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A FRENCH CONNECTION: We sold a Renault 5 Turbo 2 shell and took a Porsche 928 home with us!
Jan 1, 2025
Monsieur Paul avec une Porsche and I went on a continental road-trip, to sell a #renault5 Turbo 2 body shell and a van load of rare Turbo 2 parts to a man we've never met in a shady mystery location...And took a classic #porsche928 in chop that we'd never seen!
The catch? We only had 24 hours to do it.
Join us as we chat our way from Newcastle to Dieppe and back living the petrol head dream. No fromage was harmed in the making of this video, but it does contain swearing so if you're sensitive watch it with headphones!
If you want to buy the Porsche, it's for sale as a running, driving car. MOT exempt and tax exempt next year. All funds go towards the next production!
Join us next week when we go to buy an iconic French mystery machine...Stay tuned!
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we're just doing this now you can do it I mean we'll just trim this we just trim it yeah that'll do all
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right then we're going on a continental road trip to turn this into a classic Porsche
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I'll do
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if you don't know what this is this is a Renault 5 Turbo 2 shell it's a pretty
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rare thing and Paul has managed to find a mad French man who's got a Porsche 928
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that he wants to do a deal on against the shell so we're going to go and take the shell to him and hopefully
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bring back a Porsche this is going to be our road trip home for the next couple of days as
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we make our way from Newcastle to D we booked in for a ferry that leaves at
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11:00 tonight in New Haven and it gets to deep at stupid o'clock in the morning
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we've got a very very short drive to DF to get the Porsche and do the deal and
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then we've got a mega late Ferry back tomorrow night I've got to be in work for like 9:00 on Friday morning because
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I've got loads of cars to tune this is going to be a mission so many
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snacks really have we got enough we have got many snacks are we
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going to partake in the great Trailer Race of 2024 I can do it
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loser we are just pulling into weather be services is um we're going to have a
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quick check of the straps make sure that the renault's still on there is it still on there and
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uh then we'll carry on 1 hour down probably about 6 to
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go so we've been parked here for about 2 minutes and someone's come over and already known what the rarest shell in the world
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is I do eat fish I respect that so I'm a little bit weird in that I actually
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don't eat fish unless it's sushi that was a successful stop yeah accomplished a
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lot world largest piece of sushi
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eat try to be mean about five2 Raiders when people bang on about how limited edition they are they're the [ __ ] out
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of all the five turbo surviving most of my Raiders yep so coming
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horrible really come on go I'm going to um once we get all this
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money out of this [ __ ] I'm going to buy nice cost Machining grinder Cafe Cafe Cafe gold
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Gad you've got what going to go for a gold Gad gold Gadget what a gold Gadget
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Gad Ruby
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Ruby Groot homeo
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is the only thing you can say and like composition of that H
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moo there has been some slim pickings on what's out and about on the roads today
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uh very boring stuff so far the Highlight has been a s 90 a green on green on green Land Rover um you see
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anything else good nothing nothing bar yeah we've um the the adaptive cruise
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control is very aggressive whenever there's a gap the van just like at the moment it says 1844
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arrival I think that is optimistic you're going to piss yourself
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you've got seat coms fine right that's not what they're there for is it not uh we've just stopped off to relieve
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ourselves and now we're going to continue this
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Extravaganza 3 and a half hours to go Paul's just taking in 15 g of protein
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and uh the Renault is unfortunately still there on the plus side though as a
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duo we are quite excited about the prospect of Porsche 928 life and I've
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come to the great realization as the only person with trade insurance and trade plates I get to Christen
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it we did offload some parts on the way though so we are at this point already in
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profit the M2 5 is [ __ ] well after what was a very very
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very very long trip we have finally arrived at New Haven Port we're here a little bit early and me and Paul are
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hoping that we can get on board get into our cabin and hopefully get a couple of
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hours Kip before we arrive in DP in the morning we probably need to have a chat about how we've ended up in this
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situation with a um very expensive very rare Reno 5 Turbo 2 shell in this sort
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of condition not long ago this was actually a very nice presentable running driving car and unfortunately it all
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went arai when it went away for restoration um the guys that were
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restoring it didn't do a particularly great job and they left it outside covered in zinc primer and stuff and uh
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this car drove there and this is what's left of it
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these turbo tws now the price they're going for is absolutely insane so it's quite nice that this car is going back
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to its Homeland to be restored in deep the home of the Alpine Factory and in
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the back of the big brown love bus are all of the essential parts to get that car back
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together in the morning are we going to visit a patisserie you got find a big Supermarket no we need to go to like a
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proper Bakery get first good bakeries in supermarkets [ __ ] France is it
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National Crime to [ __ ] pastry on this trip I am discovering that I can actually speak French but
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it's somewhere in my brain that I can't remember when I need to speak French gay in French is
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gay I don't know what's happening it's not cool for a man who
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doesn't like boats but on the bus side we have
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beer this year we couldn't find anywhere
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open we found well that was the most interesting night's sleep I've ever had
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in my life um I I don't know about you Paul but did you not think it was really convenient
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that we parked next to where they seem to be smashing all the doors open all night
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I think they were they were training for a French Orchestra of door openers um anyway we got some sleep I had some
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weird dreams and then we got woken up by an announcement saying get off the [ __ ] boat so we'll catch you in a
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bit just going to have my thimble of orange juice Paul is very quickly
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discovering that I am in fact a morning person and it's it's the equivalent of 330 a.m. here and I am raring to
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go welcome to deep that was a duck oh wow that is a
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considerable amount of barbed wire is that enough add more what about
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now just St more go go go straight go straight ahead drive go drive let's
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see check it's actually yours cuz I saw this scam on Tik Tok about where they would give you someone else's passport
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and you'd be stuck forever no no it's okay I was still born in basing
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Stoke do do you think French people who live in this area specifically set their headlights to as though they were
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abroad just just didn't get one up at you I remember once when I was a kid my
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dad got really bad sunburn while we were in in France we had to go to the pharmacy and
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buy him after
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some that was a [ __ ] great story what sa
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that [ __ ] off uh it is is it a micro car yeah wow
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it's doing [ __ ] 25 mil hour it's definitely M think he needs a hand a
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push car no bike no no pedest briskly close RIS
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walk oh my God he no quicker on the minus
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slope even he'll assisted [ __ ] going any quicker we've what the
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[ __ ] oh Jesus Christ we have been we have been stuck behind this micro car
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for Seven Days Seven literally since since we left England when it goes
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around this roundabout is either just going to go straight on or top over you need to take the second exit which is straight on
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me he only goes one speed
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everywhere what the [ __ ] brid on the pedal literally just [ __ ]
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maintained what the [ __ ] it's the only way to do it you got to carry the speed in m car 100% we're on the route to DF
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which we weirdly we're going away from we're going away from D oh I know what
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Bron is it's like an antique show oh do you speak French too I watch a lot of
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Sal ches and now we wait we have arrived at
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the place of Car Exchange uh so far it's been a little bit Shady about where we
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meet this guy and what we do and whatever um and we are here we have been parked in a layite on an
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industrial estate outside of deep for about 3 hours now uh waiting for the
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Porsche arrival yeah I reckon the next clip is going to be Porsche arrival so
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uh Julian has changed our meeting location for The sketchiest Exchange in
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the world ever
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oh it looks good it looks shiny hang on we just need to
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do a dangerous turn in the road that's your Porche handles like a
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porch what's your first thoughts on your your Porsche love it [ __ ] box
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cars the old zoom in that's so much fun just trolling people's Gardens for old
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aband Paul I'm going to have the time of my life with that over the next 7 to 31
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days hours hours right do you reckon we can sell
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this Porsche before we leave France what if we put it on Facebook right now put it on Facebook right now
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for €8,000
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yeah we absolutely do and that's why that's why these people can't miss out on this fantastic
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opportunity so we've had a bit of a Mad 5 minutes just unloading everything Renault 5 Turbo 2 related and uh putting
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it up there so I guess it's time to show you the 928 it's pretty
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good there she is
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h I quite don't know how I feel about this
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I quite quite like it and that's always worrying when I like stuff it is so
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Brown will it
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start she's good what do we think should we go for a drive
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not sure how pool's going to be about that but I don't really care oh the window
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Works what have we got oh we've got [Music]
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reverse we've got Drive
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[Music]
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bye bye bye everything seems to work okay so
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[Music] far well uh good news is the Porsche is
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on and I got to say it is uh absolute
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fontastic what's your immediate thoughts on owning a V8 Porsche I am super happy
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with this deal this Deal's gone so much better than I expected beyond our expectations we have
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just unloaded that and driven away with
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that I winners winners of life it's a lot better than I thought it was going to be uh Paul the renault's
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gone there's a Porsche on the trailer you uh join the gang from a uh car
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park outside of Le super Marche and purchased a baguette cheese and jam and
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we're now car shopping to work out what we're going to buy next we haven't even got this one back yet we're already
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looking at other vehicles if you were unaware the
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ultimate snack for a cross-continental road trip is a baguette with cheese and
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jam M that is one thing I will say about the
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French they now have to bake him get po is starting on the cakes already is a live action
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moment slow-mo homo homo
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homo not slow-mo homo homo this is why you always carry your
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smoke yeah that's all right I just battered a baguette with a
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hunting knife what why is this so gelatinous that's that's full of
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cow this is a weird vibe so what are we going to go and bu not a mark one D from that guy not a
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mark one that is too expensive you literally couldn't pull a negative a positive out of that advert R
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19 see when it comes to here behind you it'll get there eventually there's a
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base model it's slow stra
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Ahad there was a good point about that CAD the guy was taking that God awful popt thing off
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it so we're currently just picnicking with the Porsche a ve Porsche
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outside of Le supermar there's a lot of Mark 1 twing
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goes in France there's also a lot of cheese and
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I I love fromage Paul's confident he's going to make it round there with the
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trailer get a first class seat to this [ __ ] up total [ __ ] how how's that going
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for you pal you make it like a pulch look look look at how many Mark 1 twingo
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there are there's one of them there there's one of them just pulled in
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there I've decided we're going to do more Continental road trips spefic specifically to France to buy a one it's
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a great one go ask her if she wants to sell
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it I want to buy your twing France is [ __ ] weird disaster
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don't put Jam in the door it's a very French
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problem it's jamming your door it's flower dust all over the van from all
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the baguettes I've been
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eating I love a carrot why is something have dick me on a [ __ ] daily basis I
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don't know would you like to go the narrowest way yes yes I would extra
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narrow for me today please yes I have you can see you're thring a trailer do you like any really tight
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turns in is your narrow Journey yes please yes please love the jack knife in my [ __ ] por up trailer
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preferably into a data into a data genuinely I can't wait for the day that France transitions away from round
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glasses so we're going to the Sea so you're taking the guy that's
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afraid of water to the sea to see the body of water that you need to cross
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yeah to get home I don't know if there's been any mention of next week's car buying mystery yet in this
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oh I forgot we're going to get another one so next week's car buying mystery
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it's another V engine it's a French vehicle that wasn't allowed to be sold in the UK under its production name
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because Talbot had the uh had the rights to it my my tutor at College had one a
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no we're not going down there is that it's got a wooden sign post that's the extra narrow version yeah so yeah next
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next week we've got another car buying Mission but I think the ultimate aim for next week's car buying Mission we should
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set ourselves a Target to come to France in next week's
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car buying Mission and in one of my French cars and we should make that our mission
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to go somewhere so if that wasn't cryptic enough for you we're going to go and buy a mystery car next week but as with
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everything that happens in MSU Paul's life it probably changes my now and then and sell it before he even picks it
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up Michael ninky N ninky N did you ever
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watch In the Night Garden a few a few SM your cheese yeah I [ __ ] love cheese
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mate would you want want me to eat it so it's gone or is that is it external I
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can smell your cheese in here I'm sure all right let me eat it now oh it's it's feisty
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a so dry do know but I love cheese oh let's
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go look at that little cafe why didn't we go there to get a coffee R
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5 in a barn what there's a Rena 5 in a barn there's a Rena 5 in a
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barn it's only like a campus or some
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[ __ ] we've spotted five in a barn so now we're going to walk down the road into a
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village and what are we going to get afterwards
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Beach and we're going to go to the beach yeah the smart one twingo and a Citron are are in there do you know what we
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haven't had we we haven't had a true coffee we haven't had
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Cafe I think we've pretty much just agreed that this lifestyle that we've managed to attain through hard work and
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dedication is much better than working I don't know Paul's got a pretty
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good thought on how uh how we deal with this and how we life with life and how
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we get to this once you shift your life goals away to material goods and you just focus on experience experiences can
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be very cheap yeah we need to we can't leave without looking at that let's go
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and let's go and TR pass it's not worth looking at it's
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[ __ ] Yeah so basically if you dream of doing stuff
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like this go and do it I'm going to go and see a cow you fire up the Batmobile
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want to be my friend and as part of this as well you've always got to help your friends and facilitate deals for other people so
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there's loads of parts that we've picked up here which you're going to other homes as well which helps lighten the
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load Po's fing a little bit deflated is that a stalk or Heron St no
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Heron it's a her yeah herons and cows living
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homogeneously as one he cow
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[Music] cow [ __ ] me that is a Hench Horse that
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[ __ ] horse o you see
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him [ __ ] you that horse was henge entirely unnecessary why did you
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do that you wouldn't need a [ __ ] get in restri you wouldn't need a coach if you had that horse back there a [ __ ]
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drift spot on a half you got to transact some [ __ ] V
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Porsche that's sweet just unload the Porsche European road trips and that time we took out an abandoned trailer an
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abandoned motor home with a Porsche I've not seen this okay that was
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that was anti oh look at the sea what a lovely color it's gray
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pluggy I love France such culture France seems to have I know they have this in
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Pompei but France seems to have a lot of dicks drawn everywhere
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[Music] I have seen multiple dicks on this
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trip today's been um it's been a a letter day for me driving a V8 Porsche
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through the north of France in pure
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Comfort on my way to the beach in this V8 V8 dream
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car this
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incredible chob done dream completed all I definitely
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don't want to say there Hotel of the plague restaurant
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panoramic yeah this looks way more Bouie than the [ __ ] all we just went to it's probably not anywhere to park is there
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literally oh there's a person there's a naked man sh there's a naked man walking towards the sea oh see this is all right
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this is the South Shields of Normandy can love it
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me we've got an absolute age until our Ferry arrives so we've just pulled up um
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at the beach and we're just chilling out we've been on a little bit of a drive around in a tour and I'm going to show you the Porsche in a little bit more
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detail we've been doing a bit of research online and I think that this thing I think that this thing could be a
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moneymaking opportunity in
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detail Bosch stamped lights which work Bosch Bosch Bosch all three of the
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lamps are original with a nice condition surround on them these aren't cracked and perished which I would imagine they
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would be there's not much in terms of physical damage on the car there's a scuff along
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there but that would want painting anyway and it's being keyed across the Bonnet but nothing's like actually
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broken proper Bosch headlamp which works Bosch BOS BOS so that's all nice the
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splitter needs a repair I've got a plastic repair kit and I'm going to do
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something with that because the splitter not being on is
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spoiling the looks and the vibe of the girl Telly
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dials none of these are damaged they're all good aluminium doors so you've got
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like chips and corrosion along here these weather strips they've seen
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better days but they're original and the most important thing is they've not been messed with they've not been taken off there's nothing worse than when you're
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trying to put a car together and someone's ripped it all toart and you don't know where everything goes this
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just needs pushing back in just up there but we'll get that push that back in this it's started to go
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around the windows but to be honest with you the window itself looks like it's solid that's just the start of corrosion
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so that's all good it needs lacquer it the whole thing needs paint
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basically another Telly dial it's so solid and that is where the money is on
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this one look how solid that is
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under the back here suspension arms it's had all the fuel pumps done the previous owner spent
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an absolute Fortune um mechanically on this one tail lamps are all
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good this isn't all broken I've seen these before where these are snapped off these are chipped off but this is all
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nice there's a little bit of rust around there patina some people would call it
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this you can get decals for that or paint it whatever you wanted these are all good they've all
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got the original screws they've not been replaced with wood screws these all fit
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good this is probably the worst area of rust on the whole thing but the main thing is it's not got loads of filler in
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it so that needs to de with and that needs dealing with this is only
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superficial this is solid that I think you'd grind that back and paint that and that would be absolutely
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fine again rust areas like look in
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there absolutely Rock Solid
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this that's just surface corrosion like clean that up that's fine
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again window rubbers cracked all along here but they've not been removed so you'll know how to put them back in when
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you replace
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them and again looking down here there's absolutely no
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rust all in the Arches and stuff this thing has been loved and looked after definitely
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interior wise it's all there as well which is great so we've got electric seats headlamp dip I think that's the
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boot release but I could be wrong no what's that I don't know what that is it's something that turns to work that
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out it's something that spins don't know boot release the cables aren't snapped for
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the seats they all click in nicely
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ah I have not got a clue what that does is that does that open that what does that do oh that Wicked look at that
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little door pocket that's rad these are all nice none of this is
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broken it's got cruise control washers
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lights it's got the popups I love the popups I don't think they're going to pop up without the key in no they're
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not none of this is broken like the dash is cracked but find me one that's not cracked blow Punk stereo which the guy
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is adamant
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works there we go keep you probably cigarettes and stuff in there whatever they did in in
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the 80s what have we got in
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here loads of documents awesome there's a lot more than that the go gave us a
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big folder the quality of everything's really nice though
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this all just needs preserving 100% I think that's the
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cigarette ligh hole there pretty sure that's where the cigarette light
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goes the headlining on it's absolutely mint leather
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headlining I genuinely feel like bought a lot of cars lot of classic
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cars love classic cars it's my thing when you go to buy a lot of these
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classic cars you often find yourself picking up someone else's problems
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they've had a project and they've abandoned it or given up or whatever and the hardest part of doing
32:46
anything is getting all these interior trim bits and working how everything goes together if you wanted a Porsche 928
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project I can't think of a better candidate than this because mechanically
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this is done it's ready to go the guy reckons it drives mint he went out and did 20 km in it
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yesterday but it just needs the trim sorting and cosmetically bringing back up and it's so honest and so original
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and so unsed with like this thing's
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Wicked what's in there whoa wait until I show you this this is sick I love this
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car okay this is
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cool yep that is
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cool and it's got one on this side as well
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yes yeah I I think I I know I know we've
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done really well with this um and I think between me and Paul we're going to be able to turn this
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into here's what I'd like to do with it we might not get that far because Paul's pretty good at a quick flip I would love
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to get this to a cosmetically challenged nice reliable driving on the road car
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that someone can get in and use and it would be a perfect entry into the 928 Market that's worth spending the
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investment on and worth building on low mileage great history mega mega mega
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mega solid it just needs the Cosmetic stuff doing and it's all there for you to take off and put back
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on if it gets that far I want
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it got a h fan though that yeah they've got a h fan with like a modern back on
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it oh what is this oh what is this garage all the
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things to have on a r that is [ __ ] oh that was real upsetting that I I was
34:58
expecting to come around that corner and see you know shitloads of like [ __ ] douch and H van and [ __ ] you never
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have picked that car that was on the ramp PT Cruiser PT [ __ ] Cruiser what
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a piece of [ __ ] V there's not pubs where people are just sat getting drunk It's restaurants and
35:18
it's a much nicer environment to sit and get drunk she's the first thing I've seen
35:25
since we left that reminds me of home [Laughter]
35:31
she was fresh familiar shape she was fresh out of BL that looks like a hospital but it's
35:38
not I think it's a college it's College most hospitals don't have don't have [ __ ] ey most
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hospitals don't have running your legs off so we're going to go out and do a bit of physio on the long jump Le physio
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Le physio looks more like a prison now uh top tip for anyone traveling uh
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into cont ental don't trust Apple
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Maps see has uh excuse me you you come only for one day yes what do you collect
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the car well thank you very much France it has been amazing it's time for us to go
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back now with the orange Porsche um yeah see you back in
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England this ambience yeah yeah right so uh We've I say weave
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Paul's been having a kip because he's got a massively long drive ahead of us on the way back I uh went ate a beef
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ber and uh now we've got to see how much we get shafted when we go through
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customs and drive like s and a half eight hours back to Newcastle with the
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porch this has been a long trip Paul's already looking at other
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cars current there's currently a maestro that's popped up for sale just up the road from us so probably see more of
37:02
that tomorrow so we're about to disembark 7 and a halfish hour Journey back Paul's
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about to assume his ultimate form and become the final boss of road trip drivers and I need to point a Red
37:18
Bull probably going to put this into some b-roll of us driving back but do not underestimate just quite how much of
37:24
a mission today has been look at
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it she's [Music]
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tight yes than one day thep visit take my
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car yeah yeah 94 28 928 yeah it's the one that
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should never really have made yeah help help some but she's
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thank you
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critiqued critique to not bummed this is Peak bage oh no this is under someone's
38:11
someone's going to come running out one of the buildings it's under cover bage oh no that they're actually buming
38:17
people in there right now that's where they strip search people right there on that piece of to a four P
38:24
ramp yeah oh your car's getting take no I'm thinking it's going to be 7 hours
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it's going to be 20 minutes to unload quick 5 minute burnout outside the unit and then it's 10 minutes for me to get
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home done it [ __ ] me we're actually out we actually done it we actually have done it right remember which side of the
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road you got to drive on for starters what well don't drive on the
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right oh yeah we are back immediately greeted by the range Iceland little
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McDonald's all the powerhouses
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wa I'm Clos all the roads to work now this has unquestionably
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been it's been ridiculous isn't
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it yeah so we we've been up now for 26 20
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26 hours been up for 26 hours driving for about 21 of
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them and then we've got all the way back here after this like massive long multiple many day hour long road trip
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back up and what 2 3 minutes from the workshop the a1's closed so we had to go
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on a 25-minute detour anyway we're nearly
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back and that is one french road trip to connector
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Porsche connect collect I need to do this again cuz that was
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bad and that is one seriously long car buying
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Mission done
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