5 Most Rare & Unknown Sports Cars Ever Made!

[@MariusVenz]

The Swallow Doretti was the most beautiful sports car ever built. If they were put back into production now, they'd still be a success. A mdern repicar of the Doretti would also be a great idea. I would buy one!

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Looks like an MGA...

[@tonyunderwood9678]

But would it still have a tractor engine? ;-)

[@psychosquirrel555]

I really enjoy your videos and learning about cars I’m not familiar with. Don’t let the negative comments get to you. People just being daft for no good reason.

[@top.intel0]

Thank you very much. I know I have made some mistakes. But i'm constantly trying to improve my content. Just need your support

[@logicaredux5205]

The Swallow looks very much like an Austin Healey 100/3000 series.

[@RichardCorongiu]

Nice work. Thank you

[@theMG174]

Looks exactly like an Austin-Harley!

[@kentilly6160]

The first time i saw a Swallow Doretti my first thought was that from the side elevation it reminded me of an Austin Healey.

[@ernsailor9041]

7:57 that's the wrong Lotus Elan, surely you can find a picture of the proper year model on google?

[@betacam235]

Specially as it's so much more common and recognisable...

[@top.intel0]

Extremely sorry. My editor mistakenly used this image😞.

[@ernsailor9041]

@@top.intel0 Is he unemployed now?

[@willgrime]

Another great video, lots of useful information about little-known models and very enjoyable. Berkeley is pronounced Barkley in English, say Acherbo for Acerbo, and Chisitalia instead of Sisitalia.

[@Da_StormtroopeR]

Somehow the algorithm brought me here as a car enthusiast so I get subscribed.

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

i saw a BUG eye sprite fiberglass front end with a turbo rotary engine ! street sleeper - it was yellow ! = ran on slicks in the 1/4 mile 9 seconds !

[@john1703]

At 6:54 that V8 engine is not a Hillman Imp 4 cylinder Coventry Climax based engine.

[@garycamara9955]

My Berkeley didn't blow around, and I drove across the Golden Gate Bridge regularly.

[@johnsuffill6520]

In profile, the Swallow Doretti looks almost exactly like the Austin Healey 100 (and later 3000), introduced in 1953. As an aside, William Lyons (founder of the original Swallow Sidecars and later Jaguar companies) later killed off the prototype Rover P6BS (a V8 mid-engined sportscar) because he feared it would take sales away from his Jaguar E-Type. The Lotus Elan M100 pictured is from 1989. The Elan from the 60's and early 70's was much smaller, sleeker, lighter and far better looking.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

More like MGA... A mid engined Rover with that chainsaw engine would have been something!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/rIGzZKWdeNGgpLs

[@ronnieboucherthecrystalcraftsm]

Emma Peel = drove a lotus elan !

[@earlgandel7693]

If you're old enough, you remember this car. My good friend, John Martin, had one and raced it in the 1950's. It was a Triumph TR2 that looked a lot better. Named by and for Dorothy Deen who was the Triumph importer in SoCal.

[@garycamara9955]

I had a Berkeley with a MINI front subframe and drivetrain. It was,an older Hmod sportsrace car. I had a,1275 Cooper S engine. The car weighed 800lbs. Yes it was fast .

[@philipethier9136]

I was offered one of these, 1275 Cooper S as yours. I would have bought it, but 2nd gear diid not work, and as an autocross freak, that's a dealbreaker.

[@snakehandler87]

The Berkeley looks like a tiny bmw Z8

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Berkeley like a Sprite/Midget... Crusader looks like VW chassis with fibreglass kit car body...

[@BarryHWhite]

got all except two. I was born 79, all these cars were at least 10yo when i was born.

[@rafthejaf8789]

It has a much nicer grille than the Austin Healey 3000.

[@philipethier9136]

The 1973 tax change in the UK is apparently the beginning of VAT and the end of the tax-break for kit cars. This is also one of the reasons Chapman stopped making the Lotus Seven and sold the rights, and all the factory bits therefor, to his Lotus dealer in Caterham.

[@garycamara9955]

It just looks like a standard British sportscar.

[@StephenAllcroft]

TI did not own Jaguar Cars, but Jaguar Cars were a significant TI customer, What Sir WIlliam Lyons did was threaten to take his business elsewhere if the Doretti continued.

[@jeffhildreth9244]

More, and correct, information about Cisitalia and F Porsche are in order. Why no video about the Fairthorpe Electron Climax.. 21 built I owned one.

[@kentilly6160]

When I was working for a Classic Car dealer in South Africa there was a Fairthorpe ZETA residing in the outside yard with no engine or gearbox. It was sold for next to nothing as we didn't know at the time that the power train came from a British Ford Zephyr Six, one of which we were in the process of breaking up due to rust! I have since been in touch with the Fairthorpe club and nobody in the club has ever seen one, and they all have snow white hair like me

[@garycamara9955]

Dorreti sounds like a small motor scooter.

[@garycamara9955]

Those tax laws ore only in England.

[@Liam1H]

This is a beautiful car but I'm not sure I like it as much as the car it was copied from, namely the Austin Healey 100. I certainly like the front end treatment of the 100 more.

[@janzelf]

15:00 The what?

[@DanieltheTruebadour]

Something cannot be "slightly": unique. "Unique" is singular. There can only be one, which is accurate in this case. One might say that a slight difference between individual cars makes each one unique. In the Pinterest of accuracy, words matter.

[@kentilly6160]

There are plenty of Dorettis still around.

[@garycamara9955]

The T N is a pretty car

[@garycamara9955]

I haf a Berkeley with a MINI engine in it. It had been an H modified race car. I dro e it on the street with a hot 1275S engine and trans.

[@betacam235]

I have a T60 Berkeley with MG Metro unit and 13" wheels....

[@garycamara9955]

The Osca was built by the Maserati brothers.

[@lawrence-c1d]

what about Healey Silverstone? only 105 made!! and a strong racing history

[@glynluff2595]

You would buy one! I wonder ? Now many people would revolt at driving a car with heavy steering because of the weight of the engine. It was normal for the period but not acceptable now with people used to power steering. If we look at where people are now,they will accept motoring of the past within reason. They would not accept those standards today for modern cars.

[@philhawley1219]

The picture of the Berkeley engine looks like a Honda bike engine.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

Doesn't look "2 stroke" whatever that engine is...

[@philhawley1219]

@@buzzwaldron6195 Honda Superdream 250/400cc. Four stroke twin to replace the Excelsior Villiers originally fitted.

[@buzzwaldron6195]

@@philhawley1219 - They don't realize they're picturing after market/performance parts as stock parts...

[@51tomtomtom]

its pron. ShisItalia , not Zistitalia

[@commandertopgun]

💙💙💙💙💙

[@chanjoinaua5273]

Great video, but please get your engines right: you talk about a 4 cylinder Sunbeam engine and show a V8 Cosworth, you talk about a 2 stroke engine in the Berkeley and show a Honda four-stroke! And please filter out the narrators irritating breathing sounds!

[@top.intel0]

Thank you for your suggestions!

[@garycamara9955]

It looks alot like a Siata.

[@garycamara9955]

We speak in cubic inches here not cubic centimeters.

[@garycamara9955]

Empty 4 was not the best name!

[@garycamara9955]

The Crusader is an incredibly ugly car.

[@garycamara9955]

British engineering is an oxymoron!

[@willgrime]

Rolls Royce, Napier, Bentley, Alvis, Spitfire, Hurricane, Mosquito, Chieftain, Challenger, Comet 4c, Concorde, Ark Royal, Mallard, Thrust 2….. your ignorance is showing.

[@kentilly6160]

@@willgrime What about the Internet, computers, jet engine, telephone, steam engine, railroads, and this one that Americans have been claiming since forever. "Of course, we all know that the light bulb was invented by Thomas Edison in October 1879, but you may be surprised to hear that Joseph Swan of Sunderland, England did the same thing in January of 1879. Swan had even given a public demonstration 10 months before Edison did. He also patented his invention 10 years before Edison. Swan even won a court case for patent infringement in the UK."

[@toni4729]

@@willgrime How very true. And that's just part of the story.