The Incredible Gordon Keeble - The Best Car Ever To Have Failed 

Ah, switchgear! I remember it well and oft lament its passing.

Not to mention the visiblity.

No airbags either and I bet it had a full sized spare wheel. Also, probably rear wheel drive as the engine looked like it was mounted longitudinally. A thing of beauty.

Interiors like this reinforce my dislike of stupid giant touchscreens.

Indeed. I was just going to post that the interior is stunning.

Sorry, that console is hideous. Looks like a central control panel for a 1950s Russian nuclear reactor.

@@alexgerrits349you mean you don't like 1950s Russian nuclear reactors? ;)

@@gbspikyfish Well, when they are operational, they seem to be fine. However,, the Russian Leaders always need to conduct some unnecessary experiment to prove their expert can do something they can't do and the whole affair blows sky high... (or falls from space or implodes in the sea) Still, what I have seen looks like a depressing atmosphere as does that console.

Strange that, in our society, a car dealer is "someone" and a, highly skilled, mechanic is "humble" I've been a mechanic all my 52 year working life and also when I was a kid, it has always been an underpaid and under respected trade ( the lack of respect is the only reason that so many fly by nights are out there).

Could not say that better

My father worked there!

@@stevefuller1779 Maybe he meant humbled in the sense of being a business owner who lost it all. Been there myself, and it is indeed humbling.

I knew a former garage owner years ago who had one of these parked up in his home garage, being ‘restored’. I knew it was rare, but not that rare.

Hate to say it .This is the first time I've seen this car. It's a real beauty 😊

I want one. I WANT one! The closest I'll ever get to owning a GK, I'm sure, was naming our two tortoises Gordon and Keeble.

sean connery recalled a lunch with saltzman broccoli and david brown.after goldfinger.they told him for thunderball they needed db5s.however as they were a great advert for the company they insisted they only pay cost price not the 5000 pound list price because they were special customers .brown was surprised sean said but agreed ,make sure you insist on cost price in the contract so we have no misunderstanding.sean thougt it typical of the pair penny pinching a small supplier for he thought a couple of thousand pound they didnt need.brown had the last laugh however .they were invoiced for the cars cost 6000 pounds ! he lost a thousand per car but they were backed by his tractor profits! he was delighted theyd signed a contract that gave him full value.so was sean.they were greedy bastards and deserved it he said!

😂 Excellent 👌

As an employee of David Brown Tractors, we knew that the profits from Tractors and our sister company David Brown Gears were subsidising Sir David's vanity project at Aston Martin. Until in 1971 Aston Martin was sold and Tractors were sold to the American conglomerate Tenneco

Indeed, Aston Martin did not start seeing any form of profit (albeit technical if not real profit) until at least half way through the DB7 production run...

Just ask Henri Fisker. :(

What percentage of folk really want an Ipad type of thing glued to the dashboard?

​@@Lucan-ve6zc: they spend much of their driving time being distracted by their smartphones anyway 😂

TBF a lot of cars of that era had simpler dashes than the G-K.

Good luck!

where in NZ?I seem to remember seeing one too?

Theres a nice blue one in Christchurch. The owner has had it for years and its mint. I took photos of it a couple of years back and talked to the owner.I really like them as well.

Had that same motor in my full sized 62 Pontiac Parisienne here in Canada...and it STILL ripped that heavy car down the road!

Yes,very noticeable in the interior shots.

Oi!!! That's r@cist!!!!!

@@shabbos-goy9407 well the Silver Cloud coupé of the same vintage was called 'Chinese eyes'...and the description of the slanted lights stayed, and is normally used for cars like the GK or the Jensen CV8

Austin taillights

Has some Lancia Flaminia vibes!

@@Schlipperschlopper pretty sure you mean Flaminia ( and I agree!)

would love to see a review of a Hillman Imp! :-)

Spot on. I had a 504, my first car, handed down from my parents. I was surprised to hear in this video the body was designed by Guigaro, and not Pininfarina.

Agree exactly what i thought,but still Great though.

I guess you can add Jensen and Rover to the list? And Range Rover, though not launched before 1970, but then keeping the britified Buick 215 CID (3.5 liter) V8 running for more than 30 years. By "Britified" I mean, among else, different carburettors and injection systems, and increase in displacement from 3.5 liter to 3.9 to 4.2 and finally the 4.6 liter in the Range Rover P38A

@@sallhame That is what I meant by others. I stuck mainly to the sportier makes and models. I own classic Italian and mainly American cars of the Sixties. I am always pissed if some snobs regard American cars as lower than European makes. For those who care. Car and driver did compare a big block 65 Catalina against a Ferrari 2+2. Guess which one would accelerate much faster? And the compression of Pontiacs was already 10.5 to 1, compared to about 9 to 1 of most Ferraris of the time.

Could have been a Jensen in between the CV8 and the Interceptor.

Sad to see what happened in those years!! Have a great weekend!

Not just back then. It seems there are still people hell bent on ruining great cars. But Thank goodness this isn’t the Gordon Keeble recently ruined by those EV criminals in Wales. The way that crass vandal boasted about the numbers of surviving examples, knowing that he had just ripped the soul of it, was truly one of the most disturbing things I’ve ever seen. The fake ‘climate change’ induced ‘net zero’ nonsense is what enables such disgusting vandalism. And it may well last a fair bit longer than the obviously fake so-called pandemic, but it will end one day, and the crimes committed by the EVangelists will NOT be forgotten, and they must NEVER be forgiven. Peace 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

You say completely different, most would say variations on a theme!

Yes, I thought the mascot was a tortoise.

Not a great trademark for a a sporty car.

@johnmunro4952, a tortoise is a type of turtle!

@@curlyspikes7114 However, in the race with a Hare, the Tortoise wins !!!

Absolutely. Peerless GT review please

Whilst I’d agree with you in that if it’s on land I call it a tortoise and in water a turtle, tortoises are actually turtles. All tortoises are turtles but not all turtles are tortoises.

Tbf the emblem could be a turtle. The pet tortoise on the other hand........ 😂

And note, there are also terrapins!

I know most of the weird cars, but Deauville? New one on me! Were they '60s?

@@UberLummoxyes, John Lennon had one.

@@UberLummox The De Tomaso Deauville... If memory serves they made them from 1971-85 and only managed to sell 244 of them, so they're very, very rare indeed. I think Jack did a video on the channel last year of one. I love everything De Tomaso did, but it's the Deauville that's my favourite of them all, followed by the Mangusta. One day I'll have both in my garage... And a Pantera for when I want some more common metal to take on a rainy day lol. Although you almost never see one for sale, they tend to stay in the hands of their owners for a long time. Probably because they're so bloody hard to find. Well, you do find them and they're not that dear, but the one I want is the first production run from 71-74 and those seem to stay put with their owners.

@@johnchurch4705 John Lennon had one? Oh never mind, I don't want one anymore.

@@C.Fecteau-AU-MJ13 Oh right, the 4dr. DeTomaso. Cool as hell!!!