Nice one!

Good for one of those seen them much much worse and they was in the 80s

Hi i am replacing the head gasket on a 1725cc engine but cannot remove the rocker shaft oil feed pipe , i have removed the pushrod side plate and cant see any nut to undo it, any ideas please, edd

That's been there 42 years. It was last taxed in 1980 :)

Looks a great car 😊

Be nice if a nos bodyshell turned up

I loved seeing these cars as a kid in the 70's. One of my favourite cars.

Love the way you do them up they look brand new

Had an almost identical one in the mid/late '70s, it was probably about 3 years old at the time. In white with exactly the same wing mirrors from memory but it didn't have any Rapier mods.

Remember these in scrapyards 40 odd years ago nice to see some been saved. 😊

Had one of these years ago, loved it at the time, but very prone to rot, subscribed

excellent

DONT FUCKING WISTLE IDIOT COUNT

Don`t fear the Rapier

Wow thats incredible 😮

Lovely unwatchable camera work!! (Did you stick the camera on the cats collar???)

Hi are you interested in buying a Lancia beta 1600 , condition is okay. Been sat for years and on internet there’s only 32 left

Where can I get spare parts for frost plugs ?

Please try and improve you camera skills. This will improve these videos massively. You have such good content. This isn’t a criticism!

Quit mumbling .Who the fuck can understand you?

Looks very solid remember how these used to rot

Is that from when they were originally cast? If so pretty bad on Rootes, I would have thought that an upmarket marque like that would have cleaned out the casting properly. 🤔

Why didn't you push the pistons out the bottom of the bore, especially those close to the bottom?

Well it looks to me like that car has been sitting for a long tine with tyres that werent fully inflated. My experience also tells me that noise is most likey a brake pad rubbing on a slightly rusty brake disc or drum. To be expected going the tyres. Nothing abnormal here. Tyres are probably well past their date anyway, as per the rubber being that hard. Going to have about as much grip in the wet or on ice as oil has on polished metal.

Now technically speaking here the wheel didnt get the flat spot ... The tire did

you can work flat spots out by moving the car periodically and letting it set outside on hot days. course the tires should of course just be replaced due to age at this point.

Nice job Paul 😊

I had a Rapier H120 and a Hunter GLS and several other Rapier fastbacks. Oh, and an Avenger Tiger and a Sunbeam Stiletto and a Sunbeam Imp Sport😮wish I had em now☹️😖😞

where did you buy it? the piece for the tach

Let’s call Bangers and Cash!

RUST IN PEACE!

I've heard very good things about soaking the block overnight in CLR...

Dexcool. Its a gm trademark, then they ignored all the cars that came in gunked up from that crap. Lol

That would be a factory casting problem they more than likely didn't flush it out properly and there was sand trapped

What was left of the water pump?

Wow nice video

Cool vid, nasty engine. Can imagine how it still runs with all that grit in there.

Good demonstration.. Had to do that recently on a 1965 cast 1725, reckon I got a shovel full of crud out of it. We also took a pineappling on the head work too $$$$..

I suspect my 1500cc Avenger motor might benefit from same. Thanks.

Looks a tidy car what's the plans for it Paul

Seems like a nice 53 year+ survivor.....keep up the good work paul

I would love to see what a Chip Foose could do with this...

Remember seeing plenty in scrapyards in early 80s very rare now .😊 most 70s cars were real rotters at 10years old or even scrapped. 😢

Wow, it's a clone of the one I bought in the early 80's for £200, complete with go-fast stripe which must have been a factory option. The pillarless design was fantastic, especially in the Summer. I had the H120 engine with overdrive on 3rd and 4th making it A 7-speed box !! This was a fast car back in the day. Beautiful styling. Sold it and bought a mini. Both cars which I love.

Id be a massive geek if i vane to your yard,these cars are my family history.

It looks like a good project for the new year. Bob

I had one back in the 80's which was far worse than this one. It's far too good to break for spares, I hope someone rescues it. Some of that welding looks like I did it!

What a lovely car!

Great video Paul thx 4 sharing..thx u 4 sending that superb stainless fuel tank to me in ireland ...solved so many probs😊

Looks better than my Sceptre before I started, not blowing my own trumpet but I,m not seeing anything too bad there. My Sceptre needed a lot of welding and bodywork and is at the re-assembly stage now. I personally wouldn,t even consider scrapping the car you have there. Hope you fix it.