03x03 - A Brave New World

[bunniefuu]

I want to go back
to the original blue.

It's a Delahaye which is like
a French Rolls-Royce.

Big moment, getting this painted.
I'm scared.

RICHARD: It looks
absolutely brilliant.

Oh, God.
KAMLA: What are you going to say?

What's - I think it's time
we raise our hourly rate.

How much can you spend to get it
ready for sale? About 15 grand.

To actually
be able to help an animal

that is on the verge of extinction,
how could you say no?

No matter how much he wants to
do it, there's no way is this car
coming home with us.

[ENGINE STARTS]
Something worked!

Two years ago, I set up
a classic car restoration business

with the Greenhouse family.
He can recover any vehicle.

Oh! [HONKS]

Turning my passion
into a successful business

with my family in tow... Choo-choo!

..hasn't exactly
been plain sailing...

No, Mother, shush.

..but things are finally on the up.

We've got work...
How far do you wanna go with it?

..new staff. Ooh!

We're racing again...
Never drives that quick
on the way to work!

..and we're going international.
Merci, monsieur!

I just hope
I haven't taken on too much.

Ah!
I've got that "gone wrong" feeling.

All is good
with our little workshop business.

The only problem right now
is Neil has taken on

an Italian rust bucket
to save some leopards.

Long story, but the idea here is

he is gonna restore
a Lancia Delta Integrale

so the owner can sell it
to raise funds

for a leopard enclosure
at his wildlife park.

The only problem is,

it's gonna require a lot more work
than the budget will allow, I think.

So I'm gonna have to have a word
with Dr Doolittle

before he gets carried away.

Ah! Neil Greenhouse.

Oh, hello.
You timed that just right,

I made you a cup of tea there.
You made me a cup of tea?

Yeah! Go on. Thank you.
I didn't put any sugar in

cos you're sweet enough. Right?

Here, have a biscuit.
I don't want a biscuit.
Have a biscuit. Thank you.

Look at that, ooh. Animals?
Yeah, eh?

[CHUCKLES] Neil? What? How much
is the car gonna cost to do?

I don't think it's bad
at all. And that's why
I made you a cup of tea.

Yeah. Biscuit.
Because for once in your life,
you've done the right thing.

When there are animals involved
in any way,

you go mental, don't you?

It's the decent thing to do,
isn't it?

But it's expensive, how much
is it gonna cost me?

How much is it gonna cost me? Yeah,
but it's not a case of money, is it?

Yes, it is. It's a bill.
It's an invoice.

It is specifically... Hey, look -
..and definitively a case of money.

Look, look, I can see
that you haven't grasped the fact

that you've actually
done the right thing.

How much are we gonna spend on it?
Well, it ain't all about
the actual figures, money, is it?

Not everything
is down to money. Look, look,

what are you asking me?
Just ask me straight.

How much is it gonna cost us
to save the leopards?

It's all down to the hours,
so if we can keep to the hours.

When he gets
the invoice and pays it,
he's going to sell the car.

As will - It will stop two leopards
going extinct.

So it's all just down to hours,
and we can sort it.

It's nothing to worry about,
honestly. Really.

I'll tell you what,
I've never admitted it,

but I think
you're actually taller than me.

I've never noticed that.
You win. You broke me.

You will be. Just, I'm broken.

Ooh! I think I got away
with that, I ain't sure.

What that man is doing basically
is putting his hands in my pocket,

ripping out my wallet,

rifling through whatever notes
he can find left in there

and throwing them over the fence
to feed them to some leopards.

That's what he's doing.
Absolute madness.

'It's not all about the money.'
It's a business, you muppet.

Neil seems intent
on blowing our profits.

So today, I'm on the hunt
for high-end customers.

I'm in London,
coming to quite a special car show.

It's at Saville Row, which is
the sort of famous street in London

where all the tailors are based.
And it's kind of a posh car show.

So it will have
the right people there.

If I want to move our hourly rate
up to £95 an hour

and work on cars at a higher level,

these are the people
that will allow that.

You're not gonna
crash any of these, are you?

I'm not allowed near 'em, this is
as close as I can get. [LAUGHS]

That's spectacular!

You're not shy and retiring,
are you? Oh, no.

I feel so underdressed.

I'm intrigued,
this is an electrified GT40.

Yes. Yeah. Bloody hell.
It's an amazing car
in the first place.

We're always respectful
and honourable of its roots,

its character, its soul,
we are recovering petrolheads
so we don't come in -

'Recovering?' Yeah.
Stay with it. Stay with it.
Still got combustion as well.

We're not wedded to
EV being the only solution here.
It's just part of the picture,

fully electric, hybrid, petrol,
diesel, synthetic fuel,
we'll have all of that.

Couldn't be more
on the same page, Richard. Good.

So this is... That's electrified.

Oh, my God,
tell me they haven't done this!

Alfa Romeo 6C.
One of my favourite cars.

It's an electrified E-type.

Not sure how I feel about throwing
the engine away in an E-type.

If it is a series two
that has the engine derived
from the 3.8 straight-six in mind,

which is one of the best engines
ever made,

and it's been thrown away.
And why?

Why make that?
There are electric cars,
just buy an electric car.

You don't have to destroy
the engine out of this one.

I came to the show today
to tout for business.

But I got distracted
by how much focus there was

on electrifying classic cars.

Electrification for new cars,
I get it,

for old cars, I'm not so sure.

There are other ways
of keeping cars running

without destroying
the planet we live on,

and I need to know more about it,
cos it affects my business,

my passion,
and the world I live on.

So investigation is required.

I was hoping to wow the Cogs
with a hatful of high-end customers

at the morning meeting,
but I do have one new lead.

Right, I had had a conversation
with a mate of mine,

and he's got a Jaguar XK120
that might be a job we could do.

It was owned by a Thai prince

who was into racing,
and it's been restored,

but there's micro blisters
on the paint.

Does that mean
it has to be bare-metalled?

It would have to be
bare-metalled, yeah.
Oh, it is booked into an event.

Is it actually
competing at an event?

No, it's a sort of
Salon Prive-type event.

Basically, it's a really
posh car show

where all the cars can be bought.

What if I were to look at the car?
How would you price that job?

It's a bit tricky.
Very, very expensive.

OK, I'm gonna draw this to a close.
Right. Get on.

Do you want a cup of tea?
Yes. [LAUGHS]

I do, actually.
Let's have a cup of tea.

Chaps, I'm off to see the Jag.
What, by yourself?

Yeah, I'm taking the trailer,
cos if it's right -

You wanna take somebody
with you, really,
I'm not being funny...

Not free. ..because they're
quite complex things and...

What? I know what I'm talking about.
Well, you know what I mean, it ain't
just a case of looking at. Yeah.

Look, I can do it. I can do this
on my own. I'm a big boy.

Stay and get on with your work.
I'm going. You're not gonna
persuade me.

I could have done it.
You could have.

But the problem is with it,
it could all go so terribly wrong

with one of these, couldn't it?

Well, what I know is it's a 120

and it was owned by prince.
Bira, is it? I don't know.

Yeah, well, do you know
the story of Prince Bira? No.

Well, when Jaguar

very, very first made the first
XK120s, we built three.

They put Prince Bira in one
and they raced at Silverstone.

This isn't that car.
It's just a car owned by him.

HKV 455, that was the registration.

Really? You are such an anorak.

I get very excited about XK120s,
they're one of my favourite cars.

Here we go here, we're here.

I promise not to commit us
to anything we can't do.
I won't let you.

JOHNNY: Hello, Richard.
You are the owner. Good to see you.
Nice to see you.

This is Andy. Hello, Andy.
He knows about these cars.

Good. Is it there? Yes, it is.
Right, let's have a look.

Oh, I love that colour.
That's original colour, isn't it?
Beautiful, isn't it?

What are your intentions for it?

Well, I wanna take it

in a few weeks to Salon Prive,
and I want it to look good.

If you have a look around,
you're gonna see that

some of the paint work
isn't perfect.

I am going to find my glasses.
Yeah, you -

Andy, stop standing there
and laughing at me looking at it.

I'm just doing what I could, right?

That's - Yeah,
you can see quite a bit,

yeah, on that wing.
So there's something there. Yeah.

There's a bit of
micro blistering there.

Yeah, it's got it
all over, hasn't it?

Why are these bubbles...?
That's all micro blister.

What's caused that?
When these are restored,

what usually happens
is they're bare-metalled,

and you do the bodywork
and you spray fill them.

Right. Now, what can happen,
spray filler is very porous,

so if any moisture gets in it,
it could create micro blisters.

Yes, we could make it
look shiny and good,

but it ain't gonna last. Right.
To make it last, you have to

take it back to bare metal.
It's only gonna get worse.

It's not gonna get better. Yeah.
He's not normally this gloomy.

Problem is now,
you're in the stage with this car

where you could go
for Concours with it. Yeah.

What's it like under the bonnet?
Here you go.

I'll let you do it,
you're the expert.

The early grilles have
a separate little pip on the front.

So where the rightness of the fin
comes around...

Yeah. ..it's supposed to have
another little fin in front of it,
so it's got, like, a little indent.

When you talk
about this to people in pubs,
do they wander off?

[LAUGHS] Erm,
see how a**l Concours can get.

I can actually remember
filing head bolts,

so all the nuts
pointed the same way.

So how long would you spend

getting all the head bolts
aligned the same way?

Days. This is hundreds
and hundreds of pounds. Yes.

So that these are pointed
the right way, in the right place.

Exactly. But we don't want
to go that far with this car.

No, no, I'll tell you what,
I've got a slight...

We do bring a defibrillator with us.
Yes. I knew it was bad.

Yeah, right. So meanwhile,
back on planet Earth

where I suspect Johnny lives,

what could you do
in the time available, Andy?

I've got a plan for you. Right.

People wanna come and see
the car cos of who owned it.
It doesn't have to be 100% perfect.

Yeah. So why don't we have it,
polish it up?

We can get rid of
a lot of the little scratch marks.

I think it'll still look beautiful
at Salon Prive.

Take it to Salon Prive. Yeah.
Then when you're ready,
I'd still love to do the car.

That would be perfect.
Well, let's get it on the trailer,

and get it gone,
and make it beautiful.

We've got two bites
at it now, ain't we? Yeah.

Cos we've got
the job of cleaning

and touching it up
and sending it off to Salon Prive.

But hopefully, I think
I've convinced him to have it

done properly in the winter months.

What makes that car interesting
is its story,

and the other car I know of
in our lives that has a good story

is a certain massive
blue Delahaye...

Mm. ..because that
was Chiron's car.

What if we got that back
into the workshop... Yeah.

..and gave that
a similar bit of loving

and get that to Salon Prive as well?
So this is a way of us

getting associated
with the right kinds of cars.

They've got great stories.
People wanna hear about it.

Oh, The Smallest Cog worked on this.
That is pretty cool actually, innit?
Oh, yeah. Let's get this car back.

The Saville Row car show
last week got me thinking.

The necessary and inevitable ban
on fossil fuels

is gonna impact
my industry and all of us.

What puzzles me is
there are alternatives

as well as electric, but no-one's
really talking about them.

I'm heading into West Sussex
for my first physical encounter

with synthetic fuel,
and have lined up
the perfect chance to do that.

William Medcalf is a well-known

specialist restorer
of vintage Bentleys.

He runs his cars on synthetic fuel.

So, if synthetic fuel works,
and it apparently does,

that's 1.3 billion cars
can stay on the road.

Obviously, as somebody running
a classic restoration business,
that's quite good news.

It's make do and mend
on a global scale.

My business is saved,
my passion is saved,

and I can run my old Mustang
and look my daughters in the eye

and know I'm not destroying
the planet they live on.
Everybody wins.

Oh, my goodness!
Oh, look at the those.

It'll tell me about my phone.

AUTOMATED VOICE: Just a moment.
Oh, what? Forgotten your phone.

Oh, thank you
very much, my dear.

Just a moment.
Your flies are undone.

[SNIFFS] Ah! That smell.

Oh, I got goosebumps.

I have. It's these cars.
They do it to you if you love cars.

I'm gonna like it here.

William. Richard. You all right?
How're you? Last time I saw you,

you threw a bread roll at me.
RAC.

Yeah, sorry about that. Did it hit
you? Yeah. Yeah. There you go.

Nice to see in your home territory.
I have never asked you,

is this, like, a family thing?
Yeah, father's influence. Yes.
He was a toolmaker by trade,

and he rebuilt one of these
on the kitchen table.

And when it was finished,
he said, 'We need to test it.'

So family holiday was 28,000 miles

around America and Canada
in nine months

with three kids in the back,
Mum and Dad in the front.

Nine months! That was your life?
That was, yes.

And you came back and said,
'I enjoyed being in that car.

I wanna base my life
around it.' Here it is.

Let's talk about
this synth fuel part.
Can I have a look

around your business? Certainly.
Lead on. You're in charge.

Can I have this?

So this is what you've come to see.

Oh, yes. So hang on.

This is a four-and-a-half.
Four-and-a-half-litre Bentley, 1929.

This is running
on synthetic fuel. Right.

How green is the fuel?

We've chosen one because
it's green from end to end
in the manufacturing process.

So you're recycling the carbon
that's already in the atmosphere.

So manufacturing process being
hydrogen is made... From water.

So hydrogen
is cracked out of the water
using renewable energy. Yeah.

So zero carbon footprint
to that point? Yeah.

Then carbon dioxide...
Out of the atmosphere.
So they're removing

carbon dioxide from the atmosphere,
combining it with the hydrogen.

Sticking it in a biomass liquid.
It's waste product.

That's the ethanol element. Yep.
And then... Put it all together.
Yeah. Bit of magic.

Yeah. You've got petrol.
This is the future.

We change nothing on the car.
Just put it in the fuel tank.

So no changes at all?
So today, we're going to Goodwood
and we got to get some hot laps.

Are you testing
the car or the fuel? Fuel.

What else are you doing
to test this? I'm interested.

What does it
do to the paint, to the leather?

Does it mix with water?
What do you do?

So we've got
a whole little laboratory set up

where we're just messing around
with it. I wanna see that.

You wanna see that as well?
Yeah, I wanna see that.
All right, come and have a look.

Where's the laboratory?
Is it in the container?

Hello, this has all got
a bit Breaking Bad, hasn't it?

Well, yeah. Oh, wow. Right.
So what are you doing?

So here, we are testing
every material we know today

that comes into contact
with the fuel on a Bentley

and, er, compare it
against regular pump gas.

So you've got... Synthetic.

..cork washer with synthetic,
and ordinary fuel. Yep.

Can I have a look at it?
Yeah, you can. Oh, so that's it?

That's the stuff.
It looks exactly the same.

So that's... You've just
dropped a cork washer in,

because as the fuel goes
around the car's fuelling system,

it will come into direct contact...
Yeah. ..with cork washers. Yeah.

And if this melts it,
that's a problem.
So you're not just testing it

by driving around in the car,
'Oh, yeah, it works.' Yeah.

This is all part of that process.
So, yeah, I just want to know

it's not gonna
melt my gaskets. Yeah.

Because, so this is...
This is actual engineering
and testing in action.

Absolutely. Shall we
go and drive the car?

Yes, yes. Good. After you, lead on.
This is seeing it in action.

[MOBILE PHONE RINGING]

Hello. All right, love.
What? You're joking.

Yeah, well, don't do nothing.
I'll be there now.

I've been called away
on a mission of mercy.

It's a jackdaw and he's come down
the chimney liner

and he's sat in my fire grate,
in my log burner,

now looking at my missus
in the front room.

So she can either watch the TV
or watch the wildlife

without leaving the house
or looking out through the window.

It'll catch on in years to come.
Everybody will want one.

Ah, here we go.
And what do we have here?

Right, come on, Mr Jackdaw.
Don't you bite me.

Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, there we go.

Now, what have I told you
about coming down the fireplace?

That's naughty, isn't it?

Naughty. No, no, no.

You ready?

Go on.

Another good deed for the day done.

Just two leopards to go now.

One of my favourite, favourite
all-time motoring cars.

So we're on it now. This is it.
We run on synthetic fuel.

We are going into the future

in our, best part,
of a hundred-year-old car. Oh, yeah.

Let's go.

Oh, it's got guts.
Yes, you can feel it. Oh, yes.

It's exactly the same
in terms of torque, power. Yeah.

We're gonna drive through town now

in the greenest car here.

It's greener than him.
Greener than him.

I wanna see a see a Tesla
or an electric car of any sort.

[CHUCKLING] Cos we are greener
than them, and we are.

[LAUGHING]

Right. I'll be the observer,
you be the driver. Right.

Have you got
to get your romper suit on?
Yeah, my suit and helmet. Ah.

It's with very good reason
that motor sport is the place

where we're first seeing this whole
synthetic fuel business picked up

because at the heart of it,
why are they doing it?

There's no excuse.
You can't say to the world,

'Well, I was delivering
organs to a hospital.'

'Well, I was trying to see
if my green car will go a bit faster

than that blue car
around this circle.

Everybody's had an amazing time.'
Yeah, but is that worth

pumping carbon dioxide
into the atmosphere for,

and worsening the very real issue
of global warming? No, it's not.

Which means they've got to
clean it up, and they are.

I mean, that's planet-saving.

And a bit of me had begun to think,

'Wait a minute,
all of this is over.'

But it's not.

But why aren't we hearing about it?

I don't know the answer.

But we should be.

[MACHINE WHIRRING]

[EXHALES DEEPLY]

Yes! [KNOCKS ON DOOR]

Hello. Come in.

Kamla. Richard. Hello.
Come in. Sit down. Right.

So I wanted to catch up
with you on the Jaguar XK?

Yes, that is exciting.
Yeah, it's a nice job, that.

Is that our first one
at the higher rate?

Er, no, because it's not like
a full respray job. Right.

And it might lead to one.

So the car is lovely.
Well, we still got the hours
that the lads are still working.

Yeah, that's true. But you see,
I want to tempt him in. OK.

So what we need to take
into account now, we've got

an extra two head count
now with Sophie and Isaac.

Overheads have gone up.
Yes, our overheads have gone up.

In fact, our utilities
have gone up as well.

So we do need to start charging £95.

And I noticed the Lancia
down there as well. Yes.

Please tell me
that one's at £95 an hour.

That is an interesting one.
It's owned by

a man who owns
and operates a wildlife park. OK.

And he's gonna sell it to fund
a new enclosure for his leopards.

That's very different
for us, isn't it? I know.

But it's -
He has a strictly limited budget,

so he's paying 15 grand.

Can I ask how you came
to the £15,000?

But are you confident
we're covering our labour and parts?

No, that's how much he's got.

It's a bit like I - We can't agree
to jobs on how much somebody's got.

It's the other way around.
We tell them

how much a job is costing.
We cost it out.

I know. So what if he'd come to you
and said, 'I've got £10,000'?

Neil would
probably still have done it.
He is Dr Doolittle with a spanner.

Hm. So long as we're not making
a loss, though, Richard.

I do at some point want to
start repaying your loans.

We've hit £400,000 now.
So that's how much you're owed.

And the only way
we're going to start repaying you

is by making a profit.
OK, I will, I will...

Promise? ..introduce, I promise,
new hourly rate introduced,

I will charge £95 an hour. Please.

Thank you. See you soon. Bye.

That was a very disappointing
meeting with Richard.

He's not rolled out
the £95 an hour that we'd agreed.

I feel like we're going backwards

because Neil's agreed
a fixed price on that.

We shouldn't be doing
fixed-price jobs.

I think this is another vehicle
that we're going to make a loss on.

[PHONE RINGING]
RICHARD: Mindy.

Hello?
What? Oh, you're joking?

Where? Yeah.
Yeah, I know it.

No, no, I'll come get you.
No, I'll come now. On my way.

Mindy was out in our Discovery,
which is our old school-run car

that's done good service
and should have been retired

and put out to graze years ago,

and she has broken down
on the way back from
a visit to the doctor's,

where she was told she has a virus
and has to go to bed.

[PHONE RINGING] Erm...

Hello. [IZZY SPEAKING]

Yes. [IZZY SPEAKING]

Right. Why wasn't
she in the G-Wagen?

[IZZY SPEAKING]

Well, we've got the answer
to the test. [IZZY SPEAKING]

[LAUGHS]
You're in trouble now.

[IZZY SPEAKING]

If it's the fuel pump, it's gonna
cost more than the car's worth.

[IZZY SPEAKING] Yeah.

What, you want me to buy a new car,
so that you can go to a party?

[IZZY SPEAKING]

Yes, I bought the G-Wagen.
[IZZY SPEAKING]

But I bought it as the family car.
[IZZY SPEAKING]

But I can't just buy another car!

I'm not a Kardashian,
and neither are you!

[IZZY SPEAKING]

I bought a family G-Wagen!
[IZZY SPEAKING]

This is bullying. [IZZY SPEAKING]

Yeah. [IZZY SPEAKING]

Love you. [IZZY SPEAKING]

Thanks for calling, angel.

There, there you go.
That's my life for you, Isaac.

There. Oh, brilliant. [EXCLAIMS]

There's more roadworks
than chuffing road in Hertfordshire!

There's nothing there.

They're cutting
some trees down, I think.

You don't close the road
to do some frigging gardening!

This is proper dodgy.

We need the world's
fastest-ever recovery.

Hello.

So good that you found this out
before Izzy broke down in the north!

Sorry. PASSER-BY: It's OK.
I'm sorry.

If I didn't have
a workshop business, I'd have said,

'Oh, I better call
the AA or the RAC.'

None of this would I have
had to have been involved with.

Mind, do you want
to get in the pickup?

Sorry, mate.

Right, Mind, I'm gonna
have to drop you off at the gate.

So are you in a position
to be able to tuck yourself in bed

and feel better?
MINDY: Near enough. Good.

Thank you very much, everybody.
You're more than welcome.

Let's get out of here.
See you in the morning.

NEIL: Everybody's gone home,
and I'm here working on the Lancia.

And I think with this,

I might have bitten off
more than I can chew.

Anthony has managed to do
the mechanical work
that needed doing.

But the problem with that is
I am miles

and, I mean, miles behind it.

It's basically rotten.

So it's a lot of work.
It's hours and hours and hours.

But I've got to keep
the books balanced.

What's gonna happen,
I'm gonna have to have some
early mornings, late nights,

and not tell anybody and just try
and move it on and get it done.

But I just can't
have anybody knowing,

especially Kamla and Richard.

So I've got to
just keep cracking on,

and hopefully, nobody will notice.

Unless somebody
does pay attention for once,

and then they'll think
the welding fairies have been in.

Good thing is
it's gonna be a really nice day
when I can look at those leopards

and see them in their enclosure.
That'll make it all worthwhile.

I require the Discovery
this weekend.

So for Pa's sake, I hope it's done.

Hm. That's not done, is it?

Guess it's time to go
and have a little word with Pa.

Daddy? Yes?

Hello, baby. Hello. Come in. OK.

Erm, so, like, the Discovery.

Yes? Yeah.
Doesn't look done, does it?

How would you know looking at it?

Like, by all the tools
surrounding it.

That's because it's being done.
Yeah. It's in - And how long?

Well, time scale is - Well, no,
I'm gonna stop you right there.

Time scale is Saturday.

And if it's not gonna be fixed,
we need to look at other options.

So I would spend, in your world,
£100,000 on a new car

that you would go
and be sick in at a party?

No, that's a little bit uncouth.
I wouldn't be sick in it.

I will get the car done.
Isaac's looking at it,

and the Flump is good with the car.

He's on it.
OK, I'm going home. Erm,

Isabella Darcy Alana Hammond,
come in here immediately.

I've just opened this. What is it?

Last-chance reminder.
Tax it or lose it.

I don't, like... It's not...
Because if it's addressed to you,
then it's addressed to you.

This is something
that you need to learn about.

I want you to come and
see how much it costs

in the grown-up world.
We have to tax your vehicle.

That's extortionate!
Have you got your card?

I don't, like...
At this point, I'm in,
like, a bit of a tricky situation.

How much money have you got
in your bank? No, because -

How much money
have you got? It's a tricky one.

I've got £1.13, is what I've got.

Yeah. What about
your savings account?

£1.13. I said what I said.

Well, I'm sorry.
I'm not very good with money.

Right. I'll pay then. Thanks.

OK, I'm just gonna
leave you with this, I think,
cos I don't really wanna have to.

I'm just - I'm gonna go
cos, like, I'm gonna go now.

OK? I just might finish this.
So I'll see you soon.

Yeah. See ya. Bye!

ANDREW: That's nasty, that is.

Oh, yeah. That is a bit of glamour
in the workshop, but not you.

I mean, the car's looking fantastic.

Yeah, we've got rid
of all these, look.

I'll demonstrate it to you.

Ah, I hate it when you put sandpaper
on fresh paint. Ah.

NEIL: What he's trying to do
is cut back the layers of paint

on the top where it's bubbled.
But the problem with that,

you're risking going
through the layers of paint

and causing holes in the paint work,
so it's a bit tricky.

That is amazing, though, isn't it?
They're the right cars
to go to the event.

Both bring a brilliant story
with them. And with that in mind,
it's quite a smart event.

What are we talking, trousers?
I'd wear trousers, definitely, yeah.

And maybe

a different hat. Oh!
I'm sorry. You're right.

Summer's almost here.
We'll be all right.
I'll get rid of the hat.

Can I have a go at doing
one of those lumps out?
No. Just do one?

Oh, we've got the jacket off
and everything else.

Well, see those then?
Yeah. Like, little squirt.

Now, how much pressure? Two fingers.

Yeah. You'll feel it
under the paper.

Don't saw it.
Caress it. Gentle with it.

Do you offer
telephone services? Yeah.

OK. We should do. [LAUGHS]

Just over a month ago,
Neil returned this Delahaye

to its original
striking blue colour.

It'll be joining
the Jag at the event.

I'll be honest, I've never taken
a car to Salon Prive.

Not one I've ever painted.

So it's quite a big moment
for me in a way.

It's not a Concours event.
It's more like cars for sale.

Oh. So they take 'em there
and people make a big offer

and they let them go
and then - Exactly.

A lot of people have been looking
at this car, so I'm a bit nervous

to what people would expect to see.

You always get that thing,
'Is my work good enough?'

So, we'll just have to see.
Get it as good as we can.

We can't do no more than that.

That car's done


on the school run.
It's part of the family.

It's a bit like watching a vet
work on the family pet.

Please live.

My girls are very fond of it.

And it represents
a part of my wallet.

I've checked all the electrics,
and all the fuel pumps work,

so we'll give it a start
and see what it does.

Come on and work your magic,
young fella.

Moment of truth.
[ENGINE STARTS] Ooh!

He should be happy now.

It lives! It was out of fuel.
That was it? Yeah.

The fuel gauge is reading wrong,
though. It said it was half full.

Yeah, there's nothing in there.
Completely bone-dry.

You can have a packet of crisps.
Flavour of your choosing. Ooh-h*!

Prawn c*ck. That's redeemable
for me any time you like.

Well done. All right. Thank you.
Yes! That is a huge relief.

Run out of fuel.

I've just realised that means, erm,
I've got a phone call to make.

I'm gonna enjoy this.

Izzy, sweetheart, good news.

Even better news,
the Jaguar and Delahaye

are ready to be picked up
for the show.

Neil, transport's here,
better get these out.

Ready to go?
Yeah, you all right?
Yeah, I think so.

Looks nice.
Hopefully it'll start now.

[ENGINE STARTING]

Watch out.
Come on, you're all right.

I don't think you'll get it looking
much better than that, will you? No.

It's come out better
than I thought, to be fair.
One down, one to go. Yeah.

Get rid of the Delahaye now

and see what she looks like
at Salon Prive.

Hope the weather's
like this. Reckon the sun
will come out tomorrow?

Tomorrow? Tomorrow.
I bet my bottom dollar
it'll be out tomorrow.

All the cars at Salon Prive
are for sale.

I better brief the chaps.

So today, if somebody
does come along

and they are interested,

you both have got to go into
super-slick salesman mode.

If, erm, yeah, you know, we get
a bit of a sale on the go and -

Just cos you've got a hat on,

you think it's appropriate
to start going, "All right."

Like something out of Dad's army
all of a sudden. I've sold
quite a few cars in my time.

Yeah. Got any watches in there?
I've got. There it is.

Look at that, the buff log book.

When's the last time
you had fun in the buff?

A Corgi bicycle. But this -
It's not a bicycle,
it's a motorbike.

Is there a whole different
business going on here?

No, no. What else
have you got in there? Well...

What?

What? Is this your truck?
Why have you got this?

Oh, my God! This is because
they sell things at this event.

I would say they sell...
They make money. Look...

That is a crappy old pickup
that's in your garden.

What else have you got in there?

Er, well, I've got an MOT there,
but that wouldn't be any...

VW Caddy, is this your van?

Yeah. ANDREW: The gas van.

So, because you're coming
to the...Salon Prive

at which they sell
multi-million-pound cars,

we're there to represent
our Delahaye,

you've got in your pocket

a buff log book
from a 1949 motorcycle,

that appalling pickup
that's mouldering

next to your garage on
your driveway, and your own truck.

Oh, look at that, look. Yeah.
Right, let's do it.

[CHUCKLES] Come on, old fella.
Do you want a hand up?

Right, let's go and find our car.
Ooh, look at all that.

It's an Alfa Romeo.
It's a static display.

[LAUGHS]

Ah, chaps,
that one there, I reckon.

I would say that's our little
blue beauty there.

The first of our two classics
on show today

is the 1947 Delahaye.

We've invited a specialist
classic car auctioneer to value it.

So this guy looking at the car,
that is James Good.

So I wanna know
if we've added value to it.

There was a lot of pressure
in painting that car.

I'm hoping it's gonna be worth more
than when it came to us.

Hello, Richard, nice to see
you again. You've met these guys.
Neil, Andrew, hello.

Right, so there is our Delahaye.

Yes. Er, valuation, what do you
need to do to look at it?

Now seeing it with its gleaming,
fabulous original colour on it,

I think this car
has been brought to life,

and it looks absolutely resplendent.

So we know that Hissam paid...

Two-fifty-five.
Two-fifty-five. Yeah.

Value now, what do we think?
Well... [EXHALES]

I think its value today
is £275,000 to £300,000. Right.

Because of who it was,
you know, let's face it,

you know, Louis Chiron
was a debonair womaniser.

He had the right car... [LAUGHS]
..and I think the story

with him and the car
and his racing prowess, et cetera,

I think you could top the £300,000
and go above it.

So we've certainly added
more value to it than its costs.

Absolutely. James, thank you.
Nice to see you.

Thank you very much.
Right, so we've added value.

So importantly, we are here with
not just one car that we painted,

but there is also the other car,
the Jag, that he refinished.

Why don't we leave
Captain Sales here?
Let's go have a look at the XK.

I'm a bit worried leaving him
by himself, though. No problem.

I might need a hand to carry
the cash to the car though, mate.
No cash.

It's a very handsome car,
and it could just do

with a new handsome owner,
and you're just a man.

[LAUGHS]

Our wives confiscated
chequebooks before we came.

I would have a word with the missus,

buy her some flowers
on the way home.

I couldn't interest you
in a nice Mazda pickup
or a Corgi motorcycle?

Is that the log book really
for this? No, no, but it could be.

I've got a pen. [ALL LAUGH]

Time to see if the customer is happy

with Andrew's clever quick fix
on the Jaguar.

Oh, here she is.
Well, it holds its own

much better
than it would've done.
It's a lot better, isn't it?

Hello. How are you?
Nice to see you. Nice to see you.

How are you, mate?
Yeah, good. Thanks. Very good.

It's looking really fantastic -
Well, as far as you can
get it without...

It's only, like, a temporary fix.
It's gonna come back. Yeah.

If you do decide to go ahead
and want it sorted...

Yes. ..we'd love to get it
as crisp as it - No, exactly. No.

That's the plan. Yeah.
Good. That's great.

Right. Lovely to see you,
very glad we got it here.

Thank you very much
for all the hard work.
Enjoy your day. Yeah, cheers.

Well, he was happy.
He likes it. It's great.

Imagine how happy
he'd be if he'd done it properly.

It's my worry,
you've done too good a job

cos he's gonna
look at that and think,

'I don't need to paint it,'
and I want him to paint it.

He won't cos those blisters
are still there. Yeah, that's true.

I wonder how Neil's getting on.

On this lovely sunny day,
a car that we've all worked on,

that I've had the honour of painting

has now got to be driven around
on the grass at this lovely event.

It's just an amazing feeling.

And there she goes.
There's our neighbour going.
We've got to get cracking.

Hello, hello, hello.
Is this your car, sir?

Just don't get it hot.
If it gets hot and overheats,
can I literally just depart?

Get out, walk away,
don't look back. I'll just leave.

Right. Ready? Contact.
[ENGINE STARTS]

See you later. Be careful.

I'm a bit concerned
it's gonna overheat.

Although we only did the paintwork,
people will judge the whole car.

We don't want it to break down here.
It's smelling hot.

You're all right, don't panic.

Don't panic. Don't panic.
I'm anxious.

Our reputation is at stake.
Enjoy the day.

Look, everybody is happy.
We're happy.

It's too late. I'm anxious.
Have... Have faith.

It smells warm. Yeah.

I say turn her off
and wait for that one to move.

Let's knock her off
for a second there.

You're a little bit nervous,
aren't you? I'm just anxious.
Is your heart not racing now?

When you're happy,
you're really happy, aren't you?

I am. I'm very happy.
The Delahaye, it's owned
by Louis Chiron... Yes, I know.

..and I'm about to drive it through
Salon Prive. Well, if it starts.
Yeah. [LAUGHS]

[ENGINE SPUTTERING] Oh, no.
No, you don't want that.

Oh, no! Not now.
[ENGINE SPUTTERING]

[ENGINE STARTS] Oh. [WHISTLES]
Did you do that?

Just - [LAUGHS] You did.

You're not funny. [LAUGHS]
You're not funny.

I don't find you funny.

Please, could you tell us a little
bit about this Delahaye 135?

It was commissioned
by Louis Chiron himself,

restored in 2012,
but in the wrong colour.

All we had to go on to identify
the original colours of this car

was a black-and-white
photograph to start with.

Thank you very much, Richard,
and The Smallest Cog.

Louis Chiron's very car,
ladies and gentlemen.
Thank you very much, Richard.

Absolute pleasure. Thank you.

There you are.
Well done. I don't know what
you were worried about. [LAUGHS]

I'd say this was a key moment

in what's happened to our little
business since we started.

I did promise them
we will one day have a car
on the lawns at a top event,

and there is a car we've done
next to £3.8 million Pan Ferrari,

and it earned its place
on the lawn next to it.

And that says it all. It's -

I'm so, so pleased for
and proud of the guys.

The thing is,
it's very nice to be here
and very nice to see these cars,

but it's not our world as such.

Whatever car you look at here,

that doesn't matter what it is
or what it's worth,

it was made by a working-class man.

I don't look at a car
from monetary value.

I look at it for the styling
and I think of the chap that
made it. That's what I think of.

The thing is, the show goes on
for another three days.

No, you're not having
three days out of the workshop.

We have got too much to get done.

Well, we have got a...
We had a bit of a backup plan,
still in the boot of the car.

Can't be here, can we? No.
But we can be here.

Three days of this,
it's like we're here.

Are you ready?
Yeah. Yeah. It's good.

Ah, perfect. There you go.
See, it's like I'm there,

and now we can escape to the pub.
Let's go then. See you later.

Don't look back. Never look back.