05x07 & 05x08 - Land Rover Series III (Part 1 & 2)

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Welcome to Wheeler
Dealers. Me and Ed, we love

classic cars and hate to
see them rusting away.

So we track down the
best, restore them and then

make a bit of a profit
when we sell them on.

This time we're really keen
to get our hands on one of the

cars that kicked off the whole


I can just see you in a rough, tough Landy.

So can I, it's a class act
on one of Britain's best-loved

motors. We've got £5,000 to
spend on buying one and restoring it.

Why do I want a Landy?

Well, because it can do this.

And this.

And this.

You're looking at a genuine
British engineering icon,

a car that's been in
production for over 60 years.

In all that time it's kept pretty much
to the same no-nonsense shape.

The body panels are made of a clever alloy
called BermaBrite, which hardly ever rusts.

And the ladder chassis
is as tough as old boots.

The Landy still has so
many fans because it's

a great workhorse
and it's easy to work on.

In fact, Land Rover reckon over 70% of
the cars they built are still on the road.

There's always loads for
sale on the trade papers,

so that's where I'm
going to start my search.

Well, as suspected, there's lots of
Land Rovers for sale on the Classifieds.

I've whittled down a few, circled
them, a couple of them are diesels.

But they're a little bit dearer
and they'll be rightly old engines.

Now, you may think I'm mad, but there's
one that keeps jumping out the page to me.

It's a V8. Yes, a V8. Why would I buy one
of them? Well, I've got an idea for that.

Also, this one's so interesting because
it's a project car that's gone wrong.

It's 90% done, it's got all new bits
to bolt onto it, it's just a bad colour.

And I think I'd be mad
not to give him a ring.

Hello, yes, I'm ringing
about the Land Rover.

In the advert it says something
about a paint job that's gone bad.

What kind of yellow?

Really? What, bad?

Oh, right, well, that
doesn't sound too bad.

Lovely. Cheers then, bye.

Well, he says it was just
a paint job that went bad.

It's a full restoration project.

All the work's been done,
all the hard work underneath.

Do you know, this could be the one.

Now, the guy I've spoken to
on the phone, his name's Phil,

and he's warned me that
when I come and see this car,

he said it's very straight,
but he said it's very bright,

so I brought my sunglasses down,
and I have just caught sight of it.

And I can't believe my eyes. No way!

Look at that!

You must be Phil. No, mate.

Phil. Oh, wow.

Where do I start? What's going on?

It's a health and safety truck, isn't it?

I've got fluorescent jackets
that are calmer than this.

Yeah, well, it definitely stands out.

It does now. I bet we're being
tracked from space right now,

because that's got to be
visible for miles around.

What were you thinking?

Well, it went away to
be painted inky yellow,

but it come back this inky
yellow, which is the wrong colour.

So there's two inky yellows?

There's two inky yellows, yeah.

And you got the wrong one?

Yeah.

What's the interior like?

If there was an enzyme, what's happened?
It's been nicked!

Well, it's the usual
Land Rover extras, none.

There's no door cards, no seat
backs, no carpets, no nothing?

No, but you can see how
good it is on the inside.

And this would have been
the original colour, would it?

That is the original colour.

That's the colour that should
have been on the outside.

If only.

If only.

If only.

But it does give me an
opportunity to see how

clean this car is,
because there's no rust.

You said there's been a lot of
work done, and it's absolutely mint.

Oh, look at that.

It's all been powder-coated, new battery.

Perfect.

Right, let's have a look under here.

Oh, that looks alright, didn't it?

Nice and straight, no
signs of accident or damage.

Can you turn it over, Phil?

Whoo-hoo!

Silky smooth V8 Rover engine.

Sounds right, doesn't it?

It's a three and a half litre.

Phil, turn it off.

Now, that engine, I recognise,
that's out of a Range Rover, isn't it?

It is, yep.

And tell me about this car.
What makes it different?

It's actually a Range Rover
engine, Range Rover gearbox,

but it's constant four-wheel
drive, and it's got the later-type

front and bonnet on, which
you'll recognise off the 9110.

So it's got the later front
on it, this car, isn't it?

This is what they call
a stage one, isn't it?

It is, yeah. It's a stage one V8, yeah.

Stage one V8.

So this is the car that they
tested everything out on

before they made the
latest Land Rover Defender.

Yeah, it's constant four-wheel
drive like the later ones.

Yeah, fantastic.

Okay, well, I'm really impressed
with it, except for the colour, obviously.

I just need to take it
for a test drive now.

It's not got no number
plates or road tags on it.

Yep.

But we're on a farm.

Yeah.

You must have farm lanes and tracks.

Yeah, plenty, yeah.

Yeah, so can I take it for a spin round?

Certainly can.

You don't mind, thank you very much.

Now this is likely to be one
of the most bizarre test drives

I'm ever going to do on Wheeler Dealers
because I'm driving a car with no door locks,

no glass, no interior.

But I need to know whether
it's mechanically sound.

It sounded beautiful when I started it up,

and it drives all right, actually.

I'm amazed.

See that field out there?

If I wanted to, I
could jump across that

field through those
hedgerows, up that cliff,

and it will look after me.

And the thing that I
love about these the

most is the fact that
they just keep on going.

They're really simple machines.

They were put together easily.

If you do need to change anything,

look, they're just bolts, really.

You can just unbolt them
and bolt them back up.

It doesn't matter whether
you're thinking about

buying one of these that's 60 years
of age or one that was built yesterday.

They all look exactly the same.

This is classic British engineering.

Well, do you know what?

I can't fault it.

I absolutely love it.

Other than the fact
that it's got no interior,

no seat backs, I was
holding the door shut

as I was driving around,
and it's so loud, visually.

But other than that, it drives lovely,

and I appreciate the amount
of work that's gone into it so far.

But I'm really worried about the
amount of work that's got to be done.

You said you wanted 1200 quid.

I did, yep.

Take 900 quid for it.

I'll say 11.

Go on.

Take 11.

It's got to be a bit sweeter than that.

The amount of work
that's got to be done to it.

Yep, I appreciate that,

but I've also done a
lot of work to it as well.





A bag of sand?

It's yours.

Go on then, hold out your hand.

I've got myself a Lamb Rover.

Wicked.

Well, one thing's for sure, the old
Lamb Rover's attracted a lot of attention

on the trailer behind me, and you can
see why, because on a day like today,

it's zinging in the sunshine.

Well, I've bought and
sold hundreds of cars in my

lifetime, but I've never
really had any Lamb Rovers.

They were always a
bit too specialist for me,

and I'm really keen to see
if they live up to the hype.

So once it's all up together, I'll be
really excited to see how it performs.

I'm pretty happy with
a bright yellow Landy,

but I've got a feeling Ed isn't
going to be quite so chuffed.

Oh well, I'll win him round.

Ed!

Ta-da!

What have you done?

Well, hello.

You've brought us a lemon.

A bright yellow lemon.

This is ridiculous.

A wet yellow lemon, because
it's raining at the moment.

Don't worry about that.

It's yellow, but it's clean.

And it's also a missing
indicator, side lights, grille.

How do you even drive it?

It can't be legal.

I was so embarrassed by the amount of cars

that I've delivered to you on a trailer.

I've left the trailer
just around the corner.

Come and have a look at the good stuff.

Have a look inside.

What do you like?

There's no door handle,
there's no door lock,

there's no door card, there's no
seat pack, there's no interior, man.

This is a joke.

It's not a joke, Ed.

Look how clean it is.

It's in mint condition inside.

It's in an okay condition.

It's lovely.

So have you got all the bits
to put this back together again?

Yeah, fortunately it'll come
with all the bits as well,

which I've got it back here.

We've got things like
this, the accelerometer.

Although that'd be the heater blower then.

The heater blower.

I mean, look, it's all there,

and all you've got to do is
screw it back together and

paint it, obviously, because
you can't keep it this colour.

No, this is a horrible colour.

And we'd be fine.

Well, that is kind of fair
enough, but in my experience,

there's one big problem with these
things, and that's round the back.

That lovely sounding V8

pumps out all kinds of nasties out the
back there, and it's really heavy on fuel.

Listen, are you getting all green?

Well, I've actually had a think about that.

And can we do on this car a liquid
petroleum gas conversion LPG?

Well, actually, it's funny
you should say that,

because this is one of the
only engines I can personally

do a conversion on and
then get it checked afterwards.

Can you?

Yeah, yeah.

So I can do all the rest of the work that
we spoke about, the paints and whatnot,

and you can do a gas conversion on it.

If you give me the bits?

I can give you the bits.

Oh, good luck.

Well done.

Excellent.

I'm really excited by this old wagon,

and I've got Eddall
fired up by the thought

of tackling his first
ever LPG conversion.

That just leaves me
to track down the parts.

Oh, well, time to crack on.

Welcome back.

No donor justice sets.

The Land Rover really is that color.

It was a project car that never got
finished, but then show me one that ever has.

So I jumped in, offered the guy a cool
thousand pounds to take it off his hands.

Now we've got big plans to LPG it,

respray that Larry top coat
and sell it on for a profit.

LPG conversions cost money,

maybe as much as a grand.

So if you're thinking about one, then
make sure your car is a good candidate.

On average, you won't reap the
financial benefits of an LPG conversion

until you run your car
for around three years.

So make sure the vehicle is sound
before you start pouring the cash in.

Now there are two things
I'm looking for under this car.

The first is the condition of the chassis,

which on the face of it looks pretty good.

Let's follow it down here.

The outriggers are quite classic things to
rust away, and these have been replaced.

I'll just go a bit further back here.

Look either side.

There's a couple of patches,

but that means it's been
repaired, which is great.

So actually, I think that the
chassis is in pretty good condition.

A couple of things I want
to check in the engine plate.

First, of course, is the oil.

So I'll just pop the dipstick out.

It's got plenty,

and it's looking very clean, so it
must have been recently serviced.

By the sound of the engine running, it's
probably been well looked after, actually.

I'll just pop also into the oil filler.

Now what I'm looking for
is kind of sludge or milky oil,

just any signs of bad condition,

but actually it's looking
pretty tip-top in there too.

So it seems Mike might have
bought us a peach rather than a lemon.

So I'm happy that our car
is a good candidate for LPG.

I'm going to need to warm up the
engine before I can check out the gas.

So I'll have a cup of tea.

Just to show you how
much difference there is

between a car running on
petrol and liquid petroleum gas,

I'm going to do an emissions test.

Well, if you can see me
through the smoke here,

the Land Rover's been running for a
while, so the engine's nice and warm,

but you can see here you're
supposed to have a reading

of about three and a half
for the carbon monoxide,

but around five at the moment.

Just kind of mad almost off the scale.

For the hydrocarbons, as you can physically
see coming out of the exhaust here,

this should be about 1,200.

It's actually 3,900.

So this is way, way over the scale.

With the LPG conversion,
this will be much, much better.

In fact, it should be perfect.

At these levels, our
car would easily fail

its MOT emissions
test, but help is at hand.

Mike is in Norfolk with a specialist
who's got all the LPG parts we need.

Right, so this is the tank.

Obviously, I'll just take
out the one in the Land

Rover and we'll put
this in its place, do we?

No, you don't need to
remove the original tank.

You put the LPG tank in a separate
compartment in your Land Rover, no problem.

Right, so you're saying I can
run it on both petrol and on LPG?

Absolutely, that's
why we call it deal fuel.

Fantastic.

So once I get that in,

I just fire up these pipes and it's away.

You've got your plumbing
to get your tank in

and your straps to put
it on under the bonnet.

You need a vaporizer,
which is akin to a carburetor.

Wow, a vaporizer?

It's something that Star
Trek are having, isn't it?

No, it's basically a very simple device

that allows the liquid gas
to actually be turned into

a vapor gas because it's
burning the engine as a vapor.

Gotcha.

Kind of the same as a gas bottle at home.

New HT leads and a new distributor.

Not necessarily, but a
lot of V8 engines are 30

years old so it's at least
worth considering them.

Can this be done at home by yourself?

Absolutely.

I've got a very good mechanic.

He's called Ed and he reckons
that he can fit this by himself.

He's probably overqualified.

Is he?

Yeah, it's basically just plumbing.

The gas conversion is very simple.

The main thing is to get it checked over

to make sure everything is
leak-free and bolted down.

Costs?

How much is this all going to set me back?

Between £450 and £1000
for a carbureted engine,

just depending on how good
a quality system you want.

Is that all?

I thought it was going to
be more money than that.

So about £450 upwards
and we can fit it ourselves?

Absolutely.

Fantastic.

And what's the difference for
me going for an LPG conversion?

What difference is it going
to make to our vehicle?

Well, if you consider the
upgrades at the same time,

you'll have more power from
LPG than you did from the original

petrol engine and you'll
probably get better economy too.

The main thing is, of
course, it's less than half price.

Less than half price?

Absolutely.

As petrol or diesel?

Much less than half price of
diesel because diesel is ruggeded.

Sounds good to me.

Mike bought me a fully-specced LPG kit

so we've paid £1000 for the
equipment to gas up our car.

This is the entire kit
for our LPG conversion.

We've got everything we need.

This is our brand new distributor here.

It's much more efficient than the old one

because it has an electronic
pick-up rather than points.

We've got some wiring
here, including a switch,

which actually means you can choose
obviously between petrol and gas.

And we've got the frame to hold the tank.

And the first job will be the tank.

The tank is heavy and cylindrical.

so it needs to sit firmly in a steel frame.

Thankfully, the frame slots
easily inside the rear pick-up space.

I've got to be really careful here.

to make sure that when
I connect it to the body

I don't drill into anything
vital underneath.

So I'm offering it up, drilling a few holes
and then screwing this frame into place.

Job done.

Get the tank into position.

Just lining this up.

It's quite a cunning little mechanism.

There's a slot inside that bolt.

You can see that there.

And essentially that feeds through there.

And it works just like a sardine tin.

As that winds up, it
actually tightens up the strap.

With the tank located and secure,
I can move on to the exciting stuff.

Our LPG tank is now
secured to the Land Rover

and on it is this kind of
very important airtight box.

If I take the lid off.

Inside, you've got the solenoid valve
and that gives your gas to the engine.

Next to that is a Gauge so you can
see how much gas you've got in the tank.

And next to that is a very important thing.

It's a pressure relief valve.

Now, should you get
caught in an accident or a fire,

rather than the tank exploding everywhere,

it actually vents the excess gas, the
excess pressure through this valve.

And that little red thing
is a dust cover to stop any

grip getting into that valve
and stopping it from working.

The bit I'm interested
in is here at the moment.

This is the inlet.

Let's pop that on there roughly.

Now, again, bearing in mind, it's going
to be going through the outside of the car.

About there.

I think probably with a bit of
rerouting on the outside of the vehicle,

that'll reach to the edge
of the vehicle quite nicely.

And then it'll go to the
filler, which is this thing,

and that'll be bolted to the
outside of our Land Rover.

And then we can fill up.

Here's the scary non-return point bit.

Just think, if I slip,
I'll ruin the paint work.

Don't want to go too fast with this.

How cool is that?

So what's going to happen is
that's going to pop onto there.

And then this is going to go on the other
side, and it's all going to bolt together.

But there are little lugs on
the top and bottom of that,

so I now have to get a file and just
file that, and that stops it all rotating.

I'm using a round needle file
because it gives me real accuracy.

And the part fits like a glove.

On the inside, I'm now connecting
up the pipe, which runs to the tank.

Now it's in place,

the gas can flow from a pump at any garage

straight into the tank
in the boot of our car.

The vaporizer, which turns the liquid
gas into vapor, is a key part of this fit.

It bolts into place really easily.

If you're thinking of buying an LPG kit,

it's worth checking
that the engine bay on

your car is big enough
for these new parts.

There's quite a bit
of wiring with this kit,

but actually there's
also quite a good little

instruction manual, so
it's not too hard to follow.

I've run the wires through from the
inside of the engine through the bulkhead,

to the dashboard, you can just
about see them making through here.

This is for the switch,

which is this bit here.

This is the bit I choose
whether I want gas or petrol.

I'm just going to attach
it to the dashboard.

Just pop the wires on the bottom.

There we go.

Gas, petrol.

Job done.

The vaporizer is supplied by a fuel
line which runs from it to the tank.

It's firmly connected with
the compression union

and the pipe is then run
along the chassis rails

under the car and back
to the tank in the boot.

When you're attaching
a fuel line to a vehicle,

you need to put a P-clip every foot or so.

Now, of course, being me,

I'm going to do a little bit more
than that to be extra, extra safe.

A strong spark and accurate timing
are essential for a good LPG conversion.

Our old distributor is a bit tired,
so we've decided to upgrade.

But all these shiny new parts
are getting me a bit worried

because they aren't
adding any resale value.

The real financial benefits of LPG
only come after three years of ownership.

Fitting the LPG has made
our car more saleable,

but we won't make any more profit.

Ed, how are you getting on?

Well, it's not going badly.

I've done loads and loads of work,
spent nearly a day on this so far

and I've kind of got the big tank in
the back and got the vaporizer on.

Basically, it's nearly there.

Got a few little fiddly bits to do.

But therein lies a small problem.

We've spent a bit more
money than I was expecting to.

We've had to buy a new distributor.

And that means we don't really have
enough money to do the respray as well,

because if we do, it's going
to owe us too much money.

Are you kidding?

Look, the bloke sold this
car because he couldn't stand

the color of it and I
can't stand the color of it.

We've got to change the color.

Well, I'll give you that,

but actually it's quite a good paint job

and it's kind of a shame
to go over that work.

So why not just go
with it rather than fight it?

Let's paint the black bits
blacker and kind of just

make it like a wasp, you
know, give it some purpose.

I think we'll be all right.

Right, so you're saying tone it down.

Tone this layer of yellow color down by
emphasizing the other bits we put on the car.

Yeah, make it deliberate.

Okay, well, just get on with it faster.

I will do.

Wouldn't mind a cup of tea, though.

I'll do that.

Well, Ed's well on the
way to making our old

Landy green and clean
with its LPG conversion.

Unfortunately, though,
we can't change the

color because we're
just running out of money.

But there's plenty of other things we can
do to add value to this old mud plugger.

Now, this old V8 may
be a bit of a dinosaur,

but we're bringing it bang up
to date with an LPG conversion.

Plus, there's loads of other tricks up
our sleeve to add value to this old bus,

so hopefully I can sell
it later on for a profit.

The Land Rover is an
international off-road icon,

one of the best-known
mud pluggers of all time.

Designed in 1948, it's still
in production to this day,

and you'll find it rumbling along roads
everywhere from Bristol to Baghdad.

Our mission was to buy and
restore a Landy for 5,000 pounds,

and we got off to a cracking start,

finding a V8 project car for just a grand.

You might think I'm mad
buying a smoky gas guzzler,

but I had a plan to convert this off-roader
to clean liquid petroleum gas, or LPG.

Ed's almost finished the job,

and I can't wait to fire
her up for the first time.

I'm just going to put on
the last piece for the air box.

I think I've got the
distributor in pretty much

the right position, so
it's getting exciting now.

I'm now going to see if I
can get this thing to fire up.

So first of all, just put the ignition on.

You can hear that noise.

That is the fuel pump.

So we're running on petrol right now.

Look at that. That's fantastic.

So all the new bits I've
put on, the distributor,

the coil and the amplifier,
are all working perfectly.

So now what I'm going to do,
I'm going to turn off the fuel pump.

So what's happening
now is I'm using up the fuel

that's actually in the
carburetor's float bowls.

It's going to take a
while, so I'm just going

to kind of route up
the engine revs a bit.

OK, look at this. It's just about to die,

so I'm just going to
flick it over to the gas.

So now, I think that is it.

That is awesome.

Our Land Rover is actually
now working on LPG,

liquid petroleum gas.

Normally, at this stage in a
restoration, it gets quite exciting.

You get to put the car back together again.

Only thing is, I didn't
take this car apart,

so I don't actually know
where anything goes.

And although Mike assures
me everything's here,

I don't know that to be the case either.

So it's going to be a bit
of a voyage of discovery.

I'm going to start by
building up the bodywork.

All the parts came free with the
car, so they're not costing us a penny.

I'll begin with the doors.

It kind of fits.

At least the doors now won't
fly open, but I can't find the bolts

to hold the top parts
of the windows in so far.

So at the moment, I can do that.

So I need to get hold
of some nuts for that.

Same on the other side.

And also, to get the
wing mirrors on, I need to

unbolt this hinge to
get on the back of them.

So we're kind of getting there at least.

We're just getting there.

The wing mirrors are brand new, but as
the design has barely changed in 60 years,

I'm confident they too
will fit like a farmer's glove.

This car has got lots of trim,
which is usually just bare metal.

But my idea is to make the Land Rover really
stand out by spraying every part black,

starting with the bumper.

As with all paint jobs,

you need to rub it down,

clean it off with a bit of pre-paint,

prime it, and then put the top coat on.

So, same as always.

To protect our lovely canary yellow body,

I'm masking it all off.

Wouldn't want to spoil
that paintwork, would we?

These paints are pretty toxic,

so I've made sure the workshop is
well-ventilated before I start spraying.

Going with our theme of yellow and black,

I've had some of the parts that go
around the top of the cab powder-coated.

Now, the only thing
about that is that it means

that the windscreen
is looking a bit shoddy,

so I'm going to have to
now paint that in satin black.

This is one of my favourite
bits of the Land Rover,

a fold-flat bolt-on windscreen,

a do-it-yourself mechanic's dream.

If only your windscreens
were that easy to come out!

Don't damage the teeth!

It's kind of heavy, look.

Because this is galvanised metal,

first I will use etch primer,

then a coat of red oxide primer.

I'm going to give the screen several top
coats of black satin to give a tough finish.

All this paint has cost me about £20,

hardly a budget breaker.

While it dries, I've got another
big project to sink my teeth into.

Before the Chelsea school run was invented,


and it can be an awful lot of fun,

but if you want to do it seriously,

it makes sense to fit a
roll bar, because should

the worst happen, at least
you won't get squished.

Now, the thing is, they're quite
difficult to get hold of second-hand,

and a new one would cost a good few hundred
pounds, which we can't really afford,

so this has turned out
to be an absolute bargain.

£80 off the Internet.

And in the description, it said it came
from the same model of Land Rover,

and also it came with a soft
roof, so I thought, fantastic!

The thing is, having measured
it, it doesn't seem to quite fit,

so I'm going to need
to do some modification,

but to try and get this
into the right position,

I think it's going to be
easier if I take the tilt frame

off the vehicle, so that's
going to be my next job.

Although this steel frame is
useful for the car's canvas hood,

don't expect it to ever give you
any protection if the car rolls over.

For that, you need properly
welded, heavy-Gauge steel tubing.

By fitting it ourselves, we're
saving around £200 in labour.

Well, there we go.

That's the frame out of the way.

Ooh, it's a little bit heavy.

There we go.

Hmm.

Now, there is a slight other problem,

a little issue.

I didn't think I was actually
going to win this thing

on the auction, and so of course I've kind
of hurried ahead and fitted the LPG tank,

which is in the way.

Now hopefully, I've only got to move it

a very small amount, but if
I can slide it back this way

just a little bit,
hopefully these feet will

then nestle back into
the rear of the vehicle,

everything will be fine.

Let's see what happens.

With the bolt out, I can now move the tank,

but I've got to be very
careful, because of course

it's all still plumbed in, and
I do have gas in the tank.

So my plan is to try and
tease it out of position,

if I can,

and try and sort of slip
the roll bar in behind,

and hopefully just re-drill
the holes, rather than just

take all this apart, because
that will be a real pain.

Okay, I'm not going to get
much more room than that.

Here we go, this is going
to be a bit of a fast, I think.

It's a very heavy cage.

Nearly.

The roll cage has steel plates for feet,

and these are bolted
through to the chassis below.

I'm drilling the holes through
the body to the chassis.

Remember, this isn't a fashion accessory,

it's a serious piece of safety kit.

If you only bolt the frame to the
bodywork, then if an accident does occur,

the cage might just be ripped from the car.

Cool.

The paint on the front bumper has dried,

and doesn't it look smart?

The Landy has always
looked a bit toothless up front,

but with the grille back in place,
it's got its distinctive face again.

And there's a few other bolt-ons
that will give it more character too.

Now when these pieces came with our kit,

they were kind of a bare
aluminium silver colour,

and I felt that probably black
was a more appropriate way to go,

so I've had them powder coated,

but as far as fitting them goes,

we've got no instructions,

so it's a case of really working
out where they look good,

and then bolting them into place.

When you drill holes in
metal bodywork, make sure

you use an HSS or
high speed steel drill bit,

otherwise you'll make a mess of it.

This is a slightly fiddly bit,

I've got to try and get
the nuts and washers.

on the back of this, but
luckily I've got long arms.

for a change that's helping me out.

I think our lally's beginning
to look rather cool,

but one of the things
I'm going to have to

do for the MOT is,
of course, the lighting.

Now the headlights work rather well
already, which is great, and some cool news.

is that we've got some
new lights, brand new ones,

that came with the car, so all I have to
do now is work out where the wires go,

and then I can start bolting
them onto the vehicle.

Now there's a few little
loose connections here,

and just because this wire is red, I'm
going to connect that to the red wire there,

and then there's an earth,
looks like, down here,

so I'll connect that up as well.

Oh, and there we go.

So we have power there, which is great.

So the lights are now
street legal, but there's still

something vital missing
from the car, the windscreen.

Our land drivers really coming together
nicely, and it's a very satisfying job,

and I'm quite enjoying the mystery of
not knowing which part's going to go where,

but as you can see,
it's getting rather late,

and I'm going to have
to burn that midnight

oil if I want to finish
this before the MOT.

Ed's back-to-black plan for all the
bolt-on body parts is looking good.

This old mud plugger now
looks like a modern motor,

and we've only spent
around £2,000 on it so far.

Welcome back, as we
near the end of the road

on the rebuild of our
Land Rover project car.

It now looks to part,
but this car has been off

the road a long time and
needs to pass an MOT.

But we need to get our LPG
conversion certified as safe

before we can think about
driving it down to the MOT station.

Well, fitting the LPG kit
has been loads of work,

but I'm now here at the very
same place that I bought the kit from,

just to see whether all
that work is up to scratch.

I'm going to get it tested.

Hopefully I'll get this thing certified,

which means I'll end
up with a little bit of

paper, which means I
can then get it MOTed.

The LPG certification comes
as part of the price of the kit,

so there's no extra cost involved.

Steve is going to put
our car through its paces,

and he's starting with
a look at my pipework.

So Steve, I've secured the pipes to
the outside of the chassis along here.

I hope that's the right thing to do.

Yeah, definitely,
because what you're doing,

putting the pipes on this
side of the chassis here,

is you're keeping them
away from the exhaust

and any moving parts,
so it keeps it safe.

And also, you've used the metal clips,

which, you know, keeps the
pipe nice and tight to the chassis,

and also keeps in the code of practice.

Okay, I mean, isn't that
how everybody does it?

No, sometimes people turn up and
they've just used plastic cable ties

around the chassis to hold the pipe,
and they have to go away and do it again.

Next, Steve needs to check the
mountings and connections of the tank.

With those signed off,
we can get fully gassed up.

So Steve, we've got our tank full of
gas now, so what do I have to do next?

Basically, you want to turn the ignition on

to energise this solenoid
here to let the gas flow through.

Here we go.

Now spray it.

So what does that stuff do?

Well, basically, if we get big bubbles
now up here, that means we're leaking gas.

Right.

As you can see here, we aren't actually
getting any bubbles, so that's all good.

Fantastic. Cool.

Let's go to the engine bay to
check the bits under the bonnet.

Excellent.

It seems to be going okay so far.

Steve's doing a last few
checks on the engine,

and then we're going
to check the exhaust.

Basically, we're going to put a
gas analyser up the exhaust pipe,

and that's going to measure the
carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons.

Now, on the petrol engine,
they were outrageously high,

but with this new LPG kit, hopefully
everything will be lovely and clean,

and therefore all those numbers
will be right where they should be.

Okay, so you stick that into the exhaust.

Yeah, that goes in the tail pipe.

So this is the moment of truth.

Yeah.

Okay, so it's just kind of stabilising.

So how long does that normally take?

It just takes a while for
the engine to get warm,

and then you should get
a sort of average figure.

Okay.

At the moment, it's looking really good.

I mean, the numbers,
compared to when it was

running on petrol, I know
it's quite a tired engine.

It's on over 100,000 miles, but
is that worth printing out now?

I think there's evidence.

Yeah, we can print that.

Cool.

Excellent.

I'll just go and turn it off.

Okay, right, so you
have... I've got the figures.

...printed evidence.

Here we go.

So, COs, I used to have
seven when it was petrol.

This is now 2.37, and the
maximum for an MOT is 3.5.

Three and a half, yeah.

So we're well under
there, which is fantastic.

The hydrocarbons, I
had about, well, way over


at 130, which is nothing.

Brilliant, yeah.

That's fantastic. This is amazing.

So this now is a real
properly clean, lean machine.

That's right. It's as green as they come.

That's great.

Steve signed off on the conversion.

Ed got the car MOT the next day,
and the Land Rover was finally finished.

Nobody could call this a beauty,
but it certainly does have presence.

When I bought the car, I looked
beyond the scary colour scheme.

I saw a car with a solid
chassis, clean body panels,

and a well-maintained, beautiful V8.

And that engine was the first
thing that needed Ed's treatment.

Petrol, oh, that's so 20th century.

Our car now runs on LPG.

Clean, cheap, with no loss of
torque from that glorious V8.

And our car is safe, too,

thanks to that roughty-toughty roll cage,

which looks good and
is a vital off-road tool.

We wouldn't have made
our money back on a respray,

so we did what we could to disguise
the yellow paint by bolting on the black.

So how did the cost tot up
for our big green machine?

The car cost 1,000.

The LPG kit was 1,002.

The roll cage came in at 80.

And we spent about 150 pounds
on paint and powder coating.

In all, the total came to 2,230 pounds.

Now, that looks like a finishing touch.

Absolutely, this car is finished,
it's MOT, and it's ready to be sold.

Now, I see what you mean
about dressing this car down.

Because the paintwork was so mad,
putting this black checker plate on it,

the black headlamps
around, the black bumpers,

and the windscreen has really
transformed it and sharpened it up.

Absolutely, I think it does look
a lot more desirable now as well.

Even more desirable because
of the big transformation,

taking it from a gas-guzzling V8
to a much cleaner running vehicle.

Absolutely, I've got a certificate to prove

that all that work I did on
the LPG is up to scratch,

so now this is a lean
green driving machine.

Well, Lamb Rover have
said to us, because it's us,

that they will give us
their own personal off-road

test track for the whole
day's week g*n play about.

Well, that is very, very cool, as
long as you clean it afterwards.

I clearly won't be doing that,
Edward, but we will have fun.

Let's off-road!

Hit it!

Woohoo!

Woah, easy, Tiger!

Woah, woah, woah, woah, woah!

Way!

Right, now, what you've got to
do, Ed, is creep up to the edge,

creep up to the edge,
go a little bit further,

a little bit further,
get the wheels over.

Oh, I actually see the bottom of this hill.

You can't, but believe it or
not, you've got to go down it.

Go on, Ed, off you go.

That is not right.

Look at that!

That's fantastic!

I can't believe I've just done that.

Now, believe it or not, this
banking, see this banking here?

Guess what's on that banking?

China Clay.

It's a slippery substance
known to man, China Clay, right?

And I want you to get
your wheels up the top,

one wheel and a rut at the bottom,

and just be scared.

Really be careful, Ed.

So this is about, what, 45 degrees?

I would think we're just a bit over there.

Look out your window, Ed,
all you're seeing is the grill.

All I can see up there is sky.

Oh, look at that!

Oh, no!

Oh, there's water everywhere!

Put fruit in one piece.

What an experience we've had today, Ed.

Now we need to think about selling it.

You know, there's a
lot of them out there, Ed,

and there's some really
good ones out there,

and I think we're in a
quite competitive market.

You know, what's it worth?

I think, to the right person,

and maybe whoever is going to be
the right person, probably four grand.

Four grand?

We're never going to get that, never.

Three and a half grand
is, I think, a fair price.

We're going to earn ourselves a couple
of quid, but we need to get it gone, Ed.

We need to get on some new projects.

I advertised the car
in the local classifiers

because there's loads
of Lamb Rovers out

there and people won't
travel far to view one.

In the end, only two
guys came round to see it.

First up was Andrew, a farmer.

You've done a very good job doing
it, but I just think, I'm starting to think

it's just a bit over the top
of what I need, to be honest.

It's not often I hear that,
that the car's too good.

Wow.

So it's just not for you?

Afraid not.

No sale then.

But next up is a chippy called Wayne,

who wants a car that can work and play.

But Wayne, this is the
thing I'm most proudest of.

This is the LPG tank.

Yeah.

See, LPG is going to
give you a greater saving

on fuel because it is a
big old gas-guzzling V8.

We've had a bit of a banter and Wayne's
definitely been giving the car the eye.

I reckon he's ready to make an
offer and I'm ready to twist his arm.

So you know what it's about, Wayne?

It's all ready to go.

It's a lovely wagon.

Ed's put his heart and soul into this
one and it's three and a half grand.

Well, I was looking more
around the three grand.

Don't do that to me.

The amount of work
that's gone into this wagon,

the LPG conversion, all the
powder coating and paint in it,

the checker plate and the interior.

I mean, this car is just going
to go on and on and on forever.

It was designed in the Second World w*r

and I reckon it'll make it
to the Third World w*r.

Well, it's a nice motor,
Mike, but I've got three grand.

I can't give you no more
than three grand for it.



Hold that your hand.

I've come down with three grand.

I know you've done a lot of work on it,
but three grand, that's all I can give you.

I hate this job sometimes.

I really do.

Hold that your hand.

You are going to look after it again.

Will do.

Three grand.

Down to you.

Well, that seemed like it, but the
deal fell through at the last moment

and I had to put the
Landy up for sale again.

This time I could only make 2,750 pounds,

a profit of 520 quid.

And that's the reality
of selling big engine cars

in today's climate, no
matter what you do to them.

Let's be fair, we did a lot to
this one to try and add value to it,

but the truth, unfortunately,
is rather different.

But this car had survived and
it goes on to fight another day.

If you want to see more
cars being turned around,

then join us again soon.

Ta-la!