How to restore a RARE 1969 Bentley - one of only 89 made! | Top Gear Handcrafted

When it comes to classic cars, bodywork repairs deserve the VERY BEST. Traditional panel beater and coachbuilder Lance McCormack begins the painstaking process of restoring a 1969 Mulliner Park Ward Bentley by remaking one of its wheel arches in his London workshop.
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[@Were_It]

Would be great if more videos were coming after this one.

[@AswinAchu-mb9yc]

Yes i would like the video of the restoration of the whole car

[@SY-tn2io]

More of these type of videos please!

[@Rust_in_Time]

Only a true coachbuilder would name his son Algy. He's probably got splendid chums called Biggles and Ginger....

[@Markmoorcroft1]

That's just his nickname. Full name is algorithm

[@neovo903]

@@Markmoorcroft1 Actually it's from Thomas the Tank Engine

[@eldontyrell4361]

@@Markmoorcroft1 lol

[@krisfinley6706]

Wonderful! I'm glad he's passed his knowledge on to his son, and hopefully he'll do the same 👏

[@markchip1]

Pure art! By sheer craftsmen!! A pleasure to watch.

[@connolly875]

i drive an old Bentley myself and it gives me a feeling that no modern plastic car can give.....

[@jjefferyworboys8138]

The old skills still have a place in the modern world. Lovely to watch craftsmen showcase their talents. I'm unsure that the finished car will be economically viable, but nevertheless pleased that there are people who love the cars enough to save them and not to worry about the cost.

[@peterpiper1439]

He really drew a perfect half circle by hand

[@vimeetpatil554]

I hope there's part 2 coming soon

[@Schmitzelhaus]

This is beyond impressive! A dying art of craftsmanship with everything on modern cars being pressed or printed or laminated.... Amazing to see, hopefully we´ll get a couple more of these. 😉👌

[@franciscoop1063]

Now THIS is interesting - so Top Gear, dump the Lads with the flannels, T-Cut and Washing Up Liquid and show true Automotive skills and techniques....

[@justinlinnane8043]

A whole film of he restoration would be good . Pure craft and Artisan perfection !!

[@BiglumpADV]

What a great pair, some fantastic skills being put to use there. Brilliant to see it in action 👍🏻

[@JamesMorgan2]

Loved watching this. My Grandfather was a panel beater for Aston Martin shortly after the war I believe. I wish he was still around for me to ask him about the cars he built.

[@Low_Rent]

Great video. Enjoyed watching a craftsman at work. The background music was just awful though.

[@BeckyEvans]

Lance! What a legend, congratulations guys ❤

[@ProjectRaijin]

Always wished I could do this with my dad 😢, glad you and your son get to share these amazing memories and skills

[@yachtandwealthadvisorsllc4874]

Great video .. horrible music .. does not go with video

[@ВікторКоба-о8д]

Автогеном варить это зло, которое перегревает метал(

[@brianiswrong]

Not a dollop of modern filler in site 👍 I hope it gets lead loading for any filler?

[@eldontyrell4361]

What about the doors? Covered in filler. Granted we don’t know who’s handiwork that was - as clearly rust repair work was done on the bottom of the wing in a patchwork fashion, and not done with gas welding. The car has been worked on (badly) by someone else previously. However it’s odd that the doors would have a perfect coat of filler left on them if the rest of the body has been stripped and cleaned...

[@ZeeBri]

This latest TopGear KZbin content push is strange but welcome. All good stuff

[@eldontyrell4361]

Was the filler on the door from previous work? I mean, not much point doing such good gas welding (often it cuts into the metal quite deep) or finishing the metal so well or dressing the shrinkage if you’re going to put filler on it. May as well use an easier welding method and grind it all off, if you’re using body filler. Mulliner never used body filler, I’m not even sure they used lead except perhaps for joining separate panels in the way we use seam sealer today, probably on the roof pillars. I’m not sure they used body files either, and I’d be fairly sure they didn’t pick and file, eliminating the likelihood there’d been files around in the first place. Jensen did, who made the Austin Healey bodies.

[@Flozman1982]

So weird seeing someone undertake the same tasks as I do using completely different tools.

[@chrisdorrell1]

Please get rid of the horrific muzak , I can spell people, it sounds like a cheap hotel lift. Otherwise a good vid.

[@mjh5437]

Done by the Romance Of Rust workshop in Brentford,West London.

[@eldontyrell4361]

Shame so few of the old hands made themselves available to train younger people. I’m having a nightmare finding someone to either teach me or take me on.

[@garyestcourt2377]

When you see hand made at Goodwood England on the new models 🤪 gotta smile ☺, they should watch this and see what ' Hand Made ' actually means ✌️

[@alantraish3368]

Get rid of that awful background music! Lets just hear him talk

[@ЯковГулецкий]

It is very interesting to looking. Consetratly, object for working was as gleen past.

[@tonys1636]

I do hope that these skills are never allowed to die out. Robots are not the same and the sale of tea will fall.

[@davidrasch3082]

Does Bentley help with information during a restoration like this?

[@miamimo70]

Not to many Lances left! Genius

[@imankhodayari1538]

Wow

[@jpkatz1435]

What about the 250 GT Ferrari? Artsy, but not too artsy.

[@STAG162]

they're really on point with this series, loving it

[@whitepony8443]

69... That's not my fault, that's your though, your own prospective. I don't know what 69 is.

[@stuartknight6598]

Cool

[@Johanjg2]

best part of the video was the son.

[@suekubly7559]

Amazing work so much an art form , I would love to see the finished product. Congratulations

[@olewurtz7625]

Always a pleasure watching a true craftsman working and also seeing some very interesting cars in the background

[@MrCTruck]

Love, indeed. It's fantastic to see the knowledge and wisdom passed through his son

[@benlecluyse]

😁😎

[@MichaGero]

Wonderfull production and of course characters and craftsmanship. More please.

[@jep1912]

Both wearing Stevenson Overall jeans... proper.

[@warrenc-h6144]

Good bunch of guys there in Brentford. Lance is such a character!

[@darrenlub]

One of my favorite top gear video's to date.

[@MrClearme]

What happened to the old part?

[@icecorner87]

[@pionelpessi1022]

You fell off

[@jamessellards7157]

A true artist!!

[@_Nuhan_]

3rd :)

[@adamwort7160]

Why not use Zintec metal

[@Theycallmedoorway]

Beyond dull

[@eldontyrell4361]

Like Most Top Gear fans, especially when the moronic trio were still on the show, you probably wanted to see the Bentley go over a jump and break, or get a caravan dropped onto it? Right. Doing anything important takes ages, requires patience, is slow and dull.

[@MrGrommit666]

1.

[@gooddypm]

His voice is familiar, but I can’t quite place who he sounds like.

[@ZettoMedia]

It reminded me of James May 🤷 idk

[@ZettoMedia]

At 0:33

[@Benny_Shill]

Can you trust him to do it right if he doesn’t know how to wear that apron properly?

[@universalparadox4144]

The music kills this! 😞

[@АлексейТихий-я5е]

111й)

[@richardg8651]

Is panel beater a euphemism ?

[@talhatakbir3830]

top gear is dead without jeremy , may and hammond . who want to watch dead top gear

[@SquirrelDriving]

69

[@matei2189]

69 funni number xoxoxo

[@lilBabyBornInCalifornia]

his welds looks like shit! ahahaha what?

[@eldontyrell4361]

It’s gas welding, it’s actually quite nice. You should see what gas welding normally looks like, you get a rough, jagged groove where the two metals flow into each other. He used some filler rod to account for that. I’d be positive the welding down at the bottom of the wing on the front wasn’t them, if that’s the bad welds you meant.

[@AndieBlack13]

How quaint, a skill and a vehicle that quite frankly belongs in a museum. This car will never turn a tire on pavement, apart for the dozen or so miles, driven on & .off trailers going to "shows". The car is truely a dinosaur, a symbol of wretched pomposity, consumption & "nobility", very fitting to its Monarchy nation which created it.. A vehicle that as NO value in the real world, a "value" in name only. Limited production in and of itself is NOT an indicator of "excellence", it just means very few were made....the "excellence" is determined by other factors.

[@mjh5437]

Oooh,get you.