Let's drive classics! BMW Isetta, 2CV on a road run for Drive It Day 2024! Plus tractors!
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- Опубликовано: 22 апр 2024
- What a great day out! Two car meets, and a VERY scenic drive in Wales for Drive It Day. We see my 2CV in action, plus an unexpected ride in a BMW Isetta and a huge range of classics in action from Porsche 911 to Escorts and Fiestas. Oh, and lots of tractors because rural.
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Car of the day.......Escort 1300E. My first car in 1982 when I was 19. Mine was Purple too. Loved that car. Unfortunately my bag of driving talent wasn't a full as I thought and I wrote it off on a bend on a wet night. Happy days.
My brother had a David Brown tractor from the 60’s here in the states. I got to drive it around. Pretty fun.
My late grandad worked on a farm so drove tractors from the 1950's onwards. He told me in those days you would have a huge sheepskin lined coat when ploughing if the weather was bad. He told me once of how he accidentally ploughed his coat into the field and so had to plough it back out lol. That mk1 Fiesta brought back great memories of the first car I drove, my mums 1978 1100L in Jupiter red AAT75S. When it was retired in 1994 due to serious internal wing rot it had done over 150k miles and still didn't burn oil. I think we took the head off once and decoked it and lapped the valves in. The engine then went into another Mk1 fiesta and carried on with nothing but a new clutch and fluids. They were great engines. As always a great video Ian and Carly :-) thanks for sharing
They were a universal cab fitted to several makes of Tractors back in the day. It’s called a Duncan cab.
I’ll go and hang my anorak back in the cupboard now 😁
Lambourn also made cabs for tractors as well.
I love the juxtaposition of two big cats eyeing each other up at 22:05
There's a '67 MF135 still working for Radford Autograss Club here in Worcestershire. Sits there idling away all meeting, hot oil seeping from every gap in the engine, then roaring off to water the track pulling a huge bowser. Has to be smelled to be believed!
Really a very nice meet. Great classics. And it seems the farmer protests are also everywhere in Europe. The farmers here in Germany are also in protest.
The tour is really great to see. These narrow roads and everything. Absolutely great to watch. Nice cars, nice route, nice landscape ... great trip!
Love it when Miss Hubnut pronounces the Welsh place names.
like the Jaguar parked in front of the ornamental lions, great set up Ian. Great watching the convoy along the country lane.
Elly the Porsche chaser! Well done, nice to see a bit of sunshine.
I have always loved the A40 Farina - all the charms of the bigger Farina cars in a manageable classic - and very tuneable for historic motorsport
Another A40 Farina fan! My first car in 1967 was a '59. Terrible brakes for the very steep hills of Seattle though.
Great video of the show and run, some nice cars there, top stuff.
The brown fiesta was the star of the show for me
Flat twin, flat 4 and flat 6 in convoy 😊
For me, the cars of the show were the brown Fiesta 1.1L (same age as my late father's Cortina 80) and the purple Escort 1300E. My first year biology teacher had one of these and I remember seeing it outside the pub we lived adjacent to one lunchtime, on the day we broke up for Christmas holidays in 1976. I swear my teacher was doing a very good impression of Rudolph when we got back to school... 🤣
The cabs on the 135's were all Duncan cabs. Pre 1970's all teactors were cables & any tractor with a can was supplied via companies like Duncan
A stopie in Elly …..WoW good effort Ian
I learned to drive in a purple Mk 1 Escort in 1976 Great mixture of vehicles, great fun 😊
My parent's family circle seemed to have one of those floating around, theres a photo i seem to have misplaced that doesn't quite show the reg, would love to know where it is or what happened to it, can't tell when the photo was taken but it had to be mid 80s or so, had some silver and black 4 spoke wheels but if there was a classic car i could have, i'd love to pay respect to that car, the surprise to drive one up to the house with mum sitting to see that smile on her face would make my year. Really hope it wasn't scrapped and one day i may find it again.
This brings me happiness. Thanks to all involved!
A beautiful event.
What a lovely collection of cars. Many of them look too nice to drive 😮 Another well put together video 👍
I did a whole lot of repairs to a BMW isseta back in 1974, a friend owned it, I took it for a drive and the gear lever came off in my hand going through the junction at the roman catholic church in Cambridge and I managed to stall it there just as a bus started to cross. What followed was like something from on the buses as I was trying to restart it while putting the gear lever back and the owner who was the passenger at the time tried to get out.
That was a brilliant video! The journey in the 2CV with Carly at the wheel was just amazing. You two really are living the dream......God Bless.😎👍
Sadly Carly was never at the wheel of Elly. That joy is still to come.
Looks like an awesome day out, thanks for sharing 😊👍
Love that red Porsche 968.
thank you so much HubNuts. a real nostalgia trip. most cars in this video should have disolved years ago. some cars just get lucky.
@ 3.03 Pedantically, that version of the 1800 is simply called an 1800S, the P prefix was dropped in 1963 after production moved to Sweden.
12:13 I was watching an old episode of the German car show "Autotest" the other day, and it reviewed the then-new Renault 16. The highlight for me was right at the end where the car is being driven at speed round a banked circuit - and it is level! Goodness knows what those torsion bars were doing...
I owned a BMW Isetta 300 in the late 1960s. It cost me £15 to buy. Mine was right hand drive. I wish I still had it!
What a fab day out, great how the "lesser" classics really hold their own with the big hitters. Love the registration on that Bentley 😄
My dad's Mk.5 Cortina Estate was the same colour as that Fiesta. Back in 1980 it was the mutt's nuts. Looked great with orange gingicators and driving + fog lamps.
The blue Escort @9:28 is a classic BDA(or derivative) engine.
What a super video. I love the fact that the tractors are front and centre, and it’s heart warming to see the dedication that goes into all the vehicles. Top video, thank you the Hubnuts!
Great to see a Morris Oxford still on the road! 👀👍
Epic adventure hubsters crusing threw little Britain as well WATCH OUT4 MAN IN WHEELCHAIR 😮!
Absolutely brilliant video Ian miss hubnut ❤👍 always a spectacular turn out loved that old fiesta in Roman bronze brown I remember learning to drive in a MK2 Capri that was Roman bronze brown brilliant
Brilliant little Drive it Day Video, some nice cars that came along. Also nice to a few mark 1 Ford Focus' or Foci as well at Devils Bridge.
Fantastic Seeing The Contrast In all the Vehicles but even more impressive was to see a field that looks dry and not have massive puddles in it ... Great Video 👍👍
As Gary Barlow would say, that’s my idea of a very nice day out.
@ 1.30 love me a Pasha upholstery interior.
i had the blue mk 1 RS and also a signal orange mk 2 RS, i wondered where they had gone. ahh memories beautiful.
another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
I was a tractor fan as a kid, i had tractor Pj's, tractor wallpaper, toy tractors, then one day it all went Pete Tong, and i became
An Extractor fan 😄😁
I started working on the railways, but later I became an exporter.
Did you become a dentist?
Yeah we have a Steve muller model 2002 in the kitchen!
Lovely video Ian thank you for sharing, we was heading back to London when we passed the RS2000
Most 1960's tractors were made without cabs. Many manufacturers used aftermarket cabs such as Duncan and Winsum. In the 1970's safety cabs were required by law to prevent fatalities due to roll overs. The Massey tractors in the video have Duncan cabs aparts from the one with a schirocco safety cab
Everything was out for drive it day including steam locomotives at the Severn Valley Railway as it was the spring steam gala. Saw a few convoys and lone cars including a last generation Cavalier LS which turned up at Hampton Loade Station.
Nice show. I wish we have classic cars like these in South Korea and here in Singapore.
My grandpa had a Massey-Ferguson 135 till around the mid-2000's. Hauled countless tonnes of logs and potatoes in its day.
Untiring little beasts.
Only the one little grey Fergie and no Fordson's or Field Marshall's in sight. Not surprising as was not a specific vintage run. Love the starting procedure on many FM's. a blank shotgun cartridge and an hammer.
Oh we certainly have Field Marshalls in these parts. See my Teifi Valley Vintage Show report from last summer.
That Escort van is a beaut. A big part of me would still love to own one
Thanks Ian & Carly always love the Gilbern. Love the mark 1 Escort & Fiesta. Passed my test in a mark 2 Escort. The Beetle reminded me my parents had a 1956 1200 with 6 volt electrics.
Lovely lovely lovely. Thanks for sharing. 👍👍👏👏😁
My 1st car bought in 1986 was a Mk1 Ford Escort 1300E. It had a re-bored 1600 engine from a Capri. I fell in love with a walnut dash and ' luxury' when my uncle turned up on Christmas Day 1975 in a maroon Bentley with cream leather seats to take us to his house for Christmas dinner.
I still don't understand why a vinyl roof on the 1300E was seen as luxury
At 1:23, It’s rare enough to see a Pasha interior in a 928, but I’ve never seen one in a 911. Crazy checkerboard Op Art design! The perfect shoes to wear when driving that car would be some Van’s Checkerboard slip-ons. :)
My grandad had an Isetta and a bubblecar (I think) called a Messerschmitt...Must have also been of German origin! I remember him telling me about when he once met up with his brother in law who had parked up his Humber Snipe that was towing a caravan....they swapped the Humber over with the Isseta, just to get people's reactions...."How do you tow that, with that?"
Funny that on that run Ellie was as fast as the 911 that you were sitting hard on the tail of & you probably had the smoother ride.
Great selection of vehicles, fantastic roads. I miss driving the Welsh back roads
My first car was a white Ford Escort mark 2 Ghia 4 door with a green interior.
Madame HubNut looks great today! Tres chic👍
Lovely Cortina.....my dad had a 1.6 mk5 Crusader. I remember it well. When the alternator went, we used a Granada one and rotated it to fit the other side.....back in the days when AA patrols carried Granada alternators 😂😂😂 When the cambelt snapped we just put another one on. All was well 😂😂. If it was the 2.0 we'd have needed a new car 😂😂
Nice cars! My favourite this time: the red Ford Escort RS 2000. I always liked the front with this black grill. Also very cool: MiniHubNut’s yellow rubber boot style on every event. See you soon - Martin
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The omission of rear door-handles disguising a FOUR DOOR Escort RS2000 in the same way an Alfa 156 did in series. Interesting!
I was going to say!!
I've never seen that! (ie on a Ford Escort)
Were those rear doors welded shut?
@@mattw8332 Hard to tell, but sometimes they have a mechanism where you can open them through remote...
I wonder if 'Fowd' considered a four-door RS2000 at the time to compete with BL's Dolly Sprint. For a handful of domestic sales against an ageing model from a moribund marque may not have been worth their consideration.
4 door RS2000 Mark 2 Escorts were made in Australia. I haven’t seen any with welded up rear doors though.
Looks like a fun little run, as you say this kind of active meet is really becoming popular. There's one around here coming up soon which I should have booked in for really. Maybe next time ...
Yes, at one time Lloyd motors sold both Ford and Renault as well as Volvo.
There are grey Fergies working round here as well as 35s etc. They'll fit through small gaps and don't churn up the ground like a heavier tractor.
You wouldn't have wanted to meet something like that big Claas coming the other way on those mountain roads, especially if it was towing something.
Hi I hope I will join you next year in my 15:02 1993.tvr chimaera great video thanks 😊
On 11th May is my town’s classic car meet (Millport, Isle of Cumbrae) will make a video of the event.
Great to see classics being used. We went to Dalemain House near near Penrith on drive it day: good selection of classics on show .
The aforementioned comedy series also cost Ceredigion County Council a small fortune as some fans of the show kept on liberating the village name signs.
The area east of Llandewi Brefi is beautiful. I recommend you try the road past Soar y Mynnyd to Rhiandyrmyn, and you can even stay at Tyncornel youth hostel if you are feeling adventurous.
My fave vids!
Mrs Hubnut: 'when i was little '.....😂
At some point you mention that you might review the landcrab. That would be very welcome, even thought i would prefer the review of a mk II Austin..... Childhood memories...😊
nice to see your relationship blossom❤
I saw a Sierra XR4i, Triumph Herald Convertible, and a 1950s era Chevrolet, I think, in white and primrose yellow, at the weekend, it must have been in relation to this (Drive it day I mean, not specifically this event)
Ford escorts a plenty tractors and a ride in a BMW Isetta what a great day
Claas tractors once were Renault tractors. Claas buyed that part from Renault years ago.
If you have a look at the front of the David Brown tractors they have a badge with the initials DB on them. Aston Martin also use DB as model designations. This is the same man’s initials he owned David Brown tractors and the Aston Martin car company.
David Brown gears still exists in Huddersfield! Although owned by a capital management company now.
Looking like a fairly late Spring. especially higher elevations.
Yup. Has been so cold.
For he’s a jolly good Fiesta, for he’s a jolly good Fiesta….
Devils Bridge ? I visited there as a kid, over 50 years ago. Great video thanks
To me it's synonymous with the Vale of Rheidol railway.
Ironic to see the E type parked near a statue of a lion looking down on it
What did Miss Hubnut think of the number plate on the Bentley ? 20:21
I saw the aftermath of a twin cam engine that snapped its exposed belt after picking up a stone. Covers are not optional. 😮
And an expensive business if it’s the BDA/BDG in the blue mk2 that lets go
theres more beetles in uk hardly any in germany
Many years ago I bought a Isseta paid £15 for it ran it for a while, then took body off, and used remaining chassis as a field car. I bet the red one worth a bit more now.
£20-40k
@@nicholasamesbury I scrapped loads of old British bikes, and cars. Many years ago. Yes I’m kicking myself now.
Did the the jag driver park next to the other big cat to to show who is in charge.
I’m amazed you didn’t come across people coming the opposite way😮
Shows how quiet the roads are here!
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That Cortina in the thumbnail is yummy
my very first car was a K reg (LPJ 946K to be precise) VW Beetle. I say yellow, but it was mostly made of air 🙂
were you on the Llanwrda road?
Great cars and spectacular views, what more do you want? Thanks for sharing!👍
Very enjoyable video. 1.09 spoiler alert....Hang on, this is mid Wales - where are all the tatty mud encrusted Zetor tractors? Shame they've just announced the closure of the air ambulance base in Welshpool - supposedly replacing the local helicopter with two fast ambulances - have they actually driven Welsh roads in Winter???
Aye. Very sad news about the air ambulance situation.
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What was the programme called ? Love the classic car run by the way
Little Britain.
We have a MF135 and a 2021 New Holland and the 135 is still better at a lot of jobs on the farm.
Heeelllooo from Norway :) Which comedy show was filmed in that small town you drove through?and what what was the name of the " small town":? looks beautifull. Thank you . Greetings from Norway ,Stefan :)
Little Britain was the show.
Well here's an utterly random "oohhhhhh, that's where it came from!!!" moment for me, I had a radio alarm clock up until about 2007 (lost in a house move) that had the wrong knob on one of the controls, and that UEJ Fiesta and its' Matsui radio, THAT'S the knob right there, had that thing since about 1998 set up like that with the wrong knob cos I think said knob came from my dad's "could be useful someday" drawer... :P
Bubble car, that's the gear lever on the right - err are you sure 😂😂
Oops.
Not a Subaru in sight.
Great show. BTW, have You ever seen Soviet tractors in the UK?
In Soviet Russia, you do not see tractor...tractor sees you 😂😂😂
Can you give me some brands?
@@HubNut Belarus/MTZ mostly.
Belarus have been sold here from time to time
@@AndreiTupolev thanks a lot.
You all need a Chevy Corvair! Flat 6 before Porsche!
I loved the one I drove in NZ.
and similar driving characteristics. I had a sixty-one coupe airvair which was great fun, as long as you didn't lift off in a bend. But with the powerglide, you never had to lift off. lol
Llanddewi Brefi? Are you going to pop into the pub, to be served a Bacardi and coke by Myfanwy and have a chat with Daffyd Thomas, the only gay in the village? 😂😂😂
Ah...I was going to ask what show the village featured in.