If i was walking down that road and saw that thing coming i would shit my pants and run off screaming! Looks absolute evil, If Dracula drove a car it would be that one.
300DBenz That car looks like something you would expect to see a Move Villian pulling up in. That rolls looks more like something that Bruce Wayne would drive when he wasn't on the clock at Wayne Enterprises or out patroling as "The Batman."
@@jurivlk5433 A link please of Rita Hayworth`s car. I have however been in love with Delahaye since I 1st (I think) saw it in 2011 movie Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon (although I think I`ve heard about the brand earlier over the years): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lICdm719V3k.html Here is the beautiful 165 S in another setting: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FjvchvMRai0.html Then we have ofcourse it`s successor the 175 S by Diana Dors: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-n8qUG0e4psw.html Then other Delahaye beauties: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Csp9KWZBeWY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Txw3XTwGYNo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FKvpt-vS-A0.html Last (although one could go on and on) but not least: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z410JrEoAeA.html
You really need to work on not barking orders at people when you talk. Ordering him to open up the hood after he's already reaching for the latch...you probably don't even realize you're doing it, but you did it on every car he showed us. Love your content, keep up the good work.
To me, this is one of the top 5 car designs of all time. The contrasting circular and straight surfaces give an improbably coherent design that doesn't clash, and somehow works as a whole. It took a certain genius to pull that off. Most great French and Italian car designs utilize elegant, changing radius curves. But Voisin achieved a more dramatic, bold effect with circles and straight lines. But beyond the boldness, there's a huge amount of subtle detail, (with straight lines that are actually slightly curved), demonstrating the tremendous amount of thought went into the design of this car. And the interior with all the gauges and the exposed transmission and shifter mechanism is equally incredible. This car demonstrates that Voisin was both an artisan and a mechanical genius. It really is beautiful yet sinister looking. It's the epitome of cool.
La hispano suiza fue una marca espanola funded en Barcelona, No es francesa. Fue vendido y fabricado despues de la Guerra civil en francia pero es espanola.Despues surgio la Pegaso con sus miticos Z 102,Los mejores deportivos del mundo en los 50s.
@@juanmorales5133 This car is french, not spanish. And YES, Hispano-Suiza was french too. In 1923, the company established in France became independent as the "Société Française Hispano-Suiza" (French Society Hispano-Suiza), and owned later by the french state. All the most luxurious Hispano-Suiza was built in France, by the french independent company, with french coachbuilders. The proof ? During the exhibitions or concours d'élégance, these models of Hispano-Suiza has a french flag for the country of origin, not the spanish flag. Spain had only built the standard models, so, Spain can't claims the luxury cars from France. At the time, France had the know-how to make luxurious automobiles, not Spain, not at the same scale.
Those cars are definitely what old cartoon villains' automobiles were based on. They just HAVE to be! It must've been a blast to get to drive them, though!
No mention of the Voisin's most unique feature: its V12 uses sleeve valves instead of the usual poppet valves. The amount of oil smoke also explains why sleeve valves never caught on.
I cannot believe such rare unbelievably special cars were driven on the road, by an auto presenter named Dennis Gage. Not because of his name, his moustache and flat cap, but because the driver could be replaced, and the car is irreplaceable. Truly the, ‘Pièce de résistance’.
The Voisin has this look of being a custom made hot rod from the uniqueness it has for a 1931 car when compared to another car of the same period. The chopped looking roof with the long front end and other features of this car make it the type of car that makes someone wonder if it came like that or was modified to look like the way it does.
That, two-tone convertible modified Rolls Royce is strictly amazing. But the look chopped black car blew me away. I AM IN LOVE WITH THE BLACK CAR THAT WAS SITTING NEXT TO THE BROWN MODIFIED CONVERTIBLE RULES .... I WISH YOU WOULD HAVE SPENT MORE VIDEO TIME ON THE COAL-BURNING CAR. I WOULD HAVE LOVED TO SEE THAT IN THE MECHANIC ISM OF HOW IT OPERATED THOSE CARS ARE BEYOND GORGEOUS. YOU ARE A VERY LUCKY MAN TURN ON ALL OF THOSE TREASURES.
Truly spectacular video - I came for the Voisin which is one of my all time favorites (any Voisin, pure sculptural art!) however this collection is insane, thrilling...thank you for such a special upload!
This is a really amazing private collection. I would love to see more of this--for example, at 2:18 you can see a red Talbot-Lago Figoni & Falaschi Teardrop Coupe sitting behind the car they are discussing. Perhaps the most beautiful car ever built and one of the greatest examples of Art Deco design. I once went to an exhibition devoted to Voisin cars in Geneva, Switzerland but it is really cool to actually see one being driven!
I love the Art Deco period, and it doesn't get much Art Deco-er than that Rolls Royce. Absolutely stunning. One interesting feature is that you don't often see an inside hood release, most cars back then, had handles that you just turned on the hood itself to open it up, thus people could steal things.
No, at that stage the US was their largest market. They even opened a factory in Springfield in 1921. It closed in '31 as a result of the Great Depression. Also, you have to remember that to begin with Rolls just did the chassis & mechanical bits. They left the bodywork up to the coach-builders. IIRC, It was actually a result of entering the American market that they started bringing the coach-building in-house. Not because of what Americans did with the car, but because their foreign clients tended to expect a complete package.
What's not to fall in love with! So many eclectic vehicles, I could spend days in this season of automotive art. They certainly don't build them like they used to.
I have to admit Bugatti, Delage and Delahaye have always been my favorite stylish cars. Although I love some Citroens as well French surely know style, precision and comfort.
Yes the Citroen 21 series was so advanced for its time its still recognized as an icon and collected wold wide by enthusiasts. I only wish I’d bought one when they were imported. The delage and delahaye had fantastic style even by today’s standard.
One man's meat is another man's poison; my favourite car is an Avions Voisin. They smoke like that because of the sleeve valves. Voisin used nothing but sleeve valve engines in his cars. apart from the very last model to emerge (which used a Graham-Paige engine bought off the shelf from the US).
This engines did use the Knight double sleeve valve system,like many other luxury automobile makers...this system is efficient and extremly kiet, but wear up very fast: the engine TBO was only ~30 000km, after it need the replacement from the sleeves...The high oil consumption and wearing problems was only solved at debut WW2 from Bristol (Hercules and Centaurus aircraft engines) ,who use single sleeve made in nitrided steel...
@@leneanderthalien Not just wear. During the period Voisins were in production, compression ratios were much lower than they are today. Sleeve valve engines could achieve similar compression ratios to those with poppet valve engines. The fuels available after WW II permitted higher compression ratios and this by itself resulted in higher power outputs. From their basic design, sleeve valve engines could not reach those higher ratios and thus the higher power that became a market feature could only be reached by increases inn engine size. Much less efficient, and a result not popular in the merket.
@@leneanderthalien And an additional point to note. Daimler in the UK had used sleeve valve engines for many years in their wide range of cars - from just over 2 litres to 5 or more times larger. In the early 30's and under the engineering direction of Laurence Pommeroy, , they made the move to poppet valves for just the reasons you and I both give.
We could totally make cars like that, and put modern (even electric) engines inside, in addition with usual security systems. Why don't we simply make cars lile that ?
Лучшие Автомобили созданные за последнее столетие собраны в одной колекцыии!!! Великолепно!!! Поражают своей красотой и изяществом линий!!!!!Beautiful!!!!!!
WOW! I know the Avions Voisin is not a Wraith but seeing it pour itself out of the fog like that made me think of Joe Hill's graphic novel. I kept thinking of old Charlie Manx taking kids to Christmasland in this thing. All it's missing is a plate that reads NOS4A2. That Rolls is something out of Batman the animated series, comics, and graphic novels also. I can just imagine Bruce Wayne jumping out of it into a dark alleyway and Batman popping out gliding over the roof tops. I also have always wanted a Delahaye and a Delage those cars were definitely well before their time and so beautiful. One of the best collections ever IMHO.
The Avions is nice. I would have to say the best rendition of a Motor Coach I have ever seen. What an excellent car to do a replica of and throw 700 hp in. The Rolls is ....*sigh....I don't know what to say....you can see the original grill through the bolt on monster. Looked kinda cool at first glance with the indoor camera angles but once they got in it the proportions are just wrong...don't care for it.
That Audi Aztec, I probably still have some pictures from a magazine of that car. Nice to see it hadn't gone to the concept car graveyard. It still looks amazing.
The people will feel kind a different atmosphere when they will ride the car, because of history and also design of the classic car, is amazing my favorite is the 1940s car.
love the way the door opened on that Delage . . .I have a '67 Toronado that I,m modifying it look,s like it would not be to difficult to fabricate a mechanism to open My door that way . . .
The curator looked really nervous when Denis was driving the Avions. When Denis let the the clutch out to quick, I thought the guy was going to stroke out. I don't think I would have driven them in that fog without closing the road.
I own a 94 toyota tercel, beautiful blue/rust/no more metal color, it is an exquisite machine, super rare, it is a limited production car, it is a 4 cilinder 4 gear, mamual(that is correct,mamual) transmission machine with a true , rare pedigree, it gets 29 miles to the gallon and will smoke any sports car that is parked and the owner is nowhere in sight, I cannot divulge the horsepower as it is a rather a vulgar thing to say but I dare to imply that the horsepower is 'adequate', the clutch is rather touchy as it grinds and sometimes emits sparks, true revolutionary spark clutch technology, it has a very industrial feeling, the plastic fender blends in with the dented hood perfectly and ads an elegant, perhaps neo apocaliptyc touch, a rare mechine indeed........
