I think Jonny's next video will be his drive in the LB.
Hopefully he will chat about it in next weeks "Smith & Sniff" podcast too.
I want to hear what Mr "car trivia" Porter knows about the Stratos - he seems to have a funny story about every car.
Come to think of it he might have mentioned it in this week's podcast, I only got halfway through during my lunchtime walk.
Last edited by Stradale493; 05-07-2021 at 20:42.
Yes a great YouTube moment or several moments. A lovely stable of cars, but a Muria and a Stratos side by side - heaven!
The LB Stratos is the one Nick Allen (Red5) built and sold back in 2019 if I'm not mistaken. A lovely car.
Yep, that's Nick's car. I heard they gut that bought it had an impressive car collection and indeed he does.Originally Posted by LOFT6.6
Very high praise though, out of all his cars the LB is the top one!!!!
I wonder if the guy selling the ebay Stratos is watching this? Get ready for the price to go up
Last edited by LPH_UK; 06-07-2021 at 01:55.
What struck me most was that a bloke that could clearly afford to have a Lancia Strato’s chose to have an LB STR, and a bloke with some pretty impressive cars in his collection. Loved the way he described it too, bang on IMO.
A well deserved endorsement I think.
Why does he think a real Stratos is trickier to drive than a replica?
He's talked himself out of the perceived shortcomings of a real Stratos, but is ready to forgive a Miura for possibly setting itself on fire at any given moment.
Have to assume he’s driven at least a few and didn’t like them I’d think. Given his collection, I can’t imagine his first port of call for anything that took his fancy would have been a replica.
Fantastic compliment to LB in the light of what's in those garages.
And to the standard of build too.
There are probably better cars out there or about to be now too?
I do wonder if the real Stratos ever deserved the reputation it had?
Sure it was a different concept and designed to be so, but might it not be the case that because of its rarity no-one really had that much experience with them, and perhaps cars set up for professional drivers got the better of lesser testers?
I should clarify, given how these topics have a habit of ‘expanding’, I’m not trying to imply that one is better than the other in any absolute fashion. They are different things.
A person can prefer one or the other and both are right, given it's a personal choice.
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