The Finishing Touches on Guy's Trabant | Guy Martin's Garage

Guy Martin bids to transform an ancient East German Trabant into a race car, for a low-speed showdown at Brands Hatch. In this episode Guy replaces the engine and takes to the track himself in his FINISHED and REFURBISHED TRABANT!

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[GeorgeKouloumbis]

I've got a question: Why is this guy not on an honours list? Surely his exceptional character deserves recognition ... I say "YES"

[lefthandedluke]

I worked in East Germany after the Berlin wall came down in 1989, i worked with a Scotsman who sounded just like Sean Connery but looked nothing like him. He owned a Trabant, picked it up for next to nothing and drove it back to Scotland at least once a year and back to Magdeburg. One winter, we put a hose pipe running cold water over his Trabant for around an hour or two and it stuck his car to the road with ice. The next day he picked up a malet and broke off the ice around the drivers door, got inside it and started the engine after two turn's of the key it started and an hour later it was free of the he was driving to bet to this day he still owns this car. If you are ever in Scotland and see a trabant take a moment and ask the driver if he was ever in Magdeburg, East Germany.... and if he sound's like Sean connery you will know for sure that what i have told you all today is true. Enjoy..

[oldshovelhead]

Watching and musing - Guy building a Trabant - 2023 TT ending. Guy is still with us and doing what he does - life is good! Guy, I doubt you have time to read these comments, but if you do, Cheers from a really big fan of yours across the pond in Cleveland, OH USA 😁

[gabortakacs]

We had one like this back in Hungary when I was a kid, but the estate one. I even remember the reg number of it. When I was about 8, we rebuilt it with my father. Good old times... I miss them both

[lumpyfishgravy]

Thank-you for reminding me I need 4 new tyres for the Winter!

Keep up the good work!

[Sassenhaim]

Trabby power 😁😁😁
I've got a original DDR sign from the back of an old trabant 🥰🥰🥰

[fredtedstedman]

It's a beast !! shape looks great - it only needed wide wheels and the arches done !

[speckledjim_]

The little car polishes up quite well, Nice 👍

[fester.]

0:44 that car is crying out for a Hayabusa engine

[Sweetabixx]

looks amazing though proper work of art

[zsozso]

What the f Guy in a Trabant??? I never thought I’d see that lad in a Trabant, this is unreal. I had lots of fun in my youth in that Trabant funny as fuck!!! We fitted four big blokes of us and went to the club with it, of course we didn’t make it to the club but the Laughs that we had with that thing. I’ll never forget it!

[matthew-jyjp]

It would be such an honor to work with guy. Never mind all his racing achievements he's super smart mechanically as well.

[samuraile]

Well done mate!! That's looking amazing/ Sick.

[quicknickdriver]

Nice work, hope the fuelling’s spot on for the race. Looks and sounds mint

[martiniv]

Changed my mind, keep the old smoker 👌🏻😎 sounds like a ‘Mighty Midget ‘ JLO two stroke welder 😜

[Hectors-Maison]

A Swarbrick Spanny sticker gotta be worth another 25mph 😊

[samuraile]

Can you imagine fitted engine from bike like 600cc😁😁

[ecalzo]

ahahahahaha.... loved it ... Well done lads

[gustavmeyrink_.]

Guy got himself a 'Rennpappe'!
Literally means 'racing cardboard box' because the body is made from some bizarre plasticized cardboard.
The very last series of Trabants after the collapse of the iron curtain got a 1.1L 4pot from the contemporary VW Polo producing a whopping 42hp. It was made for only 12 months.

[MrDragpics]

There is a drag racing version out there got a small block chevy.