Wheeler Sellers hosts Mike Brewer and Marc Priestley have opened up on the “heartbreaking” second their restored basic Mk1 Ford Fiesta was stolen by thieves.
The duo had labored laborious to convey a Ford Fiesta Mk1 again to its greatest earlier than the mannequin was nicked a day earlier than its large unveiling again in June.
The pair mentioned they’d “tears” of their eyes moments after realising the automotive had been taken from their lodge.
The restoration of the Fiesta is ready to be aired on tonight’s first episode of the brand new Wheeler Sellers sequence.
After repairing the mannequin the duo had deliberate to take it to a Ford pageant in Yorkshire to indicate off their laborious work to lovers.
In a brand new video uploaded to X, previously Twitter, Priestley defined: “We have been so pleased with it… We went to mattress within the lodge all excited concerning the subsequent day when everybody was going to get to see it for the primary time.
“And as lots of you’ll now know, we awakened within the morning and it had been stolen. And it was heartbreaking.”
Mr Brewer added: “We devoted a lot of our time and a spotlight approach above what we usually do on a restoration or a construct, into this automotive as a result of we knew how vital this automotive was.
“There’s solely 4 of them left within the nation so this was a very vital automotive for us. To get up within the morning and discover out it had been stolen was destroying. It destroyed us.
“After which to face in entrance of 1,000 individuals at our one pageant we had organized and inform it to them, announce it to them, there have been tears. It was actually robust.”
The duo had determined to revive the 1970s mannequin as a result of the American automotive big introduced the top of the Fiesta model earlier this 12 months.
After the automotive was stolen, the 2 hosts issued a passionate plea on particular media in a determined bid to seek out the automotive.
Former Prime Gear host Richard Hammond additionally weighed in by posting his personal on-line plea. Nonetheless, final week Mr Brewer admitted that the mannequin was nonetheless undiscovered on the eve of the brand new sequence airing.
X consumer @chrisbedford17 requested: “Did u discover your stolen automotive after?” (sic). However, Mr Brewer merely replied: “nonetheless lacking” in a blow to his 148,000 followers and followers of the sequence.
Within the new clip, Mr Priestley added: “It was a vastly emotional day and it has been ever since. For anybody that’s asking for an replace on the state of affairs, sadly, we have not bought one. It’s nonetheless lacking.
“West Yorkshire Police are nonetheless it however thus far have give you nothing so if anybody sees it do tell us.”
However, the group haven’t given up simply but inside a closing roll of the cube in a last-ditch effort to be reunited with their Mk1 Fiesta. Mr Brewer remarked: “£5,000 reward out of our pocket simply to get the automotive again, no questions requested.”