Completely Forgotten Old Classic Sports Cars

Dive into the captivating world of classic sports cars that have somehow slipped from our collective memory. Beginning with the elegant Lamborghini Jarama and the East German rarity, the Melkus RS 1000, we navigate our way through a wealth of forgotten treasures. You'll see the unique Kellison J5, the Apollo 3500 GT, and the Brazilian Puma GTB, known for their distinct designs and powerful performances. The lineup also includes rare masterpieces like the Cheetah, Bianco S, Marcos GT, and Ligier JS2. The vintage Mazda RX-3 Coupe and Triumph GT6 make their appearance, followed by the innovative Bradley GT and the French Matra Bagheera. Finally, we revisit the impressive Lamborghini Espada and the French sports car, Venturi 400 GT. Join us in this journey through time, rediscovering these forgotten classic sports cars.

[@felipegrijo5803]

It's strange to see a video from another country showing two Brazilian sports cars, the Puma and the Bianco. I loved it! In Brazil, during some years, we couldn't import cars. So, the Brazilian fabricators worked hard to show something new. Most of them used the air cooled boxer 4 cil. from VW or the 250 ci 6 cil from Chevrolet. Cars like Puma, Santa Matilde, Farus, Miura, Bianco, Adamo, Art and others were the dream for guys like me...and still are. Thank you for this @Car News TV 😎

[@CarNewsTV]

With pleasure. Have a nice day Felipe ! :)

[@felipegrijo5803]

@@CarNewsTV Thank you, may God bless you and your family 🙏🙏

[@Spherz]

I was lucky enough to hear and see the Cheetah at Road America back in 2018, it’s an absolute monster of a car

[@CarlVandenberg]

I was fortunate enough that my parents bought me a used RX3 as my first car. It was such a fun car to drive that my best friend at the time went out and bought a used RX2. It used a lot of oil though, we always joked that when we stopped at a gas station we would fill up with oil and check the gas.

[@jimrenegar7910]

I got to see a Lamborghini Jaramillo while stationed in Italy in the early 70's. Fell in love with it, and and still do to this day.

[@freddavidson9068]

Triumph gt 6+ deserves honorable mention nice catch

[@dwijnveen1064]

Thank you very much for showing us so many special cars. this must have been a lot of work to collect and document all of this.

[@KingCast65]

I love this. Thank you.

[@sethmatteson8326]

Man, that Kellison J5 is amazing

[@chicago_beats]

Love everyone staying out the way and enjoying their cars

[@RByrne]

Damn, these are cool videos. Id love to see some more in-depth on some of these. That Ligier sounds great! I remember a lot of these from magazines and stuff when i was a kid.

[@rafaelribeiro3130]

I'm a fan of your videos, each car more incredible than the other, a hug from Brazil, the puma and Bianco are legendary!

[@lucianoportugal8866]

yes...bianco!

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you! We really appreciate it :)

[@javierdelatorre9560]

Magnífico video. Sobran las palabras.

[@fr_schmidlin]

Nice findings! There are some notable missing Brazilians: - Santa Matilde Hatch - Santa Matilde Coupé (This was the most expensive Brazilian car at its time, not the Puma GTB. Specially the convertible.) - VW Karmann Ghia TC - Ford Corcel GT - Puma GTB/S2 - Puma AMV - Puma GTC - Puma AM4 - Miura Sport - Miura Saga - Brasinca 4200 GT - Corona Dardo F1.3 - Adamo GT - Farus TS 1.6 - Hofstetter (this one is ultra rare) - Aurora 122C

[@kenwelch198]

Interesting fact, back in the 60s and 70s we had a large scale slot racing track in our garage and a even some of these cars in 1/16 scale.

[@bicyclist2]

The Venturi is my favorite car here. Top Gear tested one on a episode in the 90s. The Lamborghini Espada and the Jarama don't get the love and attention that they deserve. It's a shame Lamborghini doesn't make a GT car anymore. Thank you.

[@paulthomson9014]

Yeh lambo should've made the estoque 4 door saloon , it was stunning, instead of that horrid suv anus/ urus whatever its called but people with money and no taste want these stupid suvs .

[@glenkepic3208]

Nice. Fave is The Cheetah. I loved these when i was a kid (6 in '63) .

[@datruth9872]

Thanks for the look see of the MATRA SIMCA ! cool as it gets. 🏆

[@jeroen9637]

Nice. My dad had an RX-3. In retina burning orange. I actually knew most of these cars bytheway. So not completely forgotten.

[@Jay-ru3mu]

The Back Of The Lamboghini Jarama Looks Like An Austin Princess

[@mr.maniac2861]

hugs from Brazil

[@malcolmnicholls2893]

Well done the Melkus for using what was available. Impressive.

[@chrisr.5730]

i live 1.min feet walk from the place where the melkus is building again today. better chassis(but same shape) with the original old engine. i see the car sometimes and its every time a dream.

[@gustavoracing1736]

I love this videos ❤❤❤

[@caeserromero3013]

My Dad owned a Truimph GT6 until I was born and he traded it in for a Dolomite. He loved the GT6 but it required almost constant maintenance. He had to weld up the exhaust three times because it rusted so often and he had to make parts by hand sometimes(he worked in engineering). But it was obviously more fun to drive than a Dolomite...

[@pashakdescilly7517]

Now if he had got a Dolomite Sprint - that's a faster car than the GT6, with 4 seats and doors, with comfort.

[@juancarlosrivera4419]

The Venturi was my dream car as a teenager

[@robertcristando8007]

Okay, Who’s the wise guy that snuck in the Bradley GT and Bianco?!?

[@aureliomarsili3902]

Great, good old times ...

[@65SATisfaction]

It’s strange what highly valued and collectible cars can be considered “forgotten”.. The Espada was the best-selling Lamborghini of its time. It took until 1994 for the Countach to outsell it. They are still in high demand by collectors. The Kellison, Cheetah and Marcos too. Entertaining video, though. Cheers.

[@RByrne]

Yeah you're right. It wasnt one of their sexier designs but it was cool nonetheless.

[@suede7799]

Damn good video

[@fullthrottlejeffry]

Video subtitle: "An Afternoon at Jay Leno's House"

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!..

[@kpadmirer]

I loved my '74 Mazda RX-3!

[@terryharding7476]

I had an rx3 a 74 what a great little car the exhausted been ported and the automatic transmission had a shift kit it looked like a tiny little 69 mustang what a great little car I traded it for a 59 Chevy.

[@terryharding7476]

No, I don't really remember what I did with it it was clear back in the '70s I know you sure don't see very many of them up here in the Pacific Northwest I've only seen a couple of them in say 20 years. The only pain in the butt thing about the car was I thought it had lousy defrosters they sucked in cold weather.

[@timothydaly2152]

Would love a triumph GT6 they sound amazing

[@freudinkop6801]

the fact that you've featured them, they're not forgotten.

[@cutrockr-diecastracing2773]

The RX3 is certainly not a forgotton car in Australia and NZ. Cheers

[@leftright6054]

Among us Japanese enthusiasts it's legendary.

[@cutrockr-diecastracing2773]

@@leftright6054 I have to admit Mazda & Rotary Engines are written in my dna. The heading "Completely Forgotton" is ill founded in many Countries. Cheers.... They RX3 neve came in Black. In the 70's yep, bought a 12A, and had it painted in aircraft polyurethane Black. What a beauty. Cheers mate!

[@adangerpwrs]

Went to high school at Yokota in the 70’s the R3 was the car the cool kids drove!! I got a 69 Skyline from my dad but still drooled when a Savannah pulled into the lot!!!

[@JohnLee-ue6gy]

Stacey David recently built a Cheetah from scratch on his GearZ show. Also, there is still a small company out there with the tools and molds building new, DriveTribe did an article on them.

[@leeandjancruise]

Mazda RX3, had one of those back in the day when I was a lad, absolutely loved it but keeping the twin rotor engine in tune was frustrating, it ate spark plugs and then the engine died when water entered the rotor housings. I rebuilt it but when it went again two years later I sold it for peanuts and moved on.

[@alanhindmarch4483]

I own a Triumph GT6 in Green, it has had an engine swop to 2.5 straight 6, triple Webber carbs, producing 150bhp. updated ignition system, suspension and brakes. I have kept al original parts to be refitted if necessary.

[@roberthoffmann6603]

Top Channel nice Abo. The Rx-3 was one of the best car i drove in my life. Now the next Video

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you Robert :)

[@californiadreaming9216]

One of our neighbours had a Mazda RX3 back in the 70s when I was a kid. I'll bet he wishes he'd hung onto it. In decent condition they fetch big $$ now.

[@sherifelsakkaf1458]

I raced one of these Venturi GT400 (Philippe Charriol Team) to third place at Dijon circuit in 1995 :)

[@Victor_2000s]

Puma GTB and Bianco, the brazilian cars.

[@eduardobatistaramos9889]

Bianco S too, my friend.

[@Aly_Son.2000]

Vários BR's representando, que orgulho!

[@alexgouveia11]

O dono curte uns carros brazuca... Legal.

[@adrianmuller4989]

faltou ainda o Farus que fizeram como coupe e cabriolet, mas nao por muito tempo kkkkk

[@_LM_]

When I was a kid, one of the neighbors in the building had a silver Bianco. It was a very nice-looking car and not a cheap one to buy, but being built on top of a VW air-cooled platform, it was all show and no go. :)

[@Pauloito]

bro mas é um classico

[@thu-bu1hf]

Interesting collection of cars. Like the Melkus "Street Fart", listen to that engine and you immediately understand that nickname. The Cheetah will forever look as if someone has chopped off the rear end of that thing. "Hey honey, take our bags out of the trunk in the back......... WTF where has our back end gone??????"

[@ManuelFlores-uq3bh]

I feel like I’ve driven some of these In Vice city and San Andres ahhh yeah simpler times 😌

[@beezlbubba]

Many of those 6 cylinders sound just like the Mach 5. lol!

[@jettrink7510]

Great video... and I have lots of reading glasses

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you :)

[@bicyclist2]

The show Count's Customs restored a Kellison. I had never heard of it before the episode. Thank you.

[@Hodaka90]

The first car we were able to outrun the PoPo in was in an RX3 Mazda. The RX3"s never stopped going faster.

[@johnmullins2113]

I'll never forget the Espada . The local Lamborghini dealership's owner took me for a ride in one when I was 14 back in 1969.

[@oautomobilista-porisacgued6325]

Puminha ❤️🇧🇷

[@tomtrana3449]

plus ... Intermeccanica Italia, Simca 1000 Coupe Bertone, Saab Sonett (I, II and III), Matra 530 LX

[@NsuRaceman]

Nice Video, but i missed the Thurner RS

[@m.g.540]

My Triumph GT-6 is not forgotten, it is parked right next to my 911.

[@chrisjensen8369]

My dad had a GT-6 from 1969 to 76. A fun car to ride in and drive.

[@BenDover-wm7wf]

I had a cousin of the GT way back-a ‘65 Spitfire in English Racing Green. I sold it in ‘73 because it was a maintenance headache.

[@jameslaw3740]

Puma reminded me of my 73' astra

[@thecrow9920]

Great🚀

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you man :) Happy new year

[@alexandro5961]

A Puma do Brazil !!!!

[@loscalvao6622]

Cheetah! 👍♥️

[@jamess4535]

Great video!

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you James! :)

[@phugwad]

I was kind of surprised, there actually a few cars in there that I had never heard of. But I don't think the Bradley should count as it was a kit car. A side note. I had a Triumph GT-6+ and really enjoyed it but it was actually a poor handling and slow car. The one thing it did really well was to make you feel like you were going fast when you actually weren't. And it was a good thing that you thought you were going fast because actually going fast in that car would have been near suicidal. The car could get away from you really fast. I spun it unintentionally, trying to avoid running down a skunk on an interstate. The bastard sprayed my car as a neatly spun around him and off into the shoulder, throwing grass and dirt into the air. Nothing damaged, nobody, not even a skunk, was hurt.

[@martinda7446]

I had among other things a Mk1 Vitesse which used identical underpinnings. I can confirm the dodgy handling..Later GT6s were fairly sorted, and most people would say avoid early ones..Except they just look ten times better so I'll put up with dodgy handling. I had another which had a weld failure on the chassis rail holding the radius arm. If you ever wanted to know what it was like driving a boat through London..Remove a radius arm on a 60s Triumph.

[@Walkercolt1]

Remember the TR-7 and TR-8's? Triumph's last gasps. If Triumph had switched to Nippon-Denso electrics from "George Lucas, Prince of Darkness" the TR-8 could've been a fun car. Maybe. QC on the rest of the car wasn't anything to get excited about either. Toyota Corolla SR-5 Hatchbacks took over the market about that time, not from performance so much (my Alfa Romeo Spyder Velocie 1800 had that!) but from durability and dependability. Keep oil in it, put gas in it and drive-like a Honda cycle vs: a Triumph Tiger Cub or BSA (Barely Starts Anymore). MGB=More Garage Bills. Yup. Had 'em all! Bug-Eyed Sprite too! If you had a GT-6 in the US, you know about vapor-lock and the cure; a Weber!

[@leftright6054]

Except for the Kellison we remember all the rest!

[@LouLope]

No more revving up and listening to the awesome exhaust sounds with electric cars.

[@bunzeebear2973]

The sound has to be on TAPE with some awesome speakers and an amp.

[@deathunknown4949]

i wanna collect old cars like these

[@jaxxbrat2634]

Can you do the repairs?

[@deathunknown4949]

@@jaxxbrat2634 sure

[@philc8575]

Interesting fact-The Marcos of the 1960s had a wooden chassis. As a child my neighbor bought one. The chassis broke soon after buying. Traded it back in. Got a 250 GT Ferrari! Now that was a legend of a car!! They're valued in the millions today!

[@CarNewsTV]

@philc8575 You don't currently own a Ferrari? did you sell it? they must have been beautiful experiences

[@-S2]

awesome video, but it kinda makes me sad. I wish there was a bianco for me to own, but there are only a few ones for sale each year, which are very overpriced. cheers from brazil =)

[@hollowdog7208]

I'm old, I remember most these cars.

[@uppitywhiteman6797]

Unfortunately, me too! lol

[@kayfelix5054]

There is only one if them I didn't see with my own eyes till now: the bradley GT. Non of them is forgotten

[@TheAcarch2]

That Cheetah sounds bad ass.

[@ratscoot]

I wouldn´t call a Triumph GT6, Marcos GT or a Lambo Espada forgotten cars.

[@forandonbehalfof4753]

Errr.... Bet you're not as sad as me though: Had a GT6, Fiat 850 coupe and always looked for a Marcos Mantula, Gilbern Wyvern and a Skoda 136 Rapid..... If CarNews TV did some research, he might have mentioned the Triumph Mayflower, Gilbern GT, AC Greyhound, etc......

[@BaddaBigBoom]

Agreed, the Espada is my favourite Lamborghini and has been since I was about 11 years old!

[@forandonbehalfof4753]

@@BaddaBigBoom - Have you read Mr. (IIRC Feruccio) Lamborghini's history/story? It's interesting. Especially the bit where Enzo Ferrari wouldn't sell him a car (again, IIRC a 250 of some kind). Now; they're basically glorified VWs. Mind you; Ferrari's are overgrown Fiats BUT at least nowadays, they break down slightly less often. Which was Lamborghini's selling point back in the olden days. Because you couldn't see out of them very well and a lot of them drove like a pig on stilts.....

[@BaddaBigBoom]

@@forandonbehalfof4753 No, all I know of Feruccio Lamborghini is that his initial mechanical exploits were the manufacture of farm tractors and then he set out to build sports cars that would rival Ferrari. I shall research more!

[@forandonbehalfof4753]

@@BaddaBigBoom - Ferdinand Porsche ALSO built tractors before cars. IIRC the Lamborghini name was still appearing on tractors on the 2000s (I've seen them "in the flesh"). I think Lamborghini really lost its standing with cars like the Countach - I still think they sucked! I've probably got a bit of an unfair advantage, though - I'm a petrolhead, grew up amongst petrolheads (as a 3yo, I remember my Father rebuilding a gearbox on the kitchen table!) so what chance did I have?... Didn't Lamborghini also make a 4x4 (LM002 or something)?

[@charlieharper4975]

Well, for the most part, you can see why they were forgotten : 3 cylinder 2 stroke, etc.

[@MrGunzngirlz]

Melkus RS 1000...powered by snare drums.

[@thierrypauwels]

One of the most forgotten cars is the Renault Fuego. So common in the 1980s. Nowadays you do not even see any on retro shows.

[@BigPapa07]

A good contender for this list would be the 1963 Studebaker Avanti R2

[@duffgordon9005]

You are correct. Except they sold more than 88 or 112, -maKING It TOO REAlistic of actually getting one!

[@5610winston]

@@duffgordon9005 They only sold seven of the R3 Avanti, and more rare still, only a single factory-built Studebaker Commander. For that matter, how many Espadas or Triumph GT6s were sold? More of each than the total number of Avantis of all types built including the Avanti II, the Villa Rica-built revival, and the Cancun final examples.

[@duffgordon9005]

@@5610winston When I was 13, a guy up the street had an "avanti". Plus I imagine I have seen a few others, thus giving me a bias they were rare but "out there"

[@5610winston]

@@duffgordon9005 About 80 percent of Studebaker Avantis were equipped with the normally aspirated R1 version of the Studebaker 289 (no, this was not in any way related to the Ford engine of almost the same size), and of those, about sixty were equipped with three-speed manual floor shift transmission, built before the four-speed manual became standard. A few were equipped with Studebaker's popular (for other lines) planetary overdrive, but most got the Borg-Warner 'Powershift' three-speed automatic. About twenty percent got the supercharged R2 version of the 289. Seven '64 model Avantis were equipped with the five-liter (304.5 cubic inch) supercharged R3 engine. Two left South Bend (despite the misinformation, no Avantis either during Studebaker's final days or the Altman-Newman and successors Avanti II days, were ever built in Canada) with the dual carb, brutally high compression R4 normally aspirated 304. Studebaker rolled the dice and had a car that should have knocked the ball out of the park, but early production problems ultimately sank the venture. At 4643 total production between June of 1962 and the end of production on 9 December, 1963, the Avanti was built in higher numbers than some of the models featured here, much lower numbers than some of the others. Break production down by engine and transmission options and some are as rare as any of them. Any surviving Avanti, either Studebaker or Avanti Motor Corporation, is an automotive unicorn, more likely to draw the comment "What the hell is that thing?" than "[yawn] Oh, another Avanti."

[@terrybilcliff8366]

Ah!the triumph GT 6

[@englishmaninfrance661]

I've got one for you - 1973 Davrian Mk 5 . Wish I'd never sold mine ( but the wife was expecting our second and she couldn't get in with her bump) And I always wanted a GT6 but despite having about 10 Spitfires I never did buy one . Went on to Jensen Healey and then TVR's (4) instead .

[@snuffleupagus9949]

I'm an idiot. I thought it said the Bianco had 32 carburetors and I actually did a Google search to find out how the hell that works.

[@user-mm1jh3bq6u]

welch schöne Fahrzeuge. wansinn, das waren noch Zeiten

[@dantelombardi]

wow 0:01 q obra d arte, 0:29 q belleza, 1:47 magnifico muy parecido al F40, 2:14 wow belleza muy parecido al datsun 250, 2:41 y 3:15 q bellezas, gran video

[@petyrkowalski9887]

Triumph GT6, lambo espada not forgotten at all.

[@davidpeters6536]

I nearly bought a Bagheera in 1981.

[@nukarr]

we owned a mazda dealership so i had plenty of the rx-2 rx-3 rx-3sp rx-4 cosmo rx-7 and my fav the rotary truck we set up with ported heads -custom exhaust headers and HUGE enormo muffler box which BLEW UP constantly and a 5th wheel for towing 4-11 gears and man was it a monster off the line ZZZZIIIIIPPPP BANG Rx-7s i would take customers on test drives and do a low speed 30mph 360 spin and straight line recovery and YELL 50 50 weight distribution ...sold a lot of cars ...1 guy 2 in 24 hrs after he totaled the 1st one thru a hog containment lot BACKWARDS after losing it on a curve ...dude was in shock. Rx-2 4dr i had i regularly beat souped monster V-8 muscle cars on the street drags btw had a BRADLEY GT what junk holy hell how did that thing get DOT certification total death trap it was a trade in btw ...we sent it to the junk yard

[@johnholzhey8149]

Ah yes. The RX3, Humbug.

[@tommissouri4871]

A friend built one for autocrossing. He got information from Toyota on how to build the engine, and he did exactly what they said. We'd shift it about 11,000, so many autocrosses, you could leave it in first gear.

[@ianlitchfield9273]

You missed the MG C. a 3 litre 6 cylinder stable mate to the MG B & the GT6 which you did feature. 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@pierrechristian6767]

Correction, the RX3 did make it to Australia in series 1 & 2 some series 3s made it too as special orders.

[@howardkerr8174]

Once again, somewhat spotty information. The Kellison is known by many " gearheads " in the U.S., The Melcus? Never heard of it, so wasn't forgotten, no one knew it existed. And you are kidding, the Triumph GT6?

[@Jonttu87YT]

Jean Ragnotti drive a JS2 Tour De Corse rally in 1972 😃😃😃

[@michaelm7565]

Some of these are just kit cars from the 70's and early 80's.

[@snd7622]

Bradley GT looks like garage build kit car LOL

[@edsonluizfilho4173]

Two brazilian cars, great video

[@CarNewsTV]

Thank you Edson

[@edsonluizfilho4173]

@@CarNewsTV The Puma GTB is Extremelly Rare, but I saw one 10 years ago, Search for SM Clube Santa Matilde, L'Automobile Ventura "Italian name but a Brazilian car too" and my favourite a beautifull one targa Adamo CRX, in the 70's Brazil was a military government, the car imports was prohibited but the local manufacturing was permited, existed dozens of rare sport models that it's made few numbers.

[@Johnnywhamo]

The Cheetah looks like something straight out of a 1970's cartoon

[@andrewmackay1515]

What about a Gordon Keeble produced in the early 1960s, there were only 100 built of which I understand about 90 cars still exist. They were fast having a corvette engine, is a 4 seater with 2 doors and fibreglass body. A very nice car.

[@Keiji1978]

The scene of 1:12 exactly looks like somewhere in Japan except number plates...

[@chaparral82]

what is that car in the preview? Is it a fake? It does not appear in the video

[@TenMinuteDrumSolo]

The GT6 weighed about 19 pounds without the engine. I had a '67 (with wire wheels) for quite a few years in the early 70's and I'd say for about 10% of that time the car was airborne. Bought it for $1,300 off a rich kid who was bored with it, I'd gladly pay 20 times that now for one as cherry as that one was.

[@patrickstenson830]

A friend of mine owned a 1973 Toyota Corolla. Her got his doors blown off by the Mazda RX 3

[@jerryaulphgmail]

I kept waiting to see a Pantera ...

[@umaminipordia9761]

Bianco 🇧🇷

[@blxtothis]

Ah the Venturi, didn’t that have the PSA V6 as fitted in my Renault R30 in the day? Got to say though that most of these cars are hardly forgotten, apart from the Lambos, the Triumph, Espada and Jarama, Marcos and Matras (I seem to recall that one had three seats not two), they are mostly tiny volume makes.

[@thierrymilan2039]

Yes, the Venturi had the same V6 bloc PRV (Peugeot Renault Volvo) from your R30, but with different culass and lot of others spicy specs like biturbo...

[@marcobollo1532]

Nothing, or almost nothing in common with the original PRV engine. Venturi factory worked so hard on this engine that it was homologated as their own engine : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4ndqaujfMaKoZI

[@jorgendahl5024]

GT6 is not forgotten if you owned one. The suspension was weak and the inline 6 made the thing nose dive like a submarine trying to escape a minesweeper. With considerable suspension work and a ton of cash you could get it to handle good with the exception of it being nose heavy. Always flirted with the idea of putting an aluminum V6 in one which with a little firewall rework could sit behind the front wheels. That probably would have solved the handling problem and would have made it go like a bat out of hell.

[@carmiethompson2676]

2:18 The Triumph GT6 was never a Coupe, it was designed as a two-seater from the start...a Sports Car! A Coupe is a two-door passenger car w/ seating for 4 to 6 people. A sedan is a 4-door version of the Coupe. My 1984 Pontiac Gand Prix Brougham was a 6 passenger Sport Coupe. The automatic transmission was controlled by a column shifter. The were bench seats front & rear, thus the 6 passenger capability, & sometimes I needed it.

[@qtig9490]

Not a sports car, but Mazda made a rotary minitruck too. I have seen a few here in the US