From The Late Brake Show.
I Bought an Ultra-Rare Barn (Field) Find Classic – I Have BIG Plans. In this episode Jonny Smith saves one of very first soft roader / Crossover cars (only a handful of Talbot Matra Ranchos are left) but discovers it might be too rusty to save. Then again, it might be prime candidate for a genius (silly?) body swap project.
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Thanks to Scooby Clinic for donating a classic shape Impreza Turbo 2000 AWD for the build: https://scoobyclinic.com/
Thank you to Questionable Car Club for discovering the Rancho and helping Jonny buy it: https://www.youtube.com/@Road2Rust
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Filmed by Sam Renton, Mark Winney Villegrasse and Jonny Smith
Edited by: Michael Dougie Douglass
Thumbnail by: Matt Tarrant https://www.matttarrantdesign.com
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Jonny Smith
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
0:38 The first soft roader crossover
0:55 3 left!
1:46 Land Rover Discovery 1 Inspiration
2:42 Matra Rancho HISTORY
3:55 First hot hatch ever?
4:47 Special edition Rancho X and Grand Raid
5:03 57,000 made
6:40 How rotten?
6:44 Visiting Yorkshire Car Restoration
7:40 Broken in half?
9:30 How rotten?
11:53 Subaru Wheelbase
18:36 Yorkshire Car Restoration
18:55 Body swapped VW K70 with Passat W8
23:33 Colin Furze BMW E30
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