HubNut Social at the Lakeland Motor Museum, 14th April 2019 

"Obviously there are some Ferrari's about........but look at this K10 Micra"! CLASSIC HUBNUT QUOTE and why we ADORE this channel. 😍

The blue TVR is the oldest in existence, the second of three specials built by Trevor Wilkinson around 1950.

I went to see Elton John live in 1973, and he had WIPERS ON HIS GLASSES! Beat that all you car makers.

that orange fiat really floated my boat but then so did that 80s alfa - great collection turned out

The Tri van at 6:52 used to be mine. I auctioned it and Lakeland bought it.

Who needs Hollywood movies when you can watch Hubnut social meets. Fantastic cars, Real people. Keep up the great vids :) :)

That FS1E Yamaha that was in the museum bought back some memories.

Shaun has done a great job on the Favorit.

Hub Nut you are making my TV redundant 👍 It's great to finally be able to watch a video featuring the type of cars I like .thanks ☺

That green Volvo was so beautiful and with the interior being so clean it looked just so modern for its time. Great stuff. 👍

Great video...cars from before my time, my childhood, youth, and twenties. My dad used to restore Jaguars in the 60s, he had some beautiful cars: Triumph Spitfire White, Hillman Minx soft Grey, Volvo P1800 Cherry Red, Triumph Vitesse Yellow, MG Miget Teal Blue chrome bumpers 1973, MG B Black Bumpers colour BRG, MG B GT Saffron Yellow chrome, MGB GT V8 Purple. 2 and 3 litre Ford Capri' S models. He bought me a Hillman Californian in green for my first car back in 1976 I loved the lines of that little car. These a just a few over the decades I have fond memories. of. I was a lucky girl to ride in and drive some of these cars.

Volvo Estate, worked in high school at a local small Volvo dealer, fell in love with these cars, my job was cleaning the new and used cars up. It seemed to me these beautiful old Volvo’s were always owned by professors and teachers, so to my mind even today I see a Volvo I think well educated driver. We also sold Datsun’s, Fiats and Toyota’s. Loved the Fiat Spyder’s, but it seemed every time we washed one to get it out of the wash bay we had to call a mechanic in.

George!! Sorry, i love cats. Aside from that, i love cars. What a feast for the the eyes that HubNut Social was. Talking about smoked rear lights and poverty spec, my dad had a '87 Opel Senator 2.0i ones. It had a 4 speed manual, manual yet tinted windows, cloth interior, power locks, power steering and front fog-lights. It was white with bleu interior. I've never seen a poverty spec Senator before or after that one.We loved that car to bits, though. Thouroughly cleaned the interior back to almost new condition, and we buffed the outside too. Shortky after, my dad traded it in for a younger Senator of the latest model, a 2.6i automatic with loads of goodies. Just no leather or aircon. Many years later, when my dad bought his BMW E39 535i, the Senator 2.6i was passed on to me. Also a lovely car when you apriciate comfort and long distance, high speed cruising. Oh, seems like i'm rambling now, sorry for that! I could go on and on about HubNutty cars, i've had a lot of those...

lol @ 37:46 and probably the best video ever, if only the BBC could make stuff like this

Awesome tour of the museum Hubnut! Sorry the Invacar couldn't be more accessible. 😔. But jolly good to see the SKoda again looking very smart. My favorites have to be the Rover 800 Sterling and the red Xj40 saloon. Parked next to each other looking awesomely British! Great great time.

i love how hubnuts like "an aston martin thingy" then gets excited over the reliant convertable, never change hubnut

I am constantly flabbergasted by your automotive knowledge. My friends think I'm a bit of a nerd because I can recognise lots of classic cars, but I pale in comparison! You can distinguish cars by wiper blades and hub caps! It's nuts!

That Rover 800 Sterling interior is delightfully retro-cool, I love it!

Great location for the social, plus a great selection of cars that turned up.

Fantastic, glad you enjoyed your time with us.

I remember my dad's friends P reg. Rover 825 Sterling. Leather interior and walnut wood. Nice car

I thoroughly enjoyed sharing your day out at the museum. I liked the poverty metro comments. First car I drove was an orange A reg Metro City. I used to dream of having features such as a passenger door mirror and a rear wash wipe. Luxury!! Oh and that Fiat was lush. My Dad got a 132 1600 back in the day. Not a patch on that 131... Though there were rust 'patches' on it within 6 weeks!!!

I couldnt take my eye off that green Porsche, but then again it's bright green and has a massive wing.

Well done Ian you deserve all the success and following . The 131 and Monza along with the sd1 vitesse awesome to see 👍👍👍

This is just like an episode of "Shed & Buried", starring your good friend Henry Cole!

Awesome video Ian, so nice to see such a collection of random classic motors. For me seeing the Renault 16 TL at 26:26 - Not seen such a car in real life since I passed my driving test in one back in 79. I definitely have a soft spot for them. I also fell in love with the Orange Fiat. Stunning!! - Excellent video!!

Ian, watching this is like a flashback of stuff ive either drove or owned ,brilliant

In 1985 ish, the older brother of my best mate at school had a Mirafiori. He was officially the coolest bloke in the village and he used to take us out for a blast now and again. I always thought that one day I'd get one. Never did though. Damn.

Lovely to see the 131 Mirafiori, used to have one of those. Mine fell to bits however but thats still better than a colleagues mum, whose Mirafiori caught fire driving through Norwich City Centre in the rush hour.

I went to this place last year! All I needed to see was the GORGEOUS Rover SD1 Vitesse parked outside and I knew i would like the place!

I loved your comments about children and the Delorean. In the Ulster folk and Transport Museum they had one on display for years. As a kid we could get inside. After the company collapsed my dad took me down to the factory and there was a sea of unsold cars! Now I actually live about 5mins down the road. It is now a Montupet (Components) factory

Brought a tear to my eye ! , the Fiat 131 Mirafiori sport in signal orange , another one of my oddball cars from the 80’s .. most of the construction road signs that disappeared off the M42 went into making inner sills and floor sections on that car, I’m sure if it’s still around, scrape the under seal off and it will say “Mud on the Road !” 😎 Nice Vid as usual 👍🏻

That computer in the Rover sterling topped it off for me. So retro.

Great video, fantastic to see these old cars still on the road. 👍

Smashing Vid.... Reminds me when I first went round the museum in Martigny, Switzerland and made myself aware that most of the cars there are RHD and certainly the really older ones.

This episode brought back a few memories from my childhood. The only time I've seen an Amphicar in the flesh was at the age of 6 or 7 when we were holidaying in the Lake District. As we were walking through some town (might have been Coniston), this funny looking red car went past us, and as I looked back at it, saw that it had a pair of propellers! Have loved those cars ever since. Later, my dad drove a Consul Classic, a huge car by British standards at the time (or was that because I was still small) but unfortunately one that I was far too young to drive. A few years later when I was old enough to drive my dads Mk2 Cortina (on its last legs, top speed about 60 if you didn't mind the noise), the bloke in the garage opposite had an immaculate red Consul Capri. Have also loved those cars ever since. One thing I still can't understand. When my dad owned crappy old bangers like a 1950's Ford Popular or the Classic, we'd go across country or to Scotland for our summer holidays (we live in Yorkshire), but when he started buying far better and newer cars, we just went a few miles up the coast!

What a splendifferous HubNut Social. Thanks for sharing Ian. A wonderful selection of terrific cars and a lovely location. (Nice to see George in his starring role as well.) Thanks again.

The blue Manta is an end-of-the-line GT/E Exclusive. The Exclusive models, by then just down to being based on the basic GT and top-line GT/E, got the Irmascher twin-headlight conversion and the headlight wash/wipe deleted, a few other Irmscher bits like leather-rim steering wheels and larger rear spoiler, metallic paint as standard and different interior trim and upholstery so none of the GM/Recaro seat plaid trim that was so famous during the '80s and which looked so much like the cloth used for baseball caps from a certain well-known company that were so popular with boy-racers in the '90s. The GT/E also got its alloy wheels painted in anthracite paint rather than the standard bare alloy/silver or white if you ordered one in white. The GT made do with its standard steel wheels, though I think they were also painted a darker grey than was standard on the pre-Exclusive cars. Unfortunately the late Mantas were noticeably less well-built than earlier cars so rust and careless owners have made them properly rare today. This car also proves that the Manta did outlive the Capri, just, with the last being E-reg, though apparently a few hung around in dealers long enough to get F-plates, whereas the last of the Capris were D-reg with some stragglers getting E-plates...

" Well that´s appalling service " C´mon! give him a break! He has to stand there all day!

One place I've lived in the US since I moved over here has an interesting US equivalent to that Land Rover firefighting vehicle, specifically for bush-fire and forest-fire fighting -- a purpose-built HumVee fire truck. Every time there's a fire call, it seems there's a mad rush of all the volunteer firefighters to the station just to be the ones who get to drive the HumVee rather than one of the larger ladder or tanker trucks.

Nice RIley at 34:28. My Dads got a Riley RMF 2.5 litre. He rebuilt it from 80s onwards. Was featured in many magazines over the years.

Love this museum, I've filmed there a couple of times, but never noticed those cars up in the roof! Great to hear your knowledge on these cars.

That place looks as much fun outside as it is inside for the petrolhead. The Auto "insert swear word here" 's caravan was amazing, I remember holidaying in things like that in the 70's and 80's , they also had psychadelic carpets! . 😂 Thanks for another entertaining video Ian

@ 1628 the Argonaut headlamp is actually the horn, the head lamp is forward and down near the bottom of windscreen. they are kerosene lamps. the horn is operated by pushing down on the button on top.

Last time I was in the museum they had 2 lotus esprit,s from the bond movies . The submarine one and the red one with the ski rack on the back . Happy days

Great video, Ian. Was thrilled to see the 74 Allegro looking splendid in the museum, plus a car built in my own fair city...the DeLorean. Hope to get over to Britain for one of your future socials, soon. Thanks for the videos! And hello to George. (More George, please). Chris

Magnificent... just, magnificent! A very late 16TL, an FB Victor, a Cortina GXL Auto to name but a few... a P5 in the colour of chocolate blancmange... automotive joy :) And after the day I had a work, a great way to unwind.

The Skoda Favorit looks lovely! Glad its gone to a good home.

Such a wonderful selection of cars. And a fabulous turn out. Xx

Another great video Ian,bought back loads of memories of cars I've had,MGB GTs Escort Mk1,Capri etc ,and I banger raced a Sceptre back in the seventies,great car used to really shift. Good to see young George at the end as well. I'm not surprised he didn't like the cattery!😁😁

Thanks for organising the meet up. I was the one in the slightly more modern laguna. Might have been modern compared to the rest, but given its issues, it managed 1600 miles in total in 4 days. Beaulieu motor museum might be a good shout for the next meet up.

Thanks for sharing the video Hubnut , loved all the cars tbh

Great upload really enjoyed your tour cheers

Great video Ian, lovely to see so many lovely cars and friends of the channel.

Fantastic vid Ian and thanks for organising the meeting it was a great day.

Amazing video as always, truly enjoy watching these and hearing your imputs and opinions, you'd make a great host for Top Gear lol keep up the awesome work i love seeing these videos and classic cars and soon to be classics, Pete C did an awesome 1980's video of him and his mates messing about in cars with old tunes he seems like quite a sound bloke.

When I first came to Canada 26 years ago I didn't have a job so picked up any work I could for a while. One of those jobs was driving a taxi and one of the fleet vehicles was a big old Cadillac (like your friend Eddie's) which had been converted to propane. You didn't steer that thing, you aimed it and hoped for the best. Nice to see an intact Mirafiori Sport. I have many happy memories of the time in mine (a black one) which I drove in the 80's before the inevitable happened.

So nice to see the Volvo 145. Had one for many years. Loved it.

Wow, what a great collection! I love the Volvo 145 with that facelifted front end looking like a later Daf model. Interesting to note the flush door handles that carry over to the 200 series. Oh that red Rover Sterling!! 😍 And the orange Fiat 131😍. I also follow the chap with the Bluebird on Flickr.

Great to meet you Ian, did get a few blank looks asking people if they were Hubnutters! DeLorean is a Wooler Hodec conversion, of of about 10, and maybe a dozen factory rhd. Sd1 is a twin plenum, you can tell from outside, but it involves lying on the floor to look for the fuel tank and pump guards. Most seem to have fancy reg numbers as they were registered to dealer principles I think, before being sold on. The 825 you test drove was also on an OE plate so may well be a factory car like my sd1. Great video, some great cars too, loved the Imp with it's Bluemel number plates and the Starlet. You're all welcome again, next event like that is in September, by which point I might have calmed down!

Very enjoyable video, lots of lovely classic cars, great to see the gorgeous Favorit looking very nice !!.

That Fiat Miafiori in orange is a rare sight! They rusted away. When I worked at a scrapyard in the late 80s, I remember a Fiat just like that one, it was so rusty that when a chain was put through the door openings to lift it by the roof, (same way all cars were craned and moved round the yard,) as the crane started to lift the car up, it completely collapsed as the windscreen pillars just snapped, due to rust! It looked like a broken Matchbox toy!

You definitely need to come down south for the next HubNut social!

Enjoyed that little video and well done for being nice to us ford owners 👍

As others mentioned the "of course there are Ferraris about but look at this K10 Micra," line just collapsed me into a puddle of laughter. Love this channel!!

That 800 sterling brings back memories you could have demonstrated the electric back seats lol , Served my apprenticeship working on those you should have slipped it into S & pressed the s4 button bury the loud pedal & the box doesn't change from 3rd to 4th till 103 mph had some fun road testing those haha Loving that 7 series turbo estate nothing used to say stealth wealth quite like one of those

Cheers Ian....enjoyed that, was good to meet you, and always wanted to go to Lakeland and 'HubNut social' the perfect excuse! ....Thought I'd missed you walking around taking video then I see myself with my head buried under a bonnet! lol....Some lovely cars there, have to say my two favourites were the Scimitar GTC and the Mirafiori!

So many nice cars ! love the sterling ,P5 also & Monza ! On a side note i spent an evening trawling classifieds for a renault 16 a while ago but not bought one as yet ...Great museum too😎

It was a good day Ian ,excellent video.

Great video loved seeing classic cars

hello hubnut just stumbled across your chanel can i say what a breth of fresh air its so nice to see all these old cars from my youth especially the micra as that is what i passed my driving test in and my dad had so many jems and bangers i can allways remeber him fixing something on them not like todays cars which have no soul yes they are more refined but they have no heart keep up the good work you are doing to make these vids 10/10 from me

Ooooh that 131 such a brilliant car. Brings back memories of mine. Eventually failed the mot dismally. And the Opal Monza. I owned the Vauxhall Royale version with a 2.8 Straight Six. Great video. Nice to relive my youth owned quite a few of the cars there. All happy memories

We loved this place last October. You will too.

Really glad we came, we'll definitely try to make it to another

Loving that Standard Swallow at 13:09!

Hi Ian.Hi George.Congratulations once again on a fantastic turnout.Hubnut goes from, "Strength to Strength". :)

36:00 I realised when I visited that museum my childhood holidays in Wales were spent in a glorified shed :) great video :)

That Metro GTi is an ex Metro GTi Championship car which was a multi discipline (rally, hillclimb, circuit racing) single make series in the early 90s (featuring a certain Tony Pond!). That particular GTi was campaigned by Silverstone Rally School and was competing as recently as 2011, making it one of the last survivors from the series in competition.

Really enjoyed that tour and absolutely loved that Orange fiat 131. Reminded me of my dad's old white one back in the early 80s, great car other than it turning into the flintstones car within a year

Proper ambition of mine us to somehow get hold of a Delorean. Yes I know they're crap but absolutely love them. Saw the owners club lapping Donnington years ago, stunning. Just on looks alone they push every button for me! 😁

Great video. I learnt to drive in a Nissan Micra just like the red one on the video. Lots of great cars at the event, specially the rover 825 sterling. 😁 Hope you can come to the Brecon classic car show in August. Lot's of Hubnutty cars usually there. 👍

fantastic video , wonderful coverage .

Great video as always Ian, I think your crazy gimbles a much loved part of HubNut now :) Loved the museum tour and the Peugeot 309 GTi Goodwood, what happened to special editions, they were so much more fun than "option packs" Love the K10 Micra too :)

Great video, keep them coming!!!

That Metro was Bully's special prize

One of your best Ian.

Awesome v log m8 looks like u had a blast ,.loved seeing all the cars n seeing some I've never seen before 😀

That capri was gorgeous.

i live about 20 minutes from here, love it

My fiesta thanks for putting the video up Ian

You also had the two versions of the first-generation Rover 800 at the gathering. Your car and the red Sterling you sat in have the big bumpers fitted to later cars, and the silver SLi or Sterling in the museum that has the early, small bumpers...

Nice one Ian. When you got to the DeLorean and said "this must be a nightmare of a car to have in a museum, because any fingerprints..." Yes. I mentioned that I worked there for a season a couple of years ago. Well, I had to carry a damp cloth everywhere to remove fingerprints - the DeLorean was like a magnet for people wanting to run their hands over the brushed stainless....

What a great day ! I envy all who went. NZ is a bit far to drive from. Thanks for showing us so much of the day 👍 Loved it

Thanks for posting this video Mr Hubnut.... All the best from here in dartford

I enjoyed this video a lot. Incredible turn out of HubNutter's.

Thanks for the tour through the parking lot. Here in the US we have none of that variety of makes and models you have across the pond! Have seen more Tesla’s here than even fairly common MG’s or Triumph’s sports cars. Never see a 2CV or DS. TVR’s never. Austin’s, Humber, Rovers, etc. just none around in America. I was lucky to work for British Leyland, Renault, and Fiat as a young man but I haven’t seem an R5 or R16 since the 1970’s! You are all quite lucky to have such interesting vehicles around you on an almost daily basis! I’m envious!

Those brown leather seats in the green volvo are beautiful,Liking the TVR in the showroom also. :)

What a video that was Ian,some nice classic cars on here,im a bit of a mini fan and this did not disappoint,although I liked all of them,car park was quite full.and the Rover Sterling was a nice car with all the toys inside.

Loving that Citroen DS and the Rover SD a friend of mind had a Fiat Super Mia back in the late 1980s had great peppy engine but already a lot of rot amazing that one survived.A shame we didn’t get to see inside that allegro looked like a very early one with the square “quartic” steering wheel 😁

Great vid, I am patiently waiting for a Ford Corsair cos my grandad had one back in the late 70's, in off white with - I think - brown or red vinyl seats, maybe very rare now but love to see one again.