Omg, what a find! what a collection, thank you, thank you for sharing, I was born in 1950, passed my driving test first time in 1967 for the princely sum of £1, driving lessons were 2 shillings for 40 minutes or 2s/6d for an hour, 4* petrol was 65d per gallon, 240d + £1, as an apprentice welder, from memory my wages were about £5 17s 6d per week ) My first car was a 1959 Hillman Minx series 11, bench front seat (kept well polished to enable young ladies to "slide around " a little in the corners, column gear change, hand brake protruded from the dashboardand a foot operated "dip switch" how I would dearly like to have a drive in one toaday. Nostagia rules! great memories, thank you once again. Respect to you Sir. :-)
I was born in 1950, and had my first car when 8 to drive around the orchards and market gardens where I grew up,, I then went on to do many many jobs, and for several years worked in the motor trade, so I got to drive most of these wonderful cars, and of course own some of them too! Ahhh bring tears to my eyes to see these beauties like this. Most of these would fetch serious money if cleaned and sold on the open market,, especially if they were got running!
Fantastic video, thank you for sharing these vehicles, many of which I remember fondly while growing up. Hope they are now with a classic car museum or car enthusiast owners who will restore them to former glory. 👍
I would love just to be able to walk around those cars and possibly sit inside them as it would bring back many memories and good times we used to have when we used to own similar cars back in my time, If only !!! These are my dreams to have just even one of those cars to treasure.
Blimey! Sunbeam Rapier, my dad had one of those in midnight blue...loved it. Shame to see all the car companies that have disappeared, Hillman, Humber, Singer etc and their model names Minx, Hunter etc. Great vid thanks for finding and sharing!
Brought back many a happy memory of my now passed father who had a fair few of these cars, my favourite being the consul classic where you’d pull down the rear number plate to fill with petrol... Had many a happy summers day with him working on them.... Thanks for sharing 👍
What a wonderful video. These cars all need a good clean and then to be lovingly restored put in a museum where people can enjoy a slice of our motoring past.
Value? Irrelevant! Pure art. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this video. Hauntingly beautiful. Thank you. I’m a photographer and have recently had commissions to capture some classics. I got totally absorbed in the subject. I’d love to capture some stills of these but without disturbing their ‘peace’
Amazing. There can't be many collections like this left. Quite a few of the cars look like they could be put back on the road whilst others would be a good source of spares.
They were probably bought over the years for peanuts one at a time when they were considered to be scrap value only . The investment may have taken thirty years to mature but it was worth it.
What a wonderful video taken, well done. I can remember going in my grand father’s Morris 1000 van around the 70’s think I was about 8 years old riding around in it. Wow what memories, once again who ever taken this video, thank you 🙏
This is history, all those Routes Group marques Hillman, Singer, Humber, etc are getting rare as hens teeth and should be preserved. My first car was a 1971 Humber Sceptre 1725 with twin carbs and overdrive, great car to drive but the engine blew up. I have often wished I could get hold of another like it for nostalgia's sake.
A joy to see all these survivors, I hope they go to good homes for restoration, takes me back to the good ild days working with my dad in his garage, real cars!!
Oh would love that 1953 Morris Minor Tourer even though I am not a driver, restoring that would be a labour of love and who knows, I might even be tempted to take up driving.
Thank you TheExStig for showing this, Im 61 and remember lots of these cars as a child, and owning my first car Cortina (Dark Green) same as the red one shown, also the escort Mk1 & 2, I hope these cars will be preserved well, and carefully driven for the future cheers Mark (UK)
Hi @theexstig. Nice meeting you sir and many thanks for showing me around this place. You said you were going to put another vid up showing the much older cars in there. When bud?
Hard to tell on that. They both looked similar from the front. The Classic had an acute rear like the Anglia while the Capri had the coupe rear line. This pre-dated the more famous Ford Capri.
The Consul Classic came in either two door coupe or four door saloon versions, both has reverse slope rear windows; the Classic Capri was only ever a two door fastback. This look’s to have four doors judging by the door handles on the side you can see.
I watched this I was in tears so many memorys from when I was a kid. I would like to know what happened to these beautiful cars I hope they all got restored I would love to have the chance to go and wash and polish everyone of them. Thank you for sharing this video love the music.
Wow that's a great find sad you don't own them all lol but some great classics in the video I would love to just pick one to restore and yet again great video
wow absolutely awesome, I do have a soft spot for the British vehicles, I do have a 68 commer van, I do have a few other classic vehicles Aussie muscle cars, It's funny how time changes, the decades change, I'm a 70s child, and growing up with these vehicles I've just seen brings back many fond memories of a time thats gone by, even in the early 90s there was still many of these cars still to be seen on the roads, nowadays hardly ever see one, but I guess you can say the same about today's vehicles 40 years from now you'll hardly see one.
5|:27 The PA Cresta with 3 rear windows is actually a 1958 and very very rare. MUST be saved. 4:43 The 61 FB VX490 if it is a 61 is also very very rare and too needs saving. I wish I was younger with a few bob as although a Victor nut would have loved to have had the PA's. Great Video and thanks vm for it.
Hiya. Is it F typr Victors you are into? My father had had a whole series of those back in the 60s. I still have a windscreen for one. Do you think that anyone would be interested in it? Cheers, LG.
My late dad had a garage in the late 60s and early 70s and worked on most of these models. Car technology has moved fast indeed - in this era, floors would be falling through in a matter of years, engines failed regularly and no way would many (if any) reach high mileage without constant maintenance. We forget how primitive these cars really were and how tiring a long journey would be with constant rattles, wind noise etc. They are from a different era indeed and somehow are beautiful in their ugliness. The American influence is plain to see in some and many would take serious money and time to restore properly. Great to see this collection and I hope the rare ones go to good home. I wish I still had my mum’s 1961 Austin Severn (mini) in which I learned to drive. Floor push button start in Old English white with a red vinyl interior / would be worth a small fortune now.
Well .Im a Vauxhall person by way of 75 years service by my Grandfather and Father who worked at Luton and E Port respectively so the PA Crestas are a dream , however my first was a 1966 Morris aMinor Convertible,so if down to a choice which of these to buy if offered then it would have to the Morris Tourer as described here !
I have a Morris 1100 Mk 2, Austin 1300 GT, Mini Clubman and several 1100/1300 wrecks for parts. I also have a '62 PASX Vauxhall Velox, and a '75 2-door Vauxhall Viva as per my avatar. So sad to see these beautiful old cars just slowly dissolving into dust. :(
What a great place and wonderful collection of cars. This needs to be preserved and appreciated as is. To many car collections are now only for the rich who restore and hide them away.
These are and Have been Hidden Away and have been appreciated by No One. They don't need to be preserves, they need to be set free and sold to people that will bring them back to life, unlike the selfish persons that have locked them away to rust
The Isle of Skye only has approx 10,000 inhabitants, when someone buys a new car and it is shipped from the mainland it would not be cost effective to transport the old cars back to the mainland, esp if they are broken so I would imagine this place became the graveyard for the islands old cars. Now decades later some of these are becoming rare and collectible so maybe they have some chance of finding new homes.
Cracking find lots of interesting brutish cars for once, so many barn finds are American, just to note those minis are later than you say the early ones had external door hinges I think the grey one is 1989 ish. 👍
Bit of anorak stuff: @ 03:25 those rear half bumpers on the Thames van and other Anglia based vans (but chrome) were the ones used on the front of Mk I Escort Twin Cam cars.
what would the scrap price have been on these at the time ? . i remember a friend bought two austin a 40 cars in 1970 for £30 that did not need too much work
A very nice investment. There is a lot of value in that barn. how many were running when stored ? or were they all towed in full of faults & MOT failures ?
My dad bought a new 75 Morris Marina that rusted to pieces inside of 2yrs. Had 15k miles on it and had an engine rebuild three times. They bought it back and he got a a new mini. Excellent little car that mini
I smell bullshit! There is no way a Marina would have rusted away within two years. I had a 1978 Morris Marina 1800 HL/TC that was written off in an accident in 1985 and was still in excellent condition with no rust at seven years old then apart from some stone chips. Also DRIVEL about the engine because if it was the 1800 engine they were very reliable engines and my Marina was an ex company car with over 71,000 miles on it when I bought it and I drove it hard and fast back then with NO problems - then again I looked after and serviced my own cars. If it was a 1300 Marina then it had the same A-Series engine in it as the Mini - I also owned a 1983 Mini which was also very reliable because the A-Series engines are very reliable as well as long as they are maintained and you do not use cheap points etc. All cars back then did rust but BL cars were no different to any others and if they were looked after and rustproofed then they would last no problem but most people are too lazy to check their oil and water never mind clean out under the wheelarches, underneath etc and paint and rustproof when needed - some of us managed it no problem.
How much for the gtx cortina, Ive always wanted to get one and put up to date running gear and a v6 in one with nice rims, especially if it was an estate. Estate's always seem to age better and look good.
SO MENY RARE BEASTS!! and in scotland too the place were cars go rusty then lancia's! they look to of been there a while as in 30+ years might be ex showroom or just ex cars that were going to be scraped but were saved? man i wonder if PC aka practical classics have seen this?
As i am a Panel beater / Sprayer , been qualified for more than 40 year's , I would love to have all these car's and return them to there original condition , and put them back on the road ,as well as take them to Classic Car show's.
Dennis - I am a 1951 baby, just a year behind you!! My first car in 1969 was AWB 57B a Mk1 Cortina, my dad had a garage business in Calver, Derbyshire and he let me have that to use, it kept overheating so he got me a Mini Cooper S MNU465D which I had to pay for (£90), it had been stolen and we had to get a cylinder head, carbs starter and other bits for it, the young man he got it from was a Mini Cooper fanatic and sorted all the bits for me (I was an RAF aircraft fitter at the time) rebuild was no problem. I would LOVE to go and buy one of the above cars, bit like a Candy Store though??? 2 years later are they still there?
The vast majority of these cars can still be saved. A bit of T-Cut & they'll come up like new for starters. Get these back on the road & to classic car shows & let future generations enjoy. My biggest worry however is that they'll fall into the wrong hands (banger racers), but the majority will be like me & don't want a grizzly fate for them.
Some of these cars seem to have registration numbers digitally applied to them. Some of them refer to different cars. 288GPD has been passing MOT tests every year since 2006 with no advisories, so these photos are very old, or the number is off a different Victor!
Its BS..its actually all in New Zealand..i know..cos ive been to this place..barn find my arse..its a museum...anyone can go looksie..and not have to lie like ex Stig..who wouldnt know a barn find from a pillow.
