Will it start? 1959 Reliant Regal Mk5 - First start in over 20 years!

[@nigelthacker1472]

Such a underrated car

[@BS-ql5nl]

I remember my dad's regal like this bronze colour and had no heater or radio but carried mum and dad and three children in the back seat brilliant.

[@Boneyardfantasy]

Just incredible British vehicle

[@roscoe9507]

Absolutely brilliant, started and living again

[@StevesMachines]

Superb, I'm restoring a 1971 Reliant Regal. I'm watching Lewi rebuild this very car too.

[@MO3MINI]

I have one last video to upload of this. But I’m compiling old pictures of it. We transported this reliant from London when we moved in the back of a transit van!

[@austinswallow]

ahhh, the lovely feeling of a first start! Well done! Great car!

[@ffrancrogowski2192]

Marvellous to get it going again!

[@MO3MINI]

Thanks! You can watch its restoration on Buchproductions channel. It should be coming back from the painters any day now!

[@dodgydruid]

The great granddaddy of my Robin Mk2. These are actually amazing cars, a Regal saloon came second place a couple years back in the cross US Le Mons rally, where basically it had been discovered and in the week before the run fixed up and beating v8's, more modern cars etc with the only issue a burnt out clutch that said robbed of the first place... the car had lived in a bush for 25 years before its run O.o

[@MO3MINI]

That’s a cracking story!

[@iamasmurf1122]

That makes no sense a regal beating V8s in a rally ? Sure of course it was ... whatever you say

[@Zeem4]

@@iamasmurf1122 You could have just looked it up online - the Lemons Rally events and the Concourse d'Lemons 2020.

[@class_31clag]

@@iamasmurf1122 rude bloke you are aren't ya

[@Briancollison]

seemed to be sparking at the battery terminals.

[@MO3MINI]

Yeah looks like it didn’t have an earth strap from the engine to the chassis so was probably pulling a lot of current likely though the choke and throttle cables 😬 Didn’t notice it until editing

[@BensWorkshop]

Well done.

[@nickshipway8199]

The red fuzz, around the gauges, suggests that your dad had STYLE!

[@MO3MINI]

At one time that was shag pile! Had it on the floor too!! Very 70’s 🤣

[@Mercmad]

The distributor is doing a merry dance too,

[@MO3MINI]

Just the shaking of the engine.. suspect the engine mount rubbers have perished away to nothing. I did check to see if the distributor would turn at all to adjust the timing but it was locked in tight

[@wendyferguson85]

How excited do you get?

[@dopeynightlifetv6859]

13:18 SHES ALIVEEEEEE!!!!!! 💪

[@jimmybritt9537]

Bet the new owner will be the only one on his island with one of those little car's 😁👍👍🇺🇸

[@v-g-z3689]

Thank god this is not Top Gear.

[@class_31clag]

Why

[@v-g-z3689]

@@class_31clag They would just crash it instead of repairing it!

[@class_31clag]

@@v-g-z3689 you got a point

[@1961kickboxer]

Wow that’s a bobby dazzler

[@alan4391]

SHMOKIN that thing sounds a beast

[@MO3MINI]

Hasn’t got much of an exhaust left 🤣

[@michaelcrossfield5574]

Hope you film,or filmed, getting her out.

[@MO3MINI]

That’ll be this weekend. Two of the three tyres pumped up... need to replace one. Replace a coolant hose and then we can go for a longer run and test the clutch and gearbox

[@sandwichbar8226]

How's the chap in Scotland getting on with the restoration? Does he have a KZbin channel?

[@MO3MINI]

Lewibuchproductions I believe is his channel. He is getting on well. The car has been very challenging but is now currently in for painting. Hopefully be ready later in the year 🤞

[@sandwichbar8226]

@@MO3MINI I've found it! Thanks for your response. I'm going to binge watch 'em over the weekend 👍

[@mikewisdom6520]

Remember to free the valves with a smart tap from a hammer. As they often lightly stick after storage

[@mikewisdom6520]

How much for the mini

[@brianhurley3343]

You used 2 stroke mix. It'll be fine when it's got neat petrol

[@MO3MINI]

Just a little two stroke mix on the initial firing. It’s cleared up quite well now that’s it’s had a few runs 👍 Remembering now a few years back the engine was quite tight so I put oil down each plug hole. Probably still burning that off too!

[@grahamlangston2101]

I had a 1959 reliant the same as my first car there was no heater in those 8 of us whent to birmingham for a night out one time

[@MO3MINI]

Amazing! I bet you didn’t really need a heater in the winter with the engine right next to your legs with a few mm of fibreglass between you and it 😅

[@dirkfolscher3001]

Should have removed the pile of building rubble from the bonnet first, before fiddling with the rest of the engine.

[@MO3MINI]

Haha just a few bits of stone that used to hold the tarp down on it.... not exactly going to hurt the paint now is it

[@justinobrien9164]

The plastic pig rides again lol i like resin rockets i had a 1977 robin in the 1990s i bought it for £50 lol 😆

[@class_31clag]

What LoL £50🤣🤣 And now it's worth £4,000

[@Martmns]

A Reliant Regal that is neither! (Not that any of them were reliant or regal even when new!) LOL!

[@MO3MINI]

? It is a Reliant Regal 🤦‍♂️

[@class_31clag]

@@MO3MINI he meant it wasn't something to be reliant upon or or regal Dictionary resembling, or fit for a monarch, especially in being magnificent or dignified. Lol clearly isn't ither

[@iankane2847]

Put mini on ebay you might be surprised what you

[@MO3MINI]

It comes with a rust free convertible shell... it’ll be on ebay one day. Should think the car will be split in two by then

[@kevintucker3354]

Bad battery connection at first there.

[@MO3MINI]

Couldn’t see any earth straps from the engine to the chassis... think it was ground through the throttle linkage! The electrics are shot... that will be a bit of a challenge for the new owner

[@garyz2043]

Running on 3 at the most,maybe only 2 cylinders.

[@MO3MINI]

Still running none the less.. it hasn’t had new plug wires in 40 years and hadn’t run at all in over 20 years. We can forgive a misfire. New owner will strip the engine anyway. Just had to fire her up before I sold it.

[@mikewisdom6520]

Change plugs

[@Judaspriest66624]

Man, get ride of the debris first ...........

[@gordonjamieson861]

Why?

[@sandwichbar8226]

To give you something to comment on

[@barrysmith9020]

Great, it runs now you can drive it to the junkyard lol

[@MO3MINI]

It’s being restored.. watch some of the other videos and it’s video by its new owner. It’s rare enough to warrant the work really 👍

[@MrcNile-iv1hr]

Lol good luck with it,,I wasn't being serious,,

[@umvhu]

Nothing more frustrating than watching the profoundly clueless.

[@MO3MINI]

umvhu got it running didn’t I!? What was clueless about it then?

[@magicsadan6515]

U want to chop a mini apart to get the scrap out???doesn't make sense

[@magicsadan6515]

Save the mini,man.save the mini!

[@MO3MINI]

MagicSadan mate the Mini is completely rotten! Watch the other videos on it. You can pull it apart with your bare hands! Has a rust free shell that will be sold with it.

[@kikurass322]

These things were garbage from new and should have been banned, why anyone would want one of these death traps is beyond me. Save a life and crush it.

[@MO3MINI]

What makes it a death trap?

[@kikurass322]

@@MO3MINI You must be a real nuffy to ask that, how about a wood frame and 3 wheels, if I need to explain further I would simply be wasting my time.

[@MO3MINI]

Oh come on.. plenty of cars of that era had wooden frames around the body work! And they are actually stable on three wheels. Sure if you chuck it into a corner it’ll cock a wheel off the ground. But they don’t roll like they did in top gear! You know he fitted odd sized tyres and weights to the front to get it to actually roll? If they rolled that easily in real life there would be know way they’d have been allowed to manufacture them for over 50 years! You are no safer in any other classic car let’s be honest. If you have an accident you’re dead. It what makes classic car drivers drive differently. Breaking early. Not speeding. Paying much more attention to the road. If you want to be safe by something brand new.. because if you crash anything older than the early 2000’s there’s a strong chance you ain’t walking out of it! But on that knowledge we should scrap all classics as they are all death traps no?

[@tonycox5625]

@@kikurass322 You sound like a bit of a prick if you don't mind me saying so!😂

[@LewiBuchProductions]

This guy sounds like he hasn’t a clue about cars 😂 especially reliants

[@squirrel6158]

restore ??? that thing is scrap :/

[@MO3MINI]

Yep... from the look of his previous work he’s restored far worse!

[@squirrel6158]

@@MO3MINI best of british luck to him hes going to need it

[@MO3MINI]

He’s seen a lot of pictures and doesn’t seem all that bothered... a good long term project and worth the effort. Not many of these survived

[@v-g-z3689]

@@squirrel6158 If it´s a rare model that maybe has something others don´t I totally understand the plan of a restoration. You´d be surprised what level of "scrap" people restore. Have you seen how much was left of the earliest surviving VW beetle? A lot less, and the´ve done an excellent job saving as much as humanly possible of the old substance and the restoration turned out excellent.

[@paulb4uk]

@@squirrel6158 Wont be that bad to restore should be quite easy compared to pete c and his restoration of mk3 cortina,s that have sat in fields and forest for 20 years ,i have my fair share of clueless people that think my car is scrap just because its 27 years old but it is a rare survivor and passes mot,s with ease amd slowly going up in value rather down .

[@Tris289]

Engine sounds absolutely atrocious. Good job on the revival :)

[@nigel7277]

They didn't sound that clever when new ! Dad had a brand new 1963 van, Del Boy yellow- before the programme was invented.

[@mikewisdom6520]

How much for the mini

[@MO3MINI]

No idea... it’s extremely rusty!

[@mikewisdom6520]

@@MO3MINI where are you

[@mikewisdom6520]

@@MO3MINI 100 pound

[@mikewisdom6520]

@@MO3MINI mike 07881881871