Mussolini changed it to the right when he unified the independent principalities into modern Italy that we know today. There was a mixture between some left and some right after WWI. Fiat still produces RHD vehicles for people that live in the Alps as safer to have the drop on the driver's side. Alpine roads had the edges marked with white lines and b&w poles until the late 70's. A crumbling stone wall on the bends wouldn't stop a Vespa. Nor does Armco stop a 44 tonne truck.
Sweden waited until 1967, while neighboring countries Norway and Denmark have always driven on the right. Well, right-hand driving was officially adopted by law in 1793 for both countries that at the time were in the Dano-Norwegian Realm constitution. Iceland was the last country in Europe to switch to driving on the right in 1968.
WOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Mr. Hubnut in my home city!!!!!! What an absolute honor!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 Ian, I love your videos and I really hope you 're having a great time here ☺️☺️ Tanti cari saluti da un tuo fan torinese ☺️
I knew that FIAT made more than cars in the past, having worked at FIAT as a car mechanic for 14 years, but the refrigerator and such were new to me. Thanks Ian for this tour.
My fav brand of cars ! So creative and innovative since the begining with so many different models and engines for every taste. Sadly it all ended around the time when it seemed the new school 500 was all they could do. Being bought out by Peugeot is something I can't accept.
The Shiguli is the internal brand and predates the Lada name, which was used for Export only originally. The Shiguli / Lada is for most an iteration of the Fiat 124 but was significantly changed to meet russian road and weather conditions. It was made not only at the Togliattograd factory in Russia but has been built for the domestic market by different russian car-makers like for instance LuAZ in Ukraine. They use a different engine for the Lada, which was higher combusted and put out more power. The suspension was strengthened and so was the heating. The Polski Fiat was founded in 1921 already - originally only a sales division. But from the mid-30s as a final assembly work and much later a full-vested production company. They produced a number of Fiats wheras the Lada sibling Polski Fiat 125p was based on the more plush Fiat 125 model. It was available in the West as FSO 125p as well. Thanks for sharing !
@@duboisthierry292Ironically he and his companions organized strikes against Fiat in the 1920s and almost turned them into bankrupcy. But he spent a large part of the 1930s and all of WW2 in the soviet union and was a quite active member of the communist party there. BTW: the Shiguli name is derived from the right bank area of the Wolga, on which Togliatti is located. The "list of famous people" from that town solely lists sportspeople. No scientists. No politicians. Not even poets or musicians. What does that tell us about the conditions there ... ? ;-)
Great to see a museum video again on one of your long overdue trips, Ian. Even the new snazzy effects are used with moderation and taste ... rather apt for such a stylish museum. Enjoy your Italian campaign. Hope you can get to the Fiat test track ... on top of a building in Turin! Don't know if that's possible, though ...
Absolutely amazing. Thanks for these pictures, Ian! I love Fiat cars although I have a «special» relationship with this manufacturer. The first car I drove was the 1972 Fiat 127 (900 ccm/40 PS - as seen on the pop art poster) from my sister. A few weeks later I bought my first car. It was a 1979 Fiat 127 (2nd series with 1050 ccm/50 PS). I think the dealer was very happy to get rid of it. Many technical problems and corrosion. A few years and some cars later I bought my only brand new car. A Fiat Punto in yellow (1100 ccm/55 PS). After the warranty everything you can imagine broke on this car. A first class italian desaster. But I'm always happy to see an old Fiat on our streets. See you soon --- Martin
Very interesting, rather like your visit to the DAF museum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands a few years back. I'm hoping one day you get to visit the Škoda Museum at Mlada Boleslav (an hour north of Prague) in Czechia (Czech Republic).
20:42 Sorry, I have to correct you on the myth of the Russian steel... Number 27 did a video on that and the deal with the Russians was done in exchange of oil... Italy produced their own steel at the time but the problem were due to quality and other industrial disputes where the car were left outside not painted... (The story is fuzzy on my part but it wasn't the Russian steel)...
What a great museum. Thank you for showing us around. 19:40 something like that train (see photograph on wall at 19:52) still runs on the single-track circular line at a distance all around the lower slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily. It's red and it featured on the episode of Michael Portillo's Great Continental Railway Journeys covering Palermo, Agrigento, Siracusa and Mascali on Sicily.
Wow! At 7:10 I began drooling over a nice green Fiat 850 only to have it magically turn into a little model on a table in an office setting. I would love to have some cars models in that large of a scale!
13:31 That poster of the Fiat 850 is actually a Spanish one! (It says "two versions of the Fiat 850)... Great video!! I didn't know Fiat made planes, and I grew up in Italy!!!
As a dyed in the wool Fiat fanatic that's possibly my favourite place on the planet, been twice, the first time in 1989 in an X1/9 and again in 2015 in a £150 Uno, it'll be an absolute tragedy if it closes......
Lingotto still has its test track on the roof if memory serves me correctly however the main factory has been turned into a shopping complex I've been told,my last Fiat was a 128 3p berlinetta 1300 cc and would on the odd occasion pull 90 mph in third a cracking little motor. Lovely to look around with you Ian Thankyou.
Went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, there's a plane on the top floor a BAT Bantam , the engine is really clever and seeing that opposed twin cylinder reminded me of it. Think that the Gnome Monosoupape is the engine. Surely that Fiat museum / archive is too important to close.
Ooh, this brings back memories of when I went interrailing in 2022. I stopped by the Alfa Romeo museum when I reached Milan and it was an utterly breathtaking collection. I knew I should've stretched further to Turin!!
Thank you 👍 👍👍👍 I have had the pleasure of working on a fiat 509 and also driving it on a saint Patrick's Day Parade. Afterwards, I took as many people as I could on Joy rides so to share the experience.
The V24 engine I believe was developed for the Schneider Trophy. They explored different ways of getting more power out of their engine but in the end settled on the idea of connecting two of their existing V12's together and sticking a hoofing great big Supercharger on the back. I came across a video about it on UA-cam the other day.
I showed your very interesting look at the Fiat museum to my Dad who come from Turin as a small boy and told me his father could remember watching the British Boming the Fiat works in that time best forgotten It's amazing that all that history still survived . Thank you for showing it.😊
Another absolutely lovely video - thank you Ian! My wife & I are hoping to visit Turin for a few days this April/May. Never been before.But I get the feeling we won’t run out of things to see 😀
Hubnut in tour, fiat have made some beautiful cars over the years , fiat 850 convertible 124 convertible , as a kid of the 70s and teenager of the 80s always loved the 131 supermirafori particularly in orange or black.
8:31 my mum dealt with 2nd hand furniture etc in the 80's and I remember buying a cased version of one of those maps at auction. It had I think 4 main maps showing the roads of the UK 3 England, 1 Scotland and one of a rather small London. You changed the maps and turned a little crank to move it as you progressed along your journey. I paid £5 for it and sold it within a week for £55 to a collector, it was from the 1920's 30's.
A really excellent video from this rare museum and thanks for showing us before it sadly closes its doors I hope they are saving all the vehicles etc and moving them elsewhere
The TV on the 1200TV stood for Turismo Veloce which I imagine translates to Speed Tourer. I have had loads of FIATs in my life. I learnt to drive in my dads Mirafiori 2000 then my first car was a 127, second a Strada, later an Uno and a Mk1 Tipo and eventually a Punto. Can't say that anything out of their modern line up appeals to me though, I took a test drive in a 595 Abarth but the drivers seat wouldn't go back far enough for a six footer. Very interesting video shame its closing down.
8:25 Nope. What you were thinking of is the Napier Deltic - but that's a totally different story. The Commer Knocker has three parallel cylinders, which have a 3-cylinder crankshaft with 3 pistons on the one end - which then also controls 3 pistons on the opposite end with rods and levers. Combustion and work is done in the middle and the gas exchange is done with a scavenging blower via ports in the cylinder walls. No valves. Which makes it a 3-cylinder / 6-piston / opposed-piston / 2-stroke Diesel. 🙂
What a fantastic place do we know what will be happening to the collection when the place closes ? Such beautiful cars, a great video showing us around.
You showed us the Fiat fridges and washing machine. Few people know that we had an equivalent in the UK- Bendix washing machines were part of the BMC / BL empire in the '60's and '70's. As my dad worked for BMC he got a discount on a new Bendix washer. Edit: info on the net says they were part of BMC between 1953 & 68.
What a fantastic collection. They must be mad to close it but that decision may well be outside of Fiat control. I love the comment on the model ship unloading a car that went all HubNut. You're not that bad.... that often 😉. You can't take anything away from Italian designs and Fiat clearly shows this. It was interesting hearing the story of the right hand drive preference that went on for so long. The opposed piston engines in a triangle form with three crankshafts I think (I'm probably wrong) got the nickname Deltic, certainly for the two stroke diesel engines from Napier used in ships and locomotives of years gone by if my hazy brain recalls correctly. Many thanks for sharing.
Hi, where did you hear about impending closure. I have been trying to get an accurate answer for years. I have spent many happy hours in that museum. Did you just fly in for the exhibition ..... wish I was closer than Australia.
Great tour Hubnut. Impressive knowledge of Fiats. Since you missed out the 508C Millicento I will have to visit myself. The 508C was also made in France as a Simca and Germany as an NSU, had an alloy head 4 cyl engine, independent front suspension and hydraulic brakes plus the pillarless 4 door design. How do I know? Ive been trying to finish mine for the last 30 years!
12:50 Behind the helicopter a model of Fiat G.50 fighter plane, surprisingly in Finnish Air Force post-war colours, numbered FA-25, one of 35 served in WW2.
Splendid museum & vidéo. Italy is such a beautiful country and has produced so many superb cars. And If you go to France at your return to UK, try to visit the manoir de l'automobile in Lohéac (Brittany). There's plenty of beautiful cars to see, Tatras, among many others...
I’ll add it to my list. Last year I was very disappointed to be on a work trip which involved driving from Milan to Fano, south of Venice but without time to stop at the Ferrari or Lamborghini museums or even San Marino 😢better planning required next time!
Wow! Some utter beauties on show there! I hope that they all find a new home…….oh, and I’ll take a FIAT fridge please! Hope it’s cooler than the air-con in my Alfa!
Really nice video, the 1100 coupe you quickly went away from because of the beautifull 8v is also very rare and desirable , I do love that a humble family salon was the base for a lot of different more or less one ofs specials. The models in the fantastic ship are fiat 1100 in the first version I believe, the front looks the same as the much bigger 1400 Valenzia
Thanks for that one Ian what an amazing place and will be such a shame if it does close Fiat has done so much amazing stuff and fancy that they were making white goods 👍👍🇦🇺
Fiat Group was a really large conglomerate. Iveco, OM, Magirus, Allis, and others. They had their own companies making steel (Teksid, stil part of Stellantis), refractories, brakes, and every imaginable car/truck component (..Magneti Marelli, now Calsonic, for example... Mopar..) yet they still bought outside, from others, lots of components. They had a media empire (GEDI, Gruppo EDItoriale) that owned some of the most important Italian newspapers (La Stampa , Repubblica.. ). Cars , trucks, bulldozers and tractors were the cash cows iirc. So it used to be a large and really complex group.
Ah you mentioned the Tillings-Stevens 3 cylinder diesel engine with horizontally opposed six piston layout, two stroke supercharged engine. I remember them mainly being fitted to Commer lorries but also fitted to their coaches as an option. They made an interesting sound!
A very good Museum l learnt something from this visit to the FIAT Museum the fact that some of there cars were RHD even the FIAT Tripololino infact l saw one in Balmain Sydney and in Australia been RHD no problem in registering it now but when it came out it didn't matter which side the steering wheel was on but now Australia is very strict on LHD cars there are 1960s Mustangs and Corvettes driving around probably imported before the new laws came in
@@HubNut They were more than likely imported before the law was changed but now it's impossible to import vehicle with left hand drive l will give you an example l delivered to this business and the owner had imported a 2016 Chevrolet Corvette and he had to get it converted to rhd cost him aud $70000 to do and the new Ford Mutangs are built rhd because converting would add to the cost of the car
Brilliant, another excellent production. But the question is, if you could have any one of these machines which would you choose? Looking forward to next visit already.
Great tour thanks for that. Can you now pop over to the Saab museum in Trollhatten I'm sure you would love that place :) .I went back in 88 but its been completely revamped since then.
Well, it's an interesting museum for sure. Good thing FIAT presented here not only cars, but aircraft engines, jet fighters, technological equipment, etc. Such a shame there were no train models. Never knew about Lada 2101 being exhibited there. Is that car a part of exchange program between FIAT and AvtoVaz? Nice find anyway. The 2101 was produced from 1970 to 1984 with later (1980's) models (2105, 2107) being discontinued in 2011. They were ... OK cars, but not great. Are You going to visit SEAT museum anytime?
In case anyone was wondering Italy drove on the left until the 1920s.
Mussolini changed it to the right when he unified the independent principalities into modern Italy that we know today. There was a mixture between some left and some right after WWI. Fiat still produces RHD vehicles for people that live in the Alps as safer to have the drop on the driver's side. Alpine roads had the edges marked with white lines and b&w poles until the late 70's. A crumbling stone wall on the bends wouldn't stop a Vespa. Nor does Armco stop a 44 tonne truck.
Sweden waited until 1967, while neighboring countries Norway and Denmark have always driven on the right. Well, right-hand driving was officially adopted by law in 1793 for both countries that at the time were in the Dano-Norwegian Realm constitution. Iceland was the last country in Europe to switch to driving on the right in 1968.
@@tonys1636 Garibaldi was going to do it but he was too busy collecting dead flies for his biscuit company.
Trucks had right hand steering till 1976 in spite of driving on the right side because it was considered safer. EU Regulation put an end to that.
WOOOOOOOOW!!!!!!! Mr. Hubnut in my home city!!!!!! What an absolute honor!!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩
Ian, I love your videos and I really hope you 're having a great time here ☺️☺️
Tanti cari saluti da un tuo fan torinese ☺️
Thanks for taking us around this great museum before it closes 😊
I knew that FIAT made more than cars in the past, having worked at FIAT as a car mechanic for 14 years, but the refrigerator and such were new to me. Thanks Ian for this tour.
And a heavy machine guns during WW1.
Washing machines and stoves and railway cars as well.
I really hope the world does not lose a Quality museum like that, hopefully Clear heads will prevail and it will Survive!!! 🤠👍
My fav brand of cars ! So creative and innovative since the begining with so many different models and engines for every taste. Sadly it all ended around the time when it seemed the new school 500 was all they could do. Being bought out by Peugeot is something I can't accept.
The Shiguli is the internal brand and predates the Lada name, which was used for Export only originally. The Shiguli / Lada is for most an iteration of the Fiat 124 but was significantly changed to meet russian road and weather conditions. It was made not only at the Togliattograd factory in Russia but has been built for the domestic market by different russian car-makers like for instance LuAZ in Ukraine. They use a different engine for the Lada, which was higher combusted and put out more power. The suspension was strengthened and so was the heating.
The Polski Fiat was founded in 1921 already - originally only a sales division. But from the mid-30s as a final assembly work and much later a full-vested production company. They produced a number of Fiats wheras the Lada sibling Polski Fiat 125p was based on the more plush Fiat 125 model. It was available in the West as FSO 125p as well.
Thanks for sharing !
Palmiro Togliatti was the leader of the italian communist party at the time.
@@duboisthierry292Ironically he and his companions organized strikes against Fiat in the 1920s and almost turned them into bankrupcy. But he spent a large part of the 1930s and all of WW2 in the soviet union and was a quite active member of the communist party there. BTW: the Shiguli name is derived from the right bank area of the Wolga, on which Togliatti is located.
The "list of famous people" from that town solely lists sportspeople. No scientists. No politicians. Not even poets or musicians. What does that tell us about the conditions there ... ? ;-)
What a fabulous museum. Thank you for the tour. The WW2 overdub nearly made me spill my tea 🤣
Smooth eh?
@@HubNut Oh, very!
seamless, that's the word.
I adore this brand so much ❤
excellent choice to visit my favo brand currently in a 500 E cabrio 42 KWH...may Fiat live forever!
Fantastic visit - thank you for posting, such history in these Italian masterpieces.
Great to see a museum video again on one of your long overdue trips, Ian. Even the new snazzy effects are used with moderation and taste ... rather apt for such a stylish museum. Enjoy your Italian campaign. Hope you can get to the Fiat test track ... on top of a building in Turin! Don't know if that's possible, though ...
You can't drive up there now but we visited today.
Absolutely amazing. Thanks for these pictures, Ian! I love Fiat cars although I have a «special» relationship with this manufacturer. The first car I drove was the 1972 Fiat 127 (900 ccm/40 PS - as seen on the pop art poster) from my sister. A few weeks later I bought my first car. It was a 1979 Fiat 127 (2nd series with 1050 ccm/50 PS). I think the dealer was very happy to get rid of it. Many technical problems and corrosion. A few years and some cars later I bought my only brand new car. A Fiat Punto in yellow (1100 ccm/55 PS). After the warranty everything you can imagine broke on this car. A first class italian desaster. But I'm always happy to see an old Fiat on our streets. See you soon --- Martin
Great video, Hubnut at his very best.
Very interesting, rather like your visit to the DAF museum in Eindhoven, in the Netherlands a few years back. I'm hoping one day you get to visit the Škoda Museum at Mlada Boleslav (an hour north of Prague) in Czechia (Czech Republic).
Absolutely brilliant video Ian ❤👍what am amazing beautiful museum Waw those cars were stunning brilliant
20:42 Sorry, I have to correct you on the myth of the Russian steel...
Number 27 did a video on that and the deal with the Russians was done in exchange of oil... Italy produced their own steel at the time but the problem were due to quality and other industrial disputes where the car were left outside not painted... (The story is fuzzy on my part but it wasn't the Russian steel)...
Thanks Ian for visiting this beautiful museum! Wonderful 🤩
What a great museum. Thank you for showing us around. 19:40 something like that train (see photograph on wall at 19:52) still runs on the single-track circular line at a distance all around the lower slopes of Mount Etna in Sicily. It's red and it featured on the episode of Michael Portillo's Great Continental Railway Journeys covering Palermo, Agrigento, Siracusa and Mascali on Sicily.
Damn it, Ian, now you made me dream of a Fiat Dino Coupé. Around 50 grand, I don't have.
The new prettiest car I've ever seen.
Thanks Ian really enjoyed this, excellent tour of the museum.I learned a few things from this
Wow! At 7:10 I began drooling over a nice green Fiat 850 only to have it magically turn into a little model on a table in an office setting. I would love to have some cars models in that large of a scale!
Thanks @HubNut hope you're enjoying your road trip. Superb video. I love Turin, that rooftop test track, those Minis in the Italian Job. What a place!
I once went to the Piaggio museum. It was all very interesting and beautiful to see. It was all very, very Hubnut. In hindsight.
13:31 That poster of the Fiat 850 is actually a Spanish one! (It says "two versions of the Fiat 850)...
Great video!! I didn't know Fiat made planes, and I grew up in Italy!!!
Love a Hubnut museum vid! And old Fiat's. Thank you for this 👍
Thanks for the tour. So many beautiful vehicles. Like you, I absolutely love the Multipla.
Thanks for showing us, fantastic.
That was a lovely museum with some very nice looking cars.
As a dyed in the wool Fiat fanatic that's possibly my favourite place on the planet, been twice, the first time in 1989 in an X1/9 and again in 2015 in a £150 Uno, it'll be an absolute tragedy if it closes......
Amazing exhibits. I assume they will consolidate locations and all these beauties will just be relocated.
What an amazing place, I never knew Fiat happen such great history, thank you
What a marvellous museum loved the models. Seeing the 850 when I was young a neighbour had one.
Lingotto still has its test track on the roof if memory serves me correctly however the main factory has been turned into a shopping complex I've been told,my last Fiat was a 128 3p berlinetta 1300 cc and would on the odd occasion pull 90 mph in third a cracking little motor.
Lovely to look around with you Ian Thankyou.
Lingotto video to follow...
What a fabulous and interesting museum. Thanks for the tour. 👍
Those posters are incredible , the furniture in the office, ship full of Multiplas oh yes and some cars!
Went to the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, there's a plane on the top floor a BAT Bantam , the engine is really clever and seeing that opposed twin cylinder reminded me of it. Think that the Gnome Monosoupape is the engine. Surely that Fiat museum / archive is too important to close.
Stunning cars, stunning museum and very interesting. Well done!
Thanks for taking us around. Great tour
Excellent video, really enjoyed that. Many thanks Ian! 👍
Thanks for the video. What a fantastic museum.
Ooh, this brings back memories of when I went interrailing in 2022. I stopped by the Alfa Romeo museum when I reached Milan and it was an utterly breathtaking collection. I knew I should've stretched further to Turin!!
Thank you 👍 👍👍👍 I have had the pleasure of working on a fiat 509 and also driving it on a saint Patrick's Day Parade. Afterwards, I took as many people as I could on Joy rides so to share the experience.
I love your true love for the subject. Cheers!
The V24 engine I believe was developed for the Schneider Trophy.
They explored different ways of getting more power out of their engine but in the end settled on the idea of connecting two of their existing V12's together and sticking a hoofing great big Supercharger on the back.
I came across a video about it on UA-cam the other day.
I showed your very interesting look at the Fiat museum to my Dad who come from Turin as a small boy and told me his father could remember watching the British Boming the Fiat works in that time best forgotten
It's amazing that all that history still survived .
Thank you for showing it.😊
Another absolutely lovely video - thank you Ian! My wife & I are hoping to visit Turin for a few days this April/May. Never been before.But I get the feeling we won’t run out of things to see 😀
Make sure you visit Lingotto. The old city centre is also spectacular.
Thank you for the tip - we will put both on our list. @@HubNut
Great video Hubnut. Wonderful motors. super !
Great video Ian as ever. Hope you have a great trip
Mr HubNut doing what Mr HubNut does best, great video Ian.
I was there in 2021. But it was closed. So nice to get a peep inside now 👍🙏
The north of Italy has a great selection of motor museums and of course the annual 1000 Miglia event
What a beautiful museum 🇮🇹👌🏼😃
Thank you Mr H!
Hubnut in tour, fiat have made some beautiful cars over the years , fiat 850 convertible 124 convertible , as a kid of the 70s and teenager of the 80s always loved the 131 supermirafori particularly in orange or black.
8:31 my mum dealt with 2nd hand furniture etc in the 80's and I remember buying a cased version of one of those maps at auction.
It had I think 4 main maps showing the roads of the UK 3 England, 1 Scotland and one of a rather small London.
You changed the maps and turned a little crank to move it as you progressed along your journey.
I paid £5 for it and sold it within a week for £55 to a collector, it was from the 1920's 30's.
A really excellent video from this rare museum and thanks for showing us before it sadly closes its doors
I hope they are saving all the vehicles etc and moving them elsewhere
The TV on the 1200TV stood for Turismo Veloce which I imagine translates to Speed Tourer. I have had loads of FIATs in my life. I learnt to drive in my dads Mirafiori 2000 then my first car was a 127, second a Strada, later an Uno and a Mk1 Tipo and eventually a Punto. Can't say that anything out of their modern line up appeals to me though, I took a test drive in a 595 Abarth but the drivers seat wouldn't go back far enough for a six footer.
Very interesting video shame its closing down.
The rear single seat at 5:21 is known in Brazil as "the mother-in-law seat"
Fantastico Bravo gorgeous video well done 👍👍👍 it would be criminal to close this and I’ve not even been there but would love too.
8:25 Nope. What you were thinking of is the Napier Deltic - but that's a totally different story. The Commer Knocker has three parallel cylinders, which have a 3-cylinder crankshaft with 3 pistons on the one end - which then also controls 3 pistons on the opposite end with rods and levers. Combustion and work is done in the middle and the gas exchange is done with a scavenging blower via ports in the cylinder walls. No valves. Which makes it a 3-cylinder / 6-piston / opposed-piston / 2-stroke Diesel. 🙂
another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍
What a fantastic place do we know what will be happening to the collection when the place closes ? Such beautiful cars, a great video showing us around.
Hopefully absorbed into the main Fiat collection.
Wow! That was amazing! Yet another car-museum I really should visit. - Never knew Fiat made jets or home appliances.. Great video!
Very cool museum, lovely models there too. The first few months of my life I've been traveling in a dark red Fiat 600 my parents had at the time :)
Fascinating stuff Hubnut
You showed us the Fiat fridges and washing machine. Few people know that we had an equivalent in the UK- Bendix washing machines were part of the BMC / BL empire in the '60's and '70's. As my dad worked for BMC he got a discount on a new Bendix washer. Edit: info on the net says they were part of BMC between 1953 & 68.
What a fantastic collection. They must be mad to close it but that decision may well be outside of Fiat control. I love the comment on the model ship unloading a car that went all HubNut. You're not that bad.... that often 😉. You can't take anything away from Italian designs and Fiat clearly shows this. It was interesting hearing the story of the right hand drive preference that went on for so long. The opposed piston engines in a triangle form with three crankshafts I think (I'm probably wrong) got the nickname Deltic, certainly for the two stroke diesel engines from Napier used in ships and locomotives of years gone by if my hazy brain recalls correctly. Many thanks for sharing.
Wow what a great find. Well done for documenting it before it closes. Wonder where they are going to move all the collection to?
"a car that never was, but somehow, still is...." that's some peak hubnut'ing there for you 🙂
Hi, where did you hear about impending closure. I have been trying to get an accurate answer for years. I have spent many happy hours in that museum. Did you just fly in for the exhibition ..... wish I was closer than Australia.
A couple of different sources. It was the reason for our 36 hours in Turin but we filmed other things too.
Looking forward to seeing the rest of your Italian adventure. Do some food reviews too.
The Italians liked rhd because that way you could better judge the edge of the road when driving along mountain passes, I always heard.
And in Italy main roads were narrow at the time . Even worse in the cities.
Great tour Hubnut. Impressive knowledge of Fiats. Since you missed out the 508C Millicento I will have to visit myself. The 508C was also made in France as a Simca and Germany as an NSU, had an alloy head 4 cyl engine, independent front suspension and hydraulic brakes plus the pillarless 4 door design. How do I know? Ive been trying to finish mine for the last 30 years!
Wonderful Tour
12:50 Behind the helicopter a model of Fiat G.50 fighter plane, surprisingly in Finnish Air Force post-war colours, numbered FA-25, one of 35 served in WW2.
Well hosted, you know your stuff!
I know how to read placards you mean. 😉 Pre-war Fiats definitely are not my strong suit.
Hope you have a great time
I've owned two of the "froggy" Multiplas. Absolutely fantastic cars. I'd have another one tomorrow. You chose the wrong one.
I loved that! You know what I'm going to say yet again: "I want to go!" However, I will have to make do with your wonderful movies!
Splendid museum & vidéo. Italy is such a beautiful country and has produced so many superb cars. And If you go to France at your return to UK, try to visit the manoir de l'automobile in Lohéac (Brittany).
There's plenty of beautiful cars to see, Tatras, among many others...
Visited back in 2009, before the channel was a thing. Crazy place.
Very interesting video, thank you
Fantastic stuff. Love these videos. Looking forward to the next one. Bravo! Encore!!
I’ll add it to my list. Last year I was very disappointed to be on a work trip which involved driving from Milan to Fano, south of Venice but without time to stop at the Ferrari or Lamborghini museums or even San Marino 😢better planning required next time!
You'll sadly have to be quick. Closes next week...
Wow! Some utter beauties on show there! I hope that they all find a new home…….oh, and I’ll take a FIAT fridge please! Hope it’s cooler than the air-con in my Alfa!
Really nice video, the 1100 coupe you quickly went away from because of the beautifull 8v is also very rare and desirable , I do love that a humble family salon was the base for a lot of different more or less one ofs specials. The models in the fantastic ship are fiat 1100 in the first version I believe, the front looks the same as the much bigger 1400 Valenzia
Thanks for that one Ian what an amazing place and will be such a shame if it does close
Fiat has done so much amazing stuff and fancy that they were making white goods 👍👍🇦🇺
Enjoyed thanks,(loved the edit, btw)
What a superb tour! Some of those Fiat posters made me drool
Fiat Group was a really large conglomerate. Iveco, OM, Magirus, Allis, and others. They had their own companies making steel (Teksid, stil part of Stellantis), refractories, brakes, and every imaginable car/truck component (..Magneti Marelli, now Calsonic, for example... Mopar..) yet they still bought outside, from others, lots of components. They had a media empire (GEDI, Gruppo EDItoriale) that owned some of the most important Italian newspapers (La Stampa , Repubblica.. ). Cars , trucks, bulldozers and tractors were the cash cows iirc. So it used to be a large and really complex group.
Great vid,one of your best.
Ah you mentioned the Tillings-Stevens 3 cylinder diesel engine with horizontally opposed six piston layout, two stroke supercharged engine. I remember them mainly being fitted to Commer lorries but also fitted to their coaches as an option. They made an interesting sound!
A very good Museum l learnt something from this visit to the FIAT Museum the fact that some of there cars were RHD even the FIAT Tripololino infact l saw one in Balmain Sydney and in Australia been RHD no problem in registering it now but when it came out it didn't matter which side the steering wheel was on but now Australia is very strict on LHD cars there are 1960s Mustangs and Corvettes driving around probably imported before the new laws came in
I think something must have changed in Aus as I see more LHD classics that have definitely been imported more recently.
@@HubNut If they vehicle you are importing is a certain age but New Zealand has no such laws
@@HubNut They were more than likely imported before the law was changed but now it's impossible to import vehicle with left hand drive l will give you an example l delivered to this business and the owner had imported a 2016 Chevrolet Corvette and he had to get it converted to rhd cost him aud $70000 to do and the new Ford Mutangs are built rhd because converting would add to the cost of the car
Brilliant, another excellent production. But the question is, if you could have any one of these machines which would you choose? Looking forward to next visit already.
I think that one off blue prototype, or failing that the Multipla. Ideal for Wales...
Great tour thanks for that. Can you now pop over to the Saab museum in Trollhatten I'm sure you would love that place :) .I went back in 88 but its been completely revamped since then.
I hope you also have time to visit the National Car Museum (MAUTO) in Turin?
Yup!
What a great vid, my First car was a fiat 124 SPM856G, SPM, are my initials, hence why i bought it
So many beautifully designed cars, great museum. Shame its closing
The posters are incredible
The Piaggio museum at Pontedera is definitely worth a visit and very handy from Pisa (Galileo) airport !
Well, it's an interesting museum for sure. Good thing FIAT presented here not only cars, but aircraft engines, jet fighters, technological equipment, etc. Such a shame there were no train models.
Never knew about Lada 2101 being exhibited there. Is that car a part of exchange program between FIAT and AvtoVaz? Nice find anyway. The 2101 was produced from 1970 to 1984 with later (1980's) models (2105, 2107) being discontinued in 2011. They were ... OK cars, but not great.
Are You going to visit SEAT museum anytime?
I hope you are going to visit the old FIAT offices with the rooftop racetrack whilst you are there?? 😊
Was there today. 😉