Restoring a 1986 Trabant to RACE! | 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 first episode he buys his first ever Trabant car and gets friend Canny on board with the project.
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[@salahad-din4114]

Reminds me of my fathers old Hillman imp with the roll cage. Love these old toys

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Guy and Cam are a great team. Funny as

[@martinfisker7438]

Love the trabby, such a quirky car

[@Susietravels]

I'm not into the whole car stuff but guy finds a way to make me lap it up😆and cry more😆

[@lotuselise4432]

I think the last ones made after reunification had Polo 1.2l engines, remember the drive to Poland and fueling up in EastGermany and having to pay in West German Marks and the locals filling up with petrol and measuring out the amount of oil to go in to the tank.

[@heckenzwirn]

1.1l

[@Mattlawton-ft6ew]

2 stroke 👍

[@lotuselise4432]

@@Mattlawton-ft6ew - Certain 2 Strokes are banned in London unless you can get it tested.

[@Mattlawton-ft6ew]

@@lotuselise4432 no that car has a twostroke engine 👍

[@whitecompany18]

Same horsepower as our Royal Enfields Guy... Same weight too! 😂👍

[@Prone2Thrill]

Common mod is slipping a Honda 1.8L in them and they grow wings! I love the body style

[@zonks------king----surf---8644]

cant wait for more like this

[@lewisgilbertson7506]

This thing looks so fun like a full sized go kart

[@Ole_Woodworm]

We used to call it "Plastic Bomber". Have fun with this piece of German history. ✌

[@Sweetabixx]

Literally only guy can pull this off 😂😂😂

[@matthew-jy5jp]

Love guy and this channel

[@RagdollRacingInc]

If someone could do it your the Guy👌

[@markthompson9914]

The only time I didn’t want too go too an illegal party in a fields in Lincolnshire, Guy decides too walk through it and meet some of my mates. Was I ever pissed off when they sent me the pics 😡 If it kills me I will get too shake that man by the hand, cos he’s a fkin legend ✌️🇬🇧

[@samuraile6625]

I have great memories with trabant😁 good thing is you don't need to worry about rust because whole car is from bakelit ( material) if you need to know something about trabant let me know. Swap engine. You could use engine from Fiat punto mk1 1.2 16v 63 bhp.

[@AndyNastas40403]

Guy replaced the 2 stroke for a 16 valve? The he's not the guy i used to like :( is like adding more wheels to a motorcycle 😅

[@samuraile6625]

@@AndyNastas40403 Thanks😁

[@AndyNastas40403]

@@samuraile6625 you're welcome, now we're 2guys against one Guy hehe

[@samuraile6625]

@@AndyNastas40403 😁 it's shame, that video it has only 6 min. I want to know how he restored 🙂 my mate had cool sticker for trabant: When I grow up I'll be a BMW 😁

[@AndyNastas40403]

@@samuraile6625 I drove one in Romania where I'm from. The combi one btw. As far as a 2 stroke engine goes with gasoline+oil mixed already in the gas tank, well... (combine that with large intake valves) , few times I had to replace the air filter b/c it had oil on it , 4real soo... challenges make a motorist more skilfull.

[@martiniv8924]

My Nephew bought a Trabant for his Hungarian father in law as a run around on his small holding , when he returned back a few weeks later, he had hacksawed the roof off and made it into a pickup 😂 …… he had waited about 4 years for a new one in the 70’s ticking the options box for wipers, 3 years later it turned up without wipers, the dealer said if you want wipers you will have to go back on the 3 waiting list 🙈😂)

[@hugogeerts201]

They need to put a hayabusa engine in the trabant

[@fredtedstedman]

Ooooooh Yeeeeeeeeah !!

[@laspecialgap8915]

Hey where can I watch this

[@ianbradley9838]

We all love an underdog ! Come on !!! 😂 whoop whoop. 🙌 what you need is a nutter who can smash the TT no worries to take control of this project ? Oh hang on….

[@heckenzwirn]

my first Car!

[@lotuselise4432]

A friend of a friend lost his shoe in one when he kicked a hole in one and could not retrieve it, think fibreglass then think paper mâché.

[@lyndonhamby7432]

Sup Guy 👍🤙✌️

[@landiepete]

These two are the rightful successors to the three idiots from TG that went to Amazon. This must be *the* most entertaining car show on the tube.

[@geoffburrill9850]

It's lively. Lol

[@mikehipperson]

They gotta stick a Hayabusa in it, just for the crack!

[@youngcali177]

Good video, but there is a serious misstatement! The Trabant was NOT unreliable. It was the most reliable car in the Eastern block and was very easy to repair/maintain.

[@glenmel78]

Right! It's a two-stroke with minimal parts and maybe 9 wires.

[@lotuselise4432]

Do a search on YT for the Trabant Factory QA

[@356porsche]

the question is after that statement is how many eastern block cars is it being compared to?

[@youngcali177]

@@356porsche It is the official statistical comparison of the monopolist state-owned car distributor from Hungary over 2 decades of selling Eastern block cars.

[@356porsche]

@@youngcali177 well at least that answered my question.......

[@user-mj8rp2er7u]

there is a guy near dresden who can build anything around a trabbi, pn me for advice

[@bluedunn374]

So we can finally comment now huh?

[@laptopuser3323]

Gday mate?

[@Huntbarternsteal]

Daft racing team

[@oblioi]

:o)❤

[@keithquestedelectrical9785]

There is something about the trabant

[@bluegizmo1983]

Now V8 swap it! 🤣

[@Mark-yk1ny]

It's not my kind of car.😆

[@claudeemmanuel2663]

No please two strokes sucks Find a bycycle

[@vumba1331]

Two strokes are great, too many great motor bikes and cars to list!

[@cliveramsbotty6077]

a load of semi scripted tripe