For such a relatable person, I forget that you have some incredibly unique relationships with the motor industry, which allows you to share with us some equally special experiences.
It really felt quite emotional. A car like this was the start of an automotive phenomenon. Thank you for commenting. Jonny needs to get his £1900 Boxster on the road asap now!
Jonny…I had an involvement with Volkswagen from age 2 in 1950 when a neighbour brought one back from Berlin after WWII. Mt father bought a 1942 “60” in 1956 and along the way, that friend bought a new Microbus in 1954. Hence my early life was reading rare books, leaflets, brochures and seeing lots of black and white pictures which thrilled and chilled me. That numberplate used to frighten me…they were on cars “made by the enemy”…I had impossible childhood dreams of going to those Alps when Press pictures were taken..of the race tracks where Mercedes and AutoUnion clashed..of fear..of war…but also of wonder. There is much more to write but I wish I could convey you back to the early 50’s to truly understand what early Porsche and Volkswagen ownership was like…no book or film will tell you. A special ride fir you indeed! 🙂🙂🙂🙂Richard
Love the fact you are driving past famous Le man’s Porsches and it’s Porsche no1 getting all the attention ( with you driving it). But was it as good to drive as your Beetle?
Kind of a Porsche thing to do. I don't think they'll ever stop driving this one. That's what you do with Porsches. They're made to be driven, not sit in garages or museums.
Jonny, you always come across as a very humble and respectful person, but you need to know how well thought of you are in the worlds car community, you absolutely deserved this!! Goosebumps all the way......
A much younger me was given a book about Porsche for Christmas a long time ago and it had photos of this car and I thought it was beautiful. I still do. I can't imagine how exciting yet terrifying it must be to be driving it and the relief and sadness at the end.
This tells you something about where you stand in car history yourself dear Jonny. You are truly part of it in a most excellent way! Greetings from the Netherlands were
Wow Johnny amazing. I first thought this was a replica, as those idiot light look very modern (1:03 into the vid), but then looked at the car in the Porsche museum and it looks the same, so it must be the same car. Beautiful beautiful machine
Thanks for sharing this incredible experience, Jonny. What a well deserved honour. I was surprised the group didn't cover the car with bubble wrap before sending it on the track! 😊
@@TheLateBrakeShowthat's incredible Jonny, it's great that they share this with the public, rather than locking it away in a museum. This is additional proof that Porsches are meant to be driven regularly.
This is surreal to behold. I feel like I am standing on holy ground just watching the video. I never realized that the actual Porsche Number One still exists. Thank you.
Fantastic! Great video. As a fellow air cooled fan as you know can totally appreciate the emotional experience and honour to be able to drive Porsche number 1. Bet it was weird how close and yet still different a driving experience it was to your Beetle.
Oh Jonny, what an amazing and surprising episode.. Thank you! Glad you've had a great and memorable trip.You're never gonna top that and thanks for the typ 64 info.. They had a few of them for the Berlin-Rome race that didnt happen and the famous racer Otto Mathe owned one until '95 when he passed, now in a private collection. (We won't mention the American troops that cut the roof off of one after ww2 and smashed it up! Looked and sounded amazing. After restoring a '54 Pre A for over 20 years this is as good as it gets for me😊🙏👌
My all time favourite car. Went to Gmund in Austria and went around the museum there. They had a full size wooden 356 used for creating the metal panels.Found the museum because we came of the motorway a exit before we wanted. Didnt know it was there. Droveminto them village a saw a metal ssign on a building saying Ferdinand Porsche. Knew we had found something special.
Hello Jonny, I always love your very unusual classic car documentaries, and how you often get these cars running again after many years. I'm so happy for you that you got to drive this incredible Porsche and you deserve it! Think about it, who is actually allowed to drive this? You're not even allowed to touch it in the museum. A very special video. Thank you! cheers Klaus from Düsseldorf
Hey I saw you at the show! I was the guy photographingyou at 3:51 😂. Thanks for sharing the video! I was eagerly awaiting to see what story you'd be telling.
Porsche deserve huge credit for letting you have the car so we could enjoy your drive. Although I own a 1976 911s, I'm really a Ferrari nut but I couldn't see the boys at Maranello allowing you to take a Ferrari 125 S out for a spin around the car park of such a busy show....perhaps you could enquire, I'd really enjoy that video as well !
Well that must be a life highlight! I will say, though, the incredible lack of 'stance' with the wheels virtually invisible from many angles, makes me imagine it with no wheel cut-outs at all, just bumpers that run all the way around and the shell sat on the ground - or floating like a Star Wars Landspeeder!
What luck,there Jonny. Wonderful,I could see you were terrified, but calm. Any other car manufacturer wouldn't have let you drive thier n0.1, so fair play to Porsche!
Wow, Jonny, just wow. To drive a car like that, for real, it must have been an experience to remember forever. You looked truly emotional, and I can only imagine what it must have felt like.
Driving the first Porsche would be everyones dream. Well done JS, and congrats to Porsche for keeping the history alive. I've seen that var in Stuttgart, but it's awesome to see it being used. Well done!
We are going to the Porsche museum in November and hope to see that very car, along with all the amazing Porsche’s there. This will be the first time in Europe let alone Stuttgart. Hoping to have a great time.
That… must’ve felt very bizarre. Not just “a” car from the Porsche museum in Stuttgart, but pretty much “THE” car; the very first car you see when you walk in. (Unless you turn up the day that Jonny Smith is taking it for a quick spin at Laguna Seca. 😊)
Jonny, I was at Rennsport watching you drive back and forth in the paddock area, it was awesome to see and I've been waiting for this video to come out. Cheers from California!
Love it! Congratulations! Epic drive! Couple corrections: 1. Rennsport Reunion is supposed to be every 3 years but #7 was delayed due to the pandemic. 2. Porsche 356-1 does not have the Porsche badge; it had not yet been created. It does bear the Porsche name.
Saw Matt Watson unboxing the pinnacle of the " Käfer " Generation earlier on today , and now you in the real great great grandfather of them all , well the Porsche side of the family that is ;-) , What 75 yrs of experience make possible
What an honour! A Beautifully icon and i hadn't realised it was mid-engined. I first saw this car in Top Gun with Kelly McGillis, a truly Beautiful car with a Beautiful girl driving it, Truly Memorable 😍 Jayemm had a 357 Replica on his channel not so long ago. It was Beautifully built and that had me thinking. You have a Cheap Boxster! Maybe an Iconic Replica conversion to yours would be a great idea for the channel and something to remind you of your Great Journey. I'm sure Jayemm could point in the right direction 😌
Even you don't like Porsche you have to recognise that it is such a privilege to be able to do what Jonny was able to. Its also great see that it's in working order
You're a very very lucky man to get to drive that piece of Porsche history (without chaperone too). I can see the excitement and the relief to get it back on the stand in one piece. Great video Jonny, thanks for sharing.
Hey Jonny, do you remember the photo shoot at Sychdyn Hall, Nr Mold of my '52 beetle for Total VW. You're doing bigger things nowadays,but still a down to earth good bloke.
What no romp though the corkscrew ? I guess that would be another level of trust to allow you on track with it. Now you've left us all wondering what lap time it could set at Laguna Seca. But seriously, fun to see it move. Even if ever so slowly.
As a long standing air cool VW and Porsche fan, there is not a single journalist or You Tuber I respect more for having truly understood the significance of this car than you. We followed the same automotive path in our early years, And you truly did give it the respect and admiration it deserved. For me, at least, this was your best episode. I am also indescribably jealous too, so I think I may also may hate you for ever.
Wow, praise indeed. To be honest it was an honour to get this permission and it will almost certainly be one of the most significant cars Jonny ever gets to drive.
Classic. Proof if it were needed that Porsche want their cars to be driven. Hence today, they continue to support (in the main) spares for all ages of car and no one judges you for what you drive.
For such a relatable person, I forget that you have some incredibly unique relationships with the motor industry, which allows you to share with us some equally special experiences.
Thank you so much for this comment - it means a lot.
Easily the world's most underrated motoring journalist.
Jonny stands alone.
@stevenkelby2169 I know what you mean, but Jonny's got us lot to appreciate what he does. And that is a LOT!
@@TheLateBrakeShow LOVING these Porsche episodes.
THANK YOU Jonny!
I love this Jonny. The excitement was obvious and that moment of pause when you turned it off and looked at the key gave me goosebumps.
It really felt quite emotional. A car like this was the start of an automotive phenomenon. Thank you for commenting. Jonny needs to get his £1900 Boxster on the road asap now!
@@TheLateBrakeShow I felt emotional watching it, I can only imagine how you felt sitting in it and actually driving it.
Jonny…I had an involvement with Volkswagen from age 2 in 1950 when a neighbour brought one back from Berlin after WWII. Mt father bought a 1942 “60” in 1956 and along the way, that friend bought a new Microbus in 1954. Hence my early life was reading rare books, leaflets, brochures and seeing lots of black and white pictures which thrilled and chilled me. That numberplate used to frighten me…they were on cars “made by the enemy”…I had impossible childhood dreams of going to those Alps when Press pictures were taken..of the race tracks where Mercedes and AutoUnion clashed..of fear..of war…but also of wonder. There is much more to write but I wish I could convey you back to the early 50’s to truly understand what early Porsche and Volkswagen ownership was like…no book or film will tell you. A special ride fir you indeed! 🙂🙂🙂🙂Richard
Hats off to Porsche to let you drive this, it must have been a nerve wracking experience,. Another wonderful TLBS episode
Agreed, I don't think they'd allow Jay Leno to drive this on an open road or track 😊
Love the fact you are driving past famous Le man’s Porsches and it’s Porsche no1 getting all the attention ( with you driving it). But was it as good to drive as your Beetle?
Massive kudos Jonny. Porsche letting you drive their crown jewel is a testament to how authentic your approach is to cars. Big up man.
Plenty of other marques, wouldn't have let you do that, so kudos to Porsche. What a car.
Kind of a Porsche thing to do. I don't think they'll ever stop driving this one. That's what you do with Porsches. They're made to be driven, not sit in garages or museums.
Jonny, you always come across as a very humble and respectful person, but you need to know how well thought of you are in the worlds car community, you absolutely deserved this!! Goosebumps all the way......
I firmly second those comments. Top bloke.
Wonderful piece, Jonny. Just wonderful. - and thanks also to whoever at Porsche said ‘Sure!’
Thank you for taking us along!
A much younger me was given a book about Porsche for Christmas a long time ago and it had photos of this car and I thought it was beautiful. I still do. I can't imagine how exciting yet terrifying it must be to be driving it and the relief and sadness at the end.
Silver cover, called 'Porsche - A Tradition of Greatness'?
This tells you something about where you stand in car history yourself dear Jonny.
You are truly part of it in a most excellent way!
Greetings from the Netherlands were
Had a cream 356 bumble past me yesterday......so elegant/ pure.
Very professional talking through that, the inner Jonny just wanted to giggle and cry the entire time
I almost missed this, good job I looked on YT before I switched my PC off, can't beat a bit of Johnny and TLBS on a Sunday night :)
An indication of the respect with which Jonny is held within the industry. What an amazing experience that must’ve been.
Wow. What an thing. So glad it was you driving it Jonny, as you share your experiences so humbly.
Wow Johnny amazing.
I first thought this was a replica, as those idiot light look very modern (1:03 into the vid), but then looked at the car in the Porsche museum and it looks the same, so it must be the same car.
Beautiful beautiful machine
Thanks for sharing this incredible experience, Jonny. What a well deserved honour. I was surprised the group didn't cover the car with bubble wrap before sending it on the track! 😊
Porsche are surprisingly relaxed about this car. No cordons when it was on display.
@@TheLateBrakeShowthat's incredible Jonny, it's great that they share this with the public, rather than locking it away in a museum. This is additional proof that Porsches are meant to be driven regularly.
This is surreal to behold. I feel like I am standing on holy ground just watching the video. I never realized that the actual Porsche Number One still exists. Thank you.
INCREDIBLE. How you can talk while driving such an extraordinarily expensive and irreplaceable legend is beyond me. Amazing work!!
Jonny your so LUCKY!!!!!! to drive the number one Porsche you ROCK!!! Brent Gordon of Canada.😂🤟
Great honour to be given the opportunity to drive No.1 Jonny, greetings from Greece
Fantastic! Great video. As a fellow air cooled fan as you know can totally appreciate the emotional experience and honour to be able to drive Porsche number 1. Bet it was weird how close and yet still different a driving experience it was to your Beetle.
Oh Jonny, what an amazing and surprising episode.. Thank you! Glad you've had a great and memorable trip.You're never gonna top that and thanks for the typ 64 info.. They had a few of them for the Berlin-Rome race that didnt happen and the famous racer Otto Mathe owned one until '95 when he passed, now in a private collection. (We won't mention the American troops that cut the roof off of one after ww2 and smashed it up!
Looked and sounded amazing.
After restoring a '54 Pre A for over 20 years this is as good as it gets for me😊🙏👌
At this moment Jonny……you have peaked……what an honour, made up for you, this channel is only ever going to keep exceeding expectations 👍👌🇮🇲😉
My all time favourite car. Went to Gmund in Austria and went around the museum there. They had a full size wooden 356 used for creating the metal panels.Found the museum because we came of the motorway a exit before we wanted. Didnt know it was there. Droveminto them village a saw a metal ssign on a building saying Ferdinand Porsche. Knew we had found something special.
What a cool opportunity, good for you Jonny. Also congrats on 600K subs!! 👍
Thank you! Means a lot
Hello Jonny,
I always love your very unusual classic car documentaries, and how you often get these cars running again after many years. I'm so happy for you that you got to drive this incredible Porsche and you deserve it!
Think about it, who is actually allowed to drive this? You're not even allowed to touch it in the museum.
A very special video.
Thank you!
cheers
Klaus from Düsseldorf
Hey I saw you at the show! I was the guy photographingyou at 3:51 😂. Thanks for sharing the video! I was eagerly awaiting to see what story you'd be telling.
Did you get any good photos? Thank you
That's just amazing! So glad you got to do this.
Porsche deserve huge credit for letting you have the car so we could enjoy your drive. Although I own a 1976 911s, I'm really a Ferrari nut but I couldn't see the boys at Maranello allowing you to take a Ferrari 125 S out for a spin around the car park of such a busy show....perhaps you could enquire, I'd really enjoy that video as well !
Great work Jonny. Heartfelt #1 Porsche drive.
What a experiance Johnny to drive the first Porsche, it must have been a goosebump moment when you drove off the plinth.
A fantastic episode.
Thank you for sharing this very special moment with us.
You have me crying too. Very touching.
Crikey! What an experience! Proper part of automotive history... and you drove it!! Amazing!
Well that must be a life highlight! I will say, though, the incredible lack of 'stance' with the wheels virtually invisible from many angles, makes me imagine it with no wheel cut-outs at all, just bumpers that run all the way around and the shell sat on the ground - or floating like a Star Wars Landspeeder!
What luck,there Jonny. Wonderful,I could see you were terrified, but calm. Any other car manufacturer wouldn't have let you drive thier n0.1, so fair play to Porsche!
Hey Jonny, looks like a successful check on an awesome bucket list item. Bravo to Porsche for allowing it, and to you for sharing it with us. Cheers!
Wow, Jonny, just wow. To drive a car like that, for real, it must have been an experience to remember forever.
You looked truly emotional, and I can only imagine what it must have felt like.
Driving the first Porsche would be everyones dream. Well done JS, and congrats to Porsche for keeping the history alive. I've seen that var in Stuttgart, but it's awesome to see it being used. Well done!
I’ve always loved Jonny. He’s a car enthusiast’s car enthusiast.
so happy to see this channel finally starting to get some traction with subscribers . keep up the good work mr.johnny
Thank you!
Fantastic moment, and Jonny clearly fully appreciates it. Well done everyone involved, love it 🙂👍
We are going to the Porsche museum in November and hope to see that very car, along with all the amazing Porsche’s there. This will be the first time in Europe let alone Stuttgart. Hoping to have a great time.
What an amazing film. I am in no way a Porsche fan but for some reason was a bit weepy by the end. Bloody love this channel.
How enthralling for you. What a privilege. Thanks for sharing the experience.
That right there is a story to tell grand kids and everybody down the pub for years to come. Congratulations. Well done.
What an honour. But than: you're one of the true authentics on youtube. Great to see that acknowlegd. Congrats.
That… must’ve felt very bizarre. Not just “a” car from the Porsche museum in Stuttgart, but pretty much “THE” car; the very first car you see when you walk in. (Unless you turn up the day that Jonny Smith is taking it for a quick spin at Laguna Seca. 😊)
Seriously that must of been one of the most special days of all the cars you have ever driven ! Gald you got this chance you deserve it.
Well done Jonny...you bring the best out of the car world to us mere mortals.
Jonny, I was at Rennsport watching you drive back and forth in the paddock area, it was awesome to see and I've been waiting for this video to come out. Cheers from California!
Hey! Many thanks
What a piece of history. Interestingly, its handbrake reminds me of the park brake in a Piper Cherokee airplane.
you really are the best to do it at the moment in terms of automotive youtube and such
Many thanks! 🤘🏽
Love it! Congratulations! Epic drive!
Couple corrections: 1. Rennsport Reunion is supposed to be every 3 years but #7 was delayed due to the pandemic. 2. Porsche 356-1 does not have the Porsche badge; it had not yet been created. It does bear the Porsche name.
you deserve it mate!
also you made it justice, your enthusiasm and humility are tremendous.
Porsche, danke! For letting Johnny out on it
This is absolutely superb. I enjoyed every second - it's the stuff dreams are made of.
Proper amazing of Porsche well done Johnny mate, so makes up for the Boxster you brought not making the MOT Station
Saw Matt Watson unboxing the pinnacle of the " Käfer " Generation earlier on today , and now you in the real great great grandfather of them all , well the Porsche side of the family that is ;-) , What 75 yrs of experience make possible
What an incredible honour! Don't know how you pulled it of but that must be a once in a lifetime experience. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Surely about time Peshco was revived. Special mention for the motoring video with fewest gear changes! Top work, Johnny. ❤
Amazing experience, what a car, pure history on track. Congratulations, TLBS is perfect for me. Greetings from Brazil!
What a little stunner.
Ya a lucky lad to get to experience that.
What a treat!!! You fully deserve this experience. I am really happy for you. Thank you for sharing with us. You beauty!!! Such a dainty looking car.
Brilliant video Jonny. The emotions you had driving it and explaining the story was clear to see. Thank you
Wow. This is proper bucket list stuff. What an amazing experience that must have been.
Best day at work ever?! What an opportunity, Jonny. Good on you!
You are so lucky to have that experience, well done to you. Lovely car.
Wow. Bucket list material right there. Very special indeed. Seeing you in there, Im sure I wouldn't fit at 6'5" 🤣
What an honour! A Beautifully icon and i hadn't realised it was mid-engined.
I first saw this car in Top Gun with Kelly McGillis, a truly Beautiful car with a Beautiful girl driving it, Truly Memorable 😍
Jayemm had a 357 Replica on his channel not so long ago. It was Beautifully built and that had me thinking. You have a Cheap Boxster! Maybe an Iconic Replica conversion to yours would be a great idea for the channel and something to remind you of your Great Journey. I'm sure Jayemm could point in the right direction 😌
Still a very pretty and clean car. What a privilege Jonny. Thanks for taking us along.
Even you don't like Porsche you have to recognise that it is such a privilege to be able to do what Jonny was able to. Its also great see that it's in working order
You're a very very lucky man to get to drive that piece of Porsche history (without chaperone too). I can see the excitement and the relief to get it back on the stand in one piece. Great video Jonny, thanks for sharing.
Congratulations! What an exciting experience.
Fantastic Jonny really well deserved for you and appreciated by all of us I’m sure 😊
This isnt just an exquisite, beautiful car, its a work of art & an icon to boot. Lucky boy Jonny.
That's the coolest thing ever! I too had a Beetle as 1st car & would do anything for such a ride....
The DNA is so close on early production cars, but even more so in this instance.
Amazing to see the car that came before so many amazing ones afterwards
imaging filling out the insurance form for the drive .
"approximate market value " ... Priceless. Great content
what a unique experience , thanks for capturing and sharing JS
Nice one, Jonny. What a unique opportunity and fascinating story 👍🏼
That’s a bucket list moment right there, driving the very first official Porsche.
Love this Johnny. Keep up the great work mate, your content is always amazing. Thanks for all the great videos 👍👍👍👍
Hey Jonny, do you remember the photo shoot at Sychdyn Hall, Nr Mold of my '52 beetle for Total VW.
You're doing bigger things nowadays,but still a down to earth good bloke.
As a 924 owner, great to hear that even at it's roots, VW and Porsche are thightly connected. The first Porsche was intended as a VW. Still a Porsche.
So my golf 4 is actually a Porsche
Absolutely beautiful. My palms were sweating watching you drive that off though!
Jonny - You deserved that. Genuinely happy for you.
Awesome content. Lucky guy driving that
I take my hat off to you sir, you've really come into your own with YT. Great stuff as ever, and a long way from 5th Gear
This was fascinating. I'd only ever seen still photos of the car before this.
What no romp though the corkscrew ? I guess that would be another level of trust to allow you on track with it. Now you've left us all wondering what lap time it could set at Laguna Seca. But seriously, fun to see it move. Even if ever so slowly.
I've been to the Porsche Museum, but this looks way more fun. Cool!
I think you have officially made it in your world when you are permitted to take such a car for a spin. Well done!
As a long standing air cool VW and Porsche fan, there is not a single journalist or You Tuber I respect more for having truly understood the significance of this car than you. We followed the same automotive path in our early years, And you truly did give it the respect and admiration it deserved.
For me, at least, this was your best episode. I am also indescribably jealous too, so I think I may also may hate you for ever.
Wow, praise indeed. To be honest it was an honour to get this permission and it will almost certainly be one of the most significant cars Jonny ever gets to drive.
Mate, you've made it! Hopefully this will send you towards 1mn subscribers. Great video - thanks!
How the hell, that is one major achivement, well done
Classic. Proof if it were needed that Porsche want their cars to be driven. Hence today, they continue to support (in the main) spares for all ages of car and no one judges you for what you drive.
Just re-installed NFS Porsche 2000 today in my PC and got this video recommended in my feed, a nice surprise indeed.
Wow! Porsche just keeps getting more awesome with the stuff they let you and other channels do!
There's not much to say but bravo. Truly an experience that'll last a lifetime.
Love the wheels inside the arches, where they belong . 👌