25 Lagondas!! The biggest car collection in Europe - inside Studio 434

[@Lot76CARS]

What a collection and all of them seem to be immaculately prepared. It’s not a location open to the public so well done for getting us in!

[@Nimmo1492]

It fills my heart with joy to see so many beautifully preserved cars, and not just the usual "classics", but everyday cars too.

[@lukemallory7832]

Normally I'm not a huge fan of collections... but look at the condition of the cars. Fantastic. There wasn't a spec of dust and all the tyres are inflated. What a breath of fresh air and kudos to Mr. Dudding for preserving an era so many of us are already missing. Good idea too having them available for commercial use, hopefully they are able to pay for themselves, but I suspect this is a labour of love. Also, if he ever wants to sell the Saab or a Stag, let me know.

[@kidcowdy1231]

Super interested as to what is the blurted out white car on the 1st floor

[@thunderbird1454]

Ar yes, The Lagondas. I fell in love and amazement with them at the 1982 Sydney Motor Show. A silver one to be exact. I thought they looked so modern and futuristic. I think the pick of them was the Series 4, as the lines had been smoothed out and will stand the test of time. Also by this stage, they would have ironed out a lot of the bugs.

[@BITTYBOY121]

I was blown-away by this super collection of rare and special cars... the reason why you don't see them on the road anymore is because they are all here ! hahaha

[@Rust_in_Time]

Unbelievable collection! Seems a little bit greedy to have 25 Lagondas, but great to allow you to show them!

[@lewis93156]

At least they're well kept, looked after and preserved. Greedy to me is when someome collects cars and leaves them to rot in a field when someome else would restore them

[@dominicjackson2498]

Anyone else see the Orion and Primera and immediately think “Festival of the Unexceptional!!”?

[@andrewterry352]

Yes!! :)

[@petespanel]

Out of all the cars in the collection which I've seen the citroen ds capron convertible is my favourite and is stunning. It's a work of art.

[@harrygiles1098]

I went on the launch show with my Father, I have many many pictures of them, including a pure white one. I was in the car when another motoring editor, went round a roundabout at silly speeds, Castle Ashby, circa 1983

[@MGBetts1]

This incredible collection blew my mind, all my schoolboy dreams rolled into one collection, especially the Trabant! 😂🤣 Great video, it couldn't have been easy filming in such confined spaces, but it looks like you captured everything. 👍🏻

[@GeneFraxby]

The "Crocodile Dundee Spec" Boomerang'd white long-wheelbase with the curtains is simultaneously one of the greatest and worst cars I've ever seen.

[@davidbrown7379]

This is spooky! I've just finished watching Big Cars The Aston Martin Lagonda Story and now this drops! 🤯I seem to vaguely remember seeing a Lagonda featured in the opening titles of The Coleby's back in the 80's.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

That is freaky!

[@davidbrown7379]

After some thought I had to clarify this. It was Dynasty's opening titles, not the Colby's.

[@rudolphguarnacci197]

@@erorufurakku6378 Spooky!

[@davefrench3608]

Utterly incredible!!! Liberace's adage in extremis

[@Steve-Cross]

Definitely a one stop shop, for film and TV producers. I imagine we have all seen a few of these cars, in films, at one time or another.

[@maxidyne]

My grandfather had almost the same Primera Station, same colour and trim level. Only it was a turbo diesel and manual. After that one he got a Primera SRi in green with the orange striping. What a great collection, saw some really nice cars. Thanks for the walkaround Matt!

[@aston-martin-internationalist]

The white Lagonda with the bodykit is a Tickford version I believe.

[@jamescoe764]

Insane collection. Good to see these rare cars, especially an original Jensen CV8...

[@daviestewart2510]

Interesting timing for putting this video out Matt, Big Car put oe out just yesterday about the history of the Lagonda

[@icascone]

Almost didn't watch this video because I thought it was all Lagondas lol, BUT GLAD I DID!!

[@martinmcdonald4207]

Three Stags? Sounds just like your typical high street in any town of a Tuesday night! That blue Jensen at 24 mins might have some history with the lucky 7777 reg plate! What a great special collection.

[@kevinnye5132]

That really is car heaven Matt and how cool to be wealthy enough to indulge your passion, fantastic collection and an so envious 👌🏻.

[@BITTYBOY121]

I wonder if they use Dimond bright ? when polishing all those fabulous cars !

[@gregharvie3896]

Hi Matt, from Sydney, Australia. Thanks for the brief intro to this fantastic collection, even globally there all to few of them and most are in the hands of very private "hoarders" that never allow public entry. On the central coast 100klm north of Sydney was Australia's biggest private collection until around 4 years ago when due to some tax dispute it became a forced sale, this also was 100's of cars and was open to the public, sadly now gone, again all were perfect pristine examples from around the globe. Re the MK10/420G specifically the 4.2 litre versions they are fantastic the best Jags, the best kept secret of all time. Making them eminently affordable compared to the more basic poverty spec MK2's that everyone goes crazy for as mk10's when new were double the price of a MK2. Why , well they are double the car , more power, better brakes, better gear box, better steering box, better negative earth electrical, ergonomic seats from Slumberland bedding coy, better tyres from Dunlop the special SP41 Aquajets designed just for the mk10 and the list goes on and on........ However Malcolm Sayer, Jaguars chief body designer was by trade an aerodynamicist of some standing what most punters do not however know, is the MK10 is truly special only TWO cars EVER using this aircraft design principle called laminar flow which reduces drag MASSIVELY and increases stability and handling dynamics using this elongated egg shape principle. The other car is of course the Citroen DS. To adhere to this principle the item must taper more at the rear and taper less so at the front Now think of the mk10 look from front or rear and the car has an obvious circular rounded shape a continuous curve from one sill rail up and over and down to the other side sill rail, stand above on a fruit picker or balcony and the car clearly massively tapers and puffs out to the widest point in the middle would look akin to an elongated egg and if viewed side on the curve is there too as if you start at the rear the car curves up the boot up and up & over the rear window then up and over the definitely curved roof, down the curved front screen and down the curved front bonnet. Everyone always says they look bulbous now you know why, Laminar Flow, designed by a genius and misunderstood by every average moron. Hence its puffy sides, curvaceous shape, tapered front and rear, plus radically sloping bonnet & bootlid - Laminar Flow characteristics. From Introduction in 1961 they were available with a front air-dam the FIRST car ever to have one, my mum's car had one, and there are another two in the local Jaguar club also with them they look akin to a Rolls Royce Camargue with an air-dam fitted coupled to the leaning forward stance of the top of the bonnet giving a very small frontal area for the cars huge size. then add to this the heavily skirted rear wheel arches, the totally lined front mudguard wells with zero openings to engine bay, the entirely flat underside of the car, even the sloped shape of the boot floor tapering up at the rear all assisting Laminar Flow. Plus all assist in lowering CD drag on such a large vehicle. In real world use, drive another brand in incredibly bad weather where there are massive cross winds that want to push a car around, after having driven a different vehicle down the route, get out and drive the same route in the same weather in a mk10 you will not realize how bad it is outside unless you roll a window down, the intrinsic shape of the car keeps it stable and un-buffeted - Laminar Flow, Throw in rain and road grime, in terrible wet weather if I use some of my cars by the time you'd have driven a mile the car will have obvious dirty road spray all along the sides. my office is almost 50 kilometers from home, there are freeways for 90% of the trip. My 1967 jaguar 420g/mk10 is cream. if it leaves home clean there are only minor showings that it is not clean after 50ks of filth , at front down low near the big curved indicators ahead of the front wheel arch there will be a small 3" square area showing spots, at the rear under the long rear bumper wrap arounds near their mounting points on the side mudguards a small almost 2" square showing some grime. then at the rear end of the front and the front end of the rear door (its widest puffiest point) there will be a collection of sandy grains attached to the paint on the outside, on the inner door a bit more, otherwise the whole car looks like it has been pressure washed, any of my other cars are totally filthy. the big Jag looks clean because of Laminar Flow, basically the filth has been sucked off the car due to its unusual shape.

[@Sedan57Chevy]

That's a lotta Lagondas!

[@jamestudoseartimon]

We had a hardworking M reg 95 Primera Estate from approx 98 to the first scrappage scheme. Unfortunately it was a victim traded in for a brand new Mk1 Citroen C1. The Primera was a great car and apart from service and wear and tear items only ever needed a rear silencer, battery, one spring and a small patch of welding on a sill in 130k miles of use. It was slow being the 1.6 but was 16v and revved freely. What a great family wagon it was. No style but always willing to serve the Families needs. Being offered 2k for it at the end in its well used condition was too much of a good offer to refuse for my parents

[@pizzalover3]

A great variety, thanks for showing us around!

[@paulspeakman551]

While the name Lagonda sounds perhaps Italian or as though from some other continental language, it is, in fact from the native American Shawnee tribe meaning "buck's horn." The founder of the Lagonda company was born in Springfield, Ohio (as was I) and emigrated to England where he founded the company. Ohio was once home to the Shawnee tribe and Lagonda was the name of a creek and later a small settlement of Europeans near Springfield. Though the settlement is long gone, the name Laganda still figures prominently in the area, and the creek, now known as Buck Creek, still flows through Springfield.

[@profrumpo]

Quite incredible, a staggering collection, thanks for a brief tour of part of it.

[@antonybarrett789]

I like the Lagonda, particularly the Mk.1. I remember seeing it first on Nationwide, I think Bob Wellings drove it. Very elegant in gold metallic and the smooth wheel covers. I was lucky to see it at launch at the London Motor Show. You often hear about the electronic dash being a problem. It struck me the other day that perhaps you could modify one using the touch screen displays that feature in many cars today, esp Merc S - Class, Rolls - Royces etc. Has anyone tried this ?

[@MrPabsUk]

Up near me! We often see the cars coming & going, as they`re rented out, to TV companies & shows, like Antiques Road Trip, as well as individuals. The amount Dudrich charge for lockups now, I`m not surprised he can afford a collection like this..

[@dingopuppytoo]

My Mother had what I now know to have had some incredible cars- including a Lagonda in 1981, it was very unreliable! I was 10 and very embarrassed by the thing at school- all I wanted her to have was a mini metro like everyone else’s mum!! I wish I could tell her now how much I came to love her for being different!!

[@1unsung971]

Outrageously good. Can you go back for another visit? Remarkable collection.

[@marcustaylor9210]

My boss use to have a metallic blue, white cream interior with blue piping , small round holes alloys think it was about 1982

[@marcustaylor9210]

Sorry Lagonda

[@jimdavis5230]

Regarding the Ford KA rusting badly. I remember back in the 1970's Ford cars rusted very badly. They had the Rustcort and the Rustina and were known as Dagenham Dustbins.

[@chrisbury4635]

What a mad place, there must be a favourite car in there for everyone !!

[@tug1345]

Great to see this collection, thank you for featuring them, it's interesting you talking about the pop up lights, on Tyrells Classic Cars he featured a 1 of 1 Lagonda Vantage, Iain did some work on it then took it for a drive, he also chatted with the owner, he ordered the car new, showing the original bill of sale, while ordering the car, he could have had the twin superchargers but he likes the pop up lights, but for Aston to fit the superchargers they would have to go where the lights are, but he didn't like that, so his is an 80's spec Vantage engined Lagonda in quite a nice metallic brown/bronze colour

[@Charstring]

The landau bars on that Wood and Pickett mini make it look like a tiny American hearse ... it's the Addams Family mini.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Didn’t Paul McCartney used to own one? If my memory is right, I seem to remember seing him in one of these? 🤔

[@Stephenb033]

The blurred vehicles are really making me curious.

[@TheOracle65]

What an amazing living storage garage with an absolutely huge range and variety of cars! Thanks part 1 of walking us around the floors of cars. I can’t even chose a top 10, there is too much choice!

[@cornishrider]

I could spend days in there quite happily! My dream job would be curating a collection such as that, thanks for the insight Matt!

[@chrisoncars4879]

What an amazing collection, must have been a real treat to look round there.

[@peterriggall8409]

Speechless. That’s my comment. 😳

[@highbury1972]

Just Brilliant Matt! Superb Knowledge yourself too. I just knew I’d see a LTI London Taxi TX2/4 in that collection!! The Scimitar looked ace too.

[@tonys1636]

An absolutely staggering collection of some now very rare automobiles, The Austin pick up, a badge engineered Minor, before almost the whole range was badge engineered, was something BMC did for some export markets in the 50's and early 60's badging a Morris as an Austin, particularly in some of the Colonies.

[@Steve-Cross]

What an awesome collection. Thank you for showing us around. 😊

[@1776-r4j]

I could swear he called that Olds a Polds at 23:18:)

[@SabotsLibres]

FF - Fergusson Formula... (Harry Fergusson also invented the three-point hitch system that stops a tractor from rearing up when it is ploughing and it is his name that is carried still by Massey-Fergusson tractors)

[@repairupdaterepeat5815]

I like this guy "oh that's a funny looking car..... I'll take 4"

[@pit_stop77]

And you're worried that your car collection is too large? Matt you're just getting started 😂😂😂

[@freepieanchipsgarage]

It’s hard to imagine the upkeep alone, especially when I consider how much I manage to get through in repairs and I only have 17!

[@MrRicardo11]

Absolutely fabulous collection. Like you if I had the money then I would have a collection similar to this. You must post the second building video 🎉

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

What a amazing collection, that Primera and Orion through.... Such a varied selection of cars. Have to say the DS' SM and 2CV have to be my favourite in the collection. Is this a collection you can go and look at just with the amount of people that were there, would be awesome to have a look at.

[@Phil-1969]

Matt were you in Bicester today driving a mint morris marina , it looked just like you driving it

[@robertbransby]

Wow that's mind blowing!

[@JamesLee-do7yq]

That wasn’t an E46 M3, just a normal E46 on silly wheels

[@RoxhamCottage]

Wow, what a place. I'd love to see it in person.

[@promerops]

I think that FF stood for Ferguson Formula. Imagine I am a film producer and I wish to hire a car (or two, or three) from the collection for my next movie. Problem is - the car I'm interested in is right in the thick of the collection. How long and by what means would it be possible to extract that vehicle? Great video, Matt. Thanks very much!

[@Rom3_29]

4:36 - only obscene oil rich Arab can do that. Just an Amazing collection. Thank you.

[@daviemaclean61]

Just chequer plate your driveway and you're half way there! Amazing collection - they must get polish delivered in a road tanker. Cheers

[@robertsedgwick1629]

ah Mr Furious is it a Morris Minor pick up- i think you'll find it's an Austin!

[@ianscott947]

Back in the late 80s myself and a friend went to a classic car show up in Brum, at the time I was working in the parts department in a Jag dealership, so I was used to seeing interesting and exotic cars, and I'd go to these car shows to hopefully see cars I hadn't seen before. So at this car show someone had brought a Lagonda, it was the first time I'd seen one, and it was a WTF is going on here, the front end looked good, the rest looked a bit mundane and looked like they'd run out of design budget, probably because they had. The sunroof was in the wrong place, but it clicked instantly that the car was meant to be chauffeur driven, and the space age dash looked like an unrepairable nightmare, so I had to ask the owner if it all worked. His reply was pretty much, "It doesn't all work all the time, but enough works some of the time to make it drivable but only sometimes, but that's British cars for you", which was something I had to agree with because I worked in a Jag garage. Helluva car collection, though.

[@bencartwright6734]

That's definitely an interesting collection Matt great content!

[@siredward1061]

oh my dream cars lagonda rarely gathering in the same space.

[@LeftIsBest001]

My GTA Online character has quite a collection too... 😁

[@grayfool]

WOT? Holy moly. If you start a collection like this, I want a job please.

[@andrewterry352]

Just wondering, did you see any Rootes cars there??

[@giulianomarco]

Do you know what's happening with the world's rustiest Lagonda from last year, Matt? 😁👍

[@TheQuirkyGarage1999]

answer at 2:53

[@giulianomarco]

@@TheQuirkyGarage1999 Thanks - had a quick preview earlier and saved it for later. Not had time to watch it fully, yet. 👍

[@Juntasification]

Pop-up up and down headlights! 🎵🍩

[@paulsutton5896]

What a remarkable collection. I must share Mr Dudding's tastes - if not his ability to indulge them. Almost all the cars are British. With very few exceptions, I too care not a jot for foreign cars.

[@neilmustow368]

Just amazing Matty 😀

[@classics144sportscarschannel]

WOW what a hugh collection.

[@AtheistOrphan]

Who is Hugh?

[@johngrubb1590]

In a word ,,,,,,,,,,, WOW.

[@arkhsm]

Insane...ly FANTASTIC !!

[@davidhynd4435]

Wow, twenty five cars represents almost 4% of the total production run of the model.

[@ojtveito]

The Jensen besides the FF is not a 541, but a CV-8. And calling a MK1 Interceptor boring is a travesty. Otherwise great video. Loved it.

[@cdansmith9753]

Rodger was my landlord in London for 25 years - he invited me many times to come and look at his collection - I now see I should have taken him up on the offer.😂

[@phil7301]

I just hope you can get a bigger unit one day,, the interest is in the rare cars like your rover estate, 200, Mini, Punto etc, . I just hope you can get more subscribers to boost the money side of things 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍

[@chrisoncars4879]

That blue Audi 80 Cabrio looks to be Lady Diana's old car, it's the same reg anyway.

[@piotrjanus1926]

Will there be any more updates on the world’s rustiest lagonda

[@paul10018]

Sell all of these and afford to buy one, maybe two, from Tom Hartley... ;)

[@peterd4011]

Interesting, my dad's got 1 Lagonda (think is No.7), nice to know he's certifiable 😂

[@barron204]

Awesome Collection.

[@allanfoster6965]

Fantastic collection. I'm sure know someone who has a Citroën SM. . . .🤔

[@KarlHamilton]

That's obscene. Wonder can I interest him in a ticket to see the Titanic wreckage.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Are you busy gluing together a sub?

[@thisiszaphod]

Matt - whatever happened to the Lagonda that was being restored and converted to EV that you initially covered?

[@TheQuirkyGarage1999]

Answer at 2:53

[@peterriggall8409]

He said it is stalled…..can an EV stall? But anyway he said he will pick it up again once it moves again.

[@H4lminator]

Well, I would leave the paint as it is now.. I like the ‘patina’ 😅

[@darrensmith6999]

I find these a very handsome motor car, they remind me of the BL Princess. I you told me Harris Mann designed them i would believe you (: ( The Lagonda)

[@MrCwboot]

Great video. Can the public pay to visit this place? I’d go for the Lagondas alone

[@AtheistOrphan]

Sadly it’s not open to the public.

[@alexpanting4177]

I love how you bring up the ford ka, no, just no, its not a good one to have 😂😂

[@thomasmussig7556]

where is that car museum ( collection)?

[@furiousdriving]

North London, but its by appointment only

[@TrevorBuick]

All the Primera estates were built in Japan rather than Sunderland, supposed to be better built too 👍

[@fhwolthuis]

Wow, this is heaven!!! Are you sure you're still alive? 😂😉😉

[@4WDIESEL1]

is this what heaven looks like?

[@bobeden5027]

What is the collection worth?

[@Phiyedough]

Frustrating when you started looking at Aston martins then got sidetracked by more mundane cars! I wondered if there would be a 1960s Aston Martin Lagonda Rapide to go with the '70s Lagondas.

[@marcushull12]

Wow, i could spend a week in there.

[@larsassinck3868]

Nobody talking about that ceiling. It's literally as high as the doors. For some reason it makes me very uncomfortable

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Interesting, spectacular ......... But why 25 Lagondas? Obviously because he can, but still ..........

[@lesklower7281]

There is everything there if you can think if a car its there

[@jimclarke1108]

Wow, choose your colour