Jeremy Clarkson Auctions Off His Converted Land Rover Sports Car | The Grand Tour

this is what i chose a 1980s mercedes sl partly because it's the very essence of quiet urban restraint taste and elegance it's a car that was driven by bobby ewing in dallas mostly though i chose it because it would fit more snugly on the discovery chassis this time the men worked tirelessly for nearly a whole day to marry the two cars and the result was spectacular [Music] it's a car i have justifiably called the excellent the internal organs from a land rover discovery mated to the beautiful skin of a glamorous mercedes sl to create a vision of pure what's the word rubbish it's not rubbish did you paint it with a brush or a bucket it's got those headlights that swivel when you go around a bend look so that they point at the road okay let me ask you this which would you rather have the excellent or that porsche porsche why because it's better in every single way to prove my cynical colleagues wrong i invited them to go for a drive oh kind you see it's an optional extra for the shorter gentleman you comfy hammond no no is this as in as i can get yeah oh right listen to this oh no it moves [Music] we'd only gone a few miles before richard and james completely changed their minds and realized that the excellent was the best car they'd ever been in no we haven't stopped saying things in voiceover that aren't true does it not i thought you'd change your mind maybe a bit it's worse than a thought can i put the heater on that's not connected is it not what's that dial down there but left to the steering speedometer why have you got that one not that one that doesn't work has he got a fuel gauge not as such has he got a temperature gauge not really there's a lot of wires hanging out of the dash that aren't connected to things i haven't given it an interior [Laughter] i can see the road i can as well no there's a hole in the floor while hammond may had one or two minor issues they both agreed that if i were to put my car into production it would make me a fortune no we didn't agree to that either no i've done the maths honestly the discovery was two and a half thousand mercedes four and a half thousand seven thousand pounds of the work that's fourteen thousand quid i could sell this for a hundred and twenty thousand no you couldn't yes it could okay a k n turbo's 120. a k n turbo is a proper car built by porsche this is two scrap cars glued together by a muppet it isn't designed for people like you what oh people with eyes people who can dress themselves in the morning i'll tell you exactly who will buy this car people who use roundy ended scissors footballers they won't spoilers like ferraris yeah and bentleys and range rovers and aston martin this thing to prove them wrong again i decided to head for the nearby chelsea training ground these are people who understand cars not like youtube yeah they understand cars that's why they buy range rover sports and aston martins they buy those things because they didn't know that you could do this i like my car it's they're flocking to it aren't they you just watch you mind if i go and stand next to something else [Music] soon some players arrived which gave richard and james a chance to show off their footballing knowledge you're really tall you should play in goal yeah i do i play angle i know that yeah so what part of chelsea are you from i'm from belgium oh how did you know they're footballers well do you not recognize them well in football he doesn't even recognize you where's um where's alex ferguson why don't we ask him [Music] at this point i dismissed my ignorant colleagues so that i could operate the subtitle machine yeah take a shower to me well that's ridiculous because you're supposed to jump i think this is flipping horrific so you've you've butchered a classic car right watch this little toss nope having established that all top professional footballers loved my car we got back on the road [Music] so did you get any orders you know i noticed that the car park was still full of mercedes g clubs when we left i saw that yeah listen i could put this into an auction one of those posh market ones and it would sell for 120 000 pounds to prove them wrong again gentlemen yes people are examining those yes they're the organizers they're the organizers they're wondering they're wondering about their carpet handcrafted by a renowned british atelier sympathetically marries the chassis just did you write you hammered them to that bit the interior would benefit from some minor attention yes with a hand grenade lock number one three two soon the auction was underway ferrari 308 gtb and 118 000 pounds lot number 127 start me with this at hundred thousand and many of the punters were happy to pay six-figure sums for the cars on offer at 270 285 for the countach multi-contrast just went for 285 and then it was time moving on to lot number 138a the excellent it's a fantastic handcrafted very unusual machine as you can see beautiful stylish mercedes-benz coach work again very unusual unique car here for sale start me if you will on this at 425 pounds at 425 pounds any advance at 400 500 pounds 550 here 600 here 650 650 700 now 5700 anywhere 700 here 700 800 now let's go for a thousand now let's get going come on let's sell this card a thousand pounds here on my right fifteen hundred fifty two thousand if you wish it's two thousand and five two five three thousand now it's three thousand here three five anywhere three one at three thousand one hundred three thousand two hundred pounds at three thousand five fourteen thousand four thousand at four thousand pounds at 4 000 pounds anymore at 4 000 pounds thank you very much 20 000 then let's get going you

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Length: 9min 10sec (550 seconds)

Published: Tue May 11 2021