Robs Retro Rides
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2023 Bus Preservation Society Penzance
Get ready to step back in time and experience Penzance's rich transport history like never before with our vintage bus day video!
Watch as we ride on vintage buses and experience Penzance's vintage bus parade, taking in the sights and sounds of this historic event.
Whether you're a transport enthusiast, a history buff, or simply looking for a fun day out, this video is a must-see.
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A Stunning Display of Cars in Hayle, Cornwall, Boxing Day 2022
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This is my footage of the annual boxing day car meet in Hayle, Cornwall, 2022. As you can see, there are some really beautiful cars and an excellent turnout despite the occasional heavy shower.
Mods and Stockers Hayle Modified Car Meet May 2022
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This is my footage of the Mods and Stockers Hayle car meet.
The Trevithick 2022 Parade: A Celebration of Innovation
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This is the parade of Trevithick day 2022, plus some highlights.
Cornish Bus Preservation Society in Action, Running Day 2022
Просмотров 15 тыс.2 года назад
On the 17/04/2022 was the vintage bus day 2022, the first time in 3 years due to the pandemic. Here is my footage, let’s hear them old Gardner engines. Some footage is of service buses also.

Комментарии

  • @jwatson9732
    @jwatson9732 5 дней назад

    It looks too early to have a condenser fitted. What is it?

  • @CharRobmc
    @CharRobmc Месяц назад

    Several auto manufacturers had straight 8,s in the 40,s and 50,s

  • @selfdo
    @selfdo 3 месяца назад

    Not rare for its time. Straight EIghts were the "upper crust" engines of their time, but after WWII, once civilian auto production resumed and the automakers could re-tool for the more advanced designs they already had in mind, plus building on their WWII experience, as Chrysler did with its experimental Hemi-head aircraft engine, the inline eights were superseded by V8s. There had been V8 engines before, certainly, like with Cadillac, Chevy for a brief time just before WWI, and, of course, the famous Ford Flathead V8, but this new breed were all OHV engines and higher compression than before.

  • @texasredneck9226
    @texasredneck9226 8 месяцев назад

    Maybe rare today, but not back in the 20th century! I grew up with straight 8 Pontiac's as one example... We're really solid engines!😊

  • @BIGGESTYOUTUBER5399
    @BIGGESTYOUTUBER5399 8 месяцев назад

    Dumb electric cars

  • @scratchd0g
    @scratchd0g 8 месяцев назад

    Would this still be considered a "motorcar"

  • @nelsonperry9271
    @nelsonperry9271 11 месяцев назад

    My 1950 Pontiac had that exact engine completely and ran well with with automatic transmission

  • @RayDay-iy5jh
    @RayDay-iy5jh Год назад

    Need for speed with steam.

  • @saucychicken502
    @saucychicken502 Год назад

    The mechanics in these cars are very old but they still amaze me

    • @yakut9876
      @yakut9876 Месяц назад

      Nothing old at all.

  • @Oldbayisthebestseasoning
    @Oldbayisthebestseasoning Год назад

    i wish most of my generation could see the beauty in this like i do

  • @gregoirederadzitzky
    @gregoirederadzitzky Год назад

    Isn't a rare engine 😂

  • @Peterblack12
    @Peterblack12 Год назад

    If you want to see the pinnacle of steam engine technology, look up Doble's steam car.

  • @dom_dude64_gaming
    @dom_dude64_gaming Год назад

    Beautiful if I do say so myself

  • @raymondj8768
    @raymondj8768 Год назад

    Very Cool peep that battery lol

  • @paulshirley6383
    @paulshirley6383 Год назад

    The Trevithick 2022 Parade: A Celebration of Innovation Robs Retro Rides love louis shirley

  • @fadedsoul23
    @fadedsoul23 Год назад

    That looks like a flathead inline 8 to me. Can someone confirm?

  • @sethm8432
    @sethm8432 Год назад

    I own one, 52 Pontiac Chieftain. Biggest pain in the ass I’ve ever had. It’s amazing how long these motors lasted when we already had motors far superior to them by the 40s. Cool to see a working example, but I’ve been throwing parts at mine and each time it just decides to run worse.

    • @cowabungacuz
      @cowabungacuz Год назад

      I have a 51 chieftain. I have the original straight 8 in it right now. It runs decent but I have a LS motor sitting in my garage. I'm debating on swapping it or leaving it original. Any suggestions?

  • @editsbyBrandon876
    @editsbyBrandon876 Год назад

    Straight 8 they call the normal ones v8s because they are shaped like a v

  • @allanshortt1243
    @allanshortt1243 Год назад

    Looks like a packard

  • @spray_cheese
    @spray_cheese Год назад

    Ahh yes the foot warmer😂

    • @icweiner7506
      @icweiner7506 3 месяца назад

      Better than the mother in law seat in the back 😂

  • @brianjacobs1241
    @brianjacobs1241 Год назад

    If I was you, I would make the motor fast you would be instant famous

  • @renaissanceman5847
    @renaissanceman5847 Год назад

    it even has an inline battery...

  • @michaelbenardo5695
    @michaelbenardo5695 Год назад

    These were not rare at all. This looks like a 1949 - 52 Pontiac. This engine was Pontiac's best seller.

  • @BusesJourneysMore
    @BusesJourneysMore Год назад

    This looks like it was a great event.

  • @8jj8
    @8jj8 Год назад

    It’s f@#king huge engine

  • @JaceAllen13
    @JaceAllen13 Год назад

    Even more rare is that air cleaner. That was Pontiac's optional oil bath air cleaner

  • @HaroldMC63
    @HaroldMC63 Год назад

    White steam cars are so fun but impractical

    • @LGamerr
      @LGamerr Год назад

      For the time period they were the most practical car money could buy

    • @masterkamen371
      @masterkamen371 Год назад

      ​@@LGamerrWere they? At that time you had electric cars which were very practical, you pressed a button and drove away. The steam cars took something like 30 minutes to start the fire and get up to pressure. There were also many crude gasoline cars, though terrible, they were still a bit better to use than steam. Steam was relatively popular only because steam engines have been familiar to many people for nearly a century. It was completely replaced by gasoline as we learned to make more efficient engines.

    • @jomoma8576
      @jomoma8576 Год назад

      ​@@masterkamen371they were seen as more practical as many even wealthy people didn't have electricity in the homes especially there country estates & basically all cars prior to model t were the exclusive venue of the wealthy. electrics were seen almost exclusively used as city cabs or wealthy women's city shopping cars. gas cars prior to the electric starter & muffler were difficult & even dangerous to start & scared horses who still pulled 90% of the other vehicles on the road & were only manual transmission & then as now many people didn't like driving stick. Steam was nearly silent had so much power that they were direct drive no gears to shift & unlike gasoline or electricity they could run on any widly available lamp oil remember no gass stations in the 90s to teens gass was sold at pharmacys

    • @masterkamen371
      @masterkamen371 Год назад

      @@jomoma8576 You are overestimating the complexity of early car transmissions. The early Ford models had a two-speed planetary transmission (a very early automatic transmission), to get moving you pressed down the clutch, to get into second gear you pulled a lever and let go of the clutch. Earlier cars had an even simpler arrangement, chains, belts and similar were common. That aside, thinking back it does make sense how steam might have been preferred. Some rich person might have let their servant start the fire and drive them, the owner would not have to care about anything.

    • @kristianferencik8685
      @kristianferencik8685 Год назад

      ​@@masterkamen371yes but your forgetting that the model t wouldn't have been invented till a couple of years after this car was made, but also they held 2 big advantages over combustion engines and electric cars: 1 - more torque which meant they didn't need to beef up the rear axels 2 - ease/ reliability of use during a time when the technology of the time wasn't exactly the most tried a tested for the other two, just bring some coal and a water van to refill at a local pond/river and your good to go. Charging stations and gas stations weren't exactly common during those days and if you ran out of fuel, you're screwed.

  • @thomaswilliams2780
    @thomaswilliams2780 Год назад

    Pontiac Cheiftain/Buick Fireball motor?

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Год назад

      Looks like Pontiac, but Buick never had a flathead. All Buick Straight 8s were OHV.

  • @deanfarr3249
    @deanfarr3249 Год назад

    Isn't that a fireball straight eight buick engine from like the 40's or 50's ?

  • @craigwinkenwerder4558
    @craigwinkenwerder4558 Год назад

    Early 20th century straight eights were pretty common!

  • @jamesmooney8933
    @jamesmooney8933 Год назад

    In 1941 in line flat heads were not rare,

    • @jacksmack6956
      @jacksmack6956 Год назад

      Rare these days

    • @jamesmooney8933
      @jamesmooney8933 Год назад

      @@jacksmack6956 right. The Plymouth & Dodge 6 were flat head straight 6 up until the slant 6 over head valve up until 1959

    • @Banana_Banshee
      @Banana_Banshee Год назад

      @@jamesmooney8933see a lot of 59s driving around town nowadays?

    • @jamesmooney8933
      @jamesmooney8933 Год назад

      @@Banana_Banshee It was a bad year.

    • @michaelbenardo5695
      @michaelbenardo5695 Год назад

      @@jamesmooney8933 But this is a straight 8, not a 6.

  • @nazik9942
    @nazik9942 Год назад

    13:47 💛💙

  • @user-jx2eg5wj1t
    @user-jx2eg5wj1t 2 года назад

    Where in Cornwall was this?

  • @alexquick5491
    @alexquick5491 2 года назад

    Pontiac?

  • @unknownywuux_bus
    @unknownywuux_bus 2 года назад

    6th and 7th coment

  • @unknownywuux_bus
    @unknownywuux_bus 2 года назад

    Hi

  • @olivvapor4873
    @olivvapor4873 2 года назад

    Thank you ; I could watch this all day ... 😀👍🏻

  • @spuds4t
    @spuds4t 2 года назад

    I'd give anything for a Warren's pasty right now!

  • @adrianbew9641
    @adrianbew9641 2 года назад

    No entry obviously doesn't apply to cyclists lol

    • @robsretrorides796
      @robsretrorides796 2 года назад

      You can hear me quietly cursing on one of the 2 cyclist clips. This happens everyday at Penzance bus station!

  • @itzyaboialli007
    @itzyaboialli007 2 года назад

    I am also in at minute marker 18.11 and I subscribed to you

  • @itzyaboialli007
    @itzyaboialli007 2 года назад

    The time on your vid is 2.29 and I am sat at the front window where it says the number 358

  • @itzyaboialli007
    @itzyaboialli007 2 года назад

    Hi Robert, the person on the white Leyland open top decker bus that goes out of the bud station who is wearing a hat and blue t shirt is me recording my Penzance to Newlyn video 🤣🤣