The seal is about three grand on the engine: the valve seals, yes, and that gets the oil leaks too yeah exactly right off the bat uh. The regulators i mean for both of them close to a thousand dollars. Okay and then, since everything's gon na be out. It's gon na be easier to fix your suspension, so 500 bucks for the suspension so drive this car like you would drive any other car.

Don't worry about any of the lights or anything that may come on it. It's fine, it leaks, but it works. Just just go, that's it! That's a very long explanation put on the break to start it put on the brakes. To start it welcome movies garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and today is going to be a fantastic day, because i'm going to pick up my lamborghini countage, which, according to the car wizard, is finished and ready for pickup and ready to pay a Bill, it seems like every time i fix a lamborghini, it's a matter of months when it comes to weight even for smaller repairs and it's not the wizard's fault.

It's usually a bad circumstance of events that causes things to take months, but i can't complain now because it's done and done well in time for the countage rally, i'm shipping, the car to california in a few weeks to go on an amazing uh rally experience. Hopefully i need to knock on some wood somewhere, so it doesn't all go wrong, but today is also going to be very fun because we are going to do a little experiment today with bmws, but before i get to that, let's talk about the mercedes. The little key that i had somebody found it in my last video i sent people on a hooptie scavenger hunt to find a key hidden inside of a model car and if they found that key, they would get my mercedes s500 coupe, and i thought i was Going to drop hints over a series of videos days or weeks before somebody actually found it, but it only took a few hours. So i hid this key in a place where i filmed my very first video on huvi's garage with my manual swapped, mercedes 300 sd.

In the background where i was doing some driving there were these old horse jumps in this neighborhood, it used to be a horse ranch and they kept the old equestrian horse jumps. In the background, somebody saw that first video, actually several people, did and then checked the footage and saw that it looked like. It was the same color same kind of woodwork. They went and dug through the mulch and got the key so congrats to craig he's.

Actually, a pharmacist that i think works nearby went and found it, and actually several people after him went to the exact same spot so with those very very few clues. Basically, i said i'd filmed in this place a long time ago and in a very tight shot of where i buried it. Several people found it i'm very impressed, but anyway the first thing we are going to do today is have a little experiment. Now i'm known for spending way too much money fixing cars, especially bmws, and despite me doing all these fixes, it seems like they just break again and again and again, and yet you see plenty of old, mercedes, bmws german cars, european cars that are very unreliable, going Down the road seemingly in disrepair, and they seem to run like that forever.

So what happens when you take a car, that's neglected and just continue driving. You fix the bare minimum of things to keep it going and just kick it on down the road and that's what i'm going to do with the bmw 645ci. It's at the carnages right now and we're actually going to give it to someone and a family. Member of mine and we're just going to see how long it lasts, but first, let's go pick up the 645.

ninja hello. You finished all the work, the extensive work i authorized on this 645: oh yeah uh. It took like less than an hour to finish everything. Yeah, so the only coolant link was this hose right here and an oil change.

So what do you think of my idea here? Well, i think it's gon na work, just fine. I think it'll last for a year two years, three years, maybe four! So why even do maintenance? Hey, look at this building? Someone has to pay for it right. It is quite a building, but it's a little frustrating. I spent all this money fixing cars and they keep breaking, but then people who buy a car like this never do anything.

It just lasts. Everything works for years, right, yeah. It's just dumb luck. I suppose.

Speaking of dumb luck, i'm selling the 135. So if you look it over for me, make sure it's okay, since the track day and i'll take this home and we'll give it to its new rightful owner. You found one, oh absolutely! Yes, all right! I'm back from the ninjas with this lovely piece of german engineering, and it is time to give it away and start the experiment. You all know my wife ann well.

This is her cousin, joe joe came from vietnam two three years ago, and she actually had a car. It was wrecked by a bad guy in a police pursuit completely destroyed, so her family they're kind of sharing uh one car which isn't working. So this is the perfect solution. Anal translates as i give the instructions, but basically joe drive this car, like you, would drive any other car, don't worry about any of the lights or anything that may come on it.

It's fine, it leaks, but it works. Just just go: that's it that's a very long explanation: okay, but she's, a good translator, but yeah the test is to see how long this bmw would last without any fixes, because i spend so much money fixing cars all these cars here and they just break again. What happens if you just do absolutely nothing? If you just don't care about a car, so hop in here you go. If you want this back window down, you kind of have to do it yourself, all right, joe here's, the key there's three of them, some of them work some, don't i think that one works good foot on the brake uh to start it? No! No! That's the gas, that's the gas pedal put on the brakes to start it there.

You go all right, yeah put it and drive there ignore those chimes and the bmw. I drive thing it'll take a while to get that. But uh, yes, buckle your seatbelt, all right! Bye have fun that poor car poor joe the countach, is done. Poor, i'm gon na go get the countach i uber to the wizard this time, wizard wizard wizard, i'm not interested.

Thank you. I hope he's interested hey. I want a kooks dodge back razor wizard. Hello.

Sorry yeah, you can come on in there's a few hoopties outside the cadillac. Is it? Is it fixed? Yes, we got some heavy-duty truck belts on it. Oh yeah, so the belt was squeaking and the ac quit working, which was just a loose connection, connection came loose. Is all it was my block waiting on parts from latvia, but is this that is your old marauder? It is yes, it looks a lot nicer than when i had it.

The headlights are new and clean. The paint certainly needs correction, but it's my old marauder yeah. What's going on with it, the gauge cluster has issues we're fixing. Well, his radio went out on him.

We got an ac compressor to put on wow. The window. Regulator went bad on it on this side. These have gotten quite valuable.

They only made them for a couple years, all right, all your ferrari's moving along slowly. It's been pretty slow lately because we've been so busy but because you've been yachting, that might be you're yachting. I finally got you back here mentally you're - probably not even here, you're on your yacht - i'm ready for tomorrow, more yawning okay. Well, take me through the cars, at least before you get on your yacht, mentally or physically uh gallardo yeah mirror edition huh wow, all black.

What's going on with that, we got both front struts off to be rebuilt, the lift portion of them. Oh, yes, the axle lift yep. Well, that's very cool! Well! This was not a very fun experience to have two toes within a week on this sl. It seemed like it had a big vacuum leak.

It sounded that way too. What was it end up being your catalytic converter, just finally just gave up the ghost it got so clogged that it was leaking out of every little joint that i could. That was that noise - the shh yes because it was so restricted. Yes, interesting, okay! So what have you done right now? We have a test pipe fitted to verify.

That was the problem and it runs perfect now so we've got a new catalog converter ordered on the way. Okay, so it should sound. It sounds a little throat here, oh yeah, no more hissing noises, no, no more hissing noises! I have noticed over the last couple years that it seemed kind of down on power. I barely drive it, so i didn't really care but yeah.

That could be why that very likely was the problem. It finally reached a head that it was just not usable anymore. On the bridge there it reached the head, so this is the head that it reached yep. Oh my, it should be honeycomb like little squares as you can see, and then this half on the other side is all clogged inside of there.

So so, if the exhaust is clogged, then the exhaust has nowhere to go and back pressure somewhat is good, but not that much obviously yeah that was causing some issues. Well, sorry, car that's kind of neglectful, but oh well, um how's, the bug eye doing the bug eye is almost done really yep. It is just so cute this little austin healey sprites that was leaking from everywhere, because it's an old british car and the leaks are solved. We got timing, cover, gasket and all the different gaskets up front front main seal and the leaks are about 90 done.

There's a very small one from maybe from the rear main seal, we'll have to see if it gets worse or whatever. Okay, we did convert it to an electric fuel pump. That was your issue with the fuel starvation, vapor, locking you can see the little red cap over this. That's an inertia switch for safety.

If you get into an accident, it'll shut off your fuel pump and there's your fuel pump relay. If i get an accident, this car is probably the least of my worries, but i appreciate you looking out for my safety yeah. Oh this is this is so cool, i'm glad i got it but a little leak. I guess it's a british car if it's not leaking it's empty, so we should probably leave the one thing.

Leave one little thing leave a little vent for it right right as long as it's not gushing, no, it doesn't gush or pour anywhere okay. Well, i'm noticing something very green over here. Yes, wow, another four, five six and it's a gated 456 wizard. Yes, somebody else with taste, isn't it beautiful yeah, it looks a little saggy in the back, though yeah.

That's one of the issues. It's here for check engine light, a few other things, 43 000 miles so pretty decent miles on this thing too. They actually used it, but this one hundred thousand mile rolls royce too it's back 150 150 holy moly. It runs and drives fine.

It just keeps nickeling and diving him to death. It's just little things keep which is to be expected with that miles certainly been there done that, but what i'm here for is actually very, very exciting the countach. It's done it's alive. It's done yeah.

Another journey with these cars, these lamborghinis, it's insane poor, michael, are you you're gon na have ptsd when it comes to lambos and things not going right, i'll call it a success once you've made it around your hot lap. I suppose i am a great test driver, but you got annihilated on the diablo because of the bad rebuild on the steering rack that you tried to fix, so it was like in and out three times right before we got the new one took months and months. Uh before michael's, around a little bit when you're around, we were finishing up the murcielago yeah. That was some fun with the transmission yeah used when we bought that uh showed up broken so cutting holes, and then this one as michael showed, while you were yachting, the uh replacement ignition box, didn't work, two of them right, a lot of hair pulling, but he Still has his hair for now, yes and uh, the msd ignition, yes, which was a old hoopty, looking msd wizard.

Yes, it's in a place that you'll never ever see it as far as concour points behind this carpet here, but i was expecting well something newer, wizard down in there yeah. They don't make the 7227al unit anymore. You have to buy a good used, one, the newer ones. They will run the car, but the tax it has issues with the tack.

Oh, so it's not a v12 thing, it's for the tachometer signal, and that would be i mean we don't want that. So this one is guaranteed is known to work. It's been proven to test on multiple different countaches. So that's the way i went wonderful.

Well, it's all working air conditioning. That was the other thing. We had no blower action. We had no wipers a lot of things.

Didn't work, bad wiring, bad grounds and we got that all taken care of, and it all came alive really yeah and the air conditioner had charge in it yep it had some charge in it, but just barely not enough to kick the system over. Oh so just topping off yeah, who would have thought hadn't been driven 150 miles in eight or nine years. I drove it more. You know broken in the last six months than it had been eight years prior, but now now it's sorted you're saying i believe so.

Where's, some wood, wood, wood, wood, what it is carmageddon it is carmageddon. Oh yes, i'm going to drive this home today during carmageddon month, you'll notice that it starts faster. Oh really, yes, okay! Well, i guess i'll head off, then no, we got a bill to pay. All right all right, how bad is this gon na be? I think i spent 1500 entires on the countach already well, it's about double that to do all the work.

We did three thousand dollars yep. That was a lot of money. That means for under five thousand dollars i sorted out a countach, not bad, no, no, not bad, considering the condition that it came up here, barely running with the magnetic morelli ignition system. So that's very nice you're already typing in.

I guess. Wizard wants me to stop talking and uh. Well, give him a credit card and then we'll head off in the crew josh it works. It works all right, kuntaj, you got this, you just need to behave and then you'll have the time of your life in california.

Wow, i could already tell when i just cold started it that it starts so much quicker, let it get warmed up a little bit and then i'll give her the beans. Yes, it's getting on the on ramp now and the air conditioning. Oh, my goodness, it is good, it's wonderful! Hey! This new ignition might have woken up a little bit. Wow all right fingers crossed fingers crossed needs to make it home go to the detailer last for about an hour to my friend, brian petty's house, who is transporting with his countach out to california, and then we are on the rally.

You can do it. Yes, you can please thank you so much for watching.