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I'm Ant Anstead.

I've spent my life bringing iconic cars back from the brink.

Yeah!

But now every flip...

Hi! What the hell you got there?

...needs to make maximum profit.

I'm not paying you eight grand. There is a number here.

'Cause after three years,

I'm so close to getting Mum and Dad into their forever home...

That wall is wobbling. Is that safe? Define safe.

...and it's costing a fortune to finish.

There will be a point the roof will just give up.

But to turn these bangers into big bucks...

We in the scrap business now? Don't be like that.

...and finally hand Mum and Dad the keys...

Doesn't it look great? It looks amazing.

I need my family... Okay.

...and my mate Duncan on the tools.

That's sweet, that is.

Because failure...

The wheels don't fit! We have a problem.

...isn't an option. There we go!

Oh, yeah!

Whoo-hoo!

What a day!

After nearly three years,

the front part of the house is finally finished,

but my mum and dad won't move in until there's a working kitchen.

Right, well, Duncan and I temporarily propped it for now.

Okay. Glad you've done that.

Ben, the structural engineer, has already condemned the space

where I eventually planned to put the kitchen.

So I'm hoping he'll give the okay

to put a temporary one in the smaller room next door.

The end of this beam is actually supported

on the beam coming through from the other room.

We need to introduce support that takes the strain off this wall.

So, right now, that wall is holding up that beam.

This beam and the beam on the other side, yes.

If we continue to rely on it to hold heavy loads,

eventually everything crumbles.

So if we deal with the way these are saddled together,

something like a plate on either side with some bolts,

just to take the stress away from this bit of timber on the end.

In the long run, the ideal solution would be

to have a post tight against this wall

that supports the ends of these beams. Oh, man.

I've got to make it safe, but it's yet another job,

and unforeseen costs I hadn't banked on.

So I need to turn my attention to flipping some cars

and topping up the kitty.

However, no private sales have caught my eye,

so I'm northbound to Kettering, throwing caution to the wind.

I'm gonna go see my pal, Martin, who is a used car salesman.

Now, Martin normally has this wild,

wacky and weird eclectic collection of classic cars.

So this drive is a little bit of a gamble for me.

I'm taking a punt, a punt that Martin

has something on the forecourt that's gonna be profitable.

Martin's been in the motor trade since he was 18

and imports cars from all over the world.

And there's Martin.

Martin. How are you? Good to see you. I'm good.

How are you? Looking well. Thank you. You are, as well.

I love coming to your toy shop.

So, I'm free to roam? Yeah, of course. Yeah. Yeah. Help yourself.

He's got around 100 cars in stock,

so there must be one I can add value to.

Oh, Sunbeam Alpine.

Yeah, these are great cars. Easy to sell.

Oh, MGA. Yeah, that is lovely.

It's a hardtop, which is a shame.

Oh, wow. Karmann Ghia.

New wheels, D bumpers, blacked-out windows.

These are all super desirable.

But I need to find a car that needs work, or there's no profit margin.

What else have you got? Um... What else have we got?

What about that Alfa? What's the score with that?

Well, that's not actually for sale yet.

You're a car salesman. Everything's for sale.

What year is it? It's a 1968 Alfa Giulia.

How long have you had it? We've had it just over a year.

A year. Yeah. Why is it not on the forecourt?

If you look inside, we had a bit of a mishap.

We broke the steering box,

and it's been sitting here ever since.

Okay. So it needs a steering box. It needs a steering box, yes.

It's been in the country for about five years.

Imported from Italy, obviously.

So it's a left-hand Italian import. Yeah.

Oh, there's the old steering box.

How much is one of them? I'm gonna guess about £1,000.

It's a grand for a steering box? Yeah. Yeah.

So, it runs and drives. Well, it will do when there's a steering box.

It runs and starts, but doesn't steer. It does, yeah. Does it stop? Yeah.

If you could give me five, ten minutes on my own. Is that all right? Yeah.

All right, I'll come grab you in the office. Okay. Thanks, buddy.

Founded in 1910,

Alfa Romeo was synonymous with Italian luxury

and high-performance motoring.

Unveiled in 1962,

the Giulia put all of Alfa Romeos racing know-how

into a family saloon,

its painstakingly engineered aerodynamics

earning it the tagline, "Designed by the wind".

Do you know what? There's an Italian design simplicity with this car

that's just really hot right now.

And the interior is pretty remarkable.

The seats are fantastic. And these switches.

They just don't make cars like this anymore.

I mean, left-hand drive might harm the sale price in the end,

but if it's an authentic Italian car,

it's not gonna matter to an authentic Alfa buyer.

Oh, yeah. I really love this little twin cam engine.

Thirteen hundred, revs really high, aluminium head.

It's just a little bit untidy in here.

This doesn't help, sort of surface rust.

But it's not rusty, it's not gone through.

Yeah, the grille's seen better days.

Barely any rust, but the floor is dented.

I reckon someone's thrown a jack underneath and jacked it up.

Yeah, that could be a problematic fix.

Yeah, this is interesting. Alfa, strong brand.

I really like the subtle colour as well.

Now, this is a problem.

Oh, there it is.

That whole section's cracked off.

And if that's generally £1,000, plus the labour,

and then there's no doubt gonna be other things.

It's a great car for the right buyer,

though as it's left-hand drive, the audience might be more niche.

But I've seen beautifully restored Giulias go for mid-teens.

The key is getting a bargain

out of this pro car salesman, which is never easy.

If you were to put this

on the forecourt right now and advertise it, what price would it be?

Before we broke the steering box,

it was sold for 16 and a half grand.

You got 16 and a half? Yeah.

That's way out. There's no way there's 16 and a half grand in this car.

They do well. Not that well! It's a nice car.

It's not. It doesn't steer around corners! It could be a nice car.

I still haven't driven it, because I can't.

I don't wanna offend you, or waste your time.

You won't offend me. Make me an offer.

Seven? No.

Eight and a half, it's yours. Seven and a half. I'm not gonna move.

It's yours. Done. Seven and a half grand.

That'll do. Perfect. Okay.

Sixteen grand down to seven and a half!

It's a good deal, if you excuse the fact

that it can't steer or start.

But it does look awesome.

I am excited. This car is gonna yield profit

'cause right now, retro is in.

This is retro cool.

There is gonna be a customer who's gonna want this car

because of everything it represents.

It has a racing soul.

There is racing DNA in the Giulia.

All right? You've pumped your tyres up?

We've got to put this one on skates. But we'll come to that in a second.

But for now, drink in our 1968 Alfa Romeo Giulia

one-point-three TI.

TI. It's the TI that makes it cool.

It stands for "Turismo Internazionale..."

And that's the best Italian... Get you! I know, it's not very good.

Look at it. It's beautiful. Hmm.

You don't like it?

It's like a box. It doesn't know whether it's coming or going.

That's rude for a start, because this is a proper slice of Italian heritage.

Alfa Romeo has a history of creating race cars.

They've taken their race car knowledge and put it into a usable family saloon.

Come on. What, you're saying that's cooler than my dad's Marina Estate?

Yeah, I think that's cooler than a Marina Estate.

I think that's way cooler.

Let's start with the bit you know you love, which is the engine.

Alfa Romeo twin cam engine.

Look at that. That is a a work of art, innit?

I mean, this is a proper engine.

I'm liking it more. Right.

I mean, we have a bit of rust spots on here,

but what I'm thinking is maybe add some flair into the engine bay.

For example, just paint the little Alfa bits in red, give this a bit of red detail,

put something in it that says this has got, yeah, Italian flair.

A bit of Dolce & Gabbany, or whatever his name is.

No, no. Flair. Class.

Yeah, I'm liking that.

What's the matter with the grille? Yeah, the grille's broken.

Remember, we haven't talked about how much I paid for it yet.

No. Well, I wasn't even gonna go there

because I think there's something missing inside.

Hmm. That's the reason I've put it on the skates

because, at the moment, it doesn't steer.

On the face of it, that might feel like

a problematic issue on a car.

Only you could talk yourself out of this.

Well, no, my job now is to talk you into it.

The reason that I've been able to pick this car up for great value

is because it doesn't have steering.

So our issue is, is that we are gonna have to fork out

probably £1,000 for the steering part we need. Yikes.

We've bought this car, it doesn't run,

hasn't got a steering column... It does run. It doesn't steer.

We don't know whether it runs because you haven't heard it.

Shall I give you the financial reason why this makes sense? You best had.

They had a buyer agree at £16,000. Jeez!

So it's a £16,000 car.

Go on. What did you pay for it? What do you think I paid for it?

Probably £13,000.

We paid £7,500...

...for this Giulia.

Pretty good, right? Wow.

I'm gonna need a hand putting it in the barn. Do you know why?

Well... Because it doesn't steer.

Right. Stable? Yeah.

First job we should go to is the big one, the steering.

Now, two things worry me about it.

Firstly, we're inheriting someone's half-done job,

and you know what that means.

Yeah, I mean, are all the bits here?

Now, the column is in the boot.

And if you look at it... Yeah, you can see how this works.

This column enters the cockpit, turns the wheel,

that rotation is then converted by this worm drive, which is damaged,

down this column that attaches to the steering arms that rotate the wheels.

It's a good job it happened when they were moving around the yard.

If you're driving at speed and that steering suddenly fails,

you're in a hedge.

I mean, that is a catastrophic failure.

And it's basically exploded.

Yeah, I mean, all this aluminium casting's all just gone.

So what we should do

is do an analysis of the entire steering system.

So I say we rip the wheels off,

analyse the steering, see if there's something that's caused this.

Get hold of that wheel and just go left to right.

Oh, yeah. I mean, you can see exactly how it's been engineered.

Yeah, the steering column, the bit that's broken,

obviously passes through the bulkhead,

bolts securely to that inner wing,

a spline attaches a little arm

that joins a midway arm, and then two track rod ends.

Right, just keep turning it again.

Your rod end's not bent or anything, is it?

No. This all moves lovely.

The steering on that front axle is fine,

which means our problem... Is our steering box.

Right, I'll put my attention on securing this part.

If we can get the part.

On your average car, this would cost a few hundred quid,

but because this particular Alfa Giulia is no longer manufactured,

parts are rarer and often more expensive.

I mean, it turns out that the casting failure

on the Alfa Giulia is quite a common problem.

People talk about it on forums, and they put it down to the casting,

the fact that the aluminium is porous

and the air inside the metal makes it weaker.

So the good news is it has identified

and isolated the issue to the steering box itself.

The bad news is it's not a readily available off-the-shelf part.

Well, certainly not in the UK.

Right, I now know everything I need to know

about Alfa Giulia steering boxes.

Firstly, it is a known issue and it's prone to failure.

That's all good, but did you get one?

It turns out that I couldn't get one in the UK. So we haven't got one.

Then I did find one that's available in Italy.

So what I do know is I have spent a thousand pounds.

The problem is, is that there are multiple columns.

So depending on the year and model, it depends on the length.

So, we've done the thousand pounds...

And we hope that the right one arrives.

So, while we're waiting for the part that comes from Italy, or not,

let's move on to the next big thing,

which I think... Yeah, let's tackle the dent.

The dent in the floor. I was just looking at that in there.

Right, well, here, on that jacking point...

Move that, move that.

Mate, why can I see daylight? Yeah.

In my defence, I didn't check it from the inside.

From the underneath, it looked like a jacking dent.

It is definitely a jacking dent. You can feel it.

But I didn't realise there were holes.

Let's get this seat out of the way, get the carpets out of the way,

and let's take a closer look at what we're dealing with,

which is a rusty Alfa. Which I'm not surprised about. I'm gonna get you glasses.

All Alfas are rusty. That's part of the point of being Alfa.

You got that?

See how damp that is?

Yeah. And it hasn't rained.

Ew! Oh, yeah, this is done.

Do you know what? I think we have to commit to taking this off.

How's that got wet?

Probably through that hole. Let's hope it's just water.

Ooh!

Right, I'll get a scraper. Get that trim off so we can lose that inner panel.

You know, I think the best thing to do

is beat it into shape and then see how big the hole is after.

Right. I think the safest thing is to plate this and lose that grommet hole.

Yeah. That's probably where all the water was getting in.

A structural problem like this is a straight MOT fail.

There you go, dude. Kept it so the grommet fitted.

Looks a bit better, doesn't it?

Well, it's definitely stronger, and it's giving it a reinforced jacking point.

I reckon, hit that with a bit of anti-rust paint. Yeah.

I'm gonna have to order some new underlay. Yeah.

Warm. It's warm, man. That's why I'm gonna pass the paint job over to you.

Which gives me time to bring Mum up to speed on the kitchen situation.

Right, this room is where I think

we should put a temporary kitchen. Okay.

The problem is, is that, structurally,

this beam here and the one in the kitchen

are two separate beams resting on each other.

Is that safe? Define safe.

Is it going to collapse on us baking and cooking in here?

It's safe for now, yeah.

Ben, the structural engineer, has asked us to reinforce this joint here.

So we have to somehow join those two beams, probably a bracket,

and then, ultimately, this room needs a post.

It's really quite a job, isn't it? It's a big job.

But we shouldn't let the job slow down you guys moving in.

And there's no time like the present to be getting on with it.

Right, pop a screw in there so it can't be knocked out.

So, if you imagine all the weight that's above us,

this is the main beam that supports the majority of that weight.

And that joint is the failure point.

The problem is, this beam is a completely different dimension and shape to that beam.

So I'm gonna have to make a completely bespoke bracket.

I think the easiest way for me to make an accurate bracket

is to have it laser cut.

It's a fix that will cost upward of £200.

But the alternative, it doesn't bear thinking about.

We're asking this bracket to do a lot of work.

Yo! A package has arrived from Italy.

So, is this our steering box? I hope so, 'cause I only ordered one thing from Italy.

Hopefully, it was good enough to determine

the right size steering rack.

It looks nice and new. It's well wrapped.

Make sure there's no other bits. Nothing else in there.

Is that longer? It is longer!

Oh, no, wait a minute.

Yeah, now it's the same size. That's the right one.

Now we just need to work out how to put it back in the car,

hopefully using everything that's on this table.

With nothing left over.

First, we feed the steering column

through a hole in the bulkhead

so it enters the cockpit where the driver sits.

Okay. Right, you ready? Yep.

You got a hold of it at that end? Yeah. Hang on, hang on.

I need to point it down for a bit as much as I can.

Yeah, you're gonna hit the pedals.

Despite using an old-school recirculating ball steering box,

rather than the rack-and-pinion system,

Alfa Romeo's engineers achieved remarkably direct communicative steering

with no power assistance.

We're in! Phew!

Right, if you can dive in the wheel arch now,

I'll punch the bolts through if you put the nuts on. Yeah.

Got it?

With the steering column secured we can now attach the steering box

to the driver's side of the engine bay.

Can you just put your finger on the back of that, Ant? Yep, done.

Lovely. There you go.

Now that's in place, we can start to assemble

the steering column housing...

...which simply slides on.

And then I can add the steering wheel.

Oh, no. What's happened?

This has to go in before we bolt the steering box in.

Yeah, we need the column low enough

to slide this portion over and then lift it back in.

That's the trouble, when somebody else has taken it apart,

and you don't know the order that it goes back in.

We gotta take it all out again. Yep. Unbolt it.

Idiots.

Yeah, that's nice and loose now.

After wrongly fitting the steering box on the Alfa, we're back on track.

She fits! DUNCAN: Excellent.

Right, let's bolt it back in again.

Lovely!

Right, chuck us the steering wheel. Got it.

So, what we'll do is, we'll work out the centre.

Now, first thing we wanna do

is get an accurate centre of our steering.

So wind it all to one end...

Right. One turn...

two turns, three turns.

It's almost four. Like 3.9 turns.

Which means we go back

one...

Almost two.

That is the centre of our steering.

So now we can attach the spline. Right.

The spline is crucial for securing the steering in place,

connecting our newly-fitted column

to the Alfa's original steering system.

It does line up. It means our steering's definitely central.

Right. Before I split-pin this, could you just turn the wheel? Yeah.

Fingers clear? It should all move nicely.

How does that feel? That is silky smooth.

Right, go back in the centre.

Right, let's split-pin that.

That is it. She is fixed.

This cowling really tidies it up.

Nice!

Whoo-hoo!

Dunc, pass us the centre, boss.

Right, don't get your sticky fingers all over that. It's so pretty.

That is it. That is the steering finished.

That's the reason the car didn't sell.

Right. Seat's in.

Right, let's give her a little drive.

No, no, I can... Age. Who's the oldest?

Well, you're the oldest. Right. There's no doubt about that.

You're pulling age rank on me? Yeah.

And it suits me. Actually, it does suit you.

I never get to drive them. Come on, start her up.

She sounds all right, you know.

That little twin cam's lovely. I know. It's all about the engine.

Right, come on, then. Pull her out.

Whoa! Ooh!

Let's go again.

Hang on, hang on, hang on. Your clutch is down? Yeah. Look. Fully down.

How does the clutch pedal feel? It doesn't feel brilliant, mate.

Pump the clutch and then try and pop it in first.

No. No, I don't like the sound of that.

All right, kill it.

Oh, man. Don't tell me we have a clutch issue.

You've nobbled it, haven't you? That's the last thing we need.

What is it with you and buying cars?

All right, let's get it up in the air and look at the clutch.

Could have done without this. Agreed.

You know what, the bottom of the belt housing has an access panel.

Let me take that off and see what's going on.

Mate, this is turning into a major... What's it look like?

It looks like an Italian clutch.

Right, very gently, just press the clutch pedal.

I mean, it feels like it's got a lot of pressure.

All right, go on, then her start up again.

Right, you ready?

Go on, then. Try and put it in gear. Clutch down.

No! Stop, stop, stop, stop!

Mate... We've gotta do a clutch.

I'm going off old cars.

Let's take the gearbox out.

If I drop the gearbox mount,

gonna have to take the prop shaft off.

I've gotta take this, all this shrouding off around this gear stick as well, then.

I'll tell you what, if you disconnect everything in the cockpit

so that the gear lever can pass through the floor,

I'll undo everything under here.

I know you take the mick out of me being old. Yeah.

How long was this car stood for?

What are you talking about?

You're gonna have to bear with me on this,

but there could be a chance

that the clutch has welded itself to the flywheel.

So you think the clutch is seized

'cause it's sat in the wrong environment for the last two years?

Possibly. If we start it in gear with the clutch down,

the torque of the engine might free the clutch plates off.

Everything we're looking at so far points to needing a new clutch.

Get them sanded discs.

So, flywheel... Yeah. ...metal.

Cold environment condensates.

Friction plate next to it.

Clutch plate, pressure plate.

Right, so the pressure plate is pushing the friction plate onto the metal surface.

It's left for a couple of years and it binds. Yeah.

So you reckon, start the engine in gear,

and that rotation is enough to shock it and free it up.

If that's what the diagnosis is. Mmm.

It's a big if. It's that or the gearbox out. Look, I'll give it a go. All right.

Oh, Dunc!

If this ingenious fix from Duncan works,

not only will it save me almost 200 quid on a new clutch,

but Duncan will have some serious bragging rights.

That wasn't very gentle.

I'm not feeling very gentle, to be honest.

Cross them fingers. Ready? I'm ready.

Yes!

Don't tell me that worked. Yeah!

Shut up! Put it in reverse.

Yeah!

Oh, my God, that has saved us loads of time and money.

Old but gold.

I bow to seniority.

And the other mature member of the team is also hard at work

sorting out the bespoke bracket I need for the beams in the kitchen.

Are you Stuart? Good to meet you. How you doing? And you.

Got it all loaded. Peer in through that window.

You can watch it cutting as we speak. Oh, wow.

Using my measurements, the laser generates temperatures

of over 3,000 degrees Celsius at cutting point.

Brilliant. Slightly warm.

Okay, all done.

Right, we'll just bend this into shape and it's all ready for you.

It's like butter. Just like butter.

If you bend it too far, can you bend it back?

You can bend it back. You have to be careful.

Lovely. That's a solid bracket, isn't it?

Solid. Brilliant job.

With the mechanics on the car sorted,

I need to get this Alfa looking presentable and profitable.

So while Duncan gives the bonnet a new lease of life

with a fresh lick of paint, I'll take a look at the grille.

Now, the grille is the face of every car. It's the most identifiable bit.

You look at the front of this grille and you know immediately this is an Alfa Romeo.

And the problem with our grille is these fins are damaged.

The shiny bits,

they're held on by a rivet through these two little tabs.

And the rivet's corroded, the head of the rivet has come off.

Yeah, I just need to re-rivet it.

Now, the rivet has this top hat section.

That acts as a kind of washer. That goes on the top surface.

And when you activate the rivet gun, it bunches and pulls that up,

compressing and squeezing between the panels.

The problem is, is that these have to be riveted from reverse.

So the head of the rivet is on this side. And that's the strongest part.

Yeah, that's lovely.

The car's really taking shape,

but Duncan and I need to get the bespoke bracket fitted

to make the temporary kitchen safe for Mum and Dad.

You'd almost say that was made for it.

It's lovely. Look.

Right, we've got to raise it. Yeah.

Right, let's get another acrow in there.

To get the second part of the bracket in,

we need to lift this centuries-old beam,

which is currently supporting around 10 tonnes of weight above.

Right, now go up again.

With 30 years' experience working on heritage homes,

Duncan is exactly who I need on this job.

And we're just gonna raise it a millimetre at a time.

Once in place, the bracket will help

support the point load and weight distribution of that wall.

That wall is wobbling.

Don't tap it!

'C5ause we've got no weight on it now. It's all on the acrows.

I mean, I can see a gap now.

We need six mil, 'cause that's the bracket.

Probably seven mil to get it in there.

What is that noise?

This worries the pants off me.

Just taking it up a little bit. You should be able to get yours up.

Oh, my gosh. Look at that lift.

Right, now cranking right up.

Oh, my gosh. It's lifting.

We're lifting the whole house on the middle beam.

I am sweating.

Right, I think that's it.

Oh, my gosh.

You can see the light through there.

Right...

As soon as we bang it in, it ain't never coming out.

It isn't coming out. Is that going?

Oh, man, the whole ceiling's wobbling. Yeah.

That'll do. You're there. Is that in? Yeah.

Now the bracket's in place, it's time to loosen the acrows

and hope that everything holds.

Now this, in theory,

should put all the weight above us back into where it was.

Yeah, this acrow's now loose.

Man, that is in there. Phew!

That is our bracket.

That's it. I don't know what you was worried about. Hmm.

Still standing.

Well, yeah. Perfect. Forget about it.

With the house secure for now, I keep reminding myself

that this alpha once had a £16,000 offer.

And so far we've spent just over a grand.

So to keep my potential profit margin as high as possible,

these final fixes need to be smart.

So what I'm thinking is,

as a nod to Alfa's racing heritage,

we place a couple of these rally-style fog lamps on the front.

And bear with me. These were 30 quid.

So surely that is gonna add more than 30 quid in value.

In fact, it transforms the whole face of our car

and makes it look like a rally car.

What say you? Where's your drill?

We're definitely doing this?

Yeah. That was a very long silence.

Whoo-hoo! I love it.

Right, let's get those wired in

and stick a little switch on the dash.

Right, I've wired power to the spotlights,

to this little remote button here. If I join that...

Yeah, look at that! Rally spotlights.

And Duncan's got a clever way to spruce up the engine

with what looks like his missus' nail varnish.

Just gonna pick these letters out in red,

just to give it a little bit of Italian flair. It doesn't cost a lot of money.

I think a lot of the Alfas did have this picked out in red originally.

Little touches like this, I think,

just makes it look like you've taken a bit of care over it.

I want to keep that Alfa Romeo flair going

with some quintessential Italian racing stripes.

I tell you what. That does make all the difference, doesn't it?

What, ten quid's worth of tape? I don't even think it's that.

Just lifts it, doesn't it?

Hey. I'll tell you what.

It's amazing what a couple of stripes does. Definitely go faster.

Makes our Alfa stand out.

I think that's it. I think she's ready to sell.

Well, let's get it outside, give it a clean.

Now, we bought this Alfa Giulia 1.3 TI for £7,500.

As a non-steering... Non-running...

But epic car, right? It is quite a cool car.

The most expensive bit was the steering.

In fact, on all the mechanicals, including the steering,

one thousand and thirty-seven pounds and twenty-six pence.

It was a risk, and it was a big job.

It's a hefty price, big job. But look what it's done. It's transformed the car.

Then we've got the spotlights, bit of wiring,

the switch for the inside, a relay, comes in around 40 quid.

And then I've got a category called pretties.

The pinstripes. Obviously, a bit of cash for Wendy's nail varnish. Yeah.

So, as a grand total, we've spent,

and bear in mind the steering was a thousand of this, £1,223.55.

Which means, right now, she owes us £8,723.

I mean, I don't know what these sell for.

We do know. Two years ago, someone was willing to pay £16,000.

Yeah... And yes, the market's softened.

If we get a ten, 11 offer, I'll bite their hand off.

That's money into the house, money back into the pot to go get another car.

But before we think about selling her,

we've got to do the one thing this car has not done for two years.

Drive it.

You know how when you become the parent of a dog? Yep.

You don't choose the dog, right? The dog chooses you. Yeah.

You know what I mean by that? Yeah. Right.

I feel the same way about this Giulia.

I suppose this car chose you 'cause you didn't go out to buy one, did you?

You took a big risk because the steering was expensive.

It handles brilliantly, doesn't it?

Right. Got a nice big stretch. How quick do you think it is?

Only a little 1300, though. There's more than enough power.

That gearbox is absolutely superb.

That little revving engine. How does it handle, though?

I'll tell you what,

I can chase some bad guys through the streets of Rome.

Do you reckon, now we put the steering in,

this car is capable of a spin around in here?

Yes or no? Yes or no? Say yes or no. Yes! You reckon it is? Yes, yes.

It is! Quite a good turning circle. That is impressive!

Whoo-hoo!

Silverstone, the home of British racing,

as well as this year's CarFest.

With over 90,000 visitors expected,

I'm hoping the right people will be in the room.

Oh, look!

I am so glad we put the stripes on.

Just so easy to lose a white car in an auction room. Yeah.

But now it's got a little bit of flair.

Yeah, I wasn't that keen on this, but now, now it's all done...

Do you acknowledge now that that's a cool car? Yeah. Yeah.

Let's hope that Alfa buyer's here.

Right, this is it. Right. Let's sell our Alfa. We got this.

A year ago, this car was about to be sold for 16k.

I just hope the left-hand drive doesn't put off any potential buyers.

We need to clear £8,723 to wash our faces.

On to lot number 503 for you, then, the 1968...

the Alfa Romeo Giulia here, the 1300.

Telephone bids coming through.

And what shall we say for this to start, ladies and gentlemen?

Interest here with me, then. I can open here at just £4,000.

The opening bid just £4,000. Here at £4,000.

Four-two online, now. With you in Norwich. £4,500.

Go on. At £4,500.

Yes, four-eight you are. At £4,800.

Oh, man, the bidding is slow. £4,800. Anyone at five?

Telephones are in. £5,000.

We're online over there at five grand.

Come on. Five-five. There's a lady in the room.

Five-five? £5,000.

Come on. Creep up. Creep up. Here we go.

Six thousand two hundred.

Six-four. Six-four.

Oh, my gosh. It's creeping up. Six-four.

The guy in the blue shirt, he's one of the bidders.

Six-five. Six-seven.

Six-eight with you. Come on. The guy in the blue shirt.

Let's go, one more! Let's go, one more!

We sell, then. Ah! Take your number anyway.

Six thousand eight hundred, then.

That's yours. £6,800.

That ain't fair. We've lost nearly £2,000.

Oh, man.

I was convinced that Alfa was a good buy.

Why? Why? It's not fair.

They say a car is only worth what someone will pay for it.

But I disagree because somebody has got an exceptional Alfa Romeo

at an exceptional price.

I'm proud of the car. I think the car looks amazing.

And someone's gonna be driving, you know, that car

with a huge smile on their face.

That's the only bit of positive I can take from it.

Ooh. It's a tough one to take.

Oh, man.

But you know, I'm stood here next to a Bentley and a Rolls-Royce

and, you know, these cars didn't do that well either, so...

You've just got to ride with the market, and right now, the market's down.

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