Barn Find Recovery, I Bought & Recovered A Rare Classic Car Locked Up For 30 Years!!

[@just-another-guy]

7:40 I am 52 years old and that's the first P6 Estate I've ever seen. Rare is an understatement.

[@AnthonyIlstonJones]

I'm 57, & my dad had a P6 V8 in the '70s. Never seen an estate though, seen a picture of one once & this is the first one I've seen on film. I just don't understand why surrounded by all those V8s a guy would buy a ragtop Golf. Even if the bodywork's rotten those engines go on for ever. Perfect for a project. Never will understand hoomans.

[@just-another-guy]

@@AnthonyIlstonJones exactly. Such a shame to see them go off for scrap. Proper cars, unlike cars of today.

[@MNorris1985]

I had a 91 rabbit convertible that I put a newer 2.0T jetta engine into it..was a blast. A buddy of mine has the fastest one in the world and it's also the fastest fwd convertible in the world as well...fun cars

[@aidans9010]

What a fitting video for today! I have just been 5 hours down south dragging Escorts and Orion's out of a yard to get to the one I've bought! Was in a right state, took 1 hours to get it safely on the trailer and two and a half hours to get it off! Bloody exhausting! Congrats - barn finds are literally the most exciting thing

[@Roadwarrior92]

I want a orion! 😭

[@dadjoy2609]

I watch your videos with great interest but this is the best and I can’t help thinking that you’re one lucky B !!! 👍👍👍👍🇬🇧

[@karljacques5028]

Ooooo that's old I love old cars 🚘🚘. Cars are like humans. Lots of fun form England

[@karljacques5028]

Omg that's so rare I with have it

[@karljacques5028]

Yes I love cars. In the garages it's my Haven

[@mark_graham]

Such a shame more of these wonderful cars couldn’t be saved. Good on ya fella !

[@davidwebb8877]

Lots of good parts to be had on them rovers,contact the owners club before scrapping.

[@dominicgillespie3770]

Brilliant one of the best things I've watched on KZbin for a very long time thank you for taking the time to record it

[@Nelg230]

Brilliant! Hope the Triumph and Riley go soon. The P6s ought to be stripped of usable parts before scrapping. Next door neighbour can cut the hedge down now!

[@karlos543]

@@harvdog5669 it's a hedge..

[@harvdog5669]

@@karlos543 oh right, a hedge.. I always understood that.... Sorry about my phone miss spelling some parts of one of my msg...have a nice evening...

[@jaysclassiciron825]

Was a pleasure to meet you on the day colin cracking video the white rover is up and running and I went back for the dark green one :)

[@TheBeardedExplorer]

Likewise, wow that’s amazing 😎👌🏽

[@Latvians]

damn this hit me close to heart, i love rescue's of abandoned cars of any sorts, seeing a white mk1 golf get pulled out of a garage is amazing, my family has been golf fans since late 80's, im a 2000's kid so i never got to experience that, when i was like 4-8 years old, i would go outside, we live next to soviet garages, those that are in any soviet countries, from the 60+ garages that are there, only like 20 are used for past 20 years, so i always wonder whats behind those abandoned doors, but i can never know, but when i was 4-8 years old, there was this nice old man with a cane that had a white mk1 golf 4 door, he was always working on it and keeping it nice in that garage, always went to him and he was there every other day, mk1 golf 4 doors are rarer than 2 door ones, he would give me a ride to the store, first golf i ever rid in, and then after 8 years of age, i stopped seeing that old man, he wasnt at his garage anymore, and he sort of disappeared, can give it the benefit-of-the-doubt, and say that ''he moved away'' but i doubt that little golf was able to drive that far on its own, so im guessing that he passed away, and that the golf is sitting there rotting since 2013, would love to rescue it one day, planning to get mk2 golf as my first car.

[@brianoutdoorlife7788]

End of an era for some, so sad, but others to be saved. Be nice to see them when restored. Thanks for the uploads, brings back memory`s, take care.

[@rhysholdaway]

Nice. My mum had one of these. I have fond memories of her driving me and my brother to school. Me and my mum singing Motown. My brother cringing in embarrassment. 😁

[@The_Last_Post]

Don’t ever change the intro music, it’s perfect 👌 gives me goose bumps every time and sets the scene for discovering past treasures. Keep up the good work my friend 👍

[@guymeister]

Agreed AK - Our destination is a perfect choice although I do miss the other song he used to use by AK - Love story

[@fhwolthuis]

I agree!

[@lucyxchan6808]

Does any of you 3 can tell me the Name of the current intro,please?

[@The_Last_Post]

@@lucyxchan6808 Andrew Guy above mentioned it, it’s called AK - Our Destination

[@lucyxchan6808]

@@The_Last_Post sorry overlooked it, and thank you. Have a nice day/evening.

[@Lot76CARS]

What a super find that Golf is, good luck with the restoration, can’t wait for the updates.

[@AirPictureGM]

Sorry...forgot to say....You videos are THE best....the explores...and I absolutey love the cars.

[@stevienico452]

Brilliant, really nice to see there are Cars to Save still out there and what a find for both cars, you are saving a bit of automotive History and hopefully keeping the memory of what these cars were when in their prime. Shame about the cars that were really beyond saving, they were really too far gone. Love the videos and good to see young guys with a real interest in legacy cars.

[@andrewgeorge2562]

Hi, Great video, love the Rover 3500s, I have a 50,000-mile V8s engine fully rebuilt many years ago though!!! Scrapped my father's car wish I hadnt but kept the engine. Love the Golf good luck with the renovation and if the last Rover comes on the market I'm interested.

[@rhysdigby-gu9ql]

ive watched so many of these videos over the years,but this is just my favourite,ive spent the last 30 years restoring classic fords and i can relate to the thrill of finding some really old relics,,and the struggles and challenges of removing them..great video great story mate..excellent...

[@gleng6812]

Can see why you are excited about buying this Golf! What a find, looking forward to seeing this become what you want. My wife heard me watch this video and asked what is going on... I said the Bearded Explorer just bought a Golf Mk1 convertible stored for 30 years, the lucky bugger! 👍👌🙏

[@bretthastings8857]

Excellent so glad they've been saved,there's something so gangster about them rover p6

[@edmundhenrybautista5439]

Im glad to wacth again your newly upload on your channel dude with an rare and abandoned cars👍

[@ammo1g]

Absolutely brilliant 👍 lovely seeing these restored, and another lease of life, so many out there 😌 great wrk great video 👌

[@rosebooth7367]

I'm not much into cars but I do like a Golf ! Your enthusiasm and obvious happiness at getting her means that I'll be looking out for the restoration.. can't wait.

[@davidhughes1634]

Good man Shelden,for invited you to this location & you getting a great car out of it,Salvage rebuilds has got one of these he is doing up worth having a look on his channel,take care look forwards to seeing you getting it back on the rd.

[@riderzinc]

I bought a 1978 gls series 1 mk1 golf from a garage genuine 40k miles on it, sitting for 25 years. I instantly sold it on for a nice profit but wish i kept it now

[@E11isxn]

Heritage Parts Centre do all the parts you need for the Mk1 Jack is super helpful with the golfs ask for him 👍🏻

[@TheBeardedExplorer]

Awesome thank you 😊

[@markymarktt8697]

Soon as I seen u open that door my face dropped you lucky 🍀 bugger it’s awesome I want it 🥰

[@martinsallenger5526]

Hi Colin great to see some of the cars going to new home,what a job you have had,classic cars saved good job everyone,can't wait to see them all restored and looking as new,great video

[@stevepellew8021]

Oh my guys what a fined... Iam 60 years now and I remember all those models in dealers ships brand new here New Zealand... The rover 3.5 v8 was my favorite ... U tube them through there course of restoration... Rover fanatic...

[@marklittler784]

One of the best ones I like is when you are taking temporary or permanent possession of a car from someone which has a pumped up legally usable spare wheel, jack and brace, then when you get a puncture you find the brace doesn't fit ! ! 😀😁😂😃😀😁😂😃😊😀😁😂

[@pires3476]

Congrats bro!

[@markherbert1343]

Very good find that one and good condition lucky lucky.

[@simonnelson7770]

I bet his neighbours are pleased

[@mikeprince5361]

That was extremely satisfying! Hats off to you guys for saving these automobiles. Best wishes to you both from Florida!

[@stuartblack9258]

Wow! Thankyou for sharing this amazing find good luck with the resto cant wait to see it back on the road!

[@markharris7662]

What a great find. Love them. There are lots of spares in that garage.

[@tomwevers]

glad there are people like you. I like vintage cars with a story. great work gentlemen

[@Mattbart1980]

Genuinely exciting find that, love the Wolfsburg steering wheel, never seen one of those before.....one lucky Dub gets a new life 😁👍

[@timothyclapham936]

Loved this video!! So exciting to find this golf and then the epic rescue!! Good luck with the restoration - looking forward to the updates on this and your BMW!! 1 more thing McDonalds screwing up the order has happened to me loads of times - I feel your pain always check the bag!! Oh and your title music is really cool! keep up the good work!

[@LiSa.N.J]

Love these vids. I really hope to see videos of the restoration. Thanks for posting and hello from New Jersey USA

[@matttarling6347]

Very nice,what a find with a golf she will be a beauty when she's done👍👍👍

[@michaelhutton9766]

awesome video love the rovers and vw golf great find good luck and I look forward to an update

[@rogercook9693]

What a lovely video to watch. A great insight into recovering a barn find.👏👏👏👏👏

[@alasdairvincent6248]

What great barn finds. The wee Riley is a lovely restoration project. Good on you for saving the VW Golf. I look forward to seeing the finished restoration, it will be a great car. Young Pete Townshend was pleased to get the Rover P6.

[@jacobcrowson9540]

Best vid by far what great finds glad to see them going to new homes 👍🏻

[@martf9875]

U luck people ,,will be nice to see em finished,, shame about the dolly sprints ,,,just left to rot ,,,keep em coming stay safe all 👍

[@e36mark]

My car is a 1992 mk3 golf, and it was registered on the 19th October 1992, so before my car was even registered this car was being left in a garage for nearly 30 years, wow. kinda amazing to think about it. My golf only has 50K miles on it so but has gotten some from life regarding scratched dents but apart from that its nice! Good luck with this thing, cant wait to see it on the road again!

[@TheHorsebox2]

Well done, man. You deserve it, and great to see the Golf going to a good home.

[@Julia-xg5yx]

What an amazing car you are so lucky! Can't wait to see the restoration

[@tecdesigns8183]

Awesome find, my friends dad had the same as this in black at the same time I had a 79 gti tintop one of the big regrets selling, had a awesome tsr engine in. Looks very tidy, the grill is incorrect though would of been single lights at this age. Make sure you check the tank as they were prone to rust don't want the rust getting near the injection system. Also where clutch cable comes through the bulkhead the rhd on early golf's was an afterthought and they basically drilled a hole with a bung. This causes the bulkhead to flex and can split or rust through. Not sure about the gearbox it looked like a 5 spd knob but early ones were 4 spd but this is an 80 so might be a change over model. Keep it original as you can.

[@ralphthompson6463]

Great finds and acquisitions Colin,well done for saving them. Shame that the rovers outside were so far gone as would have been good donors, look forward to seeing them on the road.

[@garethnorwood2084]

Wow that's unreal. Can't wait to see it All finished. My old mk3 golf gti is away to the paint shop fingers crossed I have it back in a month 🤞👍

[@markurbex6579]

I do love your videos bud ,i grew up with all these cars and had rides in them to, i am at 50 years old now ,i love all the smells ,the lather ,they are all priceless,cheers .

[@paulmartin4971]

Brilliant video Colin another load of classics saved and rightly too. Can't wait for next exciting episode thanks.

[@hoggmotorsport]

The Golf was the last thing I expected to see in the garage! Awesome find and a cracking buy 👍

[@markotomic6008]

I agree,such a nice golf,and luckily it was storaged in a garage really good

[@lindsaymacpherson8782]

Great finds great video look forward to seeing the Golf restored to all its glory

[@alistairshaw3206]

Great to see some of the cars going to good homes. I used to restore SD1 Rovers, but I stick to classic motorcycles now. The TR6 and the Riley 1.5 deserve to be saved. The TR6 is my favourite British sports car. A cookery teacher at my school drove a TR6, all the boys , including me fancied her and her car! Good luck with the Golf restoration!

[@garytaylor6648]

Seeing that golf gti seeing daylight brought a tear to my eye.Well saved bruv👍👍A mate of mine had one in black also a cabriolet.Nice

[@johnlad1481]

Awesome guys nice golf and the v8 rover aswell as the triumph..typical of Sheldon bashing the wing on the rover lol

[@STORMCLOUDGREY]

Another great find. Looking forward to an update on the E23.

[@andrewlopson3394]

This car reminds me of the 1983 GTI I had in the U.S. There is something about a light light, nimble car that makes it a lot of fun...it goes to show that it does not necessarily take a lot of horsepower to be enjoyable--you can more easily drive the car at it's limits as well.

[@Brexitgeezanigelforage]

Nice one bro happy for you such a sick car can’t wait to see it in it’s former glory

[@AirPictureGM]

Outstanding...I thought it was gonna be a Scirocco or a Corrado....and those Rovers....the estate....I wanna see the Gli driving around Pompey soon.

[@clairesims7275]

Wow, I wasn’t expecting that to be in the garage but how sweet is that!! I hope we get to see the restore. I saw you bought another to restore a while back and would love to see that too. I gotta say I love these videos 🌹

[@fozantalal4381]

Very happy for you and good luck, you really deserve these kinds of cars. Best wishes on behalf all subscribers from Saudi Arabian.

[@lauzp9487]

What a beautiful car! 😍 so pleased for you! Enjoy mate and keep up with the brilliant videos ❤

[@delscorey8727]

Great car,keep us posted ,and the beamer,thanks for the videos love them

[@leeholden8658]

I just found the location of the house,but won’t disclose it. But going off google earth pictures there were a lot more Rover P6’s and a Rover 75 and 75 Estate before you first visited. I think there were a total of nine P6’s including the one in the garage. Can’t wait to see updates on the Golf GLi to get it road worthy

[@PhysicsAirline]

The lady said in Sheldon's video that the two 75's were taken by the DVLA, as they had tax owing and it wasn't worth paying the money to save them.

[@neilmustow368]

Great video all them P6 Rovers that brown P6 amazing condition it was in good luck with the restoration of the Cabrio Golf

[@johnhaggerty4257]

Well done guys. A deserving project for all involved. Good luck. MAGIC

[@steveking3306]

Those scrap cars have plenty of parts that would be handy for people I am sure. Getting hard to get now. Even simple things like windscreens and door class should have been salvaged and given to owners clubs etc. Please say they weren't just squashed? Congrats on the purchase nice find

[@andyhopkinson2708]

Nice one mate👍 VW Heritage parts for any bits you need.

[@KatWoman_]

Congrats on your new car. Glad to see you so delighted. l

[@NOWThatsRichy]

A absolutely excellent save of the Golf, no doubt well on its way to being back on the road by now, being stored under cover has kept it well, Great to see a couple of the Rover P6 being saved as well, that P6 estate is well rare, I genuinely have never seen one before! It's a shame the rest of the P6s had been left to rot they should have been saved decades ago!

[@davidgaul6743]

Great to see these fantastic cars going to get a New Life....

[@vspencer9764]

I had a white GTi Cabriolet golf back in the 90s and it was a fantastic car and the only downside with them is the brakes aren’t up to much and the petrol filler pipes can rot out but apart from that they’re really good motors. It’s a Kent registration as well so it won’t of seen much road salt.

[@user-er1dm7nr5q]

Now thats a find !

[@Rjhs001]

That Golf is a pretty, little rascal but oh...there's a special place in my heart for a P6 V8 and this one's a beauty.

[@Peter-qt7oj]

WOW good find 👏👏👏👏

[@Innochamp]

Really nice that you try to save some of the classic cars!

[@jondrizzle4554]

The bodywork on those cars was mint What a fantastic video Good luck with the restorations 👍 not seen a mk1 golf cabrio from that year, must be one of the very first made

[@seanoconnor5737]

Great to see these cars being saved, Well done chaps.

[@rumcove07]

Double your money! Sheldon AND the bearded one in the same video! Good stuff and thanks to Sheldon's videos for stopping me from buying a 69 2000TC in Nashville last year. His explanation of hidden P6 rust issued put me off!

[@thevdubber6918]

Mk1 golf is a good find, I have a Gli registered in the same year as this, and it was in basically the same condition when I saved it. The early series 1 cabriolets are very rare, I had to swap the small bumpers on mine for the later bigger bumpers as I think they make the cabriolet look a lot better.

[@IamNotANumber]

Oh my word!!! I'm so envious! What a gem of a find. I'd be happy to drive it around myself ;-)

[@andrewkiwi1]

That golf will clean up nicely its in good nick. I'm a mechanic and worked in a euro workshop in NZ for 13 years. The spoiler panels on the front usually get smashed off on kerbs and its quite rare to see them in one piece. When it was going on the truck you could still see the shine in the paint on the front guard under all the dust. I'm trying to think what went wrong with them. Front upper strut mounts sag. Front and rear wheel brgs. Engine mounts, When they sag they transfer vibration through the dash. The gear shifter mechanism where it attaches to the gearbox. they get sloppy. That's the worst of the common faults. Don't thrash it in reverse as they could have been built a bit stronger than they are. Reverse gear isn't strong. Parts are reasonably cheap for them so that's good. Looking at it I don't think it will need much except a complete fluid change and rear wheel cylinders and flush the old brake fluid.

[@briansweeney2291]

Nice 1 Colin at least two of the cars are safe fingers crossed some more will be saved , great video 👍😎👍

[@DjNikGnashers]

Never seen an estate version of the Rover P6 in my life, and I'm 52. Love the TR6, and your new Golf of course. Great video, as all of your uploads are, one of the most interesting channels I have ever subscribed to.

[@basingstoke63]

Great video . Thanks guys , and well done .

[@aslandama]

Excellent upload, thanks for sharing.

[@brettjones5041]

well done guys nice little motor Colin and Sheldon real classics

[@vee5196]

Wow that was great 👍 congrats to you. Thanks for sharing

[@moreton61]

Nice to see a pre-gti one in such good condition, lucky bugger haha

[@imtiyazkhan7382]

Lots of love from india 🤩❤️

[@ls6882]

❤️ that's your beat. He brouht one classic and he knows he's a lucky bastard. He is the new mad man to store it Lol

[@camperp195]

Two words,LUCKY BUGGER! good on ya! That TR6 is worth a lot of dosh,

[@darrenwashington5919]

New channel the bearded classic car rescuer 😀

[@jambacardi2474]

Enjoyed that one guys

[@DiscoCol08]

I've never seen a P6 estate wow.

[@GenMaster124]

Great to see a few cars are being saved 👏🏻👏🏻