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Never owned a classic Mini.....I'm sure Cliff Richard drove one in one of his films back in the 70's ..can't remember the title but it was filmed in Birmingham

Is parts availability a big problem for the Kimberly/ Tasman?

By my deeds I honor him, V8.

Pity. Now all you have left is an old cow shed that looks like a skip bin.

7:00 doesn’t that whole front panel pop off?

Oh lord the sound of that engine brings back memories.

The washer pump looks exactly the same as one I just changed in a VX Holden Commodore, but the Commodore is much easier, no panels to remove, access from under front of car, no tools needed, done in 5 minutes.

I was a young boy at the time that the Marina was current and my parents had a Renault 16 which made the Marina look 20 years out of date, dad loved his Renaults, being a French teacher, and the 16 was a lovely comfortable thing to ride in, with a very futuristic look (to my eyes at the time age about 8) and modern 5 door hatchback design, plus I don’t remember there being any problems with it. After the child head count got to four the Renault was swapped with a Vauxhall Victor FD 1.6 with a bench front seat, thus accommodating one child in the middle of the front bench (mum & dad were very safety conscious so we were all strapped in with those blue webbing child safety belts (possibly made by Kangol?)). I loved the Victor at the time, with its sleek American inspired styling, and was thrilled when dad announced we had hit 100mph briefly on a straight stretch of 1970s dual carriageway.

Too bad. It is very durable if professionally serviced; certainly not a fix-it-yourself car, though.

Fantastic and amazing, Ian! So glad it worked! You needed to disconnect the radiator hoses; you talked about having to refill the coolant. But did you end up having to disconnect the air conditioning system or no?

Did you notice a little vague steering during driving straight in the middle position of the steering wheel. Just about 2cm. It feels a little like "swimming" when turning the steering just a little from left to right. Mercedes dealer told me that is normal. Thx for the video

I thought about getting one,,not now

Then they came for me

Awesome video and awesome car! You're looking pretty good too at the mo Ian , love the hair!

Pop a Hayabusa engine in and I might be interested...

As a young fella I drove a 1987 Sherpa, 4 speed with an overdrive, even then they where old skool. You where steering it even on a straight road, it used to wonder about the place :-), ex royal mail.

That was definitely a short what a shame it was cut so quickly

Good to see it now starts, I rebuilt the engine on mine, the first rebuild i have ever done but it was straightforward. Once the engine/subframe is lowered its not much more work to take it out completely and its then much easier to work on.

Go on buy it! Perfect replacement for the GSA😂😂

For once I was tempted to press the dislike button.

Great video. Really enjoyed the progress on this one. Good to have supportive pals. I do like your Smart.

Hwyl fawr, car bach.

I see you have the milk container lid washer bottle update too. 😂

I feel like if far eastern cars had a movie, my mk1 kia sorento would start off as the big bully who later turned his life around and became the little cars friend and protector. Or maybe I'm going insane.

FFS just scrap all that shit. Scrap the lot and just buy one decent car. You have no clue what the fuck your doing and what a waist of time FFS..

Terrible car

I will miss Giselle. But at least I got a cool t-shirt out of it 😅!

What a long strange trip its been ,giselle👍😥👍

It never stresses me out working on other people's cars, things seem to go to plan! When it's my own though it's best to do it with mates, I always find it goes along with less stress if there's some banter and a few points of view.

That could be coolant sender or a vacuum leak .but nice job

Might have well bought a Porsche Boxster , more street cred and doing anything to with the engine is just the same way by dropping the engine. God knows why they called it a Smart car as it’s not for your home mechanic or for a garage mechanic because even they say, ‘sorry mate can’t do it’ as it costs so much money in labour time, think how much it would have cost you to get that starter replaced at a garage £100 for the starter and 10 hours labour.

If it's not being used, best to go to someone who can fix it up properly & enjoy it.

Cuts off abruptly, just like Giselle had a tendancy to do!

Au Reviour Giselle.

I find now that I catch ever set of traffic lights as they have not been change to allow for how slow you are moving, I can see it is green, still green, nearly there and red, shit.

Gone but never forgotten 😢

I bet Mr Kitch would be absolutely thrilled to work on this one 😁

A bientôt Giselle - merci pour les bonnes souvenirs 😊

Selling a loved car, I feel is similar to missing an old pet. The special ones stay with you and pull at your heartstrings on occasion. Sometimes tough decisions have to be made. 😢

Au revoir Giselle

I guess my one disappointment was we never got to see any abroad adventures with Giselle.. Oh well. She was an interesting edition to the fleet and will be missed.

I just cannot understand why an intelligent knowledgeable person has wasted time on a piece of junk.

kinda like a british crown vic/lincoln how awesome

AY UP MR HUBNUT AND BYE BYE GISELLE

G'day to you ! Brilliant, love it, back in the late 60s myself and a couple of Mates bought a second hand Cooper S from the NSW Police, it was Light Blue of course but great fun to drive!

Bye bye money pit 😂

Tough to say goodbye to an interesting car, but Giselle needs TLC. I still miss driving my GSA after many years. For the channel and family it's time to move on to driving and filming other cars that are becoming rare.☮️

It’s Citroën not Citroen

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Depends what the fault code is ? Could be the MAF sensor causing your issue ? The thing in your picture looked like the fuel rail pressure regulator ?