And so there are many such museums, collected together by the owner of a car company and now preparing the collection for the public. The SLEEP sign on the back of the tow truck means towing, not sleeping.
Any Dyane makes me smile. Peugeot always built a great estate. Roland Garros was an interesting guy. That is one hell of an interesting car collection. One I can get down with - full of French yumminess
Those old Citroen DS cars always remind me of Ed Straker's car in the UFO series. Obviously, Gerry Anderson's design team were inspired by Citroen as they looked (and still do to my eye) very futuristic.
Hi Hubnut. Great museum! For your interest as to what came to Australia, a Peugeot 203 won a big bush rally in the 50's very famously. Consequently we had Peugeot 203, 403, 404 and 504 in reasonable numbers. A scruffy 203 pickup turns up to folk festivals in S/E Australia, complete with an equally scruffy and permanently barefoot owner. Those late 70's little Opels came to Australia as the Holden Gemini. The Chrysler in the corner became the Chrysler Centura, complete with a big straight six in the front. And Simca Arondes came here aplenty. We also got the gorgeous Simca Vedette Baillieu here in small numbers. I guess that for whatever strange reason you'd call them Bewleys. Cheers.
Fantastic! 😍 I think that series 1 CX at the start would be my pick of the collection. Great to see the old Peugeots and Simcas too. No Peugeot 605 though (unless I missed one).
Such a different collection of cars to what you find in other museums. My kind of cars. I have gobsmacked myself so hard I nearly knocked myself out. 😃
That 505 is the last new delivered turbo injection in the Netherlands. 165 bhp I believe with a Tagora (Chrysler) 2.2 engine with a turbo mounted in / on it.
My nephew has two cars that would be quite at home in that museum - a 1923 Peugeot 127 Roadster and a 1909 Renault once owned by Dame Nellie Melba. This is a great museum with quite a few cars we didn't get here in Australia.
Superb collection of many fairly rare European cars. I owned a Peugeot 204 back in the day and it was one of the nicest gearboxes and most comfortable seated car I have owned and I've had a lot. Thanks Ian for sharing this collection.
So many rare and beautiful cars. I can’t remember the last time I saw a Chrysler 2 litre. My father owned a Chrysler 180 back in the 70s and my eldest brother owned a Simca 1000 rallye. One of the first cars I owned was a Simca 1501, so this video brings back many memories. My father also owned an Opel Ascona which sold alongside the Vauxhall Cavalier mk1 in Vauxhall dealerships in the late 70s-early 80s.
I learned to drive on a Talbot Horizon just like the one @ 13.34, but it was badged as a Chrysler. My driving instructor was also an Elvis impersonator, and would sometimes break out in song mid lesson! When I was a kid in Belgium in the early 70s, those Simca Rallye models were popular with the same type of person who a few years later would have bought a Golf GTI
the last time I saw one of those Simca Rallye cars must have been in the 1980s when I was reading a Michael Vaillant strip..... i don't think i ever saw one 'in the wild'
One of your best videos recently Ian. I am a Chevron fan myself so of course going to have a soft spot for this video. You do have a good amount of knowledge for the marque and other french oddities and certainly I learnt some things watching this video.
Lovely video and I'm looking forward to your meeting with Pascal! A remarkable lack of Talbot Tagora, but the museum's owner has assured me he's looking out for one.
I really need to visit this collection at some point. By the way, this Chrysler Alpine was called "Chrysler Simca 1308" (also 1307 or 1309, depending on trim level and engine size) in Europe. This is a Swing version, which I think was called Sunseeker in the UK.
I had a simca 1301 back in the 80s absolutely loved that car pity that the engine packed up. And back then I hadn't got the money or the know how to fix it
My BX comes from (and is serviced at) the garage next door, so I've been in that museum a couple of times already and it is always nice to see new additions to the collection and to the interior of the building. Certainly worth a visit!
superb collection. My parents had a grey KADETT B (a 4 door saloon) they sold in 1978. Love it. i remember crying when they did it 😅. Besides that, only 1 GS spotted and no GSA in the collection.
What a great tour guide you make Ian especially with your knowledge of all this ordinary French stuff It is very nice to actually see someone collecting cars like this I do like seeing the opal stuff that you know we have here as holdens or Isuzu 👍👍
As ever Ian, your knowledge of recondite facts about (frequently obscure) French cars is something to reckon with. I used to think I was a car trivia buff (Volkswagens mostly), then I started watching your videos.
The Opels you can easily tell where their styling inspiration was coming from compared to the other marques, they all look so american, but in miniature, I don't know when GM bought them & Vauxhall up, but they really did try to make things look like back in the US of A... :S
Ahh … brilliant vid… fabulous place.. loved that detail about the Dyane - that it was the ex-Panhard engineers who reworked the 2CV. Was there a Panhard connection with the Ami also? The Ami front has a very Panhard vibe to it… particularly to that 24. So many delicious cars there.
15:53 when I worked for a multi franchise garage French and German, in the mid 80's we had an orange one of these as the back up van for when my 305 van was in for service. It was horrendous to drive around the lake district on a timetable 😂 The gear lever was errm worse than stirring porridge with no gate what so ever you just went for where you hoped it was, great fun when engine braking on the fells and you can't find 2nd gear!! I bloody loved it and wanted to buy it, but the wife said no, in very strong language, I got a 1974 Gold Viva saloon instead.
Love the visits you do and another thing to put on my list to visit, keep on doing these. Just a note on Roland Garos, I think Peugeot are referring to the the aviator and maybe not the tennis chap might be wrong, I am sure I will be corrected if Not correct!
@@HubNut Renault was with a different branch of the family. There is actually a Renault Sport & Alpine collection that they sometimes display in the museum as well.
What a great museum! I have to disagree with you that the Peugeot 604 was a white elephant. I was whisked around France in one on a French exchange as a schoolboy many years ago and they rear seats are truly sumptuous!
really enjoyable Ian. The 407 coupe doesn't have that handling the 406 coupe has in spades. I drove one recntly and will not be parting with my 406 for it, or much else, though i am on the look out for an early megane coupe.. fun nippy things and much unloved in Spain
I enjoyed that again your knowledge of french cars is very good that opel cadet was a dead ringer for the Holden Gemini of course the Citreons and the Peugeot 303s 404s and l have been a passenger in both those Peugeots l didn't see any Opels that certain models of the Holden Comodore were based on
After seeing this video I felt like seeing them in real life. Visited Visscher Classique today. What a great collection, so much youth sentiment. Hall 3 is now also in use. A floor has been built into it with a car lift. There's more beauty there. There is also a lot to see in the field of scale models and mopeds. Thanks for the great video Ian.
Even in a place like this there's no 309. I'm starting to think that saving my Graffic was the best thing i ever done (it was, not just because of this xD).
4:17 It's HY as in "H - Y". The two letters. I have no idea where we got that name, must have been how it was registered here? It doesn't mean anything in Dutch.
What a wonderful collection, very much enjoyed that 😁 Still not seen a Simca 1100 Estate like I had, are there any left? There were a surprising amount of cars I have owned in that collection though!
@@HubNut The awkward roof came from a Dutch supplier (based on Citroen ideas) - I think that's why there is more of a love/hate relationship with the Pluriel for us.
The colour on that bagheera is immense, sooo much want!
I wish my dad could have seen your videos. What I wouldn't give to mooch around a car museum like this with him again. Love your work.
What lovely cars.
Thanks for posting.
Wow dutch family owned car dealers seem to have excellent car collections. Some great vehicles in this collection.
Just about the ultimate collection for me! 104, 205, DS variously, Panhards. So many of my favourite cars. Wonderful
What a dream collection. Only thing missing (literally) is a Talbot Tagora!
The light green Opel is post-war Olympia - the "bigger Kadett".
And so there are many such museums, collected together by the owner of a car company and now preparing the collection for the public.
The SLEEP sign on the back of the tow truck means towing, not sleeping.
Any Dyane makes me smile. Peugeot always built a great estate. Roland Garros was an interesting guy.
That is one hell of an interesting car collection. One I can get down with - full of French yumminess
Those old Citroen DS cars always remind me of Ed Straker's car in the UFO series. Obviously, Gerry Anderson's design team were inspired by Citroen as they looked (and still do to my eye) very futuristic.
Lovely Peugeot collection, they even had some Peugeot bicycles tucked away on the roof. Hopefully there was a pepper grinder lurking somewhere.
Hi Hubnut. Great museum! For your interest as to what came to Australia, a Peugeot 203 won a big bush rally in the 50's very famously. Consequently we had Peugeot 203, 403, 404 and 504 in reasonable numbers. A scruffy 203 pickup turns up to folk festivals in S/E Australia, complete with an equally scruffy and permanently barefoot owner. Those late 70's little Opels came to Australia as the Holden Gemini. The Chrysler in the corner became the Chrysler Centura, complete with a big straight six in the front. And Simca Arondes came here aplenty. We also got the gorgeous Simca Vedette Baillieu here in small numbers. I guess that for whatever strange reason you'd call them Bewleys. Cheers.
Fantastic 2CV6 Dyane and the 504 Peugeot are my favourites. It’s informative to remind ourselves how good the French styling and engineering are. :-)
Thanks for sharing this one Ian,what a brilliant collection of cars.
Love to see so many beautiful Simcas and Talbots as I spend my childhood in the backseats of 1000s, 1100s and Horizons.
Holy moly, what a collection 😮
Fantastic! 😍 I think that series 1 CX at the start would be my pick of the collection.
Great to see the old Peugeots and Simcas too. No Peugeot 605 though (unless I missed one).
Some absolute beauties there
Some very interesting cars in the collection. Loved the boot floor/picnic table thingy
Such a different collection of cars to what you find in other museums. My kind of cars. I have gobsmacked myself so hard I nearly knocked myself out. 😃
That 505 is the last new delivered turbo injection in the Netherlands. 165 bhp I believe with a Tagora (Chrysler) 2.2 engine with a turbo mounted in / on it.
It always amazes me that such a strange car as the Ami 6 was France's best seller in 1966.
My nephew has two cars that would be quite at home in that museum - a 1923 Peugeot 127 Roadster and a 1909 Renault once owned by Dame Nellie Melba.
This is a great museum with quite a few cars we didn't get here in Australia.
Superb collection of many fairly rare European cars.
I owned a Peugeot 204 back in the day and it was one of the nicest gearboxes and most comfortable seated car I have owned and I've had a lot.
Thanks Ian for sharing this collection.
What an amazing place! Next time, I'm in the Netherlands, I have to go there. That's for sure! Thank you for these awesome 22 Minutes...
What an incredible collection!
So many rare and beautiful cars. I can’t remember the last time I saw a Chrysler 2 litre. My father owned a Chrysler 180 back in the 70s and my eldest brother owned a Simca 1000 rallye. One of the first cars I owned was a Simca 1501, so this video brings back many memories. My father also owned an Opel Ascona which sold alongside the Vauxhall Cavalier mk1 in Vauxhall dealerships in the late 70s-early 80s.
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say the Pug 305 saloon is about the best proportioned car ever, it just looks spot on. (IMHO)
Especially the GTX!
I had an early one and it was super smooth and comfortable as well.
Really appreciate the styling on the 1940's cars. Impressive museum. Thanks for the video 👍
I learned to drive on a Talbot Horizon just like the one @ 13.34, but it was badged as a Chrysler. My driving instructor was also an Elvis impersonator, and would sometimes break out in song mid lesson!
When I was a kid in Belgium in the early 70s, those Simca Rallye models were popular with the same type of person who a few years later would have bought a Golf GTI
the last time I saw one of those Simca Rallye cars must have been in the 1980s when I was reading a Michael Vaillant strip..... i don't think i ever saw one 'in the wild'
That 405 was to die for
Brilliant Video thanks Ian
Beautiful collection!
All of those cars are brilliant .
I know I'm strange but there was even a mk2 astra van there 🤩
Good to see those cars being saved and displayed
Amazed that the door hinge colour means something
Yes! Ian, the QR code does indeed work by scanning the screen 🙈 Am I the only one who tried it?! 🤪🤪 Great video as always Ian. 👍👌👏
Fabulous collection and encyclopedic knowledge as usual thank you
I was there a while ago. All cars in the museum were unlocked and open to everyone.
One of your best videos recently Ian. I am a Chevron fan myself so of course going to have a soft spot for this video. You do have a good amount of knowledge for the marque and other french oddities and certainly I learnt some things watching this video.
Fantastic video Ian, watched it 3 times now, brings back so many memories (You know who my Father was), thank you
Very nice vehicles
another great video has always Ian and miss hubnut and hublets and hubmutts 👍
Thoroughly enjoyable wander around this fantastic collection Ian, I savoured every minute like a gourmet meal, beautiful content.
The opel rekord coupé has a non original commodore grill fitted. So your instinct was right.
Absaloutly amazing video Ian❤👍 Absaloutly amazing cars brilliant museum
What a collection a good few cars I didn't even know existed .
Sort of changes my opinion of French cars .
I’m glad you didn’t miss the 104 Ian! My first car back in 1986.Halcyon days indeed…
Another great video Ian. What a great place to visit 👍
Lovely video and I'm looking forward to your meeting with Pascal!
A remarkable lack of Talbot Tagora, but the museum's owner has assured me he's looking out for one.
I sadly didn't film as much of my visit to Pascal as I thought. Top bloke. Gave me a T shirt!
What a great museum, some amazing cars there. My first car was an Alpine and my second was a 405. Would love to own a 505.
I really need to visit this collection at some point. By the way, this Chrysler Alpine was called "Chrysler Simca 1308" (also 1307 or 1309, depending on trim level and engine size) in Europe. This is a Swing version, which I think was called Sunseeker in the UK.
QR does work.
Happy memories of learning to drive on my Dad's Solara Minx.
A much underrated car.
The Ami 6 : so ugly that it looked almost beautiful!
I had a simca 1301 back in the 80s absolutely loved that car pity that the engine packed up. And back then I hadn't got the money or the know how to fix it
My BX comes from (and is serviced at) the garage next door, so I've been in that museum a couple of times already and it is always nice to see new additions to the collection and to the interior of the building. Certainly worth a visit!
Pascal gave me a t shirt!
@@HubNut I know, I was there when he did.
superb collection. My parents had a grey KADETT B (a 4 door saloon) they sold in 1978. Love it. i remember crying when they did it 😅. Besides that, only 1 GS spotted and no GSA in the collection.
Wow! That was a collection very much in my taste 😍 - And yet another museum I must visit some day!
What a great tour guide you make Ian especially with your knowledge of all this ordinary French stuff
It is very nice to actually see someone collecting cars like this
I do like seeing the opal stuff that you know we have here as holdens or Isuzu 👍👍
Ian. I hope you try and test drive a Chrysler 160/180/200 sometime. Great looking but underated car...👍
Some lovely cars there Ian. I can remember the Simcas as a local garage dealt in them. A late friend had a Talbot Solara nice motor.
A brilliant collection, thank you for sharing this experience, think my favourite car has to be the 106 Roland Garros.
One of my favourite scenes in Betty Blue is the CX turbo
As ever Ian, your knowledge of recondite facts about (frequently obscure) French cars is something to reckon with. I used to think I was a car trivia buff (Volkswagens mostly), then I started watching your videos.
Great collection. I was surprised to see the Opel Rekord van as i actually one one myself 😍
The Opels you can easily tell where their styling inspiration was coming from compared to the other marques, they all look so american, but in miniature, I don't know when GM bought them & Vauxhall up, but they really did try to make things look like back in the US of A... :S
Hubnut living the dream🤓
So many cars I never knew exhibited! Lovely video thanks Ian, amazing knowledge for small details!
Ahh … brilliant vid… fabulous place.. loved that detail about the Dyane - that it was the ex-Panhard engineers who reworked the 2CV. Was there a Panhard connection with the Ami also? The Ami front has a very Panhard vibe to it… particularly to that 24. So many delicious cars there.
Ami was developed before Citroen took over Panhard. That was designed by Flaminio Bertoni, who also designed the final production 2CV.
@@HubNut Thanks for that, Ian. Just been reading up on Bertoni … very creative guy ( Like Chapron ). Fabulous bit of history. E.
That 504 coupe deserved a bit more attention, white elephants maybe but that shape is still a great looking car !! Have you reviewed one ?
Another great video! 👍
The count of Buren is one of the titles of the Dutch king.
Small note, 407 coupe was a peugeot in house design, not pininfarina like the 406. 👍
I apologise to Pininfarina. That explains a lot!
What a great place with some lovely and rare cars. No Tagora though! 🙁
18:35 sleep is Dutch for tow.
The Paccar engine was most likely out of a DAF Truck.
The Gold Chrysler looks like a Chrysler Centura 6 cylinder we had in Australia, I think about 1976.. Aussie Graham.
Yes, the Centura used the 180/2 litre body.
15:53 when I worked for a multi franchise garage French and German, in the mid 80's we had an orange one of these as the back up van for when my 305 van was in for service.
It was horrendous to drive around the lake district on a timetable 😂
The gear lever was errm worse than stirring porridge with no gate what so ever you just went for where you hoped it was, great fun when engine braking on the fells and you can't find 2nd gear!!
I bloody loved it and wanted to buy it, but the wife said no, in very strong language, I got a 1974 Gold Viva saloon instead.
That XM is right up my street (as is the Xantia & 205 GTI)
Love the visits you do and another thing to put on my list to visit, keep on doing these. Just a note on Roland Garos, I think Peugeot are referring to the the aviator and maybe not the tennis chap might be wrong, I am sure I will be corrected if Not correct!
Same person. The tennis event is named after the aviator.
Fantastic collection. I guess he likes all French cars as long as they aren't Renaults!
It's the marques his family business sold. Apparently Renault wasn't one of them.
@@HubNut Renault was with a different branch of the family. There is actually a Renault Sport & Alpine collection that they sometimes display in the museum as well.
I actually saw a Commodore saloon, same age as the Commodore at 15:31. just today. Vinyl roof etc
Cool 🥰
Did the 203 inspire the Morris Minor or the other way round? They look remarkably similar.
I think they just both reflect American design trends in the mid to late 1940s. The 203 is a lot larger.
I am Dutch and I love cars, but I didn't know about this museum....
Thankfully none of those cars will ever see a salty British road !
What a great museum! I have to disagree with you that the Peugeot 604 was a white elephant. I was whisked around France in one on a French exchange as a schoolboy many years ago and they rear seats are truly sumptuous!
Oooh I had a Kadett C!
really enjoyable Ian. The 407 coupe doesn't have that handling the 406 coupe has in spades. I drove one recntly and will not be parting with my 406 for it, or much else, though i am on the look out for an early megane coupe.. fun nippy things and much unloved in Spain
I enjoyed that again your knowledge of french cars is very good that opel cadet was a dead ringer for the Holden Gemini of course the Citreons and the Peugeot 303s 404s and l have been a passenger in both those Peugeots l didn't see any Opels that certain models of the Holden Comodore were based on
Hello, scanning the QR code,works!
Lush, absolutely lush (the Chryslers are stalking you)
Did I read that the Peugeot 403 design was used for the RR Silver Shadow.
After seeing this video I felt like seeing them in real life. Visited Visscher Classique today. What a great collection, so much youth sentiment. Hall 3 is now also in use. A floor has been built into it with a car lift. There's more beauty there. There is also a lot to see in the field of scale models and mopeds. Thanks for the great video Ian.
Superb. I shall have to visit again!
No Renault Alpines or Gordini’s?
Not sure they sold many of those here.
Even in a place like this there's no 309.
I'm starting to think that saving my Graffic was the best thing i ever done (it was, not just because of this xD).
There is a collection of 205s and 309s that are usually on display. They are currently building more space.
Hello Mr Hubby Nut, While in The Netherlands have you reviewed one of those DAF CVT cars? Keep up the good work, Thanks. MvB
I haven't yet filmed a DAF sadly, though my Invacar has a very similar drivetrain.
4:17 It's HY as in "H - Y". The two letters. I have no idea where we got that name, must have been how it was registered here? It doesn't mean anything in Dutch.
Leuk spul, Ian! Hoe gaat het met je Nederlands?
Ik spreek Nederland but not very much...
What a wonderful collection, very much enjoyed that 😁
Still not seen a Simca 1100 Estate like I had, are there any left?
There were a surprising amount of cars I have owned in that collection though!
I have perhaps only ever seen one Simca 1100 estate.
@@HubNut Where was that Ian? Mine was a great little workhorse & saw me through 3 years at collage
Liked before I watched.! .. you need to do an RZ test and a Rancho test ... Why no love for the Pluriel. Is it the awkward non convertible roof?
The awkward roof and the way some claimed it was a modern 2CV, when it was just a woefully impractical flight of fancy.
@@HubNut The awkward roof came from a Dutch supplier (based on Citroen ideas) - I think that's why there is more of a love/hate relationship with the Pluriel for us.
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