I am so glad I found this channel as its become a fantastic reminder to me why I don't buy and fix old cars 🙂Having a 1996 Discovery is more than enough for me. Keep up the good work.
It would be so easy to build a car port on the side of your garage,if you decide it’s a good idea and want to do it, I’d be happy to help, I’m a builder and have all the tools needed
Sub Optimal on both Rover and Mercedes fronts Matt. I almost expired laughing at the sight of you exiting the Rover via the driver's window. Your boundless optimism is admirable
There is a method that could allow you to do welding on the Mercedes in the dry; just open that side door to your garage and aline the bit of car you want to work on with the door. Also consider removing the driver's door to help with ingress and egress when doing all the shifting. You are going to have to turn it around in sometime, so you've got something for the "Junk in the Trunk" feature. (Unless you do "Junk in the Engine Bay?")😁
LOL, I would never watch again if you got so frustrated with this interesting project that you passed if off! Have faith! For me, the absolutely stunning SD1 / 3500 was the car that I consider the pinnacle Rover, and I think its overall greatness (any flaws overlooked here) overshadows the greatness that was the P6. Only now am I beginning to appreciate the P6 though my American heart will always pitter patter from my first (the blue Corgi Juniors model!) and the ONLY one I have seen in the metal (stuck in Toronto highway gridlock traffic in May 1982). Looking forward to the finished project, of lord and caretaker of such interesting motoring machinery!!!
The issue with the accelerator sticking on the merc used to happen with my vw beetle periodically, it would slip off the roller and either give you full throttle or no throttle. Whilst in motion.
Seeing the condensation in your Merc I really recommend hanging dehumidifier bags. I hang them in my cars when they are off the road. Keeps the interior bone dry and free from mold!
Good luck with the P6 and looking forward to see it running. The way you got out of the Merc reminded me the time I had the E46 in a council garage and I had to get out of it like Bo and Luke.
Matt too many things on your plate did the right thing with the Rover more time to do other things been slim is a good idea can climb out of the window cant wait for the next Y Tube update
As mentioned, remove all the doors off the merc and by using the side garage door and moving the merc to allow the welding to be inline with the open door.
Hope the shop gets the Rover going easily. Likely something fairly simple. We hope. I still find it funny to think of the Mercedes W123 as a large car. They were smaller than a North American mid-sized car of the time. Then again, the Volvo 240/740 are what I call small cars. The Panther was a medium sized car, and I have had 5 of them along with 4 of the similarly sized "Torino Birds" which really were mid-sized. The truly full-sized car I have owned was just over 19 feet long, weight a respectable 4,600 pounds, and had a 6.5 litre engine under the bonnet. Considering it was rated to tow 3½ tons, that seems quite reasonable!
👍 great the Rover is moving forward & getting some work done, looking forward to the outcome, shame u cant put the merc in the barn to work on, would be much better 2 have some space around it, onwards & upwards 👍
It might be heresy to say this and I totally understand the collector gene and the need to save cars and running a YT channel, but I think you have too many cars… or at least too many cars with major work needed for the repair space / facilities available. A major mini restoration, significant work on the Merc, P6, Turbo kit on the Rover coupe. All in a single garage, driveway and a unit full of cars.. Your a brave man…
Ditch the towbar - they're miserable. Also you could consider shifting the stuff from down the side of the garage. Don't know where you're going to put it all though.
A spring clean when it comes hey Matt. I drive an Astra K and it only just fits through the door on the garage now, I've had so called family cars in the past and they went in very easily it's very strange.
@@nigelbrett5703 As far as I can tell, he's at the end of a cul-de-sac, tucked away. The entire drive you see in the video is his plus the double garage. Apart from engine noise the neighbours wouldn't see any of his shenanigans unless they are actively staring down towards his house. I think the Rover 2000 is in the other garage.
You need a carport on the side of the garage to give you a covered working area. Is there any update on the rusty Lagonda that was going to be restored and electrified?
Yes I know I'm a day late tech problems. You'll have to find a new location for 'junk in the trunk' now. 'Junk in the barn' doesn't rhyme. Just maybe use a trunk that's in the barn. You should have swept the floor properly before putting the Merc in the garage and the space where it was. A clean space is a clean mind.
Garages that are too small really are a bugbear of mine. For a year I kept my 2003 Nissan Almera in a council lock up built late 1960s. Boy, that was narrow. Seems like the local authority designed it around a Morris Minor!
Yes its terrible. Even here in Sweden which isnt as populated the garages are sometimes quite small. Is/was there no building code for garages? Can only assume the answer is "no" and when they built them they did the bare minimum. Perhaps they simply took the size of the average car the year the garage was built, and added a generous inch clearance on every side? "Should be enough for anybody, shouldnt it" 🤓
@@GoldenCroc In the same way UK parking spaces are too small for modern cars it is the same situation with garages. The regulations were set back in the 1950s or so where cars were much narrower and you could easily drive in and get out but with today's hatchbacks being wider than even the largest saloons 50 years ago it becomes a tight squeeze!!
@@Adam.Piper62 Yeah I get it, and my previous comment was a bit flippant for comedic effect, but to me its just madness to not build in a generous margin. Modern cars are larger, yes, but not by an extreme percentage or in inches. I would guess 10 inches or so wider on average?. Building a garage that wont fit every car on the market (yes including Pullman Mercedes) with a very nice margin to spare around it is just daft to me. Guess law makers, builders and buyers of the garages didnt care much. My house is built in 1980 and my garage is considerably larger than ones built a decade prior. Still not more than 11 feet wide though, so its not optimal, I would like at least a foot or 2 more. Length wise I got 46 feet, so I should be safe in that regard for a while... Btw: Nice PFP!
@@GoldenCroc , stuff are usually designed, based on the knowledge, habits and economy of the time. It rarely works when someone actually try to predict future needs. Fun fact: An VW Up are about the same size as an Golf mk1, the Up is just higher.
@@westmus Not sure its very smart from a utility perspective to build a house or garage to the minimum szie one can get away with at the time of building. Its not like they are easily switched or converted in size later, like most other things can. So yes, when it comes to houses "future needs" really should be taken a bit into account, I would say. Lets not forget, there were a lot of cars even at the time that wouldnt fit, certainly an average American car from the era couldnt fit. That small interval of what can be stored in these old garages is just too miserly for mine, and many others, tastes.
Perhaps fitting the smallest car you have in the garage is wise, because that way you can get in and out, shuffle past, but more importantly you could have it as a bit of a dry set on rainy days perhaps, pop a camera in the corner and slide a table in the middle or do odds n sods rather than outside, i think with the rover in there its made it awkward to go grab that tool you've forgot etc, perhaps a garage spruce up is in order! just a big tidy up and sort through, chuck what don't need, its one thing thats put me off taking on a project while i learn to drive, a small soggy driveway with no space!
i remember my brother working on his austin A40 about 50 years ago in grandad's garage,even back then garages had little space either side and that A40 wasn't exactly wide!
My Mk1 Fiesta is sitting in the old asbestos garage in my garden - one side of the car is tight up against one side, and there's only just enough room to get in and out of the driver's door. Kind of a moot point though, the car's a half-finished project that I haven't touched for years, and in the meantime my wife got a builder to put up some wooden gates on the (narrow) driveway, so I think the car's completely trapped there until I take the gates and the posts down.
Great video Matt! I was wondering why you need an MOT on a 40 plus year old car?… you changed your engine, hence it needs an MOT. We learn something new everyday! I had to Google this fact out of curiosity.
Note to self, " A Very Good Operator always carries a tape measure. Add to tool belt now. " Daring escape from self imposed prison was priceless though. You do need to take a long look at a Mk3 Fiesta or a Metro or something because your Fords are very big indeed. MINI JCW perhaps ?
Did you remember to remove the junk from the trunk before the P6 went away? I never thought I'd compare you to Steve Wright the DJ but I remember him having similar problems trying to extract himself from his Range Rover in the garage
As a schoolboy I can remember a friend's father having a P6 and my abiding memory of it was indeed, how narrow it was - both inside and out. Trivia: the final Mondeo was bigger than both the BMW E60 and the Mk. IV Zodiac.
All of the side impact standards have made all cars so wide that parking spaces are barely adequate for a Mondeo Mk4. The Vauxhall Vectra C is a big car but is positively skinny compared to its Insignia replacement. The windscreen pillars on the Insignia are twice as wide as the Vectra's causing a huge blind spot at junctions.
I can just see the headlines now. 'Man trapped I'm Mercedes in garage poisoned by exhaust gases when the throttle stuck open'. 😅 I suppose it's better to discover these issues now rather than later. Once the Welding is done on the W123 I suppose that it could potentially be moved to the barn for further work. I'm looking forward to seeing that P6 working, fingers crossed.
In my view that is too many concurrent projects for comfort, for efficiency, for peace of mind. I never was a fan of multi-tasking. I hope you don't mind my well-intentioned comment.
Forget switching to Smart and Micro cars, you need to get into mopeds and motorcycles, I'd watch Furious riding.... Although I might be reluctant to Google it haha.
🤞the cost will not be too great and you can get it t MOT'd, be good to see it driving. Ain't it amazing when a car is in "storage mode", the amount of stuff you can fit in it, then end up wondering "where the hell do I put this lot?" 😁. Been there, done that.
I am curious Matt, have you ever looked into the towing capacity of the Crown Vic? Maybe it could tow a dolly, or even a car trailer to make things easier to move for you?
Hi Matt, good to see you at the NEC and congrats on the Mondeo MOT Pass! Would you mind sharing the details of the red oxide paint you use please? Cheers, Daz.
Mercedes gives birth to a matt lol 😂 it's amazing what little space you have when you put a car in garage great vid hope the bill is not too expensive all the best donny oh my hippo turned up today too
Rather than struggling to push the car like you did to get it back in the garage. As you had the wings off, put your hands on the top of the tyres and roll them backwards. Requires far less effort to apply a rolling force to the tyres, instead of pushing.
Squeaky bum moment watching the Mondeo going into the space where the Merc was.... Think that's the first time I have seen the Rover out the garage and she is beautiful. Cars have got a lot wider, my dad cannot get a 2017 or 2021 Kia Rio in his garage, well he can but he cannot get out at the door at all!
Do you have a full time job and a family? If so, you must have a very understanding partner! I like your channel but mainly because it's calamitous tbh!
Lol, 18 minutes of raw parking action! Strangely compelling, I suppose you could have used a tape measure but that would be a very short video of a bloke going"nah, that won't fit"!
It looks like you'll need to replace the dead reverse light bulb on the offside of the Crown Vic - only the nearside one is illuminating... visible from 11:25 to 12:00 on the video.
@@furiousdriving Yeah, same on the continent. Massive price increases because of Covid, war and anything they can come up with. Still, for now all seems sort of settled now the P6 is on holiday.
This would be amazing for you. Definitely look into it. A double-bay sized work area that you can fit lighting in so you can work in the dry and dark 👌
If money and planning were not an issue, would you not love to extend that garage up to the house? You could fit 3 cars in it then! I know, if only things were that simple.
Random thought: Could you get away with a car port type roof attached to the garage? Doubling as a barbecue sheltering area for our great British Summers. 🙂
It has length but I bet your E-class is narrower than your Y reg Mini? Years ago I had a 1995 W124 and parked it behind my friends 53 plate Cooper. Guess what ? In 8 years a 'mini' had grown wider than an 'executive' class saloon!
@@furiousdriving Must have been an optical illusion. Oddly though a W123 is nearly 2 inches wider than the later W124. But is it any wonder modern cars all seem to have parking dents&dings. Supermarket/car park spaces appear to stay the same width as they were when built in the 60's/70's to accommodate Minors, Minis, Escorts, Beetles, Vivas. Now they're expected to take these extra wide family cars. Not to mention these ridiculous SUV's , the size of an oil tanker with the boot capacity of a Mk1 Fiesta 🤣
You know you said you should definitely next time invest in bubble cars and Fiat 500 well if only you’ve just bought a mini why didn’t you put the mini in the garage I think it would’ve been a perfect place close by that you can easily work on it and easily but able to work stuff around it😂
I am so glad I found this channel as its become a fantastic reminder to me why I don't buy and fix old cars 🙂Having a 1996 Discovery is more than enough for me. Keep up the good work.
It would be so easy to build a car port on the side of your garage,if you decide it’s a good idea and want to do it, I’d be happy to help, I’m a builder and have all the tools needed
Sub Optimal on both Rover and Mercedes fronts Matt. I almost expired laughing at the sight of you exiting the Rover via the driver's window. Your boundless optimism is admirable
There is a method that could allow you to do welding on the Mercedes in the dry; just open that side door to your garage and aline the bit of car you want to work on with the door. Also consider removing the driver's door to help with ingress and egress when doing all the shifting.
You are going to have to turn it around in sometime, so you've got something for the "Junk in the Trunk" feature. (Unless you do "Junk in the Engine Bay?")😁
LOL, I would never watch again if you got so frustrated with this interesting project that you passed if off! Have faith! For me, the absolutely stunning SD1 / 3500 was the car that I consider the pinnacle Rover, and I think its overall greatness (any flaws overlooked here) overshadows the greatness that was the P6. Only now am I beginning to appreciate the P6 though my American heart will always pitter patter from my first (the blue Corgi Juniors model!) and the ONLY one I have seen in the metal (stuck in Toronto highway gridlock traffic in May 1982). Looking forward to the finished project, of lord and caretaker of such interesting motoring machinery!!!
The issue with the accelerator sticking on the merc used to happen with my vw beetle periodically, it would slip off the roller and either give you full throttle or no throttle. Whilst in motion.
thats a tad scary....!
Seeing the condensation in your Merc I really recommend hanging dehumidifier bags. I hang them in my cars when they are off the road. Keeps the interior bone dry and free from mold!
Good luck with the P6 and looking forward to see it running. The way you got out of the Merc reminded me the time I had the E46 in a council garage and I had to get out of it like Bo and Luke.
Matt too many things on your plate did the right thing with the Rover more time to do other things been slim is a good idea can climb out of the window cant wait for the next Y Tube update
As mentioned, remove all the doors off the merc and by using the side garage door and moving the merc to allow the welding to be inline with the open door.
That garage has more than a hint of hubnut about it, great comedy value!
Great upload as normal mate 👌👌 Just repeating one of your classic phrases. "That`s why the bonnet is a bit cocka mannie !!!!!! Bloody Brilliant👍👍
Hope the shop gets the Rover going easily. Likely something fairly simple. We hope. I still find it funny to think of the Mercedes W123 as a large car. They were smaller than a North American mid-sized car of the time. Then again, the Volvo 240/740 are what I call small cars. The Panther was a medium sized car, and I have had 5 of them along with 4 of the similarly sized "Torino Birds" which really were mid-sized. The truly full-sized car I have owned was just over 19 feet long, weight a respectable 4,600 pounds, and had a 6.5 litre engine under the bonnet. Considering it was rated to tow 3½ tons, that seems quite reasonable!
👍 great the Rover is moving forward & getting some work done, looking forward to the outcome, shame u cant put the merc in the barn to work on, would be much better 2 have some space around it, onwards & upwards 👍
It might be heresy to say this and I totally understand the collector gene and the need to save cars and running a YT channel, but I think you have too many cars… or at least too many cars with major work needed for the repair space / facilities available. A major mini restoration, significant work on the Merc, P6, Turbo kit on the Rover coupe. All in a single garage, driveway and a unit full of cars.. Your a brave man…
Matt some chrome Rostyle alloys would look amazing on this against the black paintwork
Can't wait to see you do a full road test on the V8 . Hopefully this spring 🤞
Hope they can get this issue resolved - it'd be great to see the old girl back up and running once again.
Sigh
I bet your neighbours love you with all those cars parked up😂.
Give the scrapyard a ring.
Ditch the towbar - they're miserable. Also you could consider shifting the stuff from down the side of the garage. Don't know where you're going to put it all though.
A spring clean when it comes hey Matt. I drive an Astra K and it only just fits through the door on the garage now, I've had so called family cars in the past and they went in very easily it's very strange.
I think it’s time for a big cleanup in the garage and on the driveway 🙈
I thought that, absolute chaos. Don't know how people can operate in mess like that.
The neighbours must be very understanding.
@@nigelbrett5703 As far as I can tell, he's at the end of a cul-de-sac, tucked away. The entire drive you see in the video is his plus the double garage. Apart from engine noise the neighbours wouldn't see any of his shenanigans unless they are actively staring down towards his house. I think the Rover 2000 is in the other garage.
O my god how can you work like this
OCD going crazy right now 😆
Nice to see the Merc run and move, 🤞 the rover gets fixed👍
You need a carport on the side of the garage to give you a covered working area. Is there any update on the rusty Lagonda that was going to be restored and electrified?
No, no news
Yes I know I'm a day late tech problems. You'll have to find a new location for 'junk in the trunk' now. 'Junk in the barn' doesn't rhyme. Just maybe use a trunk that's in the barn. You should have swept the floor properly before putting the Merc in the garage and the space where it was. A clean space is a clean mind.
Garages that are too small really are a bugbear of mine. For a year I kept my 2003 Nissan Almera in a council lock up built late 1960s. Boy, that was narrow. Seems like the local authority designed it around a Morris Minor!
Yes its terrible. Even here in Sweden which isnt as populated the garages are sometimes quite small. Is/was there no building code for garages? Can only assume the answer is "no" and when they built them they did the bare minimum. Perhaps they simply took the size of the average car the year the garage was built, and added a generous inch clearance on every side? "Should be enough for anybody, shouldnt it" 🤓
@@GoldenCroc In the same way UK parking spaces are too small for modern cars it is the same situation with garages. The regulations were set back in the 1950s or so where cars were much narrower and you could easily drive in and get out but with today's hatchbacks being wider than even the largest saloons 50 years ago it becomes a tight squeeze!!
@@Adam.Piper62 Yeah I get it, and my previous comment was a bit flippant for comedic effect, but to me its just madness to not build in a generous margin. Modern cars are larger, yes, but not by an extreme percentage or in inches. I would guess 10 inches or so wider on average?. Building a garage that wont fit every car on the market (yes including Pullman Mercedes) with a very nice margin to spare around it is just daft to me. Guess law makers, builders and buyers of the garages didnt care much.
My house is built in 1980 and my garage is considerably larger than ones built a decade prior. Still not more than 11 feet wide though, so its not optimal, I would like at least a foot or 2 more. Length wise I got 46 feet, so I should be safe in that regard for a while...
Btw: Nice PFP!
@@GoldenCroc , stuff are usually designed, based on the knowledge, habits and economy of the time. It rarely works when someone actually try to predict future needs. Fun fact: An VW Up are about the same size as an Golf mk1, the Up is just higher.
@@westmus Not sure its very smart from a utility perspective to build a house or garage to the minimum szie one can get away with at the time of building. Its not like they are easily switched or converted in size later, like most other things can.
So yes, when it comes to houses "future needs" really should be taken a bit into account, I would say. Lets not forget, there were a lot of cars even at the time that wouldnt fit, certainly an average American car from the era couldnt fit. That small interval of what can be stored in these old garages is just too miserly for mine, and many others, tastes.
Fingers crossed on getting the P6 going! 😀😀
Perhaps fitting the smallest car you have in the garage is wise, because that way you can get in and out, shuffle past, but more importantly you could have it as a bit of a dry set on rainy days perhaps, pop a camera in the corner and slide a table in the middle or do odds n sods rather than outside, i think with the rover in there its made it awkward to go grab that tool you've forgot etc, perhaps a garage spruce up is in order! just a big tidy up and sort through, chuck what don't need, its one thing thats put me off taking on a project while i learn to drive, a small soggy driveway with no space!
i remember my brother working on his austin A40 about 50 years ago in grandad's garage,even back then garages had little space either side and that A40 wasn't exactly wide!
My Mk1 Fiesta is sitting in the old asbestos garage in my garden - one side of the car is tight up against one side, and there's only just enough room to get in and out of the driver's door. Kind of a moot point though, the car's a half-finished project that I haven't touched for years, and in the meantime my wife got a builder to put up some wooden gates on the (narrow) driveway, so I think the car's completely trapped there until I take the gates and the posts down.
@@Zeem4 😆
Great video Matt! I was wondering why you need an MOT on a 40 plus year old car?… you changed your engine, hence it needs an MOT.
We learn something new everyday! I had to Google this fact out of curiosity.
I cant change the V5 details or to historic without one acceding to DVLA (Ive tried!)
Note to self, " A Very Good Operator always carries a tape measure. Add to tool belt now. "
Daring escape from self imposed prison was priceless though.
You do need to take a long look at a Mk3 Fiesta or a Metro or something because your Fords are very big indeed.
MINI JCW perhaps ?
Did you remember to remove the junk from the trunk before the P6 went away?
I never thought I'd compare you to Steve Wright the DJ but I remember him having similar problems trying to extract himself from his Range Rover in the garage
I did - all that stuff on the floor and workbench came from the Rover!
As a schoolboy I can remember a friend's father having a P6 and my abiding memory of it was indeed, how narrow it was - both inside and out. Trivia: the final Mondeo was bigger than both the BMW E60 and the Mk. IV Zodiac.
All of the side impact standards have made all cars so wide that parking spaces are barely adequate for a Mondeo Mk4. The Vauxhall Vectra C is a big car but is positively skinny compared to its Insignia replacement. The windscreen pillars on the Insignia are twice as wide as the Vectra's causing a huge blind spot at junctions.
I can just see the headlines now.
'Man trapped I'm Mercedes in garage poisoned by exhaust gases when the throttle stuck open'. 😅
I suppose it's better to discover these issues now rather than later.
Once the Welding is done on the W123 I suppose that it could potentially be moved to the barn for further work.
I'm looking forward to seeing that P6 working, fingers crossed.
It could happen!!!
Now Ive seen how big the Merc is in the garage Im not sure how easily it would fit in the barn
In my view that is too many concurrent projects for comfort, for efficiency, for peace of mind. I never was a fan of multi-tasking.
I hope you don't mind my well-intentioned comment.
At least the garage side door is conveniently placed so that you can access the rear wheel arch
Forget switching to Smart and Micro cars, you need to get into mopeds and motorcycles, I'd watch Furious riding.... Although I might be reluctant to Google it haha.
Time to free up some space and time i think! Sell a few done projects and focus on the ones that need work. Cars only deteriorate sitting around 👍🏻
The phrase "all went a bit HubNut" came to mind with the Merc adventure 😹
🤞the cost will not be too great and you can get it t MOT'd, be good to see it driving. Ain't it amazing when a car is in "storage mode", the amount of stuff you can fit in it, then end up wondering "where the hell do I put this lot?" 😁. Been there, done that.
Filled 3 cars with what was in that thing!
The moment his feet was on the floor, and his head was out the window😂😂😂😂 Golden moment
You had me going for a moment! ("GONE!?") 🤯
You've tried so hard so it's nice that you can hand it to the pros to finish. It will be worth it! Great video Matt!
I just want it running now, and I can get on with other things instead of banging my head against a brick wall with it now
Hi, Matt great content again,I am trying to get a dash mat for vxhall zafira 64 plate tried everywhere again great video regards
I am curious Matt, have you ever looked into the towing capacity of the Crown Vic? Maybe it could tow a dolly, or even a car trailer to make things easier to move for you?
Im not sure you can fit a tow bar to the Police spec cars
IIRC the towing capacity isn't very good - maybe 1500kg
Hi Matt, good to see you at the NEC and congrats on the Mondeo MOT Pass! Would you mind sharing the details of the red oxide paint you use please? Cheers, Daz.
its from the Bulldog people link here - www.lubricantsuppliers.com/product/ff169-rust-neutralising-primer-spray/
Good luck with the Rover. It will be great to hear it run.
Mercedes gives birth to a matt lol 😂 it's amazing what little space you have when you put a car in garage great vid hope the bill is not too expensive all the best donny oh my hippo turned up today too
Oh very excited to see the rover come back and see you have another running V8 in the fleet! I feel your pain trying to pack vehicles in places aha
i cant wait to hear out run, Id love a really big space at the bottom of the garden!
@@furiousdriving it will sound epic! Can’t be a nice old v8. I think that’s every man’s dream aha
You need an old farmhouse and barn, not a modern house on an estate where you're probably annoying all the neighbours. 🙄
Good thing Mat is a fairly "streamlined human", some of us more comfort oriented models would be still stuck in the W123 in the garage. 😂😂
You don't need a car port, just a good clear out with the notion that empty space is useful.
Rather than struggling to push the car like you did to get it back in the garage. As you had the wings off, put your hands on the top of the tyres and roll them backwards. Requires far less effort to apply a rolling force to the tyres, instead of pushing.
Squeaky bum moment watching the Mondeo going into the space where the Merc was.... Think that's the first time I have seen the Rover out the garage and she is beautiful. Cars have got a lot wider, my dad cannot get a 2017 or 2021 Kia Rio in his garage, well he can but he cannot get out at the door at all!
Its ridiculous, we were talking on Twitter about this the other day as the Eurotunnel trains are only just wide enough now
@@furiousdriving: Yeah, forward planning was never something the British government was ever any good at.
Folding the mirrors in helps.
You missed a trick when Ian sold Foxanne! I love how compact she is!
Do you have a full time job and a family? If so, you must have a very understanding partner! I like your channel but mainly because it's calamitous tbh!
The problem is to many vehicles ha.
Great video as usual but it looked like carnage from minute 1, top man 👍
Some people skip the house extension and put a large cheap old caravan in the garden.
Lol, 18 minutes of raw parking action! Strangely compelling, I suppose you could have used a tape measure but that would be a very short video of a bloke going"nah, that won't fit"!
It looked so close why bother - measure once cut twice and all that
So Junk from the Trunk will now be Bling from the Bonnet ☺️
Sounds like a difficult day you have encountered excellent presentation
It looks like you'll need to replace the dead reverse light bulb on the offside of the Crown Vic - only the nearside one is illuminating... visible from 11:25 to 12:00 on the video.
Thats the fog light now
Was that part of the UK lighting regulations conversion that you had to do, as well as installing the amber rear indicator bulbs, for MOT compliancy?
Cool to see that the P6 will be back on the roads soon enough.
Hope they sort the P6 Matt.... Seriously though . You need to flog that Merc..
Sure they will - they build race cars for Goodwood Revival so its in the best hands
I was thinking the exact same thing, so many projects on the go It's all very hubnut :)
Matt, you need a simple car port building onto the side of the garage, would be a very useful space for work and detailing
I was going to a while ago but materials costs doubled 'temporarily' but still waiting for them to come down
@@furiousdriving Yeah, same on the continent. Massive price increases because of Covid, war and anything they can come up with. Still, for now all seems sort of settled now the P6 is on holiday.
@@furiousdriving would make an ideal place to work 👍
This would be amazing for you. Definitely look into it. A double-bay sized work area that you can fit lighting in so you can work in the dry and dark 👌
Why don't you build a little roof/carport next to your garage?
If money and planning were not an issue, would you not love to extend that garage up to the house? You could fit 3 cars in it then! I know, if only things were that simple.
if money were no object It would go sideways and up with at least one lift in there!
Random thought: Could you get away with a car port type roof attached to the garage?
Doubling as a barbecue sheltering area for our great British Summers. 🙂
That's a great idea, I hope he does consider this. Would be a dry double bay for him to work under!
I want to but Mrs F only agrees it if its done to look smart so the costs have increased somewhat!
@@furiousdriving That's the trouble with good ideas! 😄
you need to swap cars around and put the mini in the garage and the merc in your barn.
I dont know it would fit easily in there
lol , the problem is Matt isn't allowed to weld in the ( wooden ) barn
It has length but I bet your E-class is narrower than your Y reg Mini?
Years ago I had a 1995 W124 and parked it behind my friends 53 plate Cooper.
Guess what ? In 8 years a 'mini' had grown wider than an 'executive' class saloon!
Merc is 5cm wider (just checked!) than the R50, the F54 clubman is 1.6cm wider still!
@@furiousdriving Must have been an optical illusion. Oddly though a W123 is nearly 2 inches wider than the later W124. But is it any wonder modern cars all seem to have parking dents&dings. Supermarket/car park spaces appear to stay the same width as they were when built in the 60's/70's to accommodate Minors, Minis, Escorts, Beetles, Vivas. Now they're expected to take these extra wide family cars. Not to mention these ridiculous SUV's , the size of an oil tanker with the boot capacity of a Mk1 Fiesta 🤣
@@neilwalsh4058 The clubman is huge, its almost as big as my old W204 but much smaller inside
An extension onto the garage would be ideal
Sell a few cars and beware cardelusion yes it's a word. !!!!
Loving the Dukes of Hazzard exit!
I think they did it a bit better though😂
Good decision made Matt you have tried
a motor home awning bolted to the side of the garage would be handy
You don’t wanna put the W123 in that garage Matt it won’t FIT 😁, oh you found out anyway 😂, talk about trying to fit a quart in a pint pot lol 😂
Doesn't fit? Ill make it..
Can buy very cheap outside DIY log cabins now.
Your not giving up dont get yourself all deflated
You'll get there 👌
I used blu-tack on my dashmat rather than using adhesive velcro.
About time you sold a few cars
what?
@@furiousdriving 🤣🤣 just an idea
The Mondeo was never gonna be a keeper and neither was the Volvo. My 1991 Toyota Celica was never gonna be a keeper and I've had it since July 2019...
Crown Vic has a rewind light out.
Excellent de revoir une merveilleuse P6 !
Another great video Matt. Can’t wait to hear that V8 burble 🤩 Mark.
You know you said you should definitely next time invest in bubble cars and Fiat 500 well if only you’ve just bought a mini why didn’t you put the mini in the garage I think it would’ve been a perfect place close by that you can easily work on it and easily but able to work stuff around it😂
Another reason to keep the Mondeo 😁 just saying
storage of junk in the big boot?
@@furiousdriving That and it fits down the side of the garage.
you have tooo much stuff in ur garage matt grrrr at least rover gone to be fixed now
You've got a Reverse light out on the right side of the car
Cheers from Lexington Kentucky.
Fingers crossed for the Rover let's hope is something simple. Oh well least the Merc is now dry.
Aren't you supposed to press the throttle all the way down when checking the compression?
have you got an update on the v8 rover yet?
Cars are getting wider and longer through the years, though the Crown Vic is in a class of its own 😂
I recommend a nice big skip
I wonder if they had a rig to pull the engine back out and take just it to work on.
it has Sava tires. Interesting. Hi from Slovenia .)
Ive not driven on them yet! They went on just before the engine swap so have not seen the road so far
I think that Mercedes is far beyond id scrap it and concentrate on the mini and rover
Not even close to too far
Can't wait for the rover to be done to see it out on the road were it be longs thanks
I have been a Rover I have drove a mile like a hundred highways.
Love watching your videos mate can't wait to see w123 back on road and the rover
Use car boots for storage or a van if it's not an area for tool thieves.