I have this car in Ukraine!

And no fucking rad!!

I just watched "A gun for George" and had to look up hydragas suspension, and got this music video about car suspension.

Hello, please may I use your video of the Tour de France coming through Tunbridge Wells in a nostalgia piece I am doing about things which have happened in Tunbridge Wells in the past 20 years? I am a reporter for Kent Live/Kent and Sussex Courier. If it is okay, would you mind emailing me on [email protected]? Thank you! Mary

0:31 isn't that a 961?

With this video, you've totally ruined the legacy of a great man, no not Chris Martin, the other way around!

Excellent stuff.

The rover metro gti was a brilliant little car.

THIS IS MY FAVOURITE VIDEO ON KZbin

Couldn't help laughing at the wind-down windas in the back, so they bothered to put in front electric windows but couldn't be arsed with the back, typical Austin/Rover management and marketing directors, they could've been world leaders with this and included some right advanced features in this segment I mean they had the technology and the heads to do it, just couldn't be effed to spend the time or money delivering a reliable car, and sometimes they struggled to get even that right, what a waste of the good folk talent who worked there, this car has soo much promise, not sayin it was a bad car, it wasn't but could've been soo much better in many ways.

love it.

Is there anyway to both convert or setup an Original / Innocenti Mini and Austin Metro to use the Hydragas like on the Rover Metro / 100 (R6), similar to Alex Moulton's prototypes?

I had a 1275cc HLS in Moonraker Blue. Possibly the best handling and most economical car that I have ever owned. They had a bad reputation but are strangely charismatic. I'd love another.

good video, is she still going now? I had a 1.0 city was gutless, the 1275 seems very nippy :)

did they make a 3dr vanden plas?

no austin ambassador

@basildog6179 See the way I gave you a 'Head Start' ..............NEVER ...under estimate the Pop :) ....there's a whole 10 horses under the bonnet ! :) Good ole Bazzer :)

That's my old charger..getting ready for a race with the Ford Pop next to it. Happy times...with dear o'l basil dog.

Planning an epic trip in your all Brit machine?

My friend's mum and dad had a brown Princess 2200 Vanden Plas on an R reg in the early 1980's, they bought it from their neighbour.

The Allegro always used to remind me of a peanut on wheels especially the fawn colour like the one in this film, and the Princess/Ambassador a wedge of cheese on wheels lol... Just something when I was a kid and growing up!

Holy Gamoley! haha!

Is that BIGGINS' house?

yeah i found out about two weeks ago and ive lowerd it now ; ) cheers anyway

yes it will have

someone please tell me if the rover metro 1.1s has hydrogas suspension. i mean the metro with the red seatbelts

Does anyone know when Alex Moultons Biography is supposed to be out?

It was inspired. However, Alex Moulton wanted a system that used a low pressure set up without th need for the complex pressurised system that the Citreon used. So whilst in modern terms the Hydragas isn't adjustable in terms of ride height, damping (if I am correct) can be controlled be replacing the restrictor in line of the interconnects, with simple valves you can screw open and closed. Genius!!!

I don't know why they didn't carry on using it because the system is quite simple and from a servicing point of view, incredibly durable.

haha thats funny but no offense AT ALL but you are a very cheap drunk course so am I lol

it had both, pre 1976 were hydrolastic, then hydragas till 1982 when it stopped being produced.

Maxi had a Hydrolastic, not Hydragas suspension. Seemed to work well enough.

Ruth's older sister, Rachel - rachm1991: XD That was funny, lol

lol emerald... u started it! you should read what you've been posting! ... and no, dont go attacking me, and i'm not mercman!

The Citroen suspension is not exatly like the Hydrolastic / Hydragas of the cars in the video. Its something similar though.

I have a 1985 Vanden Plas Metro and a 1993 Rover Metro both using Hydrogas suspension, on the Vanden Plas front and rear suspension is not linked on the Rover it is - the improvement in ride quality is amazing! I also have a Bentley Turbo R which as you say is hydraulic using a special mineral oil - there is even a special compartment built into the side of the boot where 2 spare bottles of the oil reside as it does need topping up now and then! Metro's and Bentleys rock!

@ dragonredx: do please check your data! No Citroën ever used Hydragas or Hydrolastic suspension. These are BMC/BL systems which use water (with additives) and gas (nitrogen or air). The Rolls-Royces and Bentleys to which you refer have metal springs but with hydraulic (i.e. oil) self-levelling, and a powered braking-system licensed from Citroën. Those Citroëns use a central high-pressure hydraulic system which can serve brakes, steering and suspension, the last of which also uses nitrogen.

i was buy cross keys pub

has it had work done to it recently? in one of your videos the rear valance was rusty

hahaha ok =]

Sorry im not familiar with english/american expressions.

i hopa thats not liquor you guys. you seem underaged

where was the dixie horn?

you drive like an enthusiast i bet its your pride and joy

I remember that "stop this wabbi" graffiti. Used to read it everytime I drove past.

big up Twells/Southborough. wooo

sorry i read that bit of your description too late, the fox car still makes me laugh, the look in his eye...

very good chippy just up the road from where this was taken

but this is Southborough, not Tunbridge Wells

good choice of music