MICRO CARS: The MOST SPECIAL vintage car collection in the world
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- Опубліковано 24 лип 2024
- Visit Charles Gould and his unique micro car collection (the Gould family collection) and learn more about some of the most unique vehicles of the last century.
Marcel Proust once said: The real voyage of discovery consist not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. And I found a special person, who showed me a very different perspective on vintage vehicles. Visit Charles Gould and his unique micro car collection with me and learn more about our shared love for history, traveling and adventures.
00:00 Intro to the Charles & Nancy Gould Microcar Family Collection
01:06 Arriving at the workshop and first view of the collection
04:48 Up close to some of the most intersting vintage and micro cars of the collection
11:38 Charle's philosophy of collecting cars
12:40 Vintage cars in action! Drive out with four vintage cars of the collection
15:14 The second warehouse of the collection with future projects
18:34 Visiting Cycles 128 and the Cycles Classic Cafe Museum
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Amazing collection !! I've never seen so many rare historic cars and motorbikes in private hands before .. usually those owners are not very keen to expose their treasures in public .. that was beautiful .. special thanks to Charles!!
Me neither - and I think that’s why Charles is such a special person, because he is able to share his passion with so many other people. I am so happy that I was able to do this video of his collection and really sit in some of his micro cars!
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Wow - both you, this episode, Charles and his cars are amazing!
I HAVE KNOWN CHARLES FOR YEARS .
NOT ONLY DOES HE HAVE AN AMAZING COLLECTION , HE SHARES IT OPENLY
AND EVEN THROWS A ONCE A YEAR SHOW AT HIS HOUSE .
AMAZING MAN WHO HAS FOLLOWED HIS LIFE's PASSION .
Very true, and how lucky we are to know him!
I totally agree. Charles is an incredibly passionate, articulate and cheerful ambassador of the old car hobby, whom I have known since he was a kid hanging around the same oldtimer restoration shop my Dad and I spent too much time in, as well. His microcar meet is legendary, because everyone who owns one (or more) of those silly vehicles is too busy enjoying margaritas to brag about horsepower (there isn't any to speak of, anyway). Thank you for a wonderful job rekindling passion in Charles' and Nancy's fans through their own passion for our hobby. You obviously share their zest for living!
Charles is living his best life! How cool is this hobby!?!😁
Definitely, it’s so inspiring even if you don’t have the same passion for vintage cars!
Wao....wao..... Special very special day ✨👍
You certainly brought a smile to this gentleman..
As you do to us, with your travels
.. each week
Thank you
Stay safe
Thank you for watching again - even though there was no motorcycle riding involved this time!
My dad bought Nash’s because you could sleep in them . I’m a 77 year old retired technician that has saved lots cars and motorcycles . My little garage houses bikes, a 1987 GMC Sierra and four VW Vanagons . Love the video .
Thanks Lea for shering. Verry interesting. And with heart. I say HI Charles and thank you. werry nice.
Thank you for watching again!
No motorcycleride this time, but a very interesting tour through Charles's collection of micro cars. Thanks, Charles, I enjoyed your explanation. And Lea, you are forgiven. LOL. See you next week.
Next week you will get a bit of more riding for the final episode of the epic east coast ride!
Wow, Lea! What an amazing episode. Thank you so much for taking me on this trip. It is so interesting and so uplifting to see Charles' passion. And to Charles - Bravo. What a life to have lived. So nice to see your joy and pride in your tour and what you have accomplished. You have so much knowledge. Lea, you are the best. It is so nice how you discover these hidden gems. Thanks again, and safe riding.
I love this episode too because it was really so interesting to learn so much about all these vehicles and as well about Charles special views on collecting vintage cars. So happy you liked it too!
the important thing is to keep up the enthusiasm, I always pray that I will be healthy, always happy, stay focused with positive thinking that is done every day, is running now
Very true 💃🏻
What a car collection. And such a nice guy. Classic old timers , rare cars , vintage cars. Great video!
Charles has two of my favorite cars. The Alfa and the Mini! This was so cool!
Great that we drove both of them then! Thanks for watching
I drove 22 hours round trip last month to pick up my 1996 4WD Daihatsu Hijet mini truck from the Norfolk News Marine Terminal. It's an awesome little truck from the Japanese Domestic Market. Protectionist laws prevent us from importing them into the US for road use unless they're over 25 years old and many states prohibit them outright.
Congratulations to your awesome find! I hope you will enjoy your new/old vehcile!
What an awesome collection... Like Charles, I started driving when I was 14 and owned my first motorbike, a Honda 50 cub, which I could drive with a learners license at 14 in Canada... My Dad told me he taught me how to steer the truck when I was 5 years old and by 9 years old I was driving the farm truck and farm tractor alone... I love to hear the stories like Charles and see the passion for his hobby... thanks for sharing your journey with us...
That’s awesome! I wish I would have learned to drive a motorcycle so early. It took me 25 years to get on one!
I love these old cars, they have personality. Modern cars haven’t except maybe Lamborghini.
To me a modern car is just a tool. Usability comes first, beauty comes second.
Aaah those old motorcycles 😍
Very true, all the modern cars as well kind of look the same! While Charles collection has so many different forms and designs and approaches to driving!
Lea, what a great experience you made. I would be happy to see and feel it too. Thank you for Sharing 😊
Happy you liked this episode too even though there was not much motorcycle riding involved!
Lea, many thanks to Charles and you for bringing us along on this incredible day! This was simply amazing!!!
Thank you for coming along virtually and watching!
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Fantastic!
What a neat place to visit and a wonderful man who collects the uncommon and makes them available to others. A most excellent video, thanks!
Yes, isn’t it an awesome collection?
How wonderful, I owned 3 Citroen 2CVs and had so much fun driving all around France many times. I had a friend with a Messerschmitt 3 wheel car, to reverse you stopped the engine and started it in reverse to go backwards and then stopped it and started again in forwards, I think the engine was 2 stroke.. I own a Morris Minor 1000 which I bought in 1992 and a Royal Enfield Model G motorbike that I bought in early 1972 and has been recently restored to full working order.
Oh how nice is that, and isn’t it funny how some of those cars operate? Really a whole universe of interesting constructions and stories!!!
Wow what an amazing video of such an amazing collection of old cars and motorcycles. You looked like you where having a time of your life Driving around in those cars with Charles. Bravo Lea!
I definitely had and got so inspired by Charles and his love for these vehicles! Such an awesome person and collection!
Hey Charles: I like you! 🤗 I am so very with you about what the interesting vintage cars really are, the little daily drivers that once really shaped the picture of the streets everywhere and took people around until rust got them. Yes, The E-Types are stunning beauties, a Borgward Isabella Coupe makes your jaw water with its lines. But who has any memories connected with any of them?
The Opel Admiral, Opel Kadett B, VW411 my parents owned over the years inspire a lot more feelings in me than either of the luxury vehicles.
My back then best friend got the 1969 Ford Escort I his grand uncle had had sitting in his garage for years when he go his license. He patched all the holes in the fenders, gave it a fresh paint job. I had the license a few months before him, so the first one to drive it after it passed the technical examination for the first time in over ten years was me. Changing gears with one finger on the shifter, the super comfy suspension, whenever the lights were on, the trunk light would light up as well (Probably a wiring error) which would make that nice light pattern on the roof when driving in the dark… The nights when driving to the pubs and home was his job and I would sit in the rear seat, slightly sloshed and relaxing while I watched those lt patches on the roof!
It's the life they saw. It's the memories they made.
I remember a Daihatsu Charade with the little opera window in the rear sides that I saw frequently near my primary school that looked so wonderfully different. I just I liked it. Where have the Charades gone? Hands up everybody who's grandma had a Honda Civic from, let's say, 1981 back then, that took them to ice bars or zoos when they were kids?
When did you last see the type of car your grandparents owned?Hardly anyone bothered to preserve those.
It's these cars that can serve as kind of nucleus of condensation for memories. You see one and the pictures from way back when they were everywhere start bubbling up in the back of your mind.
They are so much fun to drive, they feel so alive. No electronics playing nanny to the inept driver you, but a tool for moving that will be an extension to you as you blend into one with it.
Should I ever win in a lottery, I will probably make all car dealers sad, for no one will get a penny from me. I'll have a warehouse that looks much like yours. 🙃
…okay, maybe one posh car: A 1936 Auburn Speedster. Okay, maybe two exceptions, after all you have an E-Type, too. 🤔 Okay, maybe… 😳😵💫
I agree 100 percent, „they feel so alive“. It’s very strange how happy driving in one of these vehicles can make you - as you can see in the video I kind of had the time of my life!
(I btw would take an vintage e-type too if I could afford buying and especially maintaining it, it’s so beautiful…)
@@Got2Go One of the jobs during my studies was at an upmarket and vintage cars dealer.
Among the several interesting cars the petrol head me got to rub his nose against was an MG A from 1955. I got the honour of driving it to a customer for him to have a look at it. Some 10Km in total. This car was _such_ fun to drive with its 55hp, it was crazy.
Just brilliant! Much nicer than all the big beamers and Mercedes. 🤗
Great video thank you very well done as always. It's cold wet and rainy here in upstate New York thanks again cheers to ya.
Thank you for coming along as always - i will take you to some better weather next week in the final episode!
What a great episode! Two comments: the vent windows, besides mitigating the buffeting caused by the open windows, could also be turned completely inward, directing the air right to the driver and passengers. Very useful on hot days, especially if you had worked up a sweat. Second, in 1991, I bought bought a Saab convertible. Saab at the time was a pioneer in turbocharging. Anyway, I drove the drove the car for about seven years and sold it to a couple who lived in the same town I did, so I would see it on the road or in their driveway. The new owners kept the car immaculate. One day, many years after selling it, I drove by their house and saw the car at the curb in front of their house with a for sale sign on it. I stood on my brakes, parked, ran back to the house and told the wife I had someplace to go that evening but that I would be back in the morning to buy the car back. Which I did. I put a new top on it and drove it happily for a couple of more years, before selling it again. I’ve owned a lot of cars over the years but that was the only one I would ever have considered buying back.
Awww that is like Charles story! Are you not sad you eventually sold it again? Some vehicles just have a very special character, I for example can’t sell the motorcycle I want on my worldtrip with, even though it’s kind of retired now and I rarely ride it….
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I love the Alfa Romeo, I had one myself -;). Thanks for showing. Back on the road again.
I loved it too, nearly traded my motorcycle for it. 😂
Wish I knew about Cycles Classic Café before visiting my family last autumn. I have added it to my list for my next visit to New England. Thank you for sharing.
You definitely should go! It’s a nice place to check out!
The next time I'm in Boston I will be checking out this collection. Thank you for bring it to my attention and as always I enjoyed this video.
Definitely the most interesting collection I have seen so far!
Another great Feelgood episode👍🏻
Thank you for coming along!
Amazing. Very nice. Many thanks.
Thank you for watching!
19:40 incredible... Today... I never seen all these jewels before.... My eyes can't moves for one second from video .....❤️
Thank you so much for coming along. Happy you liked the collection!
Thank you for sharing your passion with us.
This was a fun episode.
See you next week.
Dave
Yes, see you for the grand finale of the epic east coast ride!!!
@Got2Go Hi Lea, have you ever considered being on Adventure Rider Radio (ARR) or Adventure Rider Radio Raw?
It is my favorite podcast, and you and your story would be perfect for both.
It would give you channel and your book great exposure.
Just a thought, and please ignore if you get too many suggestions from amateurs like me.
Have a great day!
Lea
OMG! I met him and got the full tour last summer! He was at a car show here in CT 2 summers ago and gave me his card. His collection is huge and he is a funny guy. Thank you for this video Lady!
Many more roses for you and vases to keep them in until next week!
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Ride SAFE and BE safe Lady.
Cheers.
Wow how funny! Were you the one who suggested Charles to me? I can’t remember who of you guy it was who told me to go to his collection and to meet him!
@@Got2Go Lea
No it wasn't me but he is very well known in CT and NY.
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What an awesome episode. Its clear you were enjoying yourself with Charles and his collection.
wonerful... realy very much informative .... i saw first time these mini cars.... thanks lea... lovely lea....
Great that you enjoyed the micro cars!
Great video as always! This year a small club and YT channel from Cologne which does yearly tours on extravagant small cars chose a 400 kg almost unknown vehicle (AWS shopper 1970-74) to rebuild on a DIY basis and do a camping trip in late summer 2023. The car which can be driven without a car´s driver´s license (all you need is a license which entitles you do drive a 50cc motorcycle called moped in Germany) has a small 2 stroke rear engine which allows a max speed of 60 km/h approx.
WOW shocking the beginning of the video, seeing you driving a car, but then you met this gentleman! and that collection of cars, some of them brand new to me specially the one made from Messersmith, such history in that company, and of course. to see you like a little girl so exited was priceless, beautiful video. Lea 💐
Saludos Charles!
Te queremos Lea!🇲🇽
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17:55 🤔 unbelievable 😬 surprised
Wow that's really cool and awesome collection. Nice one vidz my friend.
Thank you so much !
Great visit with Charles. Wonderful collection
What a fantastic place!😯
Really is!!!
Like Charles collection, he has the right attitude toward old cars. Thank you for showing us
Thank you for coming along!
What a wonderful video full of passion and inspiration! Your channel is like a sky full of stars and this is one of the brightest! A big thanks to you and Charles!
Wow!! Eine tolle Sammlung, die dort zusammengestellt worden ist. Viele Fahrzeuge erinnern mich an meine Kindheit/Jugend in den 60ern und 70ern. Danke für's Mitnehmen dorthin! 🙋🏻♀️😘
Ja, und so schade, dass heute fast alle Autos irgendwie gleich aussehen…
This was really delightful, thank you for sharing your experience!
Fantastic. Thanks for introducing us to Charles. Lea, it is clear you had a magic time there.
And thank you Charles for your time and passion. I’m only sad I live so far away (Australia) from you wonderful machine paradise.
I am happy you joined the virtual visit to the collection!
Awesome episode! Thanks for sharing this! Fiat "Giardiniera" turned out to be a favorite 👏
Charles, I didn't have any idea of the extent of your collection. It's magical. All these microcars have so much character! Lea sure did a wonderful job presenting it! What a wonderful world you have! (And can't wait to see the 404 wagon!)
I was blown away too when I saw the collection! Completely didn’t expect it to be so awesome after just hearing from it by one of the followers here!
First "car" I had was a Berkeley T60 three wheeler, because I could drive that on my motorcycle licence. It looked like a mini E type Jaguar from the front and a potato from the rear. Powered by an Excelsior twin 328cc air cooled engine. Fitted with a crankshaft mounted SIBA Start combined starter and DC generator unit, so no Bendix gear to wear out and fail. Body made in three fibre glass pieces pop rivetted together around two steel internal chassis members. Soft top. 60 mph flat out! Berkeley also made similar four wheelers but with bigger engines.
Hahaha I love this description, „looked like a potatoe from the rear“ 😂😂😂
Charles is an amazing guy and comes across as friendly and full of life ( young at heart ) His collection is awesome and a living breathing collection , real history you can touch and smell.. Wow what a guy and his collection 😍😍
Yes, it’s really awesome! Happy you liked the video!
What a Car Collection. Amazing
All my life I dedicated myself to cars, mostly racing, help with some restorations of classic cars, not so motorcycles, I only enjoy rides, plus some repair that I do to my beloved 250. Fabulous collection!! congratulations to Charles and very good idea to take the children to meet !! Excellent video, greetings.
Thank you for your nice comment and enjoying the collection as much as I did!
Brilliant fun you had and shared. Thanks Lea.
Awesome what a great story
Thank you!
I absolutely loved this video, Lea. Thanks so much!
Lea, very nice vid. It's great you got to experience hands on collecting and restoring machines. Happy for you. You sure don't get to experience this everyday, maybe not in a lifetime for many. I hope you have some new footage for the future. Safe travels. RTW See you on the road. Come back over. much more to see and experience. Barber Museum., Leeds, AL.
Thanks for the interesting video
Thanks for coming along!
This episode touched my heart. So many of those I am familiar with. While watching I kept looking for cars I had in the past but did not see. Glas, Borgward, Sunbeam.
But nice anyways that watching the episode made you remember all the nice cars you drove in the past!
Delightful!
Great video, Lea!!
Wonderful!!
Thank you!
Very interesting topic, thanks for sharing again great story!
Hi Lea, different episode.....but nice. Charles has a beautiful collection. I remember that in the owners manual of the Vincent Lightning you could read: Acceleration: " Not yet tested"
Btw: a microcar not many people know, is the Kleinschnittger. Engine: 125 cm³ or about 7,8 inch³. NO not for the windscreen wipers.
That is funny with that Vincent manual! Sounds like you know those things, I have to damit I have never heard of Vincent before I met Charles 😅
@@Got2Go my goodness, Lea, really? It's probably cuz I am 76 yo
Great episode. Charles seems like a genuinely nice man. You certainly can see his enthusiasm. And yours for that matter. Looking forward to next week's finale.
Thank you so much. And looking forward too to show you the finale of the epic east coast ride next week!
The great man know the value of the cars... Probably he's one ours....
He does!
Thank you Got2Go
Thank you for watching!
What a wonderful episode, even though not on the bike. So sad though, that Charles does not have an AJS motorcycle (which actually was the first bike I owned - a -1962 old one -). But if I would ever own ,or drive a car, it will have to be as small as the "PEEL" or the BMW, even the original Fiat 500, or the Mini cooper, but all with much better engines of course.LOL... Thanks Lea, and will look forward to the next adventure.
Would be funny to see you riding around in the peel instead of a motorcycle!
@@Got2Go indeed Lea. But that is the only size I would be comfortable to drive after all these years riding motorcycles.. LOL. Looking forward to the next journey.
Oh Lea, what can I say, what a brilliant video you have created, I absolutely loved it. What a incredible man Charles is, so forward thinking in the way he preserves the cars in his collection, and I couldn't help but notice that beautiful yellow Jaguar E-type. I worked for Jaguar cars for 38 years before retiring five years ago. I still ride my 1250 GS ADV, and I love to follow your motorcycle adventures, but being a complete petrol head I loved this episode. Thank you so much, I may watch more than once ha-ha.
I love this episode too because I learned so much and really got so inspired by Charles. And I would love to own an e-type too - imagine I would do a worldtrip in one! 😂😂😂
@@Got2Go Sounds awesome Lea.
15:35 Oh my goodness ...🤭🙏
Hallo, guten Morgen, Lea, ich habe mit 13 Jahren mit einem Derbi Cross angefangen ok 👌👍 tschuss
Wow, da warst du auch früh dran! 💃🏻
Ok 👌 Lea
This was real fun! Great to see such a lot of cars and other vehicles form well-known to almost totally unknown owned and cared by this man and his family. Real good show Lea!
Thank you for the nice words and watching!
Super car Akka 😍
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I see a triumph gt6 +, brings back some memories with the fun little car. I think I paid $300 for it.
i love micro cars.....i love miniature....actually my business based on miniature.....:)
Hi Lea welcome…👋👋
Thank you!
Hello Charles
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Are any of these cars for sale???? I want to buy some of them!!!! Awesome video!!! I really liked it!!!!!
my buddy has that same NAsh, its red, back in the 80's we had a olds 350 in it I think it was, being chased by cowboys with guns we lost em just in time to chuck a rod, we smoked it to a buddy's house and Ace changed the motor out in their garage... BTW same friend who's mom sold me my very first car ever, a MINT 1955 Dodge Custom Lancer, small block hemi V-8, yellow/black.. unreal, a tow company and the police stole it from me, she let me buy it for $50 ...
Sounds like an awesome deal!!!
Mega Autos und sehr seltene Stücke. Ride them, do not hide them and teach them young :-)) The best way to avoid electric crap cars.
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9:44 intrusting 🤔
What is up with a plastic bottle at 11:20?
A Mini Couper S - a true wolf in sheep's clothing
Definitely - especially if Charles is driving it! 😂😅
Mini Cooper all the way!
kun looks so funny you made me smile with you th kun looks so funny you make me smile with you th😂👍
Thank you for watching!
FIAT 500 GIARDINETTA
Hi madam, your voice is sweet, long time not view video to me, How are you madam
Time to convert them to EV.
Why are you go there?
Hi Lea, something popped up in my mind. You have to know Horex and Münch Mammut. So on a rainy day......
And....in 1969, when the Amis were on their way to the moon, the German Motorcycle Magazine Das Motorrad had an idea. They wanted to see how far a bike can come in 24 hours. Same rider.
They started with three Moto Guzzi's V7 on the Autobahn A7 in Hamburg to Vienna then back to Hamburg and then back to Vienna until 24 hours have passed one bike was solo.
One bike had a female passenger who didn't moan at all. And one had a sidecar fitted. At gas stations were friends for coffee en goggles cleaning.
They covered about 2700 km (1700 m) with a medium speed of 123 kmh (75 mph) The sidecar was stuck in Austria with a cracked tank after 1000 miles.
They later repeated it with a Yamaha 250 and a Kreidler Florett 50 cc. The Kreidler was faster than the train. The Kreidler changed riders! Tough guy's those Germans.
Want to know more ? Google " Bahnburner" (In German)
Kreidler: Hamburg Wien: Motorräder besiegten Bahn. WELT