The British Motor Museum At Gaydon - Our Very First Visit

The British Motor Museum & JDHT At Gaydon - Our Very First Visit During Rustival 2024
During the Rustival Festival car show in 2024 - tickets gave us access to the British Motor Museum. Dad and I had never visited so had absolutely no idea what to expect! Safe to say we had a fantastic time wandering around the museum, seeing all the exhibits and the awesome prototype vehicles.
In this video, Dad and I explore the museum, have a look at some of the exhibits and Dad imparts some useful knowledge about a COBEST machine!
Sit down and enjoy, come with us for a wander around the British Motor Museum.
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[@JonCoupland]

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[@GentilsGarage]

I loved it. Having your dad telling stories about these cars is a delight.

[@JonCoupland]

Thanks for watching 😄

[@fhwolthuis]

Great video, lovely to hear your dad's stories too. I've visited this museum in 2012, time flies. I found it very worthwhile 👌🏼😃

[@JonCoupland]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Jaxs2]

Brilliant interesting look around, guys .. Good info, much appreciated. I enjoyed that 👍

[@JonCoupland]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@bradjohnson1627]

Brilliant museum ❤ Excellent tour guides as well 😊

[@JonCoupland]

Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed a look around!

[@badbooks476]

Great video & excellent you enjoyed the museum. I have been many times, with the MX5 owners club, Superb collection. Ideally it needs a full day to appreciate it, never managed that yet though !

[@JonCoupland]

You are absolutely right!

[@mrcogginsgarage7062]

Jon ado ! It's ADO short for Austin Design Office.

[@JonCoupland]

Ah that makes sense! I knew someone would know ☺️

[@freiduumforall8843]

Having just hosted the annual Austin Car Clubs gathering (referred to as Austins Over Australia) in our country town here in NSW Australia last weekend, it was great to see such an extensive gathering of british motoring history there in Gaydon. Great vid and thanks for sharing…oh BTW, dad is still the star of the show….

[@JonCoupland]

Fantastic and yes absolutely he is 😂

[@a11csc]

the legend should be allowed free reign of the museum and all its bits for a month

[@JonCoupland]

Could you imagine 😂😂

[@a11csc]

you would have content for years lol@@JonCoupland

[@danielrussell446]

Hi Jon and Dad a brilliant video of the museum and love going down to Gaydon and seeing the cars but was even better with your great commentary and knowledge Some of the cars there are special I have many family members who signed the millionth Austin, my great uncle Des worked on assembling that pre production mini and then worked on the mini line for 27 years and then my uncle on the opposite side signed the last rover 100 made! Always love taking my sons all the best to you both Daniel

[@JonCoupland]

Glad you enjoyed it - fantsastic family connections!

[@danielrussell446]

@@JonCoupland yes lots of family stories with longbridge in particular including my granny’s next door neighbour was Stanley edge who helped Herbert Austin design the original Austin seven! A big part of many people’s lives around here and was sad when Longbridge closed for good

[@ArtCarFunky]

Brilliant video Jon. I've put that on my "Places I must visit" list. Also, in case you didn't know, the 1 millionth Mini had the registration number S621 AOK as a nod to the first ever mini (the white one you were looking at - registration 621 AOK. 🙂👍

[@JonCoupland]

Very interesting! Thanks for the facts

[@ArtCarFunky]

@@JonCoupland you're welcome 🙂👍

[@guyhorner8165]

Your father is 100% correct about the Hillman & the rostyle wheels. I remember having them on my 1974 Avenger. Sadly it wasnt a "Tiger" model, a very slow & ponderous 1250cc 🙄.

[@JonCoupland]

😁👍

[@darrenwilson8042]

That mini gutter trick explains why they rotted out their A Pillar. When I worked as a Loss Adjuster we got a claim for damage to a Krypton machine from a Ferrari specialist near the Trent in Nth Lincs. From memory I think he forgot to unhook it and reversed pulling it into the garage inspection pit damaging it. We searched high and low for repair stuff but nothing could be found and he needed it as in the twenty teens he was working on 60's cars. In the end it proved best to settle with a second hand broken machine imported from the Netherlands or Germany can't remember which and the guy said with the two machines he was able to build one working one so was happy to settle at that.

[@JonCoupland]

Blimey! That's a tale and a half

[@darrenwilson8042]

I could tell you of the visit I made to a garage that repaired pre-WW3 Bentley blowers in Malton. I had a great job.@@JonCoupland

[@Sid3300]

Weird seeing the MK1 Focus ST170 in a musem. It was only yesterday those were everywhere!

[@JonCoupland]

Wasn't it just!!

[@johnmoruzzi7236]

There was an 80s kit car looking like the MG TF called the Gentry... based on a Triumph Herald...

[@JonCoupland]

That is very cool 😊

[@chucky2316]

Looks great, i bet alot of good memories and bad ones when walking around 😂

[@JonCoupland]

I bet! Hope you enjoyed the video

[@tides2002]

MG sports cars traditionally start with the 251 vin number as it was the MG Abingdon works original phone number

[@JonCoupland]

Ah that's so interesting

[@meeshker]

Obviously you don't like ex works Austin Healeys. PWB57 was the last works Healey built to win the 1967 RAC Rally, which was cancelled because of foot and mouth. The Number plate was Peter Brownings own. The ran the BMC Works team

[@JonCoupland]

Ah that's fascinating. Sadly we had to really stomp around the museum so didn't have a lot of time to really get into detail about everything.

[@stevehoulihan726]

Is it me or is that DB5 "too silver"? I saw a Silver Birch one last week, looked much darker.

[@JonCoupland]

Sadly I'm not an expert on them. Still a stunner 😍

[@stevehoulihan726]

@@JonCoupland Oh yeah, i definitely wouldn't say no! One of very few cars that makes me go all daft when I see one on the road!

[@Taz-wf4jl]

Do they own them all or are some on loan from collectors?

[@JonCoupland]

I believe they own them all