last time l was at the British motor museum Gaydon was for the Vulcan XH558 fly past on the last ever day of public display flying on October 4th 2015. we had a fantastic day and an evening of talks from ex Vulcan pilots and crew what a fantastic day at a great museum
Thank you for taking us on another road trip Ian. The extra work you put into providing these diaries is very much appreciated - especially after all of the content from your latest trip to the Netherlands
SO awesome to be finally seeing Elly out in the open road again. I'm enjoying this episode so much. And the British country road is absolutely stunning. Hoping to see you extending this road trip indefinitely. Go Elly! Go!
Stirchley! I Can't believe that the Co-op has gone either! I used to work at the Kwik-Save that was up the road from the Co-op, back in the 90's. I also remember that there was a "cat lady" person that lived in the house across from the Co-op, with countless cats in the house (judging by the number of cats in the windows) and a sheep (a live sheep) outside in the garden.
Thank you Ian, aside from the current cost a decent 2CV, this video has convinced me they are not for me. I will sit back in my warm comfortable chair with nice cup of tea and a biscuit and enjoy your trips in one. Well done Elly and a very well to you Ian.
When my senior neighbour is going by my kitchen window with her 2CV summer is starting. I love that sound. Just like when Elly is running. And it's good to see a happy man in an old french car. See you soon - Martin
Pointless trivia: I played a chimney sweep urchin on a float in the Pershore Carnival in the late 1970's. I wore an oversized tweed jacket and soot smudges. Trivia 2. I cycled from Hereford to Leominster once. Dinmore Hill. That was a challenge. Love these Travelogues.
I remember when the motor museum had the car park at the top with the Land Rover road train. That road train also took you to the Land Rover off road course and back to the top car park for go karting. I am heading to France next week for the Le Mans weekend.
Visited Gaydon years ago, when there was a land rover experience that was a lot of fun as a passenger. The collection centre didn't exist and not as many exibits. Visited with my son last September and was amazed at how much it's grown. There was also Truckfest on as well. Will possibly be there again this September as we go to the National Mini Show at Lutterworth Hall.
I'm in Selly Oak and shop at the Morrisons. The Co-op ran down that store somewhat terribly in the latter years. The Morrisons is much better. The garage where you got Ellie from is now a walkway to the new Battery Park over the canal. I regularly cycle on the Pershore Rd, it's a nightmare with angry drivers like much of Birmingham now. I hate driving here :(
My dad worked *and was a shop steward) at that Co-Op Dairy from 1969-71, driving electric floats and BMC FG 'Threepenny Bit' milk trucks. How fitting that you should get proper milk!
Thanks for bringing us along on the trip Ian. The Museum is definitely on my "must visit" list. I saw and heard the XJR-5 racing at Mosport (now Canadian Tire Motorsport Park) back in the early 80's. What a sight and sound. I got a lesson on what not to do when the team was getting the car ready to race. I had crouched down behind the car to get a peek under the hood, with my head right between the exhaust pipes. Then the engine fired up. It was quite amusing for everyone else around the car...😁
We have just replaced are Bath room sink taps with the same ones that were in your hotel which are the cheapest at screw fix they are lot better then the old ceramic valve ones it is nice to see Ellie out and about
I do love this little car , there's nowhere she won't go. You got me really thinking about what the non posh car could be and all I could think of was the swallow bodied Austin 7, well that's my guess for what it's worth.
Lovely video. Well done Elly, even if that hay trailer tried to give you a blocked nose... Thank you for the trip down Memory Lane, coming up 10 or 11 years ago from Kings Norton through Stirchley (then we'd branch left on to Warwards Lane and up over into Selly Oak to visit our daughter in her Birmingham Uni shared house). Doesn't look like much has changed! If you'd followed Warwards Lane and on, eventually you'd turn left and come to the railway yard area by Selly Oak station where you celebrated Elly's major mechanical rebuild when you first bought her.
Great video diary of the Elly adventure and the walk around your old stomping ground! I really appreciate the effort you put in making us feel we are along for the ride and the excellent content, can’t wait to see the next videos - love the XK120 😊. As a regular long distance driver covering 500+ miles a week, albeit in a car more comfortable and less noisy than Elly, I fully appreciate what you go through for the channel! Hoping to get to the HubNut Social on the 10th June.
The motorway segment reminded me of when I owned a Mini City 850cc and I drove from Leeds to Sunderland on the A1 back in the mid 80's. Always used to arrive in Sunderland a nervous wreck. Trying to overtake a lorry in that was well nigh impossible!
Pass through Stirchley quite often as it's on my bus route to town. Drank in that hotel once, when it was the 3 Horseshoes. Also was on the last bus home once (a MCW Metrobus Mk II) which ran out of fuel right outside the hotel - had to wait for a mobile refueller to come out and fill it up before the driver bombed it down the Pershore Road home!
Great to have a trip out in your favourite car. I agree with your comments about your bathroom in the inn - one of my pet hates when we stay away is the bathrooms and the lack of places to hang towels and put 'stuff' like shaving gear and tooth brushes etc.
Reassuringly Birmingham 😂There used to be an independent Citroen specialist along the Pershore Road in Stirchley back in the 1990s. They overhauled the suspension on my wife's BX that had gone into low-rider mode!
Elly is a f**king awesome vehicle. She seems to be so much fun in so many situations. Reminds me of my old BX, which was slow, wallowy, unreliable and rattled all over, and I LOVED it. It was a blast to drive, a joy to look at and a challenge to keep running. In normal circumstances, I'd have considered it a nightmare to live with, but that's why we love weird cars, they make no sense yet we would absolutely never exchange them for anything else.
My first job was at strathyre Coaches , ivy road Stirchley started in the office before getting my licence way back in 1990. My dad had Reliants for years and was a regular customer at reliant services not just for servicing etc but they were also a dealer so bought cars of them as well
Great to see Elly out again, the darling of the fleet, looking forward to seeing the driving test video and the Jaguar video as well. You could take Elly anywhere and it would be a scenic photo op.
I'm trying to think what the less exotic car that was tested at Gaydon might be. I have an idea but I don't want to ruin it if I'm correct. It's been 5 years since I have been to Gaydon. I must be due another visit in the near future.
Another interesting road trip, as a former instructor I will be interested in seeing you mock test and Pims drive of Elly. Further nostalgia came from Stirchley as a Bordesley Green boy adventure was trips to Earlswood Lakes, all day on a bike! I remember the scrap yard on the corner of Dogpool Lane, very busy and how we laughed at those funny three wheelers up the road, but good to see that specialist still going.
Would you believe I've just got back from three nights staying at the Bournbrook Inn while we were visiting my sisters (and their families). :) I thought it was pretty good for the price, the breakfast was decent, and it wasn't too noisy. Also, Patiala, the Indian restaurant over the road was very good indeed.
I love Elly having a play on the roads. Any chance of a model Elly by Oxford in the future? I would purchase one in a blink of an eye. I already have the model of Twc and it would be great to have another Hubnut companion. Such a great video Ian and although it's been many year since I visited Gaydon I highly recommend a visit.
There's another interesting old commercial vehicle roaming the streets of Barford. It's the home of Bob Carmichael and his legendary 50-year old Volvo F88.
I've seen Reliant open and trading in Stirchley. Citroen Specialists are just up the road too, who do a great job looking after my 407 (modern peugeots being more or less citreons really). Stirchley is very much 'up and coming' as Kings Heath and other areas gets posher. Some good breweries and micro bars in Stirchley too.
When we go to Bournemouth on holiday its 320 miles from here which I do in about 6.5hrs with a stop at Tamworth for a pee and TEA from Greggs. The older I get the longer the recovery time after that and I know its looking the same on the return journey
Was at Gaydon on Saturday for MG100. They had a pre-production MG Cyberster (terrible name) on display. It's massive! Much larger than any previous two-seater MG. It's about the size of a Jaguar F-type.
The New Inn, Pembridge, has a New Year's Day vintage/pre-war car gathering every year. The area gets filled with 90+year-old cars. The local VSCC (Vintage Sports-car Club) meets there once a month throughout the year, but the numbers are smaller than on NYD.
Elly the 2CV has the ultimate sun roof very noisy but you made it and that repair you made on Elly to fix that rattle only in a 2CV also Elly has an anti theft device its a manual
The name "Dogpool" makes it sound like somewhere people lobbed their canines into for a quick bath or something, but I'm sure there's probably another meaning for it, but that aside it's nice to see Elly out and about again, even if a farmer tried to choke her with stray straw... :P
Seeing the Motor Museum in this video has my appetite to visit it when it hosts a meeting of the Hornby Railway Collectors Association (real Hornby, not Margate pretender) later in the year. I'm just wondering if I'll be able to see everything in a day - assuming the BMW's fixed by then so I can get there... 😐
if I'd had a hotel room with the bathroom in that state I'd have been straight on the phone or go down to reception for them to send someone from maintenance PDQ to fix it or demand a different room. I know it was only £55 and just for one night but there is no excuse for poor maintenance or a proper room check between guests. Never had that problem in a Premier Inn or if I had then Sir Lenny would be getting a phone call, lol.
@@lukefleming0607 Doesn't matter if it was a YHA hostel, a loose or broken loo seat is a no no. That was poor or non existent room checking before being occupied.
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Hay in the grille? That's the last straw...shows the grass isn't always greener...no need to bale out tho'...
Nice to see Elly out again. I always think of her like Trigger’s broom.
Hubnut aka Hotel Inspector. Brilliant 😂
last time l was at the British motor museum Gaydon was for the Vulcan XH558 fly past on the last ever day of public display flying on October 4th 2015. we had a fantastic day and an evening of talks from ex Vulcan pilots and crew what a fantastic day at a great museum
Fantastic to see Elly out. The Reliant services is still open and trading.
Thank you for taking us on another road trip Ian. The extra work you put into providing these diaries is very much appreciated - especially after all of the content from your latest trip to the Netherlands
Elly is just pure joy. I must get a 2cv in my life.
224,000 miles, that's amazing. And to think she's only had 2 new bodies and 3 new engines.
And three gearboxes!
SO awesome to be finally seeing Elly out in the open road again. I'm enjoying this episode so much. And the British country road is absolutely stunning. Hoping to see you extending this road trip indefinitely. Go Elly! Go!
Alas we're now back in Wales, but Elly gets another outing very soon...
Stirchley! I Can't believe that the Co-op has gone either! I used to work at the Kwik-Save that was up the road from the Co-op, back in the 90's. I also remember that there was a "cat lady" person that lived in the house across from the Co-op, with countless cats in the house (judging by the number of cats in the windows) and a sheep (a live sheep) outside in the garden.
Thank you Ian, aside from the current cost a decent 2CV, this video has convinced me they are not for me. I will sit back in my warm comfortable chair with nice cup of tea and a biscuit and enjoy your trips in one. Well done Elly and a very well to you Ian.
What a lovely trip - really looking forward to the Jaguar Heritage collection video and the Jaguar reviews. Jaaaaag!😁
When my senior neighbour is going by my kitchen window with her 2CV summer is starting. I love that sound. Just like when Elly is running. And it's good to see a happy man in an old french car. See you soon - Martin
Pointless trivia: I played a chimney sweep urchin on a float in the Pershore Carnival in the late 1970's. I wore an oversized tweed jacket and soot smudges.
Trivia 2. I cycled from Hereford to Leominster once. Dinmore Hill. That was a challenge.
Love these Travelogues.
I remember when the motor museum had the car park at the top with the Land Rover road train. That road train also took you to the Land Rover off road course and back to the top car park for go karting.
I am heading to France next week for the Le Mans weekend.
Nice to see getting a good run out
Visited Gaydon years ago, when there was a land rover experience that was a lot of fun as a passenger. The collection centre didn't exist and not as many exibits. Visited with my son last September and was amazed at how much it's grown. There was also Truckfest on as well. Will possibly be there again this September as we go to the National Mini Show at Lutterworth Hall.
I'm in Selly Oak and shop at the Morrisons. The Co-op ran down that store somewhat terribly in the latter years. The Morrisons is much better.
The garage where you got Ellie from is now a walkway to the new Battery Park over the canal.
I regularly cycle on the Pershore Rd, it's a nightmare with angry drivers like much of Birmingham now. I hate driving here :(
My dad worked *and was a shop steward) at that Co-Op Dairy from 1969-71, driving electric floats and BMC FG 'Threepenny Bit' milk trucks. How fitting that you should get proper milk!
Great to see Elle out and about. I cant wait for both of the videos with Pinn.
Thanks for bringing us along on the trip Ian. The Museum is definitely on my "must visit" list.
I saw and heard the XJR-5 racing at Mosport (now Canadian Tire Motorsport Park) back in the early 80's. What a sight and sound. I got a lesson on what not to do when the team was getting the car ready to race. I had crouched down behind the car to get a peek under the hood, with my head right between the exhaust pipes. Then the engine fired up. It was quite amusing for everyone else around the car...😁
Back when I listened to the Archers I’m pretty sure one of the characters was from Stirchley. I didn’t realise it was a real place until later.
An excellent repair on the heat exchanger flap. Very 2CV and very Hubnut!
We have just replaced are Bath room sink taps with the same ones that were in your hotel which are the cheapest at screw fix they are lot better then the old ceramic valve ones it is nice to see Ellie out and about
I saw an Elly here in Dandenong Australia the other day. It was exactly the same colours.
A nice road trip, and you're holding us a treat for the nose of what's to come.
I've been to that museum once too.
Totally agree with you Ian. The little UHT milk capsules are disgusting. Normally end up drinking black tea or coffee.
Absaloutly brilliant video Ian ❤ 👍those jags absaloutly stunning lovely to see the best though Elly brilliant
I do love this little car , there's nowhere she won't go. You got me really thinking about what the non posh car could be and all I could think of was the swallow bodied Austin 7, well that's my guess for what it's worth.
Stirchley Cycles! 80s Dreams!
Did I see your eyes light up when you mentioned 'milk float'? 😃
That would be so HubNut!
Just needed Tom Jones singing there in the valley, what a Gr8 day to be alive ! (#DennisCollins)
Great to see Elly doing a long run ,plucky little motor .
Others try, but no one entertains like Hubnut TH-cam Channel 🙂
Ah yes, just what I came to this channel for, awesome!
God bless Ellie she is great as are all your cars.gotta love em all.Hope you are
Lovely video. Well done Elly, even if that hay trailer tried to give you a blocked nose... Thank you for the trip down Memory Lane, coming up 10 or 11 years ago from Kings Norton through Stirchley (then we'd branch left on to Warwards Lane and up over into Selly Oak to visit our daughter in her Birmingham Uni shared house). Doesn't look like much has changed! If you'd followed Warwards Lane and on, eventually you'd turn left and come to the railway yard area by Selly Oak station where you celebrated Elly's major mechanical rebuild when you first bought her.
Selly Oak has changed beyond all recognition!
My dad and his brothers started their working lives in the old COOP dairy you mentioned.
Excellent and just at the right time, I’m at Gaydon this weekend for the Mini and Metro Show and it’s my first time visiting.
There's a LOT to see! Make sure you visit the Collections Centre.
@@HubNut I think it’ll need another visit at least to see it all.
Thanks Ian nice to see Elly out & about.
Great video diary of the Elly adventure and the walk around your old stomping ground! I really appreciate the effort you put in making us feel we are along for the ride and the excellent content, can’t wait to see the next videos - love the XK120 😊. As a regular long distance driver covering 500+ miles a week, albeit in a car more comfortable and less noisy than Elly, I fully appreciate what you go through for the channel! Hoping to get to the HubNut Social on the 10th June.
Can't beat an Elly video 👍
Body-rolling and road-tripping! My guess for the mock driving test would be "bad" steering habits. Feed that wheel, Ian! 😋👍
Thanks Ian for the upcoming content. What a fantastic effort. Well done Ellie!
The motorway segment reminded me of when I owned a Mini City 850cc and I drove from Leeds to Sunderland on the A1 back in the mid 80's. Always used to arrive in Sunderland a nervous wreck. Trying to overtake a lorry in that was well nigh impossible!
Elly sounds so good!
Pass through Stirchley quite often as it's on my bus route to town. Drank in that hotel once, when it was the 3 Horseshoes. Also was on the last bus home once (a MCW Metrobus Mk II) which ran out of fuel right outside the hotel - had to wait for a mobile refueller to come out and fill it up before the driver bombed it down the Pershore Road home!
Great to see Elly again!
Great to have a trip out in your favourite car. I agree with your comments about your bathroom in the inn - one of my pet hates when we stay away is the bathrooms and the lack of places to hang towels and put 'stuff' like shaving gear and tooth brushes etc.
Reassuringly Birmingham 😂There used to be an independent Citroen specialist along the Pershore Road in Stirchley back in the 1990s. They overhauled the suspension on my wife's BX that had gone into low-rider mode!
Love elly trips brilliant
Classic hub nut viewing, great to see a proper adventure drive video
Great video Ian , I love Gaydon motor museum, I was there for Vauxhall gathering the other week , as I live in Bicester it’s only half hour drive away
Elly is a f**king awesome vehicle. She seems to be so much fun in so many situations. Reminds me of my old BX, which was slow, wallowy, unreliable and rattled all over, and I LOVED it. It was a blast to drive, a joy to look at and a challenge to keep running. In normal circumstances, I'd have considered it a nightmare to live with, but that's why we love weird cars, they make no sense yet we would absolutely never exchange them for anything else.
Look forward to the XK test…..and…..whatever that other one is.
Finally saw the power lead going to (what is now, obviously) your LED cabin lights.
My first job was at strathyre Coaches , ivy road Stirchley started in the office before getting my licence way back in 1990. My dad had Reliants for years and was a regular customer at reliant services not just for servicing etc but they were also a dealer so bought cars of them as well
I used to live on Umberslade for a bit
Great to see Elly out again, the darling of the fleet, looking forward to seeing the driving test video and the Jaguar video as well.
You could take Elly anywhere and it would be a scenic photo op.
I'm trying to think what the less exotic car that was tested at Gaydon might be. I have an idea but I don't want to ruin it if I'm correct.
It's been 5 years since I have been to Gaydon. I must be due another visit in the near future.
Another interesting road trip, as a former instructor I will be interested in seeing you mock test and Pims drive of Elly. Further nostalgia came from Stirchley as a Bordesley Green boy adventure was trips to Earlswood Lakes, all day on a bike! I remember the scrap yard on the corner of Dogpool Lane, very busy and how we laughed at those funny three wheelers up the road, but good to see that specialist still going.
Would you believe I've just got back from three nights staying at the Bournbrook Inn while we were visiting my sisters (and their families). :)
I thought it was pretty good for the price, the breakfast was decent, and it wasn't too noisy. Also, Patiala, the Indian restaurant over the road was very good indeed.
That Indian looked like a good'un. Wish I'd tried it!
I love Elly having a play on the roads. Any chance of a model Elly by Oxford in the future? I would purchase one in a blink of an eye. I already have the model of Twc and it would be great to have another Hubnut companion. Such a great video Ian and although it's been many year since I visited Gaydon I highly recommend a visit.
Sadly the minimum order quantity makes a model Elly unlikely.
You've done a good job of keeping ellies roof clean. I remember the fitting video you did, seems quite a while back.
Totally agree with you on the milk pods!
Road trip! Woo 🙌🥳
There's another interesting old commercial vehicle roaming the streets of Barford. It's the home of Bob Carmichael and his legendary 50-year old Volvo F88.
Ah! That's where they live! Saw them a few times when I worked over that way.
I've seen Reliant open and trading in Stirchley. Citroen Specialists are just up the road too, who do a great job looking after my 407 (modern peugeots being more or less citreons really). Stirchley is very much 'up and coming' as Kings Heath and other areas gets posher. Some good breweries and micro bars in Stirchley too.
Very unexpected collab, I watched DGN when I was revising for my test.
When we go to Bournemouth on holiday its 320 miles from here which I do in about 6.5hrs with a stop at Tamworth for a pee and TEA from Greggs. The older I get the longer the recovery time after that and I know its looking the same on the return journey
Just wonderful to see Elly out, and she sounds like a little sowing machine
Brilliant. Such good and honest content. I thought your mileage in the NL was hard work. This is True Grit.
Was at Gaydon on Saturday for MG100. They had a pre-production MG Cyberster (terrible name) on display. It's massive! Much larger than any previous two-seater MG. It's about the size of a Jaguar F-type.
The New Inn, Pembridge, has a New Year's Day vintage/pre-war car gathering every year. The area gets filled with 90+year-old cars. The local VSCC (Vintage Sports-car Club) meets there once a month throughout the year, but the numbers are smaller than on NYD.
Wow, loved the LDV, I’d have left my phone number on the screen, in case he wanted to sell😀
My first car was also a mk2 fiesta, I paid £300 for it, great little car
Absolutely with you on UHT milk...the greatest curse modern times!
Elly at 70mph sounds like a old WW2 plane 😂
You mentioned pershore my home town
Enjoyed that Ian ,thanks mate
One thing for sure you wouldn’t fall asleep driving that car.
Elly the 2CV has the ultimate sun roof very noisy but you made it and that repair you made on Elly to fix that rattle only in a 2CV also Elly has an anti theft device its a manual
A cracking adventure! Do my eyes deceive me, or does Elly have the luxury of LED internal lighting now?
She's had that LED strip for a few years now. It's very bright!
@HubNut Ah, I've seen it before, not looked properly; just assumed it was a perforated cross member, for lightness of a different type 😄
The name "Dogpool" makes it sound like somewhere people lobbed their canines into for a quick bath or something, but I'm sure there's probably another meaning for it, but that aside it's nice to see Elly out and about again, even if a farmer tried to choke her with stray straw... :P
It's the first time I've been past the end of that road and somebody hasn't painted out the 'l' at the end of Dogpool. It's a Brummie tradition.
Please make a video of the 2 cylinder Panhard PL17. A 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winner at Monte Carlo and a car with technology ahead of it's time.
Would love to. Have done a 24CT.
@@HubNut
I saw it. Really enjoyed it! Thanks 👍
Seeing the Motor Museum in this video has my appetite to visit it when it hosts a meeting of the Hornby Railway Collectors Association (real Hornby, not Margate pretender) later in the year. I'm just wondering if I'll be able to see everything in a day - assuming the BMW's fixed by then so I can get there... 😐
Lovely. On the road 🛣️ again with just me and my Snail 🐌🚗😜....
Was James Mays Grandfather Clock in the Jaguar Museum ? LOL if you have seen that episode of Top Gear you will get the joke .
I believe you can't take a test in a 2CV now. No headrests, which are compulsory for the examiner's seat.
Very true. That will be discussed in the video.
Hubnut meets Walk with me Tim.
Stirchley, you should have gone when it was run down. Elly should be called TDK.......she just goes on and on and on and on.
Elly looked spit on in that little village
You need to go down to the reception and go full-on Karen for a discount - "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?!?!?!" 😂😂
I had a Citroën C3 1.2 82bhp courtesy car sometimes the engine sounded like the 2CV.
AY UP MR HUBNUT
I always thought you were a Brummie!
if I'd had a hotel room with the bathroom in that state I'd have been straight on the phone or go down to reception for them to send someone from maintenance PDQ to fix it or demand a different room. I know it was only £55 and just for one night but there is no excuse for poor maintenance or a proper room check between guests. Never had that problem in a Premier Inn or if I had then Sir Lenny would be getting a phone call, lol.
Problem is, Premier Inn wanted almost twice as much. Not great value.
What do you want for £55? 5 star luxury? It was a nice looking clean bathroom just lacking soap and hand rails that's all
@@lukefleming0607 Doesn't matter if it was a YHA hostel, a loose or broken loo seat is a no no. That was poor or non existent room checking before being occupied.
Bostin arrh 🤓
No hand cleanser due to rules put in place during a recent pandemic episode, which still have to be adhered to.
Oh and PASS!
Stupid question but is there anyway of increasing the power of the standard engine? There must be enthusiasts that have ways of doing something. 🤔
Elly's performance is fine. The noise less so...
As far as I remember Ian, you once did test a pumped up 2CV?
Hotel facilities look in keeping with what to expect from £55.
Yes, can't be too disappointed at the cost but I'd still expect a toilet seat to be attached.
@@HubNut agreed. Modest is one thing, broken is something else!
@@HubNut agreed. Modest is one thing, broken is something else!