An uncle of mine had an Isetta back in the day. It was a cute little micro car that sounded like a asthmatic motorcycle. Car and Driver magazine said the Amphicar was as bad a boat as it was a car. Btw, LBJ had one.
It's simple, it works the same way as any other vehicle, it's just double wide. Just imagine, there's a bus that's 3 lanes wide, and has room for vehicles to travel underneath like it's a tunnel. It has traffic signals, so people know when it's safe to exit through the front.
"Bubble cars" like the Isetta served 2 functions; They were the response to the 1957 post-Suez oil shortage They helped to get German engineering kick-started after WW2.
2:53 "For starters, the FV2 is able to change colours, depending on the mood of the driver. If you're struggling to think of any way _that_ could ever be useful..." - as a matter of fact, it *could* indeed be useful: it would warn other drivers to stay away from a car with an angry driver, possibly reducing road rage incidents/accidents.
I loved my 1966 Blue w/white top Amphicar. My dad gave it to me for Christmas in 1965. I drove it from San Antonio, Texas to San Francisco. I could write a book on all the crazy things that happened along the way. Not cause of car problems, but coz of all the peeps wanting demonstrations at gas stations and the like. The cops would also radio ahead to their friends and they, in-turn, would pull me over for a demo. While living in the bay area, everyday was an adventure as I drove it to work. Example: some drivers would pull up behind me at a stop light. Then as they realized something was different, you could see them in your rear view mirror saying, WTF? Seeing that, I immediately put the water gear on as I took off,. The propellers would be turning and those behind would be dying of laughter. I went in fresh water lakes all the time. Never had to service it after I did so. Just did regular maintenance. Once I had to tow a disabled boat (That had been harassing us) to shore on Lake Merritt in Oakland. What a riot😆 My girlfriend in high school, drove an Isetta to school. On the weekends, we go to drive-ins. Great, except as we sat in the car, we were constantly pranked. A group of friends would see us and lift the car up in the air, placing us on the side walk or some difficult place to get the car out of🤣
The company TVR, (originally named after the British founder TreVoR Wilkinson), was a Blackpool based company in Lancashire England, when the Cerbera Speed 12 was built, The abbreviation TVR stems from the name of the company's owner Trevor Wilkinson, his first garage sporting the letters T, V and R. The history of TVR can be divided into several eras, each of which is associated with the company's owner at the start of that period: 1946-1965, founder Trevor Wilkinson, who left in 1962. The TVR Cerbera Speed 12, originally known as the Project 7/12, is a high performance sports car designed by TVR in 1997. Based on the TVR Cerbera, the vehicle was intended to be both the world's highest performance road car and the basis for a GT1 class endurance racer.
The roach coach was also a model back then , as well the pink panther mobile, there is one that looks like a indy car called the devilfish, the red baron was shaped like a german war helmet. There were several other interesting show only cars that had fun designs, almost like real life hotwheels.
Amphicar! A friend had one, and i got to watch (from inside it) startled or shocked stares as we drove down the beachfront and into a lake. They tended to rust (yes! a floating car) and were far more a novelty than practical.
I used to see someone with an amphicar driving on the road near a river when I was going to the doctor's office as a child. Once in a great while I'd see one actually in the river, tootling along with obviously happy people inside.
Some of the best-looking cars were made in the late 40's and 50's. The Opel H looks great, so does the Mercedes. However, I'd take that XL Bug any day! It looks just gorgeous and I'm sure a V6 or even V8 is under the hood.
Let’s sell just appreciate how much effort puts into these vids. I now watch this channel often and I only started watching regularly recently but I’ve come a long way from being a curious nerd to a fan of multiple channels including this. Keep up the good work!👍
Klein wasn't the first to make flying cars that relied on wings. Other inventors used detachable aviation packages. The idea being you'd drive your car to the airport, mount the plane portion to it, then fly your car to your destination, uncouple the wings, and drive off.
5:28 The TVR looks like a Dodge Viper. I think the Viper hit showrooms in 1992 so if the TVR came out in 1998 one would have to assume the TVR was modeled after the Viper.
That's the real reason it didn't release the Dodge Viper was designed by Shelby himself to be the next Cobra and there was no way they were gonna let someone basically make a clone with a few performance upgrades and sale it for cheaper ... Companies get away with this kind of stuff all the time but you can't copy the entire look of a supercar and not expect a lawsuit
MY GUY IS BAAAAACK!! BRO WHERE YOU BEEN? TIME TO GET BACK ON TO BE AMAZED. OH HOW I MISSED THIS VOICE SO MUCH. SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK. YOU BE HAVING ME ROLLING BRO
Three cars you left out were the Aptera, the Transition and the Terrafugia FX. That latter 2 cars were flying cars by Geely that were supposed to go into production but never did. The Terrafugia was planned to be a vertical take-off flying car. The Transition was created by 6 MIT students and was later bought by Geely, one of the largest Chinese car companies.
I'm really surprised you didn't include The Tucker. Created by Preston Tucker after WWII it was innovative in that it debuted a lot of the mechanics and safety standards we use in todays cars. Some include disc brakes, padded dashboard, roll bar in the roof, chassis that protected occupants from side impacts, laminated windshield, self-sealing tubeless tires and its unique third headlight that turned with the steering wheel. Sadly the big 3 quickly sabotaged him and pushed him out of business. I think there is something like 20 Tuckers still around today. There was even a movie made about Preston and his revolutionary car.
I recently asked a neural network on my channel to draw what cars will be in the future. The result was simply amazing. It's just some kind of space. I have never seen such incredible cars.
I like the AVTR. Looks very good. I remember seeing an Isetta back in the early 60s when I was walking to school. And I wanted an Amphicar, but the old man said no. What a killjoy!
I remember the TVR Speed 12 from car magazines at the time, and the video game world. I've seen a few Amphicars in person in northern Michigan. Great video. Thank you.
Oh this was highly fascinating! I really loved the Huge Bug, especially how much of a fabulous father and son project that it was 😍 The last one was just weird!! 🤣
I know, right???!?? Back in the day, they weren't even allowed to intermarry! Even families who were relatively open-minded took the attitude that while it could be ok for the couple, any offspring would be doomed to a lifetime of appearing to be in-between, and therefore being accepted by neither. We've truly come a long way, baby! "Be Amazed"? Well I am!
My father had a 57 isetta and commuted from MD suburbs to national airport for a few years in any and all weather. We rode with a family of 5 in it! 75mpg.
I remember seeing the long white limo on some show back in the 1980's. I think it was Ripley's Believe It Or Not. But here they show two different ones. The one at 13:31 is a lot shorter than the one at 31:33. He must have lengthened it or made two of them. Looks like someone actually restored that thing.
Looks like the first one was sagging in the middle... Adding the new length,,, increased length as well as adding more stability throughout the whole build... ALSO... Maintaining the Title of Worlds Longest Limo for Years to come...
12:20 The concept of having a car talking to you, perhaps even entertaining the kid within you as it traveled from one destination to another, is not such a bad idea, really. Afterwords, I developed a car years ago, back in 2020 that was called the Excalibria. It was designed for 2-passengers and what I believed the future would look like so while it had a steering wheel, it was just a solid shape built and based in the car that did not rotate. It had quite a few security items in it as well including fingerprint and voice identification as I suspected the future would be rife with crime. Instead of user control though it operated entirely by voice much like our ALEXA today and was designed to entertain and inform riders as it went from point A to point B. It was never designed to be for private or commercial use and was mostly for single appearances and short drives at select auto-shows.
There's always 2 that spring to mind for me. If I was to have a choice, it would be very difficult to decide which. 1. Red Skull's Hydra car from Marvel's Captain America film. 2. Captain Nemo's car from the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
I personally would LOVE to have one of the micro-cars with the robot heads...tiny, hyper-maneuverable and insanely fuel efficient... I'd love to have one with wheels that can rotate 90 degrees to drive sideways into a parking spot, though I'd very likely have the dealership remove the head and replace it with a more conventional GPS screen... I don't ever want to be in a situation where I'm arguing with my car and the car is winning... 😄😁😆😅😂🤣
0:00 intro
0:36 cramp car
2:11 mood tube
3:39 need for speed
5:35 water wheels
7:55 avtr2 the future
9:35 the suit-car
10:56 peev'd off
12:37 the limomaster
14:10 put it in h
15:28 half-pint 20cup
16:44 the octo-auto
17:50 radical air
19:07 hot wheels
20:28 make it wumbo
22:17 the butt-mobile
23:20 outro
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11:50 aww, the pivo robot is so cute and adorable. I would love to have one 🥺
agreed!
An uncle of mine had an Isetta back in the day. It was a cute little micro car that sounded like a asthmatic motorcycle.
Car and Driver magazine said the Amphicar was as bad a boat as it was a car. Btw, LBJ had one.
Cool.
Can I have it, you said he "had" it.
@@PodHackerMasħ This was many moons ago. I have no idea where it is now.
Is that yes or no
ASTHMATIC MOTORCYCLE?! 😭😭
not sure how the car in the thumbnail would be able to move anywhere
It could it just had the turning radius of a star
It's simple, it works the same way as any other vehicle, it's just double wide. Just imagine, there's a bus that's 3 lanes wide, and has room for vehicles to travel underneath like it's a tunnel. It has traffic signals, so people know when it's safe to exit through the front.
@@daanbos5918 call
Looks like Magnus' aircar from "Magnus: Robot Fighter".
"Bubble cars" like the Isetta served 2 functions;
They were the response to the 1957 post-Suez oil shortage
They helped to get German engineering kick-started after WW2.
My favorite was the Avatar one! Thanks for the video!
YES... Starting at ONLY $39,000... I would buy one... Seems like a reasonable price in Today's market...
2:53 "For starters, the FV2 is able to change colours, depending on the mood of the driver. If you're struggling to think of any way _that_ could ever be useful..." - as a matter of fact, it *could* indeed be useful: it would warn other drivers to stay away from a car with an angry driver, possibly reducing road rage incidents/accidents.
ok you get thebstupid prize.
I loved my 1966 Blue w/white top Amphicar. My dad gave it to me for Christmas in 1965. I drove it from San Antonio, Texas to San Francisco. I could write a book on all the crazy things that happened along the way. Not cause of car problems, but coz of all the peeps wanting demonstrations at gas stations and the like. The cops would also radio ahead to their friends and they, in-turn, would pull me over for a demo.
While living in the bay area, everyday was an adventure as I drove it to work. Example: some drivers would pull up behind me at a stop light. Then as they realized something was different, you could see them in your rear view mirror saying, WTF? Seeing that, I immediately put the water gear on as I took off,. The propellers would be turning and those behind would be dying of laughter.
I went in fresh water lakes all the time. Never had to service it after I did so. Just did regular maintenance.
Once I had to tow a disabled boat (That had been harassing us) to shore on Lake Merritt in Oakland. What a riot😆
My girlfriend in high school, drove an Isetta to school. On the weekends, we go to drive-ins. Great, except as we sat in the car, we were constantly pranked. A group of friends would see us and lift the car up in the air, placing us on the side walk or some difficult place to get the car out of🤣
This is a cute story. While the Amphicar had a lot of problems, it was still a pretty nice looking car.
@@calicoheart4750 And very noisy at hi-way speeds. Thanks
The Flanders bit at the end was hysterical. 😂
The company TVR, (originally named after the British founder TreVoR Wilkinson), was a Blackpool based company in Lancashire England, when the Cerbera Speed 12 was built,
The abbreviation TVR stems from the name of the company's owner Trevor Wilkinson, his first garage sporting the letters T, V and R. The history of TVR can be divided into several eras, each of which is associated with the company's owner at the start of that period: 1946-1965, founder Trevor Wilkinson, who left in 1962.
The TVR Cerbera Speed 12, originally known as the Project 7/12, is a high performance sports car designed by TVR in 1997. Based on the TVR Cerbera, the vehicle was intended to be both the world's highest performance road car and the basis for a GT1 class endurance racer.
Sees thumbnail first thing that comes to mind: HOW DO YOU DRIVE THIS ATROCIOUS MONSTER!?
Edit: OLD NARRATOR IS BACK 🙂😌😌
I would love the Aviator and the robot head car. I think if this was in every car, maybe road rage would not be as bad.
You would have a lot of broken robots though.
If you're 10 years old or younger, then yea robot head will look amazing! .. why don't you just go back to kid's sandbox and play with toy cars lol
Definitely. You would just end up yelling at the robot head instead. Lol.
You sir, are a bummer. Get better!
Lol
The roach coach was also a model back then , as well the pink panther mobile, there is one that looks like a indy car called the devilfish, the red baron was shaped like a german war helmet. There were several other interesting show only cars that had fun designs, almost like real life hotwheels.
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i want an isetta. just to cruise around town on the weekends. Its adorable and surprisingly affordable even today.
I recall a 'bubble car' driver, driving it up to a garage wall. Then forgot it didn't have a reverse 😀
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@@richardprice5978 Except that thing is so light you can push it around with one hand 😁
That was Top Gear. Jeremy was demonstrating and James was driving.
I just came here for that outrageous thumbnail. I hope that dog’s okay after that experience.
Congrats on 10 mil
Amphicar! A friend had one, and i got to watch (from inside it) startled or shocked stares as we drove down the beachfront and into a lake. They tended to rust (yes! a floating car) and were far more a novelty than practical.
That's really cool! I don't know if I had known they existed. It's really amazing.
I wish they would make a more modern version.
I used to see someone with an amphicar driving on the road near a river when I was going to the doctor's office as a child. Once in a great while I'd see one actually in the river, tootling along with obviously happy people inside.
Some of the best-looking cars were made in the late 40's and 50's.
The Opel H looks great, so does the Mercedes. However, I'd take that XL Bug any day! It looks just gorgeous and I'm sure a V6 or even V8 is under the hood.
your voice sounds like it's 2am and you don't wanna wake your parents and being very tired while trying to sound excited while reading off a script.
Let’s sell just appreciate how much effort puts into these vids. I now watch this channel often and I only started watching regularly recently but I’ve come a long way from being a curious nerd to a fan of multiple channels including this. Keep up the good work!👍
Can We Appreciate The Fact That he Always Finds A Way To Make People Day Happier, he Inspired Me To Start My Own Channel🤗
Watching this while thinking about how they just dropped the sequel...
Klein wasn't the first to make flying cars that relied on wings. Other inventors used detachable aviation packages. The idea being you'd drive your car to the airport, mount the plane portion to it, then fly your car to your destination, uncouple the wings, and drive off.
5:28 The TVR looks like a Dodge Viper. I think the Viper hit showrooms in 1992 so if the TVR came out in 1998 one would have to assume the TVR was modeled after the Viper.
it does share a lot of Viper's viperness.
@@SpydersByte including the fact both are deadly
That's the real reason it didn't release the Dodge Viper was designed by Shelby himself to be the next Cobra and there was no way they were gonna let someone basically make a clone with a few performance upgrades and sale it for cheaper ... Companies get away with this kind of stuff all the time but you can't copy the entire look of a supercar and not expect a lawsuit
I would not even want one of these cars 🤣😂🤣 as a toy for my son..awesome video,humans have indeed come a far way.
MY GUY IS BAAAAACK!! BRO WHERE YOU BEEN? TIME TO GET BACK ON TO BE AMAZED. OH HOW I MISSED THIS VOICE SO MUCH. SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK. YOU BE HAVING ME ROLLING BRO
What about the Sinclair C5? A small electric vehicle in the 80s thought to be weird, and failed commercially, but actually quite ahead of its time.
It's impressive how many videos they make
More Impressive is how they animte it so quickly.
55 MPH in an Iseta? No freaking way! LOL. I would not feel comfortable going over 30 and sure would not want to be on a highway in one.
I have sat in one and I'd wouldn't even want to go close to a hwy with it!
Not counting what the driver/passenger ate for breakfast and cargo.
💛 all your video's mate 👍
Three cars you left out were the Aptera, the Transition and the Terrafugia FX. That latter 2 cars were flying cars by Geely that were supposed to go into production but never did. The Terrafugia was planned to be a vertical take-off flying car. The Transition was created by 6 MIT students and was later bought by Geely, one of the largest Chinese car companies.
I'm really surprised you didn't include The Tucker. Created by Preston Tucker after WWII it was innovative in that it debuted a lot of the mechanics and safety standards we use in todays cars. Some include disc brakes, padded dashboard, roll bar in the roof, chassis that protected occupants from side impacts, laminated windshield, self-sealing tubeless tires and its unique third headlight that turned with the steering wheel. Sadly the big 3 quickly sabotaged him and pushed him out of business. I think there is something like 20 Tuckers still around today. There was even a movie made about Preston and his revolutionary car.
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Thank you!
That was a pretty cool tour.
To the person reading this, you’re AMAZING! Keep grinding hard for your life goals and remember, don’t let anyone bring you down! God bless you :)
And I thought the El Camino was a strange design. Of course, that was tame compared to some of the vehicles on this list.
Congratulations on 10m subscribers
I recently asked a neural network on my channel to draw what cars will be in the future. The result was simply amazing. It's just some kind of space. I have never seen such incredible cars.
3:21 It’s kind of cool for running around a gated community or MAYBE in the city if you just need to run a quick errand - parking is such a pain.
15:31 (QUIET CHUCKLE) YOU KNOW DUDE, I BELIEVE THAT. BE AMAZED.
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I like the AVTR. Looks very good. I remember seeing an Isetta back in the early 60s when I was walking to school. And I wanted an Amphicar, but the old man said no. What a killjoy!
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I remember the TVR Speed 12 from car magazines at the time, and the video game world. I've seen a few Amphicars in person in northern Michigan. Great video. Thank you.
I've seen this before and that hellcat sling shot it's super COOL😎 to watch you're teaching do's and don't's you'll BE AMAZED lol
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Oh this was highly fascinating! I really loved the Huge Bug, especially how much of a fabulous father and son project that it was 😍 The last one was just weird!! 🤣
I remember first seeing the "cramp car" on Family Matters as Steve Urkel's car.
I scrolled down to see if someone posted that before I posted it!!😄😄
Dear be amazed congrats on 10 million subscribers
My favourite video of your channel.👍
Be AMAZED 💕💜
9:01 The AVTR or whatever is so cool. I really wish they’d actually produce more concept cars. BMW never even released their fall-proof motorcycle.
Just a random question: where are you getting these type of infos considering most these topics are strange?
i love all of your videos and you always come up with good content
oh my god ,your back!! your my favorite Be Amazed Narrator🥳
I don't get it. He's your favorite because of his back? What is it about his back that turns you on?
Considering of each car I definitely wanna take a spin on the TVR Cerbera Speed V12 just for the thrill of Need For Speed.
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I love how it’s a tall man and a shortish man (less than 5’10 ) that run be amazed . Love the vids guys keep it up
I know, right???!?? Back in the day, they weren't even allowed to intermarry! Even families who were relatively open-minded took the attitude that while it could be ok for the couple, any offspring would be doomed to a lifetime of appearing to be in-between, and therefore being accepted by neither. We've truly come a long way, baby! "Be Amazed"? Well I am!
My favorite narrator 🥰🤗🥰
I come on and auto like your videos because it's inevitable that I like them. Keep it up
My father had a 57 isetta and commuted from MD suburbs to national airport for a few years in any and all weather. We rode with a family of 5 in it! 75mpg.
I remember seeing the long white limo on some show back in the 1980's. I think it was Ripley's Believe It Or Not. But here they show two different ones. The one at 13:31 is a lot shorter than the one at 31:33. He must have lengthened it or made two of them. Looks like someone actually restored that thing.
It was about 60 feet long the first attempt, the creator then lengthened it to 100 feet. The current owner restored it and added an extra 1/2 inch.
I think it was also shown on the 90's Ripley's Believe It Or Not hosted by Dean Cain
Looks like the first one was sagging in the middle... Adding the new length,,, increased length as well as adding more stability throughout the whole build... ALSO... Maintaining the Title of Worlds Longest Limo for Years to come...
This is AMAZING!
OML I SAW THE CAR/BIKE THE OTHER DAY!!!! AHHHHHHHHH!!!!! 😳😳😳😳😓😓
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The thumbnail is hilarious! Where exactly would you drive it?
Can you do again the ricg people stories who went from $$$ to 0$?
Its realy cool to watch those stories
I prefer this voice to the other. This is much more entertaining
I remember meeting jim streets and seeing that car he had alot of cars it was pretty awesome
14:09 AT LEAST YOU TOLD ME AFTER FIFTEEN MINUTES, BECAUSE I WATCHED THAT LONG TO FIND OUT ITS CLICK BAIT. THNX
this video is to *BE AMAZED for!!*
Imagine being a company that produces scooters and refrigerators and then makes the world's smallest car.
I hope you will get to fifty million subscribers and you are amazing
we are 40 million away bro
Okay but I still hope
Your videos are very good thank you for creating amazing content.
The narrator is back!
1. _"Don't google who commissioned the first beetle."_
2. Googles who commissioned the first beetle.
3. Oh....
21:53 I ALREADY LIKE HIM. THIS GUY IS COOL, A TOTAL NUT (IN A GOOD WAY.) BE BLESSED SHEIK, BE BLESSED.
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One actor that played on the Avatar Movie that also played actor on the Hit Series Bones is Joel David Moore.8:00
I'm really interested in the content but the narrators voice IS THE DEFENITION OF SMUG
The Butt Mobile..?? 😂😂😂 I am dead.. 😭
That car in the thumbnail looks amazing
0:52 I saw one of these park frontwards in a parallel parking spot in San Diego a little while back
12:20 The concept of having a car talking to you, perhaps even entertaining the kid within you as it traveled from one destination to another, is not such a bad idea, really.
Afterwords, I developed a car years ago, back in 2020 that was called the Excalibria. It was designed for 2-passengers and what I believed the future would look like so while it had a steering wheel, it was just a solid shape built and based in the car that did not rotate. It had quite a few security items in it as well including fingerprint and voice identification as I suspected the future would be rife with crime.
Instead of user control though it operated entirely by voice much like our ALEXA today and was designed to entertain and inform riders as it went from point A to point B. It was never designed to be for private or commercial use and was mostly for single appearances and short drives at select auto-shows.
If I could pick one of the cars, I would choose the Avatar car. Come on you know it's dope!
There's always 2 that spring to mind for me. If I was to have a choice, it would be very difficult to decide which.
1. Red Skull's Hydra car from Marvel's Captain America film.
2. Captain Nemo's car from the 2003 film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.
Congates on 10 mil I hope your happy that You got 10 million subscribers
I personally would LOVE to have one of the micro-cars with the robot heads...tiny, hyper-maneuverable and insanely fuel efficient...
I'd love to have one with wheels that can rotate 90 degrees to drive sideways into a parking spot, though I'd very likely have the dealership remove the head and replace it with a more conventional GPS screen...
I don't ever want to be in a situation where I'm arguing with my car and the car is winning...
😄😁😆😅😂🤣
Same
There's no way they're going to approve flying cars for the average person.
So many 'micro cars' and no mention of the British Peel 50, which I believe is still in limited production to this day!
The big floored car looks like you can lay down comfortably and have a tea party
"Some fruit cake in manza" 🤣🤣 I laughed so hard I cried.
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Cars on the list:exists
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