Shed and Buried Classic Cars S01E04 Triumph Spitfire

Gentlemen, I am enjoying watching you very much, from 6000 miles away in Bangkok. I took early retirement & spent my time restoring old motorcycles before moving to Thailand. I feel sure that you guys are knowledgeable enough to cope with bleeding brakes but if my tip helps one of your viewers it will be worthwhile. I restored a Ducati but I couldn’t get a decent brake pressure, feel on the front brakes, twin hydraulic discs. At the MOT station, the tester said he would pass the bike but was also concerned about the feel of the front brakes. He told me to top up the master cylinder, get some strong ty-wraps (zip-ties) & apply the brake, using the ty-wraps to hold the brake lever in the on position. Leave it overnight & any air in the system would make it’s way into the master cylinder reservoir. The next morning I cut the ty-wraps off & the feel was perfect. I used the same system on my Reliant Scimitar, when fitting a new clutch slave cylinder but used a length of wood against the front of the seat to hold the clutch pedal down overnight - perfect. If this helps anyone I will be delighted. 🙏

Allen's so humble, quiet and positive. Love you too Guy, Fuzz and Henry!

Fabulous team and fabulous fun - bringing all these (dubious) classics back to life.

Poor Millyard. Natural born genius & stuck with this crew...

I grew up in a town called Farnham in England The Abbott's work sheds were no longer in use but they were at the bottom of our council estate. We got the bus to "Abbott's " throughout the 70s and 80s.

My first car was a 67 Spitfire 4 MK 2 . Loved it Ran TR250, TR6 GT6+, MGB , TVR 290 Currently a 83 Lotus Esprit and a 68 MGBGT project car. Its in the blood.

What memories! My first sportscar was a '77 Spitfire, same colour too. It gave years of cheap and reliable fun - until a drunken Doctor ripped the front off when he drove into it Christmas eve '83. But the insurance payment gave me enough of a deposit for our next Sunday car, a Triumph TR8 drophead! 'Every cloud' and all that!

That's an amazing collection. Hopefully another visit to see what bikes are up there.

Those welds leave something to be desired. To top it off it was never really smoothed and the holes filled, it usually takes two passes to get a consistent weld that penetrates well. I guess for a flipper project, it's was good enough.

Awsome programe awsome bunch of guys Very skilled 😊 👍😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️

Just found your channel and subscribed. Followed your videos on TV. I like your style

So they bought a whole chassis and used the only rusty bit to repair the tiny bit that was crash damaged? Crazy.

21:40 "...exactly 65, just over..." Proper British engineering.

I passed my test in a viva April 17th 1975 aged 17

26:33 Allen rolled up on his Pan too 👍

I subbed today, Watched the 4 shed and buried vids and think what i always think. A great bit of entertainment but as with all TV suff, so far feched that if one of us tryed to do it we'll end up on the moon.

Much enjoyed Stephanie loved the Morris minors especially the almond green ones enyoy weekend 😢

Nothing can touch a spit in first gear, most things overtake you in second 🤣🤣

You forgot the vinyl branding for the Triumph, its laurel leaf and engine size.

1993 TR7? Does no one check their work anymore?

I used to own a GT6 , it was used in the TV series life on Mars so had a little bit of fame, nice cars but you are better off being of a slimmer build, I think adults of the 70s were slimmer 😂

That is one serious hedge around house.

Henry speaks like the Triumph car and motorbike businesses where one and the same , they hadn't been since the late 1930's

Claw hammer on the head light rims...LOL.

Henry, why are you so laidback😉

People do a lot of complaining about the program , but they still seem to watch it .

What is nice about this program is , when the cars are offered for sale again the pricing is almost realistic as opposed to other shows which seem to bump the prices into the stratosphere

thank you

Excellent viewing. Cheers

Subscribed!

" It's a shame to see the old yellow paint turn to grey ? huh..Thats a nice sealed epoxy primer that looks beautiful

I had the same car in the same colour T reg. Not sure i loved it. But glad I had it as it taught all I know about cars as just about 'everything' went wrong.

Still waiting for Fuzz to get his hands dirty. Gizz a Job I can do that drinking mugs of tea.

Why would you cut up a perfectly good chassis for that one bit, a good fabrication guy could have made it

Great video thanks

They never sold it - the guy just said it would be worth £10k. I guess labour is free and not factored into the profits...

19.40 mins while Fuzz & Co were seatedchin wagging and drinking tea, through the wkndow to the left of Fuzz was an old brown suitcase marked: Ronald Biggs, Brazil. I thought it was very funny

I could watch Allen Millyard for hours on end, and I can say that without exaggeration, because I have! The guy is pure genius. But this whole "Last of the Summer Wine does Wheeler Dealers" thing, just doesn't do anything for me. Unfortunately, a bit like Tommy Cooper's painting and his violin they got it the wrong way round. They took the humour from Wheeler Dealers and the restoration skills of Summer Wine. Millyard must be wondering "what the hell am I doing here?"

Is that a fancy dress party ?

Expected better welding from millyard

We are Children of a lesser god and his name is Alan Millyard.

I thought A.M. would be better at welding

Triumph motorcycles are not related to Triumph cars

10k really they struggle to make £6k

what happened to Sam??

Nice show But rough workmanship

Sorry Mate…….MG are the Most Loved of the British Classic Marques…..Numbers don’t lie.

"The bonnet comes from a american spec car so its not going to fit" henry does talk some piffle, it was still built on the same production line, its just poor build qualty (like most british leyland junk)

And you showed off that welding to the world? 🤷‍♂️🙄🤦‍♂️ Note: keep the motorcyclist away from the Mig.

Not sure how he gets away with this ***t.

This is crap with Fuzz the the hat he is no use it spoils the half decent programe. 🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩🎩

Would be so much better without Cole