The World of Classic Cars: A Tour Through Time

As I stood in front of this beautiful 1925 tourer, I couldn't help but feel a sense of excitement and nostalgia. The car's wooden creation was reminiscent of a people carrier for the 1920s, with loseable seats and roof, transforming it into a flatbed pickup truck. This rare find was worth £25,000, and I couldn't wait to see if it would be my next prized possession.

As Time wore on, I thought I had become quite an expert in the world of classic cars. Almost anything seemed like good value, and this one looked like a cheap option. Neil, my friend, teased me about putting the car out of its misery, but I knew better. This was one of my favorites, affectionately known as "Rusty." It may have looked rough around the edges, but it had been well-loved and maintained over the years.

In 2009, I had purchased this beauty for a steal at £299, with no chickens or fact packets to speak of. The asking price was a mere three grand, and I couldn't believe my luck. Fast forward to the present day, and after servicing it and putting new tires on, I had maintained it to perfection. However, when I offered it for sale, I was surprised to receive an offer of £9,000 – which I promptly turned down.

Neil, ever the enthusiast, had been eyeing this car from the start. He'd given me tips on how to drive it, explaining that the accelerator was a lever up high and down low. The gearshift was a bit confusing, with first gear at the bottom and top gear at the top. The middle one was reverse, and the far right was brake. Apparently, if all three were pressed simultaneously, it could resolve problems – although I wasn't entirely convinced that this would be necessary.

As I set off in the 1925 tourer, I was struck by its unique characteristics. It wasn't exactly nippy, but it did come with a desirable factory-fitted option: a windscreen wiper. This feature had been overlooked in my initial appraisal of the car's value, and now I realized that it was worth an extra £1,500 alone.

The following episode took me to the US Army's latest innovation – the "Smart Truck." This futuristic vehicle was designed for Special Forces and embassy staff, with a range of cutting-edge features to protect against threats. The truck was based on a Ford F-350 and packed with a million-dollar worth of kit, including bulletproof bodywork, smoke screens, and night vision goggles. I watched in awe as it sped around the M25, effortlessly dispatching any would-be attackers.

In an exclusive test drive, I had the chance to experience this extraordinary vehicle firsthand. Although I was skeptical at first, the Smart Truck proved itself to be a formidable machine. Its silent running mode allowed me to navigate through crowded streets without drawing attention, and its advanced night vision system made spotting terrorists a breeze.

But what really impressed me was the truck's four-wheel steering – which seemed almost too easy to use. I soon found myself speeding along, effortlessly navigating corners and curves with ease. The result was exhilarating, and I couldn't help but feel like an Eagle Six pilot.

As we continued our tour of the Smart Truck's features, I asked about options for sale. Unfortunately, this cutting-edge vehicle would be restricted to the military and friendly foreign governments only. While it might have been a thrilling prospect, it seemed that the Americans had wisely limited its availability.

Despite the lack of availability, I was eager to explore more classic cars in my collection. The world of vintage vehicles is vast and fascinating, with so much to learn and discover. As I left the Smart Truck behind, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the experience – and already looked forward to my next adventure on the open road.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthank you in this edition of fifth gear cannabis how does it affect your driving an attempt on the naught to 60 world record and the Model T Ford still going strong seriously sorted and leader of the hot hatch pack 197 horsepower North to 60 in just over six seconds and a rather slatty interior at sixteen thousand pounds it's also great value not to be outdone Ford are hitting back with this the focus st170 it's a successor to those Essex Essentials and xr2 and 3. one of Ford's strengths has always been knowing how to tart up a car they are the masters of the body kit usually things are a bit tame here at the front there is a new mesh Grille some folks with sexy Xenon lamps and 17-inch Alloys and that's about it oh apart from this teeny weeny badge now in case this ever comes up in a pub quiz St stands for sports Technologies inside they roused it up a bit missile on the pedals silver trim on the gear knob and handbrake and I am pleased to see on the dials a millennium makeover it starts at the same price as the Honda but add in goodies like this car's metallic paint those headlamps Recaro seats plus a souped-up stereo and you'll end up paying an extra 2 000 pounds which makes the total bill 18 Grand steep stuff it is better impress them naught to 60 takes 7.9 seconds though that is almost two seconds slower than the Civics top speed is down to 134 compared to the Honda's 146. if you want more from your Ford then there is another Focus the supersonic 220 brake horsepower RS due later in the year in the meantime there you'll have to make do with 170 and although this St is very keen to show what it's got it won't intimidate the Civic on a blast but if you stop thinking about the sd-170 as a who knows car then things get better the Box standard focus is a highly competent cornering machine and with the SD the boys have tweaked the chassis and stiffen the suspension to Splendid effect there's plenty of traction and grip even with the electronic stability program switched off so column gray style jolts into trees should be difficult to do unless of course you are Colin McRae I do have two little criticisms though the first is the new six-speed gearbox which isn't as slick as The Hondas and the second is that chassis it's so good that the more you drive it the more you can hear it begging for more power so it's this fast-ish Focus going to woo Civic type Empires the st170 is a very good car though in a refined and understated way it's more business suit than tracksuit me well I like my cars to be a lot more edgy more hardcore so I would go for the Honda Civic Type R it not only looks special but it makes you feel it too better like next time eh thank you the nation it seems is going to pot one in ten Brits use cannabis half of 16 to 24 year olds claim to have tried it and the clamor to legalize grows ever more strident but rather than wring our hands over the decline and fall of society we're going to be a bit more constructive 18 of all road traffic fatalities show traces of illegal drugs with cannabis by Far and Away the most common that is a six-fold rise in the last 15 years and the reason why tonight we're going to see what happens when you mix dope and driving cannabis is smoked either in leaf form or as a compressed resin but you simply can't say it causes accidents the effects last for a matter of hours but traces stay in the bloodstream up to four weeks which is why it shows up in so many of those small teams two years ago the government commissioned research on cannabis and driving but the use simulators instead of real cars so the research was criticized nobody has ever physically put a cannabis user in a car and shown the results on British television until now meet graphic designer Gavin Campbell a regular user who's freely volunteered and brought along his own gear he doesn't drive while stoned but is as Keen as we are to find out what happens when you do with the help of safety experts we've devised three tests for Gavin to take on a private test track before and after smoking a joint now we don't know what's going to happen we haven't rehearsed this so rather than retire to a safe distance I'm going to go along for the ride The Benchmark Gavin took the tests while perfectly straight the first job was to stop safely at a white line the second was a cheeky little slalom and the third was parking in an imaginary garage all done perfectly although he did clip a count at the end then Gavin smoked what he regarded as a typical strength spliff time for the Moment of Truth let's describe what's going on your head now that's why really um I don't know yeah lightheaded relaxed you know at ease so how does being at ease affect Gavin's driving the stopping test requires distance judgment like slowing to a set of traffic lights well that looked pretty good to me um we're not sideways we haven't locked up and we've stopped more or less bang on where the the white line is so okay right onto the slalom test which checks spatial awareness and medium speed maneuvering that's all I can see no deterioration in your driving skills your gear changes they're still very good uh your speed's constant you're anticipating the way you handle the car seems absolutely fine do you think you're driving it um I think it feels like I'm driving a lot slower and I tend to be concentrating a bit more on what I'm doing well that's interesting because you're not driving slow it's more or less the same speed 25 30 miles an hour our volunteers performance was reflecting some of the findings of the government's official simulator tests okay problems there in the official tests subjects were aware of their impairment and hence drove more cautiously exactly the opposite effect of alcohol which is said to promote risk-taking and the garage test was passed with all cones in place it's hard to generalize but you did a run when you were straight which was worse than that so how do you feel about that I feel good about that yeah was it easier more difficult the same probably more difficult because I had to concentrate more I mean there would be cars either side sort of you know I really don't want to hit any cars it's more difficult why did you do almost better then than you did before you'd have you a bit of paranoia across with concentration you know you're paranoid of what might happen so right you concentrate more on what you're doing we took a step nearer to real life by throwing in a bit of distracting traffic Gavin followed it safely and competently we couldn't catch him out even with an emergency stop there's always a variance of effect depending on the person but after that one spliff and in our controlled environment there was no obvious impairment to Gavin's driving the police equivalent of a breathalyzer for drugs is a test that involves touching your nose and walking in a straight line these Americans aren't faring very well after his one spliff getting past these tests that it might have been different if he'd smoothed more so where's the limit is that a safe amount of cannabis you can smoke before driving now I know there are thousands of you at home advocating zero tolerance and that any trace of weed pot blow black resin Bush smoke ganja call it what you will should be considered a very serious offense but hang on a minute unlike booze cannabis is illegal so there's no official dope driving limit like the breathalyzer we need to find a testing system to establish how much cannabis it takes before your driving goes to pot while we're as surprised as you are at the results of today's tests I'm not emphatically not condoning drugs and driving or saying that this was remotely scientific or empirical it wasn't what I am saying though is that we need to put away the old stereotypes and cliches about hippies and Reefer Madness and get down to an intelligent informed debate about drugs and driving and we need to do that as soon as possible not to say to City time is the sort of currency that reputations are built on it takes your average family Saloon about 10 seconds and your average Supercar about five but the Guinness World Record for production car that's legal to drive on the road is an almost inconceivable 3.07 seconds and that was set back in 1994 by rally braid Ford RS200 so it's about time someone tried to beat it the problem is what with you need four-wheel drive low weight and plenty of power you need a 40 000 pound tiger Z100 yet another Innovative testimony to Colin Chapman's original notice seven and what makes this special is that it's got one Kawasaki 1200 cc engine to power the front wheels and another to power the rear which results in 408 horsepower wrapped in 650 kilos and a powder weight ratio that dwarfs everything else on the road so what sort of multi-million pound operation conceived this potential record breaker well meet the dudleys I'm James Dudley I'm the managing director of Thai cars my name's Phil I'm Jim's wife and I do the day-to-day running of the business I'm Joe Andrew's daughter and I like to put up through their faces hi I'm Laura I'm Jim's daughter and I deal with all tigers money hey I'm Chris and I'm responsible for the design half the comfort and twice the vibration right down is Spirits is equally energetic ingredients literally need a Level Playing Field check some witnesses check some state-of-the-art timing equipment check and the driver who knows his clutch from his elbow check the fastest way to accelerate from a standstill to 60 is by swapping the spectacular for the efficient smoking hooliganism is not what's required instead you need a delicate throttle touch and exquisite clutch control earlier trials had proved the car was capable of a fast time but to even stand a chance of sneaking under that record of 3.07 seconds absolutely everything needs to be for starters you need the right weather a wet track would make it impossible and you need just enough fuel to keep the weight to a minimum but eventually it's left to man and machine foreign everything felt good and the frenzy I just kept the throttle planted now it was the agonizing wait to see if we'd beaten that magic time of 3.07 seconds it took just a second to get to 20 miles an hour and under two to get to 40 so things were looking promising 2.35 to 50 and 97. we've beaten it by a tenth of a second broken well I would have if I hadn't broken one of the engines first a rod had gone to the side and that was that it definitely stop us believing that this little car is capable of even more in the future oh there aren't many cars as significant as the Ford Model T at one point they made up half the cars in the world with one rolling off the production line every 10 seconds they used to come in any color you liked as long as it was black because that was the fastest drying paint that in 45 miles an hour 20 miles per gallon were simple strong and could even drive blue trees overall nearly 17 million were made right you got all that good now if you were thinking as iron D was hoping oh come back foot but meeting the world's biggest expert on model T's will involve a nice trip to Detroit you'd be wrong apparently he's around here somewhere because here at the back of a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire Farm lies not just a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire farmer but Neil Tuckett an extraordinary enthusiast he buys sells restores repairs and collects them nothing happens in the world of model teas without him knowing about it first can you bring me another timer so how do you in the middle of England come across all this Model T I was going to call it junk but uh spare parts uh some of it was produced here because they had a big big Factory in Manchester at um the majority comes from America and people ring me up fax me email me so the stuff finds me I don't have to go and hunt it out particularly and I round stuff up once a year in America go over there and fill a container up and bring it back if I was to buy a Model T off you Neil what sort of people would I be uh ranking myself alongside who who's been here as well I've got a shake in Qatar who comes over regularly to buy model T's and the owner of the racetrack in Malaysia he came over and bought two so you never know who's going to come in well if they're good enough for Malaysian race track owners they're good enough for any of us time to get to know the tea a bit better you could say that the model team was the world's first multi-purpose vehicle the chassis stay completely the same throughout production but there were 17 different body styles and you can find most of them right here in Neil's yard you could spend hours looking around Neil's stock he's got everything from unusual Model T tractors to desirable four-seaters even shower bags that transported troops to the front this wooden creation was a people carrier for the 1920s lose the seats and the roof and it doubles as a flatbed pickup this is one of the rarest a right-hand Drive Town Car Worth 25 000 pounds As Time wore on I thought I was becoming quite an expert and good value almost anything this one looks like a cheap one Neil why don't you uh put it out of his misery look at it this is one of my favorites um kids call this one Rusty I know it's Rusty it's a death trap yeah no it's not a death traps mot'd every year I drive this for thousand dollars if you've got a bit of a thing going on with a local mot no no he doesn't give me any favors so out of all these this one is your favorite I'll jump in this one every time and this and this was how much I bought it in a sale looking derelict for 2009. look for how much it had 299 pounds it had no chickens fact packets and you paid three grand for it no 299. okay yeah you're a dude I could tell well how much is it worth now that now that you've done it up well I basically have just serviced it and put new tires on it and I maintained it and I was offered nine thousand pounds for it and turned it down you should have put in the hand off no no I enjoy driving this car you do you yeah oh well I'm glad I'm glad to see you're into it now I really have I'm just thinking of your car having established there was a tea for all tastes it was time to actually get to grips for the thing although that wasn't going to be quite as straightforward as I've imagined right Neil's giving me the load on how to drive this car and we'll start with the accelerator which is a lever up here which is crackers down here this is where it gets confusing there's first gear down like that and up into Top This middle one is reverse and this one is break and apparently if you get the problems you just press all three at once I've only got two feet anyway it can't be that confusing to start it with this button down here come on yes sir natural off we go there are more revs oh this 1925 tourer is worth around nine and a half thousand pounds it's not exactly nippy and I'm not totally convinced the steering's up to Modern standards but it does come with a desirable Factory fitted option of a windscreen wiper I better slow down because I don't trust myself or the steering I'm actually coming to quite like the times of the tea I'll go watch out we're picking up speed here and there are plenty of people in the UK but also into it the problem is there are enough youngsters getting into model T's in order to perpetuate the legend which is where Fords build a model T challenge could come in it celebrates full Centenary and Neil will sell you everything you need to build a winning car of your own but if you're worried a normal tea is a bit pedestrian then get yourself a 90 mile an hour speed diversion and scare yourself silly these days it's hard being an American that accused of people trying to blow down the embassy doors which is why the US Army have come up with this the smart truck for those with a rather more stressful commute than most based on a Ford F-350 it's packed with a million dollars worth of Kit to protect Special Forces Embassy staff and even presidents revolting fundamentalists are swiftly dispatched Uncle Sam style engaging pepper spread activating God Bless America and will be tied anybody who doesn't agree no I wouldn't do that if I were you once on the move any motorcycling assassins can be thwarted by rather useful bulletproof Bodywork which seems to be reinforced with mattresses engaging smoke screen activate mind doing a couple of laps around the M25 with this Silent Running mode and who needs boring old headlights when you've got night vision to spot terrorists in red two CVS they've got lamps like these on the White House lawn so they must be good anyway having safely immobilized yet more assailants and used the handy four-wheel steering it's time to press on Owen in case you're wondering this isn't a Celluloid Hollywood fantasy The Americans really have built it and filmed this road test to promote it told that the smart truck is apparently only 10 lethal I bet you could hurt yourself on that grenade launcher though sure Eagle Six this is black six we've just crossed from the Mojave pass on route to your location smart Truck Sales will be restricted to the military and friendly foreign governments I bet old Tony would love one and all this before we've even got to the options list thank youthank you in this edition of fifth gear cannabis how does it affect your driving an attempt on the naught to 60 world record and the Model T Ford still going strong seriously sorted and leader of the hot hatch pack 197 horsepower North to 60 in just over six seconds and a rather slatty interior at sixteen thousand pounds it's also great value not to be outdone Ford are hitting back with this the focus st170 it's a successor to those Essex Essentials and xr2 and 3. one of Ford's strengths has always been knowing how to tart up a car they are the masters of the body kit usually things are a bit tame here at the front there is a new mesh Grille some folks with sexy Xenon lamps and 17-inch Alloys and that's about it oh apart from this teeny weeny badge now in case this ever comes up in a pub quiz St stands for sports Technologies inside they roused it up a bit missile on the pedals silver trim on the gear knob and handbrake and I am pleased to see on the dials a millennium makeover it starts at the same price as the Honda but add in goodies like this car's metallic paint those headlamps Recaro seats plus a souped-up stereo and you'll end up paying an extra 2 000 pounds which makes the total bill 18 Grand steep stuff it is better impress them naught to 60 takes 7.9 seconds though that is almost two seconds slower than the Civics top speed is down to 134 compared to the Honda's 146. if you want more from your Ford then there is another Focus the supersonic 220 brake horsepower RS due later in the year in the meantime there you'll have to make do with 170 and although this St is very keen to show what it's got it won't intimidate the Civic on a blast but if you stop thinking about the sd-170 as a who knows car then things get better the Box standard focus is a highly competent cornering machine and with the SD the boys have tweaked the chassis and stiffen the suspension to Splendid effect there's plenty of traction and grip even with the electronic stability program switched off so column gray style jolts into trees should be difficult to do unless of course you are Colin McRae I do have two little criticisms though the first is the new six-speed gearbox which isn't as slick as The Hondas and the second is that chassis it's so good that the more you drive it the more you can hear it begging for more power so it's this fast-ish Focus going to woo Civic type Empires the st170 is a very good car though in a refined and understated way it's more business suit than tracksuit me well I like my cars to be a lot more edgy more hardcore so I would go for the Honda Civic Type R it not only looks special but it makes you feel it too better like next time eh thank you the nation it seems is going to pot one in ten Brits use cannabis half of 16 to 24 year olds claim to have tried it and the clamor to legalize grows ever more strident but rather than wring our hands over the decline and fall of society we're going to be a bit more constructive 18 of all road traffic fatalities show traces of illegal drugs with cannabis by Far and Away the most common that is a six-fold rise in the last 15 years and the reason why tonight we're going to see what happens when you mix dope and driving cannabis is smoked either in leaf form or as a compressed resin but you simply can't say it causes accidents the effects last for a matter of hours but traces stay in the bloodstream up to four weeks which is why it shows up in so many of those small teams two years ago the government commissioned research on cannabis and driving but the use simulators instead of real cars so the research was criticized nobody has ever physically put a cannabis user in a car and shown the results on British television until now meet graphic designer Gavin Campbell a regular user who's freely volunteered and brought along his own gear he doesn't drive while stoned but is as Keen as we are to find out what happens when you do with the help of safety experts we've devised three tests for Gavin to take on a private test track before and after smoking a joint now we don't know what's going to happen we haven't rehearsed this so rather than retire to a safe distance I'm going to go along for the ride The Benchmark Gavin took the tests while perfectly straight the first job was to stop safely at a white line the second was a cheeky little slalom and the third was parking in an imaginary garage all done perfectly although he did clip a count at the end then Gavin smoked what he regarded as a typical strength spliff time for the Moment of Truth let's describe what's going on your head now that's why really um I don't know yeah lightheaded relaxed you know at ease so how does being at ease affect Gavin's driving the stopping test requires distance judgment like slowing to a set of traffic lights well that looked pretty good to me um we're not sideways we haven't locked up and we've stopped more or less bang on where the the white line is so okay right onto the slalom test which checks spatial awareness and medium speed maneuvering that's all I can see no deterioration in your driving skills your gear changes they're still very good uh your speed's constant you're anticipating the way you handle the car seems absolutely fine do you think you're driving it um I think it feels like I'm driving a lot slower and I tend to be concentrating a bit more on what I'm doing well that's interesting because you're not driving slow it's more or less the same speed 25 30 miles an hour our volunteers performance was reflecting some of the findings of the government's official simulator tests okay problems there in the official tests subjects were aware of their impairment and hence drove more cautiously exactly the opposite effect of alcohol which is said to promote risk-taking and the garage test was passed with all cones in place it's hard to generalize but you did a run when you were straight which was worse than that so how do you feel about that I feel good about that yeah was it easier more difficult the same probably more difficult because I had to concentrate more I mean there would be cars either side sort of you know I really don't want to hit any cars it's more difficult why did you do almost better then than you did before you'd have you a bit of paranoia across with concentration you know you're paranoid of what might happen so right you concentrate more on what you're doing we took a step nearer to real life by throwing in a bit of distracting traffic Gavin followed it safely and competently we couldn't catch him out even with an emergency stop there's always a variance of effect depending on the person but after that one spliff and in our controlled environment there was no obvious impairment to Gavin's driving the police equivalent of a breathalyzer for drugs is a test that involves touching your nose and walking in a straight line these Americans aren't faring very well after his one spliff getting past these tests that it might have been different if he'd smoothed more so where's the limit is that a safe amount of cannabis you can smoke before driving now I know there are thousands of you at home advocating zero tolerance and that any trace of weed pot blow black resin Bush smoke ganja call it what you will should be considered a very serious offense but hang on a minute unlike booze cannabis is illegal so there's no official dope driving limit like the breathalyzer we need to find a testing system to establish how much cannabis it takes before your driving goes to pot while we're as surprised as you are at the results of today's tests I'm not emphatically not condoning drugs and driving or saying that this was remotely scientific or empirical it wasn't what I am saying though is that we need to put away the old stereotypes and cliches about hippies and Reefer Madness and get down to an intelligent informed debate about drugs and driving and we need to do that as soon as possible not to say to City time is the sort of currency that reputations are built on it takes your average family Saloon about 10 seconds and your average Supercar about five but the Guinness World Record for production car that's legal to drive on the road is an almost inconceivable 3.07 seconds and that was set back in 1994 by rally braid Ford RS200 so it's about time someone tried to beat it the problem is what with you need four-wheel drive low weight and plenty of power you need a 40 000 pound tiger Z100 yet another Innovative testimony to Colin Chapman's original notice seven and what makes this special is that it's got one Kawasaki 1200 cc engine to power the front wheels and another to power the rear which results in 408 horsepower wrapped in 650 kilos and a powder weight ratio that dwarfs everything else on the road so what sort of multi-million pound operation conceived this potential record breaker well meet the dudleys I'm James Dudley I'm the managing director of Thai cars my name's Phil I'm Jim's wife and I do the day-to-day running of the business I'm Joe Andrew's daughter and I like to put up through their faces hi I'm Laura I'm Jim's daughter and I deal with all tigers money hey I'm Chris and I'm responsible for the design half the comfort and twice the vibration right down is Spirits is equally energetic ingredients literally need a Level Playing Field check some witnesses check some state-of-the-art timing equipment check and the driver who knows his clutch from his elbow check the fastest way to accelerate from a standstill to 60 is by swapping the spectacular for the efficient smoking hooliganism is not what's required instead you need a delicate throttle touch and exquisite clutch control earlier trials had proved the car was capable of a fast time but to even stand a chance of sneaking under that record of 3.07 seconds absolutely everything needs to be for starters you need the right weather a wet track would make it impossible and you need just enough fuel to keep the weight to a minimum but eventually it's left to man and machine foreign everything felt good and the frenzy I just kept the throttle planted now it was the agonizing wait to see if we'd beaten that magic time of 3.07 seconds it took just a second to get to 20 miles an hour and under two to get to 40 so things were looking promising 2.35 to 50 and 97. we've beaten it by a tenth of a second broken well I would have if I hadn't broken one of the engines first a rod had gone to the side and that was that it definitely stop us believing that this little car is capable of even more in the future oh there aren't many cars as significant as the Ford Model T at one point they made up half the cars in the world with one rolling off the production line every 10 seconds they used to come in any color you liked as long as it was black because that was the fastest drying paint that in 45 miles an hour 20 miles per gallon were simple strong and could even drive blue trees overall nearly 17 million were made right you got all that good now if you were thinking as iron D was hoping oh come back foot but meeting the world's biggest expert on model T's will involve a nice trip to Detroit you'd be wrong apparently he's around here somewhere because here at the back of a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire Farm lies not just a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire farmer but Neil Tuckett an extraordinary enthusiast he buys sells restores repairs and collects them nothing happens in the world of model teas without him knowing about it first can you bring me another timer so how do you in the middle of England come across all this Model T I was going to call it junk but uh spare parts uh some of it was produced here because they had a big big Factory in Manchester at um the majority comes from America and people ring me up fax me email me so the stuff finds me I don't have to go and hunt it out particularly and I round stuff up once a year in America go over there and fill a container up and bring it back if I was to buy a Model T off you Neil what sort of people would I be uh ranking myself alongside who who's been here as well I've got a shake in Qatar who comes over regularly to buy model T's and the owner of the racetrack in Malaysia he came over and bought two so you never know who's going to come in well if they're good enough for Malaysian race track owners they're good enough for any of us time to get to know the tea a bit better you could say that the model team was the world's first multi-purpose vehicle the chassis stay completely the same throughout production but there were 17 different body styles and you can find most of them right here in Neil's yard you could spend hours looking around Neil's stock he's got everything from unusual Model T tractors to desirable four-seaters even shower bags that transported troops to the front this wooden creation was a people carrier for the 1920s lose the seats and the roof and it doubles as a flatbed pickup this is one of the rarest a right-hand Drive Town Car Worth 25 000 pounds As Time wore on I thought I was becoming quite an expert and good value almost anything this one looks like a cheap one Neil why don't you uh put it out of his misery look at it this is one of my favorites um kids call this one Rusty I know it's Rusty it's a death trap yeah no it's not a death traps mot'd every year I drive this for thousand dollars if you've got a bit of a thing going on with a local mot no no he doesn't give me any favors so out of all these this one is your favorite I'll jump in this one every time and this and this was how much I bought it in a sale looking derelict for 2009. look for how much it had 299 pounds it had no chickens fact packets and you paid three grand for it no 299. okay yeah you're a dude I could tell well how much is it worth now that now that you've done it up well I basically have just serviced it and put new tires on it and I maintained it and I was offered nine thousand pounds for it and turned it down you should have put in the hand off no no I enjoy driving this car you do you yeah oh well I'm glad I'm glad to see you're into it now I really have I'm just thinking of your car having established there was a tea for all tastes it was time to actually get to grips for the thing although that wasn't going to be quite as straightforward as I've imagined right Neil's giving me the load on how to drive this car and we'll start with the accelerator which is a lever up here which is crackers down here this is where it gets confusing there's first gear down like that and up into Top This middle one is reverse and this one is break and apparently if you get the problems you just press all three at once I've only got two feet anyway it can't be that confusing to start it with this button down here come on yes sir natural off we go there are more revs oh this 1925 tourer is worth around nine and a half thousand pounds it's not exactly nippy and I'm not totally convinced the steering's up to Modern standards but it does come with a desirable Factory fitted option of a windscreen wiper I better slow down because I don't trust myself or the steering I'm actually coming to quite like the times of the tea I'll go watch out we're picking up speed here and there are plenty of people in the UK but also into it the problem is there are enough youngsters getting into model T's in order to perpetuate the legend which is where Fords build a model T challenge could come in it celebrates full Centenary and Neil will sell you everything you need to build a winning car of your own but if you're worried a normal tea is a bit pedestrian then get yourself a 90 mile an hour speed diversion and scare yourself silly these days it's hard being an American that accused of people trying to blow down the embassy doors which is why the US Army have come up with this the smart truck for those with a rather more stressful commute than most based on a Ford F-350 it's packed with a million dollars worth of Kit to protect Special Forces Embassy staff and even presidents revolting fundamentalists are swiftly dispatched Uncle Sam style engaging pepper spread activating God Bless America and will be tied anybody who doesn't agree no I wouldn't do that if I were you once on the move any motorcycling assassins can be thwarted by rather useful bulletproof Bodywork which seems to be reinforced with mattresses engaging smoke screen activate mind doing a couple of laps around the M25 with this Silent Running mode and who needs boring old headlights when you've got night vision to spot terrorists in red two CVS they've got lamps like these on the White House lawn so they must be good anyway having safely immobilized yet more assailants and used the handy four-wheel steering it's time to press on Owen in case you're wondering this isn't a Celluloid Hollywood fantasy The Americans really have built it and filmed this road test to promote it told that the smart truck is apparently only 10 lethal I bet you could hurt yourself on that grenade launcher though sure Eagle Six this is black six we've just crossed from the Mojave pass on route to your location smart Truck Sales will be restricted to the military and friendly foreign governments I bet old Tony would love one and all this before we've even got to the options list thank youthank you in this edition of fifth gear cannabis how does it affect your driving an attempt on the naught to 60 world record and the Model T Ford still going strong seriously sorted and leader of the hot hatch pack 197 horsepower North to 60 in just over six seconds and a rather slatty interior at sixteen thousand pounds it's also great value not to be outdone Ford are hitting back with this the focus st170 it's a successor to those Essex Essentials and xr2 and 3. one of Ford's strengths has always been knowing how to tart up a car they are the masters of the body kit usually things are a bit tame here at the front there is a new mesh Grille some folks with sexy Xenon lamps and 17-inch Alloys and that's about it oh apart from this teeny weeny badge now in case this ever comes up in a pub quiz St stands for sports Technologies inside they roused it up a bit missile on the pedals silver trim on the gear knob and handbrake and I am pleased to see on the dials a millennium makeover it starts at the same price as the Honda but add in goodies like this car's metallic paint those headlamps Recaro seats plus a souped-up stereo and you'll end up paying an extra 2 000 pounds which makes the total bill 18 Grand steep stuff it is better impress them naught to 60 takes 7.9 seconds though that is almost two seconds slower than the Civics top speed is down to 134 compared to the Honda's 146. if you want more from your Ford then there is another Focus the supersonic 220 brake horsepower RS due later in the year in the meantime there you'll have to make do with 170 and although this St is very keen to show what it's got it won't intimidate the Civic on a blast but if you stop thinking about the sd-170 as a who knows car then things get better the Box standard focus is a highly competent cornering machine and with the SD the boys have tweaked the chassis and stiffen the suspension to Splendid effect there's plenty of traction and grip even with the electronic stability program switched off so column gray style jolts into trees should be difficult to do unless of course you are Colin McRae I do have two little criticisms though the first is the new six-speed gearbox which isn't as slick as The Hondas and the second is that chassis it's so good that the more you drive it the more you can hear it begging for more power so it's this fast-ish Focus going to woo Civic type Empires the st170 is a very good car though in a refined and understated way it's more business suit than tracksuit me well I like my cars to be a lot more edgy more hardcore so I would go for the Honda Civic Type R it not only looks special but it makes you feel it too better like next time eh thank you the nation it seems is going to pot one in ten Brits use cannabis half of 16 to 24 year olds claim to have tried it and the clamor to legalize grows ever more strident but rather than wring our hands over the decline and fall of society we're going to be a bit more constructive 18 of all road traffic fatalities show traces of illegal drugs with cannabis by Far and Away the most common that is a six-fold rise in the last 15 years and the reason why tonight we're going to see what happens when you mix dope and driving cannabis is smoked either in leaf form or as a compressed resin but you simply can't say it causes accidents the effects last for a matter of hours but traces stay in the bloodstream up to four weeks which is why it shows up in so many of those small teams two years ago the government commissioned research on cannabis and driving but the use simulators instead of real cars so the research was criticized nobody has ever physically put a cannabis user in a car and shown the results on British television until now meet graphic designer Gavin Campbell a regular user who's freely volunteered and brought along his own gear he doesn't drive while stoned but is as Keen as we are to find out what happens when you do with the help of safety experts we've devised three tests for Gavin to take on a private test track before and after smoking a joint now we don't know what's going to happen we haven't rehearsed this so rather than retire to a safe distance I'm going to go along for the ride The Benchmark Gavin took the tests while perfectly straight the first job was to stop safely at a white line the second was a cheeky little slalom and the third was parking in an imaginary garage all done perfectly although he did clip a count at the end then Gavin smoked what he regarded as a typical strength spliff time for the Moment of Truth let's describe what's going on your head now that's why really um I don't know yeah lightheaded relaxed you know at ease so how does being at ease affect Gavin's driving the stopping test requires distance judgment like slowing to a set of traffic lights well that looked pretty good to me um we're not sideways we haven't locked up and we've stopped more or less bang on where the the white line is so okay right onto the slalom test which checks spatial awareness and medium speed maneuvering that's all I can see no deterioration in your driving skills your gear changes they're still very good uh your speed's constant you're anticipating the way you handle the car seems absolutely fine do you think you're driving it um I think it feels like I'm driving a lot slower and I tend to be concentrating a bit more on what I'm doing well that's interesting because you're not driving slow it's more or less the same speed 25 30 miles an hour our volunteers performance was reflecting some of the findings of the government's official simulator tests okay problems there in the official tests subjects were aware of their impairment and hence drove more cautiously exactly the opposite effect of alcohol which is said to promote risk-taking and the garage test was passed with all cones in place it's hard to generalize but you did a run when you were straight which was worse than that so how do you feel about that I feel good about that yeah was it easier more difficult the same probably more difficult because I had to concentrate more I mean there would be cars either side sort of you know I really don't want to hit any cars it's more difficult why did you do almost better then than you did before you'd have you a bit of paranoia across with concentration you know you're paranoid of what might happen so right you concentrate more on what you're doing we took a step nearer to real life by throwing in a bit of distracting traffic Gavin followed it safely and competently we couldn't catch him out even with an emergency stop there's always a variance of effect depending on the person but after that one spliff and in our controlled environment there was no obvious impairment to Gavin's driving the police equivalent of a breathalyzer for drugs is a test that involves touching your nose and walking in a straight line these Americans aren't faring very well after his one spliff getting past these tests that it might have been different if he'd smoothed more so where's the limit is that a safe amount of cannabis you can smoke before driving now I know there are thousands of you at home advocating zero tolerance and that any trace of weed pot blow black resin Bush smoke ganja call it what you will should be considered a very serious offense but hang on a minute unlike booze cannabis is illegal so there's no official dope driving limit like the breathalyzer we need to find a testing system to establish how much cannabis it takes before your driving goes to pot while we're as surprised as you are at the results of today's tests I'm not emphatically not condoning drugs and driving or saying that this was remotely scientific or empirical it wasn't what I am saying though is that we need to put away the old stereotypes and cliches about hippies and Reefer Madness and get down to an intelligent informed debate about drugs and driving and we need to do that as soon as possible not to say to City time is the sort of currency that reputations are built on it takes your average family Saloon about 10 seconds and your average Supercar about five but the Guinness World Record for production car that's legal to drive on the road is an almost inconceivable 3.07 seconds and that was set back in 1994 by rally braid Ford RS200 so it's about time someone tried to beat it the problem is what with you need four-wheel drive low weight and plenty of power you need a 40 000 pound tiger Z100 yet another Innovative testimony to Colin Chapman's original notice seven and what makes this special is that it's got one Kawasaki 1200 cc engine to power the front wheels and another to power the rear which results in 408 horsepower wrapped in 650 kilos and a powder weight ratio that dwarfs everything else on the road so what sort of multi-million pound operation conceived this potential record breaker well meet the dudleys I'm James Dudley I'm the managing director of Thai cars my name's Phil I'm Jim's wife and I do the day-to-day running of the business I'm Joe Andrew's daughter and I like to put up through their faces hi I'm Laura I'm Jim's daughter and I deal with all tigers money hey I'm Chris and I'm responsible for the design half the comfort and twice the vibration right down is Spirits is equally energetic ingredients literally need a Level Playing Field check some witnesses check some state-of-the-art timing equipment check and the driver who knows his clutch from his elbow check the fastest way to accelerate from a standstill to 60 is by swapping the spectacular for the efficient smoking hooliganism is not what's required instead you need a delicate throttle touch and exquisite clutch control earlier trials had proved the car was capable of a fast time but to even stand a chance of sneaking under that record of 3.07 seconds absolutely everything needs to be for starters you need the right weather a wet track would make it impossible and you need just enough fuel to keep the weight to a minimum but eventually it's left to man and machine foreign everything felt good and the frenzy I just kept the throttle planted now it was the agonizing wait to see if we'd beaten that magic time of 3.07 seconds it took just a second to get to 20 miles an hour and under two to get to 40 so things were looking promising 2.35 to 50 and 97. we've beaten it by a tenth of a second broken well I would have if I hadn't broken one of the engines first a rod had gone to the side and that was that it definitely stop us believing that this little car is capable of even more in the future oh there aren't many cars as significant as the Ford Model T at one point they made up half the cars in the world with one rolling off the production line every 10 seconds they used to come in any color you liked as long as it was black because that was the fastest drying paint that in 45 miles an hour 20 miles per gallon were simple strong and could even drive blue trees overall nearly 17 million were made right you got all that good now if you were thinking as iron D was hoping oh come back foot but meeting the world's biggest expert on model T's will involve a nice trip to Detroit you'd be wrong apparently he's around here somewhere because here at the back of a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire Farm lies not just a muddy Windswept buckinghamshire farmer but Neil Tuckett an extraordinary enthusiast he buys sells restores repairs and collects them nothing happens in the world of model teas without him knowing about it first can you bring me another timer so how do you in the middle of England come across all this Model T I was going to call it junk but uh spare parts uh some of it was produced here because they had a big big Factory in Manchester at um the majority comes from America and people ring me up fax me email me so the stuff finds me I don't have to go and hunt it out particularly and I round stuff up once a year in America go over there and fill a container up and bring it back if I was to buy a Model T off you Neil what sort of people would I be uh ranking myself alongside who who's been here as well I've got a shake in Qatar who comes over regularly to buy model T's and the owner of the racetrack in Malaysia he came over and bought two so you never know who's going to come in well if they're good enough for Malaysian race track owners they're good enough for any of us time to get to know the tea a bit better you could say that the model team was the world's first multi-purpose vehicle the chassis stay completely the same throughout production but there were 17 different body styles and you can find most of them right here in Neil's yard you could spend hours looking around Neil's stock he's got everything from unusual Model T tractors to desirable four-seaters even shower bags that transported troops to the front this wooden creation was a people carrier for the 1920s lose the seats and the roof and it doubles as a flatbed pickup this is one of the rarest a right-hand Drive Town Car Worth 25 000 pounds As Time wore on I thought I was becoming quite an expert and good value almost anything this one looks like a cheap one Neil why don't you uh put it out of his misery look at it this is one of my favorites um kids call this one Rusty I know it's Rusty it's a death trap yeah no it's not a death traps mot'd every year I drive this for thousand dollars if you've got a bit of a thing going on with a local mot no no he doesn't give me any favors so out of all these this one is your favorite I'll jump in this one every time and this and this was how much I bought it in a sale looking derelict for 2009. look for how much it had 299 pounds it had no chickens fact packets and you paid three grand for it no 299. okay yeah you're a dude I could tell well how much is it worth now that now that you've done it up well I basically have just serviced it and put new tires on it and I maintained it and I was offered nine thousand pounds for it and turned it down you should have put in the hand off no no I enjoy driving this car you do you yeah oh well I'm glad I'm glad to see you're into it now I really have I'm just thinking of your car having established there was a tea for all tastes it was time to actually get to grips for the thing although that wasn't going to be quite as straightforward as I've imagined right Neil's giving me the load on how to drive this car and we'll start with the accelerator which is a lever up here which is crackers down here this is where it gets confusing there's first gear down like that and up into Top This middle one is reverse and this one is break and apparently if you get the problems you just press all three at once I've only got two feet anyway it can't be that confusing to start it with this button down here come on yes sir natural off we go there are more revs oh this 1925 tourer is worth around nine and a half thousand pounds it's not exactly nippy and I'm not totally convinced the steering's up to Modern standards but it does come with a desirable Factory fitted option of a windscreen wiper I better slow down because I don't trust myself or the steering I'm actually coming to quite like the times of the tea I'll go watch out we're picking up speed here and there are plenty of people in the UK but also into it the problem is there are enough youngsters getting into model T's in order to perpetuate the legend which is where Fords build a model T challenge could come in it celebrates full Centenary and Neil will sell you everything you need to build a winning car of your own but if you're worried a normal tea is a bit pedestrian then get yourself a 90 mile an hour speed diversion and scare yourself silly these days it's hard being an American that accused of people trying to blow down the embassy doors which is why the US Army have come up with this the smart truck for those with a rather more stressful commute than most based on a Ford F-350 it's packed with a million dollars worth of Kit to protect Special Forces Embassy staff and even presidents revolting fundamentalists are swiftly dispatched Uncle Sam style engaging pepper spread activating God Bless America and will be tied anybody who doesn't agree no I wouldn't do that if I were you once on the move any motorcycling assassins can be thwarted by rather useful bulletproof Bodywork which seems to be reinforced with mattresses engaging smoke screen activate mind doing a couple of laps around the M25 with this Silent Running mode and who needs boring old headlights when you've got night vision to spot terrorists in red two CVS they've got lamps like these on the White House lawn so they must be good anyway having safely immobilized yet more assailants and used the handy four-wheel steering it's time to press on Owen in case you're wondering this isn't a Celluloid Hollywood fantasy The Americans really have built it and filmed this road test to promote it told that the smart truck is apparently only 10 lethal I bet you could hurt yourself on that grenade launcher though sure Eagle Six this is black six we've just crossed from the Mojave pass on route to your location smart Truck Sales will be restricted to the military and friendly foreign governments I bet old Tony would love one and all this before we've even got to the options list thank you\n"