VTEC Carbon Wide Body ALLEGRO Rolling

[@andylewis8667]

Whilst I admire the standard of work and attention to detail on each and every project, most astonishing is the continued, seamless onward progress of both the business and the cars. There must be some unseen heroes in the background, constantly juggling balls to maintain the flow. Mind blowing.

[@chrisgraves9430]

So enjoying the Allegro’s, such a change from boring Ford this and that bolt on performance. You guys are creating absolute hand crafted masterpieces for us all to see

[@Danger_mouse]

16:26 I had a bit of a PTSD moment when I saw that rustproofing gun 😂 As an apprentice motor mechanic in the 80s, in Queensland Australia where we have high humidity and live near the coast, we used to sell rust proofing as an option for new cars leaving our Ford dealership. It did work well if applied properly, but oh my God... The mess, the fumes and worst of all the Sata gun blocking the tip and erupting all over the operator (Me!) Washing in kero and then car wash detergent to get rid of wax/oil out of hair and skin is not a great day at work! 🤣

[@TheLRider]

I always thought the Allegro was a nice looking car, all your enhancements have made them look outstanding.. Absolutely beautiful..

[@micheltebraake7915]

The Allegros are looking more and more beautiful.

[@Al_is_XXX]

specsavers is open shortly..

[@wordsworthdube1621]

There's never a dull moment at Retropower. Cal and Nat you entertain us with great panache. It seems the business is growing in leaps and bounds, eg, the Den. Keep pushing the envelope. I'll be on the lookout for the following builds in your stable, Mazda 323 RWD, Morris minor 1100, Mazda F13, Citroën DS, Ford Corsair.

[@tractorhead971]

Loving the Allegros 🤩

[@jeremythomas-ii1if]

Absolutely bonkers and brilliant

[@Braveheart7914-idfl]

Sunday night ☕️in hand feet up heaven 👍🏻😉🇬🇧

[@raychambers3646]

That's two of us !

[@ThePubdaddy]

I have to drip feed my watch of this as its so good waiting a week is challenging - please keep these going ,they are ace

[@01FozzyS]

That darn Jensen hatch I tell ya! Hopefully it works well until finishing touches. Love the new detailing booth!

[@billynomates920]

don't know how often i'm going to watch as my youtube time is full ten times over but what you are doing is just so awesome i have to subscribe! i've got to be up around a thousand channels now, (was 843 or 873 last time i checked) but a ten minute video once a week from all of them is more 10mins than a week has.

[@jamesthompson4062]

Be really cool to watch a build from start to finish as a designer and metal shop guy would love to watch that 😎

[@UKDrew]

Awesome as Always... Great Update Cant wait for the Den Meet ....

[@olliebrown89]

The the standard of work is so high. Love these videos.

[@Foordson]

Hello from Finland. Great stuff as always! I was almost in Your back garden last weekend (Birmingham), too bad you did not have that DEN-party then...

[@Jr8key]

Brilliant as usual

[@miketucker7466]

All aggro’s are looking sweet as - this has to become a trend… someone please commission a marina next!

[@integralevideo]

There is a princess in the pipeline that is going to be just as tragic as those Allegro's.

[@pashakdescilly7517]

​@@integralevideo Jonny Late Brake is having a sleeper Allegro built. The builder is doing a Princess as well.....

[@bensynewsshoedown4999]

All because of the square steering 'wheel'. 😅

[@miketucker7466]

@@bensynewsshoedown4999 new transits got one now!

[@CraigPatterson-b2i]

Doga standard equipment on most agricultural tractors ect! Good work guy's. 👏

[@AmgAmg-yy8sy]

Great job Keep it up From Argentina

[@maverick4177]

The All Agro, the elliptical dream in vomit green 😂👍🏻

[@bynumjimmy]

When Cal said "21st of September" how many started humming Earth, Wind, and Fire... very 70s. Like many of the cars in this episode.

[@jabberwockytdi8901]

Speaking of Jensens what's going on with the carbon bodied CV8?

[@rosspierce6614]

Love your work , but we seem to be missing a great deal of the work being done on Churchill . If I'm wrong I'm sorry it's just I love the Churchill project. Cheers

[@-MacCat-]

Thanks for the share guys.

[@simonjohnporter50]

Superb as always. One thing nagging me, has the owner not considered having an internal rear window on the Interceptor? A bonded inner would add stiffness, isolate the troublesome tailgate. Lots of work but a win win?

[@simonjohnporter50]

Oh, glass of red raised

[@Jonathan_Doe_]

He wants it to look quite standard. An extra window between the back seats and tailgate wouldn’t really fit with that. It’d probably be hard to see through two layers of glass at different angles too.

[@royboy002]

Nat, is that cosworth shell been shipped to you from Paul linfoot?? He had a shell there a while ago.

[@Kaisan-vc8fw]

As someone who has been in the car/motorcycle/HGV trade from the 1970's onwards, from mechanic to dealership owner ... I never had a problem with BL: Allegro, Marina, the Wedge and so forth. In 1980 my friend's father bought a bright Yellow, black vinyl roof Allegro 1750 Sport, a Mk III ... A great car and extremely quick. The masses make me laugh, I've spent years in auctions buying great quality low mileage Saab, Alfa, Fiat, Volvo 240/5 and yes even Lada Riva & Samara ... For peanuts. Meanwhile the proles were fighting over 8-10 yr old rot box Fords for more money than I was paying for one owner, low miles, FSH cars ... It's quite bizarre.

[@K1lostream]

If Mark ever fancies moonlighting for some extra cash, I think he could make a few quid filling in for Paul Hollywood when he’s off sick!

[@RPM.Retropower_Marc]

😂😂👌

[@johnhurst3737]

You can have English mustard, Coleman's mustard, Dijon mustard, wholemeal mustard...... But I would personal described it as more 'Grey Poupon' ( Defently a real thing) P.s not knock the owerns choice!😀

[@danb.3397]

WOOHOOOOOOO !!

[@keithfarrell3370]

Im a tad disappointed that the owner of the Allegros didn't want one with a shiny Vanden plas radiator grafted on to it. Missed opportunity. 😏Thanks for the great video.

[@integralevideo]

He decided that would be a bit austentatious.

[@malcolm8938]

Or that one of them wasn't based on the estate version!

[@timc5969]

Could have had carbon fibre fold down trays built into the back of the seats.

[@neilhealey6187]

Probably because they look awful with those stupid grills on! Stock looks mean, especially with the wide arches now.

[@pashakdescilly7517]

​@@integralevideo Austin-tatious?

[@DefAde]

Are you guys using a new camera? Picture quality has seemed really off the last few weeks. Cal stood in front of the Allegro in particular looks bad

[@ChristopherHallett]

One thing I'd like to know is, do you (Retropower) write up, design, and have printed a nice little owner's manual/handbook to go with the cars?

[@markchisholm2657]

Please, could some rich bloke ask for a Capri?

[@davemk2escort]

anymore info on the detailing bay lights? would love that setup for my home made booth

[@davidklauer3422]

Oh hell! I’m 5 minutes late and don’t have my beer!

[@marcusott2973]

I'll have one for you and one for your mate. You're welcome.

[@andybaker5787]

I didn't think that Allegro could get an auglier but now you for 18 orange it is all it wants is an o one on the side and it can be a General Lee

[@andrewlitchfield4843]

Will you have an additional manager looking after 'The Den' once it is established?

[@johnkelly2902]

Is it actually Wax-oil you use, or something a bit more modern like Bilt Hamber? I personally aren,t keen on Wax-Oil these days.

[@michaelstark9485]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@HillSideKonnection]

Even though (I have) the vid set to 1080, some of the footage seems a bit lower quality? Same as bits of last ep

[@tomthompson7400]

Epic. Are you actually still using Waxol or one of the newer better alternatives instead.

[@RW-bi2rp]

I thought the same thing! waxoil is garbage and usually causes more corrosion. Bilt hamber cavity wax (or similar) is the way to go.

[@tomthompson7400]

@@RW-bi2rp Im on ACF50 at the moment and love it ,,, takes a while to get the idea , but its great Waxol is a real problem maker

[@johnmoruzzi7236]

I can’t help thinking that the Allegras should have had an extra cooling intake let into the lower front valance…. the new air dam would force extra air into the very busy radiator area…..

[@ole-martinlundefaret5876]

The Jensen boot lid - in retrospect - would it have been better to make it out of composite? Strong and light and all that?

[@gdmonks1959]

It’s the glass that’s heavy

[@ole-martinlundefaret5876]

@@gdmonks1959 That I understand, but the metal is too soft, so it bens under the weight of the glass, and the tension of the gasket/seilings etc. It also bends because of the weight of the glass and the placing of the hinges. A compsite solution would handle the weight of the glass and keep its stiffnes/structure/form even when meeting the seals etc :) Retropower do a teriffic job so this is no critique, I just came to think of the carbon Jensen and the possibility of doing the same treatment here :)

[@neilsenhall3790]

no beer for me this week , best mate is in hospital and i might have to go and get him.

[@ridgmont61]

With lead loading, do you get bimetallic corrosion?

[@andrewgardner9615]

Isn't that usually aluminium to steel like happens on VW Phaetons and Land Rover Discos quite a lot.(galvanic corrosion)

[@haraldhannelius]

Is it just me or is this episode out of focus or fimed with a soft filter (e.g. around 14:30) ? It would be nice to be able to really appreciate the craftmanship of the cars. edit: 4k would be nice

[@johnbriggs3916]

I think it's just the lighting rather than focus.

[@AdamJRichardson]

Combination of a lens that needs cleaning (causes flare and washed out colors), and maybe they cropped in so that effectively reduces the resolution?

[@stephenosburn901]

There is issue with footage of them speaking this whole episode. The B-roll footage looks fine. Maybe camera setting issues or something. It started last episode.

[@18robsmith]

Yellow Cossie? - I knew someone who had one.... She looked great in it. Oh Not that sort of Cossie ;-)

[@RPM.Retropower_Marc]

😂

[@covvy]

Different camera? The video quality doesn't look as nice this week.

[@sishabadab6570]

I just don't understand why you're grafting two cars together .. The Allegro/Honda and Audi/Saab.. Can someone explain it to me.

[@anthonyjeffrey9942]

Why not?

[@gdmonks1959]

Because you get the excellence of the new chassis design/build strength etc and the resto mod body style

[@jabberwockytdi8901]

There are better products than Waxoyl if that's really what's being used....

[@superbrit3845]

Amazing workmanship as per usual but I'll never understand someone justifying £000,000's building an Austin Allegro as the resale value will be minimal and to a very small niche band of people.

[@burnerog]

Honestly, I watch Retropower each week, but it’s disappointing that the Alegros (?) are being built up - one of the worst examples of British cars. Was a waste of time and money destroying an Integra for these builds.! The owners (!) need their heads read - I now fast forward past the Alegro footage

[@MrNatbatten]

I keep looking at either of the "All aggros" and all I can do is lament the death of two decent cars, those poor poor Hondas, it's positively heretical, putting it mildly, lol.

[@malcolm8938]

Please just reassure us you're being sarcastic, for the avoidance of any doubt.

[@MrNatbatten]

@@malcolm8938 Oh yes, very sarcastic, yes, erm, yes. I see someone thinks they're "looking more and more beautiful", which is rather heartwarming, my lifelong journey into total dystopia is now very much complete, of this I am utterly assured. 🤪🤪🤪🤪🫠🫠🫠🫠😶😶😶😶

[@gazzafloss]

I guess that's all down to the guys who are shelling out the cash to build "something completely different". In the motorcycle world we used to say "Hondas are like bums, everybody has one".

[@MrNatbatten]

@@gazzafloss Honda Integra Type R UK were an absolute masterpiece and I would argue a historically important car of which not many were made, only 500 came to the UK in a very specific specification, wafer thin bits everywhere, light as a rizla paper, so no, not like bums as not everyone has one. I drove one in the late 90's and was utterly amazed at it, nearest thing to a racing car I had driven on the road up to then, I used to work in one of the most respected classic car restoration workshops in London and then as a freelance mech, I got to drive all kinds of exotic stuff back then, some stuff worth millions even back then, I wasn't a fan of front wheel drive but the Integra was something like a BTCC car. An Allegro will always be an Allegro, this to me is just proof there are lots of folk with more money than sense, if I was that daft, I would get a repro MKII Escort floorpan from MST in Wales, shove in GP4 running gear, a Samsonas sequential box and a 2.5 or even 2.7 Millington Diamond II+ motor in it and have a proper monster with rwd ans somewhere around 350 bhp, no destruction of something else required. I can see someone is spending huge amounts of money on this, it just amounts to polishing a turd for me, and I usually love what these guys do, but in this case, ugh, no, my eyes and brain are bleeding, bleurgh.