Classics invade Swansea city centre!

The shoppers of Swansea were treated to a display of classic cars on Sunday 16th June. Riley RMs, a Toyota Hilux and an Austin Heavy 12/4 that we'll be driving soon were amongst the cars on display. Join us for a walkaround and some classic car facts on the fly!
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[@tinplategeektoo]

Hubnut will be in trouble as he forget to say "Princess Anne owned one of these" as he mentions a Scimitar. It's obligatory you know. 😆

[@HubNut]

I'll leave that to everyone else. ;-)

[@aaronhussain3873]

She owned eight - the last being a Middlebridge which she kept until only very recently. It resides now in The Great British Car Journey

[@TheCounty90]

It’s a £5 fine if you don’t mention it in Bristol. Big warning signs as you drive into the city centre.

[@worldofrandometry6912]

And then everyone who tells you she owned a Middlebridge.

[@2Wheels4Wheels.]

The heady aroma of diesel and ice cream with a Greensleeves soundtrack- childhood heaven, 60s style!

[@AndreiTupolev]

I associate ice cream vans with paraffin or TVO, as ice cream vans were allowed to use that in the refrigerator engine as it cost much less than petrol

[@mattw8332]

HA, HB and HC Vivas - full house! Loving the red Capri and the mark 2 Escort.

[@frglee]

I can never understand how some Vivas somehow managed to survive four or five decades. My first car, a 1969 Viva HB 1600 OHC, had huge rust holes in the tyre arches by 1976! Memories of chicken wire and plastic padding body repairs...

[@Invisibleman7]

Thanks for showing us around. Hope you had a nice day. Lots of nice cars on show.i think the white fiesta was an RS 1800

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

I think it was with the wheels it was sporting.

[@romac9516]

Good to see Swansea looking so good as a backdrop to another pro tour. Car identification without notes or hesitation :O

[@caw25sha]

9:00 "Get in the Dormobil".

[@andrewgurney6019]

Great idea to show classics in that environment.

[@allanriches9381]

Well done Swansea, a lovely collection of cars

[@anthonygregg862]

Hi Ian. Another fabulous video - a treat indeed. Also a big thankyou goes out to you for signing my calender happy birthday. its made my day. Good times.

[@HubNut]

You're welcome. Happy birthday!

[@anthonygregg862]

@@HubNut thankyou mate

[@rich3500]

Hi Ian just a quick note on the MGB GT V8. The chrome bumper V8 is the most common one, I think the production figures are something like 1856 chrome bumper and 735 rubber bumper. Of the latter, some have been converted to chrome bumper so a rubber bumper factory V8 which hasn't been altered is by far the rarest of the two. You can easily tell if a car started as rubber bumper as the chassis number will start GD2D1-2xxx. Sorry to sound nerdy but I used to own a V8 and can remember looking up the figures. Keep up the good work!

[@alansmith1770]

Some lovely cars Ian. The mark 2 Escort just like the one I passed my test in. As always love the Gilbern. Thanks

[@wanderingorganist]

A lovely, unhurried, stroll around a varied clutch of lovely cars. Thank you.

[@ianclark9280]

Love it. Nice weather, nice cars. My town does a festival on may and August bank holidays. Town centre is closed, entertainment etc and vehicles. It's fun

[@send2mc]

So interesting to see the Viva HB. We had it in Australia as the HB Holden Torana. My grandmother had one with the 2 speed auto. I still remember how it sounded ❤️

[@icascone]

What a Great show!!! At some point you see a young woman with a walking stick and so it gives people who normally can't travel much the chance of seeing a classic car/s and even children who normally woujldn't get the chance and get them excited about classic cars so to preserve these pieces of history... Also great variety too!

[@CauliflowerMcPugg]

Loved the TR2 and my favorite would have to be the gorgeous ice-cream

[@scottishcarenthusiastsandtrain]

Thanks for sharing, great to see people going about their daily way of life and interacting with the older cars.

[@daniellee9015]

Absolutely brilliant video Ian miss hubnut mini hubnut ❤👍nice collection of classics I have never been to Swansea looks really nice Ian brilliant

[@anthonystevens8683]

It would be great to see more of these type of events where the general public get a chance to see vehicles from yester week or decade or even century, it might just spark more interest in the younger generations who have no idea of the older vehicle scene and maybe decide to get involved. I top video Ian and thanks for sharing.

[@Kevin_Hones]

The colour scheme of the TR7 is lovely! I must confess to orange and purple being my favourite colours. The Bedford ice-cream van seems to have the rear lights of a Mk1 Cortina?!?

[@HubNut]

Yup.

[@graemew7001]

I could be wrong but I'm sure the wheels on the blue Landrover are called Turbovec wheels from the '80's, a bit like on the A Team van. Loving the Viva's especially the HC's.

[@peterfinucane8122]

Parents had an 1800 Magnum (in New Zealand) They were rare over here.

[@graemew7001]

@@peterfinucane8122 Seems they were rare everywhere, I just checked build numbers because a guy near us in the UK had a Maroon 2300 Estate and they only built 197 Estates! When you think tho, the mid 70's oil crisis hit when they came so that likely killed it for them.

[@hopkin2006]

Nice tour Ian. I wish they have classic cars like these in South Korea and here in Singapore.

[@mervynprice7009]

Fabulous to see the centre of Swansea again. Some of it I actually remember from my childhood. The cars were good as well. The Viva HB, a different colour to the driving school one I learnt to drive in. That was in the early 1960s.

[@AndreiTupolev]

I saw an XK8 the other day. Not particularly rare, you may think, but it was on Dutch plates. Turning into Morrisons. Other recent sightings: a 1968/69 Pontiac filling up in the petro station, and a yellow Mk 3 Cortina with lowered suspension and what sounded suspiciously like a V8 under the bonnet 🤔

[@milksheihk]

9:25 In the late 90s the fastest stock based engine TR3 in Australia had Massey Ferguson rods & pistons.

[@gafrers]

Lovely Classics display

[@TurboTimsWorld]

I worked at a MOT station in Swindon and I MOTed most of the Ice cream vans most of which were old Bedfords as the tax was cheep. IF it came in on a "working" day and passed we all got a 99 but to MOT it you spent 30 mins under it with the engine running and a second prop shaft spinning to run the mister whippy ice cream machine equipment at 1500 rpm and that prop shaft 2 inches from your head...its no wonder I have a bald spot now! Now Ive moved to Devon we just get a Hockings Land Rover Ice Cream van in the yard, now that would be a test drive when your down the Ho!

[@snbala]

What a great idea, it is really important for kids to older people to know and acknowledge about old cars, that they exist and the history attached to them. I am glad to see many getting involved in the cars. Nice variety there too.

[@tinniswood2577]

Some real beauties there.

[@Patricki8bs]

What a great idea just putting the cars where passing shoppers can appreciate classic cars.the Merc 500sl wow what a car 👍🔧🍄🍺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@allanmollison6971]

Thanks for sharing Ian, looks like a lovely day there. 😊👍

[@biker_dan]

Very nice. I never see any VX490,s nowadays . Used to love the look if them

[@Tom_Roberts]

Great idea for a show to the public.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I love the 8 series BMW. i got to drive an 840 for six months - it was great.

[@hunterhomeservicesracing6453]

Love your knowledge of cars

[@bentullett6068]

More towns and cities should do this. Only problem is some certain cities don't like some older cars from the 1980's and early 2000's demand a fee to enter the city centres.

[@captaccordion]

Hi Hubnut. On the Vanguard/TR engine vs the Fergie tractor engine, I'm not sure whether one came before the other, though the starting point for both was at much the same time. Obviously they're not identical, a the cylinder block for the Fergie is part of the tractor's structure. That aside, pretty nearly everything else interchanges. That includes pistons, sleeves, cylinder head, and more. My Vanguard is running a Fergie water pump. Cheers.

[@ThirdDegreeWitchExplores]

Riley RM Saloon or Morris 8 for me , They’re real lookers .. Another relaxed video , Thanks muchly

[@daveowen9481]

Thanks Ian. I hope you’ve recovered from the Paris adventure.

[@michaelstaunton1632]

Another great video on the channel great mix of cars on display well done 👍👍👍

[@wrathofbod]

Love the HA Viva, HB & HC, A40 & Mini

[@andyarmstrong1493]

Beautiful cars on a beautiful day. What's not to love.

[@ianmontgomery7534]

There is a gentleman in Melbourne who has a right hand drive Gullwing and he allows children to sit in it at shows.

[@tonysargent7787]

another great video has always Ian and Carly miss/mrs hubnut and hublets and hubmutt 👍

[@ShedTV]

The first SII Land Rover might benefit from the slightly odd wheelarch extensions worn by the second with it's far more standard wheels.

[@peter_is_my_name]

Great video. Thanks!

[@micheltebraake7915]

Nice show.

[@MrOvershoot]

Does that Bedford CA Ice Cream van have MkI Cortina rear lights?

[@robingiles9444]

I noticed that too 😉

[@HubNut]

It does.

[@SmallBlogV8]

I went to uni in Swansea and I don't remember ever walking into the city centreti find rows of classic cars! Maybe I'd usually gone home by then...

[@McGrory69]

Taking a chance showing your classic in venues such as this with lots of adults and children with little care for your pride and joy.

[@HubNut]

Yes, that is a risk - though one shared with any show really. You have to decide whether the risk is worth it. Hide classics away and nobody will bond with them.

[@McGrory69]

@@HubNut I took my Jag to a couple of town centre shows and saw children running around bouncing off cars and wing mirrors etc & adults scraping jacket zips and bouncing shopping bags off cars, plus the usual array of pond life you get & that was it for me, never again.

[@eclecticcyclist]

Gem Marsh and Frank Costin deveroped the Marcos in a small garage in Cwm y Glo near the bottom end of Padarn Lake, and began production in Dolgellau.

[@craigyllyn]

I never knew that! I must look for it!

[@eclecticcyclist]

@@craigyllyn Look up the history on 'marcos owners club'

[@craigyllyn]

@@eclecticcyclist already done it! I’ll be going over the coming days. I didn’t realise!!! Thank you you so much👍

[@charliemanson4808]

7:41 🤔 hmmmm....why do that. Stunning car otherwise, i had a 2 door M reg in gold back in the 80's....oh that snickety gear change

[@caw25sha]

You mean the lettering? They look like self adhesive stickers from Rymans so will probably fall off soon.

[@dungbetel]

The Sceptre was a cool car.

[@user-mm5od5jh2o]

I think I was there just after you were

[@thatcheapguy525]

I'm no fan of Land Rovers but the one in teal with those fat wheels looks great

[@grayfool]

Loving the idea of street shows. More this pleas. f

[@Extreme_Rice]

9:21 hope you were saying “bomb hole”

[@HubNut]

Yup. 😉

[@jang.5309]

Would you make a list or share what car shows are worth visiting or are must visit car shows? Would be great!👍🏼✌🏼

[@HubNut]

Quite often we find them at very short notice, like this one.

[@jensonhopton3773]

Punto made it in 5:04 👍

[@daviemaclean61]

Can we expect another travel vlog or did you get there without too much trouble? Last dig, I promise!

[@KirksAudioSanctum]

I will NEVER go to Swansea again until they sort out that terrible 20MPH speed limit. Last time we went, it had taken us over an hour to get out and back to the M4! The whole city gets locked up, it is terrible...

[@HubNut]

Swansea has a fair bit of 30mph limit still and we can get to the Westbound side very swiftly. Cities get locked up at times regardless of limit.

[@cornishhh]

A bit easier to get there and back than Paris.

[@lesklower7281]

That Ural is an interesting point is that the sidebar wheel is driven of the rear wheel of the motorcycle there is an axle going from the rear wheel of the motorcycle to the rear wheel of the sidebar also l have on mention that 1980s Toyota Hilux a lot of work and money has gone into that in Australia they are not that common but there is one not far from were l live and it also a 4X4 l have seen a couple rear wheel drive utes around and a great variety of classic and modern classic cars and l did like the classic Bedford ice cream van an appropriate ice cream van to have at a classic car and motorcycle show although the Ural wouldn't be a classic motorcycle yet although it looks like one sell them in Australia not very common

[@AndreiTupolev]

Based on the wartime BMW. Had a reverse gear as well

[@caw25sha]

9:15 My dad had one and I have some vague idea the headlamp wipers were actually brushes. Am I right or am I just going doolally?

[@HubNut]

Only on Rolls-Royces.

[@caw25sha]

@@HubNut Nope, he definitely didn't have a Rolls 😀

[@JamesAllmond]

What a cool show. Oddly, Urals are from Kazakhstan now, pretty sure the one in the show is possibly one of those. That is a very late model one... I brought mine over there last year...

[@cornishhh]

Weren't they made in Ukraine at some point; hence the Cossack Dnepr?

[@JamesAllmond]

@@cornishhh Dneprs were made in Kiev and were a bit different than Urals that were made in Irbit, untl they moved. They didn't share many components. Dneprs were the military bikes of the Soviet Union while Urals were more for the cops and proletariat. Your Cossack Dneprs were an animal meant for the UK, but basically Dneprs.

[@twocvbloke]

So that's the ABC of Vivas there then... :P

[@colinp2238]

Did you know about the street show before you went to Swansea, or just come over it?

[@HubNut]

We knew, though we'd planned a trip out in Swansea too.

[@giuliopedrali4794]

HubNut your video are always the best, but a question from a Italian fans (excuse me for my poor english) : don't you find that the last british classic car meetings like also this in Swansea are today too similar to european, south european (Italian...) classic cars meetings, with cars of all the age (1930s classic and 1990s tuning cars or American classic all togheter)? while a Italian like me think that british meetings should be of cars of only a decades or marques or theme, remember the time when the british shows and meetings was the best in the world

[@HubNut]

As someone who has always loved overseas classics, I'd rather see variety.

[@giuliopedrali4794]

@@HubNut Yes, but i imagine the incredible british meetings more specialistic. A dream is : The festival of unexeptional, in my opinion this is the best of the best of the brit passion for motor cars.

[@tweed532DaveH]

Had a similar event on the 'Green' at the front here in Lytham on June 16th if you want to Google it. Old classics a nice mix 4, 3 & 2 wheels, however some newer supercars have been tracked as weekend hire so the 'owner' could spend the day TikToking. Plonkers...😂

[@sim6699]

Good if it gets the youth interested, especially pre war

[@giulianomarco]

Hello! 😁👍

[@I-T-S-M-E]

Hi

[@colinevans39]

Maybe I'm just too old fashioned with people behaving without screaming and shouting a lost world sadly 🙄😤

[@2tone209]

AY UP HUBNUTTERS

[@terryatkinson3182]

👍🇮🇪

[@thunderman8164]

Where is mercedes w140

[@HubNut]

Very rare cars now. People are terrified of the complexity I think.

[@tonys1636]

Classics? Maybe a few but anything post 1970's is modern to those of us well into our pension years. Don't mention Ural's, the one I had was more unreliable than my old Triton, one can only go so far tuning a Triumph Twin before it becomes unreliable. The Ural was the military version with a right hand driven sidecar complete with machine gun mount. A very poor copy of a BMW.

[@HubNut]

Some of us are younger. 😉

[@tonys1636]

@@HubNut Don't I know it! my 30 year old Grandson keeps reminding me and asking why I'm not a museum exhibit, the cheeky monkey.

[@GarryMcGovern]

Did that beautiful SL500 have those absolutely godawful 3D numberplates (I refuse to call them 4D - unless the 4th dimension in this case is stupidity??)? Oh dear god no! HOW could they ruin such a car, with such hideous looking addenda! That car should be taken from them, and they should be banned from ever owning a classic ever again! 😡

[@COLLSWORK]

😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀

[@colinevans39]

Forgive me but the screaming kids do not go hand in hand with a classic car show sorry but I big spoiler 😤 parents need to respect we more sedate older people 🙄