The format of this series is near perfect. I like the fact the hosts are knowledgeable, serious, and yet inject good natured humor here and there. Looking forward to the next episode.
I love this series so much....cars and architecture go together perfectly. Who needs TV with this content. The question is what car goes with Jay's grand Mansion??
Mr. Osborne, I love this segment with you and Jay have been following this channel since season 1 episode 1 keep up the great work. One thing, I've noticed you've changed the intro music and although this new one is pleasant, I really prefer the original theme song, just letting you know
Another fabulous episode! I loved Jay’s description of what British manufacturers considered would appeal to the American market post WW2, he was spot on. I own a 1952 Triumph Mayflower. This car was produced as a ‘small luxury car’ for the American market and could not have been more inappropriate! Here in the UK few people owned cars in the years immediately following the end of the war and motorways (our equivalent of America’s Freeways) did not exist so a car like the Mayflower would have been well suited to trundling around town or a country village but was not up to travelling hundreds of miles at a stretch. The car was produced with a variant of the pre-war Standard 10 side valve engine coupled to a column change three speed gearbox that lacked any power when a hill came along. Compare that to the large and luxurious straight six or flat head V8’s a typical family in America were travelling around in and the poor Mayflower didn’t stand a chance! Only 503 were sold across the pond. It wouldn’t have mattered how much chrome was thrown at the car it whole design, both in shape and performance, was out of date before it left the drawing board to start production. Look at the difference between the Mercedes’ featured in this latest episode and my Triumph Mayflower and you have to ask, who really won the war?
I love the unrehearsed nature of these films - Jay and Donald often having conflicting opinions and stubbornly holding on to them, yet still enjoying the experience of riding in these interesting automobiles, and having a laugh when things don't quite work out. Very entertaining.
Nice seeing Donald and Jay riding along telling the history of the mansions and going by places I love to visit. I found the pizza truck you have in the intro and man is it good.❤ I once own a 1958 Nash Rambler and drove it to NewPort with my son and daughter wearing the hat Donald had on. Wish I still had that car.🎉🎉🎉
Omg, and like a prom dress you wanna get out of it quickly….Jay’s timing is impeccable. A perfect match for Donald’s impeccable taste, they lovingly tolerate each other with laughter and respect for one another.
Bianchi is still in business. It was opened by Eduardo Bianchi in 1885 as a manufacturer of bicycles and currently offers some beautiful and desirable bikes. Many are painted in that pretty blue-green color that is their trademark (Celeste Blue).
This is the only car channel that both my wife and I love to watch... Her for the beautiful homes and me for the automotive eye candy! Keep up the good work we are always looking forward to new episodes with great anticipation. My wife had a great idea for a theme that we thought we would pass along.... The program could be a show of contradictions in which cars were selected based on that premise and to add to the entertainment Factor my wife suggested that Donald dress as Jay would and Jay dress in Donald's style!
The creation of the beautiful little Auto Bianchi makes perfect sense when considering the 1960s Italian market. To Americans the Fiat 500 was a cute novelty, in Italy, they were ubiquitous Can you imagine a 1960s U.S. market where the vast majority of cars were Ford Falcons? Barf!
we had a gray ,,Ponton" sedan when I was in Kindergarten in a Quonset Hut, Mainz, W. Germany Our quarters had been built for the French Zone -- bidet, clawfoot tub, south sunroom + north screened pantry with cooling niches in the masonry, ivory hard wired phone ...
Thanks for watching, Ashley! Check out Mansions & Motorcars Season 4 Episode 1: Bellevue House where Donald and Jay drive a 1971 280 SE 3.5 Cabriolet! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Bd6OfbcZZB0.html
I had a '59 190b, 4-door, 4-speed on the column, wooden dash, was my first car. Bought it for $800, did end up having the MB dealer rebuild the engine which was $1000-something back in the 70's. Unfortunately the car was totaled when a driver crossed into my lane, amazing how sturdy the 190 was, I walked away with just some scratches.
The 99 Horse Power have been brake horse power. So about 120 SAE HP. But Mercedes didn’t want to boast about that, it was enough for the daily drive. And in Germany at that time it was a sovereign on the road with 16 seconds up to 100 km/h and 160 km/h top speed
Anybody familiar with older Mercedes-Benz knows when we see the chrome molding around the wheel wells, instantly knows that the car has a rust problem. Packard imported Mercedes-Benz to the U.S. to have a cheaper second car line. After Packard merged with Studebaker, Studebaker became dominant and Packards disappeared. Studebaker continued to import M-B. If a current M-B dealer was in business back in the 1950's, they were formerly Studebaker-Packard dealers.
My wife always comments, "That Donald has so much style and class". I tell her , "don't you worry about him. He's as crazy as Leno ever knew how to be".
The Autobianchi needs to be on a twisty little Italian road, winding between stone walls, with tight little corners neither the Merc nor the Camaro could get half a mudguard around.
People tend to get the nurburgring quite wrong, it isn't a perfectly smooth race track, it's bumpy, uneven, changing tarmac, kerbs, changing elevation, it's more akin to normal road conditions than a smooth track. It is used to tune compliant suspension, stiff race setups are no use on the nurburgring, that's why manufacturers go there.
Jay doesn't seem to understand an upscale Fiat. It is for the same reason Ford currently sells a Maverick Lariat. Some people want to have some claim to upscale. Even in the cheapest car made.
I love Jay's videos - until he starts making stupid put down comments about the British. I've noticed that he'll never do this in front of an actual British person just fellow Americans. Is this what you really think of us Jay? .
What I love about these mini-films is the journey through Newport. You start on Bellevue Ave, around Ocean Drive, through the old James estate, the Fifth Ward, and then back the Bellevue Ave. It’s just lovely.
I have followed this since season 1. I thoroughly enjoy you two gentlemen. In this episode I enjoyed seeing the inside of one of the historical landmarks. The 69 Camaro confused me. But that's o.k.❤🍷🍷👍😎🤑
Jay's incredible thick white hair is becoming more iconic and identifiable than his chin! They're very comfortable together and the camera catches that vibe. I feel like I'm sitting in the middle of the back seat with the wind in my face.
Donald, you ARE class. Biden NEEDS you ! How you tried to sell that car, and Jay just crushed you. Class? You kept a "stiff upper lip" and prevailed. BRAVO
10:41 I think Donald is correct, Jay. I had a 1971 M-B 220 D (4-door, 4 cylinder 2.2 liter Diesel made for taxi) and slogged it around for years. Then one day a 15 miles of virgin highway opened up south of the city, and after a mile or two I realized it was deserted. So I buried my foot and... as we went over 75 MPH, the car rose up and almost all vibrations and engine noise seemed to disappear. As we went over 80 it seemed like we were driving on a cloud- it was clear, this is what the car was made for... and YEAH the seats were the BEST!
The Mercedes was exquisite. As you two were driving along in it, I was mentally comparing the 1957 Mercedes to my grandparents 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air that later became mine on my 16th birthday. The Chevy would have won a drag race between the two cars, and probably top speed as well as it had the 283 V8 with three on the tree and, for some reason, a 3:55 to 1 rear end ratio. But, oh my, the interior of the Mercedes was superb. I love a beautiful interior, as that is where you spend the time when you are driving a car, and I LOVE to drive! Vernon Court was beautiful as well. I will have to tour it someday.
Cannot now remember all the figures, but early eighties one of My Mates was on leave and Friday night were standing at the bar and saw an old 126 in the classifieds. We both had cars and bikes. " Shall We buy it for a laugh?" Next day We did, for less than We spent the night before! Insurance was pennies. Everything could and was repaired from scrapyards. Where We grew up in Scotland there were/are some fantastic wee roads, when the driver wanted to play, the passenger had to behave like the passenger in a racing sidecar in the back! Can't remember how many times We put Her on Her side, only once needed a farmer to pull Us out. She was tiny, slow, noisey, and freezing in the winter, but what a laugh! Sadly rust eventually killed Her.
11:30 Actually, that burled wood dash is a growth from the tree where it is cut with the same kind of tool as you would use to cut plies for plywood, except with a more robust blade because of the fact that you are cutting hardwood.
Whenever I see those wide ass wheels on old cars I’m like nope. I get that it’s necessary to handle the power of the new engine but it just doesn’t look right.
The Cabriolet did cost about twice the price of the sedan, as the sedan did not have walnut burl in the series stock equipment. The Sedan had normal artificial leather in the door pads. 12.500 DEM for the sedan , 23.500 DEM for the Convertible. 29.500 DEM for the 300 SL Gullwing, 19.950 DEM for the 300 Grosser Saloon from 1951 to 1954. A Dollar was between 4 and 5 DEM
A famous British racer Tiff Needell mentioned that in the James Bond Film „ You only live twice“ from 1966 there would have been used Mercedes Diesel Taxis for the Chase after Sean Connery. I believe it were also some 220 pontons among them.
My God! I know exactly what Jay is saying about that Mercedes shifter. When I was a kid back in 1990, I was working as a valet at the airport. At that time I had no love for Mercedes and I had driven (albeit briefly) many new ones. We had one of these that I had to pull up. The first thing I noticed was how fine the key turned in the lock. But the shifter...the shifter was a complete revelation compared to the new Mercedes I had driven. At the time, I did not know what to make of it. But when I handed the keys to the driver, I told him "Sir, you have the finest Mercedes on the lot.", to his endless pleasure. Very unlike the E-Type I fetched, which lost all brake pressure as I pulled it up, carrying me onto a busy cross street and nearly killing me. But that's another story.
The Mercedes is a stunner and the Camaro is a beautiful work of art - also a stunning car!. My Aunt had a lovely little blue/greyish Fiat 500 in the late 60's early 70's that she used to drive up to University. Wonderful car also however not as elegant as the derivative 500 here...however would have loved to see one of you drive the Camaro! As always a brilliant video with superb cinematography - and most importantly a brilliant combo of gentlemen presenters!!! Please drive the Camaro in a future episode with a couple of burnouts 👍👍👍
Donald seems to enjoy the Autobianchi more than Jay does because, as a passionate italian cars connoisseur, he better understand the philosophy behind those utilitarian cars from Italy.
I've never heard Jay go so blue when telling a joke. The Packard story was like watching Eddie Murphy Raw in the 80's. I hope my mom doesn't come home.
