@@OnionChoppingNinja The reason you sometimes see Jag XJS is because they share a transmission with a pickup truck so people throw the engine in from one and it runs way better than the V12. This is not a lie this is a real thing that people do
It's so funny to me how nonchalant James is when approaching repairs. The dude's really competent in what he does but avidly shrugs off most tasks or does some crazy workaround.
I found James's channel where he does retro gaming videos first and then came here. You should see him Frankenstein 2 retro consoles together. It's really something else
Alec Issigonis didn’t believe in radios, he said they were too distracting. However he did fit all round ashtrays and made sure you could fit a bottle of wine in the doors. 😅
New parts really do suck. All the aftermarket rubber parts on my '76 Yamaha need to be replaced every 6-12 months. The 40+ year old originals are fine.
actual rubbers too expensive and pu additives banned list gets longer by the year. oh well at least I can still buy lead paint.. the guys at the thai hardware store don't understand what lead is and why i'd rather have zinc laden. i honestly don't even know whats the point even with the lead paint it disappears in 4 years anyway seemingly.
There is somewhere to get good parts actually! At least for Morris cars, and it's surprisingly Denmark. Due to historical reasons Denmark now have more Morris cards then England does - and they still take care of them. Loads of specialty shops that can help you with any kinds of parts you'd need.
Dude it really is so rare, even on old clunkers that have sat that long. I've seen old Chevys that sat outside abandoned for 20+years that had less crud in the cooling jackets 😅
A neat trick I learned from an old timer. Muriatic acid will flush any and all schmoo in an engine. Then follow up with a flush of baking soda and water. It's also a good way to find a leak in a clogged brass radiator
James Channel is fantastic, I honestly am so happy you convinced him to make his own videos because they are absolutely fantastic. I love that he just does stuff. Does he do it so that it functions? yes. Is it clean? rarely. but it works and it is jank in a appealing way. Well done James
@@TheSkelliztop gear UK vs AU: The Stig = the Fronk Cars = nuggs Test new cars = Test old nuggs Still take old cars on adventures tho. Which one would you watch?
Me, as an MG Midget owner: James has had this pretty easy, i mean it's an A Series and it hasnt even overheated Nugget: *overheats* Me: Thereeeee it is. Full BMC owner experience now guys, welcome to the club of abject misery. Tally ho from ol' Blighty
@@mushter17 Coming from someone who's owned plenty of stuff from the BMC, BLMC, Leyland and Austin Rover stables and never had much of an issue outside of rust (as in the same issue which plagued other cars from same era as each model I owned) why perpetuate a myth about them being 'bad'?
I had a variation of one of these sh*tboxes in the 70's. It was a 1971 Austin America 1300 cc. Second gear synchro was pooched. I'm reminded of that thing every time I see Basil Fawlty beating his car with a tree branch.
Not 2 hours ago, I wondered what project was keeping Garbage Time quiet. Seeing a Morris in the thumbnail answered all my questions before watching the video.
28:38 block, head and engine was all limed up.. it musthave had a leak amd the owner used water that was pulled from a sandstone aquifer with high lime content. We use limeaway in the states to clean it. Probably not safe for engines, but you can soak parts in it.
I feel like the 24 hours of Lemons race is the perfect kind of race for you to compete in. It's like the 24 hours of Le Mans, except there's a budget cap of 500 dollars.
They did for a year or two, but some sort of corpprate contract reason made them stop. The Ausie side of the LeMons contract started their own budget endurance series. I've raced LeMons for about a decade and am on a first name basis with many of the staff. @@Cube6529
Those blocked coolant passages are what you get when someone has been living with a leak for months and just tops up the radiator with water every few miles ... especially if you live in an area with limescale.
My Nan had an MG F, that thing was so nimble and you could tell the person who designed it loved cars. The MG5 that every cab driver has doesn't hold a candle
Still driving and loving my virtually perfect 1969 Austin America (the one marketed in the USA), 55 years on. It's all about good maintenance and a sympathetic driver.
I've a Mini 1275GT bored out to 1400cc. Lumpy cam, big valves, high compression & other stuff. 120bhp on the rolling road & 120mph on the 'test track...'
If it's any consolation, I worked on a Morris Minor that had the same gearbox, and it had broken teeth on first gear and kept going for twenty years like that. And it's still going.
as a classic mini owner its so cool to see how so many cars shared the same stuff between each other. Like the engine in that car is near on a 1 to 1 of what a minis is in terms of layout
I'ts an A series, same as a mini engine. I had an 850 Mini station wagon (rare in Australia) in 1977 and swapped an 1100 into it, bolted straight in with no mods. Got it up to 90mph on a downhill with three radials and one crossply. Scary.
@davidjulian8536 ha yeah I know what you mean by scary. When I bought my mini I was a learner. My dad had to drive it home and did 75 mph. Which though isn't a lot, in one of them it's horrifying
Went to the Irish vs All Blacks match in Wellington in 1976. One of the lads had an orange Mini that had 850 badges on it and a hot 1275 under the bonnet.. Seven of us in it drag racing a Torana XU1 on the Hutt motorway.... Torana left us after 100mph was exceeded... the speedo needle on the mini went right past the 90mph and round to the stop pin at 0....
I mean as was briefly mentioned in the video, the dryness of Australia atleast keeps the rust somewhat out giving the Australian ones a SLIGHT advantage in survival
@@dr_vendetta8361Which is even more crazy given how cars rust in NZ. That being said there are loads of these still about in the UK, you just have to know where to look.
Exibit A on why I became a machinist. Stop making quality IAC valves for my Dakota? I made a bypass with a manual choke. I have built so much junk for my 245 it shouldn't say Volvo up front anymore.
Mate as a classic mini owner I'm loving this. The 1.5" socket, the permatex aviation gasket goo, the chonks on the drain plug magnet, the *terrible* new parts, all the weird front wheel drive stuff, the overheating in australian heat... It's all exactly what i deal with every other week! Also all that crap in your cooling system happens to everyone. Sometimes its clogged up old antifreeze, somtimes its aluminium rust off the thermostat housing... Welcome to old Minis!
I've seen plenty of hydraulic leaks on old Citroëns as well. One time simply because a hose clamp had gone missing. When it works it can be pretty comfortable, but as a kid I often got carsick in them due to body roll. Citroën did have a "activa" suspension option on the Xantia model which basically adds an active rollbar system to completely counteracts bodyroll. As a matter of fact, the Citroën Xantia Activa V6 has been the record holder for the Moose test since 1999 because of this. Personally I would love to have a Citroën XM retrofitted with this system. On another note: never feel for hydraulic leaks! Hydraulic injection injury isn't fun. I couldn't really see if James was using his fingers feeling for leaks at some point. 100PSI can apparently be enough to pierce the skin.
I'm English and I grew up 10 miles from the British Leyland Austin Works at Longbridge, Birmingham. When I was a kid they were still building 1100s & 1300s. One word to sum them up is "rotbox." Another word is "shite". Then that range of cars was replaced by the Austin Allegro which was even worse!
OH IT'S AN 1100. I love these so much. Honestly, in 1962, no other small family car was this sophisticated. Next to nothing was front-drive, and the Hydrolastic suspension is dreamy when it works. The Mini and 1100 essentially invented the modern small car.
The disk brakes were also quite advanced for the early 60's in a cheap small car, I was surprised to see it had them. It seemed like the mini's and their related offshoots were better built than most other British cars, people seem to have better memories of them now than they did of most triumphs and whatnot. My father has a friend who traded his muscle car in on a brand new triumph spitfire during the 1970's gas crisis, he hated it. From the showroom the roof leaked, electrical issues galore with faulty new components available right from the dealer and the car would run differently depending on the day of the week no matter how much work he put into it. He got rid of it within a year or 2 iirc and bought a toyota cellica GT.
@@timberinternational2377 Absolutely. Someone quite fairly said on the Intercooler Podcast the other week that the 1100 could quite fairly claim to be the most modern car in the world in 1962.
Jokes aside, I think TV was technically invented by the British (John Baird). It's mechanical and had a huge spinning disc, so it probably also leaked oil at some point lol
@@forzaguy1252 technically still 0th gen because BMC's gearbox in sump system wasn't the one that was widely adopted, 1st gen was fiat's system designed by dante giacosa and launched with the autobianchi primula(test launch with a niche brand for experimental features like fiberglass bodies, rack and pinion steering, front wheel drive, the FIRE engine and new aerodynamics) and fiat 128(mainstream launch)
Traction Avant, first started production in 1934. Wouldn't mind getting one and doing a restomod, original exterior and interior with modern mechanicals (+A/C and bluetooth stereo, cleverly hidden of course). There were 760,000 made so it's no loss to cut one up.
@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer those are in a similar league, the niki is the indestructible one, that just runs on things, that are able to combust, while the Trabant is smelly loud and clunky with a cardboard chassis. PS: I don't wanna trash the Trabant, I love it but for its nuggetness.
I miss my Leyland mini clubman. I was restoring that for seven years I had mostly rebuilt it. It was made in Australia . I’ve replaced the carpet, the seats, the back window, and the side door windows. I found a centre console. I’d replaced the spark plugs and leads. It just needed some rewiring, and it was roadworthy, and then it was stolen. I still miss it to this day 15 years later, it was a club S with a 998cc engine
This was really fun! I learned stuff, I celebrated, I cried, I felt great sympathy with James when he was so baffled by the coolant just sitting there. He’s usually so chill and quiet on your channel.
My mum had a 2nd hand one of a later model in the 80's in great condition, even the suspension. She loved that car washed it weekly and made sure it actually got regular services (she usually treated her cars terribly). Some bastard nicked it.
Well it was built in Australia. I'm not sure if that would make it better or worse. The fact that as a kid in the 90s I always heard my mother talking about Morrises she was in as a kid and I never saw one to know what she was talking about certainly isn't a good sign.
I had a buddy in the 90s who bought an Austin Tasman. It had a transverse straight six-cylinder motor. Flat out, it would do 50 mph (80 Km/h).@@AfferbeckBeats
@@DuckReach432 when working properly they would do the ton (100 MPH) from experience. They'd do 80 KPH in second gear @ 7000 RPM. OHC engine. Yes, they've lots of issues....
They were only kind of built in Australia. For tax purposes, cars were frequently imported as "complete knock-down kits" or CKDs and assembled at local factories.
8:28 yep, modern stuff is made horribly, that is why i am glad you bought that George from Numatic, it is one of the last good vacuum brands that does not make their stuff out of rubbish in china. glad to see people also understand what has happened to the market .
I mean a very large portion of people do know that everything is awful now just cant do all that much about it beyond getting quality where its still available. You might notice that for all the complaining they still bought those crappy o rings
These cars were originally Austins, but badged as various other brands. It's a "BMC ADO16" = British Motor Corporation Austin Drawing Office design number 16.
Not bad, you managed to get it going and it sounded pretty sweet. Amazing to look back on those old cars and how much working room there was around the engine. The body on yours has kept pretty well. I had an Allegro as my first car here in the UK and it was an absolute rot box.
I had a $700 Craigslist '83 Civic for about a year in 2008 and lucky for me it ran like a top. Rear hatch not staying up was resolved with a lawn sign stake. Deathtrap on the interstate (couldn't go over 50 mph going uphill) so sold it off for $800. 👍🙉
Love James, he seems like someone you aproach asking "hey man i got this and i don't know how to fix it, can you-" and then inmediately take it off your hands, saying "yeah i got this" insta-repair it, then only says "there you go", and walks away all carefree
Oh Wade you fool, you don't fix English cars, no one can
Least of all a f-ing Morris!
@@OnionChoppingNinja The reason you sometimes see Jag XJS is because they share a transmission with a pickup truck so people throw the engine in from one and it runs way better than the V12. This is not a lie this is a real thing that people do
I'm English, most classic cars end up in museums or forests outside Birmingham 😂
@@a_person4499 Exactly. No middle ground.
This is not correct. You fix them by selling them and buying just about anything else.
It's so funny to me how nonchalant James is when approaching repairs. The dude's really competent in what he does but avidly shrugs off most tasks or does some crazy workaround.
Mark of a true genius
I thought he was sounding flustered when the coolant wasn't moving. Can't blame him, though.
The bodge-jobber extraordinare.
A man of culture.
@@philrod1 man just really wanted to save time lol
I found James's channel where he does retro gaming videos first and then came here. You should see him Frankenstein 2 retro consoles together. It's really something else
Alec Issigonis didn’t believe in radios, he said they were too distracting. However he did fit all round ashtrays and made sure you could fit a bottle of wine in the doors. 😅
What a king , a man of class truly
Not wine. Issigonis liked Gin.
Gordons Gin and 2 glasses.
You won’t get a bottle of anything in the door pockets of a ADO16
@@jasonheaton-hy8es The 1959 mini door pocket is what we are referring to. This was also why that model had sliding door windows and not drop glass.
Remember the golden rule about British cars. If the headlights turn on every time you honk the horn, it's probably a problem with the radio.
Good old Lucas
Cool, made up rubbish to garner likes!
Yeah, and German cars explode if the driver ever uses the indicators.....😁
I never had that problem with my Mark 1 Ford Lotus Cortina. Maybe it was just your BMC imitation Japanese rubbish?
@@skylined5534 ??????
Man Wade is really moving up. He had world famous CZcams sensation James as a guest star. They play James videos on busses in Spain don't yah know.
Yeah I saw a comment that said it was on a Spanish bus tho.
@@repapeti98 my comment definitely always said Spain and there is no legal way to prove otherwise >.>
@@DavidTorpid No biggie, we are human afterall. I'm just curious which video it was since someone uploaded a recording but kept it private
@@repapeti98 czcams.com/video/oPIpvLgCiFs/video.htmlsi=VDb973sWW9jpVw-P
@@repapeti98 Nintendo Playstation.
The first time I saw an MG I misread it as "General Motors" before doing a double take. From then on i still read it in my head as "Meneral Goters"
Mercedes Genz
@@640kareenough6 *Bercedez-Mens
Molls Goyce
MolksGagen
moyota gamry
"Can you do it without that tool?"
"No."
"What a great car."
New parts really do suck. All the aftermarket rubber parts on my '76 Yamaha need to be replaced every 6-12 months. The 40+ year old originals are fine.
actual rubbers too expensive and pu additives banned list gets longer by the year.
oh well at least I can still buy lead paint.. the guys at the thai hardware store don't understand what lead is and why i'd rather have zinc laden. i honestly don't even know whats the point even with the lead paint it disappears in 4 years anyway seemingly.
It looks like a British 4 door trabant
There's probably a reason for that, the commies liked to copy western cars
As a trabantist, I must agree
Deam you re right
I thought it was a Trabant when I first saw it
Thats what im saying
"You never want your balls loose" - Dankpods 2024
Loose balls = bell clapper deformity = testicular torsion.
words to live by
@@ferretyluv thats gotta hurt tremendously
defo one of the quotes of all time
@@Hqy22and thats why the quote is right
I didn't realize the speedo was in MPH and was looking at the speed like, "WTF? How is it that slow?!"
There is somewhere to get good parts actually! At least for Morris cars, and it's surprisingly Denmark. Due to historical reasons Denmark now have more Morris cards then England does - and they still take care of them. Loads of specialty shops that can help you with any kinds of parts you'd need.
"smells funny"
...check for rat corpses...
27:01 You know it’s bad when a master technician says “I’ve never seen that before”
Dude it really is so rare, even on old clunkers that have sat that long. I've seen old Chevys that sat outside abandoned for 20+years that had less crud in the cooling jackets 😅
A neat trick I learned from an old timer. Muriatic acid will flush any and all schmoo in an engine. Then follow up with a flush of baking soda and water. It's also a good way to find a leak in a clogged brass radiator
Also works a treat for de-liming toilets in areas with hard water. Though it might deposit further back down in the drain pipe.
James Channel is fantastic, I honestly am so happy you convinced him to make his own videos because they are absolutely fantastic. I love that he just does stuff. Does he do it so that it functions? yes. Is it clean? rarely. but it works and it is jank in a appealing way. Well done James
In today's episode:
James brings a new nugget to the fleet
Wade wears his shronks
And I never want my balls loose
Has to be read in the right voice.
TONIGHT ON GARBAGE TIME
@@cavalierliberty6838IMAGINE IF THESE TWO GOT INTO TOP GEAR. THAT WOULD BE SICK
@@TheSkelliztop gear UK vs AU:
The Stig = the Fronk
Cars = nuggs
Test new cars = Test old nuggs
Still take old cars on adventures tho.
Which one would you watch?
Ummm akchewally it’s spelled Shrocs 😜😂
finally getting the garbage fix that has been missing in my system for quite a while now
This is the comment a raccoon would leave, and I agree with it.
@@gordonwiley2006 never would have guessed i'd ever completely agreed with someone comparing me or my actions to a racoon, but yeah... yeah
A car stuck on the lift for four months probably holds up the content, hahah
Me, as an MG Midget owner: James has had this pretty easy, i mean it's an A Series and it hasnt even overheated
Nugget: *overheats*
Me: Thereeeee it is.
Full BMC owner experience now guys, welcome to the club of abject misery. Tally ho from ol' Blighty
BMC....British Midget Car?
@@airplanemaniacgaming7877 Pretty much. It's British Motor Company, the company that owned a load of different brands in the UK
@@mushter17
Coming from someone who's owned plenty of stuff from the BMC, BLMC, Leyland and Austin Rover stables and never had much of an issue outside of rust (as in the same issue which plagued other cars from same era as each model I owned) why perpetuate a myth about them being 'bad'?
Ours was rubbish at ten years old. It would now be sixty, which makes this an unimaginable survivor.
I had a variation of one of these sh*tboxes in the 70's.
It was a 1971 Austin America 1300 cc. Second gear synchro was pooched. I'm reminded of that thing every time I see Basil Fawlty beating his car with a tree branch.
Not 2 hours ago, I wondered what project was keeping Garbage Time quiet. Seeing a Morris in the thumbnail answered all my questions before watching the video.
You know it's a good day when Wade uploads a 30 minute long video
Man, I didn’t even notice when I clicked on. Excellent nugget coverage.
28:38 block, head and engine was all limed up.. it musthave had a leak amd the owner used water that was pulled from a sandstone aquifer with high lime content.
We use limeaway in the states to clean it. Probably not safe for engines, but you can soak parts in it.
I love seeing the temp needle climb right before "launch that boy" 24:42
I feel like the 24 hours of Lemons race is the perfect kind of race for you to compete in. It's like the 24 hours of Le Mans, except there's a budget cap of 500 dollars.
Oddly enough they have had these in those races
Its pronounced the lemóns race 😂
Do they have that in Australia?
@@Cube6529 No, but they definitely should
They did for a year or two, but some sort of corpprate contract reason made them stop. The Ausie side of the LeMons contract started their own budget endurance series. I've raced LeMons for about a decade and am on a first name basis with many of the staff. @@Cube6529
Those blocked coolant passages are what you get when someone has been living with a leak for months and just tops up the radiator with water every few miles ... especially if you live in an area with limescale.
My Nan had an MG F, that thing was so nimble and you could tell the person who designed it loved cars. The MG5 that every cab driver has doesn't hold a candle
You know it's complicated when even James will use special built tools.
Nah, James always special builds his tools, I mean do you remember that one test light?
Old? Small? Smelly? Has a weird limp you cant explain? You just explained my 6th grade gym teacher.
and most of my relatives.
I know now why there hasn’t been any vehicle content in a while, this beauty has been taking all the work
Still driving and loving my virtually perfect 1969 Austin America (the one marketed in the USA), 55 years on. It's all about good maintenance and a sympathetic driver.
You can't kill an A-Series. The car around it will dissolve into brown residue but the engine will be sound.
no matter how hard I try
I've a Mini 1275GT bored out to 1400cc.
Lumpy cam, big valves, high compression & other stuff.
120bhp on the rolling road & 120mph on the 'test track...'
@TheDeeplyCynical There were 14 million A series engines produced.
And you've gotta love the way you can blow a core plug out of them when thrashing the nuts out of it.
"start ya bastard" is such an Australian product.
Almost on par with "Hit it ya bloody drongo".
Pretty sure its sold at Dollar General in the states at least with my quick glances in the automotive section in a DG.
@@Dimondminer11 Interesting... I have never seen it, but I suppose I have never been looking for it.
@@WalterKnox
There's an even stronger version "FFS start ya Mongrel"
If it's any consolation, I worked on a Morris Minor that had the same gearbox, and it had broken teeth on first gear and kept going for twenty years like that. And it's still going.
as a classic mini owner its so cool to see how so many cars shared the same stuff between each other. Like the engine in that car is near on a 1 to 1 of what a minis is in terms of layout
I'ts an A series, same as a mini engine. I had an 850 Mini station wagon (rare in Australia) in 1977 and swapped an 1100 into it, bolted straight in with no mods. Got it up to 90mph on a downhill with three radials and one crossply. Scary.
@davidjulian8536 ha yeah I know what you mean by scary. When I bought my mini I was a learner. My dad had to drive it home and did 75 mph. Which though isn't a lot, in one of them it's horrifying
Went to the Irish vs All Blacks match in Wellington in 1976.
One of the lads had an orange Mini that had 850 badges on it and a hot 1275 under the bonnet..
Seven of us in it drag racing a Torana XU1 on the Hutt motorway....
Torana left us after 100mph was exceeded...
the speedo needle on the mini went right past the 90mph and round to the stop pin at 0....
Crazy that these still exist in Australia. The ones that stayed in the UK probably all dissolved into rust sometime in the Thatcher years.
There are also ones that exist over in new Zealand as well
I mean as was briefly mentioned in the video, the dryness of Australia atleast keeps the rust somewhat out giving the Australian ones a SLIGHT advantage in survival
@@dr_vendetta8361Which is even more crazy given how cars rust in NZ. That being said there are loads of these still about in the UK, you just have to know where to look.
@@olliewebbukscrap lots, presumably
@@olliewebbukit’s the salt they put in the roads in the uk in winter
the reveal that wade was wearing the shrocks this whole time was fantastic
I love how he gets excited when he finds new things wrong with the car.
It looks dirty and clean at the same time. It's a glorious effect
I lost it when the fuel was dumping and James just started whacking the tank.
Exibit A on why I became a machinist. Stop making quality IAC valves for my Dakota? I made a bypass with a manual choke. I have built so much junk for my 245 it shouldn't say Volvo up front anymore.
Make your own badge, lol.
Volvo of theseus
I adore these little ADO16s (BMC's development code for these), so full of charm & they're nice to drive too
"I've seen that done, it doesn't end well." when a mechanic says something like that, listen.
Mate as a classic mini owner I'm loving this. The 1.5" socket, the permatex aviation gasket goo, the chonks on the drain plug magnet, the *terrible* new parts, all the weird front wheel drive stuff, the overheating in australian heat... It's all exactly what i deal with every other week!
Also all that crap in your cooling system happens to everyone. Sometimes its clogged up old antifreeze, somtimes its aluminium rust off the thermostat housing... Welcome to old Minis!
Those coolant passages were BRUTAL
Good thing about an iron block is that they cleaned out pretty easily.
hearing a british person say "little wingies" is the most hilarious thing I've heard in a while
"weird, small and smells funny"
he just like me fr
"Oh you can drain the oil through the filter?"
"Er, Not usually, no"
I've seen plenty of hydraulic leaks on old Citroëns as well. One time simply because a hose clamp had gone missing. When it works it can be pretty comfortable, but as a kid I often got carsick in them due to body roll. Citroën did have a "activa" suspension option on the Xantia model which basically adds an active rollbar system to completely counteracts bodyroll. As a matter of fact, the Citroën Xantia Activa V6 has been the record holder for the Moose test since 1999 because of this. Personally I would love to have a Citroën XM retrofitted with this system.
On another note: never feel for hydraulic leaks! Hydraulic injection injury isn't fun. I couldn't really see if James was using his fingers feeling for leaks at some point. 100PSI can apparently be enough to pierce the skin.
"Weird, small and smells funny" was the write-up under my graduation photo...
The floor rust is barely noticeable, it's still opaque.
I'm English and I grew up 10 miles from the British Leyland Austin Works at Longbridge, Birmingham. When I was a kid they were still building 1100s & 1300s. One word to sum them up is "rotbox." Another word is "shite". Then that range of cars was replaced by the Austin Allegro which was even worse!
As someone from the UK, I applaud your efforts.
Most of us would have just given it to the local scrap man for 20 quid cash
20? You're driving a hard bargain!
@@ToTheGAMES Times are tough these days
@@ToTheGAMES OK, I'll give you 30 to take it away, but that's my last offer.
Clown college comment section.
OH IT'S AN 1100.
I love these so much. Honestly, in 1962, no other small family car was this sophisticated. Next to nothing was front-drive, and the Hydrolastic suspension is dreamy when it works. The Mini and 1100 essentially invented the modern small car.
The disk brakes were also quite advanced for the early 60's in a cheap small car, I was surprised to see it had them. It seemed like the mini's and their related offshoots were better built than most other British cars, people seem to have better memories of them now than they did of most triumphs and whatnot. My father has a friend who traded his muscle car in on a brand new triumph spitfire during the 1970's gas crisis, he hated it. From the showroom the roof leaked, electrical issues galore with faulty new components available right from the dealer and the car would run differently depending on the day of the week no matter how much work he put into it. He got rid of it within a year or 2 iirc and bought a toyota cellica GT.
@@timberinternational2377 Absolutely. Someone quite fairly said on the Intercooler Podcast the other week that the 1100 could quite fairly claim to be the most modern car in the world in 1962.
True! How does this explain British Leyland's decision to make the Morris Marina? 🤔(Leyland Marina in Australia.)
@@TassieLorenzoSimply put, they panicked.
"Hydro-Spastic" suspension is what it was known as, so expensive to have repaired, it ended most of these cars
I feel like the wings were a recessive trait, they just slowly vanished into nothing
Best video I've seen in the past 2 years. Hands down. We need more updates on all the projects on this channel.
My favorite boomer joke:
You know why the British never made TV's?
They could never figure out how to make 'em leak oil
Jokes aside, I think TV was technically invented by the British (John Baird). It's mechanical and had a huge spinning disc, so it probably also leaked oil at some point lol
They did invent them but they were using Lucas electrics so they couldn't claim the first functioning TV.
Oil leaks weren't too bad. Lucas electrics and Smith gauges on the other hand...
I remember when these Morris 1100s were brand new
The other joke being:
How do you know about American car is low on oil? It stops leaking it.
"First gen of front wheel drive cars"
rip Citroën
First gen of transverse fwd
@@forzaguy1252 technically still 0th gen because BMC's gearbox in sump system wasn't the one that was widely adopted, 1st gen was fiat's system designed by dante giacosa and launched with the autobianchi primula(test launch with a niche brand for experimental features like fiberglass bodies, rack and pinion steering, front wheel drive, the FIRE engine and new aerodynamics) and fiat 128(mainstream launch)
Traction Avant, first started production in 1934.
Wouldn't mind getting one and doing a restomod, original exterior and interior with modern mechanicals (+A/C and bluetooth stereo, cleverly hidden of course). There were 760,000 made so it's no loss to cut one up.
This dude is Adelaide culture. All his channels remind me of every South Australian I have met
James has extensive patience. Also with the ailing little buggy.
This is one of my absolute favorite channels. Trash gets uploaded and I instantly eat from the bin
FINALLY MORE NUGGIES!
That's racist moight
@@youtube.commentatorhow
@@youtube.commentator u wot??
Such excitement!
Very satisfying seeing those coolant passages get unclogged.
"For $1000, 4 months and more than the cost of the car, you get to start again" Truer words never spoken
Oh my - thought for a second, you got a Trabant over there.
You should look into those, they are as nugget as it gets.
I wonder how many have made it to Australia
Nah, nothing will beat a niki (Aka tony) in raw nuggetness, but i can see how it's the most nugget "Compact" car
But how will he fix one, it's eroding faster than cardboard!
@@Friendly_Neighborhood_Dozer those are in a similar league, the niki is the indestructible one, that just runs on things, that are able to combust, while the Trabant is smelly loud and clunky with a cardboard chassis.
PS: I don't wanna trash the Trabant, I love it but for its nuggetness.
@@Kohlrouladeable yeah, but the Niki is literally nugget sized and shaped.
I was not prepared to see Wade wearing the shrocks
Nothing fixes an old English car better than tea and beans.
AHH yes, that famous British combination, tea and beans. Just stirring my beans into my tea as I speak.
I miss my Leyland mini clubman. I was restoring that for seven years I had mostly rebuilt it. It was made in Australia . I’ve replaced the carpet, the seats, the back window, and the side door windows. I found a centre console. I’d replaced the spark plugs and leads. It just needed some rewiring, and it was roadworthy, and then it was stolen. I still miss it to this day 15 years later, it was a club S with a 998cc engine
„Isnt there supposed to be an air filter here“
„Yeah its in the boot“
„Thats where you need it“
That was way funnier than it has any right to be
Thumbnail had me fooled for a moment thinking this was Aging Wheels.
This was really fun! I learned stuff, I celebrated, I cried, I felt great sympathy with James when he was so baffled by the coolant just sitting there. He’s usually so chill and quiet on your channel.
21:51 undoes the screw
car: *smooth jazz saxophone*
This needs to be on the litre-board.
Dew EET!
With how old this thing is it sounds ABSURDLY good! I'd be happy to have it honestly
My mum had a 2nd hand one of a later model in the 80's in great condition, even the suspension. She loved that car washed it weekly and made sure it actually got regular services (she usually treated her cars terribly). Some bastard nicked it.
seeing that water change color when he was flushing out the engine was so damn satisfying
Oh no. 60-70s British car industry has come back to haunt us. Just put it out of its misery please.
Well it was built in Australia. I'm not sure if that would make it better or worse. The fact that as a kid in the 90s I always heard my mother talking about Morrises she was in as a kid and I never saw one to know what she was talking about certainly isn't a good sign.
I had a buddy in the 90s who bought an Austin Tasman. It had a transverse straight six-cylinder motor. Flat out, it would do 50 mph (80 Km/h).@@AfferbeckBeats
@@DuckReach432My old man had a morris minor that he managed to swap the old fiat twimcam engine into, apparently it ripped but just kept blowing up
@@DuckReach432 when working properly they would do the ton (100 MPH) from experience. They'd do 80 KPH in second gear @ 7000 RPM. OHC engine. Yes, they've lots of issues....
They were only kind of built in Australia. For tax purposes, cars were frequently imported as "complete knock-down kits" or CKDs and assembled at local factories.
Aw yeah!
This is the car whose silhouette is on the UK's road signs, btw.
Australian video about fixing an old English car.
The soundtrack: "Anchors Aweigh" - the anthem of the U.S. Navy.
I miss my bench seats. What a delightful way to procrastinate on doing my job.
i cant believe that the little casters didn't immediately desintegrate into millions of little splinters
I've never heard James as surprised as "Holy crap, back to second works!" 24:04
9:56 happy to see the test light that you found in the Charade being put to actual good use lol
I loved this video! It’s always fun with you guys fixing something!
58? And I thought my Dad was old...
My dad is 58
My dad is 56
you guys have a dad?
@@TheodorePeratsakis Same! Maybe we have the same one!
@@TheodorePeratsakissame, hello greek person lol
8:28 yep, modern stuff is made horribly, that is why i am glad you bought that George from Numatic, it is one of the last good vacuum brands that does not make their stuff out of rubbish in china. glad to see people also understand what has happened to the market
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I mean a very large portion of people do know that everything is awful now just cant do all that much about it beyond getting quality where its still available. You might notice that for all the complaining they still bought those crappy o rings
@@afinnishfishnet7366I agree;. In some cases you just have to deal with it, and it is a shame.
@@afinnishfishnet7366 Yep, exactly. the companies know this too.
They have a vaccum named James now
These cars were originally Austins, but badged as various other brands. It's a "BMC ADO16" = British Motor Corporation Austin Drawing Office design number 16.
You know it's an good car when it aan rest on an work bench
Ive just learn 1000 AUD is roughly 500 pounds sterling
This video makes a lot more sense now
Very excited to see some BMC stuff on this channel, glad to see the factory longbridge rust also happened in the Australian factory!
Apparently it was cheaper to ship over containers full of genuine British rust than to source it here locally.
Not bad, you managed to get it going and it sounded pretty sweet. Amazing to look back on those old cars and how much working room there was around the engine. The body on yours has kept pretty well. I had an Allegro as my first car here in the UK and it was an absolute rot box.
I’ve an 83 Civic and the “new parts sucks” never ends. I’ve had several defective parts & even ones that don’t fit at all. Drives me crazy
I had a $700 Craigslist '83 Civic for about a year in 2008 and lucky for me it ran like a top. Rear hatch not staying up was resolved with a lawn sign stake. Deathtrap on the interstate (couldn't go over 50 mph going uphill) so sold it off for $800. 👍🙉
nearly 29 minutes of wayde and james fixing old cars? man what a treat, thanks or that mate, cheers
15:45 he got the LTT x PCMR water bottle!
This thing looks like the words “British sedan” as an actual car
*British saloon
it doesn't matter that I don't understand a thing about these cars, Wade's pure delight in an old, stinky nugget gaining new life is enough for me. :)
Looking at this, I can just hear the sneering "Back in my day..."
30 minutes of two australians fixing a nugget? we're eating real good today
I grew up around cars like this being fixed, so I could smell everything.
From the slight damp carpet smell to that nauseating smell of EP hypoid gear oil, I can definitely say I also had internal 'smell files' running 😂
Love James, he seems like someone you aproach asking "hey man i got this and i don't know how to fix it, can you-" and then inmediately take it off your hands, saying "yeah i got this" insta-repair it, then only says "there you go", and walks away all carefree