Private Car Cave tour - features The Beast and every classic you can think of!

Summary

In this 'Car Cave' video, host Johnny Smith tours the extensive classic car collection of Martin Langridge. Spanning several decades and encompassing both high-end exotics as well as more modest enthusiast vehicles, Martin guides Johnny through his array of cars from a pre-war Bentley and Porsche 962 to a Rolls-powered 'Beast', while sharing personal stories behind many of his prized acquisitions. Throughout the garage tour, Johnny and Martin analyze and admire Martin's meticulously kept cars, highlighting favorites like the rare Honda N600, while discussing future project vehicles soon to join this extraordinary assemblage.

Takeaways

• 😊 Martin bought the 'Beast' Rolls Royce at an auction and has since refurbished it including fixing the oil consumption
• 🚗 The car cave has an incredibly diverse collection ranging from vintage cars to modern performance cars
• 🔧 Martin has specialists that look after the engines and bodywork of the cars
• 🏎 The collection includes unique competition cars like a Ford RS600 rally car and Formula 1 cars from the 80s
• 📽 The Rolls Royce 'Beast' was originally built to provoke Rolls Royce by its owner John Dods
• 💡 An insight into car enthusiasm spanning classics, hot hatches, rare homologation specials etc
• 🚘 Some cars have special personal nostalgic connections like his dad's number plate on an old car
• 🔥 Performance cars in the collection - Porsche 997 GT2, Audi Quattro, Lotus Elan etc
• 😍 Showcases dream cars like the Aston Martin DB5, Citroen SM, AC Cobra
• 💸 Buys rare and unsung heroes rather than the typically popular expensive classics

Q & A

What car does Martin say he has wanted since he was a child?

Martin says he has wanted a Bentley blower since he was a child after seeing one drive past when he was young.

What modification has Martin made to the 'Beast' car since he bought it at auction?

Martin has changed the color, added a Rolls Royce grill to the front, refurbished the interior, and made some mechanical fixes to stop it burning oil.

Why does Martin say he likes the Rover SD1?

Martin says he likes the Rover SD1 because it was an underdog competing against the more popular "Batmobiles" (British Leyland cars) when it was new.

What convinced Martin to buy his first Porsche 962?

Martin says he bought his first Porsche 962 on impulse after having too much wine at an event and someone convincing him to look at one for sale.

What modifications have been made to the engine in the 'Beast' car?

The engine has Meteor pistons instead of the normal supercharged Merlin pistons to increase the compression ratio since it no longer has a supercharger.

Why does Martin say he prefers the Triumph Vitesse to the Herald?

Martin prefers the Vitesse because it has the smoother straight-six engine compared to the Herald's four-cylinder.

What convinced Martin to buy a Lotus Esprit Turbo?

The CEO of Lotus convinced Martin to buy an Esprit Turbo, telling him it would be a future classic and good investment.

What's unusual about Martin's Audi Quattro?

Martin's Audi Quattro only has 65-75,000 miles on it which is very low for an older Audi.

What car does Martin say his wife dislikes the most?

Martin says his wife dislikes the Reliant Scimitar GTE the most.

What car does Martin say gets the most attention at Goodwood?

Martin says his Honda N600 gets more attention and photographs at Goodwood than his other more exotic cars.

Outlines

00:00

😆 Intro to car video and owner Martin

The video is set in a shed with many interesting cars. The owner Martin met the host at Goodwood and invited him to see the Beast car that the host had filmed previously. Martin bought cars he was interested in rather than for investment.

05:02

😍 Martin's journey into cars

Martin grew up in a family of teachers where money was tight. His interest in cars started when a Bentley blew past them as a child. He was frustrated having a push mower while a neighbor had a petrol one. Later in life he had the means to fulfill his passion.

10:03

🚗 Walking through the garage

They tour the garage seeing various cars. Notable ones included a Metro 6R4 Group B rally car previously driven by Colin McRae, a Rover SD1 race car, a rare unrestored early Range Rover, and Martin's daily driver Mercedes 280SE.

15:04

🚒 The Rolls Royce 'Beast'

This car caused controversy by using a Rolls radiator grill. Martin added it back after buying the car and got approval from Rolls. It has a Merlin V12 engine, not a Meteor as some claim online.

20:06

😍 The DB5 and other Astons

The DB5 was bought because it features in James Bond films. An unrestored red DB5 is discussed along with a DB9 manual and a DBS straight 6. The host sees the appeal after not being an Aston fan before.

25:08

🏎 Diverse classics: Honda S600 to F1

More cars shown including a Peugeot 205 GTI, 70s F1 Hesketh, 60s F1 BRM, Audi Quattro, Lotus Elan, rare Austin Allegro, and more. Martin bought based on interest not investment.

30:09

💙 Highlight: pristine Triumph 2500 PI

A totally original, low mileage Triumph 2500 PI in incredible condition is admired. Martin insists on properly restoring cars like this instead of quick fixes.

35:10

👍 Defending the unloved cars

Martin talks positively about cars with poor reputation that he enjoys like the Maestro and Montego turbos. He maintains them properly unlike most examples.

40:10

🚲 Martin's Ducati plus microcars

Martin also owns a Ducati 748 motorcycle he enjoys riding. Various microcars and bubble cars are shown including Messerschmitts.

45:12

🥰 Nostalgic car from Martin's childhood

A Morris that looks identical to his dad's first car is in the collection. He found the same number plate and restored it to match his childhood memories.

50:12

🚂 Coming soon: Steam car & jet engine!

Martin talks about upcoming projects - restoring a steam car and fitting a jet engine in an Austin A35. He won't reveal what cars he'll sell or buy next.

Keywords

💡car collection

The video showcases Martin's extensive classic car collection kept in his garage. It spans multiple decades and includes both common and rare vehicles he has restored and maintained. His collection demonstrates his lifelong passion for cars.

💡car restoration

Many of the cars like the Triumph 2500 PI and the first-generation VW Golf GTI have been restored by Martin to preserve them in excellent condition. This involves work like removing aftermarket modifications, fixing mechanical issues, and refurbishing interiors.

💡rare cars

The collection has very rare cars like a 1987 Formula 1 car, a Honda N600, and a steam-powered American Cadillac currently being refurbished. Their rarity adds to their appeal for collectors like Martin.

💡British cars

Reflecting his nationality and roots, Martin owns many classic British cars including brands like Rover, Triumph, Austin, MG, Lotus, and Aston Martin. His emotional connection to these cars started in childhood.

💡everyday cars

In contrast to flashy sports cars, Martin also collects more mundane vehicles like the Rover P6 and Mercedes W123 that he enjoys driving regularly. This shows his diverse taste.

💡car history

Martin emphasizes the unique history behind vehicles like the rover with James Bond film connections or the rare 6R4 rally car raced by Colin McRae. Provenance increases collectibility.

💡car experiences

He enjoys experiencing cars first-hand by racing ones like the Mini at Goodwood and driving uncomfortable classics like the 2CV for shopping trips. Direct use brings him joy.

💡car passion

The breadth and depth of his collection spanning his entire life proves Martin's enduring passion for cars since childhood. This hobby continually motivates him.

💡car community

Fellow enthusiasts like the previous owner of the Citroen SM recognize and validate Martin's taste and knowledge. Shared passion creates connections and friendships around cars.

💡future cars

Martin hints at upcoming projects like adding a jet engine to an Austin A35. His innovative modifications and restorations keep his passion alive.

Highlights

The carcave features a diverse collection of enthusiast vehicles like a Jaguar E-Type, Ford RS600, Triumph TR4, and Aston Martin DB5.

Martin bought his first Porsche, a 962, after having too much wine at an event and deciding on impulse to purchase it.

The Rolls-Royce radiator grill on the 'Beast' car was controversial when built, but Martin got permission from Rolls-Royce to put an original grill back on.

Martin's favorite car in the collection is a rare 1965 Porsche 912 in original condition with only 3 gauges on the dash.

The McLaren MP4/3 formula 1 car from 1987 featured advanced carbon fiber construction and carbon brake discs.

Martin's passion for cars started as a child when he enviously watched his neighbor's petrol lawnmower while his family had a manual push mower.

The carcave started after Martin tapped a YouTuber on the shoulder at Goodwood and asked him to review the 'Beast' car that Martin had just purchased.

The Metro 6R4 Group B rally car was originally raced by Colin McRae and appeared in its original Duckhams livery.

Martin insists on actually driving and competing with many of the competition vehicles rather than just displaying them.

The rare Honda N600 reminds Martin of his childhood and gets more attention at events than exotic supercars.

The Austin-Healey 3000 represents the most pure coke bottle design before later models became too chunky.

The Lotus Cortina Mk2 retains the Mk1 Lotus engine but wasn't a full factory model yet still has a cult following.

The Peugeot 504 dates to Martin's first classic, a Triumph Herald in the same Mushroom green color.

Martin bought the rare Lotus Esprit Turbo on the advice of a Lotus executive who predicted it would increase in value.

The Alfa Romeo Giulia Sprint is incredibly original, with only 30k miles and no welding or restoration work.

Transcripts

I've come to a lovely house in the Su

Countryside and at the end of the garden

is this unassuming shed doesn't look

that big from here but it's actually got

quite a lot crammed into it and one car

in particular is a car that I've driven

in the past on one of the most popular

late break show episodes aka the Beast

so this is a carcave episode of the late

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Martin I reckon we should start this

chat with how I met you you tapped me on

the shoulder at Goodwood members meeting

I did indeed and you said uh you you you

did a video on the Beast I've just

bought it that's right I've seen you do

a video on your YouTube channel yeah and

completely smoke pouring out the exhaust

and bits falling off it and I thought do

you know I'm about to change what it

looks like yeah what better person to

ask come and look at it again than you

yeah that was fantastic and so after

that then I realized that you had had a

number of interesting cars over the

years which is why we're in the shed

today um two cars aren't here yep that

we have to talk about yep cuz you broke

the internet with this photo that we'll

put on screen now which was you driving

a blower pre-war Bentley with a trailer

and a Porsche 962 on the back yeah

that's true basically I've got my

friends uh run in France on Circ Del

lampar in in France and uh Jean Mark

lefon had asked me to bring the Bentley

down with Derek Bell and to bring the

962 down because they were doing some

sort of Porsche exhibition so I thought

I'm not paying for some Transport

company thousands of pounds to take both

cars down there I'll put a toeb bar on

the Bentley the Bentley I'd owned for 16

years at that stage and thought it's got

a fantastic talk curve let's put a toeb

bar on it to me it seemed perfectly

normal yeah um so I run my insurance

company and said will I be covered and

they said absolutely you will um so

that's exactly what I did how did your

car interest come

about um bought up in a family of

teachers um so money was uh pretty tight

in those days one of three one of three

kids uh my father drove a a hum cter um

yeah when I was a kid and I actually

passed my driving test in that same car

nice and I remember as a

kid Bentley blower going past us on the

A3 and my father saying to me that my

son fires every other lampost and from

that day on I wanted to buy a Bentley so

that's really how the the the passion

started um you know even to the point

when I used to look across the fence at

my neighbors who had a petrol lawn mower

and we had a you a push one and it used

to frustrate the hell out of me so it's

been in my blood from a very early age

and I guess later in life I was I was

lucky enough to have the resources to F

that passion I guess we should start

with this the 6r4 it's a real one it's a

real one yeah and how long have you had

it I bought this from Henry pman the

Jaguar expert um about I reckon 9 10

years ago okay met Henry pman he said

what car would you want to buy next and

I said well always fancied a 6r4 and he

said funny enough I've got one much of

my wife's disussed yeah so went down and

bought it um not realizing really what

it was didn't realize it had any history

whatsoever yeah uh goodward then said to

me look would you mind painting in the

gold Wonder colors uh and coming to the

fesal speed which I duy did and then the

history of the car sort of evolved since

then so this is been in competition all

its life like a lot of them or we've now

discovered that it was driven by Colin

McCrae it was uh rallied throughout its

entire life it was in duckhams colors

yeah it did the super pre at Birmingham

I think it did about uh 35 rallies it

half killed people in accidents this car

has absolutely amazing history but not

in these colors it was in the duckhams

colors amongst a few others I should say

for the record Martin drives cars hard

when true when you buy a competition car

you like to compete yeah if you're going

to drive a car um you know my my

speciality is not rally driving it's

it's tarmac driving yeah um but you know

on the circuit if I can and it's it's

it's it's good fun we we'll give it some

stick here I mean this will RI to 11,000

RPM really yeah it's a quick old car but

behind you I'm seeing Tiff Dell's name

yeah clearly I'm a glut for punishment I

like the underdog yeah I've always liked

the underdog the Metro was an underdog

it was and uh the Rover sd1 that's a

mark one uh was also the underdog that

is actually the first ever Works car so

it's a series one it was uh built for

the 1979 Tourist Trophy and was raced by

Jeff Alam and Tiff nadelle and the idea

of that car was to compete with the

Batmobiles the British all raved over it

and called it the great white whale from

memory um and there's a bit of Argy

bargy between Tiff nelf and Jeff Alam

and the Stillers this day about uh who

uh managed to get the engine to fail oh

really but the engine blew up I think it

got as high as let's say sixth or

seventh and then of course in true Len

style the engine blew up and that was

the end of it right but it's a great car

it's now back exactly as it was in

Period um I've raced it quite a lot um

yeah it's a good car so if is it has

this been restored or has this been yes

when I first got it of course it had the

full racing engine which was in perfect

condition I drove it once and it blew up

it transpired not to be the right engine

at all we've now got the right engine

back in it they're very restrict on it

being 3 and a half liters yeah and it is

3 and a half liters um but yeah it's a

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you every step of the way I like these I

like a 99 they're growing on me to be

fair yes so you didn't know about

Porsches no not at all no I mean

Porsches to me were something that were

pretty boring always started reliable as

hell and when you're driving sixr Falls

and Rovers you know this is kind of this

is this is going to start every time

isn't it it's too predictable exactly

but I bought this what was the what was

the The Catalyst for you going oh porsch

um well the first Porsche I ever bought

was the 962 funny enough and I bought

that at Silverstone years and years ago

I had far too many glasses of wine after

racing the Bentley all day and a chap

came up to me and said look what you

need to drive Martin is a

962 and I said well let's go to have a

look at it and he was a big tall chap as

well I sat in the car absolutely loved

it and said to him I'll tell you what

I'll buy it and then I told all my

friends for about a week after that I

bought a 912 cuz I had no clue what a

962 was I mean all the numbers are mumbo

jumbo to make I can't believe your first

ever por was a 962 well there you go and

it starts on the key it literally had

ignition key it started on the key uh

what a piece of Kit I raced that and

drove that quite a lot and it never let

me down wow so this GT2 came on the

market uh it was owned by two previous

lemon 24

drivers um it's in my opinion the 997 is

the last of the real Porsche 911s it's

the last of that shape before they just

got in my humble opinion too fat and

lardy yeah and also it's the last of the

met last of the Metar engines um so the

997 GT2 if you like for me was worth

buying yeah um I raced this one on a

circuit I drove this one on a circuit

within about half an hour of buying it

bloody hell um and it blew me away it

absolutely blew me away I turned off all

the controls the car was fantastic yeah

it's a serious car yeah it's a real

keeper this one I really like it it's

it's it's at home on the roads or it's

home on the circuit great car this is

like as good as you want to find a Time

Capture car I think I love I love the

the weathering it's just right doesn't

need

restoring how the hell do you find a

Range Rover like this real split score

on if we'll take the one thing at a time

but the real split score on this is do

we do we refurbish it no do we respray

it or do we keep it as it is I will I

will erase you off my phone if you to

repaint this in which case I'm

definitely repainting it um it is a very

very early Range Rover it's probably uh

within the first 6 months to 9 months of

production it's got the original rubber

mat inside because of course originally

these were designed to replace the

defender or what is now the defender

yeah uh the old the old Land series

three yeah yeah and they suddenly

realized wealthy people were buying them

and uh they very quickly put carpets in

them to and gentrified them yeah this is

one of the very first it's in fantastic

Condition it's done about 55,000 mi from

new is that it yeah it has all the

period pieces on it like the fuel caps

correct and the wing mirror if you want

to get anal yeah uh the right letters on

the front um it's a great piece of Kit

and I use it for work occasion

um it's brilliant at Towing it does

everything you want it to and it's a

smoother silk what's it like in all the

places you can't see cuz I know these do

like to rock no this one is incredibly

good uh if you get in your hands and

knees Johnny and have a look underneath

that it really is he's going to do it as

well I I need no

prompting bloody

hell that's good

exactly you might just see there's a

black object the elephant in the room

yeah the I mean like

a trailer with a with the

Spitfire rolling on it yeah so as I

explained earlier I I do a bit of flying

I enjoy flying um and I was very lucky

once upon a time to fly a splitfire I

can't even start to think about

affording a splitfire this Merlin engine

came on the market and I thought why not

you never know in the future someone

might say to me well I've got the

remnants of a Spitfire plane but I'm

missing the engine yeah so I thought I'd

buy it it runs beautifully it's uh

occasionally get it outside and run it

up uh

dries your hair very quickly great piece

of Kit bloody hell good leaf blower I

you get rid of the leaves quite quickly

you get rid of the bloody trees and the

houses I haven't seen all the cars in

detail yet but it's going to be hard to

beat for me anyway a citran SM I only

know one person that's own one of these

and they never quite got it done and I

so I never got to to ride in it uh but

to look at even if it was permanently

broken down it looked Sensational yeah

they do yeah yeah chap called um David

ly David Lil from o octane magazines or

ex octane magazines well this was his

car this was his car this was his car so

you've now been reunited with the only

other person you knew that had it wow I

have not you're right he hadn't finished

it um it was a passion of Davids he did

a few magazine articles on it from

memory yeah uh when I saw it he'd had

enough quite frankly he said Martin I've

had enough of it yeah uh for me it was a

new a new project so it was I was fresh

into it and I took it to one of the

Citroen

experts uh up at north of London and uh

we put it together and there it is it's

a it's a fantastic Car Trust you'd

notice in the core of my garage on the

spit roast is a is a f Panda yeah yeah I

know I so what what's the score you're

obviously fully restoring it so that's

commitment as a hobby I enjoy

skiing um and this normally lives down

in the French Alps uh it's on Italian

plates it's left-and Drive yeah it's a f

sizzly which was a fairly limited

edition so anybody that knows these

things will recognize the color as being

sizzly sizzly color it is a great color

uh it's a 4x4 we bought it back to the

UK cuz I wanted it dipped I wanted to

make sure it was uh in as good a

condition as I could get it into yeah um

it is in remarkable condition the shell

so yeah we're about to refit it and it's

going back into the French Alps oh she

going to take it back straight back it

is my wife I'm going to drive it back

through Europe uh back into back into

France that's Mega we've talked about

the SM yep but we need to talk about

what's either side of the SM two

fascinating cars in their own right

let's talk about the red one first okay

uh this is a 1965 car so first real year

of production um it's called a three di

car so it's only got three di on the

dashboard yeah and there are all sorts

of little finite details you wanted to

get really anal about it about you the

amount of screws holding on the vents

etc etc but it's a very genuine stock

912 from 1965 you know on the original

order it had Wing mirror extra chromed

Wheels extra um it's got all the bits it

had from you yeah um and being the 912

it's a four-cylinder engine yeah but it

actually runs really well a nicely tuned

912 is arguably a much better handling

car than the 911 because the engine is

much smaller yeah and produces in

original guys like this actually almost

as much power as the original 911 yeah

well you forget how small the original

91 exactly it so the power differential

is not that huge uh really nice car and

you know you're now looking at the very

first 911 shape and as we talked about

the 997 GT2 as being probably the last

of the 911 shape and if you look at the

two next to each other they're not that

dissimilar no and I think after the 997

pory just got too big and kind of lost

that Purity yeah you have two guys who

do all your cars that who look after

them for you is that right yeah I've got

a couple guys I mean one looks after the

engines one looks after the body uh body

work um so yeah they they dabble with

the cars which is good good news yeah so

one of the most popular videos I've done

on the late break show is when I got the

opportunity to drive this car the Beast

it wasn't in this color and it didn't

entirely look like this it looked like

that in fact in that strange sort of

prosthetic limb without that radiator

Grill of course without that radiator

Grill so it had the John DOD correct the

chap that owned it the late owner and

Builder um so you're the guy that ended

up buying this car at auction yeah I was

a stupid idiot that thought it would be

a great

idea I actually think I actually think

it was good value cuz it's such a

one-off weird folklore car do you know

it's it's it's one of those Mite cars

people either love it or hate it the

people that hate it probably don't get

it yeah I wouldn't say it's beautiful

you know it is bordering on ugly yes um

I think the change of color from the

prosthetic limb color um to what we've

done now and the modifications we've

done to the front yeah have helped uh I

spoke to John dod's son Paul dods

throughout the entire process and he

sanctioned and said no my dad would

really like that um so we have changed

it we've changed it into what you see

today we've in uh refurbished the

interior which we'll see later um for a

completely new interior based on the

existing

structure we stopped it burning so much

oil good cuz I noticed in your last

video um it showed it burning a lot of

oil so we've had part of the engine

apart y we did find part of an oil ring

in the sump did you which probably

wasn't helping things no it's still got

that broken Oil ring in it right but

with these particular engines they had

two oil rings and three piston rings I

think it is someone out there will tell

me that's wrong but you know as the

amateur that's what it's got yeah and of

course we put the rolls Ross Grill back

on it I was going to say so it now has I

mean the very controversial Grill

because obviously the main backstory of

this car was to do with Rolls taking

John DOD to court yes I think in those

days Johnny you know John dods loved

poking Rolls-Royce in the eye yeah he

kept phoning them up and pretending he

was either a count or a baron or a a

shadow owner from France and that he

wanted their latest model which he'd

seen on the roads his own car yeah and I

think at the end of the day they kind of

got a bit if I say it pissed off with

him uh because um he was he was goding

them of course you know this is not

their upto dat radiator Grill which it

was in period yeah uh I've also taken

the precaution I was at Goodwood

recently and I was lucky enough to be

having a dinner in one of the dining

rooms there uh at one of the functions

and sat next to me was one of the U CEOs

of Rolls-Royce really so me being me I

happened to mention to him that I'd

bought the

Beast and uh I was going to put the

Rolls-Royce Grill back on it again I

explained the history because he didn't

know the history at all because of

course it's now owned by the Germans

yeah uh which is kind of slightly ironic

I guess yeah and I kind of said to him

look we've put this Rolls-Royce Grill

back on the front of uh the Beast it's

registered and always has been

registered as a Rolls-Royce it's running

the Merlin engine which the UK

population are incredibly proud of and

is fairly sensitive material so

therefore surely it's fitting to put the

original Grill back on the car and in a

slightly Germanic accent he said to me

he didn't think there would be a problem

now of course yeah that's very much off

the Record yeah um but I certainly have

no intention of uh goting them over

there's no reason to its clear historic

car now yeah and that is an historic

Grill yeah um so hopefully um it can

stay with a grill it was designed to

have in the first place let say is

registered and always has been as a

Rolls-Royce so are you you going to use

this thing yes my first journey uh post

refurbishment was down the p

right a bit of a stir we had all sorts

of people stopping and winding down

their windows and saying is that what we

think it is um but drives pretty well

yeah not bad at

all it's I'm I'm so glad that it's gone

to someone that fully understands it I

would't say fully understands it but I

one of the things I have discovered

again a lot of the internet you know who

always know better than anybody else

yeah said it has got a meteor engine in

it yeah I can categorically state it has

a Merlin engine in it yeah um it has a

Merlin engine it without the

supercharger on it because of the uh

depth of it what it has got is meteor

Pistons because the supercharged uh

Merlin engine had local compression

Pistons of course because it was

supercharged yeah uh without the

supercharger it just wouldn't produce

enough power so it has the meteor

Pistons which are a higher compression

ratio in a Merlin exactly so the the

block is 100% Merlin the running gear is

100% um the the engine is 100% Merl

apart from the conrods and the Pistons

which are out of a meteor so they're

kind of right yeah well and if you need

any spars I know a guy who's got one on

a trolley we talking about earlier

yeah presumably this is like a childhood

dream thing no Johnny it's not um to be

fair same with Porsches never really got

Aston Martins um I've I've been a bit of

a Jaguar fan in the past uh I until very

recently had a series 1 4.2 yeah e type

um worth a fraction of the cost of these

yeah and some would argue consider be

more technology advanced than an ay

Martin uh because of my hotel I bought

in France which we discussed earlier

that was famously involved with Martin

the hotel of France in the chra so a lot

of people were pushing me and saying you

really need to buy an ason um I decided

to buy the DB5 I was lucky I guess in

the respect of being able to do

so um and as we all know we're all

slightly worried about I think the price

of classic cars is going down yeah the

reason I bought the DB5 is the latest

Bon movie has the DB5 in it and I think

subsequent uh James Bond films will

probably continue that theme because the

DB5 is kind of

it's the linked forever with James Bond

it's everen I think it's Evergreen I

think it's one of the few classic cars

that is I have to say now having been

privileged enough to own it uh it's a

great car really enjoy it uh as well as

the Porsche 912 the DB5 is also my

wife's favorite so uh is it yeah she

loves this car yeah so you use it I use

it a lot um I use it in the winter I use

it in the snow I use it in the ice and

salt and G well it's a car isn't it um

it's not this one's not a trailer Queen

yeah um which is why I like using it um

it does what it says on the tin as long

as you wash it off underneath afterwards

I guess if I refurbished it and rebuilt

it with an inch of its life no I

wouldn't yeah but that's part of its

beauty it's a it's a you know it's a

proper car and the color is slightly

strange yeah but I found out recently

the original car that was delivered to

the James Bond set was in fact red and

the film crew said that doesn't work

we'll change it they changed it to

Silver really so the original one not

necessarily this red but the original

car apparently was red

and this car it then transpired also had

Bond history in the sense that the

original owner of this car was a second

world war fighter pilot right and he was

the designer and it transpires

manufacturer of the James Bond costumes

from the period when these cars were

used uh originally like The Man with the

Golden Gun and so on and so forth really

the original James Bond films that had

the DB5 he did the costumes and

manufactured them so a nice piece of

History interesting yeah not Rel the

slightest of this very

different I know it's a historic Formula

1 car it is and I and I think it's

80s it is it's 1987 it's an

arrow um it's one of the first cars to

be completely carbon fiber so the tuab

on this is carbon fiber is it yeah it's

an era when uh the drivers were just

beginning to become quite important and

they decided they really didn't want to

kill the drivers off right yeah so

safety started to become one of the sort

of four thoughts yeah the brakes on this

interesting they're also carbon fiber

the discs are made of carbon fiber in '

87 87 so everyone thinks it's a really

modern thing you know here we have a

1987 Formula 1 car with carbon discs wow

what the hell are you doing with this

car well again Henry pman funny enough

we were talking about earlier uh the guy

that introduced me to the sixr 4 we

first spoke about yeah um he run me up

one day and said Mar have you ever

thought of trying a formula one so me

like the lamb to the Slaughter said I'll

be up in half an hour uh went and saw it

it was running um but it appealed to me

cuz it's one of the very um

controversial turbo cars so it hasn't

got the large intake because it doesn't

need any Ram effect because it has a

dirty great turbo on it it's a 1.5 L BMW

engine with a huge turbocharger it

doesn't uh rev that highly yeah You'

think of this being a revving to 12 13

14 it doesn't it's sort of comfortable

around about 9,000 RPM yeah we're

running running about 800 brake

horsepower which again out of a 1.5 is

not bad

going but it's frighteningly quick

because it's the way it delivers that

power right so you really have to drive

this very differently to most Formula 1

cars in the sense that most Formula One

cars when you see the Apex you'll start

giving it the full beans yeah with this

if you do that in anything other than

perfect conditions it will try and kill

you right because the turbo comes with

such a bang yeah that uh it's quite

frightening what a thing right penthouse

yeah I know what Penthouse is I'm aware

of its presence yeah uh older than that

one yeah this one's 1977 so 10 years

between them um when you drive this one

you really do feel like you're driving

Mao kit really there's really no driver

safety allowances in this car whatsoever

you stick your legs over the front of

the steering rack so your legs in front

of the steering rack yeah whereas in the

the arrows um rules and regulations it

had to be behind the steering rack yeah

that is the fuel tank this box here

behind your back literally my back rest

is the fuel tank the paneling is how can

I put it you know it is it is made of

tin foil but it's a great car it's a DF

engine V8 um it's it's the Ford CA if

you like of the racing world yeah every

car in Period had had the V8 in it yeah

uh it's very predictable to drive it's

got a beautiful power delivery it's got

a nice torque curve you know exactly

when the power's coming in unlike the

turbo so this one you can drive onto the

Apex and and accelerate away um with

with impunity and the knowledge that the

power will come in exactly as you want

it to come into yeah um but yeah really

good car really nice comfortable car to

drive nice W wide body uh whereas the

arrows very narrow yeah um yeah great

piece of Kit fantastic and and sitting

in front of a 70s car the golf GT the

inable Golf GTI yeah the a very early

one yep yep one of the first years of

production single headlights single

headlamps slim little rear clusters yeah

Tartan interior yeah and anti-glare

dials on the dashboard so really first

year year and a half yeah uh looked for

this for about 12 years really about 12

Years cuz it had to be one of the very

very first ones 1,600 this one's got a

five-speed box uh I think the fourspeed

box is probably only the first six

months yeah it's a five speeder um but

yeah absolutely the first incarnation of

the Golf GTI so it's it's the it's the

daddy isn't it of the hot hatch it is

yeah yeah no it looks really nice so

you've restored this car yes it was a

one-owner car um it was in pretty good

condition to be fair I bought it an

auction but it had things like a vinyl

roof stuck to the roof what um which was

pretty bad to be fair uh it did have

some rust on it y but overall the shell

was very very good it's done minimal

mileage but we did completely refurbish

it yeah to get it back to standard but

the seats are as you see them uh perfect

the dashboard they not restored they're

not restored they've just been hoovered

they are really

bright we must talk about the mro yeah

well the mro um acquir taste uh again

another Marite car you rather love them

or hate them yeah I must be one of the

few until I met you that actually likes

them I know love um as we talked about

I've also got a Montego turbo up the

back there which we no that come on to

but um yeah my St turbo very rare car

they made very few in the first place uh

strangely enough the more Maestro turbos

even though he made very few than there

are Montego turbos which they built

thousands of yeah because the Montego is

basically scrap fodder yeah and some

people would say good rins them quite

frankly but you know they are part of

our motoring history I like them uh damn

Quick Car actually uh this one is still

being rebuilt hence the headlamps been

sort of wonky thrown back in for the

filming but it's yeah it's going to go

back into one piece and I'll use it but

great fun to drive it is refreshing

coming from someone that's driven stuff

like that that you obviously like you

know the sort of exotic stuff like the

DB5 but to like give that credibility it

people are so quick to judge and I think

the people that judge have potentially

never own these cars yeah so they don't

actually know what they're like and you

see the people that really Rave about

them are the people that had them it's

very cool it's very very cool and it

looks especially random next to that I

don't I don't see what you're saying

looks looks normal to me you roof

chopped it as well no no I had to the

roof down to get it into the garage to

be fair it won't come in with a funnel

on it or or the roof up um but yeah

that's another story but that's that's a

great piece of kid as well so we just

popped outside just to look at one car

it just happens to be snowing um this

S-Class or predecessor of the S-Class

Martin is this your everyday car it is

yeah Johnny this is a one-owner from new

car um I found this one in or I like it

because it's the color it's really

unusual for Mercedes to be in this color

yeah uh I like the condition of it it's

built like a brick D they're amazing

yeah I drive every day it always starts

this unusually for me is an automatic

okay but it's but an automatic really

suits this car it does uh the manuals

weren't particularly good even in Period

no uh but I drive it most days you can

see it's out in the snow um yeah really

good car as long as you keep it jet

washed underneath uh it's a very

comfortable car it'll cruise at the

maximum speed legal speed liit plus a

bit Yeah Yeah really good car looks

great out here in the yeah I like the

look of them this is mint Martin I mean

mint is it is if you do so you do it

properly this this was a car that was um

originally a 2.5 Pi which it is now yeah

someone have taken the injection system

off it and put it onto carburetors and

change the wheels to s wheels yeah uh I

wanted to change it back in the process

of doing that I had to bloody refurbish

the whole car and if you're going to do

something do it properly yeah it's it's

not worth anything like I spent on it

but do you know it's a great car to

drive I I'm really pleas pleased to see

it's not a car that gets a great deal of

good press no when you get one as good

as this and I think you got a shot of

the engine um when you get one as good

as this they actually drive really

really well the problem is they became

old bangers people couldn't afford to

keep them going properly they didn't

understand the fuel injection system

yeah and they were bloody horrible to

drive this one's really nice yeah and

and in terms of the body and the paint

I've had a look underneath and inside

the inner wings and all sorts of it's

just for me it's beautiful anyway next

to it another 70s car but an

Aston what is a vantage DBS Vantage yeah

but not a not a V8 no uh Aston Martin

hadn't quite got the V8 ready when they

bought this car out yeah and they put

the straight six in it in my opinion

it's the most pure shape it's a real

coke bottle love the shape with the

spoked wheels and the cheese cutter

Grill and the forehead lamp layout yeah

in my opinion G it's also objective when

they put the V8 in they kind of ruined

it by making it fat and lardy I think

it's a great looking car I love the body

shape uh the other car the other hot

hatch that we were talking about earlier

yes the 205 GTI

1.9 yeah that's a one-owner car Johnny

is it yeah it's a one-owner car it was

found in a underground car park in

Monaco so it's a British car it was

registered in the UK but then taken to

Monaco and left in an underground car

park so it didn't get sun damage and it

didn't get temperature variance

bloody hell so it's completely original

paint interior the lot that's amazing

unfortunately we're in so tight in this

corner cuz Martin can't stop buying cars

we couldn't get them out very easy we'll

try our best uh the dollar might Sprint

I've seen you racing this I'm sure the

members meeting yes um the inequitable

doite Sprint uh that's the Belgium Works

car um I'm not actually a fan of them

because uh we restricted on power we've

got about uh 170 brake horsepower I

think

oh and it keeps competing with things

like the you know full-blown Capri and

escorts and American Muscle Cars yeah so

it's an acquir taste yes so that mini is

buried in there it's almost touching the

cars either side it is that's a Mini

Cooper S uh that was originally owned by

the padwick family so I think Nick

padwick um it's his first racing Mini so

he he has a bit of a soft spot for that

actual car um great fun very tight

racing with minis because you've

probably got six or seven horsepower

between the absolute best engines and

the normal Racing Engines yeah um so

people like Nick Swift for example is

always at the front because a he's a

damn good driver and B his car is

producing as much power as you can

physically ring out of those things uh

given the regulations because uh with

Goodwood for example you have to take

the engines apart yeah before the race

so they can actually measure the balls

and stroke they're very very strict do

they really they're very strict on it

which is a good thing because to say

you've got six seven brake horsepower

difference between them yeah great car

yeah so you buy cars that you are

interested in more so than ones that

you're trying to kind of like H your bet

on what exactly it's not it's not it's

not a theme to anything yeah yeah so uh

again that's boxed in heavily Lotus

Cortina Mark two Mark two Lotus CA Mark

2 was the car when I was in my my youth

yeah um so I've always preferred the uh

Mark 2 to the Mark 1 again everyone will

argue against that but that's a personal

choice uh the mark 2 Cortino wasn't

really a genuine lotus in the way the

Mark 1 was yeah um but it's a pretty car

same running gear uh you know it is a

Lotus engine uh that one's also

completely Immaculate is it yeah

completely Immaculate underneath you

it's it's brand new um I've only driven

that about twice I think so uh really

it's one of those cars I wouldn't take

on salty roads funny enough because it's

a Ford and it's an early Ford either the

paint will fall off it or the door will

fall off it yeah yeah I did a car Cave

of a guy who only had Lotus cortinez

once okay that's that was his back

they're okay they're okay yeah this this

is a different ball game yeah so this is

a Ford

rs600 um Ford back in the early days had

to hogate certain amount of cars yeah

they decided through their Rally Sport

division RS um to produce the escort RS

which runs a BDA engined um twin cam

engine not to be confused with lotus and

they sold so fast and so successfully

Ford suddenly realized the badging RS

actually was a bit of a sales coup yeah

so hence the reason for the RS 2000

which ran a Pinter engine so not an

ulation car yeah and not really a racing

car whereas this um revs to 77 75,000

RPM looks like a shopping car yeah it

sounds incredible uh when it's at full

chat uh really really nice little car

this had it a long time yeah I've had it

about eight years I guess but um

sometimes you get people over and we

take this one out on the roads and this

is always their favorite is it because

it looks boring it looks like a little

Ford Escort but my God does it go yeah

and it's the noise it makes yeah really

nice car that one there's something very

special about them um now this is one of

my favorite cars you've got

here Honda yeah I love these N600 yep

you and me both um I remember this was

one of these when I was a kid yeah it

amused the hell out of me because it did

everything so well yeah so we in England

were saying with the things like the

mini and the the L and stuff generally

that we were the best in the world and

we didn't see the Japanese coming quite

frankly no so this car is about a 1971

it's one of the first cars models

imported into the UK and into America

but you've got things like an astay and

a cigarette lighter and a radio and

green dashboard lights as standard which

was all things that Len was charging

extras for it's got a little twin

cylinder 600 cc engine they rot like mad

yeah it's a British car this yeah it's

in British colors it's in British L

colors um we use it on the back of my

competition so I I've got a motor home

that I take to Motor Racing meetings and

I put this on the back and I get more

comments about this car than anything

else in this garage really in fact at

the uh good meeting last year all the

governor's cars were parked in the

governor's car park and I'm lucky enough

to be a governor and I parked this one

amongst them so you had the Ferraris and

Lamborghinis and Rain Rovers and Christ

knows what else queued there and this

parked in the middle of them and this

got more comments and photographs I

think that anything else are good with

that that's Mega great car really nice

little car if this was going to bookend

your your car cave it would be I guess

this little Honda

N600 next

to this is a Porsche 997 uh again we

talked about the GT2 earlier uh this is

a a first gen 997 so again it's the mear

engine yeah uh in Period every wanted

the Gen 2 I insisted on getting the Gen

one because it's the last of those

engines uh this is a turbo it's got

ceramic brakes and more importantly for

me it's got a manual gearbox so uh this

is a keeper a spre a spre turbo a spre

turbo I guess everyone mentions things

like pretty woman and I think Basic

Instinct the Sharon Stone film I think

she drove one of them in that yeah the

other word to use for them is fragile

are they yeah the the um greatl looking

car part from the side repeater

indicators which I think they got from

the parts bin somewhere yes but great

looking car the reason I bought this one

is I was sitting next to one of the new

Lotus CEOs yeah at a dinner and we

started chatting we started talking

about cars and he said you know look

we're involved with lotus now Lotus is

going to get a much bigger company it's

going to be huge what I suggest you do

is you buy a spree

turbo because I think it's a car that

will really go in the future because

it's one of our sort of classic yeah uh

old style cars um so I did just that so

this car's done almost no miles uh it's

in really nice

condition um driven it once or twice

goes really well you know the engines in

these aren't that huge to be fair this

is prior to the V8 yeah um but it's a

turbocharged car uh yeah great piece of

Kit gel coat's really good on it

interior is nice uh I really need to get

it out she bought it because the the the

new what CEO of lotus said you should

buy one of these yeah why

not that's amazing and to be fair you

know they weren't big money they're

still not big money I think they're

great cars you know looking standing

here now I really need to get it out

more often because it's it's a great

piece of Kit so late 80s and

also very early '90s or late ' 80s cuz

this is this is a very late car yeah

it's one of the last uh Audi quatros it

needs a damn good clean looking at it

but that's not unusual with my cars um I

use this one it's a late 20 valve car

which is the one to have it has the

electronic

dashboard uh it's in as good a condition

as it looks as if it's in it's not done

Mega miles so Audi have normally got

Mega miles on them they do yeah this one

I think it's got 65 or 75,000 miles on

the clock which is not a lot for an Audi

no uh most of them have been through the

100,000 out the other side yeah really

nice car to drive drive it to France

occasionally um it's a modern

comfortable it's an Audi you yeah it's

so usable I do I love them I love them

but like you say that the 20 valves are

worth so much more than the ear they are

which I think is a little unfair but um

you it's a nice car even down to the uh

typical aerial the mobile phone

telephone aerial of its period yeah on

the roof at the raish angle yeah yeah no

that's I miss my Coupe GT one day I will

have a quro Aston number

three yeah for someone that doesn't like

Aston um

this was actually a um covid lockdown

purchase it was one of them I was

getting bored yeah and uh I quite like

the DB9 I think the DB9 is probably one

of the prettiest of the modern shapes

yeah it is popular and uh spoke to

Desmond smile who's a friend of mine and

uh he said he had a rare manual uh with

very very few miles on it so I thought I

going have a look at it it's convertible

it's one of the few convertibles I've

got yeah um so I decided with a manual

gearbox that yeah I'd go for it so I'm

going to keep it I use it quite

regularly it's done no miles uh really

nice car I think they're a little bit

undervalued to be fair so exotic Cabrio

to well it's a Prett I think these are

really handsome cars it's not exotic but

handsome I think is probably a little

bit Rich for them um you got the so the

vitess has we talked earlier about my

first card which was a Triumph Herald

convertible it was in exactly this color

funny enough it with 10 vinyl interior

yeah so this one uh came on the market I

couldn't believe it because there's a

one owner from new car blood they don't

they don't exist uh it's done 75,000

miles from New with a full service

history throughout its life Wow and

because it was in my original car's

color okay it's a vest not a Herald but

uh and it just happened to be two miles

down the road from here I won have a

look at it and uh the guy that had it

from brand new was on his crutches and

he came came out and he said I never

thought I'd sell that for

Tess um it is so smooth these engines

are straight six they've got really weak

bottom ends yeah they're inclined to

Rattle when you start them up this is so

smooth it's ridiculous he had it

serviced every couple hundred miles what

by the same dealer the same local garage

the chassis is perfect on it uh it's

never seen the rain it's got tiny bits

of rust on it but for one of these it is

just it is a true survivor it is lovely

and the fact that it only had one owner

from you just had to happen you know

including the sort of period Wing

mirrors which are abely beautiful I was

looking at exact beautiful brilliant not

quite a convertible but sort of a

convertible the two one of your first

Classics yep that's a uh

1950 or 51 2cv it's one of the very

first built it's so tight in here Martin

sorry yeah um all the original cars were

sprayed that color so for the first two

years and there's lots of arguments

about this all the 2cv fici AOS and

unless they really know what they're

talking about so they didn't make

metallic cars yes they did the first two

years were all metallic silver you had

no choice right and you can tell it's a

early one because of that world seam

there yeah and because of the oval

around the Chevrons on the front there

yeah and of course not many people know

that the Chevron design was in fact

because Citron had a gear sets that were

shaped like that which were

revolutionary in Period and that became

part of their Insignia was in fact the

shape of the gears which is that twin

inverted v such a cool thing yeah I like

it and totally different to the alpha s

and we must give the alpha sud the light

of day that it deserves because a I've

not seen a black one in ages really rare

color color yeah yeah and when you said

to me oh yeah by the way this has never

been welded no it hasn't and it's a UK

car so you're now going to get all the

internet people saying it's an alpha of

course it's been welded this car has no

welding done it at all it's done very

low Mage it's an original series 1 1.5

ti so it's got the little rear lights

yeah original cloth interior which

anyone that knows Alphas they are made

of tissue paper uh there are no splits

in it a real find this car where the

bloody hell did you find it it found me

um somebody rung me up and said we

understand you like original uh cars how

do you fancy an alpha s and I said well

I've been looking for one for years and

years but most of them are grop boxes

yeah um went and looked at this one and

I was just dumbfounded by the condition

of it I bet um because underneath the

originally uh they were built in

southern Italy as we know alpha s and

they filled the chassis sections with

filler foam from the factory which B

basically meant the first puddle you

went through just absorbed you condemned

your car to the scrap peep yeah um some

people would you three years old Alpha

SS failing their OTS through rust yeah

but this one yeah it's done I think

about 30,000 Mi it was clearly owned by

an Enthusiast from the day one yeah

because it's been so well looked after

it's a really lovely clean car with as

you know a flat four boxer engine yeah

and I do think we were saying earlier

it's sort of shaped like an Austin

Allegro it is especially the back yeah

which I think is a cool thing well

there's not many cars that have a horn

that's shaped like a serpent of sea

creature I don't know what it is it's

got teeth but I don't more importantly

it's an original one rather than a copy

is it y so this is your first classic

car this is my first classic car this

was actually a bad dead was it it was a

friend of mine got me to work on his

house yeah uh Building a garage I seem

to remember and then afterwards he said

look I can't afford to pay you he said

but I know you're a car mad person I've

got this old toon Boton engine car my

kids were with me they fell in love with

it because they were really young they

call it Daisy because of its yellow

wheels and green

Bodywork and I've had it ever since it

didn't run um it has bizarre things

called trembler coils which I got going

anyone that knows anything about those

they're really sensitive that's the bit

that makes it spark yeah uh and it's a

great chugar around it talks to you as

you as you drive along it Chatters away

and it's totally different to the mg

monteo turbo so you've got the white

Maestro you see Johnny you are the only

person I've ever met in this garage that

actually likes Montego turbos love them

yeah people come in this garage and go

what the hell are you doing with that I

was bought up with monteo I really like

the styling yeah all right I'm slightly

mad yeah and it's the inequitable turbo

and it um it drives fantastically does

it really it's got a bit of torque

torque steer because the power is too

much for it but it drives beautifully

it's quiet it's bloody fast for its

period yeah and again I think people

just either didn't own one or drove one

when they became shabby old cars that

weren't being maintained properly this

is a really nice car it's an early one

so it's the uh it's the white painted

wheel one rather than the Alloys um oh

yeah the white painted Wheels I spent

incomprehensible sums of money on this

car but um really yeah of course I have

but it's um it's a turbo I love it that

you've got it it's a great car it's

brilliant next to I mean still one of

the coolest shaped cars that's ever been

DS 23 P injection so it's an injected

car um it's one of the last of that era

yeah um of course the weak spot on the

DS is the engine yeah because they were

supposed to have and I think I'm right

saying a flat six air C engine hence the

shape of the Bonnet yeah citrum were

running out of money they had to try it

together in a hurry so they put the

light 15 engine which is right back back

up towards the cockpit to get the the

height in um so it's a bit of an

agriculture engine to be fair in a very

very sophisticated car I had this one

rebuilt uh not in the UK yeah uh it was

a bit of a basket case when I got it uh

I was recommended somewhere um over

towards Russia yeah uh it was taken over

there very risky for me because you're

sending your money abroad but they made

a brilliant job of it and the quality of

workmanship was second to n wow and it

cost me a fraction of what it would cost

to get down over here definitely itely a

bucket list car for me it's right at the

back of your garage Lotus carton yes why

and how long have you had it and I've

still never driven one I'd like to drive

one uh they are ferocious yeah they are

they are quick car um you're basically

driving a voxal cartton because they've

got a voxal engine them they were board

out for uh the Lotus model yeah um but

the interior is sort of very rou leather

of its period yeah I like it because

it's the unsung hero we've talked about

that several times today yeah it looks

like a standard car it's a wol and

sheep's clothing those tires in Period

were considered to be enormous yeah they

were by today's standards they quite

small yeah people will be saying it

hasn't got the crests in the middle of

the wheels well they shouldn't have the

crests in the middle of the wheels so

this is badged

correctly wow so everyone says they

should have Lotus yeah written in the

middle they they never did I think

they're still one of the best looking

well as we know Johnny in Period the

police tried to get them banned because

they were faster than a Porsche 911

Turbo yeah I know I think there's a

press photograph of somebody reading a

newspaper in the back of one of these

going past a Porsche flat out W

incredible piece of car yeah incredible

car and extremely different to you got

PA of bubble cars you got the uh the

mess Schmid and you got the the I Setter

over there yeah well of course after the

war mes Schmid were barred from making

airplanes yeah so it's like seems slight

ironic by the way with a picture of the

962 in the background yeah the uh the

mesm were were banned from making

airplanes they made cars uh this one I

think it's

175 uh Foos two-stroke in the back of it

um great fun I went shopping with my

wife in this she was cutely embarrassed

voice but I insisted we did it never

seen one part next to a Lotus Caron in

my life there's probably a reason for

that yeah so you do ride bikes I do you

do um so that daat is a 996 SPS um I had

that from brand new have you yeah it's

done about 8,000 mil my friend sh burn

would like to see I ride it occasionally

unfortunately I just cannot ride it

without wanting to pop the front wheel

off the ground right and uh you know

getting older than I was so I I ride it

infrequently but when I do it's it's

great fun yeah

yeah just talked about the other one so

the I Setter was obviously the Rival to

the H Co not the H Co the mess Schmid so

they were built in Brighton yes under

license

yes that's right they were mostly

left-hand Drive even though it's a UK

registered car you could buy a

right-hand drive but as we were talking

about earlier the uh left-hand drives

were faster than the right-and drive

cars because the engine is on the right

hand side yeah with the steering whe on

the right hand side they had to put a

counterbalance on the left hand side

right to keep them sort of square

whereas she's just a lump of a lump of

lead or metal or concrete or whatever it

was whereas of course with the leftand

drive they were sort of equally balanced

so the the the trivial question the

trivial question is the left-and drive

BMW Setter is faster in left-hand drive

form that's the reason why brilliant

what's that what my dad's old car was it

yes the actual your D it's not but it's

the same number plate on it which I

managed to find really yeah yeah and I

managed to find the car another car and

I completely changed the interior and

the the color to match his car and then

put the number plate on it so it's

exactly it's exactly the same as my

father's first car so many of these car

caves you you see the power of the

Nostalgia that just all all consumed you

I mean the answer is Johnny the Wy 1550

is not a thing of beauty it's dead

slow but it's a passion for me CU I

remember sitting in the back seat of

that when I was five or six years old

yeah um so it's you know it's I've got a

passion for it yeah so what are you

going to sell next and what are you

going to buy next not going to tell you

the answer to either of those

questions the bind as I said you were

I'm putting a jet engine L an A35 oh yes

so that'll be a bit of fun did you hear

that I've got a steam car um which is uh

on the island man at the moment being

refurbished which is uh looks like an

American Cadillac it's an original car

it's called a keen

steamliner real only one in the world

there's books being written on this car

so that's on the other mine so that'll

be back in the next year year and a half

you know they're all bizarre aren't they

and the Jet Engine Austin A35 that

should be at Goodwood this year if not

uh it'll be finished then short

certainly we will put a video on now of

what that is cuz it's

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lunacy I always feel very privileged to

get access to private garages like

Martin's here where we see stuff that

other people don't normally get to see

the question is what are cars would you

like to take home which are your

favorites out of this Bunch cuz it's a

really hard thing to decide isn't it in

terms of a condition probably the

Triumph 2 and a half th000 pi it's so

mint it's amazing or the pnation on the

Range Rover or the just the sheer

dreaminess of the citen SM or the Lotus

carton back there or the black Alit the

list goes on what about you let me know

in the comments which are your favorite

cars out of this Bunch maybe I should

come back and drive a couple of them if

you've got a garage like this that you

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