Oversized Landyacht VS Tiny City Streets
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- Опубликовано: 9 авг 2022
- A classic car connaisseur pilots a 1975 Buick LeSabre through narrow Dutch streets to find out if you should also own a big American landyacht in a small European city!
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The video turned out perfect!!! It was such a pleasure working together and Ed is a fantastic driver. He took great care manouvering my LeSabre through those narrow streets!
On 2:19 it says it right on the wall: this is a trap for cars like my LeSabre 😱
Your car is killer dude! Brings back memories of being a kid here in the USA. You hardly ever see cars like this in great shape anymore.
Sounds beautiful with the low end rumble. You are a trusting soul.
That car is sweet! Thank you for sharing it.
When I watched Ed trying to enter the garage my thoughts were like "OMG, if I was the owner of that car I would suffer a heart attack right now". You must be a brave man...
@@johnnyduplantis thank you so much! With kind regards from Oud-Beijerland ☺️
I spent a lot of years driving an '86 Caprice wagon around Edinburgh. I got ace at parallel parking but only once took it into a parking garage at a local shopping centre. Never again. I had to reverse at the top of every ramp to get get it round. Only once got it properly stuck in a narrow mews lane that a friend lived in. I eventually got it out but only after having that "moment" where I thought "this is where I now live".
Hey m8, I'm in Bathgate, hook a brother up with a ride in a classic land yaught.
Rented a VW Polo in England, it was smaller than any VW sent to the US. Found streets with parking where the mirrors barely cleared the parked cars on both sides. At that time Saab 900 cs were the big family car in England. They completely filled the parking spaces.
@@BarryHWhite hi mate - I would love to but I sold it years ago. Still, I am on the look out again she if another stupid big fablon wagon comes along....
@@rogersmith7396 the statutory size of spaces hasn't increased but now all the cars have, world over... every supermarket car park is carnage.
@@pjw140 good luck bro, hope u find Ur cruiser. Cheers 4 reply
I enjoyed the looks on the kid's faces as you attempt to enter the garage with that beast. 'In the Hall of the Mountain King', was the perfect musical choice. It's funny that cars like that were so very common when I was growing up in Grapevine, Texas in the 70's.
I was born in 81, but they were still plenty common well into the 80's here in S. Carolina with retieres, as one of my neighbors drove a 77 4 door Dodge Monaco well into the mid to late 80's, and I had a great aunt who drove a beast of a 75 Plymouth Station Wagon well into the early 90's before she died that was in near mint condition being a garage queen, and to the grocery store/church, short trips car, but one of my cousins who inherited it had the bright idea like a dumbass of using it in a distruction derby. 😡🤬🤬🤬🤬
I didn't really pay attention to onlookers during filming, but people gathered around pretty quickly wherever we went :-D
reminds me of when i got to drive a 72 oldsmobile in finland. i was used to ford capri's and granada's with big long hoods but i was not prepared for the mammoth task of threading a bonnet in another post-code through traffic. by the time we finally found parking in a supermarket parking lot, we had to take up 4 spaces.
This is fantastic. Really enjoying the vids outside of the series... enjoying the series too but these extra's are really great.
Yeah and thats pretty much my idea as well, every so often a video that's on the lighter side
Cool idea, and well done to your camera operator (or crew)! There were some cool shots in there, and all arranged in an entertaining sequence
Thanks!
My neighbor had a brown/cream 55 Chevy two door post and a 76 Caprice, bright blue with a white vinyl Landau top. Mint cars. Really interesting part is he was a quadriplegic. Both cars were set up for hand controls. They even had a “line lock” setup so he could lock the front brakes and turn the rear tires into smoke and noise.
You're kidding, that is insane! Why not make easier for yourself and get something a bit smaller....?
@@EdsAutoReviews he liked them big and bad. The Caprice came with an underpowered 350 he swapped for a worked 454. He transplanted a worked 327 into his 55 as well.
@@tooltime9260 you must be a hoot to deal with at parties... or in general
Hilarious video😂, but it’s true. I own the same 76 Buick LeSabre and parking in the Netherlands is indeed a BIG challenge. I really don’t dare to park in a parking garage and avoid old towns. Nevertheless I’m very happy with my big seventies 🇺🇸 land yacht😃
Hi! Ja daar is mijn lesabre dan. Moeten nog wel een keer meeten hoor en elkaars auto goed bekijken
@@rovervitesse1985 Hi! Wat een geweldig leuke video, gemaakt met jouw werkelijk schitterende LeSabre! Heel mooi gefilmd en veel leuke reacties. Bevalt de Buick nog? Of denk je nog veel aan je Rover terug? Zou idd graag je Buick nog eens beter willen bekijken. Ik ga waarschijnlijk (bij goed weer) ZA 3 september naar de meeting van de Cruise Brothers in Den Haag. Is dat (te) ver voor jouw? Of een keer bij gelegenheid ergers anders afspreken?
@@richardbuick9029 ik was afgelopen zaterdag bij SNC. Denk dat ik 3 september ook ga proberen weer dus dan zien we elkaar daar! Ik houd je op de hoogte! De rover was m'n eerste auto en heb ik bijna 17 jaar gehad. Dus die vergeet ik nooit meer maar ik ben veel blijer met de Buick :)
@@rovervitesse1985 je eerste auto vergeet je idd nooit😄 Ben nu met vakantie dus niet naar de SNC geweest. Wel gehoord dat het lekker druk was. Hé wellicht tot 3 september👍
Nice! Well, let's just say that I have done the hard work for you so that you don't have to try it anymore :-)
I remember My Grandad seeing a Zephyr MkIV, now he served on escort carriers in WW2, he thought the bonnet was bigger than the Flight deck of his ship!
He was probably right xD
That was nicknamed the Dagenham dustbin. It was a rust bucket .There was so much room under the bonnet, the spare was in front of the v4/v6 engine! 🤯
@@Indigenous51 Well, either it didn't sell well, or they didn't last as I haven't seen one in years, and yeah, half its length was the bonnet.
@@jon-paulfilkins7820 Some were turned Into limos. They drove like boats .Size and reliability and poor build was not in its favour. I used to work on them. 😏
We often here in Europe/The Netherlands refer to these cars as aircraft carriers!
ok but i already love this Le Sabre. look at the chique, the brown, the vynil, the chrome, the massiveness! So very American
Thank you! I fel in love with it for those reasons instantly and bought it sight unseen from eBay without hesitation
And don't forget the gorgeous factory stereo!
@@MetalTrabant still works and plays like it's 1975
Growing up in Brooklyn, my Dad had a Peugeot 404 estate, which I thought was quite enough, size-wise. Yet for my driver's Ed class, we all had to drive this exact model Buick, but with four doors. It was stress-inducing trying to navigate that beast through the narrow residential streets, with the occasional pedestrian jumping out from between parked cars. And then the ultimate nightmare for a sixteen-year-old novice driver: parallel parking without hitting a curb, a parked car, or somebody walking their dog. It didn't help that there was zero feedback in the steering and the brakes were touchy yet weak. I couldn't stand the site of these things for a couple of decades... but it's fun to look back on!
Beautiful Buick. I live in big open space Texas. Back in the 90s, I was in Germany visiting family who live in a stereotypical small town. One day, a stretch Cadillac Limousin was driving down the street, trying to make a turn at a T intersection, but couldn't . After 15 minutes, they gave up and drove backwards almost 2km because it was too long to turn around. As a owner of multiple land yachts myself, I felt bad for the driver.
I thought you were going to say you hopped in and showed them how to make the turn. Interesting how we here in America have a bit of trouble comprehending small cars and small streets.
@@osagejon8972 I knew it wasn't going to make it. The driver had someone try to guide the turn, but I knew they couldn't make it. The spotter had the driver almost touch the buildings with the car, but still needed a ton of more room. Made Ed here look like he was driving that Buick through the Grand Canyon.
I just love your videos, Ed! Great job! Those 70's cars are truly massive, they aren't easy to drive/park here in the US.
And the USA is kinda known for big cars
My first thought was it looks *really odd* to see these big 70s cars on some normal wheels instead of some giant chrome ugly rims.
Thanks for taking us along for the challenge!
I feel you, bro! Back in 2003 I took my freshly bought "Cowboy Conversion" Silverado to the center of Amsterdam, the solution to the parking problem was that two of us went shopping while third kept driving around the block. And we did three 30 minutes shifts so every one could have their share.
Holy shitballs, I've been owning that truck for almost 20 years...
When I was a kid, my father had a 75 Buick Electra Limited, which is almost 6 1/2 inches, or 16 cm longer than that LeSabre. Imagine trying to navigate those European streets in that.
I really appreciate this video! I am from the USA , and I have owned several "land Yachts". 3 Buicks , 2 Plymouths, and one Caddy. Over here parking isn't really an issue, but more and more I see parking for compact cars only. One issue I had one day was running out of gas in my Electra 225. I had to parallel park (street park) the car not running and alone. 4500 pounds of Buick! Not easy!
Parking spots have gotten smaller, but with the large trucks and SUVs they're cranking out, I don't know why they don't go making the parking spots big again.
Who's always eagerly waiting for his video to come out???
Me too
I love how everyone walking past stopped and watched you attempt to maneuver that beast!
Makes me wonder if, given the size and passenger capacity, you could legally register the car as a coach. 😁
Don’t tell the Americans that drive pick up trucks and SUVs the size of a house. 😂
Like many ridiculously oversized vehicles of that time; they're very big on the outside but not newly as big on the inside as you might think. There's a enormous hood and ridiculously oversized trunk
You could paint a "H" inside a big circle on the hood and rent it out as a helicopter landing pad... :)
@@kevinbarry71 Yep, I remember stories from my dad from the late 60's, and early 70's of him, and my mother hiding 4, or 5 of their friends in the trunk of their 67 Chevy Caprice(My Dad's first new car), and then going to the drive in theater. These days good luck cramming more than 1, or 2 full sized adults/teens in the trunk of something like a Chevy Volt, or a Toyota Carolla/Camry, and trying that stunt(there is a drive-in theater just under an hour from me called the "The Big-Mo" with 3 screens). 😅
@@kevinbarry71 Yes, those mammoth land yachts had very poor space engineering. All practical considerations were sacrificed on the altar of style and sleek looks. Some of those cars had at least two feet of empty space between the radiator and front bumper.
Once went to buy an MG Midget from a dealer and ended up with a 1972 Buick Electra 225. It remains my favorite car of all time. We could fit 17 people in that car, if you included the trunk. 8 in the trunk.
Well, that escalated quickly... from a Midget to a landyacht! :D
Alive ?
Was the Midget in the trunk?
Deuce and a quarter
Ed/DougDeMuro: “and thissss, is the 1975 Buick LeSabre Custom limited Landau”
He was right about those weird names in the 70s
Princess, Stag, Kitten, LeCar...etc
@@OldTechMemories.mp3 was waiting for a Brougham to be tacked onto the end😄😆😂
Ed you were pretty brave taking that car into the twilight zone...lol.👍🤣
@@OldTechMemories.mp3 wait, how bout these
* Lamborghini Aventador LP 750-4 Superveloce Roadster
*Land Rover Range Rover Evoque 2.0 TD4 E-Capability 4x4 HSE Dynamic
My dad was in the Air Force for many years. Back in 1977 he took his full size Ford F150 to Germany and then again when he was stationed in England. He use to tell me stories about how all the locals would ask him "why do you have such a huge truck".
My first thoughts when i saw that huge Buick were:
"Thats an intresting spin on the Aston Martin grille... actually i don't think the designer of this car even knows what an Aston is."
Parking deck to a large car: "Welcome to hell!" 😧
I love driving large cars such as these, such a different driving experience from a small hatchback and quite rewarding in my opinion. I go through a similar ordeal when driving a 1998 Toyota Century in Okinawa.
Great video! I’m reminded of quite a few past land yachts I’ve owned. Now try a parking a 74 Chrysler (my first car) that lost reverse! That was challenging even in the US. 😂
Ed's mention of front/rear overhangs scraping on ramps reminded me of my parents' '72 Chrysler Newport. It got hung up on the ramp coming out of our local post office a few times.
Hi Ed! Beautiful car BTW! I feel your pain - I have a 1988 Pontiac Firebird - which is relatively smaller than the Buick you had there. I never go to parking garages, and even open-air car parks I need two spaces side by side to be able to get the doors open! So - I don't stop in town centres - I use a different car. A Hyundai 😆
I’d love an 80s firebird, such good looking cars.
@@isaacsrandomvideos667 there is a healthy market in the UK - if this helps!
This video made my day. And for some reason, "In the Hall of the Mountain King" was the perfect song to accompany the footage.
As someone who learned to drive on a 76 LTD station wagon, I can say that practice makes perfect. I took that thing up rutted dirt roads in the mountains, over giant rocks and across shallow rivers, and I learned to spin it around at the edge of a cliff if I had to turn around and go back (which was often). Forget 3-point turns; try 97-point turns: forward and reverse, over and over, the power steering screaming all the time, and you can do anything. Are they easy to drive? No. But to sum up, it wasn't the car that caused those problems, it was your technique that got you into trouble, and practice can fix that. Parking garages with miniature spaces are another matter.
I'm European and since I was a toddler, I knew a coach driver and articulated lorry driver (the latter not personally) on my street. The semitrailer is parked outside the driver's house, sitting directly between it and the road. The driver comes and leaves with and without the trailer, backing up when he has it. The coach is parked directly on the side of its driver's house; he simply backs it up but has more space than the semitrailer.
Love this video Ed - I have driven these cars since I was 16 - here in America - and watching this video gave me sweaty palms from nerves!
Ah Ah, great video Ed! I love classic American cars also for these things, five meters for a two door sedan! Here in Italy (North east of Sardinia, landscapes like California.. we are in theme) I've seen a 1970's Camaro in the underground parking of a mall. The spots were very too small for this beast.. and so the owner has parked outside the spots limits. Literally on the road for the exit from the underground parking.. in double row!
But in this incredible island I've also had the luck to share the ferry on my old 2007 Yaris with a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado and a Ford Model A (cars of a classic car meeting in departure, there were a lot of old glories) !
I've do some videos fortunately
And that's not even that big of a car, the Buick he's driving is at least 15% bigger overall.
When I was working, my company car was a 1977 Chevrolet Impala STATION WAGON. I was the same width as the Buick, but FOUR INCHES longer. although the instrument panels were identical. It was VERY hard to street park, even straight in, as it stuck out in traffic. Huge car for two people with the rear end and back seat completely filled with the merchandise I sold. Oh, and it seemed to need a tank of gas every week, even though it had a twenty-five gallon tank. So don't ask about miles-per-gallon, you wouldn't believe it. Remember this was AFTER the 1973 gas crisis, so it should have been more fuel efficient. Except it wasn't. This was a car where you could fit three adults in the front seat, three in the back seat and two or three more in the farthest back seat, facing the rear window. Depending on the size of the people, you COULD fit NINE ADULTS in that car. No bucket seats here, all bench seats made of sun-loving vinyl. I also remember that the tailgate had a neat trick, it could fold down, like the tailgate of a pickup truck, or, it could open like a huge door so people could get in and out. Both rear seats also folded flat for carrying plywood sheets or sheetrock that were 4 feet by 8 feet that were lying flat. It really was a workhorse in car form. I believe this was before minivans came out, with the exception of the Volkswagen Type 2, but it could barely get out of its own way.
The "Little Tree" air freshener is a classic touch!
Was in the car already when it arrived from Canada and I never thought of removing it. It's so period correct
@@rovervitesse1985 That and the yellow fog lights. Those were really popular in the '70s.
@@Sonny_McMacsson yeah. They aren't factory original but I am told typical Canadian of the era so I am leaving them on there. Part is this cars life story. As is the stampede dealer plaque on the rear
@@rovervitesse1985 Right, the fogs were a common and fashionable aftermarket item at the time.
Man, what a beautiful machine....
top gear level entertainment 🤣
Love your channel 😎
this is some another level filming Ed! mad respects
Watching this whole thing raised my blood pressure and made me nervous!! LOL.
That was a very nice '75 LeSabre, and I enjoyed your attempts to find a place to park it, even if they came to naught. Great video!
As an addition to your fantastic video Ed, The theme song choice is truly admirable! Big Fan of yours! Love from Sweden!❤
At least you wouldn't have to worry about it being stolen and used as a getaway car for a bank robbery! Love your channel - keep up the good work.
What a beautiful LeSabre!
Hey Ed, great video!!! Gotta love these big American land yachts!!! I used to drive a Continental Mark V & I could park it!!! I wouldn't want to try to do it now!!! 👍👍😏
My dad once drove his chevy trailblazer (07) into this VERY narrow underground parking. After 30 minutes, a scraped rear fender, and an engine which had gone up to 5500 RPM, we got out.
In my small European country there was a time in the 50's and 60's when you coukd spot many American cars navigating in the narrow streets. There was one feature that saved those drivers from getting stuck until today in the narrow streets: There was hardly any traffic as most people could not afford a car. This quickly changed in the next decades as more people could buy a car but not with big engines and thus American cars have been taxed to near extinction ever since.
I'm always up for a good game of "Will It Fit?"
I had a 1953 Pontiac Chieftain with no power steering, try parking that!!
Truly a difficult combo. My "biggest" challenge so far was a Dodge Ram 2500 V10 with chunky off road wheels on German "Altstadt" streets. Angled parking or entering parking garages were totally out of scope, and finding a sizable spot is no fun in dense, tiny old towns... Piaggio Ape owners were laughing at me these days, but I loved this truck anyways.
My first car was my great-uncle's '72 Ford LTD in more-or-less mint condition, when I turned 16, in 1988. He sold it to me for a dollar. He was a great man. It was huge car.
Excellent episode! More of this, please!
Man, I really love your videos, your presentation style is just perfect, best wishes from Scotland, I can't wait for your next upload, keep up the great work!
I'm reminded of the daily work of bus drivers in this Austrian province, safely steering 12 by 2.55 m buses through little villages, dangerously close to walls and signs in some corners.
Aw man one of my best friends back in school had a 1976 Lesabre Custom that we spent countless hours cruising in. His was tan and a four door model, but that does bring back some great memories to see one again.
Hell yea. This is like an up and coming Top Gear-esk channel.
Reminds me of someone who lived in the USA but got a job in the late 1980s doing repair and detail bodywork on gigantic classic US cars imported to Japan. Cars like late 1950s & early '60s land yachts like the Chrysler Imperial, Lincoln Continental, Cadillac Eldorado, Oldsmobiles, Buicks, etc.Those huge cars could not fit in those tiny streets in Japan. Cops were always bugging the shop because they sold these cars to so many Yakuza gang bosses.
You clearly passed by a couple land docks where you could anchor it, but I appreciate the intent of the video.
The only problem with getting into the parking garage is that Ed wasn't swinging out wide enough.
It was impossible with a constant flow of oncomming traffic
@@rovervitesse1985 Sounds like a personal problem.
I like the low camera angles to make the big car look even bigger
Sir, it was absolutely hilarious seeing you navigate that beast 😆😆😆
I grew up in big land yachts like that when I was raised in my home state of South Carolina - so it hit home for me.
Thank you for all of your videos and keep being awesome 😎
Getting the Ever Given out of the Suez Canal was an easier task
This has to be a full series. Great video! Please do a Mk3 Lincoln or a 77 Eldorado if you can
Well, at least we have more space here in Sweden to drive these land yachts around. The american car scene here is humongous. Although the fuel prices are forcing most of the owners to drive them less nowadays. Plus the added ethanol isn't helping the old carburetors either. Fun times to be alive.
the buick peeking around the brick corner was epic
Edward - loved this video and your content. I'm so impressed with your knowledge of American cars from so far away. An idea for a video: American cars in the 1970's adopted 'Opera Windows' and 'Landau tops' galore. This design phenomenon was uniquely 1970's, wholly American, and totally cosmetic that shockingly stretched across all of the major American car companies, and across all market segments.
I know he covered some of that in the Malaise Era and Great Brougham Epoch videos.
@@AaronOfMpls Agreed and I did see those. The 1970s cars had tons of influential design trends that were oddly copy-catted… opera windows, landau tops, Collanade design (GM), Basket handle design (Ford), opera lamps, hood ornaments….Bumper guards and rub strips… there were odd design features that each have their own stories that beg the question: ‘why?’ What led these big car companies to propose and market these strange design trends?
In 1983 I was hitch-hiking down a quiet secondary highway in the Netherlands. To my astonishment a big white new Cadillac sedan stopped to give me a lift. It had Ontario Canada license plates. I had a little Canadian flag on my pack.
This remains one of the weirdest experiences in my life.
It depends which towns in Europe, the old ones that were not flattened during the war are indeed, really complicated for anything bigger than a Twingo.
But any post war rebuilt town, built with cars in mind is really not that bad. I live in Dunkirk, and most of the city center was fully reconstructed in the late 40s to early 60s in a modernist architecture, and there's really no issue parking a big Land Yacht, I know a Continental Mark IV in the main square underground parking.
Ed, that was a fun video... Thanks for posting this video for us to enjoy.
That was insane and so entertaining! I was cringing with every turn along with you! That car looks even more ridiculously enormous on those small streets! Great driving job and great video!
My Dad had a 1972 Pontiac GTO 400... it was so big and wide that he was not able to take it to a regular car wash. And that was in the. 1980ties...
I know the pain. Although I live in Canada, my work truck is a F350 dually. Even places like construction suppliers have parking stalls sized for something like a Honda Civic.
"Will it fit?" is the question Ed hears most often, while he's smashing his way across the world researching cars. Legend.
"Will it fit?" That's what SHE said! (Hey, someone had to say it.)
I had this same car when I was a Teen, it was so powerful...455 under the hood. Called it the Great Pumpkin. Would love to have it again.
Dutch driver of an '07 Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. Even though the Vic is about a foot shorter than the Buick, this still feels very relatable. xD
I had a 1969 version in the USA in the 1990's and was having issues finding parking.
That's why the Dutch built DAFs and bikes... Funny story. Good job Ed and team! 😀
I've been driving 70s cars all my life, I love watching you be overly cautious because you're not familiar with such land yachts 😆 great video
I hate it. He drives like a woman.
I wouldn’t even want to try to park that monster in the US. I like my small cars.
It would be at home in the U.S. - of course, but parking spots have gotten smaller over time.
When you spot the Buick making the turn into the parking garage row, it gives me flashes of the old 70's gangster and Dicks movies pulling into garages for some bad deeds.
Cannon, Rockford Files, Kojack, Mod Squad , Blackxploutqtion flicks, Starsky & Hutch. .
That LeSabre is slick mad for bad MFs.
A true debt collector's drive.
All you need is the right 70's soundtrack
The soundtrack I usually use to describe my car is 'Chic Cheer' from Chic
Tss, complaining while you have the luxury of power steering. My ‘57 Chevy might not be that big, but the lack of power steering makes parking a challenge as well. Great video again Ed!
Nicely done. My college roommate had a 1977 Buick LeSabre. It was huge even compared to my 1979 Oldsmobile Delta 88.
Loved all the classic Top Gear references. Kept expecting Clarkson to pop out.
Good luck Ed.... An absolutely unapologetic huge (by any standard) GM disco era malaise classic like a 2 ton , 5 meter (15 ft ( 220 in ) 1975 Buick LeSabre Coupe is a major challenge to park the drive and fill up a huge tank of gas for this behemoth and in an environment such as European countries where cars are much much smaller and so our parking spaces and streets
Such a car would be a good collector 's car here in the United States but in many foreign countries where car like this is extremely rare Ed is in for a big huge challenge here.
I'm glad Ed is answering the important questions we all have. :^)
Unbelievable!
A person can tell you aren't from that era.
I had a 1972 Oldsmobile Tornado and could easily maneuver that dual front axles, fwd baby. BTW, longer than that Buick.
American cars were long, family oriented (Buick LeSabre) master pieces or long, businessman oriented (Pontiac Grand Prix/Chevrolet Monte Carlo) midsize similar in size to the Buick.
The longer, upper class 2 doors were the Lincoln Marks or Cadillac El Dorados. Sportier, slight smaller Pontiac Grand Am/Can Am.
May I aslo state I never had any difficulty maneuvering, parking, or driving those cars.
Fantastic!!
They were fantastic, smooth riding/driving artworks. I enjoyed each I owned.
Those are some nice cars. The 72 Toronado is 'only' 5.60 meters and the Eldorado's were 5.69. This Buick with 5.76 is LONGER. The MK IV and V were 5.79 and 5.80 so these indeed were 3 to 4 cm bigger. Pontiac's grand Prix, although also full-size, was only 5.52 so 24 cm shorter than the LeSabre. A grand Am or Can am was intermediate size (so similar to the Buick Century and Regal size wise). They were 5.29 and 5.28 so about 50cm shorter than the LeSabre. The trick of this model LeSabre is that it hides its size. Only when you walk up to it you see how big it is. It looks intermediate on video or photos but it is full-size and bigger than most others except some Fleetwood Cadillacs, Chrysler imperials and Buicks own Electra (and the already mentioned mk IV and MK V).
That was one of funnest episode. You can't have a pimp mobile there baby, you dig!
3:00 gotta love the kid in the background posing for the video
all i have learned from the other episodes "Custom Limited Landau"😉, great vid 👍.
As a resident of the Mexican suburbs I'm happy that i can drive both my Cheyenne ( Mexican full size pick-up) and my suburban comfortably around and never worry about parking, but it's always funny because the Spanish also left some of their way of building in historically protected downtowns, but México being a North American country you'll always find full size or HD pick-ups or Full size SUVs navigating in those touristic protected downtowns.
That's the only thing that's left from the European era but still those tend to be touristic places so many mexicans will go at least once.
I avoided at all cost since my suburban barely fits, but you will still see tons of suburbans, sierras, RAMs and such there
You sure handled that big one like a pro!
This vid is very painful to watch and reminded me of my father a his beloved 69 Dodge Phoenix 400. Once dad misjudged the distance and hit the house and the house shook! So much so we all came running outside to see what had happened. The car only suffered a scuffed bumper bar though. Yep dad was always looking for the double parking spot so he could drive straight through. Thanks Ed, another brilliant vid!
🙏🏼🙏🏼 love this new type of video
Hi from Sydney , Australia, in 2 weeks I have been driving my EVEN BIGGER 1974 Cadillac Fleetwood Talisman for 40 years !! There are parts of Sydney , built by the Brit's 200 years ago with the same small dimensions , you soon get used to driving a large car . I was only 26yrs old when I bought the car & now 66yrs old , when purchased as a almost 9 yr old car it had 102,700 kilometres on it , now in August 2022 it has 704,000 k's on it , so has been used daily over the years , after almost 10 yrs ownership , I sold a Jaguar I owned and bought a 1972 Caddy Fleetwood Brougham. I worked at the same book company for over 30 years , when I had my first 10 yrs long service leave , we had moved buildings in the city, our new address did not have our own personal parking garage. The company had leased a large amount of spaces in a commercial car garage. I had been sent my new credit card sized entry card , which had a mini map on it with the floor & space number. The car garage had been extended upwards with more floors at some time , so the ramp location was different , so on the 3rd highest floor up it was in a corner, not in the middle. With the steering on hard lock , and correctly placed on the curved angled ramp there was no way the car would make it up any further, so I had to get out and get about 20 cars to back up, as when I investigated , all the down ramps were in corners of the floors and I could not get down on any floor. The car park manager had to turn the boom gates off so i could drive down all the up ramps. The outcome was I was given a space right outside his office near the passenger lifts. My big black Cadillac , or the white one became talking points as clearly where they were parked was a dedicated preferential space. Registered for business use, so all costs claimed against tax has meant they have been serviced regardless of cost and now at near 50 yrs of age, both the two of them look like new.
Now some 30+ years later , I will never forget the anger & cranky faces of all the waiting people in their cars as I drove down all the up ramps to get back to the ground floor it was very funny , I was dying with laughter considering the idiot building architect that made such tight ramps only small cars could realistically use .
Re the environment, There is so little plastic or non Bio' substances in the car , if just left , the car would basically decompose back into the ground , e.g. with real woolen carpet, hessian & wool waste sound deadening, Leather & fabric seats, woolen fabric headlining, Chromed steel bumpers , Steel car body & engine,, it will basically all decompose back into the ground . Whereas most modern cars are plastic and composite resin nightmares that will still be intact in a another 1,000 years, let alone spent battery cells .
Great video Ed. Even longer would have been the Electra 225. But you know that.
Cadillac Fleetwood Seventy Five would be the ultimate challenge. Presumably you know that as well.
Hilarious , working for Enterprise truck rental and trying to find parking spaces for the extended bed Ford F-250 is ridiculous lol
Never before have I laughed and stressed out over a video. Brilliant maneuvering
Here in south Brazil, fully with narrow streets, a haritage from the portuguese colonization back in 1700, a Chevrolet Cavalier its considered a landyacht. Imagine a Buick like these. Nice video!
Oddly, the Dutch are noted to be genetically one of the largest groups of people on earth, and yet the build tiny streets and drive tiny cars.
I know, I have Dutch genes. I had two uncles that we’re about the size of Kevin Nash.
Watching you take them tight corners got me clenching my behind😅
Ed... I love your channel!! I try to watch every one of your videos! Keep it up, my friend!!
Always entertaining! Meanwhile here in Canada, I could easily park 8-9 of those Buicks on my paved driveway … in our National Capital (Ottawa) … I don’t even live in the countryside. Cheers!
But … at $1.87 a litre for petrol, I can’t afford to fill it!