The smallest cog season 4

He said of handing such touching stories on the show: "I love those moments, because you do quickly learn it's not about the cars and the metal, it's about the people.

A car left on its own will just rust away quietly. It's only when you introduce people into the equation, do you get the stories.

Richard hammond's workshop season 4 release date

And that's when it becomes exciting and moving."

Elsewhere in season four of Hammond's Workshop, the team are also trusted to restore a 1939 Rolls Royce Wraith formerly owned by Field Marshal Montgomery. Richard explained: "It was the first car up the beaches after D-Day, the car in which Montgomery and Churchill and Eisenhower had travelled around Northern France as they were planning the campaign to push into Europe and save the Western world."

The vehicle must be restored in time for D-Day commemorations - but can The Smallest Cog pull it off in time?

Richard Hammond's Workshop season four launches on Discovery+ on Monday August 26.