1974 Bricklin SV-1 | The Forgotten Gullwing Door Sports Car
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The 1974 Bricklin SV1 is probably the most forgotten gullwing door sports car ever and in this video we review the Bricklins SV-1 gullwing doors and take it out on the road for a test drive.
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I own a 1975 and really like it. People can say what they want about it "good or bad , but there's something to be said about a car from 1975 that's still around today (2020) that I'm still driving..... after owning one , I plan on keeping it.
They are still very cool cars and to your point they are still around after getting a bad reputation with quality. Thanks for watching!
I have two of them a 74 4 speed#753 and a 75 #2116 . After you work out a few bugs and update the cooling system they are great cars. They draw more attention than almost any other car.
I wish there could be a comeback for cars like the bricklin and delorean, I really wish sometime in the near future someone would revamp the sv1 with more modern features
I just found out about this car and I’m in love with it
Its a really cool and interesting car!
Nice seeing the old Burbank Fry’s again. I used to shop there.
You’ll see a Countach on the street before you’ll see a Bricklin. I’ve always been fascinated by them, but being 6’ 3” it wouldn’t work for me. You’ve done an outstanding job showing it.
Can't really be critical, but the review was comprehensive and gave us a truly independant review where apart from the looks (as it does look a bit "home made"), but seems to drive well
Thanks for the review!
You're a diamond in the rough IMHO, buddy. Keep up with the good work and good content. Looking forward to the next video.
Appreciate it, thanks for watching!
I always did like those Bricklins. Way cool Car!
same here, the gullwing doors are the epitome of cool! Thanks for watching
I remember the 74 Bricklin SV1 when it came out with the Gull Wing Doors and the Safety Front Bumper!
I wouldn't mind doing a 2018 5.0L Coyote and 10sp 10R80 Auto Trans Swap!...Now that would be Interesting!...I am Just Saying!...God Bless!
Hey David that would be pretty cool indeed! Thanks for watching!
Drive Steady thanks for the video and channel keep up the great work I subscribe also another hood forgotten car brand is Iso good logo they had
Just build the 351 it will go to 456 ci and you can get around 700 hp with the original engine
I have never seen a car before or since the Bricklin that can pull off the hat trick that only the Bricklin SV-1 can manage. This is a car that was built in 1974. This car came way before the Delorean, and it made the Delorean look like a woman trying to hike her dress up, very unflattering from the front! I am watching this video in 2022, I was 15 when the car hit the market in 1974. The care was carried by Woodson Pontiac of Roanoke VA, and they also debuted the Delorean in the mid 1980's. Malcome Bricklin was very committed on producing a performance sports car, that could share accolades with the Corvette, and impact a solid brick wall at 70 MPH! And the driver would be able to walk away from the car without injury, and NO AIRBAG, restrained by only the car's 3 point shoulder and lap belt. A feet one of the pre-production vehicles actually pulled off! There was no astray, or cigarette lighter in the vehicle, as Mr. Bricklin considered smoking in a vehicle a fire hazard, unsafe, a distraction, and of course unhealthy. That would be a real thorn in the car's future back in the day, especially in the tobacco states, and Ford Motor Corporation had already debuted the 1972 - 1973 Tareyton Mach 1 Mustang. I kid you not, but I think it was a giveaway promotion of a car by the cigarette company. While not all the rage that they have become today, power windows were not an option at any price! Why, well if the vehicle went turtle, or went for a swim. Manual old fashioned crank windows would guarantee the occupants could exit the car if the gull wing doors became inoperative. Or failed to function after hitting a brick wall at 70 MPH! Finally, the car would be the star vehicle for the 1977 horror movie, that I strongly recommend you watch if you have not seen it! The motion picture was called, "Demon Seed," and Ewe, Weeeee, it was very, very, very, um, uh, hmmmm, lets see, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft was 16 or 17 at the time I do believe, apples still grew on trees, and A.I., was all WTF, decades before WTF, became a thing! One could say the movie was an inspiration to Mr. Gates, dunno, everything in the movie was not supposed to be until the next century, and nobody was going to live that long, not even me! And here we are, tahhh Dahhhhh! With the Bricklin still pulling off its 1974 Hat trick two years shy of a HALF A CENTURY LATER! You can say what you want folks! Time Is irrelevant, does not exist, has no presence, no influence, no governance in the shadow of a vehicle that is incapable of telling time! It was the next century in the 20th century, and it is next century in the 21st century, It is a shame in the 25th century all we may know of its existence will be in a photograph. A pristine example will not exist parked somewhere screaming in 2622 I will still look awesome in 3535! Course A.I. will have probably contained the threat by then, humankind will exist virtually on a chip of martin silicate 1/100th the size of a fly's eye and all earth will be doing is rotating in the sound of absolute silence and the sun wondering WTF, who shut them up!
Thanks for the positive review, these are nice cars once some of the technical issuess are resolved, they were built beyond the technology of the rime but modern tech solves most of the issues
Thanks for watching Rick. They really are great cars.
Is the owner of this car in the market to sell it. Please let me know
Beyond the tech? They were literally cobbled together from existing car parts.
@@jackmorrison8269 they used as many readily available parts as they could to reduce development time and costs. yes it was beyond the tech of the day, they were the largest vacuum formed panels at the time, the resin chemistry of the era was not what it is today nor was the adhesive tech. fit and finish was improving but the general industry wide fit and finish was pretty bad at the time
Saw one of these when I was visiting my hometown about 8 yrs ago. Thought it was a mid-80s Corvette at first but I saw the owner and he told me about it. I'd never seen one before.
Love your presentation (are you related to Christopher Walken?) :-) Hearing about the car from you has rekindled my love for a car my Father fell in love with. The Scottsdale, Arizona PD used a couple as Interceptors but the bad guys always got away before the doors could open! I'm thinking of hoarding all the remaining SV-1s
I had an orange '74 automatic and love it. The AMC V8 has 220 hp. 2906 cars were built. The color of the interior of the car you're driving is wrong. Should be brown and not orange. The Bricklin is a cool car that can be updated. The problems of the car are fixable. Cooler car than a Corvette or the copycat DeLorean.
Ok. Someone commented if the car was crashed, that was it. Not so. Many Bricklins were crashed and because of their strength, were rebuilt. The car had many improvements AFTER the factory closed due to its many fans. It was the most underrated car ever made.
Best review I have ever seen the bricklin is not a good car but a great car👍👍👍👍👍.
Thanks Drive Steady for posting this 74' Bricklin! I've always thought of them as I owned a 74' Javelin/AMX with a 401. That was one of my favorite cars. I'm confident after seeing this I would love an AMC powered 4-spd Bricklin and would compete it for sure. I'm imagining mine with an Aluminum Indy 500 CI AMC block or just doing a 6.2L Hellcat swap and adding some Brembo or Willwoods. Maybe add some 4.44 gears in the AMC 20 with Moser Axles.
That would be a really fun car to drive!
sounds like stout upgrades!
Excellent review, thanks for posting!
Very well done documentary
"Built for safety," but the door can kill you?
Basically 🤣
St John New Brunswick yo! Now the original doors took almost 20 seconds to close IF they worked at all. I love the car, always wanted one.
I was surprised on how well the doors work on this example
@@DriveSteady Yes that is how Malcolm Bricklin always wanted them to work!
Excellent review. I enjoyed your video, thanks. And, yes, a very cool car.
I’ve been dreaming about getting one of these feels like a delorean mixed with a corvette, but I’m 6’5” I’m wondering if I could modify the seats so that I could fit. 🤔🤔🤔
A very unique car as the Bricklin i noticed it has the same GM body colored sport mirors used on most GM fleet of cars from 1973 til 1987
Key ignition is the same with GM cars/trucks and AMC cars.
Omg it was like a spaceship when you closed the door
Corvettes aren’t easy to get in/out either.
An Arizona police department got them for their patrol cars
It's a beautiful car. Too bad it has to be junk. It looks a lot like the Delorean, but came with a front mounted V8 engine and 5 lug wheels. I wonder who designed it. I'm sure it wasn't Malcom Bricklin. Looks like an Italian design to me. I have owned a 1976 Corvette for more than 25 years. I definitely wouldn't call it a sports car. I think of it more as a cruiser. It has a carbureted 350 crate engine and TH350 automatic transmission in it. It has A/C, power steering and power brakes. It had cruise control, but it didn't work, and I couldn't find parts to fix it.
My understanding is that Malcom Bricklin was somewhat of a con man, much like Floyd Clymer. His only interest was making money. He likely cut his losses and took off. BTW, it was Malcom Bricklin that imported the Yugo into the U.S.
The owner painted a car that had a colour impregnated, acrylic body? Are you sure? Why would they do that?
Bonito deportivo 😊💯💢💯👍
The tax payers of New Brunswick spent $23 million subsidizing the Bricklin. Divided by 3,000 cars produced and New Brunswick spent about $7,500 for every car Bricklin produced.
Sweet video my dude! Btw would you happen to know the name and brand of the air shock system the owner used for the doors?
Thanks! I can ask and let you know
@@DriveSteady that would be awesome! Thank you so much!
Hey I got a hold of the owner. It's custom system built by some gentlemen in Virginia. Unfortunetly, no additional details.
I know this is an old posting but I just come across it I took my hydraulic cylinders and just put an air pump and made a air Reservoir out of an old fire extinguisher used adjustable air Mufflers to control the flow up and down and it works perfect
@@jamesyates3140dies Try to look up Terry Tanner in Danville, VA. He used to have all the tooling, dies, a boat load of parts and was the go to Bricklin man through probably 2005.
WOW. A build cost of 16K and sell price of 5K, not a a smart business venture.
I saw one in incredible shape for only 15k
Why Doug DeMuro not see this car yet?
Values are going up
Watch the St Louis Auto Show video with a bricklin in it
This guy can't get his words out.
The center consul was added later. It is not original to 1974.
Cool car, your camera mans nose hairs whistling was really distracting.
Nice review! Check out these videos on RUclips: "MotorWeek Bricklin" "Greg Drives The Bricklin" "2018 Bricklin Grand National".
Actually, the Bricklin was a badly designed vehicle. The reason the doors had to be refitted was because they would crack the paint job every time you closed the doors. Malcolm Bricklin was a rip off artist.
The cars were not painted they were finished in acrylic .
Thanks for the seizure at 00:29
I was going to watch this, until I was attacked by that awful music. A deal breaker.
If you are 4feet and fat don't worry on your left there is a paper were you can read the phone numbers of hospitals police therapists assistant and a song that says don't worry be happy......