Pretty sure the Black Volga legend has to do with secret police agents coming to kidnap you and take you into custody rather than a specific car and driver. Since people back in the Soviet Union barely had the funds to afford a Trabant, it's safe to say the Volga was mostly associated with people working for the government rather than civilians. Great rcr story as usual! ❤️🌟
unless you knew someone somewhere, there was literally no chance to get a Volga or Cajka (tchaika or whatever is the english version) in private hands...
Basically the same meaning as olive green Ford Falcons on Argentina. When the 1976-1983 dictatorship was on the power, Ford supplied the military with olive green falcons, which were used on the kidnappings, killings and disappearings.
@@ThatSpaceKraken nope.. Volga and Cajka were build only for governmental service, company purposes (in terms of state owned companies/factories ofc) and "special public services" (ie Taxi drivers)
The Golden Eagle story is bunk. I know you mention that it may, but I dug deep and also couldn't find any contemporary sources for the claims. Everything only goes back to 2016 or 2017. The lady who owns it claims she has a fleet of hainted cars which she bedazzles. You should read hear writing. I'm not poking fun, but she seems like she needs help.
Ironically enough I knew immediately what it was since I have had a pretty similar thing happen here. Some guy in my neighborhood had this awful old Beetle that he hacked so many lights and horns into, and put such bad wiring into it that when it rained the wires for the horns would short circuit and you'd have the the car beeping it's guts out randomly at 3 AM and watching this guy in his pajamas run outside in the rain to shut it off. Not far fetched that the same thing could happen to a starter cable.
the Black Volga is pretty much solved, it was the official car driven by KGB agents at the time, the supposed kidnapping is obviously people that have been targeted by the KGB for idk going against the government or something like that, the story of it being cursed/possessed is probably to keep kids/young adults from strolling outside in the night too much, atleast thats what i heard.
Had a 2020 VW with 16 major warranty repairs in 19,000 miles. Total demonic possession. An exorcism is the only thing I didn't try to fix that POS. Hopefully it has found death and has not cursed another owner so it doesn't up on Part 2 of RCR's Cursed Cars!
@@brianmiller1077 GLI with the DSG. Wiper failures, engine computer failures, infotainment system replacements, interior trim falling off, overhead console failures (yes, plural), and violent idling that at times was like sitting in a paint mixer. In the end, VWoA got involved and there was a settlement that didn't involve going to court. Very fun car when it worked, but that's a hard NO to the VW brand now.
I kinda believe my car is blessed, with the kinda age, mileage, neglect and abuse that its been through it has no business running so well, but it knows I really need it so it keeps on chugging along
Archduke Ferdinand's car in the Imperial War Musuem in Vienna IS spooky as hell as it's the starting point for a realistic and depressing exhibit about WW1 Austrian-Hungarian combat and the fall of said Empire.
In a somewhat related note, there's this ghost story on the west side Cincinnati about a haunted road that is extremely hilly, like Rollercoaster hills, I forget it's name though. The story goes that when driving at night, one might find that they are being followed by a car from the 1950s. The ghost car will eventually start driving faster and faster and begin tailgating you, thus prompting most people to speed up so as not to be rear ended. But no matter how fast one drives, the ghost car will keep tailgating you. Eventually, one would get to one of the Rollercoaster hills and be going so fast that they jump it, when the car lands they either break their neck or they simply lose control and go off the road. I've personally been on the road at night and almost hill hoped my car even without any ghost cars involved; so it's probably another one of those stories that get their origin from someone who was too embarrassed to tell the police what really happened.
I heard that the Golden Eagle was the inspiration for Steven King’s Christine. Also the jumping Renault it could be explained by faulty electronics. It stands to reason that the the car was likely a manual and as anyone that drives one knows you leave it in a gear rotating the opposite way it’ll roll. Also the jumping would happen because the handbrake was applied. If a short caused the starter to engage while in gear it would make a lot of noise.
@@doctorfeinstone6524 Had one in the 2000s and it had a lot of problems (seals in doors/windows)(small but annoying electrical like turn signals that won't come off, etc...). But i think it can be a good car in some situations
I don't know about haunted but I know my car is out for my soul.. I mean why else would a 35-year-old Camaro with a V6 still be on the road today? It's had who knows how many owners and 3 paint jobs. Somehow everybody that's owned it has kept it going
This seems like a good time to tell a story that I watched with my own eyes. Sometimes, my dad would want to borrow my mom's Camry. Mom did not like him driving her car. Using the same key she always used, he would not be able to start the car. I'd see him get out and check something and get back in, but still nothing would happen. He'd get out looking defeated and hang the keys. Whenever mom wanted to drive, it would start right up in typical Toyota fashion. It never left anyone stranded, but that Toyota would often times refuse to start for dad.
My first car was a 1959 Nash Metropolitan. A previous owner had removed the bench seat and replaced it with a couple of buckets (with gold metal flake upholstery!). Looked real sporty with the cheap red paint job that was peeling off in my places, but hey - when your budget for buying a car is less than $200, ya gotta make some compromises. On my first day driving it I got T-boned at an uncontrolled intersection. It was a low speed impact that left a nasty crease in the door, but the door still opened and closed and the window was okay so I never got around to fixing it. Did I mention that the previous owner, when installing the new seats, only used the existing seat mounting bolts - one on each side of the (bench) seat? So each bucket seat was held in by only one bolt on the outboard side. So anyway, a few days after the accident I had my best friend in the car with me and we were, um, testing the acceleration (0-60… eventually) and handling (surprisingly stodgy for such a small car, with body roll for days). I took a hard right turn. The damaged passenger door flew open and the passenger seat tilted outward, held in only by its single outboard bolt. Fortunately my friend was holding onto the “Jesus handle” on the dashboard or he would have had an unpleasant encounter with the Route 66 pavement. From that day forward, the passenger seat in that car was referred to as the ejector seat, though the very next day I added more mounting bolts to the bucket seats. While I was at it I also installed some bitchin gold shag carpet to go with the seats. Hey, it was the ‘70s; that’s what high school kids did back then. I also sent in an order for seat belts from the J. C. Whitney catalog. That passenger door would still fly open occasionally, though…
I actually only watched a few rcr stories and now I regret not watching more. This is awesome content Roman, can’t wait to go back and view the other videos you made
Black Volgas abducting people was a thing, but it was mainly because they were the car of choice amongst KGB and Stasi agents. They wanted something more prestigious than a Lada, after all.
Funny you mention the Archduke. Because I saw a cursed island off Croatia that supposedly Franz visited two days before he was killed, and the island is famous for killing people who visit it
As always, great work man. Your delivery, as well as Mr. Regular's, are always fitting and hit the spot. I cannot wait for your next episode, as always. A safe and happy holiday to you both!
the megane story reminds me of the ghost car myth from gta, where if you play the game for long enough you would encounter a car that would drive down the hill by itself in the woods, it turned out to be a glitch, but for the longest time people thought the cars were actually haunted.
Well the reason for volga stories is clear. It was the standard KGB car. People getting disappeared by KGB was not rare. Voice you grievances of government or the communist party in wrong group? You disappear. etc. etc.
For the No 7 bus story. The area it is supposed to appear in (The intersection of Ladgroke Grove & Cambridge Gardens is on the route of the real 7 and N7 night bus. The N7 Bus commenced operation in 2003 and since Ladbroke Grove is one of the widest roads in the area and also mostly straight it might be that tired/drunk people where speeding there not expecting a massive bus at that hour (The real N7 is actually scheduled to stop at the nearby Ladbroke Grove Tube Station at 01:14). The Westway and/or Tube viaduct might also play a role in it.
i wonder if I used to own a spooky car… A blue Triumph Herald 13/60 with a sunroof (SGH865F, it is still around on the DVLA website). Why may you ask, well the doors used to fly open sometimes when I drove it. A family friend was so scared that she refused to be a passenger in any future car that I later owned. I managed to get rid of the demon by replacing the passenger door with another one and readjusting the driver's door. Damn, I had you going, not!
So the "black Volga" story. I never heard this version however the story that is most likely the truth is that black Volgas was driven by KGB or whatever was the secret police in each soviet country (it was UB in Poland where I'm from). This car (and not only this one) was used by the secret police to kidnap people for interrogation or to just "disappear" them. I hear this BS about aliens, the devil, and blood baths for the first time in my life. Volgas was also not that common, at least not in Poland. Here it was mostly Fiat 126 and 125, Syrena, Warszawa, and couple of other models, black Volga was something that people would notice.
Some scarred individual keeps putting Nissan Altimas in your videos. Might want to get that checked out. The Volga was often used as a KGB (and other secret police) car, and yes, they did actually disappear people. This part is no legend, but history.
This is a real treat. I remember when I was a kid I would read "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" around Halloween every year as the thought of a car driving past my moms 92' GMC Safari that was possibly possessed by some otherwordly being captivated me more then some spooky house at the end of the street I had to go out of my way to gawk at.
Had a Ford Taurus that had many electrical problems. Replaced the multifunction relay several times. Finally caught fire and burned to the ground while sitting at the dealership. Glad to see it go.
Hey Roman; welcome back, I’ve missed you 🙂 The GAZ Volga was available only to those more equal than others (viz. Bryukhanov’s Volga versus Fomin’s Lada in the Chernobyl miniseries; the Volga also appearing as the vehicle of the KGB watcher assigned to hound Legasov). Not difficult to imagine the source of that particular urban legend amongst former Soviet-era citizens 🙂
Back in 2005 I bought a 1992 Buick Roadmaster at car lot for $1100 this car was in excellent condition it kept leaking water by the blower water and frying the computer is Why the dealership was selling it cheap until I Installed a new blower motor and a PCM from a 91 caprice cop car (which made it run noticeably better) this car earned me almost 12000 in in a year and a half of owning it because everybody kept wrecking into it. I sold it to a good friend of for only 400. The day we go to sign it over somebody t boned him and totaled it. It was still in my name. I ended up getting 5000 from the insurance company. The car was definitely cursed.
There are two things most Americans don't get when talking about the black Volga legend, and it has to do with the fact that freedom of speech and rumbling V8's are rather common in the US (understatement, I know). But that was not always the case out here. Lemme explain. First of all, here, you could have been put on the government's shit-list for any criticism of it or it's actions, not to mention snitching on your neighbours was encouraged, so if you were say, reading anti-government leaflets or doing any other frowned upon thing, you could find yourself on the wrong side of the interrogation table. And one day you might just find, "the sad men" as they were called here, be it KGB or your country's equivalent knocking at your door. And they always drove the same car. As for the second thing, keep in mind that all cars that the average Jan or Ivan could ever dream of owning after years of hard work were powered by things like four bangers, two-strokes or air cooled twins cylinders with the occasional diesel truck knocking about on the street. But such little cars weren't enough for the government, of course. So here comes the GAZ 24. But not the standard version, no. Specially for the KGB the took the V8 from the large government limousine that was the Chaika, and put it into the smaller Volga, making essentially a pursuit-special. So when you walked down the concrete flanked streets and heard the roar of an American style V8 and saw a black Volga slowly pass you by you knew it was them. Imagine that feeling of seeing a cop car and thinking to yourself "have I done something? will I get pulled over?" but a hundred times worse. That's the fear that spawned the legend. (I encourage anybody who knows more accurate info to reply belov, as I might have dramatised it all a little.)
I wish he would have included the ghost camaro story, apparently years ago some guy was racing his late 60s Camaro, crashed and at nights he would try to race people and if you raced him you would lose control or crash. I won't deny this sound a lot like the movie the gladiator with the black charger which was legit just a guy killing people with reckless driving and spikes on his rims except this story to took place in clinton road in New Jersey which many say is one of many haunted highways in America. I couldn't find anything else other than a Mr. Nightmare video. Whether or not it's a real story I don't know.
My father in law belonged to an mc that buried a harley because everyone who rode it got hurt or killed .. even if you used parts off it. To this day, nobody knows its location, they all went to the grave with that secret. I personally had a 69 mustang i was slowly restoring over the years, and had different people do different jobs on it as it progressed. Every single one of those people who had that car in their yard had a family member die, or became ill. I lost it in a divorce, and good riddance to her and it. Weird thing is, that car never did a thing to me, almost like i was the only human it would tolerate as id restored it back to life .
Why on earth would you dare own that dodge after learning its history? And why TF would you want to rebuild that car 💀 people sometimes I swear, we’ll done on this video Roman!
But also exactly that. Patterns are everywhere. That's what we humans do. We find them. Doesn't mean anything though. The plate could have been the assassin's birthday and people would have flipped about that too.
We had a car, not cursed but just bad luck. My father bought a slightly used 1972 Dodge Monaco. When 10 days old, my father went to lunch with a coworker, walked past the car to show it off and a moment later saw a car screaming down a hill, honking its horn, it turned onto the street and slammed into the rear of the Dodge. It was fixed for barely a month when my mom driving, approached a green light at a blind intersection. An ambulance ran the red light and T boned the front of the car spinning us around. A few months after that, my mother spun it on ice and crunched 3 fenders! 3 Accidents in 6 months. My parents were not in 3 other accidents the rest of their driving life!
An Ambulance can’t “run” a red light.😂 Emergency vehicles, especially ambulances have the right of way. Glad that your parents were safe and unharmed!! ❤They must have been so upset bad drivers were attracted their brand new Monaco.
I had a Porsche 911 (997) that was cursed. It was the most unreliable POS I ever owned, and it took out all its anger (because of neglect by previous owners) on me. It cost me an absolute fortune and I could feel that it wanted to hurt me. I hope the new owner will be able to exorcise it.
I have a pick up that the 1st owner died in a crash, the 2nd owner died of cancer. They were family. I got it for less than half book; stripped it down completely repainted it (paint faded) and a bit more...not a hitch
The only cursed cars are cars that have the worst quality that never stop breaking down. Followed by being a hazard just by moving on the road at any speed. Followed by something random breaking. Followed by minor things going wrong consistently. Followed by never having anything going wrong. I am curious about where the Golden Eagle is. It would be the ideal vehicle for someone single with no family.
Good work buddy! Liked this one. Fist bump on the Eagle. My grandmother had one when I was between the ages of like 2-8 y.o. and it’s lifted 4wd steroid lesbian vibes probably made me love subaru in my later years 😂
On the Mégane: the Renault Mégane II (in the pics) was only on its second or third model year in 2004, so the story's subject was likely a Mégane I (SA folks feel free to correct). Even so, it'd make sense to us yanks if the Mégane II contained that level of jank, since Carlos Ghosn later put the sixth-gen Nissan Sentra and first-gen Nissan Rogue on the same platform!
Whenever a story has an explanation that makes no sense, like the starter cable being rusty when it's made from plastic sheathed copper and cannot rust, I feel the entire thing is just made up.
The terminals on the starter are steel and there is often a steel strap that serves as a conductor between terminals. Also, stainless steel straps are often used to ground the engine or transmission to the body of the car. These straps can rust and break when they are of low quality French alloy and exposed to salty sea air, then possibly touch the terminals on the starter, causing it to kick over.
The reason steel or stainless steel is used is because it has far better fatigue life than copper and it's a cheap and easy way to ground. An engine or transmission moving around on its mounts as they do, is prone to fatigue and break copper wires.
It is interesting to consider the VW Bug , its ' Nazi ' roots , then its involvement in the ' Hippy ' Flower Power movement ( Which was a C.I.A. psychological operation , so the VW Bug has a long strange shadow...and I love it !...PEACE Man !!
I had a car like that, a '67 Galaxie fastback. Sometimes at night the headlights would cut off and on. It always ran great, but despite that, sometimes it refused to start. The original 289 blew up, and the 302 I replaced it with wound up having a cracked piston. It even had yellow jackets inside until I fogged it---this despite being a daily driver, not a car that had been sitting. I liked that car a lot, but I wound up trading it for something else.....because it was cursed.
Damn!!!! This '64 Dodge 330 "Golden Eagle" should have been called and early interation of a Dodge demon ... This car killed several people and went through an exorcism if that's not Christine evil I'd like to know what.
I had a 69 Dodge Dart GTS340 that if she didn't like someone riding in her, exhaust fumes would fill the passenger compartment. Mainly my mother-in-law and/or her husband. She was a good car.
There is a more recent cursed vehicle its a 03 silverado stick shift and it has caused so much trouble no junkyards in MA or NH want it because of its curse junkyard 1 it cursed someones foot because some how the clutch wasn’t engaged and it rolled off. Junkyard 2 it fell and almost killed 5 people and yes I know its location and yes it still causes trouble but the list of « issues/accidents » are 15… probably best not to list them all
Well, the black volga legend is loosely based on real facts. In eastern europe in the 50s and 60s, these cars would actually take people away from their families If you were declared as "enemy of the state", then the government would send a black gaz m21 volga, and as the witnesses say, if someone got in that car, nobody would see them ever again. This was basically true, as the person would be sentenced in jail, or in the early 50s might even be sent to work camps
My buddy has a bright red 66 mustang I’ve nicknamed the car from hell. Every single major “accident” it’s been in and there has been over 4 since he has owned it have never altered any body panels so on the surface the car looked great. But underneath each time thousands in damages.
I agree a lot with the opening statement. At times it feels like the same type of person is attracted to a car. Or you need to be living a particular lifestyle in order for this car to present itself to you as an option. Great example are Nissan sentras , V6 Dodge Chargers. No matter where they come from across the country no matter what year they are. It's like only four types of people are allowed to drive that car and if you're not that type of person that God would never even be something you would remotely consider. Chrysler Sebring. Do you think that's a car anybody wants to be driving around right now? It's a car desperation something that you drive because the only thing you could really afford in your life reflects that perfectly.
Hey, my shitbox doesn't have a curse or a blessing, but it definitely has a will of it's own sometimes, it accelerates far higher than it needs to on some cold starts, it sometimes tries to kill gas station clerks by spitting a fuck ton of very carcinogenic gasoline all over 'em, and it randomly shifts in power output by small amounts depending on the day of the week\weather, and actually gets "tired" when i'm being too much of a hooligan with it, although the last two are probably normal car behavior, due to overheating, air temp and humidity altering oxygen density and stuff like that. Oh yeah, it's also never zapped people before, with static electricity i mean, but i have this one cousin that's a chevy hater, and he's the only one so far who got zapped so hard he fell on his ass, completely stunned out of his wits on the sidewalk, he had it bad enough that i had to get out of the car and pick the fella back up and tell him what the fuck happened and where he was in the last 5 minutes or so.
A neighbor who was a devout born-again Christian told me how his Honda Prelude (he called it a Per-loody) knew what kind of music was being played on its stereo and acted accordingly. He told me that when his son drove the car and listened to Rock n' Roll the car would run badly. When he would drive the car and listen to Gospel music the car behaved as God intended and was cleansed of its bad spirits from the worldly music his son played on the radio. This man also believed in non-traditional medicine and died of a massive heart attack even though friends and family begged him to see a doctor not long before his death.
Jim Douglas : You don't understand what happens, do you? They make ten thousand cars, they make them exactly the same way, and one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. Nobody knows why. Tennessee Steinmetz : I know why. Jim, it's happening right under our noses and we can't see it. We take machines and we stuff 'em with information until they're smarter than we are. Take a car. Most guys spread more love and time and money on their car in a week than they do on their wife and kids in a year. Pretty soon, you know what? The machine starts to think it *is* somebody.
The car stories videos are the only reason I watch this channel anymore. Brian's videos are dull and just the same dumb joke again and again. Roman's are much better despite just being a slideshow.
In my car club there was also a curse called the golden curse any member who own a beige Acura 1.6EL will end up with hit and runs, getting stolen, vandalized or in a car accident.
Pretty sure the Black Volga legend has to do with secret police agents coming to kidnap you and take you into custody rather than a specific car and driver. Since people back in the Soviet Union barely had the funds to afford a Trabant, it's safe to say the Volga was mostly associated with people working for the government rather than civilians. Great rcr story as usual! ❤️🌟
unless you knew someone somewhere, there was literally no chance to get a Volga or Cajka (tchaika or whatever is the english version) in private hands...
Basically the same meaning as olive green Ford Falcons on Argentina. When the 1976-1983 dictatorship was on the power, Ford supplied the military with olive green falcons, which were used on the kidnappings, killings and disappearings.
It's not that nobody had money for them, it's that production was so slow that it would take years to meet demand.
@@ThatSpaceKraken nope.. Volga and Cajka were build only for governmental service, company purposes (in terms of state owned companies/factories ofc) and "special public services" (ie Taxi drivers)
@@DeeDeeKL I am talking about the Trabant, not the Volga
Roman is definitely too wholesome to sound scary
I've been told I give off camp counselor vibes, and frankly, I'll take it.
True but in it's own way is wholesome sound actually makes it creepy.
I had a 1966 Plymouth Fury that was possessed by a demon that ate all of the cash out of my wallet.
Lmaooo
It possibly resided in the gas tank... Spooky stuff, man
Demon < Fury
A muscle car with fender horns.
Funny, I had a 79 Mercury Zephyr that did the same thing... 🤔
Get behind me Satan!
The Golden Eagle story is bunk. I know you mention that it may, but I dug deep and also couldn't find any contemporary sources for the claims. Everything only goes back to 2016 or 2017. The lady who owns it claims she has a fleet of hainted cars which she bedazzles.
You should read hear writing. I'm not poking fun, but she seems like she needs help.
To be fair, 'possessed by a frog demon' is a far more interesting explanation of that Renault than a rusty starter cable.
@Regularcar piss off and go urethral sound with an active soldering iron, scammer
Ironically enough I knew immediately what it was since I have had a pretty similar thing happen here.
Some guy in my neighborhood had this awful old Beetle that he hacked so many lights and horns into, and put such bad wiring into it that when it rained the wires for the horns would short circuit and you'd have the the car beeping it's guts out randomly at 3 AM and watching this guy in his pajamas run outside in the rain to shut it off. Not far fetched that the same thing could happen to a starter cable.
Renaults gonna Renault.
the Black Volga is pretty much solved, it was the official car driven by KGB agents at the time, the supposed kidnapping is obviously people that have been targeted by the KGB for idk going against the government or something like that, the story of it being cursed/possessed is probably to keep kids/young adults from strolling outside in the night too much, atleast thats what i heard.
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That Golden eagle story honestly says more about the Police Department than it does about the car...
Had a 2020 VW with 16 major warranty repairs in 19,000 miles. Total demonic possession. An exorcism is the only thing I didn't try to fix that POS. Hopefully it has found death and has not cursed another owner so it doesn't up on Part 2 of RCR's Cursed Cars!
wow what model?
@@brianmiller1077 GLI with the DSG. Wiper failures, engine computer failures, infotainment system replacements, interior trim falling off, overhead console failures (yes, plural), and violent idling that at times was like sitting in a paint mixer. In the end, VWoA got involved and there was a settlement that didn't involve going to court. Very fun car when it worked, but that's a hard NO to the VW brand now.
I kinda believe my car is blessed, with the kinda age, mileage, neglect and abuse that its been through it has no business running so well, but it knows I really need it so it keeps on chugging along
Is it Japanese?
Archduke Ferdinand's car in the Imperial War Musuem in Vienna IS spooky as hell as it's the starting point for a realistic and depressing exhibit about WW1 Austrian-Hungarian combat and the fall of said Empire.
not only that, but it causing ww1 led to ww2, meaning this car caused the deaths of around 100 million people or more
In a somewhat related note, there's this ghost story on the west side Cincinnati about a haunted road that is extremely hilly, like Rollercoaster hills, I forget it's name though. The story goes that when driving at night, one might find that they are being followed by a car from the 1950s. The ghost car will eventually start driving faster and faster and begin tailgating you, thus prompting most people to speed up so as not to be rear ended. But no matter how fast one drives, the ghost car will keep tailgating you. Eventually, one would get to one of the Rollercoaster hills and be going so fast that they jump it, when the car lands they either break their neck or they simply lose control and go off the road. I've personally been on the road at night and almost hill hoped my car even without any ghost cars involved; so it's probably another one of those stories that get their origin from someone who was too embarrassed to tell the police what really happened.
Just brake check the ghost. Easy.
A winding, hilly road on the west side….well that narrows it down. 🤣
ghost car tailgating huh...
a 180sx? MR-2?
@@admiralrng6506 apparently a 56 Cadillac Fleetwood.
I heard that the Golden Eagle was the inspiration for Steven King’s Christine. Also the jumping Renault it could be explained by faulty electronics. It stands to reason that the the car was likely a manual and as anyone that drives one knows you leave it in a gear rotating the opposite way it’ll roll. Also the jumping would happen because the handbrake was applied. If a short caused the starter to engage while in gear it would make a lot of noise.
And the 2nd gen Mégane is known to have bad electronics
Alot of clickbaity articles have said the same, but as a die hard king fan, I assure you it isn't
@@doctorfeinstone6524 Had one in the 2000s and it had a lot of problems (seals in doors/windows)(small but annoying electrical like turn signals that won't come off, etc...). But i think it can be a good car in some situations
My Dad had 1974 Maverick. It killed itself after 6 years. It just couldn't take the embarrassment and the rust anymore.
I don't know about haunted but I know my car is out for my soul.. I mean why else would a 35-year-old Camaro with a V6 still be on the road today? It's had who knows how many owners and 3 paint jobs. Somehow everybody that's owned it has kept it going
This seems like a good time to tell a story that I watched with my own eyes. Sometimes, my dad would want to borrow my mom's Camry. Mom did not like him driving her car. Using the same key she always used, he would not be able to start the car. I'd see him get out and check something and get back in, but still nothing would happen. He'd get out looking defeated and hang the keys. Whenever mom wanted to drive, it would start right up in typical Toyota fashion. It never left anyone stranded, but that Toyota would often times refuse to start for dad.
RCR releases a spooky video for Thanksgiving instead of Halloween because that's what a visionary does
My first car was a 1959 Nash Metropolitan. A previous owner had removed the bench seat and replaced it with a couple of buckets (with gold metal flake upholstery!). Looked real sporty with the cheap red paint job that was peeling off in my places, but hey - when your budget for buying a car is less than $200, ya gotta make some compromises. On my first day driving it I got T-boned at an uncontrolled intersection. It was a low speed impact that left a nasty crease in the door, but the door still opened and closed and the window was okay so I never got around to fixing it. Did I mention that the previous owner, when installing the new seats, only used the existing seat mounting bolts - one on each side of the (bench) seat? So each bucket seat was held in by only one bolt on the outboard side. So anyway, a few days after the accident I had my best friend in the car with me and we were, um, testing the acceleration (0-60… eventually) and handling (surprisingly stodgy for such a small car, with body roll for days). I took a hard right turn. The damaged passenger door flew open and the passenger seat tilted outward, held in only by its single outboard bolt. Fortunately my friend was holding onto the “Jesus handle” on the dashboard or he would have had an unpleasant encounter with the Route 66 pavement. From that day forward, the passenger seat in that car was referred to as the ejector seat, though the very next day I added more mounting bolts to the bucket seats. While I was at it I also installed some bitchin gold shag carpet to go with the seats. Hey, it was the ‘70s; that’s what high school kids did back then. I also sent in an order for
seat belts from the J. C. Whitney catalog. That passenger door would still fly open occasionally, though…
Amazing story hahaha
I actually only watched a few rcr stories and now I regret not watching more. This is awesome content Roman, can’t wait to go back and view the other videos you made
Thank you so much! I'm really happy you enjoyed it.
Um... Roman... I adore the Eagle. I LOVE those beastly wagons. I was seriously looking at one back in 98. WTF, man. Dude!!! :D HUGE GRIN ON MY FACE :D
Black Volgas abducting people was a thing, but it was mainly because they were the car of choice amongst KGB and Stasi agents. They wanted something more prestigious than a Lada, after all.
Nick Roman is a Sweetheart.
Indeed
Funny you mention the Archduke. Because I saw a cursed island off Croatia that supposedly Franz visited two days before he was killed, and the island is famous for killing people who visit it
As always, great work man. Your delivery, as well as Mr. Regular's, are always fitting and hit the spot. I cannot wait for your next episode, as always. A safe and happy holiday to you both!
the megane story reminds me of the ghost car myth from gta, where if you play the game for long enough you would encounter a car that would drive down the hill by itself in the woods, it turned out to be a glitch, but for the longest time people thought the cars were actually haunted.
This is a dopamine hit for car guys when you upload
Those memes in the intro are golden.
Definitely had a good vibe.
Well the reason for volga stories is clear. It was the standard KGB car. People getting disappeared by KGB was not rare. Voice you grievances of government or the communist party in wrong group? You disappear. etc. etc.
Yep exactly. In the Soviet Union if you were to be taken away by a government authority, chances are it was done with a black Volga.
You needn't have necessary done something. The gulags were important in the Soviet economy.
@@JohnSmith-wx9wj well ofc. that too.
For the No 7 bus story. The area it is supposed to appear in (The intersection of Ladgroke Grove & Cambridge Gardens is on the route of the real 7 and N7 night bus. The N7 Bus commenced operation in 2003 and since Ladbroke Grove is one of the widest roads in the area and also mostly straight it might be that tired/drunk people where speeding there not expecting a massive bus at that hour (The real N7 is actually scheduled to stop at the nearby Ladbroke Grove Tube Station at 01:14). The Westway and/or Tube viaduct might also play a role in it.
i wonder if I used to own a spooky car… A blue Triumph Herald 13/60 with a sunroof (SGH865F, it is still around on the DVLA website). Why may you ask, well the doors used to fly open sometimes when I drove it. A family friend was so scared that she refused to be a passenger in any future car that I later owned. I managed to get rid of the demon by replacing the passenger door with another one and readjusting the driver's door. Damn, I had you going, not!
So the "black Volga" story. I never heard this version however the story that is most likely the truth is that black Volgas was driven by KGB or whatever was the secret police in each soviet country (it was UB in Poland where I'm from). This car (and not only this one) was used by the secret police to kidnap people for interrogation or to just "disappear" them. I hear this BS about aliens, the devil, and blood baths for the first time in my life. Volgas was also not that common, at least not in Poland. Here it was mostly Fiat 126 and 125, Syrena, Warszawa, and couple of other models, black Volga was something that people would notice.
Some scarred individual keeps putting Nissan Altimas in your videos. Might want to get that checked out.
The Volga was often used as a KGB (and other secret police) car, and yes, they did actually disappear people. This part is no legend, but history.
This is a real treat. I remember when I was a kid I would read "Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors" around Halloween every year as the thought of a car driving past my moms 92' GMC Safari that was possibly possessed by some otherwordly being captivated me more then some spooky house at the end of the street I had to go out of my way to gawk at.
knew immediately the Renault story was gonna be wiring related lmao
Love this! Please do more. Also, can I please get a horror movie about the Golden Eagle?
Had a Ford Taurus that had many electrical problems. Replaced the multifunction relay several times. Finally caught fire and burned to the ground while sitting at the dealership. Glad to see it go.
Roman, your voice is incredibly soothing.
spooky roman will release his spoopy video when ever he damn well pleases
Hey Roman; welcome back, I’ve missed you 🙂 The GAZ Volga was available only to those more equal than others (viz. Bryukhanov’s Volga versus Fomin’s Lada in the Chernobyl miniseries; the Volga also appearing as the vehicle of the KGB watcher assigned to hound Legasov). Not difficult to imagine the source of that particular urban legend amongst former Soviet-era citizens 🙂
Back in 2005 I bought a 1992 Buick Roadmaster at car lot for $1100 this car was in excellent condition it kept leaking water by the blower water and frying the computer is Why the dealership was selling it cheap until I Installed a new blower motor and a PCM from a 91 caprice cop car (which made it run noticeably better) this car earned me almost 12000 in in a year and a half of owning it because everybody kept wrecking into it. I sold it to a good friend of for only 400. The day we go to sign it over somebody t boned him and totaled it. It was still in my name. I ended up getting 5000 from the insurance company. The car was definitely cursed.
There are two things most Americans don't get when talking about the black Volga legend, and it has to do with the fact that freedom of speech and rumbling V8's are rather common in the US (understatement, I know). But that was not always the case out here.
Lemme explain. First of all, here, you could have been put on the government's shit-list for any criticism of it or it's actions, not to mention snitching on your neighbours was encouraged, so if you were say, reading anti-government leaflets or doing any other frowned upon thing, you could find yourself on the wrong side of the interrogation table. And one day you might just find, "the sad men" as they were called here, be it KGB or your country's equivalent knocking at your door. And they always drove the same car.
As for the second thing, keep in mind that all cars that the average Jan or Ivan could ever dream of owning after years of hard work were powered by things like four bangers, two-strokes or air cooled twins cylinders with the occasional diesel truck knocking about on the street. But such little cars weren't enough for the government, of course.
So here comes the GAZ 24. But not the standard version, no. Specially for the KGB the took the V8 from the large government limousine that was the Chaika, and put it into the smaller Volga, making essentially a pursuit-special.
So when you walked down the concrete flanked streets and heard the roar of an American style V8 and saw a black Volga slowly pass you by you knew it was them.
Imagine that feeling of seeing a cop car and thinking to yourself "have I done something? will I get pulled over?" but a hundred times worse. That's the fear that spawned the legend.
(I encourage anybody who knows more accurate info to reply belov, as I might have dramatised it all a little.)
Poltergeist activities / hauntings are nuts in London. So many ghosts...
You forgot to include Evil Stu in your list. Its a haunted 59 silverhawk studebaker
I saw a podcast on evil Stu. Interesting.
I wish he would have included the ghost camaro story, apparently years ago some guy was racing his late 60s Camaro, crashed and at nights he would try to race people and if you raced him you would lose control or crash. I won't deny this sound a lot like the movie the gladiator with the black charger which was legit just a guy killing people with reckless driving and spikes on his rims except this story to took place in clinton road in New Jersey which many say is one of many haunted highways in America. I couldn't find anything else other than a Mr. Nightmare video. Whether or not it's a real story I don't know.
I carried out recalls on Jeep YJ which were meant to rectify salt corrosion in the fuse block, to prevent the vehicle from starting unexpectedly.
0:53 I had that dictionary (probably still sitting somewhere)
.....wasn't very 'compact', english is such a deceptful language.
My father in law belonged to an mc that buried a harley because everyone who rode it got hurt or killed .. even if you used parts off it. To this day, nobody knows its location, they all went to the grave with that secret. I personally had a 69 mustang i was slowly restoring over the years, and had different people do different jobs on it as it progressed. Every single one of those people who had that car in their yard had a family member die, or became ill. I lost it in a divorce, and good riddance to her and it. Weird thing is, that car never did a thing to me, almost like i was the only human it would tolerate as id restored it back to life .
Did anything horrible happen to your ex-wife after she stole your car in the divorce?
Why on earth would you dare own that dodge after learning its history? And why TF would you want to rebuild that car 💀 people sometimes I swear, we’ll done on this video Roman!
It's fake, but the owner isn't in their right mind, either.
Archduke Ferdinand's car having the end date for World War 1 is one very eerie coincidence
But also exactly that. Patterns are everywhere. That's what we humans do. We find them. Doesn't mean anything though. The plate could have been the assassin's birthday and people would have flipped about that too.
Listening to the Volga portion when my cat reaches up and puts her paw on my side. About shit my pants. Great story, man.
Did the Renault suddenly play “Back Dat Azz Up” on its stereo when it did its thing? 😅
We had a car, not cursed but just bad luck. My father bought a slightly used 1972 Dodge Monaco. When 10 days old, my father went to lunch with a coworker, walked past the car to show it off and a moment later saw a car screaming down a hill, honking its horn, it turned onto the street and slammed into the rear of the Dodge. It was fixed for barely a month when my mom driving, approached a green light at a blind intersection. An ambulance ran the red light and T boned the front of the car spinning us around. A few months after that, my mother spun it on ice and crunched 3 fenders! 3 Accidents in 6 months. My parents were not in 3 other accidents the rest of their driving life!
An Ambulance can’t “run” a red light.😂 Emergency vehicles, especially ambulances have the right of way. Glad that your parents were safe and unharmed!! ❤They must have been so upset bad drivers were attracted their brand new Monaco.
No One:
The Renault Demon: "FUCK THIS HIBISCUS TREE IN PARTICULAR"
Great stories, I kind of called the last one but I won't spoil it.
I had a Porsche 911 (997) that was cursed. It was the most unreliable POS I ever owned, and it took out all its anger (because of neglect by previous owners) on me. It cost me an absolute fortune and I could feel that it wanted to hurt me. I hope the new owner will be able to exorcise it.
I have a pick up that the 1st owner died in a crash, the 2nd owner died of cancer. They were family. I got it for less than half book; stripped it down completely repainted it (paint faded) and a bit more...not a hitch
The only cursed cars are cars that have the worst quality that never stop breaking down. Followed by being a hazard just by moving on the road at any speed. Followed by something random breaking. Followed by minor things going wrong consistently. Followed by never having anything going wrong.
I am curious about where the Golden Eagle is. It would be the ideal vehicle for someone single with no family.
Terrible puns... terribly good. Keep them coming.
spooky car in maine? Stephen King wants to talk.
945 in 24 minutes. Thanks for the ghost stores. I still have to listen to the last hour of the Saab story.
I like your picture.
Every car has a story to tell you if you're willing to listen.
I’m running late for work, thanks Roman
😂a haunted car video would make me late too! My favorite movies are killer car movies.
Roman bring the songs back!
Good work buddy! Liked this one.
Fist bump on the Eagle. My grandmother had one when I was between the ages of like 2-8 y.o. and it’s lifted 4wd steroid lesbian vibes probably made me love subaru in my later years 😂
On the Mégane: the Renault Mégane II (in the pics) was only on its second or third model year in 2004, so the story's subject was likely a Mégane I (SA folks feel free to correct).
Even so, it'd make sense to us yanks if the Mégane II contained that level of jank, since Carlos Ghosn later put the sixth-gen Nissan Sentra and first-gen Nissan Rogue on the same platform!
Is this video a re-upload? I could've sworn I watched it once at least a year ago.
James Dean’s Porsche documentary by Roman is really good.
Great way to start my morning at work. Love these occasional long-form videos. Never change, guys!
Whenever a story has an explanation that makes no sense, like the starter cable being rusty when it's made from plastic sheathed copper and cannot rust, I feel the entire thing is just made up.
The terminals on the starter are steel and there is often a steel strap that serves as a conductor between terminals. Also, stainless steel straps are often used to ground the engine or transmission to the body of the car. These straps can rust and break when they are of low quality French alloy and exposed to salty sea air, then possibly touch the terminals on the starter, causing it to kick over.
It's possible something was lost in translation here, and some electrical lead did in fact rust out and jump the terminals on the starter.
The reason steel or stainless steel is used is because it has far better fatigue life than copper and it's a cheap and easy way to ground. An engine or transmission moving around on its mounts as they do, is prone to fatigue and break copper wires.
Happy Thanksgiving!
It is interesting to consider the VW Bug , its ' Nazi ' roots , then its involvement in the ' Hippy ' Flower Power movement ( Which was a C.I.A. psychological operation , so the VW Bug has a long strange shadow...and I love it !...PEACE Man !!
I was lucky enough to drive in a 4x4 AMC Eagle. Not AWD, 4x4 like a TRUCK. Massive beast of a car.
Love it! Great stories 😁
Have a happy 🦃 day!
I had a car like that, a '67 Galaxie fastback. Sometimes at night the headlights would cut off and on. It always ran great, but despite that, sometimes it refused to start. The original 289 blew up, and the 302 I replaced it with wound up having a cracked piston. It even had yellow jackets inside until I fogged it---this despite being a daily driver, not a car that had been sitting. I liked that car a lot, but I wound up trading it for something else.....because it was cursed.
I actually got to see James Deans, Porches transaxle when I was at Zak Baggins haunted museum. It was a cool time
I am loving this, but you missed out on releasing this on Halloween!
Damn!!!! This '64 Dodge 330 "Golden Eagle" should have been called and early interation of a Dodge demon ... This car killed several people and went through an exorcism if that's not Christine evil I'd like to know what.
I had a 69 Dodge Dart GTS340 that if she didn't like someone riding in her, exhaust fumes would fill the passenger compartment. Mainly my mother-in-law and/or her husband. She was a good car.
There is a more recent cursed vehicle its a 03 silverado stick shift and it has caused so much trouble no junkyards in MA or NH want it because of its curse junkyard 1 it cursed someones foot because some how the clutch wasn’t engaged and it rolled off. Junkyard 2 it fell and almost killed 5 people and yes I know its location and yes it still causes trouble but the list of « issues/accidents » are 15… probably best not to list them all
Well, the black volga legend is loosely based on real facts. In eastern europe in the 50s and 60s, these cars would actually take people away from their families
If you were declared as "enemy of the state", then the government would send a black gaz m21 volga, and as the witnesses say, if someone got in that car, nobody would see them ever again.
This was basically true, as the person would be sentenced in jail, or in the early 50s might even be sent to work camps
You should have tried to play the "are you afraid of the dark" theme on guitar when you mentioned throwing sand into the fire.
We're getting old aren't we?
My buddy has a bright red 66 mustang I’ve nicknamed the car from hell. Every single major “accident” it’s been in and there has been over 4 since he has owned it have never altered any body panels so on the surface the car looked great. But underneath each time thousands in damages.
I agree a lot with the opening statement. At times it feels like the same type of person is attracted to a car. Or you need to be living a particular lifestyle in order for this car to present itself to you as an option.
Great example are Nissan sentras , V6 Dodge Chargers. No matter where they come from across the country no matter what year they are. It's like only four types of people are allowed to drive that car and if you're not that type of person that God would never even be something you would remotely consider.
Chrysler Sebring. Do you think that's a car anybody wants to be driving around right now?
It's a car desperation something that you drive because the only thing you could really afford in your life reflects that perfectly.
Hey, my shitbox doesn't have a curse or a blessing, but it definitely has a will of it's own sometimes, it accelerates far higher than it needs to on some cold starts, it sometimes tries to kill gas station clerks by spitting a fuck ton of very carcinogenic gasoline all over 'em, and it randomly shifts in power output by small amounts depending on the day of the week\weather, and actually gets "tired" when i'm being too much of a hooligan with it, although the last two are probably normal car behavior, due to overheating, air temp and humidity altering oxygen density and stuff like that.
Oh yeah, it's also never zapped people before, with static electricity i mean, but i have this one cousin that's a chevy hater, and he's the only one so far who got zapped so hard he fell on his ass, completely stunned out of his wits on the sidewalk, he had it bad enough that i had to get out of the car and pick the fella back up and tell him what the fuck happened and where he was in the last 5 minutes or so.
A neighbor who was a devout born-again Christian told me how his Honda Prelude (he called it a Per-loody) knew what kind of music was being played on its stereo and acted accordingly. He told me that when his son drove the car and listened to Rock n' Roll the car would run badly. When he would drive the car and listen to Gospel music the car behaved as God intended and was cleansed of its bad spirits from the worldly music his son played on the radio. This man also believed in non-traditional medicine and died of a massive heart attack even though friends and family begged him to see a doctor not long before his death.
Black Volga Driver: Do you have the time?
Soviet Citizen: Yes, 9:57.
Driver: Incorrect. It’s time for gulag.
Jim Douglas : You don't understand what happens, do you? They make ten thousand cars, they make them exactly the same way, and one or two of 'em turn out to be something special. Nobody knows why.
Tennessee Steinmetz : I know why. Jim, it's happening right under our noses and we can't see it. We take machines and we stuff 'em with information until they're smarter than we are. Take a car. Most guys spread more love and time and money on their car in a week than they do on their wife and kids in a year. Pretty soon, you know what? The machine starts to think it *is* somebody.
As a Renault mechanic, I don’t buy Renault’s explanation. Those Meganes were pretty crap, I reckon it was a fault part from the factory
If you think the black Volga has kiddnapped people, you don't wanna know how many get kidnapped in regular Chevy tahoes or Ford explorers every day
The car stories videos are the only reason I watch this channel anymore. Brian's videos are dull and just the same dumb joke again and again. Roman's are much better despite just being a slideshow.
In my car club there was also a curse called the golden curse
any member who own a beige Acura 1.6EL will end up with hit and runs, getting stolen, vandalized or in a car accident.
My eyes read "Golden Eagle" and my mind read "Iron Eagle"
Whoops lol
Quality research! Can't find any primary sources........ publishes some stories a "witch" told him. Get this man a Pulitzer!
No Y49 CRX 🥲
I remember watching a documentary a few years ago about a young lad called Arnie. He bought a 1957 Plymouth Fury and wasn't the same again.
Was a movie. And it was a 58
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It sounds like Franz Ferdinand's car was just a really shitty car, unreliable and with really terrible handling.
I mean, the concept of black cars pulling up and people disappearing is not, like...a huge stretch of the imagination for the USSR.
Britain: Hey let’s fix the road.
PA: Hey let’s just throw asphalt in the potholes and call it a day 👍
well... I guess I gotta get a black Volga and start driving by the Russian orthodox church to scare old peoole
Would have been perfect for Halloween. Loved this