HubNut at the National Microcar Rally 2018
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2018
- I gatecrash the National Microcar Rally in my enormous Citroen 2CV - words I never thought I would use.
This one has all the oddities: Bond Minicar, Heinkel-Trojan, Messerschmitt, Scootacar, Bond Bug, Reliant Fox (including another Tandy camper), a remarkable Powerdrive, Berkeley three- and four-wheelers, Autobianchi Bianchina, a Lambretta-powered Willam van (not William!), Vespa 400, Lloyd Alexander, Goggomobil saloon and coupe and a Mochet. Also includes some hot Bond Minicar turning circle action, and a visit to the Anson Engine Museum in Cheshire. Definitely worth a visit.
There will be videos upcoming on a Messerschmitt KR200 cabriolet and a Bond Minicar MkG.
This is the first video from that weekend. The second will be on the 1000 Classics event at Cholmondeley Castle. - Авто та транспорт
Talking of Foxes, I have ridiculous plans for mind. I need your votes to launch my next crazy scheme! motor-vision.co.uk/latest-news/mva-community-vote/
are you crazy H
Sadly looking at the status after you got on the site I don't think we will win, we had it at the beginning but we are right now in third as I am writing this comment and we would need to pull in at least another 2000 votes to put us comfortably in the lead. I am not trying to be a debbie downer but we are really going to have to dig deep to put us comfortably in the lead!
At this stage, it is only a race to not be last. This isn't the final decision.
HubNut Touché, I can agree with you on that and I think if it is a contest not to be last we will win it!
Will Greece have enough electricity to power up the batteries?
There's something about these cars that just put a huge smile on my face for the last 20 minutes :-)
That was just great. Looked like loads more fun than the Goodwood Revival with their multi million quid Ferraris etc, with bloody champagne and canapes. Give me a field full of folk with a shared love of bonkers vehicles any day.
If the Minions had a car rally this would be it! . So many wonderful vehicles to look at. Another mighty day out👍
Wonderful and minions should not be together.
Fantastic! Thanks Ian, that was an absolute treat
Great niche rally and fantastic coverage. Thank you, Hubnut......
How glad I am that I discovered you on UA-cam, what nice cars are passing by. :-)
Love your enthusiasm Ian for original transport. Well done again 😀
Thanks for a heart-warming smile of a video to go with my Monday morning cup of tea. It's crazy to think vehicles like these were ever made, let alone commercially produced. A little glimpse of a time when full sized cars were beyond the realms of regular folk and a whole market sprang up to meet more modest needs. My Dad's first car was a Reliant Regal he bought in the early 70's simply because it was cheap and he could drive it on a motorbike license. I remember him spending a lot of time peering into the hatch on the front like a tortured soul fighting with a twin-tub. Happy days!
Wow. Thanks ever so much for this amazing vid. One of your best. I would never be able to see such great cars without you.
What a cracking video! Im 57 years old and never knew so many Bubble cars and Bond Bugs still existed.Truly enlightening. So nice to see so many gorgeous looking examples an a beautiful sunny day. Thank you - PS I was seeing micro cars but hearing Kawasaki KH 250 / 350 triples :-)
Wonderful, wonderful cars. Thank you for your footage. Even a Lloyd was to be seen, which was the first car my late father owned in the early 60s. And the Vespa 400. Wonderful.
Amazing cars - some I’ve never seen before. Thanks for posting
Wow, what a brilliant video, thank you so much for sharing
Fabulous, even my other half thought so. They deserved a bigger field and medals for all turning up, respect.
Another great video, thanks Ian!
Many many thanks. That was such a treat. I now have an even stronger hankering to own a micro car. Such enormous personalities and every outing is a "pocket adventure"! It all started for me watching you with TWC and it has just got much much worse!
Find a Triking!
You do not know how happy those little cars made me whilst watching :-)
Thanks HubNut - Great video!
Absolutely hilarious, love them all. It just shows there is something for everyone out there. Looked like a fab day.
One of your best videos yet. Love the micros!
Hi I absolutely loved that. I did not realise that there were so many micro cars and most of them I have never heard of!
Looks like a fantastic turnout,and another fantastic video.Brilliant !!!
ps.I voted for your project :)
Worth the wait for all the interesting classic micros.
Parking with my old smart was so easy. With the 45° front wheel turning. 453.
Great day trip. Amongst the noisy one and two cylindets.
Thanks Ian.
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Well, this was surprisingly different. Not entirely my cup of tea, but nice to see and I can appreciate them for their quirkiness and why they were designed. There's just so much I've never seen or even heard of before. Superb video!
What an array of amazing little cars, I know about bonds and mechasmits but loved seeing all the others 👍
Just been explaining to my son what a choke is, brilliant.
Something that Germans find amusing!
Seemed a lot better attended than this years rally (which was our first in a 2cv). My first car was a Powerdrive at age 16 and then a Bond MkD. The Bond carried me and my mate all over the UK camping. Great car. I so wish I have one now!
Micro cars are one of many guilty secrets in my life :) It all started at an early age - seeing a Messerschmitt every morning on the way to primary school plus thumbing through the pages of the "Observer's Book of Automobiles" gazing in wonder at Goggomobils (a favourite of mine), NSU Prinz's, Bond Minicars and then my Dad's mate owning a Reliant van (the one with an open motorcycle wheel at the front) all did the damage. I've never found a cure and this amazing video has fuelled the addiction!
Magnificent. I'd be happy to have any one of those in my garage. Thinking about it I could probably fit all of them in there. Thanks Ian.
What a great turn out! My Puter was trembling with the vibes...Shook some dust off!
What a fascinating video of a bunch of cars i dont normally take any notice of but Ian works his magic and makes it enjoyable and informative viewing, cant wait for the next one you were not that far from my house (loving the old LWB LandRover).
Thank you for another brilliant video my son loves your 2cv 👍
My God, I enjoyed that! There was something quite heroic about those wonderfully daft little cars. Adverts of the day used illustrations that made them look about three times as big as they actually were. I hate to think what long journeys on 1950s roads would have been like though, especially 3 or 4 up. Brilliant vid, thanks for posting. Oh, haven't seen the Invacar around Devil's Bridge recently either!
TWC has been buried in the garage by building materials. She will be out again at some point.
People ,especially post war English people ,were a lot smaller then .
In 'Soft Top, Hard Shoulder' Peter Capaldi and his missus beg a lift from a Bond who's driver is 'Going up the road a piece.' and he drives them about 100 yards before turning-off!
Great video and fun meeting there.
With these cars shown my 1007 is huge! (3,73M) It is almost van like.
Used to like big cars (still do actually) but now I think I start to appreciate small cars as well.
What a fantastic upload. I love the variety. Please please please keep the vids coming. Best youtuber by far
Without doubt, the best looking one is the Goggomobile Coupe. I don't think there are many microcars you could call beautiful but that's certainly up there!
What a epic video,looked a good car meet up,alot of cars all shapes and sizes.the last one the William as a van was well smart.
I would have thorougly enjoyed that event, my Uncle had a Bond before I was born in '69 and the stories he told about it were so interesting. Only ever seen 2, 1 was about 10 years ago in Darlington and the sound it made was epic, the other was a non runner I saw last week at a classic car auction.
Absolutely hideous cars.i love every single one.brilliant show
Great to see this video! I miss going to the National Rally!
We only saw this last night, absolutely brilliant, the little Barkely Sports car looks amazing, seemingly non for sale at all. Really wonderful seeing all these, must be so complex to restore and hard to get rare parts .
Thats a truly amazing collection of microcars I need to start going to car meets and shows
Love this video and all the mini's!
That was properly awesome :D Even a few cars I've never saw or heard of before, that doesn't happen often anymore.
OMG, massive thanks, from New Zealand, wat a beeuutiful video, gees if i was there i would hav been havin sezuires. ACE, Ian.
Great video , not my cup of tea I thought but they are growing on me ,, cheers Ian !
Brilliant video ian...really enjoyed this😊
That Powerdrive is the classiest microcar I've ever seen. Who cares how slow you go when you can look that stylish.
FANTASTIC RALLY! thank you!
Yet another fascinating video from Mr. Quirkiness himself :) You're currently in 3rd place Ian, you have my vote :)
A very interesting show and the lovely Elly getting thrashed , Awesome love it
Wow - when I clicked on this, I expected to see just a few die-hards with their Isettas and bond bugs - but was I wrong! This event amazed me - the sheer number and variety of cars is mind boggling!
Very enjoyable and interesting, thankyou. I'm old enough to remember seeing microcars and bubble cars regularily in the early 60s on the A259 Kent coast road, but they disappeared fast soon after. One memory is a neighbour taking me for a ride in his bubble car but us getting stuck in it after parking as he was unable to reverse - had to get someone to push it back for us.
They put the cloth top on as an escape if you parked up against a wall.
Excellent video thanks love the scooter based cars
Wow, Goggomobil in RHD X2! Super rare! I need a Reliant Fox camper and a Willam van in my life! Looks an amazing show.
...If you folded the back seats down in the A60 estate, you could transport 3 microcars in the back. Maybe that's why it was there...
That Fox camper certainly looked very impressive
Hi Ian great video elly did well, lots of great cars and you had great weather,
Awesome microcars, particularly the green Bond with the reg 385 BHP, is that Brake hamster power ;)
the decimal point is missing. .385
Thesè cars are great fun - I bet these guys have a right laugh. I think that Vespa and the Goggomobiles are my faves!
The Vespa and the Goggomobil are dainty, pretty little cars!
Love these micro cars, I happen to own the oldest 2cv in the USA, it was documented as such in the early 1970s, it's all original and driveable,
BLOODY BRILLIANT.
Hi, Ian, fantastic, childhood memories....
Great video man! First time I've seen one of those vespa 400s it reminds me a lot of a nissan figaro.
Aaahhh, the NSU Prinz........I went in one of those in 1969 when I was a boy........we lived in Germany at the time as my dad was in the army...........it was cream in colour and had vivid red seats, and belonged to my friend's dad.
Happy days........
Great vid !!
Great video, I enjoyed that
Much more interesting than the normal car show line ups
Fantastic line up
Thanks hubnut GT vlog love them all good times had Richard Coventry
Love the lil Willam van
Great video!
Hi Ian great video I love the B reg Fiat 126 great fun I'd love another and your 2cv sounds awesome ❤️❤️❤️👍🏻
I wish I was with you! I do about 8 to 10 vintage and steam rallies a year! They always a good selection of micro cars.
Nice to see so many Bonds - a good old fashioned northern micro car! NSU prinz where cool.
Bond bug overload . as a fan of 70,s stuff , they are my faves .
Nice overtake with the sound of a hard-working flat twin.
what a great video well done, super :)
good to see that you have the 2cv still :) out of all of them car's i would have the 2cv any day summer fun
Brought back memories of my uncles Heinkel bubble car which he purchased new! and went on to tour Scotland in. Folk were made of stern stuff in the very early 60's . On the subject of large diesel engines there's a museum not far from where you live called Internal fire, run by Paul and Hazel well worth a look. They have a ' pocket power station' powered by a Rolls Royce jet engine amongst other very interesting stuff.
Yes, have been a few times. Well overdue another visit, this time with the video camera!
Great video
The Museum is about 3 miles from me,the 3D map of the old mining area is amazing.When on tavels around the country,I try to collect bits of rock for my rockery and asked one of the volunteers if they had any Poynton coal.For health and safety,and quite rightly,they would not let me go and look on their slag heap.I asked a local dog-walker if they had seen any coal,and she told me where some occasionally falls onto a local footpath .The peices I found are now in my garden.Regard to microcars I had a Reliant Kitten for 17 years until it was fire-damaged and was used as a basis for a Tempest.Whilst I had that, I bought a Fox ,4 seater with side windows,bought from a friend in Cornwall Ran it for years until it caught fire,had it repaired,then part-exed it with the Kitten running chassis in exchange for a Tempest.
I had a 2CV many years ago and I am quite amazed to see you overtaking another car I found that to be a bit frightening even if you could find a nice strait road about 2 miles long. I liked the micro cars in the 1960s but was always a bit large to fit into one so never got one .
It's all about momentum!
very cool as always...
Barclay looks amazing!, never seen one before.
Because it's British, it's actually spelt Berkeley. The designer was Laurie Bond, who also designed the Bond Minicar.
Love the smell of 2 strokes.
Thanks that was fun 😀.
Great video.
Hubnut... you really know your cars !
That early NSU Prinz is highly desirable!
What a delight! I would imagine TWC might be jealous of Elly's day out, though...
That Willam (William) van is brilliant. The original Postman Pat van !
I agree with you there.
Jesus Ian your knowledge of cars is something else. Some of those cars make your Invacar look like a rail locomotive.
Great! Thanks Ian
I've been to the Engine Museum (to pick up an early TV and earlier radiogram!). Great place to visit! The cars I most remember from my childhood were the Messerschmitts and Isettas, but also the later NSU Prinz was really popular round here at one time?
Awesome 👍👍👍
My dad and I both migrated to 4 wheels via reliant 3 wheelers using our motor bike licenses. At the time dad bought his new it was one up on the neighbours Bond as we had reverse and he had to push his backwards... I rolled my regal right over but it was easy to patch up with loads of resin and glass from Halfords. My brother had an Isetta which lost the back wheel in a long run and my cousin had a Messerschmidt so we have quite a family history with these things.
Apart from the brilliant videos, I'm really impressed that Ian actually reads a lot of the comments...I don't know how you find the time but thanks for doing so.
Hard work keeping up, that's for sure!
One things I want/need in my life is a trabant 601. Grew up with one living in a hedge at the other end of our village, bloke would never sell it and think it got scrapped (if they can do such a thing to them) just so expensive to buy now days. Fancy one as a close range daily driver. Good turn out for the show lots of interesting sights, you need to buy an "eye spy" micro car book, could probably tick all of them off in one go there!
Brilliant. Our folly knows no bounds :-) .
You know you’re going slow, when you get pasted by a 2cv... Very cool, I love micro cars...