The 1960 Helsinki Auto Show

[@schubertjorg7428]

Die Autos waren früher viel schöner als heute. Die Designer hatten noch ihre Phantasie ausleben können, doch heute bestimmt das Diktat des Windkanals Form und Schnitt. Der CW-Wert ist die Autoreligion der Neuzeit.

[@istvanjordan3858]

semmi szélcsatorna otromba magas elejű tompa autónak nevezett valamik hamar szétesnek drága műanyag szarok

[@lifehappens7511]

I understood not one word and thoroughly enjoyed this video!

[@keyalpha1]

Suurin osa oli nätimpiä ku nykyautot.

[@mrsarcastic5331]

That blue dash look fancy🦕

[@nygelmiller5293]

I saw one of my favourite sportscars of all time, the Renault Floride, with its removable hardtop! Wow!

[@DanielGonzalez-pu6cb]

Brigitte Bardot has a Renault Floride 👌

[@ollelorin8570]

Fantastic footage indeed! Lots of Russian cars (Volga, Moskvitch, Chaika, ZIL, etc) and Czech ones (Skoda, Tatra).....Amazing "time machine"...

[@istvanjordan3858]

minőségben szarok voltak

[@dorkadezso5826]

Those Borgward Isabellas are something to die for.

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Wartburg 313 convertible are even more beautifull and more expensive

[@tonyduggan4535]

As the song says "it is a long way to Tipperary" but in Clonmel in 1961 as I six year old i remember a gentleman farmer - Aber Barnes_ - owning a mid grey coloured Borgward Isabella which he drove with style- after 60 years brings back many memories.

[@estebancambiazo1385]

Finland 🇫🇮 beautiful country...perhaps in my next life..I born there.

[@vratislavtupecjr.9498]

6:21 cars: all small Tatra: big one with V8 (with Corvair)

[@velyogendra1287]

(Pun) I don't know who painted those cars but they all had a nice "finish". Seriously there were a lot of great looking cars.

[@nevoobrazimiy]

Вот смотришь такие фильмы - и слезы наворачиваются на глаза! Был у нашей страны престиж! Большое спасибо за видео!

[@morosovnick]

Да, было! Но всё в наших руках!

[@nevoobrazimiy]

Nick Morozov Если только крепко вцепиться в какую-то новую или лучше: только зарождающуюся нишу

[@nygelmiller5293]

Quite a few Russian cars, for you to look at! I don't speak Russian, but it was interesting to see cars that were available in Helsinki - probably because it is closer to Russia than Great Britain.

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@nygelmiller5293 ruszki olcsó ócskaságok

[@abbrag1]

Nice technic colour. Perfect picture.

[@crist67mustang]

Yesss. Good transfer. Maybe a original 35mm film.

[@Gerk8]

Thank you for posting this I thoroughly enjoyed it!

[@crist67mustang]

*I can see a Taunus 17m sedan and station wagon, (minute **8:00**) design correspondes between 1957 to 1959. In 1960 is replaced for another design completely diferent. So, I think this footage maybe ending 50s.* Greetings from *Santiago Chile* , SouthAmerica.

[@asdfghjkl48929]

I checked the film's data, it is actually as late as summer 1960. But as far as I know they started the actual production of the new Taunus (P3) as late as in September 1960, which would explain the old model at the exhibition.

[@crist67mustang]

@@asdfghjkl48929 Thank you very much. My mum had a Taunus 17m 1960, with fifties shape Ford cars, it is rocket tail, similar maybe to a 1957 Chevrolet Bell Air, wide chrome grill, rounded headlights, etcetera. Now I understand why this footage shows those models, cause it is previous to the restyling made, the all new Ford Taunus was shorter, oval headlights, no rocket wings, it looks very 60s era, perhups it marked rhe road for the new shape for future lines of the all new1962 American Ford Thunderbird, back side now more austero. 🇨🇱🏁🇩🇪

[@asdfghjkl48929]

@@crist67mustang The new "bath tub" Taunus was indeed a big leap from the design with fins. It's funny how the big American companies sometimes seemed to first test new ideas in Europe and then launch something similar in USA. Mostly of course European cars carried on with design that already was outdated on the other side of the Atlantic.

[@crist67mustang]

@@asdfghjkl48929 ♥️

[@НиколайМихайлов-п2п]

What a time...

[@Alexey_Tokarev]

В конце фильма можно убедиться, что на улицах Хельсинки действительно часто встречались советские автомобили: "Победы", "Волги", "Москвичи" и даже грузовики ГАЗ-51. Так что, не зря президент Финляндии Урхо Калеви Кекконен так внимательно осматривал автомобили на стенде СССР.

[@asdfghjkl48929]

When Moskvitch launched the new 408 in 1964, called "Elite" in Finland, they donated a black car (not a standard color, as far as I know) to Kekkonens wife, Sylvi. I don't think there is any record that she actually used it, as she already had a Morris Mini, which she drove regularly (and hit a tram with it, unfortunately...). Fun fact: president Kekkonen himself never had a driver's license for a car, but hade driven motorcycles when he was younger.

[@massimocallegari4898]

Probabilmente le più adatte alla Finlandia per la somiglianza alla Russia, grandi distanze tra le città, il clima, strade " selvatiche"...

[@istvanjordan3858]

vizsgálhatta a sok lopott szart

[@johngilmour8945]

I loved the "FORD PREFECT"!

[@tomipaakkunainen3470]

Loistavaa! The swinging sixties!👍👍👍

[@heikkinumell7805]

Voi miten kaipaan tuota aikaa ja tunnelmaa. (Olin silloin 10v.) Autotkin olivat hienoja.

[@iljakocian3146]

Beautiful and noble.

[@laura69271]

this is AWESOME !!!!

[@Sturminfantrist]

3:26 Hansa Lloyd, in early 60s as young Boys we shout " Wer den Tod nicht scheut der fährt Lloyd, kaum ist der Fahrer eingestiegen sieht man schon die Knochen fliegen"

[@yurifoxx3983]

"wer steht am Berg und heult?...der Lloyd"

[@muundashatimwene489]

Lovly cars especially tht station wagon has enough space for lugages

[@robertheal5137]

what an interesting video. I have no idea what 1/3 of those cars were.

[@gerryhouska2859]

Ditto.

[@dcanmore]

lots of Russian and Eastern European models, British and American.

[@Sleepy-c7h]

Mein Vater leistete sich Anfang der 60er Jahre einen Borgward Isabella. Er war stolzer als ein Spanier.

[@denismarcel2295]

"Tall" mon père aussi !

[@MrMoskvichok]

2:20 Москвич-423Н неимоверно красивый) Ему очень такое сочетание белого с синим идёт - что на кузове, что в салоне. Да и в целом - даже несколько непривычно видеть его таким чистым и сверкающим)

[@istvanjordan3858]

orosz gyönyörű ne túlozz

[@denismarcel2295]

Avant le break Citroën ID19 je crois on peut voir un petit coupé allemand "Isabella " de BORGWARD marque disparue mais qui survivait par le biais des taxis dans certains pays

[@esajuhanirintamaki965]

Ainakin pari "Rellunpippanaa", mallia Töphiini! Videon musiikki erityisen nautittavaa. Helsingin katunäkymäosuus - namia!

[@parakumwick6871]

Nice informative video !

[@autofox1744]

As an American, watching all these (to me) sleek, small European cars go by, and then seeing a regular Corvair in the middle of it all, was jarring!

[@СергейПанюков-к9д]

Там был и Plymouth Valiant 1960😂

[@autofox1744]

​@@СергейПанюков-к9дI missed that!!

[@unwrought9757]

Don’t underestimate Tatra, it’s the white car with three front lights. It has got V8 engine and indeed overall American size.

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@unwrought9757 zabálta a benzint fölöslegesen

[@gregoriogutierrez5492]

Preciosos autos saludos desde mexico

[@gerdlunau8411]

Amazing how many cars made in the Eastern bloc were sold, just watch the live street scene. In the 1950s and 1960s those cars could easily compete with their Western counterparts - if you leave the big Americans out. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

[@istvanjordan3858]

keleti autók rossz anyag és nagy benzinfogyasztás

[@gerdlunau8411]

@@istvanjordan3858 This incorrect. East-bloc cars at the time could easily compete including quality during this period. The gasoline consumption was the same, particular since Eastern bloc countries always wanted low consumptions in order to safe national resources. If the material was not that good, it often had something to do with the Western trade embargos. Which is why embargos are always a bad thing. The West also manufactured in the 1950s - 1980s quite a lot of real lousy vehicles in terms of quality. I am tired of this simple and probably anti-Communist narrative. If it is or was from the East, it MUST be bad. Tiring, wrong and stupid ideology. Peace! from Dresden / Germany PS: Trade is peace and embargos are the first step towards war. Human history is so full of it

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@gerdlunau8411 gyerekkorom óta szerelek apám nyugaton élt tudom hogy kelet másolt és rossz anyagból slusz

[@gerdlunau8411]

@@istvanjordan3858 As a young man I worked in the very young field of semiconductor industry (the first simple generation of logic ICs, processors and memory ICS etc.) in the GDR. Sure we copied like hell. But simply because we could not buy the necessary equipment. Against public opinion copying as a process is not a cheap solution, particular if only smaller units of the product is needed. In such a case it is better to buy from the specialists. Also for a lot of materials we went for subsidiary materials - simply because we were not allowed to purchase them, those materials were listed within the COCOM list. This also led to a lot invention, which, you won't believe it, was then sometimes copied by the West. Embargos are always bad, regardless. By the way, the "Made.in-Germany" story was also a story of copying products (from England), making them better and cheaper. Unfortunately we are heading again into such bad embargo times, caused by short-sighted politicians on all sides. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

[@Tony-hx2fj]

sure miss those cars!!!!!

[@hugglescake]

@ 9:00 mark there's a 1957 Desoto

[@chevrolet-biscayne-1959]

Советские автомобили во всей своей красе🤩

[@istvanjordan3858]

a lopás az dicsőség ez jó

[@kaiokendo]

I love the "don't sue us salsa" genre

[@didithoese2185]

С сегодняшней точки зрения, это давно утерянные, но привлекательные и очаровательные воспоминания о хороших временах. со многими автомобилями, которые еще имели характер.

[@GAZBLIN]

Great video

[@MrRobster1234]

2:55 I wonder how many Austin Healey's they sold in Finland ?

[@PerttiSalomaa]

Lapsena olin Skoda Felicia avoauton kyydissä n. 1965. Viimeistely oli paikoin onnetonta, kuten 59 mossen, jota aikuisena ajoin Itälaatu huipentui, kun ostin tsekkislovakian favorit fillarin kierrätyskeskuksesta aikoinaan 5 € . 2 viikkoa ja takapyörä taittui poikittain alle.

[@istvanjordan3858]

rossz futómű

[@sirronnorris3343]

@2'55" In the foreground London Black Cab and Austin A40 - or clones, perhaps...?

[@dieselfan7406]

Plus an Austin Healey Sprite with a red 3000 behind that.

[@hurri7720]

Why would they be clones.

[@crist67mustang]

Chevrolet Corvair remindes me Ultraman Japanese TV serie. 😘

[@chevrolet-biscayne-1959]

Интересный фургон на 5:00 🤔

[@mozek1100mb]

Bedford Van

[@roguedalek900]

I'd love a Borgward but I want a Skoda . May God help me. I'd even like a Volga or a Chakia .

[@istvanjordan3858]

ruski szart minek

[@onesandzeroes]

It's strange how the camera is always too close to the subject, with parts of the car or person cut off. Nowadays that would just be considered bad framing, back then it may have been the standard, or maybe they hadn't learnt to do it properly yet. But I find it a bit uncomfortable to watch - I want to see the whole damn thing! :)

[@adelaidejones2346]

It's the aspect ratio I'm assuming - this was probably shot and shown in 16mm film, which has a ratio of 1.37:1. However this copy of the video is in narrower 4:3 (same as a vhs tape/ old tv) which means the sides of the frame have been cut off.

[@onesandzeroes]

@@adelaidejones2346 You might be right, but 4/3 is ~1.33, so there isn't that much difference. And often the top and bottom seems to be cut off as well, so I do believe they liked to get too close :)

[@unwrought9757]

I don’t understand Finnish unfortunately, but since I was born there, it sounds so familiar and so home to me!🇫🇮❤️

[@peturdobrev1196]

Спомних си годините когато бях ученик.Няма как да се върне времето за съжаление.

[@MartinMatejka-jf9nu]

Oh 08:45 Wartburg 311 coupe?

[@vladilenkalatschev4915]

Та эпоха, когда за отечественный автопром было не стыдно

[@istvanjordan3858]

az volt mert a némettől lopták a ruskik

[@aris95]

2:20 Moskvitsh 423 station wagon (farmari mosse)

[@alphonsocarioti512]

I even say a convertible Renault Caravelle!

[@tunturi_mies9578]

Onko täällä ketään Suomalaista?

[@mrsarcastic5331]

A Skoda then to a Skoda now I'd rather have a Skoda now than then.

[@suomenpresidentti]

I never knew that DS21 came as a station wagon too.

[@b-Lajutub]

It's only DS (Id)19. All the best!

[@dcanmore]

plus a two-door convertible and the Chapron and President models.

[@Wwladislaw]

как много разных автомобилей. Все отличаются. А сейчас....одни копии с небольшими изменениями.

[@Alexey_Tokarev]

"Оптимизация". Точнее, МОНОПОЛИЗАЦИЯ автопромышленности.

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@Alexey_Tokarev akkor meg ruski lopás

[@robertdeptula2003]

8:27 Polska Nysa

[@hedgehog9475]

Сколько Москвичей на дорогах!

[@postoffice146]

They were affordable but not sought-after

[@istvanjordan3858]

és mind szar

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@postoffice146 és lopottak

[@ThomasMadness]

5:55 what manafactuer?

[@michaschulz9511]

Goliath Express manufactured by Goliath-Werke Borgward (Germany)

[@jeffking4176]

If only it were in English..... 👍🙂

[@ModMokkaMatti]

But then it wouldn't be in Finnish...

[@jourwalis-8875]

I agree....

[@PU8698]

Go watch some American car shows then if you want to see them speak english

[@mattikaki]

Hahhah. First Moskvits, Volga and Tsaika. Soviet ”cars”. Then the other ones. Soviet cars were not so well made and they had to be thoroughly serviced here in Finland before sold. The car sales taxes were huge here and the Soviet cars were tax free, so that was the reason they were sold. Western car had around 50% tax so they were really expensive.

[@kapral_jedziniak]

Cars had souls back then, today they are safe, economical, fast and ... bland.

[@becconvideo]

Interesting to see in the street view that the Fins actually bought Moskviches and Wolgas.

[@andreamassara590]

Not so strange. USSR was just a stone's throw away, and Finnish government bought MiG 21 fighter planes too.

[@rickrandom6734]

Finland was not very prosperous then and they were cheap.

[@kriskross63]

I lived in Helsinki between 1967 and 1971. Though I was a little boy then, I can assure you: Finland WAS prosperous, and I cannot remember having seen russian, or other eastblock cars on the streets there. Anyway, that was around 8 years later, so things might have changed dramatically in the meantime.. My parents had a Ford Taunus 17M, neighbours had a VW beetle, a Datsun Cherry, a Mercedes, and the car in our neighbourhood, I remember best, was a georgeous Ford Mustang Hardtop with beautiful rear lights and a phantastic C pillar.. Actually, I remember that my family even has visited this motor show in Helsinki, where I got lost in the crowd temporarily..

[@kriskross63]

This is an absolute *wrong* impression! Please consider, that Finland was neutral then. They lost a 1/3 of their country to the USSR, and they feared the Russians more than anything else! (Until today, they do, btw.) This television show was done by the state-driven TV stations, and they had to be diplomatic to the Russians right in front of their gates: They needed to calm them down all the time. So, I guarantee you, they showed explicitly russian cars on Helsinki roads on TV to calm the russian bear. I lived there for 4 years, and I don´t remember any russian car there! (Though, propably, there were very, very few of them, possibly..) I can´t even remember to have seen any eastern european car as they were considered as useless by everybody.

[@kriskross63]

@@andreamassara590 This is an absolute *wrong* impression! Please consider, that Finland was neutral then. They lost a 1/3 of their country to the USSR, and they feared the Russians more than anything else! (Until today, they do, btw.) The Finns they had to be diplomatic to the Russians right in front of their gates: They needed to calm them down all the time. So, I guarantee you, they showed explicitly russian cars on Helsinki roads on TV to calm the russian bear. ( I lived there for 4 years, and I don´t remember any russian car there! (Though, propably, there were very, very few of them, possibly..) I can´t even remember to have seen any eastern european car as they were considered as useless by everybody. )

[@pietrekmiara8316]

Super cars

[@elioviviani8013]

Belle e meno belle ma ognuna aveva una propria spiccata personalità, niente a che vedere con lo "stile" odierno fatto da insignificanti scopiazzature delle une con le altre!

[@ahoorakia]

Finland was part of Sweden from 12th century until 1809 and it was part of Russia from 1809 until 1917 and on DEC 6th of 1917 declared its independence from Russian empire

[@jerrywood4508]

I'd love to know how many cars each company sold in Finland in 1960. It's odd to see American makes on the street in a European city.

[@kirbywaite1586]

The black Russian car that you see first is actually a 1956 Packard( USA) When Packard was discontinued they sold all the dies to Russia and it continued to be built there for many years.

[@istvanjordan3858]

rossz ruski minőségben

[@Nakkisampyla]

Ei näy montakaan nykyään harrastajien ihannoimaa "jenkkiautoa" videolla, muutama Ford ja pari GM:n automallia

[@siggeberglund6390]

Jag vill tipsa dig att jag hade en sådan bil en moskvitch 1964 när jag var 20 år

[@istvanjordan3858]

szarabb volt mint egy nyugati

[@GOLDDYNACO]

Volvo and Saab???

[@istvanjordan3858]

mindig vett motort sosem gyártott futóművet sem

[@A.Dude.]

Why is the title in English, when the audio track is in fuckanese?

[@AlanG58]

It was cool seeing the Lloyd Alexander at 3:21 I've got a few of those great little cars. Then there was that Russian blatant copy of a Packard, haha.

[@Каракурт-о2ъ]

Почему то американские машины не показали!!!

[@Alexey_Tokarev]

Потому, что у скорпионов (особенно, у черных) зрение плохое...

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Sadly the green peoples party of Germany and the EU environment chamber have banned all combustion cars after 2030, from 2025 on there will be only very limited fuel supply, only one gas station per city in the EU. In Scandinavia all combustion cars are banned from 2025 on too. At the moment they even discuss to forbid trade with used combustion cars including classics!

[@GlowingTube]

Obey your government and do as you are told! After all be thankful you live in a democracy.

[@dcanmore]

it's happening all over Europe regardless of political party. UK Conservative Party (and non-EU) are also banning the sale of new petrol and diesel cars from 2030. Some car companies have already announced they will go all-EV after 2025.

[@channel_abc123_]

@@dcanmore EVs harm the environment too

[@sylwiaz200]

Vintage from Bob's burgers

[@panoscharos983]

Αχ φτώχεια...1960...

[@mh53j]

Bug-eyed headlights seemed pretty "popular."

[@richardmassey4206]

Turn off Muzak and name the cars

[@johngardiner669]

Just needs spinners.

[@jourwalis-8875]

All these dangerous rear-engined cars! And the worst of them all, the pernicious Chevrolet Corvair with a big V6 engine at the rear! Lethal!

[@michaelXXLF]

Jourwalis - It was a flat six.

[@ImForwardlook]

Don't believe that idiot Ralph Nader.

[@hugglescake]

As long as the tires were properly inflated, they were no worse than any other rear engined car of that era.

[@crist67mustang]

Checrolet Corvair was designed in US based on European sport cars, rear engine, but 6 cylinders very American on it. I think it is uggly design, used in Japanese Ultraman TV series. Hahaha. In fact, I thought it was a Japanese car. A big mistake for Chevrolet, bad sales, it had serious problems after all.

[@yurifoxx3983]

Lots of german cars (Borgward, Lloyd, Goliath, NSU Prinz & Spider, Ford Taunus) 👍

[@jamemedinaredondo9354]

F 's

[@istvanjordan3858]

no volga ford kopir no moszkvics opel kopir

[@gerdlunau8411]

The elderly 1950s Moskwish 400 was indeed an Opel copy, while the Volga was inspired by a Studebaker model from 1950s. The Volga was a predecessor from the Pobeda ("Victory"), the technical base was also based on the pre-war Opel Kapitän model. The reason is that the Red Army got hold of German design drawings, plants and toolings at the Opel works were part of German reparations towards the USSR. Which is why the very few Opel cars in the GDR were kept afloat with Soviet Moskwich-spare parts. Peace! from Dresden / Germany

[@istvanjordan3858]

@@gerdlunau8411 szabadrablás volt amerika anglia az egész kelet lopott a vesztes némettől motort autót mindent de minőségben a mai napig nem sikerült a német technikát anyagminőséget elérniük

[@eml3148]

That's about the most ugliest group of cars I've ever seen.

[@PU8698]

Some people just don't have taste for cars I guess... including you. But for real, everyone has an opinion. I still respect your very unpopular opinion though.