Richard Hammond's Workshop (2021) s01e04 Episode Script

1
This time
If that lorry is full,
I'm gonna be worried.
Ta da!.
My grand vision for our new
state of the art workshop
Ooooh!
..is taking shape.
I can see a problem with your plan.
I can't imagine how
Neil's gonna react.
I don't think he's realised
what we're building for him here.
But the costs spiral out of control.
This move is just going
to eat through cash.
Today I am the executioner.
I'm forced to sell
my most cherished classics.
They've been singled out
to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
Lot No. 590.
I actually can't watch it,
this is gonna hurt
Cars have been my life.
Just give me a bit more.
Talking about them.
It's a force of nature.
Thrashing them.
That's not what I wanted to see!
And crashing them. But now
Don't panic, I'm here.
..I'm fulfilling my lifelong dream
and starting my own
classic car workshop.
Shall I get my overalls on?
Restoring some of the finest
classic cars in the world.
Heavenly automotive lord!
With father and son team,
Neil and Anthony Greenhouse.
We're trusting him
with our reputation.
Look away. Bodging in process.
Ooh, you son of a!
I'll be learning how
to be a businessman.
What you need is The Smallest Cog.
To be honest, you've got
my attention a bit now.
And getting my hands dirty.
I'm going to swallow this screw
in a minute and die.
Can you do it quietly?
It will test my bank balance
It could ruin the business,
quite easy.
..and my relationships
You'll enjoy it.
Will I?
..as I take my obsession
to a whole new level.
It's the best game I've ever played,
and the most terrifying.
(SIGHS)
Right, nobody hiding.
Come out.
The workshop costs
are spiralling out of control
which means I'm having
to sell my cars.
Number five of 49 ever made.
You would never find a better one.
The move is turning out
to be much more expensive
than I thought.
I have chosen those
that will sell, I think, best.
They've just been singled out for,
well, to pay the ultimate sacrifice.
A woofly engine.
If I want to move us up to be
a higher class quality operation,
we need better kit.
So it's just going
to eat through cash.
I just didn't realise it was going
to need as much of it as it does.
It needs quite a lot. Right.
This thing is an absolute bugger
to get up onto its stand.
Oh, did it. Strong.
Today, the people
from the auction are coming
to take their photographs.
They're not taking
the cars away yet,
but they're taking the photographs
of them for the catalogue.
Oh, now, OK, this is
slightly more difficult.
911 T. December 1969.
Same year and month I was born.
It's also a really stubborn
little bugger
when it comes to starting.
So I can't guarantee
Come on.
You're not going,
you're just being photographed,
then you're going.
Come on.
Oh, you bugger.
Come on.
Oh.
(ENGINE STARTS)
Yeah!
And no!
At the same time,
why did you start now?
Hello.
Richard, how are you?
Are you Gary?
I am indeed.
Nice to see you. Here are the cars.
It would be good to get a shot
of them all together, wouldn't it?
From here, just a bit of height,
so you get more of the cars
and bikes in.
I'm having to really brace to sell
that one. And that Porsche.
And that Lotus. All of them.
Oh God, I sympathise.
It would be a difficult thing,
you know, especially when
you've had bikes for a long time
and they mean something to you,
it's a difficult thing.
Right, where do you want me?
Gary's given me estimates
on all of the cars and bikes.
Conservatively, you could be talking
about 140,000.
The conservative estimate
is not enough.
Realistically, this move is going
to eat through 100 grand
and then the business
needs a cushion.
I need to know I've got money
available if it needs it.
So I need to raise 200 grand.
This is a drastic measure for me
because I love every single one
of these things, they're not
just a random collection of stuff,
they're all things
I've gone off and collected
and, you know, been lucky enough
to earn the money to buy.
It is with a heavy heart
that they go.
I'm not the only one who's finding
it hard to say goodbye.
Lovely job.
With the move to the new workshop
just a week away,
it's time to start clearing
out Neil's old garage.
It's been his second home
for the last 26 years.
Perfect. Thank you.
Lovely job. Cheers, mate.
Anthony's already warned me,
Neil finds it impossible
to throw anything away.
Right. This is like an
intervention. This is it.
We're going to make two piles.
Stuff to go in the skip.
Most of it. Stuff to keep.
OK? This apple and this cup
can go in skip. Happy?
Possibly. Saying that though
No, it's going in the skip.
Oh.
That's a very important
bit of kit, that is.
You can see it's been used
on a daily basis. Yes.
Under the dust!
We'll replace it with a new one.
We'll get better stuff. Come on!
These are all for taking
blades off grinders.
No, you can't get
rid of them! No, no.
I've got a system.
That's why I've kept them.
I really, really appreciate
what Richard's doing for us.
Taking us to a new level,
new equipment, new workshop,
it's like a dream come true.
But I cannot chuck away
all my old kit.
It's taken me decades to get
all this kit how I want it and,
you know, specialist
little bits of equipment.
You can't chuck it!
For me and my beloved wife,
we've been off and bought them
from car boot sales
and round people's houses
and, yeah, it's part of my soul.
No, I might need that. You can't
chuck that away. I can't.
I just can't do it, it's
We'll have to make a compromise
where we can keep the old kit,
and have the new workshop
and the new premises,
but as Richard will find out,
half this old stuff
you're gonna need.
Ooh, they might want that
packing back at the factory
to put more sweets in.
I reckon that's a good idea.
That's what'll happen one day.
Ah!
This is mentally draining me.
(SCREAMS)
My turn.
I don't know what to say.
That's the sum total of our big
grand clear-out so far.
Neil, that's just,
that's just some bits of rubbish.
Doing well, doing really well.
There's my mirror there.
Pick it back up, I'll need that.
One thing Neil can't take
is the old paint oven,
the unit where
he re-sprays the cars.
The heart of his workshop,
it's now too old to be moved.
I'm excited but very nervous,
because it's started to become real,
and it's going to happen
and we're going to be moving,
and I'm looking forward
to this new building
and I'm really, really looking
forward to seeing this new oven
we're having, with this
latest technology in it.
I just hope it's all going
to be worth it in the end,
I really
Fingers crossed
it's going to be a better job
for all of us.
Blow off gun, gotta keep that.
This weather's all a bit
appropriate, isn't it?
For a sad day.
Thank you.
This is paperwork, history
and stuff for each vehicle.
That's all you need to know about
each of those vehicles
in one place.
Right, any moment now, the man
with a van will be turning up
to collect, so all of their little
necks are on the block.
(IMITATES EXECUTION SOUND)
I'm waiting for the man
to come along that now.
They're all in their cells,
aren't they?
Waiting for the man to come
along and escort them
to the block.
(TRUCK REVERSING)
Alright, baby.
You gonna give me a cuddle?
Oh, that's a nice cuddle.
Actually, you whiff.
What have you been in?
I am quite surprised
that he's selling them.
Although he's done, sort of,
swapping, actually selling
properly is not
a thing he's done before.
It's peculiar behaviour
by Mr Hammond.
So we will just have
to see how it pans out.
Isn't it funny?
You never want anything more
than the moment
when you're getting rid of it.
That was my 50th birthday.
But I'm 51 now,
so I don't need it, do I?
This was the first vintage bike
I ever bought.
You light the lights with a match.
It's getting dark, you light
the wick and then close it.
It's not very good, by the way.
They're useless.
Velocette, despite
the French-sounding name,
another British motorcycle.
Honestly, I couldn't be
a bike dealer.
I wouldn't want to let them go.
Not the career for me.
This was a poster bike
when I was a kid.
Well, it's Italian, isn't it?
Well, it's got to be.
It is heavy though, isn't it?
The business has
to become self-sustaining
within the next couple of months.
I think Mindy'll be pleased that,
when needs must,
I'm perfectly capable
of selling them
and using the money for other things.
Right, cars.
He told me that he was selling them
to prop up the business.
You were great fun.
However, that remains to be seen
because I know
Richard Hammond of old,
and I'm pretty sure that
he's going to sell those bikes
and cars, and then buy more bikes
and cars with the money.
Maybe I'm doing him
a disservice. We'll see.
I'll stay in this one.
I'm an added extra, I could tune
the radio for you as you went along.
Aw.
What do you think, Blee?
I don't believe it.
No, I know you don't.
You don't believe
a word of it, do you?
Ooh, hoo hoo, hoo hoo.
Yeah. I really hope
that one doesn't sell.
I really hope that now he's got
a better handle on
this actually has to work
as a business,
otherwise it won't work at all.
The faith that Neil and Anthony
have put in Richard,
like it or not, he has made
a lifetime commitment,
in my eyes.
They have been with me a long time.
That is a strange
Goodbye! They're not coming back.
He has to deliver.
He has to deliver.
He has no option.
The deed is done.
I've been a big grown-up businessman
and raised money for my business.
Now it'd better bloody
work. Mindy? Gin.
The word's
finally getting out
that the Smallest Cog
is up and running.
I've had a call from
an aristocratic friend
who got a vintage barn find.
Neil's coming along
to reign me in.
This is a higher class of customer.
Being the sort of man he is,
it's bound to be something nice,
probably like a Rolls-Royce.
Bentley!
Nash, Frazer Nash.
Austin Healey. Or Allard.
Something really, really niche.
My mind's racing.
I want to know what it is.
On the off chance, you look at it
and think you don't want to do it,
should we establish a code
that we need a secret signal.
If it's proper absolute nightmare,
run away, run away,
you can't say that,
but what I can do,
I can just fold my glasses up,
put em under me arm
and just go like that.
Then when I do that,
you'll know it's time to really
Bail. OK.
His driveway is longer
than my drive to work.
Yeah. You also grew up on an estate.
Yeah. But not this sort of estate.
This is where he's going to meet us.
And there, in fact, he is.
How lovely to see you.
Welcome.
Very nice to see you, too.
This is Neil.
Well, I've got
a surprise for you, Neil.
I'm looking forward to it.
Shall we crack on because
you're fashionably late.
It is that time of day.
Come on in and have a look.
So, Richard, Neil.
Come and have a look.
Tucked in the corner here
is Sir Walter.
What is it?
I believe it's a 1932 Raleigh Trike.
It's been in the family
since it was new,
my grandfather Lord Glanusk
used it to go around shooting,
fishing, stalking,
taking guests down to the river,
you name it, you had your lunch,
your dogs and a trailer
at the back for the hamper,
and all the drinks
and everything else.
And he used this as his mule,
his modern day mule.
So this is like the ultimate
old school leisure vehicle.
Yeah.
The last time I saw
anybody driving it
was my mother 35 years ago.
So it's hugely emotional, its a
massive part of our family history.
So if you can get it up
and running
So over to you Neil,
see what you can do.
Haven't seen one of these
before, have you?
Never seen one of these.
It's rather splendid, I love it.
It's interesting.
Aah, I wonder if it rolls.
One, two, three, go.
One, two, three, go.
One, two, three, go.
First time in 35 years.
Put your back into it, man!
I am!
I was not first pick
when it came to rugby.
Hey, look daylight. Wow!
That is a properly good-looking
little thing, isn't it?
It's not looking too bad.
No.
It's not bad at all.
What do you reckon?
Can you fix it?
It's, it's eminently doable.
It's just got such a great story.
Anything that's got that touch
of romance, I'd love to do this.
I think it'd be a privilege
for us to fix it for you, Harry,
I really do.
I think we'd be honoured.
Yeah, I, I
When else would we get
to work on one of these?
There is probably only one.
Shall we leave Neil to erm, play?
Yes. We'll go
and discuss some business.
Have we really talked
about this yet?
Oh, come on. It's going
to be brilliant fun.
How's your gin coming along.
Do you still make that?
Ooh. Gin. Shall I show you my store?
Yeah.
Have a quickjust,
just sketch up a plan
and come up with a ballpark figure.
Richard's gone swanning off
with his mate Harry
to talk about good times and gin.
He's in his element.
He's impressing his mate and he's
not reigning himself in much.
It's a really interesting vehicle,
but it's not a Fraser Nash.
It's not, you know,
a Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost,
it is not what I envisaged.
This is what's worrying me.
We could be getting into a bit of
a world of pain here really easily.
So this is the old book
from, the visitors book
from up here in Penmaeth.
There we go. Look. There he is.
With one, two, three,
five people on Sir Walter.
They're all sitting on the back
with the dogs. Drinking.
Always good.
Speaking of which
Cheers.
To your very good health, thanks.
I wonder how he's getting on.
I think I'm getting
the short straw again, I think.
Harry, do you have a budget in mind?
Hundreds. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely.
But if we go into thousands,
I might have a small heart failure.
One, two, three.
I'm going to overdeliver.
Yes, please. I've just decided.
Thank you.
Well, I want to see it working.
To your very good health.
Thank you very much, indeed.
He's having the romance side
of the job, galavanting off,
talking about gin and castles
and dragons, whatever.
While I'm having the proper
real work side of it.
I've been here
before though, haven't I?
You're getting the hang of this.
It's nice here.
I'm quite tired now, Neil.
Wasn't quite a Fraser Nash, was it?
Sorry about that.
Did you get round
to talking actual money?
So we've got to do it to a budget.
It's just recommission it.
Get it working.
I'd like to overdeliver.
I met his mother
around the estate at one point.
She remembers being on it
as a little girl,
we can return it to her
looking beautiful and working.
Think of this as let's get it
out there, bouncing around,
doing its job
and putting our name around.
Let's hope it pays off.
Yep.
All we can do is just do
what we do and see what happens.
Do you think that would be
the way it's going to go?
Oh. Do you think that's
the way it's gonna go?
Oh, you are awake then.
So what did I just say?
Yep.
Let's hope the answer to it is yep.
Yep.
(SNORES)
Oh, love it.
This high-pressure sales executive.
Big day. This route to Silverstone
is roughly familiar.
But I'm not usually to going
there to sell my cars,
I'm going there to watch
other people crash theirs.
So how well the cars do
today is important
because I've got to take out
of that money all the spend
on all the kit for the workshop
and the move.
I'm really worried,
you never know on an auction.
I've got to be very careful
not to spend more than I make.
I must not buy anything
I'm selling. I want everything.
45,000 pounds, 45 bid
45,000 pounds,
45 bid, 45 bid.
Sold as we are
at 45,000 pounds.
Right. Aaah.
I didn't want to see them.
I really did not want
to see them. Oh!
This represents,
if they sell well, security.
I mean, 80 or 90 of that lot,
thousand pounds I mean,
is going to be taken up
by the equipment we need,
and the cost of moving
and setting up the workshop.
Whatever's left over will cover
what we burn every month.
If I get another 90,000 pounds,
that'll give me six months,
at least.
But there's nothing I can do.
So it's high risk.
I've been looking for a Bentley S2.
I am considering quitting,
but I'm going to try
not to get carried away.
You've got to draw
a line somewhere.
I have got to figure out
which I'm going to go to,
but I'd much rather keep that
to myself at this point.
A wonderful collection.
If it's cheap enough,
I'll be buying.
More people not in
the auction room, get in there!
I'm not allowed to chivvy them in.
Where am I going to sit when they're
being auctioned? I'm nervous.
Why am I talking so much?
Because I'm nervous.
OK.
Good afternoon, ladies and
gentlemen, a very warm welcome.
It's good to see you all back
in the room for proper room bidding,
and a good old fashioned
classic car auction.
Oh, this is utterly terrifying.
Good luck buyers,
always go one more bid.
It's always the best thing to do.
Trust me, I'm an auctioneer.
There's not enough people
in there for my money.
I wish there were more people.
I can't watch this.
I actually can't watch it.
This is going to hurt.
It's a real privilege to handle
the sale of some cars
on behalf of Richard Hammond.
Sorry. Sorry. I can hide here.
First of which
is lot number 590,
5-9-0, the Porsche 911T.
Right there, ladies and gentlemen,
we're straight in 20,000,
22, 24, 26, 28 and 30,
and two, 36 here
I want it to get to 50.
At 40,000 bid,
42 surely, at 40000 pound.
It's on the phone.
Have a think.
It can't stop there.
It's 40,000 here.
One if it helps you.
41,000, 42.
That's stealing at that.
It's stealing.
Forty-four and a half
comes online,
it's 45,000 against you
on the phone. Up to you.
45?
This is slower than I expected,
these things can really run away
and it hasn't.
It's 48 or go 50,
and take the competition out.
Do you want to go 50?
This just hurts.
54,000, 54,000.
That's a good bid.
54,000 pounds.
That'sSomebody's
just come in and said,
"Right, lets not mess about,
"I'm offering you 54,
I'm having it."
Selling then at 54,000 pounds.
Oh, right.
That's where it should be.
This is too much stress,
I don't like it.
What the hell is that?
I thought you were getting some
convertible exoticWhat is it?
I don't know.
You tell me what it is.
Got a motorbike engine,
by the looks of that.
Half bike, half car.
The brief I got, "Oh, it's it's,
it's convertible from the 30s,
"we think. It hasn't been run
for 30 years."
This is a 90 years old engine,
this is like an old age pensioner,
it's fragile.
You could break and snap something
off, can't get bits for it.
That's just a disaster
waiting to happen.
You do the fuel, I'll have
a look at the battery.
OK.
The business as it is, we're about
as fragile as that engine.
If that goes wrong, we could be
lumbered with a massive bill
and we can't afford it.
Richard sort of ignored
my signals to say
don't really get involved with it.
Now we've got to, we've got
to put it right or fix it.
We should get a red light
on if we go. Yeah, yeah.
Got a light.
It's something different,
but something different
means hours and hours of our time.
See if we got fuel going
to that carburettor
Yeah, yeah, got fuel.
Bit of a nightmare really.
That's him?
No.
Five online, and six already.
6000 pound better then,
six-two, six-five, six-eight
Oh, this is torture.
And seven, seven two, seven five,
seven eight,
eight two, eight five,
eight two, eight five online.
Z900. This was for my 40th birthday.
And 14,000. You quite sure, madam,
she's having this bike.
Hammers up. At 14,000.
Then I'll sell the bike.
And 13000 will be next.
At 13,500 pounds.
That's alright.
This is the Bentley.
It's 28,000,
500 comes.
At 28,500.
Good move, sir. Nine comes
however on the phone.
It's about what it's worth.
The Lotus.
Need this to go north of 40.
43. 44 comes,
45,000 far away.
I'll take 46,
46, 47, 48.
49 and 50, 51 behind,
52. 53.
54, 55. 56.
Nod of the head. One more.
Step away from your wife.
It doesn't do to stand next to
your wife for the car auction.
57, 5 online.
Sneaks in 58.
Are we done for the first?
For the second,
the third and final time,
at 58,000 pounds.
Well done, sir.
It's the 1930 Velocette.
This one is very hard to predict.
Depends who's after bikes,
it's a specialist bike at that.
It's not like you
could just hop on it.
It's a lovely little bike.
If it can get close to 10,
that would be brilliant.
Oh, god.
It's going to cost me
more in medical bills
than I make
from selling the vehicles.
And 8000 comes,
8000 bid, 8,200.
Straight back in first,
second, third and final.
All done, sold then
at 8,200.
I'd like that to have done
better. The last one hurts.
Letting that little
Velocette go for that.
I'd have kept it before
I sold it for that.
It's agony, this.
I don't like it.
Because these are things
that I value,
and now I'm seeing how much
other people value them.
I value them more
than they do so far.
That's paid for a chunk of the kit
but we're not yet into enough
to put in the bank
and run the business.
With only two bikes to go,
I still need around 25
grand to hit my 200k target.
Lot 594 is the beautiful
1927 Sunbeam model two.
This one does hurt to sell.
This is my first ever
vintage machine. Ah.
5,500, 5,800 if you will.
Oh God, that's just given away
if that goes at that.
5,800 bid
and six is against you.
Come on, that's worth
more than that.
It's 6,200 pound is bid.
It's hammers up.
Are we done? First and second,
third and final time.
Oh, that's a killer.
Selling then at 6,300 pounds.
That was worth more than that,
they've stolen that.
That's a disaster.
That's something really,
I wouldn't have sold it for that.
OK, 183 total.
So that means I need 17000
on this last bike to make the 200 K.
It's not over yet.
Lot number 597 is
the 2019 Norton Dominator
straight in at 10000,
11000, 12000.
12,000, 12,200 bid, 12,500,
12,500, 12,800,
15,000, 15,200.
I'll take at 15,200. You take
command of the paddle, madam.
16 online.
16 already,
new bidder,
16,500 in another place.
16,800.
17 bid.
18,000, 19,
20,000, 20
At 22,800.
It's on the phone. Thank you,
gentlemen. Third and final here.
All done. Sold, well done.
That was exhausting.
I've just got to check my sums.
As a group,
I think it's about 205,000,
so that means in the kitty,
I've got enough
to pay for the move
into the new workshop comfortably,
and about six months
running costs in total.
That concludes
the Richard Hammond sale.
Thank you, ladies and gentlemen,
for all your bidding.
Thank you very much indeed.
All in all, it hurts.
It's not fun,
selling the toys you've worked
your entire life to be able to buy,
and to support something
that may or may not work.
All I'll say is is now
that it's bloody got to work.
The new oven arrives today.
It'll be on a lorry,
all flatpacked, but it arrives.
And it's a big deal and I want
to be there to oversee that.
Right, here he comes.
If that whole lorry
is full, I'm worried
It's two hours late
and I think I've discovered why.
Because that appears to say
'Mr. J May.'
It does, it's Mr
and it's two hours late
because he drove slowly!
Right, unveil please,
it's very exciting.
It's flipping big.
Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it?
Ta-dah!
The oven.
Stuff. Yeah. Oooh.
You're not having this small man in
a big world problem again, are you?
I might've got carried away,
well, I wanted, you know,
I wanted the best,
for you and your Dad.
Look at all of that! Good. Right.
I can see a problem
with your plan!
What, am I in a cartoon
all of a sudden?
Oh, there's a piece
for me there.
There's another one
at the back. I'll do that.
Yeah, that's me. Raah.
Feel manly now.
Oh, yeah.
Oh mate, that is about
as good as we can get.
Which is just as well
because I'm ruined!
It's unbelievably exciting
but, I mean, genuinely quite scary
now, cos look at it, that is going
to need feeding with a lot of work.
Wait till Dad sees that.
Ahh, he'll just faint, I know.
I wonder if he'll cry?
He might.
It's his new hobby.
That's going to be an awesome
Yeah!
..bit of kit.
I simply can't imagine
how Neil is going to react.
I don't think he'll realise
what we're building for him here.
That's why we've very deliberately
not shown it to him.
And it really will be,
"Neil. There you go.
"That's your new empire."
And close the door
behind him. Lock it.
And you're not coming out
for six months, mate. Work.
This job, I'll be honest, I will
be glad to see the back of it,
it's just turned out
to be an absolute nightmare.
Everything is so finicky.
On a car, you wouldn't have
all this intricate
sort of panelwork.
And it's just everything
is really awkward to work on.
It's the hours involved.
I wouldn't have got involved in it,
hence the
But nobody listens do they?
So financially, I think it's a bit
of a loss leader I would say,
but then again, it might bring
in some more work,
but you can't do
every job thinking that,
otherwise you'll never earn
no money at all.
Hopefully, I'll have
this painted today.
There hasn't been being a massive
amount of material on this trike,
but the hours I've spent on this,
I could have billed somebody
2000 quid for doing some work.
I don't think he realises how long
we've actually spent on it,
but that's what he's got to realise.
Certain jobs you don't want
to get involved with.
With the big move looming,
the company accountant
wants a catch up and for once,
I'm not dreading it.
Richard?
Hello.
Hello Kamla, join me.
I'm sorry about the smell.
I opened the fridge.
It was a mistake.
It's fine. Absolutely fine.
Don't worry.
Have a seat.
Thank you, sir.
So what I've done is sell
a lot of my cars and bikes.
I've raised, in total,
205 by doing that.
What that leaves is 65 in the bank.
But there is other costs that
we do need to discuss actually
for the move.
What sort of alarm
system do you have?
CCTV. Because you'll be storing
customers' cars overnight.
Health and safety.
One of us needs to do a first
aid course. Maybe Anthony
He doesn't have to dress
as a nurse or anything?
Only if you want him to.
I don't want him to.
We will need public
liability insurance,
employers' liability insurance,
covering our customer vehicles.
Right.
Buildings insurance.
We'll need a safety inspection
of all the equipment
before the lads
can start working in there.
And number of days,
is it two days moving in?
No, we're going to be
about two weeks
Two weeks moving in to
By the timeI didn't
realiseit's just
So is that two weeks of not being
able to work on vehicles here then?
So we are losing two weeks,
man hours.
There's no there's no
way around that.
And what jobs have you got lined up?
Erm. It's a trike, it's a 1930s
thing. It's for a mate.
And erm
But we are making a margin on it.
Probably not.
It is more of a loss leader
than anything else,
but it's been in his family
since 1932.
And it'll make him and actually
his mum chuffed to bits
to see it brought back to life.
But that doesn't pay the bills.
Nobut
Are we cutting even?
Oh, you know
We're just not at a stage where we
can afford to make losses, Richard.
No, I know.
We're still a young company.
We have got the money in the bank
from when I sold my cars
We have got the money in the bank
from selling the cars.
But that's not going to last long
with the monthly overheads.
I prefer having these conversations
over the phone, Kamla.
That's really scary.
When are you going to say,
"Richard, well done
for selling your cars.
"That must have really hurt."
Actually, that must have
been very painful. Yes, it was.
I haven't gone on about it
but it was blood awful.
Yeah, I can imagine
that was very painful.
Message is clear.
Stop being romantic and silly and
start thinking like a businessman.
And I think Neil
is cross about the trike.
I think everybody is cross with me
at the moment,
so it's time I thought
and acted like a businessman.
It's not my resting natural state.
Unsurprisingly, Neil
has left it up to me
to return the finished trike
to Harry.
Neil's made it pretty plain
that doing this job was my idea.
He phrased it more as my fault.
I did discuss money with Harry.
I know it was going to be
hundreds not thousands.
So I'm going to ask
for seven hundred quid,
which will realistically cover
about half
what I've spent on it
in hours in labour.
Returning the trike by myself
has one big downside
..now I have the tricky job
of starting it.
Oooh.
If it backfires and misses stroke,
it comes back through
the kick start and then
all the power of the engine
goes up through that lever
and through your foot.
Come on now, come on.
Ooh, that isCome on!
Are you looking forward
to seeing this come back working?
I can't wait.
I'm so excited.
It's going to be
rather fun, isn't it.
Were you always on the back?
Owen taught me how
to do the kick start. Yeah.
Oh, I think I cried.
It hurt so much.
Why because it kicked back?
Well, because it backfired.
I mean
Startling experience.
You'll know if it happens.
Aaah! Oh, you son of a
Oh, oh. Aaah. Oh, that's unpleasant.
Oh. Oh, that is tender.
Well, let's hope that Hammond
has fixed that. It would be nice.
It would be really exciting.
Right.
I'm going to retire the ignition
slightly and then I'm going to pray.
Come on. This is where I wanna be.
This is going to work.
This is going to work.
Ready? Starting.
(ENGINE TURNS OVER)
Yeah! Aha! Yes! Yes!
Well done! Aha! Ah! Yeah!
I see something coming through
the park. Oh, what an excitement.
Oh my! Look at it.
Look at that. Oh, bravo!
Well done, look at this.
Hello, Sian. How are you?
Here's a familiar old friend.
What a treat.
Well, we've tried very
hard not to overdo it.
So we've, I mean
Well, it's clean.
Yes, we cleaned it.
And it's got a new bit of paint.
We painted here and there
just because we, I mean,
we know how much
this means to you guys.
This was all, left this original
because I think it would be
a crime to change that.
We agreed about 700 pounds,
so I'll set that up
with an invoice in the post.
Thank you my friend, thank you
very much indeed. Awesome.
Absolutely brilliant. Thank you.
It just pleases me hugely
to see her see another part
of our heritage starting
to work again and being used.
You saw the smile
on the face of seeing it.
It just brings back
so many memories.
Hooray!
Watching their faces
as they received it back
into their lives
makes it worthwhile.
And that's because
it is suffused with,
filled with those memories
and associations.
That's his grandfather's
little trike.
And it brought all that to life.
And it doesn't have to be some
1930s three-wheeler trike
from a vast country estate in Wales.
It could be anything. It can be
a Vauxhall Nova from Burnley.
But if you remember it
when you were a kid,
if it's got your memories in it,
it's got your memories in it.
Did you see him through that corner?
Formula 1.
I know, he was giving it
the big lean!
I have learnt
a monumental lesson though.
Don't say to somebody,
"Oh yeah, we can do that
"for a few hundred quid"
when you can't
because you can't then turn around
and say it's going to be thousands.
So you've got to wear it.
And you know, we're a tiny company.
I can't keep taking those hits.
Lesson learned.
Enough romance for now.
We've got to make some money.
Right, a quick check, go on,
sit on the back, Mother.
Can we put Richard in the box?
Come on, Hammond, in the box.
Right, Mother, hold on!
Hang on. Didn't the dog
used to go in here?
Yes.
Yep.
Oh, OK.
And we're missing the fishing rods.
Alright, here we go, guys.
Well, I'm pretty much part
of the family now, that's it.
Well, I'm the family's dog.
Oh dear.
That's two happy customers.
And hopefully I can get Neil
onside again when he sees
the brand new paint oven
for the very first time.
Right, this isn't finished,
but we've held it back
until now because the big bits
are in, but it's not done,
it's a work in progress.
OK? Enter.
Ta-da.
What do you think?
He's a bit shocked.
It seems very real now.
Yeah. That's, yeah, there it is.
It's a dream for me, it's a dream I
never thought I'd see to be honest.
Proper prep bay.
So no more dust, anywhere.
Just in there.
So you got air coming in there
And you extract at the back.
Dust extraction, and you can
prime in here, can't you,
so you can prep
We can do everything in this room.
This is something I dreamed
of years and years.
Oh. It's unbelievable.
So, big one's next door
That is an oven.
I feel like going to
the space station, look at it!
That is the stuff of dreams.
It's got the air gurglers in it.
Air gurglers, yeah.
So, do they put warm air on..?
I've never used them.
But I know what they are.
It's like a hair dryer that blows
the paint to dry quicker.
Yeah, in between coats,
it's quicker.
And it's downdraft.
Yeah, the whole floor.
Big volume of air moving
gently around the car.
Yeah, so it's more even.
Can you imagine the jobs
we can do in here?
I can't wait to get in there,
paint the first car.
Knock yourself out, mate,
it's yours to play with.
And then next door
Oh, we've got our own paint room.
Yep.
Oh no!
Posh paint room.
Look how clean it all is.
Yeah, because it's new. Yeah.
I've got a Mercedes
I've got to paint today.
Let's have a look. Look at that.
Oh, oh
Pretty colours.
Put them back in there, you.
Show him an interesting colour
and, that's it,
he'll just be looking at it
for hours.
How good's it going to feel
when the first car rolls out
Rolls out of there.
The thing is, I know
you've sold your cars. I know.
Well, there they are.
I'm going to call that Lotus,
that Porsche
I'm going to get some little things
made and put in living memory of
Lotus.
..Lotus, Porsche, Sunbeam.
Porsche, Sunbeam.
It's a lot of money.
It's a lot of expenditure.
It's a lot of stress, but that
is somebody having the faith
in me to do it,
that's what it means to me.
Well, you know I have.
This is a big investment,
but I'm glad he's got faith in us
to turn the work out.
He's got the faith in his self,
faith in the business.
And I just think it's wonderful.
I can't put it into words how much
I appreciate this, really.
I can't.
There's no way I can express it
to say how grateful I am.
Big moment.
First day.
Finally, we're in.
Now we've got to get everything
ready for the launch event
this coming weekend.
It's got to be Ta-da. Wow!
What will people make of it?
What if they look and say,
"That's rubbish?"
Why aren't the doors up?
Did you want it shut?
No! What the BLEEP
have you all been doing?
That's a complete waste of time.
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