Salvage Hunters star Drew Pritchard has admitted his confidence got the better of him after he purchased his “first proper grown up car”, resulting in him almost killing himself while driving it.
“Everybody thinks they’re good at driving and sex, but the BMW made me think I was a better driver than I really was. The handling was sublime but I nearly killed myself in it; driving like a t**,” he said.
“I went into a corner thinking I was the big ‘I am’ and completely lost it, I ended up pointing the wrong way in the middle of a Welsh B-road. I was on my way home in broad daylight,” he told the website.
He revealed the car in question was a dark metallic green 1997 R-registered BMW 323i M Touring.
Telling the site it was “the first proper grown up car” he bought, Drew explained how he paid £13,000 for it and despite it being a couple of years old, it was in “brand new” condition.
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Salvage Hunters presenter Drew Pritchard has opened up about an incident in a car he owned (Image: Rory Lindsay/Quest TV)
As he fondly recalled the car, he admitted he was bereft after selling it to a car dealer in Cheshire when he needed a bigger car to accommodate his family.
However he has never forgotten it and would love to own it again. “I’ve spent hours looking for it on Auto Trader, but I’ve never seen one with the same specification.
“I hope it still exists somewhere, I’d buy it back in a heartbeat,” he confessed.
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Drew has been a presenter on Salvage Hunters since its debut in 2011 (Image: Prime Video)
“I am actually unemployable. Utterly unemployable,” he told the I Paper. He confessed that the “only” thing he is good at is finding antiques that he can then sell on to others – but he’s very, very good at that.
The star couldn’t even switch off on a family holiday, confessing: “I went out buying every day.”
“Just because something is discovered somewhere grotty and horrible and dirty, that doesn’t mean it’s rubbish,” he explained.
“But it does take a long time to really learn that. Also you have to handle it and touch it to decide its worth. Experience is key, but you can get lucky.
“I’m a terrible businessman but a good collector of things. A friend of mine who has known me since I was 16 said to me, ‘You know a lot of stuff about things’, which I think sums me up.”