Amazing collection! Metropole Classics, Druten, The Netherlands
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- This place absolutely blew my mind! An astonishing array of classics, from microcars to supercars, with everything in between! More Gibbs Aquadas than you'll ever have seen, more Amphicars too! A Fiat 600 Multipla taxi was a favourite. One floor is cars for sale, the other the owner's private collection. WELL worth a visit. metropoleclass...
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I never knew I needed an Englishman to show me the interesting places in my own country but now I do. The next destination for my car club to meet has been sorted. 😅
Exactly me too. Never heard of this museum but going definitely to visit
To be fair, I was tipped off by my Dutch friends. It hasn't been open long.
The fact that HubNut blanks a 300SL for a Goggomobil is exactly why we love HubNut! Thoroughly enjoyed this, and I really MUST go!
This has got to be one of the best walk arounds yet - superb collection.
What an incredible collection! Never seen such variety, thanks for sharing with us!
2:20 Not surprised you never seen a Diplomat Coupé before. They made a grand total of 374!
It has a Chevrolet 5.4L (327) small block, a down carbed version of their race version with all forged internals (crankshaft, camshafts, connecting rods and pistons) because the standard cast version kept breaking on Autobahn runs.
The reason the fiat lorry is r/h/drive is because of narrow mountain roads ,easier for driver to stay close to edge of road, my Italian uncle had one in the 60's
Yep, agree with that, heard the same reason
@@darrendixon9534 A friend of mine's uncle had an early RHD Beetle in Switzerland for the very same reason. In the 50's road edge barriers were often minimal so it was nice to be able to see where the edge was!
Enjoying the mix of Camper, Travel Vlog (another strength of yours) as well as the usual stuff at the unit. Really like to see you do some longer documentary/ history nerdy style car history one off's as your with your magazine background and well researched articles should produce some real gems.
The Cosmo was the first Mazda rotary but the lovely NSU Spider was the first production rotary car.😀
i have a rotary neckar jagst 2
BMW 02 cabriolet was made by Karmann, the later 02 targa top was made by Baur.
Kromhout was a Dutch company based in Amsterdam. I think the old factory building still exists but it has been converted to a restaurant. Kromhout also made ships engines and busses. They made Gardner engines under licence.
I’ve never heard of this place Ian. It looks amazing and well worth a visit. As I actually live in the Netherlands I’m going to definitely take a look.
@Paul Fellows That’s a great idea Paul.
What a great trip you have taken us on HubNut. Absolutely superb tour of rare and obscure vehicles. I must say your off the bat knowledge is astounding considering the diverse nature of cars and vans. Thank you so much.
Brilliant work Mr. H what better way to spend a Saturday morning than having a guided tour of a remarkable collection. Much thanks!
What a impressive museum and collection, this has to be added to my list to visit one day if I am in the Netherlands, moment I saw the Fiat Taxi I thought Hubnuts new family car!
Thanks for sharing this experience.
Love these, whether it’s a museum or a show I always find them quite relaxing to watch 👍😎
It’s fun to see lots of vehicles never sold in the US! Greetings and many thanks from San Antonio Texas.
Amazing place, with some amazing vehicles. Thanks for the tour 👍
Ahh, The 600 Jolly❤. My Parents hired one of those for a trip down the Amalfi coast when I was about 10 (about 1972). Enormous fun! I think my dad knew the owners of the hire company (he was originally from Positano and could get 'mates rates' on just about anything). What memories!
Thanks so much for the guided tour of the most magnificent car/truck museum that I've ever seen. I am a great fan of the Micro-car era including the 2CV's and I'd love to be locked in this Museum for a day. Great presentation albeit rushed for yourself, but thoroughly enjoyable.
I live 20 minutes away from this town and didn't know this existed. Planning a visit asap
At 50 minutes, I had to pace myself about 10 minutes at a time. Even so, I was sad when my visit to the museum was over. Such a found of knowledge about SO many cars, coach builders, and distinctive features. A joy to watch. An oddball, but I enjoyed the Crosley fire truck (at ~15:00, visible again later). As it happens, Cincinnati was the early hub of manufacturing fire engines. Fire departments were all volunteer, b/c nobody wanted to pay the taxes to pay for firefighters and equipment. The Chicago fire in 1871 sparked (pun intended) a change in thinking. Horse-drawn wagons were standard fare. But horses couldn't pull trailers of water up the hills in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, etc. Ahrens-Fox Manufacturing had the bright idea to use the internal combustion engine - viola - and began manufacturing fire engines in Cincinnati in 1913. Crosley was made in Cincinnati, Ohio. The owners probably knew each other. The tiny Crosley would be useful in narrow streets of many European cities - including where this one wound up in the Netherlands. Now, back to my re-run.
Wow what an amazing place ,thanks for taking us for a tour.
What a great Museum. Added to my go to list
Looks like i need to make patios for a living though. Apparently you get really stinking rich doing that
The grey 2cv could be a Belgian produced
car for the Swiss market.
The lights on the frontwings
are tipical for the Swiss market.
The Sahara was a short time ago on a French auction.
It is really an incredible
collection.
"I hope it's not a fake Taxi"🤣
That motercycle front end van was a BSA, very popular with local grocers and other village shops in the late 40's, early 50's for obvious reasons, driven on a M/C licence often on L plates, but no reverse gear. A step up from the trade bike for the delivery lads.
Many Italian and French manfactures produced right hand drive trucks and cars in the days before Alpine roads had Armco barriers on mountain roads, the driver was on the drop side so it was easier to see and judge the road edge to the thousand foot plus drop. It was the late 70's and later before barriers were installed. Not that they would stop a truck from going over so are still popular today with some hauliers.
My dad owned a James Handyvan. He drove it from Surrey to South Devon with a calf in the back when he and my mother moved to Devon in 1951.
I have watched tis video when it first came out and just watched it again and it's no less fantastic! Awesome!!!
Amazing, thank you so much for this video. I just love those DAF cars, I very nearly had a Day 33 for my first ever car and I have loved them since I first rode in one. If you ever find yourself in Thailand then you must visit the Jesada Technic museum which has the worlds largest collection of microcars and just a staggering collection of cars, motorcycles, buses and planes. All owned by two brothers, its free and I was very lucky to meet one of the owners when I was there and he showed me many of the private areas and then took me out for lunch! He said he started adding microcars because kids love them, and amazingly there are many of the microcars that kids are allowed to sit in. It's on about the same scale as Metropole, but with an area for planes and a couple of helicopters also! The most popular car there seems to be a Delorean, and visitors are welcome to sit in it also.
Lovely Jubbly, what a very impressive collection of cars, thanks for highlighting so many of them Mr HubNut.
What a collection of cars, thank you for showing them for us 👍😀
The thing on UK plates that you said was terrifying was a Gibbs Humdinger. A big 4x4 multi person vehicle using the same principles as the Aquada. I worked on the Aquada for a couple of years.
I think when you say, ' l have never seen one of those before', we have all been lucky to stumble upon this 💎.
Bloody hell Ian I'm tired from walking round Oulton Park circuit twice today and now I'm having brain meltdown with all this lovely stuff your showing me 😀
Another car museum for my European road trip next year 😎
WOW, WoW, Wow. What a fantastic place. I don't think I will ever get there in person. So thank you very much for taking me and others on your visit. Appreciated. See you in the next one. 👍👍👍👍
The first thing I was amazed about was all the vast area of brick paving outside. You then said he made his money doing paving, among other things. What a gob smacking display. Thanks so much for bringing it to us Mr Hubnut and also to your friends for facilitating it. 😳
Loved the square 6 door Fiat bus! Great look round that collection, thanks.
Insanely brilliant gathering of vehicles. Particularly enjoyed the gaggle of floatables therein and the delightful commercials. A splendid treat indeed.
A good variety of different types of cars. Some rare models on show too. I live in New Zealand. You mentioned driving a Cadillac car that is displayed in this show in New Zealand at one time. The Mercedes-Benz cars are magnificent there in the museum. Thanks for posting this. From Carl.
About that Zundapp Janus at 06:01...if you look up the model name (the Roman god of gates, doorways, passages, beginnings and endings. etc) then you'll see the connection to this car's pushmi-pullyu, coming-and-going layout.
Marvellous! 51 Minutes... running away like nothing. A really amazing spot; I have to go there when I'm in the Netherlands. Thanks for showing this to us...
Absolutely fantastic video Ian 👍unbelievable beautiful cars what a fantastic museum
What a singular and varied collection! Thank you for this visit...
the Renault at 18 minutes is very like the one my nephew owns which was bought new by Dame Nellie Melba -I think it is an AM model but not 100% sure. he also has a Peugeot 172 Quadrilette that wouldn't look out of place in this museum.
This is a great display of vehicles
What an absolutely amazing place.....and not a typewriter in sight!! It's a credit to your determination and skills in editing to make a video of that length and to keep me enthralled right until the end with that dinky bus.
Wow what a vast array of classic cars & commercials that I have ever seen in one place & in a RUclips video. I completely agree with Ian's statement of "Mind Blown!!!". I have never seen or heard of quite a few of the cars before, but it is nice that they still exist. Yet another great video from Hubnut.
Now because of HubNut I never thought a great a deal about pantograph wipers! ;)
Thanks, I never heard of this, am going to visit it soon hopefully. But visitors should beware it is only open on saturdays.
I was enjoying the unusual variation of the vehicles on display and I was noting that there were some that you see in almost every museum or collection and some that were interesting and unique, but that never really grabbed me....and then there was a flash and hello!! There's one of my favourites of all time - an Alfa Romeo Montreal.
I have always drooled over these beasties and on Christmas Day in 1991, I walked down to the petrol station on the corner of my street to grab a bottle of milk and while I was paying for it, just happened to glance through the open door to the workshop and saw that hooded pair of headlamps looking back at me. I couldn't stop myself and ran to look at it even before I'd asked permission! I not only looked it all over, I got to sit in it! It was a customer's car, so I could not take it for a drive, but seeing it and being able to sit in it was still the best Christmas present I'd had in a very long time.....and I still class it as one of the best. Those eyelids actually retract up inside the nose cone when the lights come on, but she definitely looks better with them down. There were very few built and I know of only 12 in this country.....and none have been at any car shows I have been to in years.
The early Alfas, Ferraris, Jaguars and such on the top floor would be worth more than a king's ransom nowadays, let alone the up-spec late model Mercs, Grosses and the earlier roadsters. To see that he also collected Cinque Centos and Citroens and some more (now) rare "people's cars" (not just the VW), just makes the owner appear more of a genuine bloke to me. He's obviously a self-made man and would have started off with something 'generic' and so it's obvious he would still have a soft spot for them. Good on him!
And many thanks to YOU, Ian, for taking time out to capture them all. It was a true treat. All the best.
What a nice way to spend a Saturday evening - thanks Ian, much appreciated!
Great! I'm dutch, and it's not that far away from where I live. I need to admin I never heard of this place. I'm gonna do a visit soon.
Loved the comment on the rubbish indicators on the AC Ace
What a fantastic tour! Many of those cars I'd never seen, nor heard of, before...The Crosley ladder truck was hilarious; the earlier Crosley cars in the States were sold in hardware stores, and powered by a flat-twin engine w/ about 14 BHP (Waukesha, I think). The four-cylinder COBRA engine was next, until they changed over to the CIBA (Cast-Iron Block Assy.) This engine went on to find applications in boat racing (44 cu. in. inboard hydroplanes), and outboard motors (Fageol, Crofton, Homelite, and Fisher-Pierce ultimately). That red 'vette is a 1974-77 "soft-tail" model; 1978-82 had a fastback...
Ian truly a neat find. The Fiat RHD lorry you spotted was common in Italy when I passed through in the early 70's. Something to do with narrow mountain roads.
RHD Fiat tractor units featured in the Italian Job film.
I think the inspiration for that Steyr came from Tatra ( VW nicked all the plans and engineering when they invaded Czechoslovakia and then somehow invented the beetle)
If you’re ever in the Czech Republic Skoda and Tatra museums are well worth a visit
What a fantastic museum, thanks for showing us the delights within. 👍
Added my long overdue subscription to your excellent channel. I'm a big fan of late 60s/early 70s family cars, an enthusiasm kindled by a childhood spent in the back of a series of cutting edge Citroëns owned by my parents. This looks like a must see location.
The Crosley was a genuine American rival to the Morris Minor, Austin A30, and Triumph Mayflower.
Crosley were innovators on the world stage, but not all of the innovations were successful. The sheet-metal "CoBra (COpper BRAzed)" engine was vulnerable to electrolysis that unfortunately ate holes in the water jackets, alienating the customer base. The solid iron block was actually a brilliant spec for 1952: Overhead cam, 750 cc, capable of travel on contemporary American dual carriageway roads at a constant 50 miles per hour.
Crosley also offered the first standard four-wheel disc brakes (I believe) in the world, a decade before the Renault 8.
Cheers from Costa Rica!
Wow! Lots of cars coming straight from the Tintin albums. Very nice collection.
The Renault Ondine was the posh spec for the Dauphine range and was offered between 1961 and 1963 - it featured a 4-speed gearbox, but I don't think it was sold in the UK. So if you wanted a 4-speed Daupine in the UK you had to opt for the Gordini.
An absolutely adorable tour, thank you Ian!
Great museum and great tour.. Many thanks.. Strange not a single Spyker in sight!!
I was there. This was an incredible collection of cars. I don't think there's anything like this here in the UK
Wow... just wow... my mind is thoroughly blown too... no words... Got to go there, some day, that's for sure!
Wow . I need to go there , Thanks Ian
Fantastic tour, thanks for showing us such an incredible collection.
What an enjoyable tour! Thank You so much.
There is at least 1 Mimi Contessa in a garden centre near Batley in W Yorkshire.... It's on a plinth and other micro cars and garden equipment hang from the rafters. It was a relief from the "overcrowded Christmas browsing in a drafty polytunnel" event last Dec.
What a mind blowing collection indeed!. Such variety and so interesting to watch. Thanks so much for recording this collection! :)
Wow, had to take a Second look at the 'Janus.' (My Favourite of Roman Gods.) Two Faces. Amazing little Car..!
In fact a Warehouse of Amazing Cars.
Thanx for uploading this one..!! Cheers kim in Oz. 😎
The fiat multipla was the grand daddy of the van.
Amazing collection of cars I like how they themed the downstairs sales hall with the Royal Dutch Shell petrol station
A stunning collection. I was riveted from start to finish of the video!
Amazing collection, never heard about it before. Thanks!
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
The Mercedes 6.3 has Citroen DS suspension build by Mercedes under license from Citroen
That bloke who used to be on Top Gear had one in Yuck Green.
Are you sure? Citroen suspension is hydro pneumatic. The Mercedes was air. Certainly Rolls Royce used the Citroen system.
Hi Ian, thanks for the tour, what a great collection.
Ian's as excited as a dog with two dinners! Great video.
Yes, the Alfetta was rear wheel drive and rear gearbox. Lovely balanced car, drove one for years.
I live in the Netherlands and didnt know this museum. Ill hold off on watching this video so i can first go take a look myself!
The Goggomobile earned prominence in Australia through a TV ad campaign for Telstra's *Yellow Pages* business phone directory. It wasn't this van, but rather the little two-seater sports car that was the subject as the owner(played by the recently deceased Noel Dyson, a Scottish actor who has retained his accent) is searching for a part to fix the car, looks in the Yellow Pages for a likely source of the part he needs, then has to explain the make of car by spelling it out over the phone, and this bit of dialogue had become legendary as people who saw Noel Dyson in the street would echo his line in the ad..... *"That's G-O-G-G--O.......it's a wee ripper!" He later did ads for Shannon's Car Insurance here in Australia, and played the line up with the company's phone number. (6:22)
In the UK we had a Yellow Pages TV commercial which has since become legendary. There's an elderly gentleman phoning round trying to get a copy of a book called Fly Fishing by J R Hartley.
Spoiler alert
At the end we find out that he is J R Hartley. (Sounds a bit boring I admit, but still considered one of the greatest ads ever.)
"No, na the Dart"
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@@AUmarcus Ach it's a wee ripper! RIP Noel Dyson.
OMG what an amazing collection.
That Lotus Etna concept car looks so amazing.
WOOW!!!What a collection!!I'm havin' a hard time pickin' up my jaw from the floor.....Great vid,thank you.
Ooh, seeing an unspoiled MX-6 just warms me heart. They were all tuned to hell in the mid-2000's. Great video, as usual. Yet again, some cars I've not seen before.
The Diplomat Coupe was, if i recall correctly, coachbuilt from sedan shells. I have a huge thing for the 5.4 liter version, using a Chevy racing engine.
Slightly Victoresque in places. I wonder if there were any shared components.
The Steyr 50 was already on the market when the Beetle was just commissioned (1936).
Interesting! Thanks. I know nothing about them but was fascinated.
Mind boggling collection. Definitely worth a trip over.
Gosh! I know that Scammel three wheeled truck. It was Mr.Jordon senior's and was parked in a shed in the old trucking park he used to run, but contained campers and caravans in storage in it'd later life. I had my Firan Raven motorhome parked there, not far from where I live in Leicestershire. I believe it was all sold off for building land, which probably explains how the truck is now in a museum?
We used to see queues of those Fiat Multipla taxis outside Naples airport in the 60s and early 70s. Never rode in one though.
Nice one. That 50 minutes went by with pleasure!
I love how 1960s Opels basically looked like miniaturized 1960s American Chevrolets.
Really mind blowing!!
Wow really great videogreat knowledge of all different vechiles keep up the great work
This is the best video you've made so far. Even my wife enjoyed watching and she's the opposite of a car nerd. Unlike me. Fantastic stuff. Must visit myself some day. Extraordinary collection.
5:16 the Fuldamobil was also made under licence in Greece too, in two versions, by different companies, the Attica and the Alta
Yeah amazing collection.They have many fancy cars.
Of all the cars in there I loved the Fiat Panda 4x4 and the big Mercedeses from the 90's
Hubnut really knows his cars. Can you imagine one of the YT supercar spotters here? They would be completely lost. Edit- and bored. You completely dissed the 300sl co nvertible. This is an incredible place. Wish I was there.
That SMIT coach manufacture was what became Berkhof in Netherlands
Does anyone remember that show You Bet? People would bet they could identify any car from seeing only the headlights etc. Ian, you would rock at that.
The 2600 cc V8 engine in the Frua designed Glas was made out of two 1300cc engines from the 1304, which was the bigger version of the 1004 engine with the first cambelt. The belt has no spanner and the tension of the belt is regulated by shims under he cylinderhead.
I went there a few years ago when it was by appointment only for the private collection without the trucks. I see a lot has changed. Since the collaboration with Potomac at the beginning of this year, the collection is open to the public.