will picked up but the science of acoustic transfer is incredibly  complicated and basically the seat bolts down through the fiberglass body so that's fi

ne so  those four points are taut but the bit in the middle acts like a speaker and as the Resonance of  the engine and the drivetrain go through the car vibrates and it fills the cabin with  noise so this attenuates the frequencies carpets are done excellent where the matin's all in cool well I'm going to  see if this fits properly and fit it does Will has done a great job well I must say that looks fabulous I'm really  pleased what were the carpets and the acoustic deadening Gus has been polis

hing the car all  day long it's come a long way in one day and all I've got to do now is pop the seats back in  the other two bits of carpet and we're all done we bought this orange wedge for a big wedge 1030  pounds we've rebuilt the suspension given the Mechanicals a good once over found hard to find  bits got the body back on added carpets and got her running for only 1 300 pounds a project can  be poisonous but we've made it to the other side well it's certainly been a challenge yeah  but it

's also been very satisfying I reckon yeah and we haven't been aiming for Concourse or  showroom condition we were just trying to make it a little bit better yeah I agree I mean it  was effectively a pile of bits wasn't it when we got it really and I've got a new newfound  respect for it well we better take it for a quick spin before this little kitty gets away and  it's my turn to drive okay and boy does it drive can I tell you what amazes me completely about  this car yeah isn't that it's so g

ood Straight Out of the Box there's no rattles it's not a crackling  is it no I think that's amazing all right Ashley that must be no sound fattening  things we put on the floor guys yeah have a nice new carpet it's  very technical well they worked it's a confident little car isn't it  and I would only I'd want to drive it to work every day but yeah you know it  is what it is isn't it it's a relaxed kitten there's not many else all  about someone's going to want it after our spin in the country

we need to  see how our listing is coming on I'm just checking our kitten auction and we've got 12  people bidding on it and it's already up to 1 605 I mean that's not not up to the reserve  which is 2 400 but it's great isn't it it means there are actually people bidding  against each other on our little kitten and sure enough building closes just meeting  the reserve two thousand four hundred so this is Phil he's bought it but he has to agree that  the description is accurate or he won't take

it hey congratulations here are the keys to your new  kitten thank you very much pleasure what do you reckon to it then well that's exactly what I was  looking for to be honest I mean you know there's a few bits that could be improved on but as a base  it's fantastic exactly what I'm looking for are you actually going to drive it all the way back  to Coventry that's the plan excellent yeah that's brilliant all right have a good journey I will  do make sure you turn the a-roads oh well all right

take care guys we've got 2 400 pounds we're  so close to doubling our money we won't bother with the exact calculation and just say we've  done it Bingo another Banger has been flipped [Music] all right [Music] foreign