David Gandy: How to Collect Classic Cars Properly

31 Mar 2026 · 1 h · 19 chapters

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In short

David Gandy discusses classic-car collecting as preservation and shared enjoyment, not just investment; he also recounts his racing and restoration experiences, especially the Mille Miglia and Jaguar models.

Guest backgrounds

David Gandy is a British male model who is also a racer and devoted classic-car restorer/owner. He grew up loving cars through go-karts, car-history reading, and racing/WRC stories (Group B era). He later raced with partners including Yasmin Le Bon and Jodie Kidd.

Key claims

Classic cars should be driven and enjoyed by others; the market shifted from passion to investment, creating private, undriven collections. “Classic” status (he cites UK guidance) is often pre-1986, though he personally prefers 1950s–60s. Restoration should respect key original elements (he keeps “patina” on certain tactile parts).

Notable examples

Mille Miglia history (Sterling Moss averaging 100 mph in a 1950s Mercedes); a crash into the “Grassy Banks”; his restored 190 SL with matching leather luggage; XKSS (16 built); Jaguar XK120 lightweight; Goodwood Revival; Callum Mini project; his “Matilda” car named after his daughter.

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Passion for Classic Cars

0:54 to 1:38

David Gandy shares insights on the joy and culture of classic cars.

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Early Influences and Love for Cars

2:23 to 4:31

David discusses his childhood experiences that sparked his love for cars.

“My apologies for kicking off so flippantly.”

Racing Inspiration and History

4:31 to 7:13

Gandy explains how racing and car history captivated him.

“It's not, and it's a quite expensive passion, to be honest.”

The Thrill of Driving

7:13 to 8:31

David and Tom talk about their love for driving various car types.

“And then sort of getting into the cars after that.”

Adventure and Travel Stories

8:31 to 9:45

Gandy shares adventurous travel experiences that shaped his love for cars.

“I said, well, maybe I couldn't come on holiday, but I could have a new car.”

Rally Driving and Experience

9:45 to 14:01

David explains his experiences in rally driving and the thrill it provides.

“and he was talking about the Peking to Paris rally and stuff.”

Racing Experiences and Crashes

14:01 to 18:00

Learn about the thrill and dangers of racing classic cars, including a personal crash story.

“When you're a very good driver, it's a wonderful experience.”

The Social Aspect of Classic Car Rallies

18:01 to 19:31

Discover the camaraderie and competitive spirit among classic car racers during events.

“And I knew about the history of being able to didn't run it.”

Collector Psychology and Classic Cars

19:32 to 25:00

Explore what defines classic cars and the evolving mindset of collectors over time.

“And, but in my head, the classic status is still probably the 50s, 60s cars.”

Goodwood Revival and Racing Heritage

25:01 to 27:37

Gain insights into the significance of the Goodwood Revival and its historic racing.

“It's not like Toad in Toad Hall, kind of like, you know, beep, beep.”
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Restoration Experiences with Classic Cars

29:27 to 36:19

David Gandy shares his experiences and thoughts on restoring classic cars.

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The Joy of Classic Cars and Their Impact

36:20 to 42:01

Discussion on the joy of owning classic cars and the community they foster.

“We had a little bit of adjustable suspension on there, adjustable pedals because I don't fit it very well.”

The Evolution of Car Restorations

42:01 to 43:50

Discussing modern car restorations, particularly the concept of resto modding.

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Nostalgia for Driving Classic Cars

43:51 to 46:11

Exploring the thrill of driving classic cars and a desire for a more engaging driving experience.

“I was bored of driving, bored of like electric cars, bored of road.”

The Future of Classic Cars

46:12 to 48:11

Debating which modern cars could potentially become classics, and the impact of manufacturing volume.

“And so you've got these people that were complete petrolheads driving Minis, And I love that idea.”

Listener Questions: Cars and Experiences

48:12 to 50:31

Answering listener questions about favorite cars, dream cars, and memorable driving experiences.

“So they're all stupidly fast now, 06 in two seconds.”

Roads and Bond Cars

50:32 to 52:59

Discussing the best and worst roads for driving, along with a favorite Bond car discussion.

“So three that you have that's your obviously curated garage, and then three that you don't have that you would like to have.”

The Impact of Car Design

53:00 to 56:01

Exploring the significance of car design through decades and the rise of electric vehicles.

“When people talk about the Aston Martin and the DB5 and everything else, absolute crap.”

The Regret of Missing Out on Classic Cars

56:01 to 58:08

Learn about the emotional connection collectors have with classic cars and missed opportunities.

“The car that you missed out on buying that you regret not buying the most.”
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0:00It's not just something you made. It's the privilege that you get to work with your hands. It's building something that serves a purpose. Proof that you have the grit to keep going. At Timberland, we understand you take your craft seriously. And we do too. Which is why our products are built to the highest quality. We put in the work so you can perfect yours. With purpose in every detail and crafted with intention. Timberland. Built on craft. Visit Timberland.com to shop. Get in the game with the college-branded Venmo Debit Card. Wreck your team with every tap and earn up to 5 % cash back with Venmo Stash, a new rewards program from Venmo.

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1:13We're just generally all happy being in classic cars. Cars are too fast, they're too boring, they're too capable nowadays. They're modern stuff. And classic cars, you then got something that are just a bugger to try. But yes, the Italians love speed, they love cars. And when you think, I'm going to get pulled over here, they're going to have a go, No, no, no. Go, go, go. Go faster. I just want to look at your car. Go faster. You're going too slow. That's basically it. Hello and welcome to The Luxury Dispatch, the podcast that reveals the refined and the rare. People, items and stories that make up the luxury industry.

1:45I'm Tom Chamberlain and today we shall be stepping into a world where engineering becomes art and where the act of collecting is as much about preservation as it is about passion. It is, of course, the world of classic cars. From coach-built bodies to racing pedigrees, from the scent of old leather to the quiet authority of a perfectly tuned engine, vintage motoring occupies a singular place in luxury culture. These machines are not simply objects of beauty, but moving pieces of history, each with its own story to tell. To guide us through that world, naturally, I've asked a male model to join us.

2:14It's David Gandy, racer, devoted restorer, and a man whose appreciation for craftsmanship extends well beyond the wardrobe. David, welcome. Thank you, John. My apologies for kicking off so flippantly. But to some extent, I rather like that people, you know, obviously you are known for being, I think, sort of the most successful male model of all time. However, it's always fascinating to people that, behind the kind of public profile, people have passions that extend beyond what they're known for. And, you know, you and I have waxed lyrical for many, many years now about fashion tailoring, the things we sort of both enjoy.

2:55But classic cars is very much where your heart lies. Where did that begin? To say, Tom, really, I mean, I just remember loving cars as things I, you know, couldn't remember. You know, my mum and dad bought me a little pedal go-kart and I was off. That was it. I would just go down the driveway, handbrake, turn it and come back. And that was just what I'd do for hours um we used to sit over i remember a friend across the road his father had an old datson in his garage we used to sit in there just playing tunes and pretending to drive so um no love of cars in in in the immediate family whatsoever it's very much especially my father i'm always so i i could turn up in a in a yellow lamborghini and he could see me turn up and then i could leaving a 80s voxel nova it's yellow he wouldn't notice a difference he would he would just still remind me to mind the grassy banks because I crashed into one to once and he still reminds me it was about 20 years ago, but he still likes to remind me as I go visit home.

3:58It's always a very good piece of advice. It is always. Mind the grassy banks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's where the love came from. Reading. My reading was the history of cars, the stories of cars. Every poster on the wall would be a Ferrari F40 or a Porsche 959 or XJ220. there was always a magazine, always a car magazine in my hand, and then traveling. So yeah, it just wasn't forced on me. I didn't have any mentors or anyone that got in from a family point of view. It's in your blood, and that is. And you say it's a passion. It's not, and it's a quite expensive passion, to be honest. Well, we'll dig into that at some point as we ask you about the cars that you've both restored and raced.

4:44But in terms of sort of accessing that world, was it through the cars themselves as a sort of an object of beauty? Was it the technical side of things for you? Was it the people who raced them? What aspects of it sort of entranced you the most? I definitely think probably it was the racing side, first of all. these were days of the WRC rally when I was growing up as well. Is that when hundreds of people would go along a thin path, and the cars would zoom through the middle? Yeah, that was Group B, which of course got banned, and it was just absolute madness. That's nuts, that. When you see videos...

5:22I mean, genuinely, young kids today, when they're growing up, they would not believe that that ever existed. No, I mean, there's stories of that then. When one guy, I've forgotten who one of the racers was, they stopped at the checkpoint, and there was a hand in his grille, because they were trying to touch the car, and clearly they did, and it ripped this guy's arm off. And they had to pull the arm out of the grille, and they carried on. Frankly, that's his fault. Not the driver's. Well, no, I wouldn't quite blame him. I'll turn to the car very honestly. Yeah, and then the history of everything, the Mille Mille, some fascinating stories.

5:59The Mille Mille is a thousand-mile race around Italy. Which you've done. in the 50s. It's not a race. We do race, but it's now a timed rally. But it was a thousand miles around Italian partly open roads, but still kind of with general public driving in it. Jaguar and Ferrari and everyone would participate in it. And this fact that Sterling Moss completed that in 10 hours. So he was averaging, so it's 1 ,000 miles, 10 hours. He averaged 100 miles an hour in a 1950s car. It was a Mercedes Silver Arrow on open roads, some of the on open roads, but not closed roads, racing in the millimino. So whizzing past civilians in their fiats?

6:52Yeah, it could be. And it's just phenomenal. I mean, we do that race and we do it in four days. You can do it in three days. You did it in 10 hours. So it's like they have a different mindset. Once you get into the history and some really interesting stories. And then, of course, you had F1 with Ayrton Senna. And, you know, WRC when you had Colin McRae, Richard Byrne. So it was definitely the racing side that I was fascinated by. Yeah. And then sort of getting into the cars after that. But it was just the love and the freedom of driving, I've always said. Like, I still don't care. I think people think I care a lot about what car I'm driving.

7:25Whether that's a classic or something very new and flash. It doesn't matter. Like a Volvo. I love Volvo. Yes, I love Volvo. I absolutely adore Volvo. Yes, I'm a huge fan. I bought a couple of them. But I could just drive that because I'm just happy driving. I'm with you, actually. I do all the driving at home because I just love it. Yeah. What was your first car? Not that you care. I had a 1988 Ford Fiesta gear. I'm not still trying to work out what the gear part actually meant. Okay. Aftermarket electric windows, four speed, four presets. It was a bit of a hand-me-down from all my dad's companies.

8:05I think it was a pull car, and then it was like the death trap was given to me. But that guy absolutely loved it. Absolutely loved it. And he said to me, the quite funny thing my dad still reminds me is that, So of course, as a 17, 18 year old, a bit older, said, Dad, can we get a new car? I read he used to take us on some fantastic holidays all over the world. I said, Dad, these trips to Amazon and Alaska must be very expensive. And he said, yeah, they are, David, but I like to take you places and you'll thank me basically one day. I said, well, maybe I couldn't come on holiday, but I could have a new car.

8:38And he said, well, you can make a choice. You can not come on holiday, but you're not getting a car. So what do you want to do?" I said, I'd like to come on holiday. He went, good decision. Get out of my office. That was the end of the discussion. See, a dad would take you on holiday to, like, Greenland. Yeah, he would be like the frustrated David Attenborough. OK, sorry, I have to explore that a little bit. That's interesting, because I guess the intrepidness would be passed down. So how wild did it get? The travel? Yeah. Yeah, there were 11 hours on long boats through the Amazon rainforest, 14 flights in 13 days, catching piranha, eating piranha, nearly getting hit by a rhino.

9:21One stage guy didn't listen to the guide, not going back to a hunt in Botswana. Yeah. Alaska, brown bears, walking around woods, having to clap so that they can hear you and run away instead of attacking you. Um, yeah, it was immense. And I guess traveling and cars have such a great I love a road trip. Yeah. And we had Simon de Burton on in the last season to talk about the history of off-roaders, and he was talking about the Peking to Paris rally and stuff. And then also there was the Dorian Pass with John Blasford Snell, who took a bunch of Land Rovers through it. And so, you know, cars, adventure, seeing the world, you know, it's such a great connection.

10:05I wonder whether perhaps your upbringing in adventure, in that sense, meant that ultimately your love of cars and hitting the road and getting out and about was inevitable. Yeah, I think the road trips, I mean, we were sort of dumped as children. I mean, we used to take my... Back in the day, we used to go around Europe with my grandparents and us in the back of the car, dumped into the back of the car and just driving around Europe with my mum's mixed tapes. That's my happy place. And why? I don't know, because traveling with my children is hellish. Absolutely hell. But, you know, I mean, if I'm going on a road trip or there's a car event or a rail or something else, I'm still to this day got the buzz of, I know I won't be able to sleep that night or there's a car being delivered for me to review or a new car for, you know, I've done a deal with a car company.

11:02I won't sleep that night. I'm literally that excited. That excited. Jaguar could be replacing the exact way with Jaguar or Land Rover. They could be replacing the car with exactly the same car. Yes. But I'll still be excited, it's a different color. You took me out in one once. I took out in the... Yeah, the Project 8. There's a very particular clip where you went a bit faster. Yes. And I wasn't expecting it. There's a strange noise that came out of you.

11:32I remember that world. Yeah, there was a look. Yeah, that was quite something. Yeah.

11:46Shat my pants. I shat myself. And so, would you say that you're more a track guy or a long distance? I'm a rally guy. Grand tourer. I'm not a great track day driver. I did a few rally courses, I got my racing license, and definitely sort of rallying and road is better for me. Track is, I find it quite boring. And actually people who are very good on track, they can literally like, by methodical, increase this by two seconds deep. And that's basically what F1 drivers do. They're pushing it to the limit. Yeah. where rallying is trying to control. Basically, you are out of control the whole time.

12:32You are on the limit. And that's why I used to love about WRC rally, doing 120, 130 miles, but there's a 500-foot cliff that way, a crowd of people, and a rock face over here. And that just baffled me. They talk about the danger of F1, and I was just like, have you seen these guys? they're doing 140 miles an hour. And there is not, they cannot make an inch this way. And it makes a difference. You're going to end up over a cliff. And it was fascinating. That mindset is quite hard. Until I raced in the Millet, and then I got the red mist of understanding you have, because we were, by my first race, I raced with Yasmin Le Bon.

13:20So if you have a racing partner, Yasmin. You choose lads from Yasmin Le Bonis. I'm a great driver. I always said, where was your life? You know, the happy way I said, on the Millet, I was going through the Tuscan countryside in a classic Jaguar, racing through, racing with the Italians, and Yasmin Le Bonis hand-feeding me Haribo into my mouth to kind of keep me going. Good for morale. Yeah, that was okay. I was like, yeah. If I die at this moment, I'll die a very happy man. You did it with Jodie Kidd as well, didn't you? We did it with Jodie's whole different ballgame. I mean, she's unhinged. I'm unhinged, but she's then that next level.

13:56So we were very good together, because actually it's quite scary when you're in a car. When you're a very good driver, it's a wonderful experience. But it's not fun for people when you are going that fast. But we're both slightly unhinged when we're racing. So it's kind of like fine. Great. And that, the Miller, you already know, The weird thing isn't you're on a 400 cars, you're overtaking them, they're open, they're not all closed roads. Of course, we're driving in right-hand drive cars, so we're on the other side of the road. You can't see, so you have to completely trust your co-driver. You have to go and you look out and you go, yeah, go.

14:38And on the instant, if you don't go, and then if you pause and you go, no, don't go now. You're going to hit someone. There's something going on. There's a lot of accidents. They can't nod off. No, I mean, you just have to be like absolutely trusting it. And we crashed. I mean, Yasmin was in the... We were in the XK and she was driving wet road, coming out to Rome. She was overtaking a couple of cars and a couple of cars were trying to overtake us, which sounds absolutely ridiculous. It does sound... And then they hit, they touched us because they had to pull in very quickly to get in from oncoming traffic, hit us, which put us into a bit of a spin and we went down to Grassi Bank.

15:12And my head is the roll bar. Back to the Grassi Banks. Back to the Grassi Banks. We're having much luck. avoiding a house and a number of people sitting, watching, spectating, because the Italians will come out and watch. The front side of the car was crashed up. We were on our side. I was just trying to get my head, so if we did turn over, because we're not wearing helmets or anything. It's ludicrous when you actually think about this now. And then I just sort of saw how we were number one on the Jaguar team at the point, and then Andy Wallace overtook us. And I didn't care about, I had no sympathy, by the way, for us crashing or Yasmin.

15:48I was literally like, yes, did it. Let's just pack up and get on because now we're second. It's getting in driving. Yeah, you've got to get back. And I just saw that, yeah, you have no, of course, like self-harm or self-deprecation. You're literally just going, I don't care. I just want to win this race and I'll do it at any cost. So I got to slightly see what races experienced at that time. And when you do things like the Mille Miglia, Um, is there a sort of... Do people go because there's a big sort of social aspect to it as well? Because you do have your stops, and you take four days rather than, uh, being like Stirling Moss, and it's just like a one-day thing, you know?

16:28I'm assuming afterwards, everyone's quite sort of pally and not sort of wanting to go. They are. I mean, you make sure, um, that the rival is we were Jaguar. Mercedes did not like us whatsoever. They would try and put their support vans in between us so we couldn't get to timing spots on time or delay us and stuff. So it was one of the English versus the Germans. I was hunting down goal wings, as I used to say. Actually, there was one where we came in and where there was three, five, sixes, Porsches, and then there was the goal wings. We've been racing for hours. And at the checkpoint, you don't win.

17:02You basically just have to get there first. You have to wait longer. Yeah. You can't go until your time is up. That's kind of not the point. and there was traffic going into this small town heading towards up into Breschner and there was a very wide pavement. I was like, I'm going to use the pavement. So I went up onto the pavement, overtook the Germans and then carried on. So we were in the lead. Do you get legal leeway in these situations? The Italians like me, which is quite... But that's good. This is Dolce. Why do they? Ah, yes. I got away with a few things. But yes, the Italians, They love speed, they love cars, they are, I would say, the most passionate car people in the world.

17:45And when you think, I'm going to get pulled over here, they're going to have a go, they just go, no, no, no, go, go, go. Go faster. I just want to look at your car. Go faster. You're going too slow. That's basically it. We did it twice, fantastic. The best memories. The first year we did it, the second year they had made it four days. The original was three days. And I knew about the history of being able to didn't run it. I didn't quite understand the intensity of it. And it was peeing down for two ways. And you have a map book. There's no sat nav. You've got two timers. And you've got a guidebook like this that says 0.5 kilometers turn right.

18:24So people get lost? Get lost all the time because you have to kind of go back on yourself and then try and find your mileage on where you are. But when you are driving for, it could be 12, 14 hours a day, you can have a breakdown. it's um you're getting to hotels just exhausted and then you're up at sometimes five six in the morning to get back into the car after having a lovely italian dinner and yeah yeah it was pretty old school i imagine at that speed it sort of um deals with the hangover quite quickly yeah yeah i mean let's you talk about sort of mindsets and things like that i'm interested in the collector psychology.

19:01And what it... Firstly, what makes a classic car to you? I mean, that's a good question, where you are determining classic cars. I mean, you went on the government website, what class is a classic car? I think it's like pre-1986 is classed as a classic car now. Which, by the way, in my head, I don't think that's that long ago. You're a classic car then. But yeah, that is a long time ago now. I was born in 1987, so I don't know. Oh, well, fuck you. for me it's and i was born in 1980 so uh yeah um but but i still think you look great oh thank you i don't know if anyone's ever told you you're a good looking guy um but i still think in my head so even so now you can determine that um 80s or some 90s cars peugeot 205s they're calling them they are coming into the classic status um i think the classic status is doing something that I deem as there's not many left of those vehicles, the rarity as to that, of course.

20:04And, but in my head, the classic status is still probably the 50s, 60s cars. Not even 70s me, it's kind of the 50s, 60s era. So that meets your personal interest. That's when I think cars were the most beautiful. Fine. And for the collector, and in terms of the collector's mindset, what do you think people look for when they want to collect? or make a collection of cars? I think this has changed. So when I started probably, oh, my God, about 15 years ago, sort of getting into classic cars. I was getting a bit bored of the modern-day stuff coming in, so I was getting into the classics a bit more.

20:43And you kind of felt the community then, and probably a bit before that, was they bought cars because they loved that car. They were buying it from the passion of, they just loved the car or the history behind it, the look of the car, the rarity of it. And of course, you had passions of people passionate about Jaguars, people passionate about Ferraris, and had a mixture, but you kind of read by like Jag guy or Mercedes guy or a Ferrari guy, Aston guy. But then of course, the price of these cars started going through the roof. you're talking Ferraris at 20, 30 million. Some Jags were the same, some Astons, but nothing near what the classic sort of Ferraris were doing.

21:30And then people then, of course, started not getting these cars for passion value. They were buying them from investment value. So, of course, then people were, you could buy 10 of a classic Ferrari. If you own 10 of them, you can pretty much say what the price is going to be. to make sure one sold for 10 million and the rest of your thing are going to be sold by 10 million. And they weren't being driven. I'm a big believer that you have classic cars you can restore and it's for everyone else to enjoy. Whether that is you driving it itself, whether that is you taking it to a Hampton Court or a concourse, it's for other people to enjoy.

22:06That's why we've got them on the road. But it wasn't. They were investment pieces. And of course, then you see these vast collections being built of these cars that are never really going to be seen. So I think it changed. So you think that the creation of classic cars as a sort of asset class has diminished it as a market because it's private hands away from the kind of passionate... To me, I mean, to me it does. And I'm not going to be judging Style Deluxe with Cartier at Goodwood. And you just hear the different stories. And instantly when a car has been brought on a trailer, dropped off in the thing, and it's immaculate.

22:50Or completely, you can because things are completely original, but it's not driven. It's brought from a collection by a team that's there. And it could be the best car there. Straight away, personally, for me, off the list, you're not going to win. The people who have checked in the back of the car, and there's a Waitrose bag with some lunching, and people have driven four hours that morning to bring their classic car. Labrador hair. And they're telling the story, and they've always got the best stories. and they're still driving the car. Do you think that that is what makes Goodwood so special?

23:23Because it transports people who will never see these cars driven in any other circumstance. You know, there's other things like, you know, the London to Brighton, you know, from outside the RAC, where, I mean, those are like the first ever cars and stuff. I mean, they're extraordinary. But seeing rallying, racing, you know, uphill sort of achievements with these old cars is a really special thing that the Duke's managed to... More than ever, I think we've got, of course, you've got, you know, the two forms like Goodwood, but I mean, still like, we have Revival. Yeah. And again, I don't think people are appreciating, you know, I can watch that race, and I know there are two Ferrari 250 GTOs where they're racing an E-Type or an XKSS, an inch from each other, proper racing.

24:23And I go, in that corner, that's 60 million quid. And then once it's gone off, and you're like, good God, like this is... Yeah, that is the most amazing thing about Goodwood Revival, is it's the most expensive race, set of races in the world. And I interviewed Tom Christensen, the chap who's, I think he's won Le Mans nine times and podiumed 14. Which is a lot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And he was racing. So, you know, you are also seeing the kind of, some of the greats. Yeah, like Derrick Bowie's still there. You know, it's no joke. No, no, it's no joke. And that's where, and that's, again, you just see that.

25:01It's not like Toad in Toad Hall, kind of like, you know, beep, beep. It's really, really not. It's slightly more hardcore. Jaguar once had me driving an XKSS. Now, the XKSS, there were 16 cars made. Because actually, after they made these 16 cars, the factory burned down. So you had these 16 cars. And they were D-typed, and then they said, we're going to make a bit of money from these, and people will buy them as kind of racing road cars. Stephen Queen bought them. Right. Oh, is that the one that he would race on Mulholland Drive? Yeah, the rumors had his back lights turned off, so the police, if they did try and get him, they just couldn't see where it was.

25:38Yeah. Yeah, and he sold it, and then he regretted selling it, and he had to run and bought it back. And they're a race car. I mean, this thing is only happy doing 100 miles an hour. I mean, the accelerator is like a little bit of metal. They said, on, off. And Jaguar gave me, they said, well, Devin, you've driven it a few times. You better drive that, because other people who were doing what we were doing at the event, they won't be able to drive it. But when we got it at Millbrook protesting ground, I remember the guy who delivered to me said, just FYI, I'm just going, the owner of this has just said no to 16 million for it.

26:12So basically, he was saying, please try not to bin the car once you're going around it. So first of all, I was like, God, I was just like... I'm going to go at five miles an hour. ...hootling around, and then you get a bit faster and get a bit faster. And I thought, actually, when am I ever going to get a chance to drive this car ever again? and it just, the car heats up and you're double-declutching and then you don't even have to change your gear with a clutch because you've got that, the change just right. And then Jaguar had to send a car out because I just switched off the, they were going, David, can you come in?

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26:40I just switched it off. I said, well, you can come and get me. And that's what they had to do. It is a mega unhelpful thing to have pointed out that, the fact that, I think that putting that in your head was probably unhelpful, but I'm glad you managed to overcome it. What I like about Goodwood is the racetrack that it's on. It used to be RAF West Hamlet. And the reason the track is there, because what RAF fields in the war used to have was planes all spread out. They weren't all kind of packed together like they are today, because if there was a raid and it was bombed, they were spread out. So often, lots of planes would survive and one would be hit.

27:16And so when the ding-ding-ding-ding alarm went off and the pilots had to scramble, they would jump in cars and be driven all around track to get to all their planes. And all the pilots there realized this was a really fun track and could make for a really good racetrack. So they would meet after the war and race around it. And it was then the Duke of Richmond who initially was like, excuse me, you know, get off my land, in that accent. And he saw him, he sort of liked the spirit of it, and so began hosting races there. And that's where the origins come from, and I really love that. Just when you thought you were listening to the only podcast in the world without a NordVPN advertisement, think again.

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29:17To get the best discount off your NordVPN plan, go to nordvpn.com slash dispatch. Our link will also give you four extra months on the two-year plan, and there's no risk with Nord's 30-day money-back guarantee. The link is in the podcast episode description box. You mentioned restoration. You have restored classic cars. Tell me about the process. I haven't personally restored classic cars. Let's point that out. You own cars that have been restored. You've undertaken restoration. I have. I'm by no means trying to sell you as a sort of engineer. There are better people than you. I could be, you know.

29:52You've got enough on your hands. It was the Jaguar, wasn't it? It's the most amazing looking car. Well, I started off... Sorry to interrupt. I started off... I always wanted a... I loved Mercedes Goldwing. It stupidly was offered one many, many, many, many years ago. I still remember the price. he was asking 295 ,000 for it, and I didn't have anywhere near that sort of money. That car today would probably be about 1.2, 1.3. And I knew it was stupid at the time, so actually, people should invest in this. And that's why I was kind of realizing I had a bit of an attack for realizing cars that will be increasing in value, because I can see the rarity and I knew the history of them.

30:37I couldn't afford a Goldwing, so I got a... On the same line as the Goldwing in the 60s was the 190 SL beautiful car. So I had that fully restored, nut and bolt. I had the luggage set. The luggage set was a six-piece luggage set, specially made out of the same leather that you chose as an option, so I had that made. Can I just ask about the decision-making process of something like that? Because people would argue that original parts make for a better classic car. And at the same time, others might argue that restoring it to its former glory, using as close to the same materials as would have been used initially, and all these sorts of things, is as noble a pursuit as kind of leaving it.

31:30Because at some point, patina is just basically rust, right? So, you know, there is a point at which you can't keep it up. I mean, the same with restoring watches. You will, but you will, if your car is being judged, if something is totally original, untouched, unrestored, you will gain points and respect for that car not being touched. So you could have a car that has had a£2 million rebuild, as you said, parts being sourced from all around the world, re-chromed, you know, or people building machines to mill the metal in the same way it was done. Yeah. Jaguar Classics do that very well. And it's better, you know, what exactly, as it would have come from that showroom.

32:18Aston Martin Classics. I drove the DB5 and that was quite something. I don't fit in that car. No. I'm not. I don't fit in classic cars. No. It's totally ridiculous. I have to drive a JQE time my feet like this. It was jolly fun. But the only problem was, they're quite near Milton Keynes. And a lot of people, well, they won't care, but they won't know that Milton Keynes is basically one roundabout after another. So when you're really big for a car like that, having to stop every 50 meters to go around another roundabout and change gears and sort of... It was a really interesting drive. But the effort they went into to sort of remake this.

33:01I mean, and also it had all the gadgets in there. The Bond ones? It had all the Bond gadgets. So it had the spraying oil, it had the changing license plate, it had the machine guns that I'm afraid just made a noise. Did it have the ejector seat flip? Yes, it did. Yes. And so they totally remade it. It was an expensive thing to want to buy. Oh, yeah. But really fun. But as you say, because it was clearly a new car, there's a sort of... I think it's not a moral issue. I think there's a spiritual aspect that goes missing. So the way I did the 19TSL is the tangible, what I thought, historical parts of what people have used to steer, to change gear, I didn't change.

34:02Everything else was restored. The steering wheel, the gear knob, the patina on it was not changed for me. That in my head made it okay. And there was a non-negotiable to sort of when you were speaking to the restorers. Yeah. I mean, to that point that you have to, I mean, Parry Janna, who restored that car for me at lux classics he judges concourse now he will tell you he'll i mean him telling me stories about how this car they all thought his car should have won and then he awarded it to another car and they were distraught and said why and they said that nut bolt that you used for what is that for the windscreen wipe is that's not the original bolt that leather that's not german that's connelly isn't it's best leather it's not german leather i mean he literally knows the part so when he was restoring my car, I had to stop him in the end and say, Harry, this is a lovely process.

34:53And I love the process. And I love the process more than actually driving the cars. The process of choosing everything and the colors and finding parts and original parts I adore. But we had to cut it short at one point and say, okay, let's not go. We're not going concourse level here. Yeah. Yeah. We bought a car for the Mille Mille and I based on an XK 120 lightweight. They sourced a car from California. And we built it as a lightweight would have been built. It's not original because there were XK120s. XK120 stands for 120 miles now, it's fastest car in the world at this time. Yeah. You know, in Jaguar creating all these things with the seat height, they invented disc brakes.

35:36And the XK120 is the car I raced in. It's one of the Jags I can fit in. Yeah. And I still, my head's popping about the, you know, the windscreen. It's convertible, luckily. So, you know, it's... Well, yeah, you can get the hard top, but I couldn't have a hard top. I wouldn't have fitted in it. I've seen it. And it doesn't have... It's not a Cabriolet. It has no top. It's got a... We just put it... Yeah. I've seen the car at the Savile Row Concourse. It's a beautiful thing. It's very pretty. The belt over the bonnet. Yeah, you've got the... I mean, you originally wouldn't have had that. That's a racing piece.

36:09So the bonnet, you know, if the latch goes, it doesn't fly up. you undo it with the belt. Quick release, petrol gauge, and then, of course, with a bit of modern tweaking, the original engine, original chassis, disc brakes were the same. We had a little bit of adjustable suspension on there, adjustable pedals because I don't fit it very well. So I adapted very much to my car, but... Where do you keep it and what's the pin code for getting into the garage? It's currently a very expensive plaything for my children at the moment. It's terrible. So people can't believe, I mean, I've got the cars in the garage, and all of them, they're usually off at events or doing something, but the Jaguars are at the moment.

36:51That's got to go off to classics next week. And so my kids will go, come and see my daddy's car. And they jump in the car, and they're pretending to drive. And now people cannot believe I let the kids do this. And I always think you can go two ways. I can be the father that's shouting at my kids to get out of their car and don't play it. Or I can be the one where they have the great memories, go, do you remember sitting in Daddy's car? Yeah. With our friends and they're sitting on the side, we've got great pictures of it. And they've scraped it and they've scratched it and everything else. I don't care.

37:21Yeah. It's for them to enjoy. And when you take that car out, it's for everyone to enjoy. I go out and say to Steph, I'm just going to run the Jag and it's a bugger to start because it's a racing car. So I've got to change all the spark plugs before I do it, fill the oil up in the carburettors, make sure that the battery is completely 100 % charged and still on the charger to get it going. And I go, right, well, now I've got to take you for a drive, and I'll be about half an hour and fill up with petrol. An hour and a half later, it's like, where are you? I'm like, I'm still talking to people.

37:54Because I stop at the petrol station, and someone will come and talk to me about it. I'll stop at a traffic light, they'll talk to me about it. You know, I park it up, and then it's just conversations. They all want to see the car, they all want to be in the car. Now, it doesn't matter what car you have. Like, I think what modern supercar you have, hypercar maybe, the love and the passion of still that feeling of what people, you know, see when they see you in a classic car because it's still such a rarity to this day. It's a lovely thing. They let you out of junctions and they wave at you and everyone's happier.

38:23We're just generally all happy being in classic cars. Yes. It's a wonderful thing. Also, I stupidly named that car Matilda after my daughter. After your daughter. So I can't ever get rid of Matilda. I mean, it's just... So that car's with me forever. Well, okay, so that's, I guess, another question for you to ask. Does it scratch the itch, or does it make it worse than you just always looking for the next project? You have a rest, but it's like restoring a house. Same thing, you have enough. You're, good God, I spent so much money on it. It's taken up all my time. I probably need a bit of therapy afterwards.

39:00Yeah. This is why you're here. Yes, thank you. You're actually a very good therapist. I'm totally best. Yeah, and then a year goes by and I'll just have a see what's on prime location. It's like me, I'll have a quick look on AutoTrader, where I watch a program and I read about Hakaar, and I think, that would be interesting to have. I wonder how much they are, and you start getting into it. And then you can't stop that. um after jag i did the 356 um and i had kind of i i designed that car how i wanted the car to look how i think it should have looked the best so a lot of that was sort of hand beaten panels and um bumpers and lowers and i did not stick to any rules even with the jaguar i went back into history because I've got, I don't know if you remember the car, it has a, the middle bit is like a lattice, leather.

39:57And that was a picture I found because the international racing car, the Italian race car and German racing cars realized that if you're in a racing car, you should really have the center should be fabric because when you're driving around, you're not slipping. The British never did this. We were just sliding around on leather. That's what the British do, it's got to be leather. God bless. And I found this where someone had clearly just latticed their leather. so you've got traction. You're not slipping around. I found it on picture and just said to, I want that. So the guy at Jaguar Classics would, whatever you lattice this leather, post it to me and go, is this okay?

40:33I'll be a bit smaller. And I sent it back to him. They've spoken to me again. And that's the detail of that car, which I love. And the 356 was very different. And then we'd just done a 90s Mini. So I sat around with Ian Callum. He's got a history of Ian Callum. Designer of fast forwards. The Aston Martin, as we know it, was him originating from the DB7. He went to Jaguar Land Rover, I worked from there. He's the most iconic guy, he would hate me saying that, most important designers of cars ever. He would hate me saying that, hate talking about himself, all his achievements. And then we sat around, he left Jaguar, and they started Callum Design, many things, furniture, cars, but mostly cars.

41:20And we kept talking about what's the project we're going to do, what's the project we're going to do. And we would literally have a beer. We were going and talking about our collections. We love Porsches, but people are going Porsches. Aston, I don't want to do a bit of Aston. Jaguars, we can't touch, where it's too much kind of association with them. Both of us are working with them. And then I said, what's the most iconic British cars? And we said the Mini. It was the Mini, the genius of the Mini. Yep. From where the engine was. It was designed in the early 60s and 70s wearing petch and your petch was so expensive it had to be four a family of four had to would fit in this tiny car now if you see the size of an original mini and people how do you fit in it me and you could fit you could sit in the front i could sit in the back the ingenious of that design and then someone realized it was just a bloody great racing car so they took it to monaco and it won the you know monaco or the monte carlo rally yeah just like the one best bit of british design.

42:13So I said to you, and I was like, this is what we should do. And they put a case together. I said, do you reckon enough people will want these if we put a business case together for the meaning? Now, restorations are more of a resto mod these days. But people were starting out, when you see these cars are like 200 feet. Define resto mod. A resto mod is is taking probably a car from the maybe 70s, 80s, 90s. Singer probably won't like me to say that Singer are rest and what they are, and you are putting modern technology into the restoration to make it. So the engineer of today going into a car of the 80s or the 90s, I would probably say that's the best idea.

43:01Okay. And they look phenomenal, but it's gone a little bit crazy with everyone doing them. But they are a quarter of a million, a million, you know, Singer's Hour over a million quid. And if you want to restore a car now, you're probably looking at, like, you know, a very well-restored car, a quarter of a million. Yeah. And so it's priced a lot of people out of actually restoring cars. You find with, like, you can get Land Rovers. There's a whole bunch of companies who are making Land Rovers. They're the Defenders. They just take the shells and turn them into sort of, I mean, multiple hundreds of pounds.

43:35Yeah. If you want them. Yeah, yeah. Anywhere between 400 ,000 and a million. Hmm. I mean, the fender's a little bit different. You don't have to change the fender that much, but you could. But yeah, as you said. And so a lot of this isn't attainable to a lot of people. And that's what I kind of wanted. I wanted to get back to like, okay, so what's the car? I was bored of driving, bored of like electric cars, bored of road. And I wanted to get back to that excitement of when I was 18, 19, and driving a 100 brake horsepower car to its maximum, to it getting everything from this car. And you're still doing 50 miles an hour.

44:11But it was so much fun. Cars are too fast, they're too boring, they're too capable nowadays, the modern stuff. And classic cars, you then got to see that they're just a bugger to drive. Especially if they're original. You said about driving the DB5, They don't have power steering. They're exhausting. They're lovely on a journey now and again. The best driving experience I ever had was in a Morgan. Yes. Because I sort of felt the asphalt of the motorway underneath my bottom. You're about three inches off of it. Yeah. And it was like driving a go-kart. It was the best fun I've ever had in a car.

44:45But you're getting the... I'd say the advantages of a classic car. Yeah. But, I mean, Morgan is a modern car. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, newly made. And so we did it with Mini, and they're kind of making them from about 75, fully restored, modern tech in it, 110 brake horsepower engine. The design has been settled a little bit by Ian, which you wouldn't notice, but it's made just the difference to this engine, to what was already an iconic design. and they have flown. They've sold so many of them and people restored them because it was this idea that people I think could buy them or you could restore them and not having to spend quarter million pounds.

45:34And I think everyone's a little bit bored of motoring and I think they just wanted something fun. So the Mini is one of these things as well, which is, it was driven by Enzo Ferrari, apparently around his factory. He was driving a Mini. Steve McQueen had one, that's what mine is based on, it's bronze, like Steve McQueen's. Steve McQueen's estate has actually approached us, I thought it was going to get in a lot of trouble. Yeah, I was going to say, did they try to sue you? Because they're quite litigious. No, no, they absolutely loved it. They might be working with them, or Callum might be working on a project.

46:06But it wasn't saying I wasn't coming in his car, I was just saying, because people went to me, Mini, that's not a choice. I mean, no, Steve McQueen had one. And they go, no, that's pretty much the coolest guy, arguably the coolest guy in the world. Yeah. And so you've got these people that were complete petrolheads driving Minis, And I love that idea. And I think that's why. Could you have done it with another car? I don't think so, because I think the history, everyone's got a mini story. Yeah, minis are cool. Do you think we're making cars today that will at some point be considered a classic?

46:35No, I think the classic status would have been, will stop, made too many of them, of course. so if you have derivatives or models of that car so like i would say so if you took an night or 2000 aston martin vantage v8s it won't be a classic the v12s they didn't make very many that would be a classic um but i think with with that era of the the classic there's too many made um do you think that needs to be an analog aspect to it that sense of going back in time with the ways it's driving nowadays. A special engine. Manual. Manual. Yeah. Not necessarily. I mean, yeah, I'd always have a manual. I think when you start looking at cars when they came with automatic gearboxes, nothing else, they're going to be a classic.

47:29I'm going to do anything at the top of my head here. So, you know, you've got the Lancia Delta Integrale, which was a classic really good to rally car, one of the most important rally cars. You'll see it's probably Subaru Impreza's RB5, stuff like that. There'll be classics. Quite a few of those are made, whether they're still on the road or not. So you are getting certain cars, like a Peugeot 205 GTI. They are going for a lot of money at the moment. So I'm probably thinking like anytime... I think there was a great time when they were making cars probably about 10 years ago. 2015, a little bit later, were, I think, some of the best cars manufacturers will ever make, in more of an analogue term.

48:16Because now, yes, they are. They handle better. But it's down to computing, really. And that digital era. And they've all got hybrid systems. So they're all stupidly fast now, 06 in two seconds. But I don't think they're going to be classic cars. They'll be collector's cars, by the way. I don't think it'll be classics. And I think you've lost that. for when there was a normally aspirated V8 manual, which is exactly what I'm looking at. It was still that day. I had an XK RS 2014, I think, and it's a car I've never forgotten. I see one on that, and I don't see him very often, which is why I want to get it, want to find one again.

48:58Okay. We are now at the phase of the podcast where you need to put your reputation on the line in a way that I've not actually asked anybody else to yet. So you have 10 questions sent in by listeners slash viewers, because this, of course, is an audio and visual podcast, which is why it's such a delight to have you here today, because visually you make everything look wonderful. Favorite car ever driven? Jaguar X KSS, the one of 16. I've driven two of the 16 now. Favourite car never driven? Never driven a Ferrari F40 or McLaren F1 or the XJ220. And actually Jaguar did bring it to Goodwood for me to drive.

49:45And then the heavens opened and it was a huge storm road. So I still have not driven the XJ. And that was the car on my wall. Bucket list car and road? I would love to race, and it's a road, I'm not going to say specifically a road, the Pan America. There's a Pan America race, which apparently is even more intense and even more ridiculous than the Mille Mille in South America. So I would do that and I would... I haven't raced my XK enough. I'd have to do it, but I'd have to do it in the XK. Great. The question that was sent in was three-car garage. It wasn't particularly clear whether it needed to be the cars you currently have and therefore can talk about, or your dream three that you don't currently have.

50:31So I'm going to ask you to give both. Right. But what's in the garage at the moment? Three in the garage? So three that you have that's your obviously curated garage, and then three that you don't have that you would like to have. Okay. I'm very happy with the three I have at the moment. I can't report the amount of passion rather than monetary value or anything else. So I've got the 57X here, 120, the 64 Porsche 356. And then the Ian Callum, the Callum Mini, which I absolutely love. Dream, my goodness. XKSS, that would just be the number one car of all time. Ferrari F40, I probably would put that in the collection.

51:11And then I'll probably, see this could be a discussion, three car garage can go on for hours at a dinner party. And then, what do I choose after that maybe something a bit silly like a Lancer Delta Integrale Evo 2 from the 80s. Best and worst road? Racing in the Mille is pretty special around Italy. And just driving in Italy is incredible. The worst road I can tell you is when we're trekking for Gorilla, we had to drive about two days through Uganda. The most horrific Toyota Land Cruiser just being battered about for two days. They are the worst. Apart from London roads at the moment, which to be honest, pretty much are on the par.

51:56Yeah, London roads are rubbish. Absolutely. Par was over. Unassumably bad. Come on, Sadiq Khan. Awful. I mean, the P1 Highway is a beautiful road in California, down in the Pacific. There's a racing road, not a driving road. PCH, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. No love for the A303.

52:17We used to... Goosey Stonehenge. We had this... I think I went past that either. I'm not even going to start talking about that. We had, I lived in Billericay when I was growing up, and I lived in Great Burstead, my friend lived in Little Burstead, and there was a 60 mile an hour country lane, and we were both car nuts, and that's where we would go and take our cars, the Burstead lanes. Funny, I was with him last night, and we still talked about the Burstead lanes, because it's a new car, and I went, have you taken it down the Burstead lanes yet? I said no. But yeah, so in my memory, that's one of the best.

52:50Super. Best Bond car. Well, do you know the original Bond car, what it was? I do not. Bentley. Yes, yes, yes. Sorry. When people talk about the Aston Martin and the DB5 and everything else, absolute crap. It was the Bentley Continental. Correct. Sorry. Yes, that's absolutely right. The worst ever. I'll give you the worst Bond car is when BMW came and made him drive a BMW Z3, I think I walked out the cinema. I'm not even kidding. Wasn't having any of it. You know, usually when you talk about Bond, there's controversy around people's opinions on this. I don't know if anyone's going to fight you in the comments on that one in particular.

53:35God bless you, BMW. Or BMW. Yeah, my personal favourite. I loved The Lotus Esprit, but also because it had Roger Moore. And if you see that scene where he goes, it becomes a amphibious, is it amphibious?

53:54Submersible. Submersible. And he drives up onto the beach after being in the water. And if I'm right, I think he puts down the window and takes a fish and puts it out the window. Now, I might have just made that up, but I think that's in the film and he does. He's very Roger Moore. And I'd love that scene because that's where I kind of, like I said I was working with Lotus and I said, you know how to launch your new car? I said, you bring it from a submersive light, you literally have your AI or whatever Roger Moore driving your new Lotus, but it's driven out and it's the new one. So it goes in as the Espirit comes out as a new Lotus.

54:30And that's your new Lotus. That's a very good idea. Yeah. Yeah. I have them now, yeah. Very good. Well done. Favourite decade for cars? I mean, probably the 50s over the 60s, yeah, the 1950s. Would it be sort of 50s American cars? Because those were... No. Oh, okay. Sorry. Shot down. Best electric slash hybrid? That's not a bad one. They're all average. Very good answer. Jeremy Clarkson. Although I've grown this, what's going to be the best looking electric on the road is going to be, and I'm not saying this because I work with Jaguar, if you see the new Jaguar 001, wherever they called it, in the flesh, it's incredible.

55:20I mean, if you like Buicks and like the old cars like that, this car as a statement piece, an electric car, is... It's just... The pictures don't do it justice. Because I went to LA, and the number of those Tesla pickups, electric pickups, that were around, really shocked me, because I think they're dreadful. Oh, really? I haven't seen them. I've never seen one on the road. Not in the moment. They are everywhere in the senseless. Unbelievable. I was stunned. Worst car ever driven? The most disappointing car I've ever driven is a car called the Alfa Romeo 4C, and I wanted to love it so much, and it was a hateful car.

55:58to drive. Beautiful to look at, just hated it. The car that you missed out on buying that you regret not buying the most. I mean, I couldn't have done it at the time. I mentioned the Galwin. I loved the Galwin. I knew that was an amazing price for that car and where that car values were going. That's still the one that I wake up at night. Galwin!

56:26What else? Lancer Delta Indigrally. They are now 120, 130. Used to be 15. I used to look at them thinking, well, maybe I should tap into that. Get one, leave the garage. Yeah. That was stupid. Well, I think we've all learned a lot. And this is obviously, it's difficult. The idea with the Luxury Dispatch is that we want to create a sort of resource for people that goes granular into all sorts of worlds. And I am aware that we've barely scratched the surface. I'm aware that we could do a lot more on this. And so I think that, at the very least, what we can say about this is, from an introductory point of view, this conversation will have educated a lot of people into sort of defining this particular particular passion, interest, area of expertise, whatever you want to call it.

57:28And a part of the luxury industry that has, through wonderful artistic engineering prowess, good taste, and all these things, has managed to be so everlasting and create such wonderful, I guess, it creates dreams for people. It creates this sense of fun, adventure and play and, you know, strikes so many wonderful tones in, I think, people's hearts that we couldn't leave it untapped as a subject to talk about. So thank you so much for coming in, but I might have to call you back. And... Not about fashion, is it? I probably couldn't. It'll be a shorter podcast if it was about fashion. Yes, it'll be a little bit.

58:18We'll just run everything. As I always say, I literally was going to have T-shirts say, fashion pays for the passion. Basically, fashion pays for the classic cars. That's... It's a very good line. Yes. I remain Tom Chamberlain, and this has been The Luxury Dispatch, the podcast that explores the stories, objects, and passions that shape the world of luxury. My thanks to David Gandy for sharing his love of classic cars and for reminding us that true collecting is never only about ownership, but about stewardship and knowledge. If you've enjoyed today's conversation, please do like, subscribe and leave a comment.

58:50We read every one. Tell us the objects you treasure, the machines you dream about or the worlds of luxury you would like us to explore next. Thank you for listening and happy dressing. Oh, and mind the grassy banks.

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What makes a car a true classic? Rarity, beauty, or something less tangible?
And how should classic cars really be enjoyed? Behind the wheel, or behind the glass?

Model David Gandy joins Tom Chamberlin to explore the world of classic cars, from his childhood obsession to high-stakes collecting. Together, they discuss the thrill of racing, the realities of restoration, and why these cars simply make the world a happier place.

Along the way, David shares some extraordinary stories about his time racing with Yasmin Le Bon, Steve McQueen’s back lights - and why he always lets his children drive.

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