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For the time.. the cars were pretty expensive for what they were

very educational and I'd like to know more about arizona motorsports history!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can only afford to buy 10+ year cars at the moment and the amount of the people who don't know if a cam belt has been changed is unbelivable.🤨

Great tips! I'd also add to make sure you are NOT being paid in counterfeit cash. Make sure you know how to identify legit cash denominations. What I do when selling a major purchase like a vehicle is demand payment via a Cashier's Check from a local bank. I then call the bank to verify the check BEFORE I sign the title over. Do NOT call the number on the check. Find the bank's number yourself. I will NOT accept personal checks for obvious reasons.

great video!!! love scooby ❤️🐶

George Jetson was born in the year 2022? I thought the Jetsons was set far wider into the future.

Shout out to astro

That was pretty neat, didn't know any of that. Great job.

When I was 17 and fresh out of Coast Guard boot camp, I was willing to trade my "left n*t" for a Gremlin 401XR, but was told that they were all taken, sold out.... so I wasted my money on a cherry '66 GTO and fast women instead. Now I'd rather have the Gremlin. I DID score a '69 AMX a few years later though, which rocked my friggin' socks and outran all my pony car owning friends, at least in the corners.

My ultimate dream car these were ment to just break hearts

Kaiser Darrins were produced by Kaiser Motors, in Jackson, Mi. in a specialty plant that Kaiser used for any car for the Kaiser family, and car with a supercharger, the 4 door convertible and the Darrin

My first car was a black and white Metropolitan.I loved that little car 😊 I think it was a 1962 even tho it says the the last was 1961 It was a 1500 model

Where is "Beep, Beep" by the Playmates? Perfect soundtrack

i spent hours of my child hood pumping the brakes on numerous metro's as my dad bled the brakes, both dad & grandpa got into the metro's in the 70's and owned 8 or 9 ,, granddad even helped create the metropolitan club of america, he was # 6 in the club before passing in the 80's..my brother still has grandpa's red 59 metro convertible. if your wondering where the battery goes look under the rear seat .

The Lois Lane car

So how do they drive?

They were good pavement inspection vehicles cause after 10 years they had no floors 🎉

When I was in High School around 1965 a friend of mine had a Metropolitan and we had a lot of fun driving it around.

I delivered pizza in a '54 convertible that my dad dropped a 1.6 L MG engine in, it was pretty quick when you could hit the right gear with that column mounted mystery shifter

In the 1980s, I used to occasionally see a pink and white Metropolitan when driving to work. The driver, a young lady, always wore a white blouse and pink sweater and had pink hair ribbons. She must have really loved that little car!

I had no idea these had back seats! I always assumed they were two-seaters.

I bought my first car in 1967 from a friends dad for 75 dollars, it was a red and white 59 Metropolitan, I loved that car, my girlfriend called it the bug . It got about 45 miles to the gallon and I never took my foot off the accelerator. lol It sat in a field a few years and the underneath rotted out, so I always had brake problems , I finally sold it and bought a 1968 Pontiac Firebird with a 400 ram air engine , and a 4 speed , talk about night and day.If I could go back and have either car in perfect shape,just to drive , not to sell, I would be driving my Metro.

I remember seeing a junked one years ago, but it had a flathead engine while here they show an overhead valve engine. Did they use both?

Friend had one in Montana in the late 60s. It was underpowered and rough but it started even in sub zero temperatures and that E shaped shift pattern was hard to get used to.

I always liked the metropolitan thought that they were cool car's great video i didn't know that thair was 4 types wen I was growing up my grandma had a calvanater water heater i wonder if it was made by the same company ?

The Nash Metropolitan is what results from crossing an A35 with an ice-cream vendors fridge.

I grew up in Mesa Az. there were a few of these wheeling around town, one of them was pink.

Find something else to do.

This video is great. Now at 75 years old, the video reminds me of my father's friend who had a Metropolitan in the 1950's when I was 8 or 10. It was so small compared to other cars at the time, I thought it kind of odd. Thank you for the memories.

I had a worker friend of mine ( in the 80's ) had a Nash Metropolitan coupe that was green and white in color and when I was about 13 ( in 1960 ) my older stepbrother had a friend that had Metro and all 3 of us went fishing in that car

I believe that the Metropolitan uses a 3 speed gearbox? Austin never had one in their inventory, so it was presumably the 4 speed with first gear blanked off, and a lower final drive ratio to compensate. They must have figured that Americans would not have coped with 4 gears. The early Austin Healeys used the same trick but for different reasons - the more powerful motor would have stripped the teeth off first gear, so it was blanked off. If you want a quicker Metropolitan, the drivetrain is similar enough to MGB that this would be a good way to go. Oh, the Mini Minor pictured was the Morris version, not Austin. Just a different grille and badging.

It would ha e been hilarious if this little car used direct refrigerator parts, like ice cube trays for in-dash storage or refrigerator door handles for the doors.

What was the point of the closed wheel fenders on the front?

The cars in minions were French vehicles not Nash Metro's.

Turn signals built into the steering wheel hub was typical of '30s-'50s British cars. By the time the Mini came along (actually a '60 model year launch - another quirk of old British cars is that for decades their big Motor Show was held in October but new launches were not considered "next year's model") they had gone to an almost-conventional stalk, but with the green internal light on the tip of it. Also, on the right side of the column on home-market RHD cars.

Austin also was the main manufacturer of London black taxis. It's a shame their steering gear was never specified in combination with opening up the front fenders, to really make the most of the USP of low-speed maneuverability.

The Minions' car looks like a mashup of the Met and a (Fiat 500-based) Autobianchi Bianchina.

Oddly stilted narration kills what could have been an interesting story

Around 1960 some hot rodder in Dallas stuffed a small block Chevy with a Latham blower into one of these cars and raced it at Green Valley.

Thanks for the mid video reminder...I subscribed.

The metropolitan is so small that I couldn't even sit in it - had to stick my head out the window - not enough room to put my head between my legs either. The car was a complete waste of material unless you are a midget.

Many years ago I owned three of those little buggers (I still have the owners books) you have to watch those sneaky little devils. The door hinges would rust out and when you least expecting it and opened the door the damn thing could fall off and land on your toe.! The engine mounts tend to rust off too.

It’s KELVINATOR not CALVINATOR as you’re pronouncing it

These cars always look like they will have very poor steering lock.

Had a ride in an Austin Metropolitan in 1964, didn't realise what a special car it was at the time. It was in effect my first ride in an American car until I rented a Buick in San Diego in 1988

HI, I am 69 years old, have owned over 250 cars, will always remember this one because it was the first car I owned. My parents had given it to me and boy we had some real great times in it.

I have a Randall plate frame on my eagle. gotta represent my hometown

Awesome video and awesome cars!

I cant buy that hurst painted the later in B scheme, to speed up production. My sc is a factory A scheme, and has a fairly late vin#. The vin# on mine is later than almost all of them ive seen.

People think its a 390 ford engine its not