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Classic Car Parts Tresure Hunt: Classic Renault and Alpine heaven!
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Jan 1, 2025
Whilst we were collecting the #Renault #Avantime we got the opportunity to get the first look through the now dormant Renault and Alpine specialist workshop. The owner sadly passed away earlier this year, and the family are starting to make moves to organise and sort through the workshops. We didn't have a great deal of time or space for the return journey, having already agreed to practically fill the van with #automobilia and marketing merch we had bought. But this was an opportunity not to be missed. Join us as we talk through, discover and get outright enthusiastic about the lifetime collection of gems and retro Renault and Alpine parts we discovered. And take a closer look at our picks.
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right we were so fortunate to get the
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first run through of this Workshop I
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can't thank the family enough for
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letting us in and giving us the trust to
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just have free roam and pick the parts
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that we wanted out we managed to get
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some absolute Treasures that we just
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you're going to see from the video we
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are so excited to share this stuff with
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you because a lot of it hasn't seen the
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light of day for 30 plus years the main
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thing you have to do in a situ ation
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like this is you've got to be respectful
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not just of the situation but of the
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fact that you're handling someone's life
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work the parts that we got are amazing
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if you're into barn finds and you love
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Automobilia you're going to love this
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video we've got to give a massive shout
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out to Barry as well who's the family
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member who opened up on the day to help
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us pick up the Renault Aven time and let
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us have a amazing look around this
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Workshop Barry was a complete dude
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honestly such a nice guy to me thankk
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you so much because I know you watch our
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videos we took a 14-hour round trip to
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visit this place so catch up the next
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morning to see us uncovering the things
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we
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got was a little moment then I thought
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it wasn't going to work it did it
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worked ready
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ready oh the Alpine
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clock for those British T Carion fans of
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that is that the sticker
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set oh my God
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God yeah she can be she can be tucked
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away right
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M as you can tell this is like Christmas
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Day morning for us because this is
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genuine authentic
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treasure and this is a micro fish
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reader which we
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paid paid pop top top dollar for this
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next piece of treasure I don't really
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know what we're going to do with this I
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don't think Paul realized it was as big
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as it is is this it's a castal GTX oil
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container with a hand
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pump I'm not going to stick my face in
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there someone will want this for a man
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cave like this would turn into a really
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cool like bar or a table or or it could
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still be used to be fair it's a
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serviceable thing oh let's get Michelin
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there oh the Michelin Man it's old
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school tin
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painted road
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maps look at the patina this stuff's so
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original and I keep saying it but
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authentic tire press Bridge
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Stone tire pressure
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guide and this
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map wo
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oh yes turn it around turn it around
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turn it around turn it around so you see
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on the internet people selling this you
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know cheap repo stuff this is not cheap
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repo stuff that's legit and it's
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meant rally
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placards
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Dijon and then in this box here these
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Renault sport manuals are so retro look
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at that
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Priceless
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dude Paul imagine if you could buy for a
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Renault 12 a competition exhaust system
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and a tubular manifold for 128 quid
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W
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dude whoa I cannot wait to ret through
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these
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got these really cool original oil
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cans and an absolute stack of genuine
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original Cleo 172 Phase 1 oz F1 Wheels
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you might look at these wheels and think
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those wheels are quite a rare
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find what a rare find is these These are
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the original Michelin pilot SX tires
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that came on a phase 1 Cleo 172 and
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someone who's doing like a concourse or
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a full restoration of these would
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absolutely love an original set of
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tires there's something in here which
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is very special for
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Paul monio
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Paul I can't wait to trim this down and
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like show the pure excitement inside
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GTA someone's done
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that and that does not fit the
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athetic an original Phillips radio which
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came in like a mark one as spass but it
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also came in an Alpine GTA we've got
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absolutely no way of knowing if this
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works but there's only one way to find
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out and we've got the car for it right
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there
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next up on the hit is loads of again I
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keep saying it don't judge authentic
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original posters and stuff and there's
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reasons of
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these
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dud
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zanard roll it down roll it down that
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needs Framing and hang
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in there's another one inside
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it so excited so dusty
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are we going to do the peum
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Reel that
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is so
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cool dude was our spirit animal
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wo Mighty
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passion they're alive they want to break
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free honestly I cannot express to you
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how exciting this is for us this is like
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dream come true
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stuff also as well how nice is it going
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to be but this artwork and stuff that
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this guy stored for years we're going to
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like present see a wall he's going to
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see a wall and his collection is going
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to the brown one the brown one as a
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brown one keep opening the brown one
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look at the colorways on it you just
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know that's going to be no don't look
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don't
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look wo
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oh my God it's so faded and
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cool so my favorite part about this so
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far has definitely definitely been that
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and what I love about it and this is
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going to sound a bit it's going to sound
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a bit soft but this is my genuine
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thoughts on it the guy who owned this
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place he died and we're kind of going
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through a lot of this stuff and I think
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the real treasure that's going to come
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from this is his collection and his life
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work and the stuff that he was
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passionate about we're going to frame it
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and present it and kind of show the
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world what his passion was and I just
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think that's I just think that's
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rad look at
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that this guy's been squirreling this
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stuff away cuz he was so passionate
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about it for years and now it's finally
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getting opportunity to see the light of
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day and be
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enjoyed I love this stuff
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we also managed to pick up an 8ot by 4ot
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mobile backlit
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sign so let's have a look through some
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of this stuff in a little bit more
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detail just to show you how cool it is
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so this is an Alpine turbo
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GTA kind of like a reference book to
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show you all the points of the car so
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you would have got one of these when you
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first bought
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one it's like an owner's
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manual and it shows you all of the
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intricate little details of an Alpine
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GTA so that's mega mega cool I love
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that this is like a Rena 8 owner's
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manual so it shows you how to look after
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a Rena 8 and what's really cool about
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these older cars is that owners would
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have maintained and looked after them so
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this owner manual would have been
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something that every couple of months
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you'd have pulled out and you'd have you
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know checked the car was running as it
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should do and use that as your point of
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reference this looks like a slightly
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later Rena look at the front of that
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that is so cool so then again you've got
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everything with like model year
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differences and stuff what bulbs you
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need what
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lubricating fluids you need like oils
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and greases how the seat belts work like
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oh just this is so cool reading stuff
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like this it's it's like reliving buying
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one of these cars this is awesome so
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this is like a shop promotional piece
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this is original it's not like a Repro
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or anything it's actually really heavy
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you can see from the quality of it as
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well this is something that would have
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just been hanging up in the
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dealership we've got this as well which
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is like
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a Alpine press
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steel I love that I love that stamping
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on the back again this stuff's available
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repo like you can you can buy Repro
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stuff of this online but this is
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original legit Real Deal
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stuff that's very
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cool really old
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map so that's like a a Michelin road
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map this shows all the tire sizes and
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tire pressures for various different
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models you can kind of age this by what
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the current cars are that's that's
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wicked and then this is a tire pressure
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guide for different sizes of tires love
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that
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this stuff's so
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cool let's go around here and have a
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look at some of this
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stuff in the back of this this is the
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cabinet that all the micro fish is in so
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this is really cool but also we've got
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here the handy Parts
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booklet that shows you all
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the kind of like look at that Reno fuos
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cleos 19s lagunas
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it shows you all of the like quick
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reference points of like tires tire
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pressures what different lights mean
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that's wicked I think this is the same
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thing oh what is this specification and
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adjustment data dude look at
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that so that is wicked that's awesome I
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love that and this is the same thing for
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uh
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1991 what's this is this spark plug
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yeah spark plug types for all the
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different cars that's
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amazing what is
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this what is this it's like a 1996
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manual oh it's showing like VIN numbers
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and Chassis numbers and what they all
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mean and how to identify Renault chassis
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numbers that's cool and then that's for
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your spark plugs and bits and pieces
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like that again so that's wicked we got
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these really cool old oil cans which are
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that one's not branded but then there's
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this this one is like an old Shell can
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love that there's an old pratts can
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there as well this is a micro fish
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machine and in a minute I'm going to
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show you that in a bit more detail cuz I
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want to I want to show you what that is
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cuz some people would have never known
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about
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this this is
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the creme Dela Creme of
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cool genuine Renault
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box let's open it up let's carefully as
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I
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can so
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this
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is look at that original original
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decals
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dude what's amazing about
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this this is a genuine Renault part so
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this is a genuine Renault Tamia
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lagona touring
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car and that has never been used it's
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never been like assembled or anything
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like that it's just sat there in the Box
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I'm sure you can buy these shells again
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Repro and stuff why would you not want
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that that
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is that's precious there's also this
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Continental illuminated banner and the
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best thing about this it works so yeah
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that's wicked love it I'm just going to
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turn the lights down and we're going to
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show you what a micro fish
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is this would have being like the tech
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of the80s for car
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dealerships so let's set the scene
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before there were Parts manuals and
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stuff like this much data would have
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taken up loads of storage and this is
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what's called a micro fish micro fishes
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are very very cool in
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there push it all the way to the back
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and then as you push it in itself
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closes let's just set the focus on it oh
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it's a dude it's a
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spider mirrors look for a spider and
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then if you want to take the micro fish
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out you just pull it towards
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you it ejects it and then you slide it
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out these need some
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TLC these need some love care and
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attention but
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honestly for me this is the find of the
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day I could look through these all day
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these are
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wicked this is awesome this is Rena 5
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Alpine so like the early Reno 5 um if we
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have a look through here it's almost
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like a kind of like a parts manual to
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show you what all the different part
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numbers are for everything I absolutely
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love this because it's so unique and
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these are a really rare car getting
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parts of them is quite expensive um so
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to have the genuine part numbers is is a
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massive massive benefit so that's that's
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awesome tuning imps uh that's not Rena
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related I love these old tuning guides
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that people would read through uh gives
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you all the different stages that you
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can tune stuff to that's absolutely
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Wicked I love that I'm actually going to
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I'm actually going to use this for
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something to do with my business to
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prove a point um here we've got some of
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the like electrical systems uh this is
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for uh an a610 turbo Renault Alpine um
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this is amazing so this is an original
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workshop manual I love this it shows you
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so many list
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procedures so if you want to do anything
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this is like a H's manual on steroids so
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this is like a dealer level H's manual I
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absolutely love that you got these
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really cool civvy lights as well I love
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that they're
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yellow these are so cool I love
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them I hope you enjoyed that as much as
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we did thank you for tuning in and know
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it's been a long one and look forward to
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seeing you on our next
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adventure and
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