Well done, lads. That's a lively car. Can't wait to hear it with the new exhaust. Love seeing old cars ressurected from the brink of death. One of the most enjoyable on TH-cam at the moment.
I came for the Panhard vids, so... crack on! My Dad had 2 Panhards in the back yard back in 1968. He was planning on using the motor from one of them in the gyrocopter he built.
Definitely my favourite channel at the moment you guys definitely deserve a medal for getting that clutch working that car is going to be your channels mascot well done for not giving up on the car she deserves to be back on the road
To say that episode was entertaining is a gross understatement🤣. For the clear speedo cover you can get a product called Polywatch which is used for cleaning and buffing vintage wristwatch glasses. BUT!!! first of all try toothpaste and a tiny bit of water, dip a cloth into it and buff it carefully, I have restored loads of watches like that.
I'm not sure whether you're completely insane or a genius but the success you two achieved in this episode was palpable in your child-like elation on freeing the clutch. You make a great team...more duo content please and good luck getting to the show ❤
I've only watched few of your videos, but you certainly have earned my sub! and likes of course, your excitement and happiness when you fix these oldies is just infectious!
Good to see you have permanently installed a can of plusgas in the engine bay - I really laughed at the broken pedal - love the repair to the column too - You should try to rebuild a car just using parts that you have made, as you seem pretty good at 'bodgefabrication'.
Chuffed to bits for you on the progress - brilliant brilliant update, well done to you both. For the speedo cover, you might think to try Meguires scratch 2.0, as it will cut the milky laters off, but still leave is smooth and shiny - just a karate kid ‘wax on/wax off’ with a decent cotton cloth, although you might need a few rounds. Keep ‘em comin’! JCHK
Just how cool are glass brake fluid reservoirs! Even better with those doors you can lean out (steering with your knees) and check the levels as you go along, Kin classy or what.
WooHoo shes running like a dream weil done guys..... You could try some peroxide for that speedo glass.. with uv light or sunshine.. if we get any.. or there is a product called polywatch for revitalising acrylic watch crystals..
What a great episode, what a beautiful little car, I can't believe you have got so far with it. A brilliant classic you have saved and you gave us almost as much joy as you obviously had yourselves. Well done you.
Thank you Ben for introducing me to plusgas! Bought a couple of cans after a left for dead car. The front suspension bolts on my car thank you. Thoroughly enjoying all your videos.
Love those Panhards. I am now a subscriber. Try bicarb soda on that plastic dash cover . You could also test a small area wth 1200 grit and then polish it.
I said, the gearchange mechanism was different Ben when you picked up the car. :) The clutch release bearing shaft often seizes due to dissimilar metals & corrosion, but you can lever using a bar, heat and penetrating oil etc, once loose there's a oil holes in the aluminium casting to prevent seizing later. I did revive my clear speedo cover, using fine wet and dry and re polishing, be careful you don't break that fuel gauge. The outer choke cable needs to be held in the bracket, there should be a threaded screw in this, have a look at that PL17 on the trailer, then adjust the movement and it'll be good to go. :) Funny watching you & Rob do the dance with the engine, you can put them in by yourself, but you know about it. It is also easier if you take four of the screws that hold the bumper engine mount subframe, and let it pivot downwards. You need the gear change lever to be in the middle when at rest in neutral, and if you look at the spherical ball... that will be 3rd in the up plane, 2nd in the down plane, first is towards you and up, fourth is away from you and down from the neutral position. You need to adjust the cables at the gear linkage... you also might have an air leak from the inlet flanges too, as you disturbed it. Reverse is towards you and down, but you pull the gear lever outwards from the column.
@@bananabrooks3836 Hard to tell, but the engines don’t set off in third, but if the cable is in the wrong place at the gearbox end, the selector forks and gear lever are in the right place. You also can’t select all the gears because the gear lever mechanism hits the metalwork inside the steering column cowling
Big fan of your channel, it is definitely entertaining and you should definitely have more subs. I just got rid of my 2000 Lexus LS400. Beautiful car. I offered it to 2 TH-camrs near me for content for their car channels and nobody wanted to come and pick it up. I offered it for free. The road trip could have been part of the video...LOL.. I got rid of my 23-year-old Lexus LS400 and in its place I now drive a 17-year-old Infiniti G35 coupe. But like I was saying, I enjoy your channel I enjoy your content. Hope many subs come your way.
Fair play lads, you've really done this car proud. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the look on the persons face who bought this car brand new to see it bring brought back to life now.
I'm really chuffed that you decided to spend the time and effort into this old french car I know you where a bit unsure to start with but she wanted to live again So thank you so much for doing it love your work and have been following you for the past year Keep it up mate 👍
That holder for your clutch cable. You couldn't probably use JB well. To glue the corner back on, but you would have had to reinforce it like you guys did. But it wouldn't made it a tiny bit stronger
Kinda sounds like a two stroke :D p.s. I've been waiting so long for this episode. Finally hearing it shifting gears is amazing. Keep up the good work.
Just watched the latest vid, so chuffed for you getting it driving through the gears. Great to see such enthusiasm for such an old car. Loving this channel, keep em coming
What a great episode!!! Looks like its well on its way to being on the tower of power. Still holding out hope of seeing that beast go around the track!
Loved this video, and seeing the little car drive. You have worked hard on this, and deserved some payback to be fair. You know you could try cutting paste on that plastic, similar to what they use on plastic headlamps. polish and repeat maybe. 2 thumbs up 👍👍
Such an incredibly.. french machine. Good job on getting it running again! You may find some handy tips on LEGO forums on how to restore plastic, those are prone to yellow as well.
With regards to the, yellow / clear plastic. I saw some guy with a blow torch, wafting it over stadium seats. Just like magic a dull and pail seat looks shinny and new. Just a thought.
Don't know if anyone else has suggested it elsewhere but you can polish plastics using toothpaste as it is an extremely fine cutting compound. Used this to polish plastics on my old hand held video games (Astro Wars). That should take off the ingrained discolouration without scratching the finish on the plastic facia.
When taking the yellow out of retro plastics (commonly called retro brighting) you can submerge the plastic in 12% hydrogen peroxide and leave it under a UV lamp. Works brilliantly.
Was the river in Charlie and the chocolate factory really liquid chocolate? 😂😂😂😂, discuss........ Fair play your perseverance is really starting to pay off. Love all of your vlogs.
Yellowed plastics can be brought back with soaking in Hydrogen Peroxide (plenty resources on this, look up "retr0briting", easy process), but, thi all depends on the plastic, not sure the clear speedo housing here would do much, but it's worth a shot, and as for the cloudiness, if it's inside the plastic, then, it's knackered, if it's surface stuff, then something like Peek or Autosol polishing compund can cut through it, usually, again depending on the plastic, if the cloudiness is inside the plastic itself, then it's shot and just have to make excuses when the rozzers ask if you know how fast you were going... :P
It’s the assumptions that get us! Forgotten cars always have a frozen clutch, don’t they? It will release with a quick drive. Err, not if it is out of adjustment and doesn’t release the pressure plate. I envy you the thrill of solving that one. You almost wonder if that was the fault that caused it to be abandoned in the first place.
Regarding any plastic: If you have a grinder/buffer to use, put a buffing wheel (or 2) and use plastic polishing compound (a cream - or actually I think any polishing compound will work). It will polish that plastic and make it look like new except for the yellowing that comes with age. You will never get it to look good doing it by hand.
Was worried you might be getting bored with this, when you introduced the Rover parts donor, last time. Happy to see it back. Sadly, life has intervened and our planned trip to UK in September has been put on hold, so we won’t be seeing it. But great to hear it’s going to be there.
I’m a bit reluctant to suggest this, given how plentiful those instrument glasses are, but I’ve had success with T-cut, used very gently. For reference, I’ve also restored scratched dvds with it, but you have to be very gentle and use cotton cloths, to avoid creating a cloudy finish.
I was wanting to suggest using plastic headlight restorer , but you have other suggested probably well informed advise already , be good to find out if and how you manage to shift the yellow in the end! Good luck with that little issue whatever you try!
ooh, it uses a graphite throwout doohickey, basically a big round pencil (also basically the same as the brushes in an electric motor, graphite is "slippery" on metal surfaces), doesn't really matter if it's cracked up, does matter if it's worn down though cos you can't sharpen it up like a pencil, cos it looks like it's worn to a stump so could do with looking for a new one at somepoint, assuming they're available... :P
I'm a bit late to the party but that would have been my suggestion also. JB Weld proper (not the quick set variant) would have been successful I reckon as I've used it to great success on an aluminium fixture that had engine coolant flowing through it. Some additional braces like Ben used would have helped of course, but just a liberal buildup of JB Weld in and around the break would be fine, IMHO.
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The smile on my face after Ben said “IM IN GEAR “ well done blokes 👍🏼
The plastic bit - peroxide and UV. Look up a technique call Retrobriting 👍
For yellowed plastic. You could try H2O2 solution under UV. Plenty to find on TH-cam. Great video BTW!
Came here to post the same thing!
Yep, Retrobright it up!
Well done, lads. That's a lively car. Can't wait to hear it with the new exhaust. Love seeing old cars ressurected from the brink of death. One of the most enjoyable on TH-cam at the moment.
3rd September is my birthday. World War 2 started on this day ! Well done to you both - a lot of graft but you got there in the end......
I came for the Panhard vids, so... crack on! My Dad had 2 Panhards in the back yard back in 1968. He was planning on using the motor from one of them in the gyrocopter he built.
Fantastic, very proud of you, it’s all in the preparation isn’t it? So true of everything worth doing
Damn! Just started watching this for the second time! This is a good reason to leave a comment. To know where you have boldly been. Bugger!...
Definitely my favourite channel at the moment you guys definitely deserve a medal for getting that clutch working that car is going to be your channels mascot well done for not giving up on the car she deserves to be back on the road
Congratulations on getting the Panhard mobile!!! 👍👍👍
Well done you two. Awesome! You literally had a proud dad moment on your face when that clutch worked 😂
Never been happier! 😅👍
@@tastyclassics on your Speedo cover could you not get someone to print a copy in 3d as you’ve got the original to template?
Success🎉 very entertaining is the poor sad little thing.
To say that episode was entertaining is a gross understatement🤣. For the clear speedo cover you can get a product called Polywatch which is used for cleaning and buffing vintage wristwatch glasses. BUT!!! first of all try toothpaste and a tiny bit of water, dip a cloth into it and buff it carefully, I have restored loads of watches like that.
59.20 Ben selects second and it goes in, brilliant!!!
I'm not sure whether you're completely insane or a genius but the success you two achieved in this episode was palpable in your child-like elation on freeing the clutch.
You make a great team...more duo content please and good luck getting to the show ❤
What a back seat driver you've got there !
Well done fellas. Sure has been one hell of a journey. .👍
Great to see the l
Panhard running and driving .your face says it all.great channel mate .
I've only watched few of your videos, but you certainly have earned my sub! and likes of course, your excitement and happiness when you fix these oldies is just infectious!
Brilliant stuff, really enjoyed this video. Thanks so much !!!!
8:39. Bookmarking this sentiment to send to a friend.
😊best Series on the Telley
Good to see you have permanently installed a can of plusgas in the engine bay - I really laughed at the broken pedal - love the repair to the column too - You should try to rebuild a car just using parts that you have made, as you seem pretty good at 'bodgefabrication'.
Not sick of you diving in to the cars. Much more fun than a will it start and o er to the next.
You deserve moren followers
Brilliant! 👏👏👏👏👏
I was sick when I first seen it,....literally !! but must say it's growing on me ..like the mould on the back seat. 😄
You guys are brilliant.😊
Im not gonna be able to sleep the night before Arley , i'll be like a little kid on Christmas eve !
Unless that has some kind of strange hydraulic clutch, it is a manual clutch and all it needs is to be adjusted.
Agreed. Free play, cable position and movement on pedal is surely available. It’s working at the end!
Quite possibly the Greatest resurrection ever!!
Super job 👏
Brilliant Ben, thanks.
Chuffed to bits for you on the progress - brilliant brilliant update, well done to you both. For the speedo cover, you might think to try Meguires scratch 2.0, as it will cut the milky laters off, but still leave is smooth and shiny - just a karate kid ‘wax on/wax off’ with a decent cotton cloth, although you might need a few rounds.
Keep ‘em comin’!
JCHK
Well done chaps
Just how cool are glass brake fluid reservoirs! Even better with those doors you can lean out (steering with your knees) and check the levels as you go along, Kin classy or what.
looking forward to 3rd september, see you there!!!👍
This refurbished cart will look cool, watching this video from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Ime looking forward to see it driving it’s gonna be great ........
WooHoo shes running like a dream weil done guys..... You could try some peroxide for that speedo glass.. with uv light or sunshine.. if we get any.. or there is a product called polywatch for revitalising acrylic watch crystals..
Brillant its loads fun, everything you do not boring
What a great episode, what a beautiful little car, I can't believe you have got so far with it. A brilliant classic you have saved and you gave us almost as much joy as you obviously had yourselves. Well done you.
Amazing and wonderful. All that time and it was a seized clutch release shaft. No wonder the pedal snapped off. Love the cream plastics, so classy. 😊👌
Thank you Ben for introducing me to plusgas! Bought a couple of cans after a left for dead car. The front suspension bolts on my car thank you. Thoroughly enjoying all your videos.
Well done guys brilliant video
YAAAAAASSSSSS Amazing effort girls.
I was hoping to come down on the 3rd, but new job got in the way.
Love those Panhards. I am now a subscriber. Try bicarb soda on that plastic dash cover . You could also test a small area wth 1200 grit and then polish it.
Woo hoo! Panhard drives hard. Sounds crazy like after a night of pints and tacos if you get me.
Great work guys, failing to get the Panhard working perhaps a future in automotive comedy duo?
Lovin' this series.
I said, the gearchange mechanism was different Ben when you picked up the car. :) The clutch release bearing shaft often seizes due to dissimilar metals & corrosion, but you can lever using a bar, heat and penetrating oil etc, once loose there's a oil holes in the aluminium casting to prevent seizing later. I did revive my clear speedo cover, using fine wet and dry and re polishing, be careful you don't break that fuel gauge. The outer choke cable needs to be held in the bracket, there should be a threaded screw in this, have a look at that PL17 on the trailer, then adjust the movement and it'll be good to go. :) Funny watching you & Rob do the dance with the engine, you can put them in by yourself, but you know about it. It is also easier if you take four of the screws that hold the bumper engine mount subframe, and let it pivot downwards. You need the gear change lever to be in the middle when at rest in neutral, and if you look at the spherical ball... that will be 3rd in the up plane, 2nd in the down plane, first is towards you and up, fourth is away from you and down from the neutral position. You need to adjust the cables at the gear linkage... you also might have an air leak from the inlet flanges too, as you disturbed it. Reverse is towards you and down, but you pull the gear lever outwards from the column.
Is he in 3rd most of the laps of the yard then, away from the driver and up?
@@bananabrooks3836 Hard to tell, but the engines don’t set off in third, but if the cable is in the wrong place at the gearbox end, the selector forks and gear lever are in the right place. You also can’t select all the gears because the gear lever mechanism hits the metalwork inside the steering column cowling
Loving this series man! You're definitely one of my fav channels!
Brilliant to see you so happy Ben
Well done matey , really happy for you , that's a stellar effort .
Big fan of your channel, it is definitely entertaining and you should definitely have more subs. I just got rid of my 2000 Lexus LS400. Beautiful car. I offered it to 2 TH-camrs near me for content for their car channels and nobody wanted to come and pick it up. I offered it for free. The road trip could have been part of the video...LOL.. I got rid of my 23-year-old Lexus LS400 and in its place I now drive a 17-year-old Infiniti G35 coupe. But like I was saying, I enjoy your channel I enjoy your content. Hope many subs come your way.
Not sick of it. It's why I subscribed. This one.
Another honourable mention of the mighty DANDO shaft!! Love it ta
Fair play lads, you've really done this car proud. Wouldn't it be amazing to see the look on the persons face who bought this car brand new to see it bring brought back to life now.
I'm really chuffed that you decided to spend the time and effort into this old french car
I know you where a bit unsure to start with but she wanted to live again
So thank you so much for doing it love your work and have been following you for the past year
Keep it up mate 👍
All your hard work rewarded. Great stuff!
That holder for your clutch cable. You couldn't probably use JB well. To glue the corner back on, but you would have had to reinforce it like you guys did. But it wouldn't made it a tiny bit stronger
Kinda sounds like a two stroke :D
p.s. I've been waiting so long for this episode. Finally hearing it shifting gears is amazing. Keep up the good work.
The first time I ever saw a Panhard I was convinced it was a two-stroke until I looked it up!
Sick of seeing the Panhard?! Nahh....i'll watch as many vids on this you can make! Keep up the good work! 👍
Just watched the latest vid, so chuffed for you getting it driving through the gears. Great to see such enthusiasm for such an old car. Loving this channel, keep em coming
What a great episode!!! Looks like its well on its way to being on the tower of power. Still holding out hope of seeing that beast go around the track!
When I was a child in the early sixtieth our Doctor at the time Had one of these cars
Well done guys ,excellent upload. Keep them coming.
Loved this video, and seeing the little car drive. You have worked hard on this, and deserved some payback to be fair. You know you could try cutting paste on that plastic, similar to what they use on plastic headlamps. polish and repeat maybe. 2 thumbs up 👍👍
Such an incredibly.. french machine. Good job on getting it running again! You may find some handy tips on LEGO forums on how to restore plastic, those are prone to yellow as well.
This is now my favourite resurrection you’ve done 👍
For the cluster cover you could try Retrobright (an internet home brew) or Meguiars Plastr-X
With regards to the, yellow / clear plastic. I saw some guy with a blow torch, wafting it over stadium seats. Just like magic a dull and pail seat looks shinny and new. Just a thought.
What a machine!! ... Top job boys 👍👍
You could give away the broken clutch pedal as a competition I suppose? Great channel
Don't know if anyone else has suggested it elsewhere but you can polish plastics using toothpaste as it is an extremely fine cutting compound. Used this to polish plastics on my old hand held video games (Astro Wars). That should take off the ingrained discolouration without scratching the finish on the plastic facia.
Great video and well chiffed you got her running. May I sugest using the headlight restorer stuff on the dial plastic?
When taking the yellow out of retro plastics (commonly called retro brighting) you can submerge the plastic in 12% hydrogen peroxide and leave it under a UV lamp. Works brilliantly.
Was the river in Charlie and the chocolate factory really liquid chocolate? 😂😂😂😂, discuss........
Fair play your perseverance is really starting to pay off.
Love all of your vlogs.
Try 5000/7000 grit under running water to see if you can polish the yellow out of that binnacle
Yellowed plastics can be brought back with soaking in Hydrogen Peroxide (plenty resources on this, look up "retr0briting", easy process), but, thi all depends on the plastic, not sure the clear speedo housing here would do much, but it's worth a shot, and as for the cloudiness, if it's inside the plastic, then, it's knackered, if it's surface stuff, then something like Peek or Autosol polishing compund can cut through it, usually, again depending on the plastic, if the cloudiness is inside the plastic itself, then it's shot and just have to make excuses when the rozzers ask if you know how fast you were going... :P
Yes that’s what I was thinking of. Hydrogen peroxide and UV light I think.
It’s the assumptions that get us! Forgotten cars always have a frozen clutch, don’t they? It will release with a quick drive. Err, not if it is out of adjustment and doesn’t release the pressure plate. I envy you the thrill of solving that one.
You almost wonder if that was the fault that caused it to be abandoned in the first place.
1:07:52 headlight sanding/buffing kit from halfrauds- about £20 i think
Awsome job done
Great work guys, good to see it progressing. I've booked my tickets for Arley Hall , see you there
Try Brasso or Solvol on the speedo plastic. It might do something. Well done on getting it driving!
Drop a mini Cooper engine in it ben.getting there mate enjoying the videos
Regarding any plastic: If you have a grinder/buffer to use, put a buffing wheel (or 2) and use plastic polishing compound (a cream - or actually I think any polishing compound will work). It will polish that plastic and make it look like new except for the yellowing that comes with age. You will never get it to look good doing it by hand.
Brilliant, what a machine! It's almost ready for the Nurburgring.
Was worried you might be getting bored with this, when you introduced the Rover parts donor, last time.
Happy to see it back. Sadly, life has intervened and our planned trip to UK in September has been put on hold, so we won’t be seeing it. But great to hear it’s going to be there.
Use a headlight cleaning kit, that should work.
I’m a bit reluctant to suggest this, given how plentiful those instrument glasses are, but I’ve had success with T-cut, used very gently. For reference, I’ve also restored scratched dvds with it, but you have to be very gentle and use cotton cloths, to avoid creating a cloudy finish.
Well done lads! A bit of tweaking the choke and you have got your new daily drive, maybe not.
I was wanting to suggest using plastic headlight restorer , but you have other suggested probably well informed advise already , be good to find out if and how you manage to shift the yellow in the end! Good luck with that little issue whatever you try!
Central theme of this project: Why do things properly as long there are still some rare linkages to break?! It had to happen. 🤣
Look up "retrobrite" for the plastic
Legend….,
Richard!!
Fucking brilliant, you are the men!!!
Loved this!!! Congratulations 😎 the Speedo cover? You could use the original to make a mould then make a new one using resin?
Great video again. Is it just my old eyes, or is the image quality better on this one?
ooh, it uses a graphite throwout doohickey, basically a big round pencil (also basically the same as the brushes in an electric motor, graphite is "slippery" on metal surfaces), doesn't really matter if it's cracked up, does matter if it's worn down though cos you can't sharpen it up like a pencil, cos it looks like it's worn to a stump so could do with looking for a new one at somepoint, assuming they're available... :P
I've had considerable success with JB weld in such instances...😀
I'm a bit late to the party but that would have been my suggestion also. JB Weld proper (not the quick set variant) would have been successful I reckon as I've used it to great success on an aluminium fixture that had engine coolant flowing through it. Some additional braces like Ben used would have helped of course, but just a liberal buildup of JB Weld in and around the break would be fine, IMHO.
I did not know that this french cars were also built with RHD, never seen one of them.