UKTV has commissioned the new series, Classic Car Kings (6×60’), for leading factual channel U&YESTERDAY and free streaming service, U. The six-part series is produced by Chatterbox Media and will air in 2025.

The team at Irv’s Resto Shop in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, are world renowned for their work rescuing classic cars that appear to be beyond repair. Big character, Paul “Irv” Irving, and his three sons love taking on the most ambitious, challenging jobs. Their crew of welders, fabricators, blasters, painters and mechanics have the knowledge, skills and the passion to bring vehicles not just back from the brink, but onto the concourse. These classic car kings are restoration royalty.

With no two jobs ever the same, the series will see Irv and his team tackle a host of challenges across a variety of demanding restoration jobs on vehicles including a 1973 Lamborghini Espada, a 1968 Porsche 911, a 1978 Daimler Coupe, a 1980s Ford Escort RS, a 1949 VW Beetle, and a VW Samaba bus from the 1950s which originally arrives in the workshop as a cardboard box of bits.