The Mysterious Case of the 1950s British Car: A Step-by-Step Guide to Repairing and Restoring a Classic Vehicle

As I stood before the tiny differential, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and trepidation. This was going to be a project like no other, one that would push my skills to the limit and test my patience. The car in question was a 1950s British model, a relic from a bygone era that seemed to have been plucked straight out of time.

As I began to take apart the engine, I realized just how small everything was. The timing cover gasket alone cost a mere $1.51, but labor for the job would run up a hefty bill of $250. It was a sobering reminder that when it comes to classic cars, the parts may be cheap, but the labor can be expensive.

Next, I turned my attention to the suspension system, which seemed to have been cobbled together from spare parts. The "knee action" shock absorber was a fascinating feature, one that would have to be carefully coaxed back into shape with some TLC and elbow grease. As I worked, I couldn't help but feel a sense of wonder at just how much complexity had been crammed into such a small space.

As I made my way through the car, I stumbled upon the parking brake system, which seemed to have been designed by someone who was determined to make life as difficult for me as possible. The hydraulic lines were like a puzzle, with tubes and fittings that seemed to defy all logic. But after some careful study, I finally managed to unravel the mystery of the parking brake, and it was a small victory in an otherwise baffling world.

As I worked my way through the car, I couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration for its ingenuity. The Bug Eye, as the car came to be known, may have been a relic from a bygone era, but it was clear that it had been designed with a keen eye for functionality and reliability.

But just when I thought things were going smoothly, I received an unexpected bill: $487 dollars per regulator, plus $150 in labor. It turned out that both of the window regulators had broken, leaving me to wonder if all my efforts would be for naught. The total came to a staggering sum, one that made me question whether it was even worth fixing such a rare and valuable car.

And yet, despite the setbacks, I couldn't bring myself to give up on the Bug Eye. There was something about its quirky charm, its retro flair, that won me over. As I worked through the final stages of repairs, I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride at what we had accomplished.

In the end, it all came together in a grand finale of engine oil and transmission fluid, with labor costs running up to $300 for just those two components alone. The total bill? A mere $900, a fraction of what I had originally anticipated.

It was a sobering reminder that sometimes, things don't go according to plan, but with patience, persistence, and a willingness to learn, even the most daunting projects can be conquered. And as for the Bug Eye? Well, it may not be worth more than its original price, but it's certainly earned its place in my heart.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell i did what a lot of youtubers do and i said well it's fixed it's done look at me i fixed a salvaged car and well rarely is it actually fixed they finish a car they say a project is done but it reminds me of someone who hugh hefner always smiling i guess he was yes hopefully he had a little more than .9 liters packing under the hood welcome to hoovy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i have just arrived up at the car wizards with my latest purchase a 1959 austin healey bug eye sprite that i bought for 20 thousand dollars from my friend urination bob and the moment i tried to drive off after we shook hands well it stalled out it actually quit running the problem is it's vapor locked the heat of the outside air is atomizing the fuel before it's entering the engine and after running it for a long time then leaving it to sit well it vapor locks so i didn't trust driving it all the way up here but i'm sure it's a very easy fix not sure what else is wrong with it but i towed it up with my 2005 escalade that is riptide blue and i have no idea why you guys didn't like my riptide blue escalade videos it had the most dislikes of any video i've done in a very long time i have no idea why you were so annoyed by this beautiful escalade i promise i won't say the color ever again if you hit the like button right now but let's unload the bug eye sprite get it into the wizards and check in on some other cars including the mybach which i'm afraid may be unfixable look at it oh you're giving it a hug it is very cute isn't it so cute yes i had to buy this from urination bob oh 1959 austin healey bug eye sprite it's smiling all the time very very smiley very happy very fun i did not expect it to be this much fun to drive especially a car with 0.9 liters it reminds me of someone who hugh hefner always smiling i guess he was yes hopefully he had a little more than .9 liters packing under the hood 45 horsepower maybe at the end uh but yeah so despite the horsepower it is it is really fun yeah it is leaking a lot of oil and it vapor locked on me oh no basically quit running after i was driving it for a while turned it off went to turn it back on ran badly for a little bit then quit now that's cooled off it's running fine so classic vapor locking symptoms of the carburetor so we could look this over but i know you've made a lot of progress on on a lot of things so let's go around and take a look let's do it yeah so i see the porsche is sitting up high this is my 1979 porsche 911 sc targa that got converted into a convertible uh there's bits out here there's the transmission the cv shafts that's and those came out of the transmission when we drain the oil little tiny little bits that's teeth from gears yeah that or synchronizer teeth or i'm not sure what looks like teeth from a gear um okay well i have made the decision to try and save the engine we're going to do a dirty rebuild with my friend leonard in arkansas who used to work for roof he has a porsche collection and he said he could do a relatively cheap rebuild for me so we're going to send it off to him that the engine's not in where's the engine it's right over here well that looks like a porsche engine okay well it's gonna need a lot we found broken head bolts on this side yes it was on yes on this side and that's why zero compression and low compression on this end strong compression on the other end which is encouraging the center cylinder strong compression uh but a lot of parts i imagine going to need to be replaced like the injectors which is why it quit running in the first place uh this ignition stuff doesn't look too strong either but it was working it was working the fuel distributor here uh pretty infamous for crap and that old fuel in there so either way i'm going deep into this car and i probably shouldn't but this is not the channel of good decisions it is the dumbest automotive youtube channel absolutely absolutely which the my book is another example of that but let's go back to good news here let's go back to the countach yes my 1989 25th anniversary countach that was doing perfect running perfect for me for six months then started misfiring like crazy you sent the ignition control off somewhere you have the ignition module the coil and the distributor we sent to permatune we've gotten the module back and the coil we're just waiting on you can see it over there it looks stock they just gutted the old shell and put their own components inside for full conquer points this is a very nice car so i wanted to do everything right so once the cap and rotor gets back then it'll run again hopefully you also did the ground wire fix that my friend brian recommended so then the only thing left will be to get the air conditioning going and then it's ready for the countach rally which is in california i get to take this on laguna seca on the track not at speed uh the quail which is a big thing drive it down highway one it'll be amazing so very excited there yeah and good progress here well i'm not ready for bad news yet wizard so let's do more more good news the 280 se is done it's it's done okay let's go over there yes so we're talking about this the 1973 mercedes 280 sc 4.5 which is the car that nobody wanted i bought it for 9 500 bucks it had been for sale for a long time and nobody bit on it even though it's very nice original paint original interior it just had some issues like the horsehair padding falling out but that's fixed yep we sent those to low on upholstery here in newton and they put new cushioning and they fix a few panels and the seats are in tip-top shape now ac is working ac is working the rear differential has a new boot on it okay new seals right here on the quarter windows no more whistling there yep and we fixed the speedometer there was a little drive gear the little piece was broken and it had you had a good use when they came in the car so we installed that and got it working everything you wanted done is done every little odd and in there so i do have a build today oh yes okay wagoneer also done we're waiting on the little button to dry on the windshield for the mirror and then it's ready wow okay well that is good news and speaking of urination bob pickups this is the other car that he bought of that three i was talking about in the last video this was the third one the super performance big block cobra which you're going to do a video on yes yes so i'll just do a quick walk around but these are no it's not the real deal obviously it's a replica but the good replica super performance that's like a hundred and fifty thousand dollar build new with the big block the side pipes really really well done but some issues that uh you're gonna go through in your wizard video very cool is it is nice this is basically the one car that'll pay for almost all of them which is why i was trying to get him to sell me the porsche chief and uh well got a pretty good deal on the bug eye i think yeah i think he did especially in the the boom that we're in you did a good one right well depends on what you find wrong with it uh but yeah let's let's get to the bad news here so my mybach is back and this was a car that i bought salvage had a big hole or wreck down the side of it and well i did what a lot of youtubers do and i said well it's fixed it's done look at me i fixed a salvaged car and well rarely is it actually fixed they finish a car they say a project is done but there's there's so much more to do i knew there's cosmetic things like the windshield and the tires uh but when i started driving it i noticed there's some electrical problems like the radio not working and you discovered it was completely smashed yeah the module it actually sits right in the area where it had the wolverine cut across it and it was just busted and broken lovely so the radio powers up then boots off we also have a lingering electrical problem that is draining the accessories it'll still start every single time but then it'll say low power some functions unavailable and that's because the secondary battery is getting drained by something that's staying on maybe when the new module goes in that might solve it might solve it but then there's like 000 other modules in this car that could be draining it like the c-class it's really common for the seat motors to be doing that but this is a maybach with 10 times the complication that's been wrecked and kind of cobbled back together well i mean it's done well but still it's an old maybach with all the complication and uh you know a lot of things to go wrong there's there's other things too what was the other thing motor mounts oh the motor bounce yes uh classic v12 thing that can be fixed but here we are again kind of like the cl65 where things just keep happening and happening and happening and now i have a hundred and twenty three thousand miles salvage title my box that i have to be constantly spending money fixing um so anyway i'm in a bad situation but i'm not ready to give up just yet even though i'm 45 thousand dollars into this thing i'm not ready to give up we got the radio module coming from from latvia latvia yes my latvian friend is hooking us up there that's 450 yes 450 for a used module that hopefully works that doesn't need a programming or whatever we don't know if it'll work and uh continue from there so hopefully that's the end of the negative and the bug eye is is very very nice but let's see this little thing up on the lips you can almost lift it probably one armed wizard i hope i can get it on her lift it's so tiny it's so cute it's like a little little puppy dog it is a puppy dog for sure but the whole face comes up isn't that cool i imagine the hood on bolts and it's very easy to work on or you can just sit on a stool here but 0.9 liters wizard austin but still dual carbureted which is hilarious for 0.9 liters but you probably have some tractors outside that have more horsepower than this thing 44 horsepower very likely yes yeah but a big oil leak from somewhere i can see the valve cover gaskets leaking a little bit or a lot but i'm concerned about that and the solution for vapor locking i i just don't know when it was tilling out we had the hood popped and i was touching this which whatever that is and it was just too hot to even touch it was boiling me which is probably where fuel is right yeah there's a float in there well we're hoping everything is positive on this and it says it's positive earth so let's hopefully we keep it a positive earth right yes so what do you think would fix my vapor locking issue i think we could put a small electric pump it's very likely just basically vaporizing the fuel that's sitting in there need to crank and cranking cranking crank to fill it back up yeah okay well there's already a little heat shield here but that's not really doing the job i guess they already wrapped this fuel line to try and help with it but yeah you'd wrap all this it looked kind of ugly right mm-hmm what is this is it the wiper motor yeah that's the wiper motor and then a reservoir for break or clutch or maybe both i think both are right there interesting and the intake it kind of interesting it's just a hole right there that's for your heater oh it is yeah okay there's your heater core right there just in a box huh overall a very very nice car it is it's a sweet little car yeah the oil leaks though i any ideas we'll get it on the lift and we'll find out well that was probably the most unstressed i've ever seen your lift ever it's like lifting a cardboard box i suppose but very very teeny tiny really teeny tiny wheels teeny tiny brakes look at this tiny little shaft it has this i guess this exhaust the exhaust yes don't hurt his feelings come on come on oh my god that's a lot of oil there looks like that's that's what's leaking which is the drain plug yeah let's look up here it's like timing cover gasket right there oh yeah i see that i think that's about it okay there's some little copper washers leaking here it just needs to be probably snugged up this needs some pipe thread compound on it that'll take care of that so the transmission drain plug here and then this is for the speedometer is that what that yeah thing is driving the cable okay so just normal car sitting for a long time stuff huh yes all right and that's basically a lawnmower engine so taking it apart shouldn't be hard that is the tiniest little differential it is a little bitty thing isn't it wow so cute very very cute boy that looks kind of a weird spring yeah this suspension here is like half a leaf spring and the only interesting thing is it has a shock absorber it's called knee action shock absorber you see it oh sure enough that's your shocks yeah and there's a like a leather strap here to keep it from going too far down i guess yeah that's what that does what the heck and a bump stop mm-hmm well that is a very very odd suspension setup but it is very strange handle's great so this is this for my brakes well it's for your parking brake yeah oh okay so it does both rear brakes interesting you pull that lever and it turns that here's the hydraulic lines it does the normal oh okay this is your parking brake well it's just so cute isn't it it is it's very cute liam sized that's my one-year-old yeah it is it is like a baby-sized car it is adorable absolutely adorable uh but i really don't know if this is expensive to fix or cheap to fix it's it's a 50s british car so it should be a nightmare but it looks so simple i it looks very simple labor-wise i don't think you're going to be out a whole lot okay finding the parts and gaskets and things i will have to see well i guess you can look it up on your computer and you have a bill for me on a few cars right yes i actually reminded you this time yes you did i'm getting better all right wizard what's the shopping list today it's puppies yeah the bug eye is so cute i just just made me want a puppy it's like a puppy but these are these are 3 500 puppies but these are king charles spaniels oh he's already been adopted somebody paid 3 000 for a dog yeah i'd like to as well look how cute it is well there's no way a bug guy's buying you clara the puppy there's no way no way it could you never know oh it's so cute it is it is very puppy like that car it is very popular for sure is the build puppy like it is it's small actually kind of disappointed okay so your timing cover gasket the gasket itself is a dollar fifty one the labor is the big part uh-huh 250 for the labor so 240 151 i'll i'll take it okay that includes the front main seal wow it's only yeah now on the oil drain plug on the engine we'll just go ahead and drain it do an oil change and reseal it 75 bucks perfect on the transmission we'll reseal the copper washers we'll go ahead and service the fluid with it and seal up the drain plug 150 for that this is awesome okay yes install electric pump to solve your problem with that vapor locking 300 okay here we go and valve cover gas get 100 bucks okay under a grand 900 bucks 900 well 1950s cars so simple so cheap so nice even though it's british wow that's fantastic it's small and cheap and easy to get to and have at it wizard 900 yeah i'm not even going to bat an eye so that's uh that's wonderful yes you might bat an eye at this this is the 280sc bill there's two pages actually oh crap 3 80 yes that's more than what you quoted me in the inspection there wizard yeah well both of your window regulators were broken we had a lot more things wrong that was a thousand dollar system window regular oh no more than a thousand dollars 487 dollars per regulator 150 in labor yep the labor wasn't so bad the parts were okay well that sucked because everything else was right within your quote yep so those front windows were a little thumpy and one was getting like to where it barely works so jeez maybe that's why it's the mercedes that nobody wanted but still i'm under 15 grand into a classic original beautiful car everything works on it now it makes no sense why those cars aren't more desirable aren't worth more especially the convertible versions of them being so much and the coupes being so much why is the four-door worth like one percent of a convertible it doesn't make any sense so weird okay well this hurts but not too bad this this is wonderful this is great i love that bug eye the bill is small just like the car fantastic all right thank you for watching wizardwell i did what a lot of youtubers do and i said well it's fixed it's done look at me i fixed a salvaged car and well rarely is it actually fixed they finish a car they say a project is done but it reminds me of someone who hugh hefner always smiling i guess he was yes hopefully he had a little more than .9 liters packing under the hood welcome to hoovy's garage the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i have just arrived up at the car wizards with my latest purchase a 1959 austin healey bug eye sprite that i bought for 20 thousand dollars from my friend urination bob and the moment i tried to drive off after we shook hands well it stalled out it actually quit running the problem is it's vapor locked the heat of the outside air is atomizing the fuel before it's entering the engine and after running it for a long time then leaving it to sit well it vapor locks so i didn't trust driving it all the way up here but i'm sure it's a very easy fix not sure what else is wrong with it but i towed it up with my 2005 escalade that is riptide blue and i have no idea why you guys didn't like my riptide blue escalade videos it had the most dislikes of any video i've done in a very long time i have no idea why you were so annoyed by this beautiful escalade i promise i won't say the color ever again if you hit the like button right now but let's unload the bug eye sprite get it into the wizards and check in on some other cars including the mybach which i'm afraid may be unfixable look at it oh you're giving it a hug it is very cute isn't it so cute yes i had to buy this from urination bob oh 1959 austin healey bug eye sprite it's smiling all the time very very smiley very happy very fun i did not expect it to be this much fun to drive especially a car with 0.9 liters it reminds me of someone who hugh hefner always smiling i guess he was yes hopefully he had a little more than .9 liters packing under the hood 45 horsepower maybe at the end uh but yeah so despite the horsepower it is it is really fun yeah it is leaking a lot of oil and it vapor locked on me oh no basically quit running after i was driving it for a while turned it off went to turn it back on ran badly for a little bit then quit now that's cooled off it's running fine so classic vapor locking symptoms of the carburetor so we could look this over but i know you've made a lot of progress on on a lot of things so let's go around and take a look let's do it yeah so i see the porsche is sitting up high this is my 1979 porsche 911 sc targa that got converted into a convertible uh there's bits out here there's the transmission the cv shafts that's and those came out of the transmission when we drain the oil little tiny little bits that's teeth from gears yeah that or synchronizer teeth or i'm not sure what looks like teeth from a gear um okay well i have made the decision to try and save the engine we're going to do a dirty rebuild with my friend leonard in arkansas who used to work for roof he has a porsche collection and he said he could do a relatively cheap rebuild for me so we're going to send it off to him that the engine's not in where's the engine it's right over here well that looks like a porsche engine okay well it's gonna need a lot we found broken head bolts on this side yes it was on yes on this side and that's why zero compression and low compression on this end strong compression on the other end which is encouraging the center cylinder strong compression uh but a lot of parts i imagine going to need to be replaced like the injectors which is why it quit running in the first place uh this ignition stuff doesn't look too strong either but it was working it was working the fuel distributor here uh pretty infamous for crap and that old fuel in there so either way i'm going deep into this car and i probably shouldn't but this is not the channel of good decisions it is the dumbest automotive youtube channel absolutely absolutely which the my book is another example of that but let's go back to good news here let's go back to the countach yes my 1989 25th anniversary countach that was doing perfect running perfect for me for six months then started misfiring like crazy you sent the ignition control off somewhere you have the ignition module the coil and the distributor we sent to permatune we've gotten the module back and the coil we're just waiting on you can see it over there it looks stock they just gutted the old shell and put their own components inside for full conquer points this is a very nice car so i wanted to do everything right so once the cap and rotor gets back then it'll run again hopefully you also did the ground wire fix that my friend brian recommended so then the only thing left will be to get the air conditioning going and then it's ready for the countach rally which is in california i get to take this on laguna seca on the track not at speed uh the quail which is a big thing drive it down highway one it'll be amazing so very excited there yeah and good progress here well i'm not ready for bad news yet wizard so let's do more more good news the 280 se is done it's it's done okay let's go over there yes so we're talking about this the 1973 mercedes 280 sc 4.5 which is the car that nobody wanted i bought it for 9 500 bucks it had been for sale for a long time and nobody bit on it even though it's very nice original paint original interior it just had some issues like the horsehair padding falling out but that's fixed yep we sent those to low on upholstery here in newton and they put new cushioning and they fix a few panels and the seats are in tip-top shape now ac is working ac is working the rear differential has a new boot on it okay new seals right here on the quarter windows no more whistling there yep and we fixed the speedometer there was a little drive gear the little piece was broken and it had you had a good use when they came in the car so we installed that and got it working everything you wanted done is done every little odd and in there so i do have a build today oh yes okay wagoneer also done we're waiting on the little button to dry on the windshield for the mirror and then it's ready wow okay well that is good news and speaking of urination bob pickups this is the other car that he bought of that three i was talking about in the last video this was the third one the super performance big block cobra which you're going to do a video on yes yes so i'll just do a quick walk around but these are no it's not the real deal obviously it's a replica but the good replica super performance that's like a hundred and fifty thousand dollar build new with the big block the side pipes really really well done but some issues that uh you're gonna go through in your wizard video very cool is it is nice this is basically the one car that'll pay for almost all of them which is why i was trying to get him to sell me the porsche chief and uh well got a pretty good deal on the bug eye i think yeah i think he did especially in the the boom that we're in you did a good one right well depends on what you find wrong with it uh but yeah let's let's get to the bad news here so my mybach is back and this was a car that i bought salvage had a big hole or wreck down the side of it and well i did what a lot of youtubers do and i said well it's fixed it's done look at me i fixed a salvaged car and well rarely is it actually fixed they finish a car they say a project is done but there's there's so much more to do i knew there's cosmetic things like the windshield and the tires uh but when i started driving it i noticed there's some electrical problems like the radio not working and you discovered it was completely smashed yeah the module it actually sits right in the area where it had the wolverine cut across it and it was just busted and broken lovely so the radio powers up then boots off we also have a lingering electrical problem that is draining the accessories it'll still start every single time but then it'll say low power some functions unavailable and that's because the secondary battery is getting drained by something that's staying on maybe when the new module goes in that might solve it might solve it but then there's like 000 other modules in this car that could be draining it like the c-class it's really common for the seat motors to be doing that but this is a maybach with 10 times the complication that's been wrecked and kind of cobbled back together well i mean it's done well but still it's an old maybach with all the complication and uh you know a lot of things to go wrong there's there's other things too what was the other thing motor mounts oh the motor bounce yes uh classic v12 thing that can be fixed but here we are again kind of like the cl65 where things just keep happening and happening and happening and now i have a hundred and twenty three thousand miles salvage title my box that i have to be constantly spending money fixing um so anyway i'm in a bad situation but i'm not ready to give up just yet even though i'm 45 thousand dollars into this thing i'm not ready to give up we got the radio module coming from from latvia latvia yes my latvian friend is hooking us up there that's 450 yes 450 for a used module that hopefully works that doesn't need a programming or whatever we don't know if it'll work and uh continue from there so hopefully that's the end of the negative and the bug eye is is very very nice but let's see this little thing up on the lips you can almost lift it probably one armed wizard i hope i can get it on her lift it's so tiny it's so cute it's like a little little puppy dog it is a puppy dog for sure but the whole face comes up isn't that cool i imagine the hood on bolts and it's very easy to work on or you can just sit on a stool here but 0.9 liters wizard austin but still dual carbureted which is hilarious for 0.9 liters but you probably have some tractors outside that have more horsepower than this thing 44 horsepower very likely yes yeah but a big oil leak from somewhere i can see the valve cover gaskets leaking a little bit or a lot but i'm concerned about that and the solution for vapor locking i i just don't know when it was tilling out we had the hood popped and i was touching this which whatever that is and it was just too hot to even touch it was boiling me which is probably where fuel is right yeah there's a float in there well we're hoping everything is positive on this and it says it's positive earth so let's hopefully we keep it a positive earth right yes so what do you think would fix my vapor locking issue i think we could put a small electric pump it's very likely just basically vaporizing the fuel that's sitting in there need to crank and cranking cranking crank to fill it back up yeah okay well there's already a little heat shield here but that's not really doing the job i guess they already wrapped this fuel line to try and help with it but yeah you'd wrap all this it looked kind of ugly right mm-hmm what is this is it the wiper motor yeah that's the wiper motor and then a reservoir for break or clutch or maybe both i think both are right there interesting and the intake it kind of interesting it's just a hole right there that's for your heater oh it is yeah okay there's your heater core right there just in a box huh overall a very very nice car it is it's a sweet little car yeah the oil leaks though i any ideas we'll get it on the lift and we'll find out well that was probably the most unstressed i've ever seen your lift ever it's like lifting a cardboard box i suppose but very very teeny tiny really teeny tiny wheels teeny tiny brakes look at this tiny little shaft it has this i guess this exhaust the exhaust yes don't hurt his feelings come on come on oh my god that's a lot of oil there looks like that's that's what's leaking which is the drain plug yeah let's look up here it's like timing cover gasket right there oh yeah i see that i think that's about it okay there's some little copper washers leaking here it just needs to be probably snugged up this needs some pipe thread compound on it that'll take care of that so the transmission drain plug here and then this is for the speedometer is that what that yeah thing is driving the cable okay so just normal car sitting for a long time stuff huh yes all right and that's basically a lawnmower engine so taking it apart shouldn't be hard that is the tiniest little differential it is a little bitty thing isn't it wow so cute very very cute boy that looks kind of a weird spring yeah this suspension here is like half a leaf spring and the only interesting thing is it has a shock absorber it's called knee action shock absorber you see it oh sure enough that's your shocks yeah and there's a like a leather strap here to keep it from going too far down i guess yeah that's what that does what the heck and a bump stop mm-hmm well that is a very very odd suspension setup but it is very strange handle's great so this is this for my brakes well it's for your parking brake yeah oh okay so it does both rear brakes interesting you pull that lever and it turns that here's the hydraulic lines it does the normal oh okay this is your parking brake well it's just so cute isn't it it is it's very cute liam sized that's my one-year-old yeah it is it is like a baby-sized car it is adorable absolutely adorable uh but i really don't know if this is expensive to fix or cheap to fix it's it's a 50s british car so it should be a nightmare but it looks so simple i it looks very simple labor-wise i don't think you're going to be out a whole lot okay finding the parts and gaskets and things i will have to see well i guess you can look it up on your computer and you have a bill for me on a few cars right yes i actually reminded you this time yes you did i'm getting better all right wizard what's the shopping list today it's puppies yeah the bug eye is so cute i just just made me want a puppy it's like a puppy but these are these are 3 500 puppies but these are king charles spaniels oh he's already been adopted somebody paid 3 000 for a dog yeah i'd like to as well look how cute it is well there's no way a bug guy's buying you clara the puppy there's no way no way it could you never know oh it's so cute it is it is very puppy like that car it is very popular for sure is the build puppy like it is it's small actually kind of disappointed okay so your timing cover gasket the gasket itself is a dollar fifty one the labor is the big part uh-huh 250 for the labor so 240 151 i'll i'll take it okay that includes the front main seal wow it's only yeah now on the oil drain plug on the engine we'll just go ahead and drain it do an oil change and reseal it 75 bucks perfect on the transmission we'll reseal the copper washers we'll go ahead and service the fluid with it and seal up the drain plug 150 for that this is awesome okay yes install electric pump to solve your problem with that vapor locking 300 okay here we go and valve cover gas get 100 bucks okay under a grand 900 bucks 900 well 1950s cars so simple so cheap so nice even though it's british wow that's fantastic it's small and cheap and easy to get to and have at it wizard 900 yeah i'm not even going to bat an eye so that's uh that's wonderful yes you might bat an eye at this this is the 280sc bill there's two pages actually oh crap 3 80 yes that's more than what you quoted me in the inspection there wizard yeah well both of your window regulators were broken we had a lot more things wrong that was a thousand dollar system window regular oh no more than a thousand dollars 487 dollars per regulator 150 in labor yep the labor wasn't so bad the parts were okay well that sucked because everything else was right within your quote yep so those front windows were a little thumpy and one was getting like to where it barely works so jeez maybe that's why it's the mercedes that nobody wanted but still i'm under 15 grand into a classic original beautiful car everything works on it now it makes no sense why those cars aren't more desirable aren't worth more especially the convertible versions of them being so much and the coupes being so much why is the four-door worth like one percent of a convertible it doesn't make any sense so weird okay well this hurts but not too bad this this is wonderful this is great i love that bug eye the bill is small just like the car fantastic all right thank you for watching wizard\n"