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Thanks for sharing this story. Here in Brazil we had Chrysler do Brasil S.A. due to their Simca takeover. They started their operations in 1967, and took an existing Simca to Detroit to make several improvements. The V8 derived from Ford, got a "Hemi" head improving the car's performance. The Esplanada and Regente models were created, and wore a badge saying "Made by Chrysler do Brasil"...even though they were still badged and called Simcas. The Simcas were dropped in 1969, with the introduction of the Dodge Dart, identical to the American model. Throughout the years, they didn't make a lot of different models nor major changes to the cars...2 door hardtop and 4 door sedan Darts, all powered by a 318 V8. There was a sportier version called Charger with styling cues from the american Charger. We had Dodge trucks, and a product from Chrysler Europe....the Hillman Avenger. Here it was initially named Dodge 1800 (due to its engine displacement of 1.8 liters), but due to quality issues, it was later renamed Polara. I believe that the limited investment done in Brazil, was due to these issues Chrysler faced in the US and Europe. There was a Dodge Polara 4 door station wagon concept, but was never produced, as well as a concept of a Dodge 1800 powered by Ethanol...first car in Brazil to have this alternative fuel option. Chrysler left in 1981, after VW purchase 3 years before.

the colors throughout are amazing, back and front. for example, the orange baskeball with the blue car. those are fun to search for too. GREAT VIDEO! thank you!!

Great video, the main problem was the cars they were building were absolutely crap. My dad bought a brand new hunter in 1976 and it fell apart before his very eyes. Everything on the car gave trouble, endless repairs, it drank petrol, it was a complete money pit. It went to the junkyard with 79k miles when the engine block cracked. He never bought another British or American car ever again, our whole family went Toyota after that and never looked back.

I own a Talbot Tagora SX and only 'ran it' for about 3 months before I killed the engine by not putting antifreeze in it during a very cold snap (-15°C) but this was actually a smart move as it only did 5 mpg. I attempted to repair the engine but failed and so it has remained in my garage for just under 30 years ! Though in the late nineties I did use it for video games (playstation) with a TV set on the bonnet!

The same happened in Australia

When I grew up in Germany, my parents kept buying their cars from the same family-owned dealership. I was too young to follow business news. All I knew was that the dealership and the cars went from being branded Simca, then Talbot, then Peugeot. I came to the United States in 1986. That's when I found out about Chrysler's bankruptcy and sale of their European operation. It was my lightbulb moment as to why those brands back in Europe had changed. My childhood dream was to own a Horizon. The American counterparts were readily available when I came to the U.S. But my first car ended up being a 'Vette. A 1979 Chevette. 😂

Hi from Sydney, Australia. At 8.40 , re the seats in the black 1970's typ 613, these are original equipment factory seat cover facings, due to the extreme winter cold, wearing fabric is used for the seat facings. My dad was a US diplomat. Additionally he knew most of the other consuls, ambassadors & high commissioners. Several of the then eastern bloc nations used these as official cars here in Sydney, not just the Czech high commissioner. One of my school mates Peter was his son in the 1960's and early '70's. We finished high school and attended Uni, then we sough employment within the areas of our studies, Peter's dad was still stationed here years later in the late '80's. Pete's dad had received a brand new "company" car for official used a typ 613-4, (about the same '89 period that the Berlin wall was torn down) this was well ahead of MOST all other European cars with its advanced 3 onboard computers , , that worked in unison with one another, plus alerted you of any issues, not by some sort of message centre, nor gauges, NO, the "car" issued a clear oral verbal warning besides a message screen plus gauges and a battery of warning lights in a dedicated panel. Way, way more high tech than any Mercedes w126 S class or the even newer w140 S class that replaced it. These last of the line Tatra cars , as depicted at 11.00 with the red car , these were packed with triple computer systems , that were well complex, the computers did not just register that there was an issue , NO , they would analyze the problem, grade it in severity and then give a verbal statement as to how to seek the best outcome for this particular event today, if something similar happened in the future the triple computer system may have graded the issue as not as dire and give a different solution for the slightly different unique event on a different day, but similar. Making one of these late model Tatra's even smarter I believe than any car any western European manufacturer was then producing, you would need to wait until Buick division of GM USA launched the Buick Reatta, but even its diagnostic system was not to Tatra's level and Tatra's onboard system was almost the level of a nowadays car tech guy when he plugs his fault finder into the car and reads the fault codes and how to fix them but this was not in 2023, but around the 1983 year model upgrade and further enhanced as years rolled on. All of these late model Tatra's were virtually 100% Czech government cars, with the wind down of the old USSR, most were sold off when almost new. There were 5 versions of the 613, although the body was the same Tatra had basically re designed and equipped the 613-body shell and engine with new-tech in the old body shell, this is where there was where lack of funds meant that Tatra would have to insert all the new "goodies' into the "old" packaging

The irony, if that is the right word, of the Unions' "battle" in 1979 against the Labour Government resulted in a massive Labour loss to the Conservatives in the General Election later that year and eighteen years - EIGHTEEN YEARS!!! - of Tory rule from 1979 to 1997. Serves them bl@@dy well right!

The long candles you should replace all the bulbs

A few Simcas came to Australia: Aronde, Vedette and 180...the Aronde was class leader in performance (until toppled by Austin Lancer / Morris Major from BMC) and sold well, the Vedette was not quite as popular and few Arondes and Vedettes survive, and the 180 became a Chrysler Centura. The Centura was delayed in its introduction, and sold slowly...there was a powerful Hemi Six version that smoked tyres. Killed off in 1978. Rootes saw their flaky products' sales rapidly dwindle until the last model, Hunter, was withdrawn in 1972...no Avengers came. Mitsubishi Galants and Lancers took over and were legendary in popularity and high quality. Mitsubishi bought Chrysler Australia in 1979.

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While researching for 1/43 scale building ideas, I was intrigued to find this, particularly because it's inspired by a UK setting. My first job on leaving school was at a Used car dealership(part of a main distributor of BMC vehicles). This was in 1965 when BMC split their model ranges (using badge engineering). The company I was with sold the Austin, Austin Healey, Riley, Van Den Plas and commercial vehicles ranges from our new car showroom. One of our rivals sold Morris, MG, Wolsley in theirs, across town. Your model evokes the style of a modern showroom very well. Each distributor for BMC would have a number of subsiduary dealers within their region, and a remote storage facility from which the vehicles could be collected or delivered from, often close to a railway. Thanks for posting this, it prompted some happy memories, as I got to drive many of the cars depicted here.

I'd add another issue that plagued Chrysler Europe - failure to understand what the competition was up to. In the UK at least, Ford was the bane of the existence of many automakers there. The Avenger was released to battle the alredy dated Mk2 Cortina, while Ford outdid them by releasing the Escort and a much larger Mk3 Cortina. And the Avenger was in a odd place - about the same size as the Escort, but priced as in the Cortina range. To vindicate them, Chrysler weren't the only ones who did the same folly - British Leyland released at the same time (after the typical for BL delays at the time) the Morris Marina, which unlike the Avenger was meant to be a mere stopgap for the potential follow-up that really never came (the Ital was merely putting a 'lipstick on a pig' to the Marina) rendering the Marina dead on arrival.

Beautiful lights! Love the video 🎄☃️❄️🎀🎁

I'd love to see what's on the inside of the maintenance schedule guide!

I am also a candle FREAK !! Great video , I just bought a 8 light c7 set this weekend , I enjoy orange bulbs in my candles

This is fascinating. Thanks so much for this. It's great to see all those cars from my childhood in 1970s UK. I've always wondered where Talbot came from and went to. Now I know.

Great video, thanks. But what is the mystery behind on how peugeot acquired the marque "Talbot" and the strange decision to revive it other than pure randomness?

2:10 Speaking of Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz’s then-parent company, Daimler, merged with Chrysler Corporation in 1998, but it didn’t last, as the companies de-merged in 2007, with Daimler and Chrysler becoming separate companies, and Daimler becoming simply Mercedes-Benz after the heavy truck division became a separate company.

I look at the plug on old lights & appliances and sometimes that's how I tell if it's from the 60's or earlier by the shape of the plug...Also, the plug is not polarized so that tells me it could be 55+ years old. I enjoy looking at and collecting old lights. I have lots of C7's from the 1950s and several C9's from the 1940's., and of coarse several C6s and they get very hot. I'm glad to know there are others who appreciate this kind of thing. Great Video. Thank you.

Great video! You might be relieved to know that the vehicle on page 25 is actually a “plattenwagen” and not a prototype for the transporter. Plattenwagens were only built in and for the VW factory to shuttle parts around due to the unavailability of forklifts. Ben Pons was simply inspired by them to start rough-sketching what eventually became the transporter we all know and love!

i hade a omni and it was a supurb car made a vw look like it belonged in a 1915 outhouse like no roadsalt problems lots more power a desent heating system no rainy understeer danger i can name 10 plus more reasons but i wont A Reterink

If you like the vintage look but don't like the heat, check out Tru-Tone Christmas lights. They are LED but you can't tell the difference. I'm a vintage Christmas light geek and they're the only LEDs I like. Good to see you lighting up Charlotte. I miss that area. I'm in Atlanta and do my best to light it up for Christmas.

You need to take a trip about 30 minutes west on 85 to McAddenville. There's a lot of Christmas lights there each year!

I had a 78 Plymouth Horizon, loved it - but the handling was very scary under a hard emergency steering situation, it would throw you back and forth as you tried to regain control of the wheel. I hated the VW engine, not long-lasting, but with the 2.2 I would have bought one again, if it had the same great interior, good crash tests, and reliable -

Yo tengo en mi poder automóviles de horizon y Simca 1200(1100], samba y talbot 180 con motor barreiros

You remind me of a character from the X-files, he had a thing for woman's frozen fingers. Also, you're supposed to put the pizza directly on the rack - and you pulled it out a good 4-5 minutes undercooked... You are such a bachelor. Presently, at Wallymart, these awesome pizzas are cheaper than the inferior DiGiorno's.

it really pisses me off that LINWOOD is constantly gave a bad rap and Linwood had a pressed steel plant making bodies and panels for other non chrysler cars and rootes/chrysler volvo p1800 jensens and more and what people forget was THE ENGINE WAS NOT A NEW DESIGN IT WAS A WW2 PORTABLE FIRE ENGINES MOTOR CALLED A COVENTRY CLIMAX used in the imp models and if owners dont maintain car at proper intervals and dont use antifreeze in winter its their fault apart from imp LINWOOD built hillman avenger chrysler avenger badged in usa as a plymouth cricket on mk1 hillman model the arrow range hunters sceptres etc still made until early 2000s in middle east under paykan badge using tooling from linwood then there was the sunbeam the last real rootes chrysler car later cars badged talbots after peugeot takeover and the french only bought the old rootes group/chrysler so they could stop production of british cars and flood market with french cars which were crap all models after sunbeam were crap solara alpines etc were french cars once peugeot bought LINWOOD they managed to close in space cpl years and was the torys MAGGIE THATCHER WAS CAUSE OF CLOSE LIKE COAL MINES AND LOTS OTHER INDUSTRY AND IF TREATED WORKERS BETTER WOULDNT BE STRIKES AS I HAD FAMILY IN THE PLANT AND WAS GUARANTEED A JOB UNTIL FRENCH TAKEOVER NOW NO BRITISH MAJOR CAR BRANDS ALL SOLD AND USUALLY BUILT ELSEWHERE

I had my driving lessons (13 at all )and exams in a Simca Horizon. All my parents' cars were Simcas (1300/1501 Special) Chrysler-Simcas (1308GT) and one Talbot (Solara). Nice docu.

Funny, went to the AMC section, no Pacers!

Btw, should come to The Syracuse Nationals, 10000 cars. Great video, thanks

Thanks for posting. I wasn't able to make it this year so your video was great.

great video, discuss Daimler Chrysler and British leyland

I'm a Brit, I remember the '70s well; the UK motor industry unions were rotten with communist leadership who were bent on sabotaging the UK economy without a thought for the welfare of the TU membership! One bright spot in this report is that the UK designed Talbot Horizon was the basis for the spectacularly successful 'K' Cars & the Chrysler/Plymouth Minivans.

Wow, congratulations. I think you bought well. When this was new, I thought these cars would be in the very small number of cool american cars! 🚗Hopefully the technical equipment was well maintenanced in the past. But usually these should be very reliable. So I wish you always to arrive well.

That is one sweet looking ride !!!! It will only increase in value. Great buy !! Someone done a very good job on that car. So jealous

That Eagle is sweet looking. The thing about those is they don’t make them any longer, everyone has a story about them and they are a JEEP!! Looks like that one was done well.

Hi, thanks for the second part, I liked it very much. If an old german might give you any advice: do not buy the Trabant. Doug DeMuro said: the trabant was an awful car made by communists. That is half true. It was up to date when it was first shown, and this was 1961. The later versions got worse and worse, more or less from year to year. This was due to some political decisions to save on resources from year to year. That was one thing, that made the last model years extremely unreliable. So if you want to be in constant search for someone to work on your ureliable communist car: the Trabant is a good idea. A Trabant may be quite cool, a Trabant is really some kind of a symbol, but I think it is annoying constantly getting stranded at the edge of the road. Then it is not cool any more.

Greetings from Russia, a very cool video, I'm waiting for more.

Hi, thank you very much for all of the details. You said only two Weidner Condor are known to exist. But maybe there are three and a half. Please watch the video "Autopioniere - verrückt, verpönt, vergessen" published by SWR, of course in german. From 34:44 to 43:36 the story of Weidner and Trippel is told. Have fun and see you soon.

great video

I am really amused: that's just what I also really like to do: looking for cars and browsing the offers. That resulted in more than 110 cars during the last 38 years. And I like your choices, this is very much of what I would also look for. Unfortunately currently it is not a good time to search for used cars and classic cars. My best wishes for you to find a good one. Sorry for correcting you, but as far as I know the Datsun 610 was named the Bluebird - at least over here in Germany. And: 6:42 really made me laugh.

I was not quite two years old and living in the UK then. I remember my Dad talking about the uncollected rubbish in the streets. I think that's one of the abiding memories people have of that time. That, and the 'three day week' to conserve energy, while still enduring power cuts. Even having gone through all of that, he was a bitter opponent of Maggie Thatcher's reforms. Runaway inflation had a great deal to do with the economic problems in the 70s. Wages just could not keep pace with prices, and everyone was blaming someone else for economic hardship. Britain no longer being able to compete in manufacturing, whether due to cheaper outsourced markets or lack of investment, was also a massive challenge. Side Note - The 2nd gen Ritmo/Strada was much better looking, especially with quad headlights 😁

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Very good and entertaining unboxing video. You are severely underrated. Keep up the good work!

How did you manage to pronounce "Staunau" correctly? I would have thought that it could be extremely difficult for an American to pronounce the German word "Staunau". Cool thing, my compliments.

Thank you very much for the good research. I think you told almost everything that currently is known about Wenday and Staunau. The Wendax WS750 on the photo was shown on the 2001 Frankfurt auto fair, I think the photo was taken there. That car was found in 1968 lying on the roof at a scrapyard. I have a small brochure from the 2001 Frankfurt auto fair, with two pages about Wendax, Staunau is also mentioned.

"not even automatic" Automatic gearbox is for granny or americans who do not know how to shift.

In Britain throughout the 1960s and 1970s the trades union movement ran the economy. A significant part of union dues (membership fees) was paid to the ruling Labour Party which could not oppose the union leadership. Add to this the fact that the Trades Union Leadership had close ties to the Soviet Union and any investment in Britain just had to be a recipe for disaster. Membership of the Common Market and the scrapping of import duties on European cars was another nail in the British car industry's coffin.

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