From The Late Brake Show. Lada Cosworth Duratec project – Soviet Street Sleeper. Who would sink £20k+ on building a hell raising Soviet Street Sleeper Lada with fast Ford Cosworth Duratec underpinnings? Retro Dave, that’s who. Thanks for stopping by The Late Brake Show. *********** Merch shop: https://thelatebrakeshow.com/shop ****** Become a Patreon supporter: https://patreon.com/TheLateBrakeShow ******…

From The Late Brake Show. Barn Find classic 80s Opel Coupe rare survivor. Jonny Smith once again brings his fleece and tool box to unearth another classic car – this time a rarely seen executive coupe. We are talking brown Recaro velour interior, DIGITAL DASHBOARD, body coloured side skirts and an injected 3.0-litre six GM…

From The Late Brake Show. Ora Funky Cat full review – the new EV rival to Fiat 500, Mini and Honda e Why this Fiat 500 and Mini rival could be the best new small EV The £31,995 GWM Ora Funky Cat supermini has a 200-mile range with a 48kWh lithium-ion battery pack and 171PS…

From The Late Brake Show. EV road trip review: the 340-mile Cupra Born is the electric Golf GTi. The Cupra Born costs more than the VW ID.3 – the car it is based on – and it is available in two battery sizes, the larger of which (77kWh) promises 340 miles WLTP. So Jonny Smith…

From The Late Brake Show. Austin Allegro Sleeper Project part 7: Turbo & intercooler plumbing, Escort mk2 steering. The daft project Allegro of Jonny Smith continues in the FabCo fabrication shop. In this episode Adam fits a ‘quickrack’ steering rack and extended steer arms from a competition MK2 Ford Escort (thanks to Motorsport Tools for…

From The Late Brake Show. New MG5 EV full review – the ONLY electric estate car. It is hard to believe that in this world of SUV and Crossover EVs that no one other than the Chinese MG brand has decided to build an electric estate car. Jonny Smith drives this new version, which is…

From The Late Brake Show. Barn Find Rare 80s BMW M Sport survivor car untouched for 30 years – will it run? Welcome to another barnfind episode of The Late Brake Show where Jonny Smith unearths an exceptionally rare 1-of-7 BMW E12/8 M535I Lightweight homologation saloon, made only for the South African market. Found in…

From The Late Brake Show. Private barn collection of 80s hot hatches and retro cars – Car Caves. This cluster of retro hatches and fast 90s turbo cars is the automotive bucket list of Mark Holland in Nottinghamshire. Instead of building a lavish garage or warehouse, Mark’s 20-odd cars live within several rented rustic farm…

From The Late Brake Show. This is the cheapest Volkswagen California – VW Caddy Micro Camper review. Van life has ballooned in popularity in recent years, so VW has decided to launch their own baby Cali based upon the new Caddy van. In this episode Jonny Smith drives, eats and sleeps in the £32,000 Caddy…

From The Late Brake Show. New Polestar 3 EV first look – is it an SUV or classy electric station wagon? Jonny Smith heads to Denmark to meet and walk around the first SUV from the Geely owned Swedish car company that is the sporty/extra luxury sister to Volvo. Jonny’s not sure if it’s an…

From The Late Brake Show. Private garage tour of Gordon Murray’s new Car Cave. Following on from his resto-mod Ford Escort Mk1, Jonny takes a whistle stop tour of Gordon Murray’s new basement Car Cave. Each of the 35-odd race and road cars are there for a specific reason, with many following Gordon’s preferred design…

From The Late Brake Show. Gordon Murray’s Restomod MK1 Escort Cosworth. The man who brought the world the McLaren F1 supercar (and more recently the T50 and T33) has commissioned the build of his perfect mk1 Ford Escort. Using renowned restomodding workshop Retro Power, Gordon set out to create his perfect every day old Ford.…

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From The Late Brake Show. Is this the Ultimate Secret Superbike Cave Collection in Britain? Certainly Shane Shakey Byrne believes so. This office full of real race and homologation Hondas and Ducatis has never been seen before. Although the owner wishes to remain anonymous he is a huge fan and friend of Shakey, and as…

From The Late Brake Show. The Ant Anstead interview PART 2 – the private life and project cars of a Wheeler Dealer. Welcome to an Idol Chat interview, where Jonny Smith takes his battered brown leather chairs to meet someone prominent in our automotive world. Thanks for stopping by The Late Brake Show. If you…

From The Late Brake Show. The Ant Anstead interview PART 1 – the private life and project cars of a Wheeler Dealer. Welcome to an Idol Chat interview, where Jonny Smith takes his battered brown leather chairs to meet someone prominent in our automotive world. Thanks for stopping by The Late Brake Show. For early…

From The Late Brake Show. Austin Allegro Sleeper Turbo Project part 6: K20 Honda detailed engine build. Welcome to part 6 of Jonny Smith’s Austin Allegro street sleeper project build. This episode focuses on the full Honda K20 (Civic Type R) 2.0 engine build, which was undertaken by Dream Automotive. The donor engine was sourced…

From The Late Brake Show. This is a genuine barn find of a true 80s hot hatch survivor. Jonny Smith headed back to Wales to pounce on a hibernating Renault 5 GT Turbo that hadn’t moved since its tax ran out in 2001. Several things really attracted Jonny to this Renault 5, which had been…

From The Late Brake Show. Lamborghini Espada V12 Barn Find – Where did it go? Will it run? Remember Jonny’s most popular barn find on this channel thus far? Indeed, what did happen next to the mysterious Espada found in a real remote Cumbrian stone barn? Well, it was a story of many twists, and…

From The Late Brake Show. Selling our modified Suzuki Jimny project car. The time has sadly come for Jonny’s wife Chops to part with her JB74 Suzuki Jimny – the first of the new models to sell in the UK. Jonny bought this car as a surprise Christmas present for her days after its registration…

From The Late Brake Show. Ford F150 Lightning electric truck review in Britain – the world’s most practical EV? Jonny Smith thinks there is a fair chance that this 320-mile American utilitarian icon could well be, for several reasons. He got to drive what is the only example in Europe, and explore its many power…

From The Late Brake Show. New MG4 EV full review – the cheapest 300 mile electric family car. But is it any good? Jonny – like a lot of electric car enthusiasts – has been keen to see whether this new ground-up MG can credibly take the fight to the VW ID.3, Cupra Born and…

From The Late Brake Show. Firing up Schumacher’s ’93 Benetton F1 car in the back garden. Our latest Car Cave owner, Steve, chooses to not have a vast vehicle collection. In fact it isn’t a collection at all, it’s a pair of sheds that he built himself (because he’s a builder by trade) to house…

From The Late Brake Show. Barn Find Mercedes Benz SL R107 survivor – Will its V8 start? For this barn find, the car in question is a Mercedes built during what is widely regarded as the finest era for German robust engineering and build quality. Having owned a handful of 1980s era Mercs, and upon…

From The Late Brake Show. Best of the UK Custom Car scene – real life Hot Wheels hot rods. This Late Brake Show episode was born from a few things; firstly Jonny had wanted to feature the infamous ‘Ain’t No Saint’ Volvo P1800 gasser drag car for a while; secondly Jonny was approached by Hot…

From The Late Brake Show. Honda Fireblade 30th anniversary review Byrne Out – BSB champion Shakey Byrne and Isle of Man TT legend John McGuiness go for a road ride out, then take us for a private tour around Honda UK Racing’s HQ in Louth, Lincolnshire. 30 years ago the Honda Fireblade was launched, and…

From The Late Brake Show. 1975 BMW EV Resto-mod is the perfect classic car for London. Jonny Smith visits Jerry Dhillon who has commissioned his ideal classic BMW for London city life. Based on a 1975 1602 model, Jerry had Electric Classic Cars in Wales perform a ground-up restoration, followed by an EV conversion that…

From The Late Brake Show. Welcome to our detailed first-look / walkaround of the new Honda Civic Type R, better known as the FL5. We say FL5 because Civic R people talk in codes. The first R was the EK9 in 1997 – one we didn’t get in the UK – but the rest were…

From The Late Brake Show. New Ford E-Transit electric van real world review. The Ford E-Transit van is probably the most important commercial vehicle in Europe on sale in 2022. Jonny reviews one on a day’s real world road trip from his home to Doncaster (78 miles), then Doncaster to Luton (143 miles), then home (70…

From The Late Brake Show. An upcycled Mazda MX-5 (and Ant Anstead) created this brand new classic – Dowsetts Tipo 184 review. Jonny Smith takes the exclusive first drive of a new kit car that uses a rusty 1.8-litre mk2 Mazda Miata as an organ donor and gives customers the option to DIY kit build…

From The Late Brake Show. Yep, behind this garage door, is a VW Mk2 Golf G60 Rallye covered in Swallow shite. Almost a barn find, but certainly a rare survivor. While filming our recent Oval Beetle ‘Hedge Find’, we stopped for a coffee break. The owner of the property, Geraint, then casually mentioned that he…

From The Late Brake Show. Vintage VW barn find – digging an Oval Beetle out of a field. In this episode Jonny heads to Wales for a hearty portion of carchaeology, by digging out a completely rotten but rare factory right hand drive UK oval window Beetle. Thanks for stopping by The Late Brake Show.…

From The Late Brake Show. We’ve recently hit 400k subs on YouTube and after a think, we’ve decided the best way we could say thanks, is to help other independent businesses out there. Try to give them a leg up, as you lot have given us a leg up. Give them some free airtime/some free…

From The Late Brake Show. Driving the coolest classic Maserati that nobody remembers. If you have already watched the Car Cave that this rare Maserati Indy 4700 is associated with, then you’ll know it shares residence with another ’70s sports car icon – the V12 Lamborghini Espada. This is a Maserati Indy – a swoopy…

From The Late Brake Show. The Quirky Car Collector’s Dream Garage. It’s a new Late Brake Show Car Cave episode! This garage full of four wheeled (and two) treasures attracted Jonny because firstly it was quirky quality over quantity; when was the last time you saw a Jordan Civic next to a Lambo Espada and…

From The Late Brake Show. Welcome to part 5 of the Austin Allegro Street Sleeper Project build. As promised, Jonny’s long suffering Honda Civic Type R K20 Agro is now moving along faster – hence the monthly updates. In this episode: -Adam at FabCo UK finishes the front strut towers, progresses the inner wings and…

From The Late Brake Show. This could be two stroke bike perfection – Shakey Byrne rides the new Langen 250 against his own classic Suzuki RGV250 in this new episode of Byrne Out. Not only that, he also gets to fire up and worship the MotoGP winning RGV500 of Kevin Schwantz. Rest assured there’s a…

From The Late Brake Show. How two British brothers built this 6500hp V8 killing EV Beetle drag car. Owners, builders, drivers and brothers Olly and Sam Young broken many world records in electric drag racing, but after a finish line 140mph crash in their classic 1965 Beetle, they decided to not quit – but instead…

From The Late Brake Show. This is a detailed first look around the new Hyundai IONIQ 6 electric car. Jonny Smith was granted early first look access to film a detailed walk around Hyundai’s streamlined EV saloon that is the production ready version of the Prophecy concept. Thanks for stopping by The Late Brake Show.…

From The Late Brake Show. Barn Find Ford Sierra XR4i – derelict for 30 years. Jonny is in South Wales for this classic Ford garage discovery, which ends up spawning a second (bonus) barn find before the end of the shoot. Parked since the early 1990s this 1984 Sierra XR4i has some 13,000 miles on…

From The Late Brake Show. This is episode 2 of the Idol Chat with Harry Metcalfe from Harry’s Garage. Following on from the biographical ‘brown chairs’ Harry Metcalfe takes Jonny Smith on a tour of Harry’s Garage. Despite never working with him, Harry and Jonny have known one another within the car mag and TV…

From The Late Brake Show. From EVO to farming to Harry’s Garage and car collecting – the Harry Metcalfe interview. Harry Metcalfe was a farmer before Jeremy Clarkson, and has been collecting cars since before the internet. He established EVO magazine whilst managing a farm, and has become a youtuber in middle age. Jonny managed…

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From The Late Brake Show. 16-months in the making, Part 4 of the Allegro Sleeper is here. And some pretty big decisions have been made in that time. As some of you may have seen on socials, we turned over a bit of a new leaf with the ever-stalling Austin Allegro sleeper project. Note we…

From The Late Brake Show. Driving a Group B Metro 6R4 review – the loudest street legal car I’ve experienced. Nearly 40 years ago Austin Rover made an entry into the notoriously mad WRC Group B rally competition with a heavily reworked MG Metro. The 6R4 was a mid-engined V6 full time 4WD monster that…

From The Late Brake Show. In the last Car Cave Jonny visited Craig Currie’s exotic car collection. This time Shane Shakey Byrne is taken on a tour of Craig’s ‘chapel of superbike’, which features lines of Ducatis, Hondas and ex race machinery. How on earth did we find Craig? Well, in days gone by, Craig…

From The Late Brake Show. Secret Super Car Cave Heaven – the ‘Diablo driver’. Welcome to Craig Currie’s (let’s be honest about it, UTTERLY STUNNING) Extreme Six Super Car Garage. Craig is a guy who lives life to the fullest. When he isn’t working he’s racing bikes, sidecars, and to his credit, he isn’t afraid…

From The Late Brake Show. Buying back and rescuing my highest mileage Honda Insight hybrid project car. This episode sees Jonny being reacquainted with an old automotive friend – a 2001 Honda Insight gen 1 hybrid that he previously owned 12 years ago. Having not been on the road in 7 years, this video covers…

From The Late Brake Show. It may look like a completely standard Peugeot 205 GTi 1.6, but don’t be fooled. This car has been totally dismantled and rebuilt as a sympathetic evolution of the ’80s original. A restomod? Of sorts. But almost certainly the most detailed 205 GTi money could buy. Jonny had to go…

From The Late Brake Show. New Volkswagen T7 Multivan eHybrid PHEV – Better than T6 or ID.Buzz? VW’s T7 Multivan is a slightly confusing vehicle, because it is on sale alongside the T6.1 Transporter and the nearly-on-sale ID.Buzz. The T7 Multivan essentially replaces the ancient Sharan and Caravelle MPV in order to be VW’s go-to…