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

[@GeorgeKouloumbis]

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

[@bigmac69yall]

I agree, however I'd imagine if Guy was offered an honour he would decline it.

[@GeorgeKouloumbis]

There are not many of them left. A true professional

[@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 ice............and he was driving to work......i 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..

[@thefury4424]

Oh yeah, that guy, I remember him…

[@LewisRhymes]

Sounds like my dad ✌️

[@bobcat7227]

Awesome 😂👍🏻 I hope someone finds him 😂

[@gabortakacs2336]

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

[@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 😁

[@ragereset2795]

Literally doing the same thing. Only got into TT because of Guy. Such a great TT. Le Mans this year was amazing as well.

[@fester.]

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

[@fredtedstedman]

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

[@Sassenhaim]

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

[@lumpyfishgravy]

Thank-you for reminding me I need 4 new tyres for the Winter! Keep up the good work!

[@quicknickdriver8510]

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

[@samuraile6625]

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

[@lyndonhamby7432]

Looks way better Guy 👍👍

[@matthew-jy5jp]

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

[@samuraile6625]

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

[@Hectors-Maison]

A Swarbrick Spanny sticker gotta be worth another 25mph 😊

[@Doug791]

For true power upgrades you need Micron stickers.😂

[@DoItWithPaulie]

Sounds fantastic

[@whitecompany18]

Sounds like a Fresco exhaust 👌😍

[@scooble]

Ring...ding...ding... .....ding!

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

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.

[@dhwarrior]

Where I can find the little skulls stickers??

[@MrDragpics]

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

[@jonpowell8014]

Could you have not of borrowed the lump out of the Martek for this one fellas? 😂

[@brianfraser700]

Hi, not related to the vid but is guy martin proper clothing closed down?

[@TomasFaalPetersson]

Why music on top of the engine sound!!

[@Frostbait]

bonkers little "Rennpappe"

[@Seal_Clubbing_Champion]

Get it on the R30, mate.

[@martiniv8924]

ZZR1400 motor 👌🏻

[@ferrumignis]

He's going racing, putting bike engines in means it wouldn't be eligible for the race series.

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

@@ferrumignis and you'd look silly ,Yes !

[@ianatkinson8464]

😎👍

[@martiniv8924]

Perspex windows

[@bearowaty1]

Trampek :0)!

[@teothegreat3587]

0:1

[@Grorbas]

Install a 3 cylinder Wartburg engine.

[@bikdav]

I’m no serious mechanic. But, now I think I see why a floor shift wasn’t used.

[@janzeman8341]

We had one when I was kid, I hated that plastic smell.

[@andrewnorgrove6487]

I would of put a modern 1,000cc BMW RR motor in it 👍

[@ferrumignis]

And then it wouldn't be eligible to race, so you'd be looking silly.

[@onthebackwheel5033]

Here first

[@ferrumignis]

You must be so proud.

[@tonybrock5288]

I love Guy Martin and the TT etc. BUT the Trabant racing happened over a year AGO! WTF. Only showing it now. I AM a British Citizen BUT I am currently in another country and so I am "not allowed!" to view Channel 4 content (unless I get a gyppo VPN of course). This really pees me off. I can't even pay for and view genuine content but I do get drip fed rubbish over a year later...

[@andrewmeadows2596]

The lets kiss guys arse every minute in the commentary in this show can get tiresome.

[@ferrumignis]

Agreed, and they gloss over all the really interesting stuff.

[@baronbristow8764]

Needs teeth

[@kings3803]

The worse thing is that dna evidence comes up and it still takes years to go though court. Crazy.

[@ferrumignis]

What?

[@WeAreThePeople1690]

0:18 Nah they just used weans to do that work 😟

[@in4merATP]

Get a bucking bar and use real rivets, c'mon

[@ferrumignis]

No race car uses solid rivets for attaching bodywork, that would be gigantic waste of time.

[@petewarby7158]

"She sounded well didn't she..." NO, No she didn't lol. Bag of spanners is what she sounded like lol

[@vvevvevvvv]

2 stroke, mate

[@ferrumignis]

Hard to imagine someone watching a Guy Martin series with no idea what a two stroke engine is.

[@petewarby7158]

@@ferrumignis I am 54 years old lol, I know what a two stroke is. Still doesn't change the fact it sounds like a bag of spanners lol. It's not a BAD sound, it's just unusual these days.

[@pisstinpete4700]

Narrators voice is quite irritating

[@lacossanostra]

why not put in a 2 stroke outboard engine in the car

[@vvevvevvvv]

Regulations, I guess.

[@leifvejby8023]

Regulations - and they are water cooled, so a lot of extra mass to haul around the curves.

[@MrSpirit99]

Greetings from Zwickau, the city this abomination was made in.

[@martiniv8924]

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

[@phookit2]

What’s happened to the guy Martin proper web shop?. I NEED to buy more GM things!

[@Sweetabixx]

looks amazing though proper work of art

[@speckledjim_]

The little car polishes up quite well, Nice 👍

[@stephenhewitt5835]

Top Geezer 👍

[@ecalzo]

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

[@terryroberts4589]

Hi Guy the video is great, I had a go in a trabant so 💩, when I was in Berlin with the Army in 1989 to 1993, have you got any need for two Kawasaki z650 projects

[@stephencox4224]

I remember a story aka Joke about Trabants that crossed into West Germany after the wall went down and it goes like this the East German driver had a breakdown and the closest mechanic was a BMW specialist who agreed to have a look. A few hours later he came back and it was fixed. He drove off went for 20 minutes and it stopped so with some more stops he made his way back to the BMW mechanic who when he arrived said Oh I know whats wrong I fixed it by fitting a BMW Wiper Motor to replace your faulty engine but I forgot to take it off the intermittant setting

[@zsozso411]

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!

[@watahyahknow]

26 hp .... man those cheap preditor lawnmower engines produce more nowadays

[@laurencew5220]

I thought Trabants were made of fiberglass

[@milanputnik7984]

Без везе вам сав посао!

[@jojaomro]

Yes

[@edwilko8819]

shame u can't just drop a volvo 5cyl turbo or 4cyl turbo or bike engine but guessing then wont meet race class criteria 😂

[@bomcabedal]

Of course, this is hardly "restoring a Trabant" as previous titles claimed. It's creating a new car with a Trabant body. Technically impressive, but it has nothing to do with what a Trabant is.

[@ferrumignis]

Don't be silly. It's a Trabant monocoque, modified Trabant engine, and the structural parts of the Trabant suspension. This is little different to creatining a race car from any other production car.

[@bomcabedal]

@@ferrumignis That's would be the first Trabant monocoque ever produced then. But apart from that technicality, it just isn't a restoration. Kudos to the technical skill on display, and call it a modification or a renovation, but if the majority of parts is fundamentally different from the stuff you began with it's not a restoration.

[@AmirPomen]

Throw in honda nsr 500cc 2stroke race engine and call it productive day 😂😂😂

[@ferrumignis]

Why would you deliberately make a car not eligible for race series when the whole point of building it was for a race series?

[@slaviivanov6766]

2 stroke engine sucksssss

[@ferrumignis]

So does your mum.

[@darrellbradley9334]

Guy please Explain , Way the stupid of Leaving stickers on Tires ...... The Internet is Full of it .I do Love the car Man ;) Good Luck .

[@skylershank9309]

All that work and 60 horses? Really?

[@vvevvevvvv]

It was 26. So more than 2 times more than stock. And the engine is standard (highly modified, but still) with no turbocharger or supercharger.

[@skylershank9309]

@@vvevvevvvv wow......

[@volvos60bloke]

great guy we got are brexit DID