Hitler's Car and the Lyon Air Museum in Santa Ana, California

[@ME-qr2kq]

I was at this museum about a month ago a buddy and I went there and the Shelby Museum in Irvine same day. Being an Aircraft Mechanic for 17 years and having some of my companies aircraft there was pleasant surprise. Our tour guide was a real nice guy and we talked Aircraft for a long while.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

All of the docents at the Lyon Air Museum were fantastic on our trip too.

[@ME-qr2kq]

@@SidetrackAdventures I really got into some of the planes because when started working at Douglas Aircraft Co. In the 80s there were still some of the people who built them working there. Drank alot of coffee and heard lots of awesome stories from them before they retired.

[@NaztyGamingHD]

WW2 and WW1 are my favorite topics in history. I live 20 minutes away from here. Thank you sir

[@Lemingtona-x5g]

2 of the most pointless wars for royals

[@MichaelTitera]

I visited my parents in San Diego for Christmas and because of your video, we made a trip to the Lyon Air Museum. You were right, it is a hidden gem! I told many of the curators about you and this episode of Sidetrack Adventures. They were all excited and looked forward to watching it. It's amazing that all the aircraft and vehicles are in pristine and working condition. My parents, wife, daughter, and I really enjoyed our visit. We then headed over to Ballast Point Brewery at Seal Beach for a wonderful lunch and delicious brews. Thanks again for your terrific and inspiring videos, San Diego Steve! :)

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Wow thanks. Yeah, I think its amazing they all work. Most museums the planes just sit there collecting dust.

[@MichaelTitera]

@@SidetrackAdventures , since they fly the planes every once in a while, it was really cool took to see some of them dripping oil into pans. Just shows how authentic the planes are. Thanks again for encouraging us to visit, Steve!

[@JasmineApple]

Wow! I've been to John Wayne airport many many times, but I never knew this museum was there. Good video!

[@rclooking99]

Wow what a find! A great piece of history in a very under the radar museum. Thanks for sharing. We will be heading there on our next California trip.

[@swankles3877]

What an interesting find...if you haven't already gone Chino airport has a couple of pretty large museums with many WWII aircraft. Thanks for the post.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

We haven't been to the Chino airport but will definitely check it out.

[@richardweaver9682]

Both Chino and Palm springs air museums fly thier collections along with the Confederated Air For force in Riverside.

[@justin36004]

@@richardweaver9682 the Commemorative Air Force has their location in Camarillo not Riverside.

[@richardjackson6922]

Thank you for sharing. I always enjoy your videos that you put out on all your travels. So many absolutely wonderful places with a deep history.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thanks for watching!

[@all.day.day-dreamer]

First of all, excellent video quality. Viewing this on a 77" LG OLED and the quality is stunning. Great commentary. I am a huge WW2 enthusiast and seeing that B-17 was awesome. One minor complaint is the nose art didn't look era to me. That style of font wasn't used back then and Elmer Fudd was way off. I wish the artist they hired would have done more research. But, that's a minor complaint. Excellent job. Again, video quality is super amazing.

[@bagpipes978]

Thank you so much for making this great informative video!! I am also a WWII history buff and will definitely make a trip to this fascinating museum!! What a GEM!!

[@tayninh69]

Excellent presentation. I have always been an aviation buff, I've been to several aviation museums and have enjoyed everyone of them. What I really like about this video is how knowledgeable this gentleman is. JOB WELL DONE

[@pauldevaney3109]

Went to this museum in April because of this video. We had an exceptional tour with a volunteer docent. Thank you. Boston, MA

[@SidetrackAdventures]

The docents there are top notch.

[@b.l.8611]

I’ve lived in Orange County for over 40 years, and didn’t know about this museum. I really need to go. I also live in a Wm. Lyon house too. Thanks for the video.😊

[@maryellenshock]

I love museums, pretty much any kind! Thank you for showing this - like other people wrote, never heard of this museum!

[@espressobuzz1253]

"Let's see....the instructions are to armor the doors and windows." "But it's a convertable!" "Be quiet, Hans, and just do your job!"

[@lordbarristertimsh8050]

My Grandfather actually saw another of Adolf Hitler's cars { that one a Mercedes-Benz 770 } when he visited a touring exhibit in his youth. Also, the bit about Hitler's car needing support from tires made in Israel, well: that's how bad you lost, Mr. Hitler! Great video by the way!

[@moissela]

By the way: Tires made in Israel. Good Idea. The founding of the State Isreal started at the 1948-05-14. Three years after the 2. World War II. The first Mercedes W31 was build 1934. Funny....

[@mrcarlo1966]

Thank you for giving a backstory about the planes and cars .Most reviewers skip that part..Great job🇺🇸👍🏻.

[@DataWaveTaGo]

Thank you for presenting the background for some of these aircraft!

[@j.b.a.124]

Awesome video. I believe I saw this car at the former Imperial Hotel & Casino in Vegas about 20 years ago. Thanks for sharing it. Greetings from Jerome & family in Florida.

[@KevinBarry-j8w]

I saw it there too

[@guybeingaguy]

My 2 hidden gem museums: Barber Motorsport park in Alabama. Visit the 5 story glass museum of mainly motorcycles but everything racing. The Mel Fisher museum in Key West. You get lost in time with great info and actual gold from the ship. Great video. Now I want to go here.

[@briansilcox5720]

Helm’s Vans serviced our neighborhood in Bakersfield in the mid sixties… great video!

[@billofrightsamend4]

I used to show a lot of elderly gentlemen how to use the self serve copiers at the copy shop I worked at. Many of them were WW2 Veterans. One was on the Dolittle raid, his name escapes me right now. I didn't know about the Dolittle Raid until I had time to read his book. All those WW2 Veterans are the sweetest people, didn't have a complaint about one. The X generation is another greatest generation.

[@owenoulton9312]

Hitler had a lot of cars. The six-wheeled Mercedes-Benz G4 is truly iconic, and only 4 survive in running order. Another of his cars, a Mercedes-Benz Grosser 770K, (also armoured) is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

[@deplepfan]

Good Aviation museum. Been following your page for awhile. I am a huge history buff. Ty for sharing all the History 😊

[@mawi1172]

These are the little nuggets I always watch 3 or 4 times. That car was amazing, it ALL WAS. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@jamesrichardson1326]

I'd love to see this museum and it's exhibits. Have you stopped at Whiskey Pete's in Primm to see Bonnie and Clyde's car they were killed in? Also if you ever get near Dayton OH, be sure and visit the Wright Patterson air museum.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I saw the Bonnie and Clyde car years ago but the last time we stopped it wasn't there because it was out on loan. Not sure if it has come back yet.

[@jamesrichardson1326]

@@SidetrackAdventures I had no idea it was there when we stopped at Whisky Pete's in 2013 for the night on the way down to San Diego. Wish I'd have went to the John Wayne airport and saw ole Adolph's ride. Like your videos. Do more about walking trails in the San Diego area as I'm going to visit again and want to rent a bike to ride around.

[@joelonzello4189]

Is that car still there ? Saw it many times driving to Vegas 😀

[@ferminromero2602]

Will definitely visit this museum next time I'm in Orange County!

[@JoseGamboa1]

Is there a photo of Adolph traveling in that car with that license plate number? I haven't been able to find any. There are many photos of cars of that type, but not with that number as far as I could see. Great Video !!!!!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

There is a photo at the museum of him in it.

[@samaipata4756]

This car belongs into Canadian Parliament, there it will find the most admirers!🤣

[@aiglonducal314]

Indeed! I'm surprised Turdeau (sic) hasn't asked to borrow it!

[@Lemingtona-x5g]

they gave standing ovation to Zelenskys man

[@richardweaver9682]

There is Zero mockup that was flown in the movie Tora Tora Tora at the March Field Air Museum in Riverside. This looks like a great place to visit and I hope to make it there sometime.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I gotta get back to March Field soon too.

[@pacificostudios]

Thank you! I drive by the airport often, but I've never known about this museum. I know about Planes of Fame in Chino, and of course, the Aviation museum in San Diego, but not this place.

[@rayworx]

I lived in Clairemont when I was growing up. The Helms truck would come by 2 times a week and the smells were wonderful. The breads, cookies, donuts and pastries made all the kids go running for Mom's purse! After all... that's where the money was! But Helms trucks went away when an Alpha Beta went in on Mt Acadia Blvd in about 1965. Bummer!

[@straybullitt]

@@Eli-wx2ln Alpha Beta was a supermarket chain prevalent in the 20th century. I believe that, after several rebrandings, you would know them nowadays to be Ralph's.

[@larrylebowski8386]

Very cool, I go to LA every few months and will be sure to visit the museum next time. Thanks.

[@stuartjenkins4380]

Looks like a great museum! I saw one of those bread trucks for sale a few years back (probably eBay). They had a clip of it driving around they had the craziest whistle horn things…quite comical an cute!

[@shop99er]

I just learned about this museum and the car a couple of weeks ago. They are now both on the list for our next trip to Ca

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Its a really nice museum.

[@birdman5223]

Great info MrSteve☺️

[@DVolvoguy777-x7o]

Done quite a few T&G at KSNA. How old is this museum? Great video btw.

[@szaki]

I've been there, it also has the ME-262 jet plane and a the MIG-15 too. 👍

[@n.v.1258]

Great video. I was so involved with the airplanes I forgot about hitlers car. 😅

[@Jay77G]

Awesome 👍 great video

[@adventurevin7600]

This is awesome! I live in Riverside and never knew this museum exists. It's on my "Must do list" now

[@shooter31m]

Dude, Love you and your families videos! Thanks for sharing.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Thanks for watching!

[@thejackofalltravels8267]

Saw the Hitler car and Mussolini‘s girlfriends car at the Harrah’s collection in Las Vegas November 1992.

[@tmsek8155]

The Hawthorne zep bicycle is pretty cool in olive drab, I actually own 5 1936-38 rollfast bicycles just like that one

[@carolynward5567]

I didn't know this was around. I'm a member of a Civil Air Patrol squadron, and this would be a good day trip for our cadets.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

It would definitely be worth it. So much to see there.

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

March Field Air Museum has a B-29, and it's not that far away.

[@travismiller4690]

cool video bro

[@jeffsmith-ze6wb]

Your videos are really awesome THANKS

[@johna1160]

4:51 As a San Francisco Giants fan, I gotta say I love the colors!

[@davidcole333]

That is amazing. I had no idea those treasures were there.

[@jesusramos2592]

exactly, im from santa ana and had no idea this museum was here.

[@TacticalGamingNetwork]

Awesome video!

[@Jislas442]

Being a paratrooper myself you forgot the 82nd airborne division. Yes both. 82nd and the 101st played a vital role in Normandy.

[@Jislas442]

Thank for the information. And like your video. Very informative.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I was in the 82nd too! What unit were you in? I only mentioned the 101st because that's who this particular plane carried.

[@15Webber]

Excellent. I'll be there next trip out!

[@discostew115]

What a great video! You guys find the coolest places. This reminds me of the movie Rat Race when Jon lovitz steals Hitlers car

[@thegamesource]

Hitlers car is also in Canada at a museum in Ottawa

[@billbright1755]

Beautifully maintained aircraft. That car originally had tires with a very aggressive knobby pattern. Somewhat similar to Firestone truck tires of the seventy’s. Not sure the original manufacture probably German sourced.

[@jaimebernate6593]

You didn’t point out any of the fighter aircraft if there are any there. My absolute favorite is the P 51D mustang, followed by the F4-U corsair, the P 38 lightning, the P 47 thunderbolt and, the Davelin mosquitoes and, of course the Spitfire and the hurricane.

[@donmoore7785]

You don't know if there are any fighter aircraft there, but you state that he didn't point out any. Can you put 2 and 2 together? Did you *see* any?

[@armandolopez8983]

Great video. I didn't know about this.

[@keithwinters3031]

Fantastic...you and family must have a great time. When l come over the pond l will have to stay a long time. Hi from the U.K.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I can't wait to get back to the UK. Hopefully soon.

[@josephbingham1255]

A nice video that included Hitler and Ray Kroc's cars. Persons who neither's word could be trusted.

[@robertbraun7155]

Because No human beings word can be trusted.

[@alanblanes2876]

What a terrific report!

[@Peter-nh5hv]

Very interesting, nice work..❤

[@americaisacontinent.]

Its nice to see that one of the most influential person sat on that Mercedes Benz..

[@michaelfraher6375]

I sat in that car when it was in Brookline ma. at the Larz Anderson Museum in the 70s and still have the picture

[@gusojeda514]

I hate to tell you this but the car actually did not belong to Hitler ! It was built for him but was given as a gift from the Fuhrer to Gustav Mannerheim the military leader of Finland as a thanks for joining the axis against Russia ! It was misidentified and tour the country as Hitlers car for a whole decade and afterwards correctly identified as the finish leader’s car !

[@pedrorodriguez2914]

Gov.Newsome should use it as his official car,all he needs is the little mustache.😎🌴🐊

[@turboZ3]

that bicycle is so cool

[@jmd1966fr]

Funny fact: one of Hitler's car is in a French museum in Lyon.

[@mikalnaylor]

"Hogans Heroes" the series used period German cars as well. Klinks staff car, the one that Hochstetter used as well as General Der Infantrie Burkhalter. Burkhalter's car is really close to this version of Hitler's car. Hitler had several cars he used.

[@cellpat2686]

Interesting that they have a Bird-dog plane there too. I saw somewhere else that a vietnamese fighter pilot put his family in one of these and flew it to an American air base to escape Vietnam.

[@rolfagten857]

This Mercedes g3 was in 2006 for sale in Bergeijk (Holland) bye kennis bergeijk.

[@larryaldrich4351]

His car is in California and his proteges are in Sacramento.

[@episodebeats2817]

Nahhh, those are Stalin's comrades in Sacramento. The Führer through National Socialism enriched his own people at other people's expense. He kept crime down, the streets were clean & Germans had money in their pockets. Chairman Stalin however starved & enslaved his own people. Kept everyone poor, unsafe & living in a state of fear. Communism is equal opportunity suffering for all, while National Socialism was selective suffering(political enemies, POW's, Yoo Know Who's etc.) with millions being allowed to live a decent life.

[@kennysherrill6542]

I've been wanting to to there for years, will plan for it before December. 👍❤️🇺🇸

[@mawi1172]

Show us the river between Mexico & California that goes to the ocean along the border there, south of San Diego. How many people live in the sand out that way? 😳😳😳 Love ur stuff! ❤️❤️

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I actually planned to do a video there at the peace park but they have been doing construction on the wall and its a bit of a hassle. Hopefully soon.

[@horrorman9]

I went today, and it was a site to see. I really enjoyed it.

[@JoseSilva-ip5xi]

Greetings from San Diego CA USA thanks 😊.

[@johnvoorhees7881]

Good job, buddy 👏

[@GereDJ2]

The passenger side front seat folded up so Hitler could stand up on the floor during parades. The upper windshield grip handle was later added so he didn't fall over. Vehicle weight? About 6 tons.

[@usnusmcret]

I remember the Cessna planes in Vietnam were called “TWA” - Teeny Weeny Airline

[@espressobuzz1253]

I guess he used more than one? I remember an article from 2018 how one was parked in a neighborhood near Seattle. If you Google Hitler's car Medina, you'll see that article. I also see an article about one sold at auction in Scottsdale AZ.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

I'm sure he had a bunch of them. This one was apparently only used a few times.

[@54rcb45]

I knew the guy who owned that car. I didn't realize how rich he was until one day we were talking about cars and he said that he owned that car and the car Kennedy used to pick up a female German spy during his last speech in Germany. He didn't know until he was told when he brought her back to United States. Come to find out my client was a multi millionaire . He always said that he was going to donate both cars to a museum. He told me he bought it only for the history aspect of it and it should be preserved .

[@williamtufts3600]

I wonder if Tom will buy this for Burt next year.

[@parajerry]

I swear it used to be at the Barbie Museum. The Hans Barbie Museum where the car was stolen by John Lovitz and his family. 😃

[@CactusAtlas]

Pima Air & Space Museum sure had a lot of WWII era planes but certainly didn't have Hitler's car. 😮 A lot of similar aircraft though which is super cool to see! Almost feels like sister museums in some ways. Sounds like the museum needs to talk to Disney about getting the bakery smell though. 😄

[@Jislas442]

While you were there you should of asked about an AMARC tour trip. DMAFB bone yard.

[@SidetrackAdventures]

We still need to get to the Pima Museum. Hopefully this year.

[@UDX4570PalmSprings-yh1mv]

What's really funny is that Hitlers mercedes not only being heavily armored, it was a convertible!!!...ppppfffftttt, makes alot of sense!🤣👍

[@JB-rt4mx]

The Doolittle Raid was exclusively flown by B 25s a B 17 could not of taken off from a carrier..😁

[@slswisher]

I have flown in and piloted the B25 when it was in Michigan.

[@ericbernhardt5928]

I remember when I was a kid my dad drove a helms bakery truck in the late sixties.

[@pj61114]

I saw Adolf Hitlers Mercedes in Ottawa Canada. The Canadian War Museum. Look it up on KZbin. It looks like a used car. A GI shot some of the bullet proof glass windows to test them. Kind of neat to see the effect. There was a leather round pillow in the back seat for him to sit on to look taller. Perhaps he had more than one car.

[@lizzapaolia959]

Nice looking vehicle.

[@jatzbethstappen9814]

Fanastic video, thank you!

[@SidetrackAdventures]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@TheGel69]

Funny, another of Hitler s armored Mecedes is in Malattre Museum in Lyon suburb France

[@rdmountford3132]

That us NOT an armoured G4. Only the Führers Mercedes Grosser 770 was armoured.

[@GixxerFoo]

That's some awesome irony that Hitler's car has tires made in Israel. I am kinda curious if they told them what the tires were for when they bought them.

[@rikellis7871]

❤❤❤ That's interesting, because Walt Disney ended up in California too, what a coincidence, which really wasn't a coincidence. They're related and they're completely missed by history ❤❤❤

[@BarryRudge]

Those aircraft look in superb condition

[@RicondaRacing]

The leader of the Workers Socialist Party's car is in a Socialist state. Not a surprise to me.

[@nihilmiror6312]

👍👍👍😂😂😂🙏🇦🇺🦘

[@eshelly4205]

That’s the wrong party silly…

[@eshelly4205]

That’s the wrong party silly…

[@kylecmurphy]

The same state that uses capitalism to create more net new jobs and wealth than any other state.

[@billofrightsamend4]

So Reagan was a socialist? Nixon?

[@khanhduyvo5023]

How did the car get in the hands of the museum?

[@SidetrackAdventures]

General Lyon purchased it in the 1980s.

[@mjh5437]

@@SidetrackAdventures I thought it was in the Canadian War Museum.

[@morrisp.5583]

​@@mjh5437...... You are correct. The actual car with all matching serial numbers etc. is in the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa. It is quite a story as to how it was traced back to Hitler. Worth checking out. Cheers

[@SH00T_TH3PUMP]

Of course its in California! That doesn't surprise me at all!

[@cgpapineau]

I saw Hitler's car up close a few years ago in this wonderful museum. It truly gave me the chills.

[@leonajameson8902]

So cool. Didn’t even know it existed