Kind of sad, Rex Garrod, Tim's co presenter passed away one year ago today( 4/8/2020), on April 8 2019, after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease at the age of 76. I loved this show from the first time I saw it. Thanks for uploading these on here Carl Lewis.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Thanks Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod for these wonderful programmes you made, I grew up watching all these programmes and it's made me the mechanic who I am today.
I agree. I live in America (Seattle, WA - northwest USA) and I'm not sure what years I saw your program but I LOOOOVED the theme song and everything about your program. It was the first program of its kind and I think that lots more people should know about your show because I think if they did that a lot more people would subscribe. PS: I'm in my early 60s (2022)
The red car body shell was instantly recognisable as the Peugeot 405, odd back then when it was launched (1987) the 'professional mechanics' didn't know what it was. It's still in production today (2019) in various parts of the world.
I'm fairly sure the red car shell is/was a Peugeot 405. I love these vids, I remember the series so well from all those years ago. Thanks for putting them on here!
Starting around 16:46 there's a few color flashes, which progress to field order inversion glitches. Same as every other online copy of this episode. :( When the original broadcast tapes were digitized, whomever did this episode didn't bother to review it to ensure it was good. The bad copy went into both the NTSC and PAL DVDs. A few years ago I e-mailed with Tim Hunkin about it, he verified the PAL DVD set had the same problem with this episode. We discussed possibly doing a Kickstarter to buy the original films but at the time Kickstarter was for USA only. Tim said it would cost $16,000 for the films - didn't say if that was for ALL the episodes or if that was per episode. Soooo, a Kickstarter to buy the original films, have them HD digitized and do a Blu-Ray release? Someone? Anyone? Or how about someone who taped the show back when it was originally broadcast dig out a good copy of this episode and digitize it?
@MichaelKingsfordGray I assume the available online copies were ripped from a DVD set or converted from the master MPEG2 files used for the DVDs. Free distribution is permitted by Tim Hunkin with links here. www.secretlifeofmachines.com/dvds_and_videos.htm The best chance your software would have for fixing this episode is to get a PAL and an NTSC DVD to rip the episode from so it will be in MPEG2, unprocessed into other, more lossy, codecs. If it can just slice and dice between frames to fix the bad field order parts, that would be OK. I assume if the DVD is in interlaced format it would be easier? I did try a bit of fixing years ago using the best quality download I could find. I rendered a bit of a bad part to individual images, then in Photoshop I made a pair of line masks and was able to successfully create fake fields and swap between frames. IIRC I managed a sequence of 4 or 5 fixed frames that when displayed in succession didn't have the bad fringing and jerking. But due to the nature of the lossy encoding it would've been a massive undertaking to fix it all, with having to make many different masks and selecting which parts of the frames to slice back and forth. That still wouldn't have done a thing for the color glitching, but that's the least problem with this episode. Fix the frame order errors and it would be improved enough. An off-air PAL tape lurking in a shoebox in a closet somewhere in the former British Empire would be nice to find. PAL for two reasons, higher vertical resolution and the version shown on American TV has some edits made to the episodes so they're a bit shorter for squeezing in more commercials.
@@Autunite I've been getting them, and his new Secret Life of Components videos. The Remastered SLoM videos are digitized and upscaled from PAL recordings made in the 80's. Better than any other version available but digitizing the original films would be even better than that.
All those cars in the scrap yard today in would now be collectable and sold for good money for restoration, the same with 90 % of the cars in your local scrap yard today in 30 years time.
23:09 What's that gorgeous turquoise car in the background? That would be a real find today, whatever it is. But good riddance to the nasty tin box at 22:35, never liked the MKII Escort, it was a second rate copy of the Avenger which had superior suspension.
@@adrinathegreat3095 I see what you are thinking, but I'm not sure the bumper is correct. I was thinking it looked more Japanese, but it's hard to tell.
@ Oh I don't know. It seems like almost every time I get out of my Avenger in a car park, people come up to me to tell me stories of how their family had one.
Bertha Benz deserves better then that. She worked on the car with him, and was the first person to take the vehicle on an extended trip, fixing many mechanical problems along the way herself.
3:21 roads where bad back then and for longer distances you would take the train anyway (especially in Germany, which was densly populated and had a dense railway network), so it probably at that time made sense to not get much faster than the top speed of early Benz cars (around 20 km/h).
Even cars in those days had to past the "Elephant Safety Test", (@17:55), not just refrigerators, (see "The Refrigerator" episode). After the "Elephant Safety Test" was abolished, machines lifespans dwindled. Maybe it's time for a "Rhinoceros Safety Test".
American here. When I was a little kid (1960's) I thought that the front wheels PULLED the car. When my father told me that MOST (American) cars were driven from the REAR wheels, My mind was blown. LOL.
China's finding out about traffic, pollution, part costs, legal fees, tickets and parking problems now. Also, their body weight is also getting larger. Welcome to the modern world - should have stuck to bikes. If Mao was alive today, he'd say, "Who said you could drive?!" Thanks for the video uploads! I love them!!! ;)
Soon there will be HD uploads of this series. Hopefully scanned from the original films so "The Car" will finally be available without the color synch and field order glitches that start at 16:35 . You see little weird flashes of color then brief jerks in the video, getting progressively worse. That's from whomever digitized the broadcast tapes (that were telecined from the film Hunkin and Garrod shot) not checking their work to ensure they got a good capture back when the DVD sets were made. The episode is bad on both PAL and NTSC DVDs and in every online copy currently available. I've been looking and asking for years to try and find someone who taped the original TV showings of the series but no luck.
23:08 License plate looks like it says "POO". Also, I highly recommend the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The exhibit is structured as a chronological walk through the ages of the automobile. The first section shows both Daimler's and Benz's first product including the engine invented by Daimler mentioned in this program.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
Mainwaring: Well, I suppose being a butcher your business life is rather difficult at the moment isn’t it? Jones: Oh it is, it is sir. Everyone wants a bit under the counter. Mainwaring: Yes I’m sure they do. Jones: If I could tell you some of the things that have been offered to me for a bit on the side, it would make your hair stand on end. Mainwaring strokes his bare head Mainwaring: I’m sure it would. Jones: Mind you, I couldn’t take advantage of half of them, not even if I was so inclined. Mainwaring: No. Well, as you know, I never ask any favours. But, ah… Jones: Don’t quite follow you sir. Mainwaring: Well, it’s just this ridiculous urge that Mrs. Mainwaring has conceived for ox tail. You know how women are from time to time. Jones: You mean, like pickles, sir? Mainwaring: Pickles? Jones: Yes sir, pickles. Mainwaring: I don’t think I quite follow. Jones: At certain times, ladies and women take a fancy to pickles. Mainwaring: Do they? Jones: Yes sir. Mainwaring: Well Mrs. Mainwaring doesn’t want pickles, she wants ox tails. Jones: She shall have one sir. She shall have the finest oxtail in my coldroom and I shall take it ‘round to her personally. Mainwaring: That’s very kind of you, thank you very much indeed Corporal. Jones: I must say, this is a very exciting bit of news sir. Mainwaring: What is? Jones: Well, you know, Mrs. Mainwaring fancying a bit of ox tail, if you know what I mean. Mainwaring: Is it? I wouldn’t say it was particularly exciting. Jones: At any rate it must be very unexpected. Mainwaring: No, it’s not really unexpected, it’s just that Mrs. Mainwaring gets like that from time to time. Jones: Excuse me asking you sir, but how is it you’ve never had any? Mainwaring: I don’t know, I suppose it’s just that I’ve never wanted to ask for your help before. The phone rings: Mainwaring: Elizabeth? Oh, I've got very good news for you my dear. Yes, your troubles are over. Mr.Jones is going to deliver it himself. At the end of the show: Mainwaring: Owing to a slight misunderstanding between Corporal Jones and myself, certain rumours have been circulating in this town regarding my wife's condition. They're quite untrue. Mrs. Mainwaring and I have never been blessed that way but in every other way it has been a most happy marriage. In fact, almost blissful. The phone rings in the office: Wilson: Would you like me to answer that sir? Mainwaring: No thank you sergeant. It'll probably be for me.
7:19 my PC tower case is actually thicker than that and much more sturdy LOL. Of course it isn't rounded, because a rounded PC tower wouldn't be very functional.
Would someone who recorded this episode off TV when it was originally broadcast do a digital conversion of their tape and upload it? Starting around 16:30 it has synch and field order glitches. This screwup was done when the original broadcast tapes were digitized for the DVD set and nobody reviewed the conversion to ensure it was good. Both the PAL and NTSC DVD sets have the same bad copy of The Car episode, and that's the only version to download.
There are so many cars in the United States of American that when I was born 60 years ago they numbered around 35 million and the human population was 160 million or about 1 car per every 5 people (usually a family) Now the human population there has doubled to around 330 million people but the number of cars has increased to around 300 million or almost a car for every man ,woman,teen and infant. It's insane Modern passenger cars have lots of safety features for protecting their occupants from vehicular accidents yet are a danger to people that don't occupy them in addition to being hazardous to property or killing vast numbers of people with their poisonous and cancer causing emissions
I agree it was more fun, and certainly shorter and more brutal, had 2 great uncles killed in building accidents many years ago, neither would have happened today. As kids we'd always mess about in illegal dumps, often big pits at the end of playing fields, chucking bricks through old tv screens, hiding in old fridges and freezers, old scrap cars that nobody could be bothered taking to the scrap yard because it was to far and no money was given would end up being dumped in a field or driven into a lake somewhere. Totally different times then, those that hanker after those days are often sitting in a house with all mod cons and driving the latest vehicle's and certainly wouldn't want to walk 5 miles to do a 12 hour shift in a factory
No I was thinking more about going to the scrap yard to take off, yourself, the bits you needed for pennies rather than buying them new and having them fitted. Wiring a house alone for the first time at 15. Para-scending behind land rovers in stubble fields. Mounting lawnmower engines in dinghies as inboard motors and navigating river ways. Playing with sodium chlorate and sugar!!! Making your own harness with old seatbelts and a sewing machine and teaching yourself to descend cliffs. Sounds like I just had a nicer childhood than your experience. Sorry to hear about the great uncles though.
does anyone know if this was ever broadcasted in Spain? as an 11 y.o. kid I would have loved it ! But sometimes nice things were only broadcasted once in the summertime on the second programme......
This series predates the popularity of the internet. The best series on the growth of the computer industry and then the internet that I have seen is "Triumph of the Nerds," and "Triumph of the nerds 2.0.1" by Robert Cringley. There is also an book called "Accidental Empires." The first series is about the computer industry while 2.0.1 is about the internet. The series is a bit dated (late 90's) but it really shows how the internet got started.
If your horse gets hungry then you can just stop by the side of the road and let him eat some grass. There are no pools of petrol at the side of the road so with a petrol car you're stuck.
12:31 | English legalities can be confusing and unlawful. There used to be a loophole permitting farm vehicles like this one onto the highways. I wonder if this traveling bonfire is still considered road worthy if you have the correct employment papers.
Kind of sad, Rex Garrod, Tim's co presenter passed away one year ago today( 4/8/2020), on April 8 2019, after a struggle with Alzheimer's disease at the age of 76. I loved this show from the first time I saw it. Thanks for uploading these on here Carl Lewis.
Wow 76. I guess you forgot that people get old. Fantastic shows
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Thanks Tim Hunkin and Rex Garrod for these wonderful programmes you made, I grew up watching all these programmes and it's made me the mechanic who I am today.
he is uploading again
How refreshing to see the details delivered in a manner with no ego or 'gee whiz' elements, unlike today! How it should still be done!
I agree. I live in America (Seattle, WA - northwest USA) and I'm not sure what years I saw your program but I LOOOOVED the theme song and everything about your program. It was the first program of its kind and I think that lots more people should know about your show because I think if they did that a lot more people would subscribe.
PS: I'm in my early 60s (2022)
Loved watching this on Discovery Channel when I was a kid. They had this in the same block as Invention, and Beyond 2000.
Beyond 2000! i remember watching that and thinking it would be so cool to live in the future.
Turns out the future is mostly lame. :(
And don't forget the other program called Next Step. Soledad O'Brien was also on this program.
I always looked forward to these shows. I still have some on VHS!
ive forgtton how much fun this show was . rex was great .
He really was. Sadly, he passed a few years ago, but Tim decorated his coffin in a way that is incredibly endearing.
The red car body shell was instantly recognisable as the Peugeot 405, odd back then when it was launched (1987) the 'professional mechanics' didn't know what it was. It's still in production today (2019) in various parts of the world.
Anyone who enjoys these programs should watch Tim Hunkin's new You Tube series 'ts' - it's wonderful.
I'm fairly sure the red car shell is/was a Peugeot 405.
I love these vids, I remember the series so well from all those years ago. Thanks for putting them on here!
@Blaze Keenan Testing it out right now... oh my god it's not working... why are my files getting encrypted... what is bitcoins?
@Juliette Leofsky fuck off
I'm from the us and I discovered this show years ago on yt. I love it. Rewatching it all
This was a brilliant series!
I could look at these videos forever. just so special. not quite sure what it is...just magical.
What a great show! Thanks a lot for this upload and all the others.
I HAVE A playlist of near every episode on my channel
I still own, amd enjoy a 1971 Triumph Vitesse Convertible, Real Chassis, Rear Wheel Drive, Manual Transmission, Carburettors, Distributor etc
Loved watching these at school
same here
bravo. going to use these in my science classes (and watching for fun!). I have been looking for these for years. a great big thank you!
Loved the transforming Mini, quite surprised how it shed its skin!
Great videos, great channel! I love thé topics and watch all of them. Very interesting and well presented.👍
Starting around 16:46 there's a few color flashes, which progress to field order inversion glitches. Same as every other online copy of this episode. :( When the original broadcast tapes were digitized, whomever did this episode didn't bother to review it to ensure it was good. The bad copy went into both the NTSC and PAL DVDs. A few years ago I e-mailed with Tim Hunkin about it, he verified the PAL DVD set had the same problem with this episode. We discussed possibly doing a Kickstarter to buy the original films but at the time Kickstarter was for USA only. Tim said it would cost $16,000 for the films - didn't say if that was for ALL the episodes or if that was per episode.
Soooo, a Kickstarter to buy the original films, have them HD digitized and do a Blu-Ray release? Someone? Anyone?
Or how about someone who taped the show back when it was originally broadcast dig out a good copy of this episode and digitize it?
@MichaelKingsfordGray I assume the available online copies were ripped from a DVD set or converted from the master MPEG2 files used for the DVDs. Free distribution is permitted by Tim Hunkin with links here. www.secretlifeofmachines.com/dvds_and_videos.htm
The best chance your software would have for fixing this episode is to get a PAL and an NTSC DVD to rip the episode from so it will be in MPEG2, unprocessed into other, more lossy, codecs. If it can just slice and dice between frames to fix the bad field order parts, that would be OK. I assume if the DVD is in interlaced format it would be easier?
I did try a bit of fixing years ago using the best quality download I could find. I rendered a bit of a bad part to individual images, then in Photoshop I made a pair of line masks and was able to successfully create fake fields and swap between frames. IIRC I managed a sequence of 4 or 5 fixed frames that when displayed in succession didn't have the bad fringing and jerking. But due to the nature of the lossy encoding it would've been a massive undertaking to fix it all, with having to make many different masks and selecting which parts of the frames to slice back and forth. That still wouldn't have done a thing for the color glitching, but that's the least problem with this episode. Fix the frame order errors and it would be improved enough.
An off-air PAL tape lurking in a shoebox in a closet somewhere in the former British Empire would be nice to find. PAL for two reasons, higher vertical resolution and the version shown on American TV has some edits made to the episodes so they're a bit shorter for squeezing in more commercials.
@@greggv8 Thank you for the link! A shame though that it has to be such a convoluted process to find best copies of the original episodes :/
Good news, Tim Hunkin himself has uploaded some remastered versions on TH-cam, and I suspcet there will be more coming in the future.
@@Autunite I've been getting them, and his new Secret Life of Components videos. The Remastered SLoM videos are digitized and upscaled from PAL recordings made in the 80's. Better than any other version available but digitizing the original films would be even better than that.
12:32 whoooops!,,, maybe should have let it idle for a while before switch off..
Love this program,,,where has it been all my life?
25:31 ".......You have 30 minutes to move your cube." -Homer Simpson.
I enjoyed every single animation!
I loves this show when I saw it back in the early 90s or late 80s on WTTW Chicago
REX WENT FULL SEND!! NICE!!!
Another great episode. Sure made great use of the DeWolfe Music Library, too.
I’m still waiting on the flying cars we were promised in the year 2000.
1948 Olds...gorgeous.
The animation was funny at the end!
That looks like a cool go-kart!
Ending reminds me of that scene in "Goldfinger"
Am sad now~ thanks hunkin~
23:09 There's POO on the numberplate.
Tim is the BOSSSSSS
21:10 famous last words. I also like the hesitation, lol.
All those cars in the scrap yard today in would now be collectable and sold for good money for restoration, the same with 90 % of the cars in your local scrap yard today in 30 years time.
23:09 What's that gorgeous turquoise car in the background? That would be a real find today, whatever it is. But good riddance to the nasty tin box at 22:35, never liked the MKII Escort, it was a second rate copy of the Avenger which had superior suspension.
@@video99couk looks like a 70s Vauxhall victor
@@adrinathegreat3095 I see what you are thinking, but I'm not sure the bumper is correct. I was thinking it looked more Japanese, but it's hard to tell.
@ Oh I don't know. It seems like almost every time I get out of my Avenger in a car park, people come up to me to tell me stories of how their family had one.
Cheers for uploading:) I watched these way back in the 80s, and loved 'em
any museum of the big machines?
Bertha Benz deserves better then that. She worked on the car with him, and was the first person to take the vehicle on an extended trip, fixing many mechanical problems along the way herself.
Due to the lack of gasoline she went into a pharmacy to buy some liters.
23:10 A very desirable reg plate these days.
3:21 roads where bad back then and for longer distances you would take the train anyway (especially in Germany, which was densly populated and had a dense railway network), so it probably at that time made sense to not get much faster than the top speed of early Benz cars (around 20 km/h).
that made me cringe when they crushed that mk2 escort. must be worth nothing back then
He said it was very rusty and in the mid / late 80s when this was filmed Mk2 Escorts were worth nothing
+Capri Driver you can imagine in 20 years time how mk1 focus would probably be worth something 😂
@MichaelKingsfordGray what mk2 escorts?
@MichaelKingsfordGray . And here you are again, Michael, on yet anther comment thread, spreading joy and happiness. lol
5:28 ('Come along Vicar.') Nigel Bruce? (Played Watson to Basil Rathbone's 'Holmes'?)
Even cars in those days had to past the "Elephant Safety Test", (@17:55), not just refrigerators, (see "The Refrigerator" episode).
After the "Elephant Safety Test" was abolished, machines lifespans dwindled.
Maybe it's time for a "Rhinoceros Safety Test".
@12:12 just watch that wasn't supposed to happen lol this was a awesome show.
My comments are when I am watching this show.
I am sorry if I was misunderstood!! :-)
@23:10, Mr. Hunkin has his hands on a rare yellow POO. Wash hands!
American here. When I was a little kid (1960's) I thought that the front wheels PULLED the car. When my father told me that MOST (American) cars were driven from the REAR wheels, My mind was blown. LOL.
China's finding out about traffic, pollution, part costs, legal fees, tickets and parking problems now. Also, their body weight is also getting larger. Welcome to the modern world - should have stuck to bikes. If Mao was alive today, he'd say, "Who said you could drive?!"
Thanks for the video uploads! I love them!!! ;)
The white car Rex crashed looked to be a Datsun, also known as a dapdog.
Penny Farthing!! I want one.
Soon there will be HD uploads of this series. Hopefully scanned from the original films so "The Car" will finally be available without the color synch and field order glitches that start at 16:35 . You see little weird flashes of color then brief jerks in the video, getting progressively worse.
That's from whomever digitized the broadcast tapes (that were telecined from the film Hunkin and Garrod shot) not checking their work to ensure they got a good capture back when the DVD sets were made. The episode is bad on both PAL and NTSC DVDs and in every online copy currently available.
I've been looking and asking for years to try and find someone who taped the original TV showings of the series but no luck.
23:08 License plate looks like it says "POO".
Also, I highly recommend the Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart, Germany. The exhibit is structured as a chronological walk through the ages of the automobile. The first section shows both Daimler's and Benz's first product including the engine invented by Daimler mentioned in this program.
funny!
20:30 - What car seat is this?
The best
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view!"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?
Mainwaring: Well, I suppose being a butcher your business life is rather difficult at the moment isn’t it?
Jones: Oh it is, it is sir. Everyone wants a bit under the counter.
Mainwaring: Yes I’m sure they do.
Jones: If I could tell you some of the things that have been offered to me for a bit on the side, it would make your hair stand on end.
Mainwaring strokes his bare head
Mainwaring: I’m sure it would.
Jones: Mind you, I couldn’t take advantage of half of them, not even if I was so inclined.
Mainwaring: No. Well, as you know, I never ask any favours. But, ah…
Jones: Don’t quite follow you sir.
Mainwaring: Well, it’s just this ridiculous urge that Mrs. Mainwaring has conceived for ox tail. You know how women are from time to time.
Jones: You mean, like pickles, sir?
Mainwaring: Pickles?
Jones: Yes sir, pickles.
Mainwaring: I don’t think I quite follow.
Jones: At certain times, ladies and women take a fancy to pickles.
Mainwaring: Do they?
Jones: Yes sir.
Mainwaring: Well Mrs. Mainwaring doesn’t want pickles, she wants ox tails.
Jones: She shall have one sir. She shall have the finest oxtail in my coldroom and I shall take it ‘round to her personally.
Mainwaring: That’s very kind of you, thank you very much indeed Corporal.
Jones: I must say, this is a very exciting bit of news sir.
Mainwaring: What is?
Jones: Well, you know, Mrs. Mainwaring fancying a bit of ox tail, if you know what I mean.
Mainwaring: Is it? I wouldn’t say it was particularly exciting.
Jones: At any rate it must be very unexpected.
Mainwaring: No, it’s not really unexpected, it’s just that Mrs. Mainwaring gets like that from time to time.
Jones: Excuse me asking you sir, but how is it you’ve never had any?
Mainwaring: I don’t know, I suppose it’s just that I’ve never wanted to ask for your help before.
The phone rings:
Mainwaring: Elizabeth? Oh, I've got very good news for you my dear. Yes, your troubles are over. Mr.Jones is going to deliver it himself.
At the end of the show:
Mainwaring: Owing to a slight misunderstanding between Corporal Jones and myself, certain rumours have been circulating in this town regarding my wife's condition. They're quite untrue. Mrs. Mainwaring and I have never been blessed that way but in every other way it has been a most happy marriage. In fact, almost blissful.
The phone rings in the office:
Wilson: Would you like me to answer that sir?
Mainwaring: No thank you sergeant. It'll probably be for me.
@@kiwitrainguy YOUR NAME WILL ALSO GO ON THE LIST
WHAT IS IT ?
DON'T TELL HIM PIKE !
5:50 Going out for a rip with the boyz :))))))))))))))))))))
12:30 Needs some RadWeld!
I thought the stunt man was supposed to shout out of the car that he was okay!
7:19 my PC tower case is actually thicker than that and much more sturdy LOL. Of course it isn't rounded, because a rounded PC tower wouldn't be very functional.
FWD "take it or leave it" so that's how popularity works is it?
Ford didn't invent assembly line car manufacture. Ranson Olds was the inventor. What Ford did was refine the assembly process.
12:33 radiator leaking left in, obviously not meant to happen!
Would someone who recorded this episode off TV when it was originally broadcast do a digital conversion of their tape and upload it? Starting around 16:30 it has synch and field order glitches. This screwup was done when the original broadcast tapes were digitized for the DVD set and nobody reviewed the conversion to ensure it was good. Both the PAL and NTSC DVD sets have the same bad copy of The Car episode, and that's the only version to download.
just building an electric bike so I dont have to use the car so much, full circle.
Volvo 240 strongest most enduring car ever made.
There are so many cars in the United States of American that when I was born 60 years ago they numbered around 35 million and the human population was 160 million or about 1 car per every 5 people (usually a family)
Now the human population there has doubled to around 330 million people but the number of cars has increased to around 300 million or almost a car for every man ,woman,teen and infant.
It's insane
Modern passenger cars have lots of safety features for protecting their occupants from vehicular accidents yet are a danger to people that don't occupy them in addition to being hazardous to property or killing vast numbers of people with their poisonous and cancer causing emissions
18:30 loving those suicide doors.
Ah, yes, good old "carhenge".
12:12 is that a british made vehicle??? 12:34 well that answers my question!!!
Is it me or was life more fun back before they invented health and safety?! Probably shorter and more brutal too, but definitely more fun.
I agree it was more fun, and certainly shorter and more brutal, had 2 great uncles killed in building accidents many years ago, neither would have happened today.
As kids we'd always mess about in illegal dumps, often big pits at the end of playing fields, chucking bricks through old tv screens, hiding in old fridges and freezers, old scrap cars that nobody could be bothered taking to the scrap yard because it was to far and no money was given would end up being dumped in a field or driven into a lake somewhere.
Totally different times then, those that hanker after those days are often sitting in a house with all mod cons and driving the latest vehicle's and certainly wouldn't want to walk 5 miles to do a 12 hour shift in a factory
No I was thinking more about going to the scrap yard to take off, yourself, the bits you needed for pennies rather than buying them new and having them fitted. Wiring a house alone for the first time at 15. Para-scending behind land rovers in stubble fields. Mounting lawnmower engines in dinghies as inboard motors and navigating river ways. Playing with sodium chlorate and sugar!!! Making your own harness with old seatbelts and a sewing machine and teaching yourself to descend cliffs. Sounds like I just had a nicer childhood than your experience. Sorry to hear about the great uncles though.
Health and Safety was invented?
@MichaelKingsfordGray stupid feminists preventing needless deaths and maimings in factories and building sites.
10:12 looks modern in context
Where can I buy that song?
'The Russians Are Coming'
The song is take five - Dave Brubeck
what is the name of the last reggae song
+Carl Lewis nice thanks I thought I've heard it as a jazz song before
+Crystal Whitewalker You did.
The Russians Are Coming
Datsun 100A
does anyone know if this was ever broadcasted in Spain? as an 11 y.o. kid I would have loved it ! But sometimes nice things were only broadcasted once in the summertime on the second programme......
is there an episode of internet ?
This series predates the popularity of the internet. The best series on the growth of the computer industry and then the internet that I have seen is "Triumph of the Nerds," and "Triumph of the nerds 2.0.1" by Robert Cringley. There is also an book called "Accidental Empires." The first series is about the computer industry while 2.0.1 is about the internet. The series is a bit dated (late 90's) but it really shows how the internet got started.
23:20 POO
today's cars would never be able to surive a tumble down a cliff :U
Perhaps not but the driver likely would perhaps. A couple of good weasel words in there.....
The Triumph numberplate says POO
S E X U A L A S S A U L T 15:02
You mark my words, they’ll never catch on. Horseless cartridges? What ever next? Respectable horse owners like me consider this madness.
If your horse gets hungry then you can just stop by the side of the road and let him eat some grass. There are no pools of petrol at the side of the road so with a petrol car you're stuck.
16:46 looks like dirty tape heads are messing the video up
crazy cars don't rust anymore
They are made of plastic to a large extent.
Guess what I didn't ask for your help haingggggggggggggggg
12:31 | English legalities can be confusing and unlawful. There used to be a loophole permitting farm vehicles like this one onto the highways. I wonder if this traveling bonfire is still considered road worthy if you have the correct employment papers.
The DeLorean (Back to the future) was a stainless steel chassis car, but the motorizing was a crap and the car never has come successful.
25:40 is a real compact car.
Don’t say, “these ones”. Just say, “these”. You’ll sound more intelligent...