Brings back memories from 80's 90's when i got into the scooters, hope your still all scootering, after watching this im on the hunt for a Li I50 smart bastards check their phones now and ask for stupid money, the farmers in Ireland are worst they rather let it rust than sell it for a proper price, keep telling them thats all done up money, like you will be soon, only messing sure my Lambretta Li I50 is waiting for me ☘️💚
Frankly, that original 1958 styling had a really retro touches, that would became much more popular in the following decades. And push-button gearbox was nothing new in 1958, Push-Button Torqueflite debuted in 1953 Chrysler 300 and Packard had it's own push-button gearbox since 1954. Edsel in many was was like the present day cars, bereft of real technical innovations and left with repackaging the same thing in more fashionable package with more gadgets to distract it's driver. It failed mainly because of crap quality and badly predicting fashion trends, not because it was in it's core a bad car. It predicted some trends (domed speedometer would be in Chrysler 300 letter series, bank of warning lights instead of gages would became standard in the 1960s, retro design would take off in the 1970s and 1980s) when still being a creation of excess chasing late 1950s.
I had the US version (the Austin America). It was a total disaster. Water leaked in in many places. Fluids leaked out everywhere. The door locks were installed upside down and couldn't be fixed. Well, there were 30+ issues with the car. Bought new and got rid of after 6 months.
Going to north wales seeing all the scooters fly past my uncles car planted the seed in my brain then boom started doing the rallies in my late twenties
I Live in Australia. And still own a 1965 MG 1100. I’ve owned 4. 1100’s they are great cars. Australia built 1100’s , but only Morriss except for export I think they made Austin’s for New Zealand.. badge engineering. Great car.
In May 1968, I took my drivers test in 59 Coupe DeVille, Had no problem with the test. Only problem I had was the speedometer stuck on me at 110. I beat it until it became unstuck. My father stuck it at 120, that’s how I knew where to beat it.
Since this film was shot in 98, the local council spent...god knows how much rebuilding the road system through Swansea for the answer to the traffic problems - bendy buses. Then they scrapped them. A light rail system might have cost 120 million, roughly. How much did the chaos rebuilding Swansea for those sodding buses cost the city? And today, 2023... what's the traffic going to be like next summer... yeah, we all know the answer. Its almost as if there's nobody running the country....
My father and a work colleague actually designed the original concept for the Elf /Hornet shortly after the original introduction of the Mini. They felt that although the Mini was a brilliant design, it did lack stowage space for suitcases etc. so built a mock-up and submitted their design to headquarters at Abingdon, who showed an interest. Production soon followed but no credit was given to the lads.
6:36 I can't help but think that the 1960 Edsel looks somewhat similar to Pontiac Tempest and Pontiac GTO. It's a looker! Ford got the styling right with the third-gen model.
My mother loved her little Riley, until her male work colleagues jokingly would say " here comes Old Mother Riley in her Riley: Google Old Mother Riely. That was it, mother wasn't going to be known as that, so she traded it in and purchased the Wolseley Hornet version instead 😅
