First ever look at London’s most secretive car collection hidden in a cave

  • There’s a secret car collection inside a cave in London
  • No, it doesn’t have ‘normal cars’
  • Instead, there are mostly rare custom cars and bubble cars

Published on Aug 20, 2024 at 12:05 PM (UTC+4)
by Siddharth Dudeja

Last updated on Aug 20, 2024 at 5:07 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by Tom Wood

If you owned a bunch of rare cars but wanted to keep it a secret, you would put it somewhere inaccessible, right?

That’s exactly what this man did, and it’s in a ‘cave’ beneath a multi-story building — making it London’s most secretive car collection.

Mind you, this is unlike most collections because there are no supercars or sports cars to be seen here.

Apart from his daily drivers, the owner only has rare prototypes and cars from the past century that fascinated him.

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London’s most secretive car collection in a cave

A host from the YouTube channel ‘The Late Brake Show’ visited this car cave and posted a video about it.

This car collection is not about modern and fancy cars at all.

Instead, it boasts rare and iconic cars from several decades ago that were highly desirable back then.

Firstly, the host met with two of the owner’s daily drivers—probably the most modern cars—before entering the cave.

It was a V12-powered Ferrari FF, which might give you the impression that the owner would have similar rides in his car collection.

However, it’s actually quite the opposite.

The next everyday car was a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado convertible, which is certainly a drastic change of scenery.

Things got more interesting as the host finally entered the car collection cave — because it was full of Hollywood cars and bubble cars.

Not your everyday supercars

You might know about bubble cars like the Peel Trident and Peel P50.

But do you know of anyone with at least 10 of those?

Well, now you do.

The owner had an entire mini-collection of the Peel bubble cars within the main collection.

Apart from those, we saw several cars that were once popular and came from renowned designers.

For instance, the host pointed out George Barris’ custom car, which stood out the most.

If you have no idea who that is, in 1966, Barris designed one of the very first Batmobile models for the early Batman movies.

Next up, there were also several boat-inspired cars from iconic designers — but only the Amphicar was the one that could swim.

If you thought that was it, there’s more.

The owner of the car collection further showed another mini-collection of about 100 pedal cars, all of which were distinct vintage cars.

What’s more, he even had the original Peel Trident and the initial prototype of the Peel P50 in his penthouse.

This certainly isn’t a car collection you get to see every day.

But as is often the case, devoted collectors usually get what they want in the end.


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Siddharth Dudeja

Siddharth is a tech nerd with a secret love of all things cars. He has been writing for a few years now, and on his free time you would find him gaming when he's not procrastinating.