The Most Eccentric Car Collection, Uncut -- JALOPNIK ON /DRIVE

A French sports car with just enough seats for a driver's wife and mistress. A proto-SUV with a plywood roof. The ugliest convertible in the world. You've already met Myron Vernis on Jalopnik on DRIVE, now see his oddball cars that didn't make the first cut.

[@chriscraft77022]

would it hurt to film the cars? i will never forget this guy for as long as i live... because hes in 99% of the footage...

[@u2bMODERATOR]

Man, what an amateur work of camera! When we are hearing about the car, we want to SEE the car that is being the issue, not the guy speaking. So, I was very irritated when i wanted to see the car and the camera kept showing the man talking...Sorry , but this needs to better worked...

[@ivanramirez6730]

nice close ups of the man!, he knows a lot!... now, could you get there and shot at least 30 seconds of decent footage of the cars?

[@arronclark1035]

get a new camera man. i wanted to see the cars and instead i got to watch this guy talk.

[@BelieveNoGod]

If you don't know if you want to film the cars or the owner, why not have TWO cameras. Then later you can edit the video. Clipping in the owner at appropriate places. Because watching a video waving back and forth isn't that nice ;)

[@TheMindInvader]

I was going to lambast the camera work but you were nice about it.

[@astropilotred]

Might B ok if the camera focused on the cars more so we, I, could see them?

[@turnaround2219]

WHY IS THE CAMERA ALWAYS ON THE BALD GUY?

[@towallomeesgel1703]

Why are they focus on the guy talking? Nobody is interested in seeing him explain the car, FOCUS ON THE CAR !

[@eloyex]

i don't like most of the cars, but the owner is a kind guy, great narrative and knows a LOT about the stuff... learned a lot .....

[@wordreet]

+eloyex Absolutely. But he has more cars. This is just the 'lame duck' part of his collection.

[@SteelSkin667]

Matra cars were absolute wonders of engineering. Every single one used a steel space frame and composite body panels. Their best known work was the Renault Espace, which was a very commercially successful mini-van (MPV), and also used that same construction.

[@BackSeatHump]

+SteelSkin667 Matra. Oh yes!

[@Bogeythebest]

Please,give me only the Pontiac Trans Am ... i love this car :/

[@KennyMansa]

Say what you want about his collection but, the guy knows his stuff.

[@srok62]

it'd be nice if we could actually see the cars

[@stevevoelker6834]

Others have said this, but I want to add that the video should have focused on the cars with the collector's voice in the background. Lots of stuff to look at, but we're not looking at it. Why is that? I wanted to see the eccentric COLLECTION, not the eccentric, himself.

[@drive]

This is just raw footage that wasn't used in the original episode, which ran back in November. Funny how this has more views than the original. Check it out. watch?v=nznJTaiqZMo

[@bigbadputtytat]

First electric car in 1976??? Haven't you ever heard of a 1909 Baker? Do your homework bud!

[@electricuniverse2693]

Flocken Elektrowagen 1888, William Morrison 1890, Kriéger 1898, Jamais Contente 1899, Lohner-Porsche 1904, Detroit Electric 1907.......

[@MN12Guns]

He said "they called it the worlds first electronic automobile" electronic and electric are not the same thing (electronic implies computer control, IC or some type of modern logic like a calculator or computer chip compared to a simple electric motor or light bulb) and he was just saying what they called it so even if that's not true it's not him saying it.

[@Ismalith]

ElectricUniverse Lohner-Porsche is a brand of a good number of cars, including the first full hybrid in 1899 which got developed into a better version 1904, but they build e-cars before 1899

[@guily6669]

I don't think the first electric car was from 1976, but way back... However they sucked, they still suck and will continue to suck until someone fights those petrol fuckers winning billions buying their Supercars and luxuary hotels... I wish we had a combustion hydrogen car instead of a electrolysis of the hydrogen and better batteries so that the electric cars would be able to do 1000KM on a full charge and that the battery would charge in like a hour or that they had fast swappable batteries like if it was a gas station, like you would pay a fee and you could simply just go there and change the battery for a fully charged one, that would be cool.

[@Ismalith]

guily6669 Combustion hydrogen cars existed but because of bad efficiency they died out. Also the two serious elictric cars have ranges of 500 and 600 km with under 2h recharge for the 500km and under one hour for the 600km car, both of them are very fast and much more comfortable than combustion cars. Electric cars are good enough for what we need today unlike the 300 year old combustion garbage. The problem is that the producer don´t want to use this technology because it isn´t monopolistic technology.

[@raydreamer7566]

Great video - loved to see so many different types of cars and hear story about them. Thanks

[@brucegibbins3792]

This is great, fun to watch and I like the easy flow and quiet enthusiasim of this guys comments. He clearly digs these automotive misfits & orphans & after watching this vid I do too. But now I want to see more of the collection with the same entertaining and informative commentary.

[@BachikoiBabi]

I'm always really jealous of the "car collectors" that buy cars just to have them and brag about them. This guy, is not like those people. You can tell this guy really enjoys each individual car.

[@bigyetti3830]

nice to have seen more of the cars

[@greghumble7306]

Cool guy. I like his cars someone needs to love the ugly ones

[@davestone7322]

This is a great video. Fantastic collection and an owner that really knows his stuff. Reading the comments below I'm surprised a video like this would attract so many clueless morons. It is what it is.

[@officialclownbusiness7788]

Dave Stone surprised by the morons? No offense, but is this your first comments section or something? The idiots practically ARE KZbin.

[@davestone7322]

Pat Eldridge 100% agreed. My comment was more video specific. He's got some rare stuff here.

[@officialclownbusiness7788]

Dave Stone that he does.

[@aeHyde]

+Dave Stone guess they were too clueless to find a hood latch.

[@sadikmeah4057]

when people describe their videos as uncut it means you did a crappy cheap video and couldn't be bothered or incapable of editing it for quality.

[@lolinternetslolify]

What a cool, cool collection

[@richsackett3423]

A Deutsch Bonnet with a Pontiac motor makes sense?! Does this guy have any idea how many tens of thousands less that car is worth with the wrong motor? Bless the President of the DB association for holding his tongue and not telling him what a fucking moron he was, which is what he wanted to say.

[@ShredCo]

Jay Leno should chuck him a few mil, see what he does...

[@jnowanderer]

camera man is in love with this guy,i though this is about cars!

[@TotalRookie_LV]

Bagheera is the name of a black panther in Rudyard Kipling's "the Jungle Book", didn't you guys read books and watch cartoons as kids? 8D

[@blacquesjacques7239]

Yep , good ol' Baggy

[@thericher]

I could watch this for hours, this guy is amazing, more please.

[@mr.motormaster9881]

this camara man showed us to much the owner and NOT the cars😡

[@bananarepublicnono]

wow amazing knowledge and great personable rich guy. very well done. Ty

[@NotAHondaGuy600]

Car hipster much? XD awsome collection.

[@brianholmes1507]

Very neat guy and collection.

[@bridgieoh9326]

I want that 2 tone, Nash Metropolitan convertible in the back. Sweet car!

[@stevemalon1668]

I agree with other commenters that the camera man should concentrate more on the cars and less on the guy talking.

[@Alibaba3000]

super cool guy he deserve all the cars

[@GavinJLang]

show the cars... dont need to stare at the guy the whole time.

[@studid55]

is that a karmann ghia at 1:43?

[@MetaView7]

I can listen to this guy's stories forever...

[@imlaughing2death]

I agree, he sounds like he should be hosting a podcast about weird cars and prototypes or at the very least, be making cameos in automobile documentaries.

[@King250sx-R]

The Aston Martin and jaguar are similar companies that both have obnoxiously loud v8s that are pretty much beautiful fords. Jaguar is owned by ford I believe, or was. Alfa romeo has v8 cars, the only thing I like about euro cars is they are refined and scream art and beauty. They don't look like the top gear team tried to build one over night like some of the American classic muscle cars. The 78 mustang....puke..ugly as sin and even had a four banger in most of them. Mustangs are ugly. Anything american after 68 is disgusting. The fuel crunch ruined most of the art we had. The 70 Chevelle ss 454, I would fuck that car if I got the chance. The 69 and 70 charger....same deal. None of them handled. James Dean died in a Porsche spyder because there wasn't anything better offered at the time. Muscle cars are great to look at in car shows, but practicality is obsilete. They get horrible gas mileage, most people screw them up by trying to restore them or putting crap on them to make them faster on the drag strip. It's annoying the assholes that own them. There's too much bullshit to mention between both sides of the ocean. I love the older British racing green jag featured in the top gear salute to Britain episode. Muscle car guys are close minded and won't ever change. At least a European will own and muscle car and drive a jdm car and park it next to his rolls royce. One thing British guys and muscle car owners have in common is bad teeth. It's only opinion so don't go picking this comment apart. You can't change opinion. Also, jdm beats both. Great fuel mileage, handling, refinement, and versitility. How many jdm cars can't you put your beloved lsx or Ls series v8 in? Point made.

[@BurningJah]

Jaguar is now owned by Tata

[@King250sx-R]

That's sad. When did Tata take over? I know Tata is growing enormously.

[@nathanwebster5627]

I like the guys voice

[@DRAFTSMANANTHONY]

Whats that grey car all the way to the right at the 11th minute? Too bad the camera man had absolutely no interest in the actual cars.

[@phatkatracing]

Looks like a Toronado/New Yorker illegitimate love child.

[@evanrozsa]

JFC show us the cars!

[@motanelustelistu]

Camera stay on the commentator cuz its a amateur.A professional will choose the car to film and film them from various angles before the filming of the interview and show some images during the interview.Its clearly amateurish interview,but still anoying how you talk about cars and you're filming a dude ...

[@bryduhbikeguy]

Myron Vernis was just featured on "My Classic Car TV" this past weekend,with his 1953 Paxton Phoenix,and I'm trying to see all of his collection.This contains more than I've found,other than 2- over 1 hour 'pod-casts',and I'm not going to bother with them.In 2022,you'd think there'd be more on his Amazing collection.

[@Chris.Davies]

Holy Moly! The Proto 911 Targa! I shudder to think what that would go for at an international auction. It'd have to be in the multi-millions.

[@ndinadis]

all i was interested in was the firebird with window-netting and they walked right past it, jalopnik seems to be the hipsters of car culture...

[@Pandamasque]

Dear jalopnik/drive, this video is full of amazing footage of a man talking, with some short distractions to actually show the cars he's talking about. Shouldn't it be the other way round?!

[@simonriddick]

Now I know what that 3 seater car was that I saw in Austria when I was 7 years old! :) I kind of thought about it now and again because of the McLaren F1 but never really looked it up.

[@JohnUnit]

I really want to see these cars drive. you could honestly make a Jay Leno style channel from his garage and get 20-30 good vids. Probably have the shooting for them done in 2-3 days.

[@ImStuckInStockton]

This was cut?

[@jackcarroll702]

I live in Akron And don't even know about this place

[@say9198]

Jack Carroll I live in Cleveland!

[@TheMindInvader]

Goliath had a 2 cyl, 2 stroke, 800cc fuel injected engine. And a sun roof that sure looked like it came from who ever did Porsche's sunroofs. I saw one in a wrecking yard a few years ago but passed on it. I had a c1958 Renault Dauphine with an "Automatique". the car shifted itself Exactly like you shift a manual transmission, damnedest car I ever drove. Had a Moretti without an engine. A VW Bus with a 356 Porsche engine. An original, early Myers Manx with a Porsche engine and Thick fiberglass.

[@chiggychiggy4996]

Excellent video. Good to see people with a passion for unusual cars is still alive and well, plus he had a great deal of knowledge about each car.

[@cdigames]

I swear that little Nash Metropolitan in the back was on craigslist a year ago, wonder if he was selling or if he bought it.

[@DanielAdomian]

funny thing about that panther or whatever on the blue french car, on a mustang show in germany I saw a `69 Mustang with that exact picture on the hood

[@tonytattoo3132]

1 of A Kind CARS AND Informative HISTORY... CAR Collectors Perspective. Cars with Soul built in..../DRIVE great videos!

[@aserta]

I'd like to see more smart KZbin users. You're not a smart YTuser. Getting the chance to hear the history behind such cars is not something you can throw away you oaf. You're the kind of person that would have a super rare car in the back yard letting it rust because you can't do anything to it and because you're not interested in what's behind it. Someone like you ruined that Pietro car.

[@xexun0010]

aaaannd uuhhhh

[@aserta]

Really awesome footage. Rarely you get to hear about these things from the people that know what they are talking about. Would like to see more like these. Even if there are some idiots that either can't read or can't understand how important is to know what history behind an item is, it's important to document these.

[@davescott8859]

Great collection of oddities. It's amazing how any engineer or company wanting to improve gas mileage, make electric cars, and etc., the gas companies (government) will shut you down. The cars today that are roughly half the weight of the 1940's models and getting worse gas mileage today with all the technology. Gas companies and the government greed will always prevail.

[@waroonafreerider]

this guy and his collection are awesome. Great video, thanks

[@7c8f9x]

When i lived in daly city, ca. down the street was a small powel dealer ship,i remember the pickups, but not the wagon. they only had maybe 7-10 trucks there, VERY interesting, brings back memories---thanks, i like the monte carlo that looks kinda like a rolls also

[@uwusmolbean]

it is an interview of a car guy, that shows his interest and passion. and happens to have in-depth knowledge in some lesser known/seen models. what is wrong with that ? enough already with the burn outs and sex innuendo of mainstream car ppl.

[@e92emthree]

Apparently there have been some legal problems of some sort and it will be back soon and they will broadcast the full amount of episodes regardelss if they exceed the current season of drive. Can't promise that this information is accurate or not.

[@soporaet]

wow what a collection, and all of the info he's got, man he knows his cars, and really amazing models, wow wow wow, rellly if i was in love with cars allready, now this video got me thinking, thankz and please more more lol

[@FamousByFriday]

Or maybe the story of the Firebird wasn't that great. I mean, It didn't look all that special... And they just happened to be surrounded a bunch of strange / odd / awesome cars talking with a guy that can tell them.

[@bulgaboi]

I thought I was a car guy and knew a decent amount, but I had absolutely no clue what more than half these cars were. Very interesting collection and it was cool to hear about the history of each car. This guy knows his stuff

[@dimsterz]

The guy loves his cars - and this is the main thing. Nice to see, someone havin money, spending them on somethin he really loves, and that thing brings him happiness...and they say you can't buy happiness...))

[@nottrueuser]

I am not a fan of those cars, but hey these are cars, and I am grateful that there are people like Myron Vernis who collect such unusual cars, because they are part of the car history and evolution! great episode!

[@Xboxracer1]

Black panther as in Bagheera (the jungle book) on a Matra of the same name. Makes sense. Still weird.

[@alexander1485]

whos that guy with all the concepts and stuff? who at one time had 5 of the GM motorama buses?

[@antivanti]

I think that exact panther was available everywhere posters were sold when I was a kid back in the 80's. I guess they were in Germany as well and someone just had it airbrushed to the car.

[@NicholasTJR]

never heard of any of the cars he have..damn! LOL..and he knows his collection well too..kudos!

[@grubeci]

thank you for making me happy and then sick you steel building owner...of means...cool collection..good for you...

[@carlreid07]

I've seen a few interesting car collections before, but that has to be one of the best. Nothing beats a good story, glad the homework was done on those auto's.

[@CameronStandal]

Myron has to know that the panther on the Murena bonnet fits the image of "Bagheera" from Kipling's Jungle book. (apologies if this has been pointed out before)

[@NoDakBees]

This tour reminds me of a guy here locally I know who has a collection somewhat like this. I like the last one, that 41 Plymouth donor truck SUV thing!

[@gobikes1375]

very interesting , ive a reasonable knowledge of car history , great to see some stuff i know absolutely nothing about , enjoyed it , thanks

[@Kingjay814]

This guy has one one of the coolest collections I've seen. I have a thing for odd one off kind of cars this guy has such a unique collection

[@freejrs]

Very, very interesting video........................interesting cars.........interesting bloke. If you don't like it you must be incredibly dull.

[@TeamNoLimits865]

Title: The Most Eccentric Car Collection, Uncut -- JALOPNIK ON DRIVE ****UNCUT****

[@xBelastianx]

I would have loved if they included the NSU since my father used to own one in the 70ties.

[@Ji99i3]

a lot of respect for the dude, but man, show the cars a tad bit more. i know how many squares are on the guys shirt for petes sake

[@amini777]

phoenix yellow..as much as i love bmws I always thought that color looked like piss lol

[@johnypiston]

Good grief. Its like a guy doing a nature documentary about Lions and have the camera focus on the guy 90% of the time! WTH??

[@shoominati23]

wow! if you did a 90 minute video going thru the whole collection, I would watch it and I don;t think I would get bored either!

[@Tunerboy8732]

This must be a reupload because I remember seeing this but still good video.

[@whiskaleafa]

What is the car next to that Jeepster? I wanted to say a Donkervoort, but for some reason Google isn't agreeing with me lol

[@dandare1001]

Excellent. What an interesting person. It's always good to see people that don't concentrate on the standard classic cars.

[@JakeVeinotte]

The color I think they were talking about is Phoenix Yellow that they used on the e46 m3 and whatever that weird thing is.

[@steezeforlife14]

This guy is great! I would love to shoot the shit with him any time. So much knowledge that no one is familiar with

[@rare6499]

Nice that hes so interested in a lot of these weird old rare cars. But they are rare old and weird for a reason. :/

[@ItchyKneeSon]

He's in Akron?!? I'll have to go visit him when I get back to Cleveland suburbia!

[@TheLobstersoup]

This is a really cool collection! I like that these aren't the fastest cars or most expensive, but the most unique and interesting ones. That's truly a "personal" collection, instead of the usual showoff collections you see in these vids. I also have a similar taste like Mr. Vernis, I just wish I had his kind of money, too ;)

[@mikepb]

this is guy is so awsome. i prefer to listen to him than a guy who has a collection of 5 rare ferraris and lambos

[@dumpsterstu4474]

I'm pretty impessed with this guys eccentric car collection. The editing and footage of the cars could have been better. Tbh I wish I was successfull enough to just have one of these cars sitting in my garage. But unfortunately I have a tough time trading my time for hollow money. Most work for money is for negative results work at fast food see end result as droves of obese people line up for the feed trough. Work in buisness commit horrible crimes against humanity get paid for it. Work for a Refinery or Bank and crush people into crippling debt or contribute to our global Warming trend. But try and do something good like trying to feed a homeless person and get arrested for it

[@whiskaleafa]

I just google'd the Bearcat and the Blackhawk and (atleast to me) it didn't look like either.. I'm so lost lol

[@Authoratah]

The camera spends more time on the guy speaking than on actually showing the car....thumbs down on this video.

[@1956Caddy]

Cars are rarely well photographed or filmed. But they are rarely so badly avoided, ignored, hidden, forgotten, etc. by a cameraman. Was it his first time behind a camera or did he forget to realize he was doing such harm to a such interesting collection, so beautifully commented by its owner ? Shame on him.