Bangers & Cash
Series 14, episode 4: an Amphicar, a Mini Moke and a Polish Fiat
By Jon Cosson · Last checked
An independent guide from the village. Not connected to Mathewsons or the programme. For entries, bidding and the catalogue, go to mathewsons.co.uk. Checked 9 October 2026.
Episode 4 aired on U&Yesterday on Thursday 13 August 2026. The broadcaster's listing has Derek on a triple pickup in the Home Counties: a 1968 Mini Moke, an Amphicar 770 and a Polish-built Fiat 126. A pre-series preview, which billed these stories as the opening episode, said the Moke had been in one family since new, that one of the team saw a mouldy Vauxhall VX4/90 as a possible bargain, and that a Yamaha RD500 had Dave reminiscing.
The cars
- Amphicar 770
- the amphibious car built in West Germany in the first half of the 1960s and sold until 1968; 3,878 were made. The name is usually explained as 7 knots on water and 70 mph on the road.
- Mini Moke
- BMC's open utility Mini, built at Longbridge from 1964 to 1968 and later in Australia and Portugal. It is remembered from the 1960s series The Prisoner.
- Fiat 126
- Fiat's small rear-engined car of 1972, built in Poland in vast numbers until 2000, where it was nicknamed Maluch, the little one. The broadcaster's own listing calls it a Fiat 216, a slip for 126.
- Vauxhall VX4/90
- the sporting version of the Vauxhall Victor, sold, with breaks, from 1961 to the late 1970s. The listing spells it VX490.
- Yamaha RD500
- Yamaha's two-stroke V4 road bike of 1984, developed from its Grand Prix racers.
What they made
No result for these cars has been published. We add it here when Mathewsons publish one or when we can confirm the figure the programme showed.
Visit
The cars on Bangers & Cash are sold at Mathewsons' Pickering saleroom, and the Mathewsons museum and shop are in Thornton-le-Dale.