Kurt Cobain's Classic Cars | The Cars of Nirvana
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- Опубликовано: 5 июн 2024
- Born "Kurt Donald Cobain" on February 20th 1967, in the small town of Aberdeen, Washington, cobain was artistically inclined from an early age. In 1987, at the young age of 20 years old, Cobain formed "Nirvana", establishing the band as part of the Seattle music scene that later became labeled as "grunge music". In 1989 Nirvana recorded their debut album "Bleach" and by 1991, their second album "Nevermind" became a 90's masterpiece and established Kurt Cobain and Nirvana as one of the most successful bands in the world. As the singer, songwriter, and lyricist, Cobain was responsible for some of the most memorable vocal melodies of the 90s, including Smells Like Teen Spirit, Heart Shaped Box, Something In The Way, Lithium, In Bloom, You Know You're Right, About A Girl, The Man Who Sold The World, All Apologies, Breed, and more. Although Cobain had somewhat of an aversion to being behind the wheel, that didn't stop him from owning and driving a wide variety of vehicles. Today, we're taking a look at the rides of the legendary, Kurt Cobain. Let's begin.
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Datsun needed a thermostat 😂 3 bucks and twenty minutes fixed
I fixed my 68 Dodge in 5 minutes for the same job..Old cars are easier to work on.
Or just the radiator cap. I had the same issue in 1993/1994 and all it took was a $5 cap and 30secs.
kinda sad how they treated the car that was gifted to them, no effort in trying to figure out the issue... just smash it up like spoiled little brats and abandon it.
i cringed when they referred to this guy as the voice of generation x... he was just a spoiled brat complaining about everything while doing nothing to better anything!
i never liked nirvana!
@@ralphbooger4756It's great to have an opinion about one thing, but this guy's been busy ripping off the pixies and mudhoney, creating a grunge album and becoming a legend.
Probably didn't have time to learn how to become a mechanic, instead of changing out the parts on his car, he wrote songs like "Smells Like Teen Spirit", he couldn't be bothered by a shitbox like the Datsun back in the day. These became only worthwhile saving for a couple of years ago, 30 years ago it was just another shitbox from the junkyard.
@@ralphbooger4756 You: "I never liked Nirvana"
Me: "Then why are you here?"
Kurt is a bit of a mopar guy.
that valiant was beautiful
and 1965 dodge dart
I too fancy his choice in the Plymouth. Shame that brand is nothing more than a deep cut now. I find The old Hudson’s and AMCs to be gorgeous too but nobody my age (mid 20s dude) even knows wtf those companies were
@@3ZN357 Plymouth made some great cars... the 1968 Plymouth Barracuda was one of the most beautiful cars ever made... even to this day
As a Mopar fan myself--owning a 2005 Dodge Magnum and 1970 Charger--I think that's too cool! But I can totally see Cobain back in the day cruisin' a Datsun B210 and Volvo 240. Totally goes with his wardrobe.
Kinda smart car collection. No one would bother him in any of those cars, especially if they didn’t get a good look at the driver.
The Lexus was too nice, those motors are known to last up or past a million miles since the motor was rated for aviation use originally.
Toyota scrapped all plans for aircrafts for some reason.
Funny thing- Kurt saw my '68 Dart GTS parked in the lot of the old RCKCNDY and said "That's a really cool Dart!" It was white exterior with a dark metallic green & pearl white interior, a lot of people rode in that car. It still exists, guy from California bought it & my buddy saw it at "Hot August Nights" a few years back
Back in the 80's, Valiants and Darts were among the cheapest used cars you could get. Often selling from 100 to 300 dollars. Back then you could buy a 200 dollar car and beat the hell out of it for a year, drive it into the ground and buy another 200 dollar car to replace it. At the time, Ford Pintos were also considered tanks. Impossible to destroy unless you were rear ended. Then you were sitting in a bomb.
Sounds about right... My dad's first car at 19 (1985-86) was a 67 plymouth valiant. Sometimes I forget my parents grew up in the 80s. He was a big mopar guy, but in recent years his taste shifted to saturns & then fords.
There were still a lot of Darts on the road in the 1990s.
My granddad swears by his pinto when he was in the Navy. He said he out over 150k miles on it in 5 years traveling from Virginia to Eastern Kentucky however many times a year. He’s owned Mazdas, fords, chevies, Buicks, Oldsmobiles but he has never stopped speaking to his regret of not keeping his Pinto around
Funny my parents drove me home from the hospital in a Duster in 1986, after which the car was quickly deemed too rusty to be safe for a kid to ride in (you could see the road from the backseat due to Wisconsin road salt). They sold the Duster to a mechanic for $50 who drove it around for years. The Duster was replaced with a Pinto wagon that was also purchased for a few hundred dollars and driven for a year or two before moving onto another beater: a Reliant K wagon.
My dad bought one for $500 in the late 80's, that car was a tank, totally reliable and sounds sick
After he died I had moved to Seattle and was living outside of downtown right off Aurora Avenue. where there are a lot of car lots. I was waiting for the bus one day and I heard a woman yelling and bitching at someone. I looked over at the Mercedes dealership and there was Courtney Love yelling at an employee with a young Frances Bean on her hip.
Sounds like something she'd be doing.
She's such a hag.
What a moment in time
What a strange woman.....😳
@@jebstuart4004 more like nasty, she was like Kurt’s yoko ono
he already knew at that time volvo 240 is one of the greatest
Why is Kurt doing this voiceover and talking in 3rd person? I knew he didn’t really die. He faked it and is now living next door with Elvis.
He exited the simulation. Now he just... plays with it remotely for fun.
I thought he was getting ready to do a rap video with Tupac 🤔
The voice over guy sounds like kurt
Sounds a bit like him
I was hoping to find this comment.
Kurt was right..drive humble cars Dont be pretentious
He’s just not a car guy. There’s nothing “pretentious” about having a cool car.
@@InsaneStryker777I think he just applied his philosophy he used for everything across the board into cars too. Definitely not a car guy though I know what you mean.
@@InsaneStryker777 You didn't listen to his explanation in the video
@@InsaneStryker777 Only an ostentatious guy would say that 😊
@@bluewave7120 I'm an elderly Asian man
never had more respect for cobain after learning he drove a volvo 240
I bought my Volvo 850 for the same reason Kurt bought his Volvo 240. Those cars are super safe and reliable. So safe, my anxiety driving among larger SUV's was nonexistent.
If you get anxiety from other vehicles on the road you shouldn't even be driving.
I learned to drive in my friend's yellow 1973 4 speed manual Volvo Station wagon,in 1983... It was a beast...and the only old car I knew back then in Pennsylvania that had 3 point inertia seatbelts in the BACK,as well as the front....it also had a little rear facing jump seat in the cargo area...hand brake between the seat & DOOR! Full of quirks! 🤣🤣 I think Volvo pioneered seatbelts.
... Volvos are safe because they're always broken down sitting in the driveway my mom's 1975 Volvo station wagon was a nightmare RIP 🥀 to my mother 👸🏼
True story I lived in Seattle during that time and I remember that exact baby blue 66 Dart at the classic car lot downtown. It was near the pink elephant carwash on a small triangle of tarmac, and was like a classic car show in the space of a house lot. I stopped in a couple of times to check out some of the classics and had a look at the Dart as well. Had no idea Kurt ended up with it until many years later.
I was always the biggest nirvana fan, yet i never met or seen them, i did meet kurt and the band in a dream, it was cool.
lol , yea I met him after he passed in a LSD trip , who knew , I just looked over and Ill be dam Kurt was sitting beside me , I knew it was time to pull over and regroup .
You weren’t the biggest Nirvana fan if you had never seen them. I’m certain there were fans who actually made the effort.
@@handle978 lemme know if someone ever takes the bait
Biggest? Sounds dangerous, you ought to lose some weight.
@@handle978 Braindead logic. Maybe he was too young when Nirvana was around or not even born yet. Or was living in a remote place or had no money.
In Melbourne, Australia, during the 1980s, these mid-60s compacts were cool and bohemian in the inner suburbs University areas. Especially for Arts students. They were actually considered as full-size cars when new, and by the 80s were usually clapped out. When I heard 'The Dandy Warhols', 'Bohemian Like You Song' in 2000/01 ish, and saw their video, it took me straight back. The lyric in that song, 'You got a great car!... Oh yeah, what's wrong with it today, I used to have one too. Maybe I'll come and take a look.?" lol
The Volvo 240 is a tank. Extremely reliable and you probably would have a hard time finding a safer car. His Dart kind of fits his personality.
the 240 is not a safe car by todays standard, and even back when it was a relatively safe car... it was a safe car in Europe, not really the US!
the average weight of a car in the US is very different than in Europe, colliding with a car weighing twice what that 240 weights makes it a lot less safe!
still great cars though, built to last and simple to work on...
@@ralphbooger4756 in 1992, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave the 240 a 5 out of 5 stars for front crashes and a 4 out of 5 stars for side impact. No other car built that year achieved this. We’re not talking today’s standards since Cobain died in 1994.
@@risinbison1106
it was reported in this video that cobains 240 was a 1986, the last 240 was made in 1993, although im not sure how much that matters as i dont think the change in safety was that great in this time... the 240 has always been known as a 'safe car'.
however this is a bit of a gimmick, at least concerning the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the US!
cars are rated in their weight class, in Europe the 240 was a fairly heavy car, in the US that was not the case, and far from it!
so the 5 out of 5 stars in its weight class is not that great when most other cars on the road are much heavier...
so Cobain and his daughter would have been much safer in say a suburban weighing twice what the 240 does, or one of the many other choices of cars much heavier than the 240 common in the US at the time.
I’ve always had a fixation with Ford Falcon’s. Now I know why - they are rock n roll.
When musicians don’t know shit about cars! My Datsun was the best freaking car. Bullet proof! 1980 210! I miss that motha!
Yes Datsun is the best! I had a 1986 Nissan Cedric Y30!
How does he don't know sh!t over his cars? My brother is a mechanic which was golden when I bought my two cars( 1969&1972 Firebirds used but sweet condition). My brother pretty much stripped the engines completely, and we rebuilt both in less than a week. I remember us taking our first ride in both. He freaking had both so touchy on the gas...I barely touched the pedal and about flew the hell into the back end of the car infront of me!!!Sh!t! Glad I'm good on thee brakes! Did I mention...I'm his little sister? Yep. I'm a girl!
@@shellydavis4399 Just watch "Just Rolled In" for 1 episode and you'll know. Not everyone knows cars, and sometimes, it's dramatically bad. But anyone who wanted to know it then could have probably walked into a Library and taken out a service manual, even for older cars. I went into a rural Library in 2019 or so, and they still had manuals for models over 30 years old.
Narrator: Kurt Cobain
Volvo 240 is peak vehicle in human history.
I love how Kurt made Courtney take the Lexus back lol
Kurt was once a roadie for the Melvins as well as chauffeur and wanted to join the band. King Buzzo mentions it in quite few interviews of the era
The very first car I ever drove was a 63 Plymouth Valiant, it had a push button transmission and was red haha.
why does it sound like kurt himself is narrating this?
Because he is alive
That sounds nothing like Kurt
I think it be cool to have a crappy looking 70s for door car with faded paint and light surface rust and have a 500 horsepower Chevy engine .
I got three land yachts from 68 to 72 to 81. all given to me and I'm 19; don't even got a driver's license. Idk what the future holds for them
I'm too afraid to drive them..
@@Leboobs22 It could be a bad idea for you to learn how to drive in them, particularly the 68, since I doubt it has seat belts. You're better off driving something at least from 1991 to 2005, but avoid any early 90s cars with door-mounted seat belts. Not all 90s cars were like that, but a few were.
BTW, as a 32 y.o. driver of over 10 years who avoided wrecks a few times... I'm often checking my mirrors just for a moment, before looking in front of me again. I do it so much that I don't think about it, and it helped me avoid a side-ramming wreck at an onramp by a split second. I knew I could slam the brakes without anyone rear-ending me then, so I did it at the last possible moment.
I don't want to give you too much information at once, but driving's perfectly doable within feet and inches of coming close to danger and yet coming out unscathed. Not that I suggest getting anywhere near that close in the first place if you can avoid it, but still, I've been there.
Lots of studying can give you all sorts of great results here.
You can't take em with you! That being said I use to own a 1970 Chevelle SS , I was to scared to drive it anywhere because it was worth a good amount so I sold it and bought something I can drive and enjoy that wouldn't be the end of the world if something happens.
Dude you gotta drive them, you'll be alright.
The volvo was his smartest decision. On par with 1st gen lexus.
We all know cortney killed kurt ......
Wow, Slant-6 Valiant/Dart into a Volvo 240… that was a super common move as the supply of old Slant-6 cars dried up. If he was alive today, he’d probably be driving a 3800 powered LeSabe.
Kurt would’ve drove a hellcat today 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The part about his Volvo 240 tugs at the heartstrings 😢
I also didn’t know about the LS400 - and that he was uncomfortable in such a car.
Kurt will forever be missed ❤️😔
I am an absolute Gear-Head of the First Order who also loves music & plays drums as well as bass guitar and alto saxophone.
I still own my first car I bought in 1985 while in high school, a 1971 Chevelle Malibu350 convertible. I always wanted a Muscle Car from the "Big Engine"/Muscle Era of Detroit ranging from 1955 to 1975, 1970 being the peak year for high compression, high horsepower V8 engines. My Chevelle fits easily into the Muscle Car category but, the Pontiacs were my favorite such as a 1971 Trans Am 455H.O. or a 71 Firebird Formula 400 Ram Air. However, I also enjoy & respect the less muscular classics like the cars Kurt picked out.
The Dodge Dart & the Plymouth Valiant are right in Cobain's "wheelhouse" and I think its cool that he preferred those classics over the flashier, more expensive cars even tho he could easily afford them.
Just another reason we loved Kurt as much as we did. He was a down to earth unpretentious dude and he is missed.
Telling a narcissist don’t be pretentious will induce narc rage..
It's ok to have some nice things Kurt.
Those Volvos are so badass - had one last me 500+k
My mom drove a Datsun. We called it the B bomber. It rusted out before it quit.
My brother had one. Iowa's salted roads took care of the body, but the motor kept going!
Paul Newman had a Volvo and he put some really funky v12 engine in it so it looked like a normal Volvo but it could smoke 80% of the cars out there.
It had a puffer on it, Letterman had the same car when they were neighbors. He said Newman called and described what he was ordering and did Dave want one when they were both part owners Indy car racing teams. They were supercharged and had all the skunk works, Borla exhaust, etc. You can see Dave's on Comedians in cars
Pull thermostat...it will make it..
Good stuff👍
the biggest mistake the poor guy did was marrying the wrong person!
Opposites attract.
@@gregorypeterson9or should i say "Bipolar Opposites Attract"
Kurt's Volvo can be seen in the garage below the greenhouse where he killed himself on the photo taken on the day they found him.
Glad to know I had the same first car as Kurt Cobain!
Its kinda cool how back then my lexus was considered pretentious. Mine is 26 years old and a little rusted hehe
😅Courtney was actually the voice of reason on the LS, once of the most reliable cars ever made
id never even thought about what kind vehicles this guy drove. Interesting stuff.
This narrator’s voice sounds very similar to Kurt’s
I’m happy they knew about the short lived Lexus, Kurt felt guilty about owning it.
If you look at the crime scene pics or video you can see the Volvo with the bald tires in the garage.
Meanwhile rappers buy Bentleys to show off and run through all of their money 🤣🤣
Howdy, I don't recognize the song used during beginning of this video. I've been going through my nirvana catalog and haven't found it. Could you please let my know what it is?
Thank you, cool video.
It's not aanirvana it's just some royalty free stuff so the video doesn't get demonetized.
He was all about those little 4 door sedans wasn't he?
Very cool. I like the humble return the Lexus one and the Volvo because it was the safest car for his family. I have a Volvo and a family member bought it for me. Kinda cool.
I think it's very interesting to refer to the cars he previously owned as classics. At the time they were certainly hoopties, but only now do we recognize them as classics. The most I knew prior to this video was the volvo. I guess he didn't want to end up like Rick Allen of Def Leppard.
Just another member of the 27 Club.
It’s not real just a coincidence.
eccentric do the end, a true artist. Miss him everyday.
It was probably just a cracked hose on that Datsun, a few minutes work and a few $ would have definitely fixed that car.
I drove VWs during my rock 'n roll days living in motor city Detroit.
These were just every day old cars 30 years ago. Cool ones, but nothing extraordinary.
that was the point tho. he didnt want to drive around in a rolls or a mercedes because obviously thats what every other celebrity does. he wanted to be normal. he did music for fun he wasnt really into the money. the one who wanted all the money was that bitch who followed him around with his kid.
Is kurt narrating this?
I love my volvo 240 even more now knowing what it meant to a grunge rock legend
Dodge Darts looked like boxes on wheels but they ran forever.
I love old pickup trucks 🛻
Looks like Kurt was mostly a MOPAR man. Cool.
I saw a Christian cross. Nice.
Ain't no way he killed himself and left his child to hyenas
A volvo 240
That made my mind up, Courtney needs to be investigated again
😂😂💯😞
Kurt really didnt live long enough to enjoy the wealth his fame brought.
RIP🙏🙏❤️❤️
At least none of his cars are electric vehicles. I never cared for his music oh wait never mind I do love his music. His cars are cool. Datsun wasn’t great but he had a Valiant and a Dart. The Dodge Dart is the car mentioned in Shut Down (413 really digging in).
Yeah that sounds like Courtney. Shes the one who offed him I can garauntee it. She wanted his money and to get rid of him for being too sane. The fact that he just wanted to live a normal life like driving a normal car and her wanting to ride around in an overpriced luxurious boat only added fuel to the flames.
What a world we live in when Kurt Cobain is narrating his own documentary about all the cars he ever owned after his death. Sounds much too professional though. He needed to talk more shit about each car and take drags off his cigarette while narrating. Also IDK how accurate any of it is but sounds legit enough.
That was fun video ...maybe a best about Kurt Cobain
Kurt talking about Kurt?
Whoever is talking over the video sounds nothing like Kurt
@@lilricky452have you never seen a nirvana interview? the dude sounds exactly like kurt
@bababooey3499 I have seen plenty and dude sounds nothing like Kurt
@@lilricky452 oh well
@bababooey3499 I don't think Kurt would have pronounced Datsun like Dotsun lol. I think you need your ears checked bro . He really doesn't sound like Kurt at all.
Adam sandler wrote a song called "peace of shit car" inspired by kurts car.
Dude it sounds like Kurt is narrating this 🥸🤘
I know right??
YEP!
Sweet Mopars 💪💪💪
Totally rock n roll to allergically avoid a 15$ thermostat repair and blame /destroy the car instead.
Kurt Cobain owes me a lot or money.
Jeez, cant believe he owned an LS400
>gets seen in a lexus
> dies
I knew Kurt wasn't dead
We need a NirVANa.🥴🚙💨
It was free!
I agree with Kurt's philosophy on humble cars. But... it would be awful hard not to have a few badass Mustangs as a rich rock star. A 69, 67 and 65 fastback. All retromodded to be modern on the inside. No interest in super cars. The rest of my cars would be like a Honda Civic, F150, etc.
Ranting that lexus whilst cold....
They added the coolant wrong in the datsun also temp sensor
It would have been head gasket
What is that first song,?
The drummer did it
Melvan, fckn cool :):) Go Buzz :):):)
27 is the number for Rock people☠☠☠☠☠☠
The Volvo 240 is cool
Up kildare!
courtney killed curt
She hired someone
He really loved ugly cars.
More likely that he loved cheap cars.
What’s a Dartsun?
The most safest father in the world too bad Courtney thinks he was worth more dead than alive 🙄
It sounds like kurts narrating this himself
Have you thought about starting a band
I traded my Jeep Wrangler for a Volvo when my sone wa born.
Btw… plenty of rock stars drive Volvo
Someone still owns the Van.....The volvo was sold at auction.....
his tastes in cars is underwhelming. Seems like a Kurtis thing to do though.
I love Grunge music somebody please check on Eddie