I owned and restored a 1977 Purvis Eureka(Australia. Nova in the UK and Sterling in the USA). The Australian version i had has a higher roof line and no bonnet nostrils. Seating was very laid back and comfortable, Body had a lot of flex if not reinforced. Mine had a 12a Turbo rotary engine and with the total weight of 850kg it was extremely fast with gokart like handling. Fun car indeed....
6:09 - I had one of these and in the same color. They seated four, the rear seats reclined drastically to get a person in under the low roof. They could be claustrophobic in the back seats as you were dropped in and then the front seat back closed on you somewhat. The rear windows didn't open and there was little room to move around in. The chassis was a backbone style so the tunnel was quite high, and the center console ran back and divided the rear bucket seats. Although it had a rear hatch over the luggage space, it did not open into the passenger compartment, so there was a second backglass that separated the interior from the boot (trunk). The gas tank stretched across behind the seats and a filler was on each side of the car. The car was reasonably fast. I ran down the A45 between Newmarket and Bury St. Edmunds one night around 125. The engine was just under 2 liter, something like 1973 cc, iirc. UK and European got two sidedraft Dellorto carbs while the US got two Strombergs. This engine came out the year before in the Jensen Healey but the JH got a 4 speed transmission and the Elite got a 5 speed. It was the same basic engine in the first of the Esprit cars. It was the left half of the planned 4.0 liter V8 which fell through with the gasoline crisis. As such, the distributor was exposed to rain from below and could stall out, like happened one night from around M11 all the way to Bury. Nearly impossible to get to, you just had to sit and let engine heat dry it out. Like all Lotus cars, it handled great. One night that proved helpful along with speed when a couple of Bury St Edmund's finest decided to discuss my rapid movement on a two lane road but I declined their offer to stop and chat.
@@marcryvon interestingly, the original karmann ghia type 14 is a picture-perfect copy of the chrysler "d`elegance" that never saw production. ghia`s chief designer luigi segre used the chrysler prototype, which he had co-designed, and simply scaled it down. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Karmann_Ghia
Once, while fishing a nearby lake, an Amphicar drove down the ramp and off into the water where it paddled around. It had two passengers and two fishing rods in the back seat. Don't know if they caught anything, but they eventually drove back up the ramp dribbling water.
I used to go to Chattanooga daily in a tanker truck.It was quite a sight to see the old Army "DUCKS" drive down the ramps into the Tennessee River or out of the water onto the roads.
Ha ha! Had one of those Novas (With a gutless VW engine) Remember coming home from Bedford at night and it started to poor down and the single centre windscreen wiper decided to stop working! so I had to drive the bloody thing in the teaming rain at night with the roof up! to see where I was going! Can still remember the looks I got from motorists going past me down the M1!! (Happy days!!)
@@gjamesturner391 That's about as suicidal as Cletus McPharland with his bike powered golf cart. Probably more so, because the Bond Bug has only one front wheel, and is unstable
I think Jeremy Clarkson did serious damage to a few in one episode of _Top Gear_ by doing left turns in them a little too fast. Or maybe that was the Reliant Robin ...
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104 That was the Reliant Robins. Bugs are too rare and getting quite expensive now. My mate had one in the 70s when we were teenagers. It was truly awful as a car but absolutely great fun to ride around in.
@@baggins4354 Well I have a book that shows the production of the film, and it shows the Bond Bug chassis. The Land Speeder was made of plywood and had two wheels in the back and one up front. The Reliant Robin was similar, but my book shows actual pictures and says that it was a Bond Bug. I don't have a cock in this fight~
The Matra 530 was relatively popular in the 70's in France, use a V4 1,7L Ford engine, good performance with low weight despite low power rate, and the Alpine A310 is far from "forgotten", first was engined with the 1,6L from the Renault 12 Gordini but with fuel injection, heritage from the R17 TS (origin from the engine was the Renault 16), later the 2,7L V6 PRV...
The 'Studebaker V-8' was actually a Cadillac V-8. I had one at one time in the 50s, and bought all my parts at the local Cadillac dealer, where I got a discount.
@@jamessettle9222 The Studebaker V8 was also used in the last couple of years' worth of Packards. It seems unlikely that Cadillac would sell V8 engines to their long-term rival like that. But I'm open to being informed....
The black one at the beginning. There was one in Atwater Ca. Every day I saw it go from pieces. sanded down painted glossy black and rebuilt. I was in awe.
The VW Type 34 Karmann Ghia is one of the ugliest cars I have ever seen, but only when put beside the VW Type 14 Karmann Ghia, possibly the most beautiful car in creation.
@@aaronleverton4221 I very much disagree with that. The Type 14 seems to embody the 1990s styling trope of "melted bar of soap" more than plenty of other period cars. It is also too simplistic, which is not ideal in a car.
@@jakekaywell5972 the international was very actractive at the time but not a great off-road car, where i live there was mainly the land-rovers and the toyotas with diesel engine there was a range-rover but that was only one from a neighboor of mine but he drove it since the 70´s till the 90´s after he stop driving because his health couldn´t permit and his son sold it for a lot of money around 2005, i had a 1991 range-rover the vogue but his comsuption was so much that i couldn´t keep it for more than 1 year, i remenber going to a beach 130 km´s from my home and i used to spend what today is 50€ in gasoline but never i drove it more than 100km/h, then i bought a ford fiesta with only two seats and i start spending 7.5€ in diesel this using air-conditioned, regards
@@RUfromthe40s NOVA was also an acronym during that time for the 4 cars based on the same body style: Nova-Chevrolet Omega-Oldsmobile Ventura-Pontiac Apollo-Buick
Any fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion will instantly recognize the Alpine 310 as the personal vehicle of NERV Captain Misato Katsuragi. It made it's initial appearance in the first episode when Misato picked up Shinji Ikari from a street corner, saving him from an Angel attack.
Hard to believe the Manta Ray weighed only 1,000 lbs. That's less than the original Mini or Lotus Super Seven, yet the Manta had an iron Studebaker V8. I'd guess 1000 kgs, minimum.
Alpines catch fire very easyly. Tried an A 110 once because owner wanted to try my RX 7 SA . Total dissapointement. They should have the same output but my RX 7 was faster, better on the brakes and round corners even when apx 100 kg heavier. That A 110 cought fire a few months later, total loss... Still have an RX 7 ...
In the UK when you passed your motorcycle licence you automatically get a category for tricycles. That's why we had the Bond Bug and the Reliant Robin/Rialto's.
That orange bond bug 3 wheeler was weird but geez it sounded good on the in car camera shot. The Brazilian VW near the end had really nice body lines. Cool cars thanks👍
I've said this to some else in the comments: That Bond Bug was seriously modified, being from the UK I've seen a few and in standard form they had about 30bhp, skinny tyres and could barely hit 75mph....if you're brave!! By the sounds of it it was running a motorbike engine and modified suspension and wheels. I still want it though LOL
@@georgejacob3162 Thanks George, I had an idea it was a motorbike engine but I'm more cars than bikes so couldn't pin point it. Hyabusa in a Bond....omg I want one so I can scare myself whitless lol
@@beezlbubba Then you probaly also know there is a new alpine A110S that resembles the 1960's A110? But i don't know if it's on sale in the US. James May has one and thinks higly of it.
The Manta Ray, looks just like a space ship, the Matra looks like Pacer with all that glass and a old porches body. Ghia was a real sharp sports car growing up. Bond Bug is a mini Gremlin on steroids, lol,
I just bought a Hot Wheels replica of the Volkswagen SP2 and had no idea it was sold in the Brazilian market. I thought it was a prototype or show car.
@@RodrigoVargas72 where i live there is a first model since ever and the father of a friend of mine had all renault´s alpine till late 80´s so it was a very seen car where i live .i bought from him the 1977 model and kept it till 2016 and he didn´t kept his cars for very long time at the most 3 years, this new one is very similar to the first one wich was very low not very long but a pleasure to drive it ,the roof of the car was bellow my waist as the Lotus Europa, that i also had one but in the last 10 years i´ve become almost doble the size i was for most of my life and the last time i entered the Europa i couldn´t fit the car, i sold it
A friend of mine owned one, late 60's. Yea, i am an old guy. About 10 years ago, I owned a beach buggy, and fitted a Turbocharged Subaru engine. I think what a great car it would make, Nova with Subby engine.
Saw a mini-car video last week and the pedals were backwards on right hand drives...gas on left/clutch far right.Finding nothing on the internet I finally learn the pedals are normal on real cars but on the wrong side as seen at :40.Glad that left knee is visible on the clutch.
The Amphicar was made in Berlin and was for it's time pretty expensive. It flopped on the german market, but a lot of GI's bought them and took them back home. Today they are pretty expensive.
I wish there could be more accuracy in the car descriptions, i.e. the Manta Ray weighing 1000lbs? Even at 1000kgs, a large fiber-glass bodied car with an iron block V8 seems optimistic. The VW Type 34 looks a lot like a Chevy Corvair in profile.
I think the description for the Manta Ray may be wrong as it gives the vehicle weight of 1000 pounds. Unless they meant the weight of just the kit itself (on top of the base car).
I've been advising people to buy really "uncool" classics for years. in a really dated colour. but they best one in their country. a decade ago i was saying get a 928 in orange with the mad pascha interior ...
i remenber that movie, the japanese had a mazda full of lights and "technology"if memory doesn´t fail me or maybe a similar car to the litle mazdas don´t know if it was but i think it was a 323 who was launched from a plane, i was very high when i saw that movie ,i was coming from central africa on a plane
@@RUfromthe40s Hello, it was Jackie Chan and Richard Kiel (Jaws from James Bond) driving a compact Subaru AWD hatchback for the Japanese. That was one of my favorite cars because they were also playing Pacman in the car while they were racing.
Had a Lotus Elite in the eighties.Weak point was the chassis that tended to rust on the uprights leading to the half shafts sawing through the exhaust pipes!
My Dad had a Lotus Elite back in the 70’s. My brothers and I have many fond memories of that car. Memories of it sitting in the driveway with one electrical problem after another. It was a fucking turd!
At 51 seconds of video play, the Manta Ray is featured, does anybody know the name of the white 2 door coupe car to the left of the Manta ray or on the right side of the picture?
Brantley - Yes and no. It was indeed in the film you mention, but had the sound of a jet engine dubbed on. The car was still powered by it’s regular VW engine. Much like in BTTF, the DeLorean’s 3 litre V6 was overdubbed with the sound of a big-block V8.
Atheist Orphan I knew about the Delorean sounding like a V8 in the Back to the Future series despite having a V6, but wasn't sure about the Condor Mobil. Seems hard to believe such a motor could keep up with those extremely fast Porsche's.
Atheist Orphan With a stock Porsche 935 turbo, that car does the 1/4 mile in the low 9sec mark with a low 3sec 0-100km/h dash. I assume it must have been worked a little for the film. They must have been accelerating so slowly that the Porsche's were stalling constantly, especially the 935 turbo.
The Amphicar was just brilliant. Wondering how many of them ended up in the bottom of the river, though. Also, Lotus Europa. Was that a real car or did I dream about crazy stuff when I was a kid?
LBJ owned one and sometimes would take his guests for rides in it, not telling them it was amphibious. Apparently he'd drive it close to the river adjacent to his ranch and then pretend that he'd lost control of the steering and of course, drive it straight into the water with women passengers screaming. Can't say if it ever capsized.
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I owned and restored a 1977 Purvis Eureka(Australia. Nova in the UK and Sterling in the USA). The Australian version i had has a higher roof line and no bonnet nostrils. Seating was very laid back and comfortable, Body had a lot of flex if not reinforced. Mine had a 12a Turbo rotary engine and with the total weight of 850kg it was extremely fast with gokart like handling. Fun car indeed....
6:09 - I had one of these and in the same color. They seated four, the rear seats reclined drastically to get a person in under the low roof. They could be claustrophobic in the back seats as you were dropped in and then the front seat back closed on you somewhat. The rear windows didn't open and there was little room to move around in. The chassis was a backbone style so the tunnel was quite high, and the center console ran back and divided the rear bucket seats. Although it had a rear hatch over the luggage space, it did not open into the passenger compartment, so there was a second backglass that separated the interior from the boot (trunk). The gas tank stretched across behind the seats and a filler was on each side of the car. The car was reasonably fast. I ran down the A45 between Newmarket and Bury St. Edmunds one night around 125. The engine was just under 2 liter, something like 1973 cc, iirc. UK and European got two sidedraft Dellorto carbs while the US got two Strombergs. This engine came out the year before in the Jensen Healey but the JH got a 4 speed transmission and the Elite got a 5 speed. It was the same basic engine in the first of the Esprit cars. It was the left half of the planned 4.0 liter V8 which fell through with the gasoline crisis. As such, the distributor was exposed to rain from below and could stall out, like happened one night from around M11 all the way to Bury. Nearly impossible to get to, you just had to sit and let engine heat dry it out. Like all Lotus cars, it handled great. One night that proved helpful along with speed when a couple of Bury St Edmund's finest decided to discuss my rapid movement on a two lane road but I declined their offer to stop and chat.
The SP2 looks so good with four eyes .
The Karmann Ghia is stunning ! Interesting collection
And very sought after these days. Did it inspire the GM Corvair ? It sure looks very close !
@@marcryvon interestingly, the original karmann ghia type 14 is a picture-perfect copy of the chrysler "d`elegance" that never saw production. ghia`s chief designer luigi segre used the chrysler prototype, which he had co-designed, and simply scaled it down.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Karmann_Ghia
I love the look of the Brazilian SP2😊
It's gorgeous; VW's CEO at the time said it was the most beautiful car the company made worldwide. It's a shame that it's performance isn't as great.
@Al Mal yeah kind of, but I suppose many cars in this model bracket have a similar profile. Looks quite like a Renault Alpine as well.😊
Once, while fishing a nearby lake, an Amphicar drove down the ramp and off into the water where it paddled around. It had two passengers and two fishing rods in the back seat. Don't know if they caught anything, but they eventually drove back up the ramp dribbling water.
I used to go to Chattanooga daily in a tanker truck.It was quite a sight to see the old Army "DUCKS" drive down the ramps into the Tennessee River or out of the water onto the roads.
The Alpine was the leader of this group.
beautiful. Love the Citroen cousin too.
for sure, and the V6 model was a total joy.
I had an A510 back in the day, which I loved. The A310 was pretty rare.
Ha ha! Had one of those Novas (With a gutless VW engine) Remember coming home from Bedford at night and it started to poor down and the single centre windscreen wiper decided to stop working! so I had to drive the bloody thing in the teaming rain at night with the roof up! to see where I was going! Can still remember the looks I got from motorists going past me down the M1!! (Happy days!!)
I want ALL OF THESE. Or at the very least most.
“Your car will self destruct in 5 seconds.””Good luck Jim.”
Going that fast with a Bond car it s a ticket for an early funeral .
The car shown is highly modified from standard and is powered by a Hayabusa engine.
@@gjamesturner391 That's about as suicidal as Cletus McPharland with his bike powered golf cart. Probably more so, because the Bond Bug has only one front wheel, and is unstable
And on public roads.
I think Jeremy Clarkson did serious damage to a few in one episode of _Top Gear_ by doing left turns in them a little too fast.
Or maybe that was the Reliant Robin ...
@@lawrencedoliveiro9104
That was the Reliant Robins. Bugs are too rare and getting quite expensive now. My mate had one in the 70s when we were teenagers. It was truly awful as a car but absolutely great fun to ride around in.
Wow! Some of these car look
Timeless.
The orange wedge, the "Bond Bug" was the chassis of Luke Skywalker's land speeder in the original Star Wars film.
I thought it was a Reliant Robin....
@@baggins4354 Well I have a book that shows the production of the film, and it shows the Bond Bug chassis. The Land Speeder was made of plywood and had two wheels in the back and one up front. The Reliant Robin was similar, but my book shows actual pictures and says that it was a Bond Bug. I don't have a cock in this fight~
Alpine still exist ! I saw one in a Renault dealership and i was amazed, for how much they cost they are amazing
The Matra 530 was relatively popular in the 70's in France, use a V4 1,7L Ford engine, good performance with low weight despite low power rate, and the Alpine A310 is far from "forgotten", first was engined with the 1,6L from the Renault 12 Gordini but with fuel injection, heritage from the R17 TS (origin from the engine was the Renault 16), later the 2,7L V6 PRV...
Thsi channel is exactly what i was searching for ❤️
Ba5ic • + Thank you sir :)
With a Studebaker V8 drive train, I'm sure the Manta Ray weighed way over a "1,000 lbs."...
BuzzLOLOL maybe the fibre glass body? But yeah hardly doubt it was anywhere near 450kg, maybe it was 1000 kg/2200lbs?
The 'Studebaker V-8' was actually a Cadillac V-8. I had one at one time in the 50s, and bought all my parts at the local Cadillac dealer, where I got a discount.
@@jamessettle9222 The Studebaker V8 was also used in the last couple of years' worth of Packards. It seems unlikely that Cadillac would sell V8 engines to their long-term rival like that. But I'm open to being informed....
2:38 That's really nice of them
The black one at the beginning. There was one in Atwater Ca. Every day I saw it go from pieces. sanded down painted glossy black and rebuilt. I was in awe.
I always wanted a VW Type 34 Ghia. Excellent video. ♡ T.E.N.
Tracy Nation + Thank you :)
The VW Type 34 Karmann Ghia is one of the ugliest cars I have ever seen, but only when put beside the VW Type 14 Karmann Ghia, possibly the most beautiful car in creation.
@@aaronleverton4221 I very much disagree with that. The Type 14 seems to embody the 1990s styling trope of "melted bar of soap" more than plenty of other period cars. It is also too simplistic, which is not ideal in a car.
Excelentes carros clássicos gostei de ver o Volkswagen SP 2 neste vídeo parabéns 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Tony Ramos + Thank you sir
Can you do a Strange and forgotten TRUCKS of the 60’s and 70’s ? Because that would be Splendid.
I agree
To be honest, there's not many of those. The only two I could say is the Studebaker Champ and the International-Harvester Travelall.
@@jakekaywell5972 the international was very actractive at the time but not a great off-road car, where i live there was mainly the land-rovers and the toyotas with diesel engine there was a range-rover but that was only one from a neighboor of mine but he drove it since the 70´s till the 90´s after he stop driving because his health couldn´t permit and his son sold it for a lot of money around 2005, i had a 1991 range-rover the vogue but his comsuption was so much that i couldn´t keep it for more than 1 year, i remenber going to a beach 130 km´s from my home and i used to spend what today is 50€ in gasoline but never i drove it more than 100km/h, then i bought a ford fiesta with only two seats and i start spending 7.5€ in diesel this using air-conditioned, regards
The VWs used for the Novas also made excellent dune buggies.
With a name like "Nova", I thought it would be manufactured by GM.
@@02chevyguy Nova means new , but i also thought of the Chevy Nova
@@RUfromthe40s NOVA was also an acronym during that time for the 4 cars based on the same body style:
Nova-Chevrolet
Omega-Oldsmobile
Ventura-Pontiac
Apollo-Buick
Any fan of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion will instantly recognize the Alpine 310 as the personal vehicle of NERV Captain Misato Katsuragi. It made it's initial appearance in the first episode when Misato picked up Shinji Ikari from a street corner, saving him from an Angel attack.
very good
Where I'm from the Nova was the Purvis Eureka and was, the late-'90s, available with an 1800 Subaru turbo and a rear wing.
Hard to believe the Manta Ray weighed only 1,000 lbs. That's less than the original Mini or Lotus Super Seven, yet the Manta had an iron Studebaker V8. I'd guess 1000 kgs, minimum.
Same here... maybe meant Kgs...
SP2 já dirigi um destes 🤩
Love the Nova's lines! A310 is a 2+2, with a stunning front end, but I am impressed that the SP2 got a mention. I would sell a kidney to have one!!!!!
Alpines catch fire very easyly. Tried an A 110 once because owner wanted to try my RX 7 SA . Total dissapointement. They should have the same output but my RX 7 was faster, better on the brakes and round corners even when apx 100 kg heavier. That A 110 cought fire a few months later, total loss... Still have an RX 7 ...
Allo guys amazing Cars where do you buy this strange things that you called as a car from Carlos Portugal thanks for sharing your passion for cars
My dad owned an A310 V6. Loved driving with dad as i was a little boy
That Model 34 Karmann Ghia was neat-looking.
That McLaren behind the Manta Ray makes me goosepumps. ;)
In the UK when you passed your motorcycle licence you automatically get a category for tricycles.
That's why we had the Bond Bug and the Reliant Robin/Rialto's.
VW SP2 and the Alpine A310 four banger are my favourites.
The Alpine's 1600cc four looks a lot like the 1600 used in the 18i. And it's a hemi.
That orange bond bug 3 wheeler was weird but geez it sounded good on the in car camera shot.
The Brazilian VW near the end had really nice body lines. Cool cars thanks👍
I've said this to some else in the comments: That Bond Bug was seriously modified, being from the UK I've seen a few and in standard form they had about 30bhp, skinny tyres and could barely hit 75mph....if you're brave!! By the sounds of it it was running a motorbike engine and modified suspension and wheels. I still want it though LOL
Graeme W. The Bond Bug at the drag strip had a Suzuki Hayabusa engine fitted.
@@georgejacob3162 Thanks George, I had an idea it was a motorbike engine but I'm more cars than bikes so couldn't pin point it. Hyabusa in a Bond....omg I want one so I can scare myself whitless lol
donziperk + Thank you sir :)
I'm pretty sure that video was of the hayabusa swapped bug.
Thank u
Brilliant Insight :) Have a nice day !
The Nova and A310 was the best looking ones.
Love the Renault Alpine !!😍😍
The Alpine A310 is my alltime fav! Would be a dream to import one to Florida.
It has the same 2.8L V6 PRV (Peugeot-Renault-Volvo) as the Delorean DMC-12. In the eighties it was turbocharged in the A610.
@@ratscoot, I know. Edd China worked on one in Wheeler Dealers. 👍
@@beezlbubba Then you probaly also know there is a new alpine A110S that resembles the 1960's A110? But i don't know if it's on sale in the US. James May has one and thinks higly of it.
@@ratscoot, Renault hasn't been sold in the States since the 1980's, sadly.
@@ratscoot The V6 PRV was a nicer version on the Alpine compared to the Delorean one
WHY did i suddenly think of Bruce Lee when the Volkswagen SP2 drove out of the garage?
0:50 What's this model car at right?
1967 Examplar One. A one-off concept by Mario Revelli di Beaumont based on a Buick Grand Sport chassis.
@@dcanmore What a beautiful car! "une sportive vraiment racée" as we tell in french! Thanks,
1:00 what is that car parked next to it?
1967 Examplar One. A one-off concept by Mario Revelli di Beaumont based on a Buick Grand Sport chassis.
The Manta Ray, looks just like a space ship, the Matra looks like Pacer with all that glass and a old porches body. Ghia was a real sharp sports car growing up. Bond Bug is a mini Gremlin on steroids, lol,
5:36 strange mix of Volkswagen Type 4 and Porsche Panamera.
6:08 What do you get when a Lotus and a Gremlin have a baby.
President Johnson would drive people into the lake on/by his ranch with his amphicar, while acting like it was out of control.
I love that :)
I just bought a Hot Wheels replica of the Volkswagen SP2 and had no idea it was sold in the Brazilian market. I thought it was a prototype or show car.
The sp2 its a sucessor of karman ghia in Brazil ir used a 1.7 liters boxer 4 with 65hp its Also called "sem potência" no power
Cool I will take one of those orange 2 stroke hard tops
I definitely remember the bond bug. That thin was cool
Most of these are far from forgotten.
Yup, a number of them have very active owners and clubs too.
Nor strange
The Alpines are still around.
@@RodrigoVargas72 where i live there is a first model since ever and the father of a friend of mine had all renault´s alpine till late 80´s so it was a very seen car where i live .i bought from him the 1977 model and kept it till 2016 and he didn´t kept his cars for very long time at the most 3 years, this new one is very similar to the first one wich was very low not very long but a pleasure to drive it ,the roof of the car was bellow my waist as the Lotus Europa, that i also had one but in the last 10 years i´ve become almost doble the size i was for most of my life and the last time i entered the Europa i couldn´t fit the car, i sold it
A310 is a Katsuragi Misato car.
I dream of have a Nova. After seeing one in the flesh at the 2019 Deers Hut Classic car show I knew I would have to have one at some point.
A friend of mine owned one, late 60's. Yea, i am an old guy. About 10 years ago, I owned a beach buggy, and fitted a Turbocharged Subaru engine. I think what a great car it would make, Nova with Subby engine.
The Lotus reminds me of Volvos "Schneewittchen-Sarg" (Snowwthite's coffin)
Saw a mini-car video last week and the pedals were backwards on right hand drives...gas on left/clutch far right.Finding nothing on the internet I finally learn the pedals are normal on real cars but on the wrong side as seen at :40.Glad that left knee is visible on the clutch.
3:13 I've seen a few of those on the roads of California. Didn't know it was a VW --- I thought they were older BMWs when I first saw them.
Cool 😀
Michael Coffey + Thank you Michael ! :)
Welcome 😀@@CarNewsTV
The Amphicar was made in Berlin and was for it's time pretty expensive. It flopped on the german market, but a lot of GI's bought them and took them back home. Today they are pretty expensive.
5:36 VW SP2 ,for me he is the most coolest car, that vw has ever built
only two minus points
- pity that he was not to buy in Europe.
- Weak engine
For me it's only a Brasília on Steroids
A friend had one in Saudi.. drove it many times but no a/c (in Saudi heat)..would not have been legal in UK... headlights too low
An "AMPHICAR" is in the "exotic/classic car collection" of every celebrity car collector from Jay Leno to Len Jano.... (lol)
Mechanically, it's a Triumph Herald. Don't let one get any rust in the body and then go into water..... glug glug HELP !!!
🤘0:05 q belleza, 3:12🤘
2:42 Forgotten for a reason
How do you find parts
I worked in gas stations in the '70's I seem to remember the Nova being called the Sterling here.
Warren, you're right. We got that same car here in South Africa (kit form) and it was called the Eagle.
At time 6:46 "Amphicar" is seen . You can still buy an Amphicar and all of the replacement parts, new at Amphicar Orillia , Ontario in Canada .
I wish there could be more accuracy in the car descriptions, i.e. the Manta Ray weighing 1000lbs? Even at 1000kgs, a large fiber-glass bodied car with an iron block V8 seems optimistic. The VW Type 34 looks a lot like a Chevy Corvair in profile.
I'm glad someone else noticed that too.
The nova sounds like a mix between old Porsche and beatle because it’s a kit car based on the vw beatle. Saw one 45years ago. Low and sexy
Can you make rare cars of lemans and motorsports from 60’s
Some of my favourite cars ever
0:47 at first I thought this car was able to go into the pond behind it. XD
I think the description for the Manta Ray may be wrong as it gives the vehicle weight of 1000 pounds. Unless they meant the weight of just the kit itself (on top of the base car).
The Amphicar looks like it could get swamped very easily.
Chuck Bridgeland there have been a couple of amphicars that have crossed the English Channel ( rough open sea) so looks can be deceiving
My guess is that you would need to wash off the salt water soon after an ocean cruise.
Pink Panter's car 1:41 #5 :D
VW SP2 would be awesome sitting on a LS powered Corvette chassis
SP2 urgently has to stay aircooled than bettertake PORSCHE parts to soup it up
Strange how something that in its time was as naff as the Bond Bug now looks seriously cool.
I've been advising people to buy really "uncool" classics for years. in a really dated colour. but they best one in their country. a decade ago i was saying get a 928 in orange with the mad pascha interior ...
The Nova was also called a Sterling in other places. First time I saw one was in the movie Cannon Ball Run 2 with Burt Reynolds and Dom Deluise.
i remenber that movie, the japanese had a mazda full of lights and "technology"if memory doesn´t fail me or maybe a similar car to the litle mazdas don´t know if it was but i think it was a 323 who was launched from a plane, i was very high when i saw that movie ,i was coming from central africa on a plane
@@RUfromthe40s Hello, it was Jackie Chan and Richard Kiel (Jaws from James Bond) driving a compact Subaru AWD hatchback for the Japanese. That was one of my favorite cars because they were also playing Pacman in the car while they were racing.
Had a Lotus Elite in the eighties.Weak point was the chassis that tended to rust on the uprights leading to the half shafts sawing through the exhaust pipes!
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By the looks , some of these cars ........ should be still forgotten .
Lots of mistakes here, I don't think the author(s) know much about cars.
agree
My Dad had a Lotus Elite back in the 70’s. My brothers and I have many fond memories of that car. Memories of it sitting in the driveway with one electrical problem after another. It was a fucking turd!
That's why Lucas Electrics was known as the "Prince of Darkness."
What about the Bond Equipe GT4S a 2 plus 2 based on triumph running gear. Pretty little car.
based on Triumph Herald or Vitesse chassis
At 51 seconds of video play, the Manta Ray is featured, does anybody know the name of the white 2 door coupe car to the left of the Manta ray or on the right side of the picture?
Did you find it out?
Ok I did for you - it's a 1967 Exemplar I Concept based on a Buick Riviera.
Fotos here: www.conceptcarz.com/z26074/exemplar-i-concept.aspx
"subtitles for hearing impaired viewers"
Subtitles: *vroom*
I own vw type 34 and it is worth a lot of money these days, A great car.
I didn't know the Alpine A310 was forgotten
4:40 what the hell kinda 4 banger is that
I want my taco to sound like that
I think it's the Bond Bug - basically a Reliant Robin with a fancy looking body on it.
Had the Amphicar been made of stainless steel (like the Delorean) or Aluminum, it would still be in business today
Steel and aluminium are heavy asf
A few of these appear to be kit cars , or am I wrong? Specifically , the ones with VW chassis and power plant (excluding the Karman Giha).
Most
the black nova could of been a batmobil i love the way the door top comes down
Jensen interceptor ? Matra bagheera ? Etc.
As a huge car fan I say these are all unique cars
The Nova Sterling Kit car was the one used in the car chase of the movie Condorman.
Think it was powered by a Gas turbine in that movie.
Brantley - Yes and no. It was indeed in the film you mention, but had the sound of a jet engine dubbed on. The car was still powered by it’s regular VW engine. Much like in BTTF, the DeLorean’s 3 litre V6 was overdubbed with the sound of a big-block V8.
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I knew about the Delorean sounding like a V8 in the Back to the Future series despite having a V6, but wasn't sure about the Condor Mobil.
Seems hard to believe such a motor could keep up with those extremely fast Porsche's.
Ah that's the magic of movies my friend!
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With a stock Porsche 935 turbo, that car does the 1/4 mile in the low 9sec mark with a low 3sec 0-100km/h dash.
I assume it must have been worked a little for the film.
They must have been accelerating so slowly that the Porsche's were stalling constantly, especially the 935 turbo.
It was also "Frankenstein's" car in the original "Death race 2000"!
whoa!. . . the other side of the street...
That's your ope
He second one in the video in blue and orange is always going up and down kings road in Chelsea, London.
Some of those older lotus cars are neater than the newer ones.
3:50 ah Yes the car from beamng drive
Matra, my love car, with the Alpine 110
The Amphicar was just brilliant. Wondering how many of them ended up in the bottom of the river, though.
Also, Lotus Europa. Was that a real car or did I dream about crazy stuff when I was a kid?
LBJ owned one and sometimes would take his guests for rides in it, not telling them it was amphibious. Apparently he'd drive it close to the river adjacent to his ranch and then pretend that he'd lost control of the steering and of course, drive it straight into the water with women passengers
screaming. Can't say if it ever capsized.
The first car looks like a holden conpect I loved