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Welcome to Wheeler Dealers where I show you
how to buy restore and sell modern classics
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iconic cars of my generation. Now the
challenge is to find the cars and return
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them to tip-top condition for no more
than a thousand pounds. To help me I got
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my very own mechanic Ed China he's
going to be showing you how to fiddle with
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the oily bits and how to fit all the
paint work. I'm going to show you where
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to get the cars from and how to
source the parts and at the end we
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should have a collection of
lovely classic cars like this beautiful
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Austin Mini. The Mini is one of the
world's best loved cars like the Citroen.
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2CV and the VW Beetle it's a 20th
century classic. I love the Mini because I
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learned to drive in
it. It's only my dad, it's
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only my mum, it's only
my brothers. It handled
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like a go-kart at 50 miles an hour
it felt like he was doing a hundred
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miles an hour it drove like it
was on rails and I loved it for that.
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Character I've never seen a car with
so much character and that's what this
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car is all about.
Character, character, character.
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Launched in 1959 the Mini will forever
be remembered as a child of the swinging
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sixties. The Beatles were in the
charts, the miniskirt was causing the
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stir on a high street and the Mini
caught the mood perfectly. It was cheeky,
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fun and affordable. Before the Mini
hard up cool cats like these drove
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around in motorcycle sidecars. Now
there was a cheap cool motor and everybody
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wanted one. The Mini went on to be
one of the world's best-selling cars with
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fans on every continent and that
success was down to one man Alec
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Isegonis. His revolutionary design
mounted the engine across the front of
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the car and pushed the wheels into
each corner creating a small car which
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felt big inside and handled like a
pocket rocket. Over the years there were
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estates, cabralets and variants like the
Clubman. The Mini Cooper went on to win
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rallies all over the world and even
upstaged Michael Caine in the Italian job
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film. The basic design eventually went
out of production in 2001 but our love
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affair with this car goes
on and immaculate cars like
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this can change hands today
for as much as five grand.
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I'm looking for a Mini and to do that I'm
using the free ad newspapers. Now when
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these things drop through your letterbox
don't throw them away or use them as
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kitty litter. In the back you'll find
dozens of cheap cars for sale.
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Admittedly you won't find a Bentley
or Rolls Royce but you're likely to find a
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mass-market car like a little Mini.
Now the early bird catches the worm
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there's no point getting the Friday
free ad the following Wednesday. All the
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good cars will be gone. Well there's
lots of it to choose from there's a
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80 blue I've never heard of that color
1977 September 03 is the MOT good
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order 895 it's a bit too rich. Mini
cabralet might be the wrong time of the
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year. Mini Clubman estate a car that
suffers with woodworm. A mini Rose 89
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limited edition taxed MOT good run a
750 quid. Problem is they're pink mini
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roses bit too girly. Here's one Mini
Mark 2 850 cc 1968 that's old green very
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original much-loved reluctant sale.
Two owners from new. Two owners from new
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since 1968 only 350 quid. So lots of
potential cars to check out. First one
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I'm looking at is a 70s Mini Clubman.
They've got a different front end to
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the old Mini but under the skin the
mechanics are all the same. This car
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looks okay but I don't think it's
worth the 750 quid this guy wants for
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it. It's just rotten in places where
you don't expect one of these to rot and
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what about down there on the door.
When you're buying a motor you have to
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learn to trust your first impressions
so I'm gonna pass on this