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We went to buy a 3.0 V6 Renault Avantime, we came home with so much more!
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Jan 1, 2025
Yep, this was a strange one! A very rare manual 3.0 Renault Avantime, which had been sat up for three years. This one came from a very well respected Renault and Alpine specialist who sadly passed away this year, but whilst we were collecting the Avantime we got also got the first pass through the workshop, discovering a lifetime of passion and knowledge for Renault and Alpine vehicles. What we discovered blew the Avantime out the water. Stay tuned for part 2, because this is a wonderful story and we can't wait to show you some of the treasures we found in our next episode of automotive treasure hunting!
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one
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two what a day what a day it's early
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morning we've got sniff a big old sniff
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of some very rare Rena and Alpine parts
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so we're going to go to
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stoud on an adventure now it's it's 26
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minutes past 8:00 and I haven't eaten
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yet it's happening now right now
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right we're on our way to uh I've left
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enough of a capap there that I can edit
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that out we're on our way to stra
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because Paul has got uh Paul's you've
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been grafting this for a while uh Reno
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and Alpine specialist where the owner of
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the garage sadly passed away was it last
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year start of this year I think start of
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this year and there's a lot of treasure
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there which needs to be valued and sold
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and moved on um and that's that's what
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we
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we're going have a look we've bought a
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Renault Avent time that's happening that
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that ship is sailed so this is that big
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French ship is sailing back to Newcastle
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tonight we haven't bought a Rena aventin
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you have
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bought uh but there might be other stuff
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that we can buy so I've brought my tray
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plates with me and I'll do anything I
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can not to sit in this van on the way
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back so let's just see what's to say
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yay a so what I can do I can have this
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running and then I can just just edit it
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to a time lapse of us just laughing with
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no context it could just be 10 minutes
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of us
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[Laughter]
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laughing
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Fu I have not been able to replicate
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that
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line cannot replicate it cannot publish
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it wounded so stored in our
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heads literally it's just a moment for
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us to tr
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Brian Brian Brian Brian I like Brian I
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think Brian's real cool he's my kind of
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guy we are 1.9 mil away from our
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destination
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um no all right I'll put the cett on
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excellent thank you very much I'll see
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you
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shortly no property Okay bye so I'm
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really looking forward to this I think
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this is going to be good fun um we're
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going to get there and we're going to
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meet Barry Barry we're going to meet
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Barry do say hello to him my
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understanding is that Barry's quite Pro
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me filming a bit of this because
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anything that we don't mop up today has
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to be sold
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so publicity at this point is good right
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we are pulling in boy he's tucked out
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the way isn't
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it this is good
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that's GTA
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GTA GTA Windows
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there imagine if it did work that would
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be incredible how far back
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does close isn't that uh that's like a
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70 an 80s
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thing oh
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too as you can see Pauls having a whale
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of time
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this is going to be challenging I can't
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see fck I don't judge Paul's purchases
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what Paul does is what Paul does I don't
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know why he's bought
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that I'm acting like a Rena aventin
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expert I opened the
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door open the door and there was a stick
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I know that selected
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gears how else do we get got a microfish
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reader we did with all the Rena slides
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all the Renault slides and the thing
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with the micro reader is on the face of
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it it seems like quite a pricey
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unnecessary purchase but the value could
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it is it is um the the thing with the
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mic feish is the value could be in that
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as we start going through the slides
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there may be some alpine slides in there
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or Turbo
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2 super rare so you got take a gamble on
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that as a gamble there's some really
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good Workshop manuals and some parts
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cataloges for Rena sport yes Alpine
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turbo 2ce Owner Manuals posters
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really nice original W some really nice
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original like authentic posters which is
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good um what else an an Aline
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clock and a mouse mat why we buy a clock
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everywhere we go what clock off
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Brian uh what else what else therometer
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a radio for the Alpine GTA oh my f your
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find of the day yes got 5 hours to get
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home with a Rena Aven time on the back
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Paul's hit his head about four times and
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bed a lot now bleeding it's bled a lot
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bleeding out what's your favorite thing
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from
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today uh meeting Barry and and just
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rumaging through someone's like brain of
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50 years of just collecting Renault
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things it's he was our people yeah
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unfortunately now not with us but yeah
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he was he definitely got our Vibe I had
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a little bit of a sad moment when I was
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in there because because it reminded me
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quite a lot of my dad's workshop and
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what's going to happen when my dad dies
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we're going to load up a van and
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go down and rumage like I just felt
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really sad cuz you know the guy's life
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work was there and all of that knowledge
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there not you know that knowledge moves
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with him which I think is a real shame
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and that's his life's work that we've
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just rummaged through yeah so but it's
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going to a great home and we will care
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for some of it some of it we'll give to
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other enthusiasts for small profit the
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thing that the thing that I think what I
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enjoyed today was meeting Barry I
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genuinely enjoy I love the fact that we
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have a car on the back that hasn't
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really even featured in this
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conversation we're more excited about
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the like little bits and pieces that we
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bought they're the gems though aren't
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they they are the gems they're the gems
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they're what make it worth it like we
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knew we were coming to get the car yeah
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it's true we also knew we were going to
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be leaving with an 8tx 4ft mobile side
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so I don't know why that surprised you
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uh but yeah meeting Barry meeting Barry
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was like Barry was a really nice guy he
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was Mega cool he watches some of our
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videos and what we do which I was
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surprised about
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um he just
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dude anyway we're rambling fully Lane
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system one lane that goes to the
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M away
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we are also looking for wheels for
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twingo so in the cold light of day this
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is the Renault Avent time this Renault
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Avent time sat for about 3 years um it
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got a battery on it and it fired
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straight up and the clutch pedal was
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stuck to the floor but that was just a
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sticky slave cylinder we pulled that up
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and we've lubricated it and that's all
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good we've been had it up to temperature
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we've run it up and down outside this
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thing I think is going to be well and
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truly safe like what a cool car what
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were Renault thinking when they built
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this car look at it it's mental I
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absolutely love it um this video is
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going to be in two parts and I've got to
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be honest with you this first part is a
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little bit of a teaser and is a little
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bit boring you have to subscribe and go
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into part two because when you when you
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go into part two of this video I'm going
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to share with you some of the absolute
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Treasures that we've got from this
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collection
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um the next video is going to be long
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but I promise you it's going to be so
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worth it so thank you for all the
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support that we've got so far I know
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this channel is only just starting to
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grow
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but this is cool content and what's
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about to come blows what we've done so
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far out the water see you soon
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