Even for european museums, these are pretty rare models.. You found a really good museum there !

Greetings from Czech Republic, the country of Tatra cars and trucks. The emblem at 3:35 is actually the Great Coat of Arms of Czech Republic, so you know. Thank U for showing Tatras.

Hello from Czech Republic. Tatra 815 Truck - jeah that colouring is deffinitely from 90' crazy times. T700 was one of the last cars Tatra ever made (after that only trucks) and it was just marketing name for more radical facelift of T613. Which already had 4 other previous facelists. T700 itself had one more later facelift with diferent engine cover and glass obove it. T613 here is third model (second facelift) that was first with plastic parts (bumpers and things like that) Previous two wersions had a lot of chrom parts. T603 here is first model (of two later facelifts or three depending on what you still takes as facelift). Second wersion had more chrom with 4 front lights extremely close to easch other. Another facelifts and all versions after had 4 lights again, but less chrome and wider look. (under rear window inside car above engine is nice place for kid to sleep there. :) ) T87 - was one of the best aerodynamic cars ever. It was Nazzi killer. During WWII German nazzi officers loved thhose cars. They were more comfortable than any german car of that era. But they were so comfortable, that they couldn't feel the speed and drived them too fast with a lot of tragical accidents from irresponcibylity driving. (also there were no safety featuresin those cars or basicly in any car of that era). Those cars probably killed more Nazzi officers then war itself (until the point where Hittler forbids his officers to use them). Also you should look at engines of those cars. They are beauties. Especially T603. Tatra cars of almost any era was luxurious cars created mostly for Czechoslovakian government (and Czech government later on). But in 90's when kommunist party went down and other companies came to our market, Tatras were too expensive and too outdated of their technologies and safety measures, that they went bancrupt. Only truck division was barely surviving for more then two decades and constantly changing its owners (even american Terex owned them but mostly looted them) until new owners of the Czech arms industry bought them and restarted them from basicly nothingness.

"Tatra nezná bratra" 💪I love your videos man. Greetings from Czech Republic. 👋

The Tatra both 603 and 613 were used as a presidential cars in Czechoslovakia, but were also sold as a regular car. And let me tell you, if you owned a Tatra at the time when it came out, you meant buisness. My great grandfather used to have a T-603, and he was a lead of a small cooperative (sorry couldn't find good translation).

Fun fact how to recognise that the tatra in 5:07 is pre-WW2 and tatras you showed before are made after WW2 is the side of the steering wheel, because before occupation by germany, people in czechoslovakia were driving on left side of the road. But it was changed because in germany they drove on the right side

The Citroen DS, the single greatest step forward in automotive innovation since the invention of the wheel. I like this museum, this collection is obviously a tribute to all the designers and engineers that rethought the car, that thought outside the box and therefore sometimes came up with a tear drop, or with a box.

The T601 Tatra was the vehicle in the Lemonysnicketts movie.

You are an open minded guy, appreciate your videos. Greetings from Austria 🍻

The Lotus 7 was the original design, when Lotus decided to retire the model in the early 70's Caterham bought the rights to manufacture it, which they continue to do to this day. 😉👍 Excellent video, that's a great collection of quirky and well preserved cars.

The Nazi Killer: 1938 Tatra T87 - Jay Leno’s Garage good video about Tatra

1:40 T815 is running 19 litre air-cooled twin turbo V12, which was the best engine option you could get back in the day.

Funny, the black Tatra has a front number plate from Germany! FL-D 622 and the first 2 letters means Flensburg which stands for the town in which the car was registered, which is only 40 km away from where I live. ☺

205 GTI, what a legend.

Nice collection. Some remarkable points you missed. The red Tatra is the model that inspired Ferdinand Porsche for the VW Beetle. It was so "inspired" that Tatra sued Volkswagen for patent infringment and would have won if Germany hadn't invaded Czechoslovakia inn 1938. On the Citroën models shown as people have mentioned the DS is iconic but it is not the only special exemplary. The traction (the black one) from 1938 was also one of the most innovative cars of its time. It's the first mass produced car with front wheel drive with wielded unibody. The model in your video has also the peculariety of using a wood gas generator for fuel.

11:24 the peugeot 205 GTi, old granny in my town drives EXACTLY one like that, same colored even... she does not want to sell it... i have asked lol! regards from finland! we have also some very cool car museums, especially RALLY CAR museums :)

When my mom was growing up, her dad had T603. All neighbours hated them cuz that car took up twice as much space as regular cars sold behind the iron curtain. She has 3 siblings and shes always talking about how 4 teenagers were riding at the back. Thats how spacious it was.

I always find your enthusiasm quite entertaining, but your wife's is so much better! 😁 Grandpa is a gem and your kids are cute!

Jeremy Clarkson did an episode in one of those tiny tiny cars. If he fits, so will you 😁 That green Volvo is the same design as the Dutch daf. Volvo bought daf and continued to make them. There was a tv show where they raced them using reverse gear only. First with VDT transmission. as fast going forward as going back. achteruitrijden was the name of the episodes

My mother used to drive a Mehari when she was young in the late 70's and theyre still a comman seen car in Ibiza and Palma Islands around Spain also they have a collectors car club in Spain :D

I wish to be here with you, and be able to tell you more about these european cars

Hi, I am from Slovakia, was born in Czechoslovakia, and the Tatras are very cool cars an they were very modern constructed for that time. In my childhood a lot of them run on the streets, but only comunistic politicians are people with very important functions drove such cars Tatras are cool cars. It was a privilege. normal common people were not allowed to have such cars.The middle light of tatra 603 is turnable in the side you turn your steering wheel.

If you love anything automotive, you should check out the Britten motorcycle that was broke some motorcycle speed records and designed and built by a Kiwi in his garage by John Britten R.I.P.

Tell the wife the Tatra is half the price of a Unimog and she will love it 😄 Years ago I owned a Peugeot 106 from the 90s. It was very light weight and a lot of fun to drive with its 75 hp engine. Sadly, it consumed more and more spare parts every year. And still, when I think about it today, I think I should have kept it.

11:15 This Peugeot 205 1.6 GTI had my grandfather. He's saying to me all the time that it was very fast car back in the day, especially in corners. Few days ago it had 40th anniversary. One of the most iconic cars of all time.

Wonderful museum indeed ! The Citroen Méhari prototype is UNIQUE ! I am French and I never saw it. The Peugeot 205 gti is the GOAT on the road. Good video !! Hello to all your family from France 🇫🇷 ! The country of luxury cars.

OMG a Renault Avantime. THIS would be an entire video for a US car lover if one could put his hands on one and drive it.

Fantastic museum 🤩

I currently own a 1974 Tatra 603. These were produced from 1955 to 1975 over a period of three generations, with the 'main' difference being the changes to the front fascia along with other details. The engine is a rear mounted air-cooled hemi V8 with a displacement of only 2.5 liters and with a power output of only 105 horsepower. It easily propels the car up to 100 mph due to the low drag (the 603 was the last streamliner Tatra produced). I have some videos of it on my channel. You should have a look at the commercial they made called "Tatra Happy Journey".

My Dad passed away this Saturday gone by, he would’ve loved this museum.

That red tatra is the car Ferdinand Porsche got his idea from to build the vw beetle.

I REALLY envy you. I'm living in Germany, around 500 km next to the Czech Republic, but I never saw a Tatra car in my life. Not even those two times, I was in the Czech Republic !!!

11:24 A Peugeot 205 GTI. This is the only Peugeot i would love to own sometime in my life. The car is famous and got a good history. 11:41 Thats the old Fiat Panda a very unique car! It was the first car from my mom! Sadly i was only as a young kid in this car it was a black one. I got my driver license in 2022 so sad this Fiat Panda from my mom doesnt exist anymore :(

You gotta check out a DAF variomatic someday. They are very unique Dutch-made cars that could drive as fast in reverse as in drive. We had a local racing series called "achteruit racen", which translates to "reverse racing". It was a spectacle to see

Awesome tour, thank you very much 👍🏻

dude if you love trucks and tatras... you would love playing "snowrunner" the game. theres all sorts of tatras and other trucks from all over the world. super addictive game

10:55 Ligier actually makes currently moped cars, small smart look a like vehicles with 50cc diesel

Wow, thats a great museum, heaps of vehicles I have never seen either. Dani gets excited too. A great day out. Emma looks like a very young Wednesday Addams!!! I love her outfit. Cheers!

The Volvo 66 is interesting. It started out as a DAF car, a Dutch truck and car manufacturer (they still make trucks), but the cars weren't a big success. So they sold it to Volvo. Volvo put in a Renault engine. My grandfather was a Renault mechanic and in his free time he serviced some cars (only Renaults but because of the Renault engine he had some customers with the small Volvo's). It used the variomatic transmission (still in use by some manufacturers like Toyota as the CVT transmission). These cars could drive the same speed going forward as backward. In the 80's we had a program on tv where people would race these cars backward.

In Germany, we don't even have such models in our museums. The Technik Museum Sinsheim features a DeLorean and some Formula 1 cars, along with the Concorde and its Russian counterpart. The Technik Museum Speyer is more famous for its Airbus suspended at 70m height, the Russian Space Shuttle Buran, and a submarine. All of these exhibits are accessible. You might consider planning a vacation in Germany. The two museums are barely an hour apart and offer combination tickets.

At 11:58, a DAF is shown as being Swedish when in fact it is Dutch. In fact, DAF Cars has been bought by Volvo while they still build trucks in the Netherlands. At 12:12, this block Citroën Gasogène is actually running on WOOD! During WWII, there was a shortage of gas for private use and they installed those furnaces to produce gaz from charcoal (the solution was not very effective, but it was better than nothing at that time).

I want that Tatra 6x6. Ditch the car hauler, add a camper uplift, a heavy duty lift kit and some beefier tires. Or add a 5th wheel and buy an old reefer to convert to a part RV, part car/toy hauler.

14:45 this is the wolkswagen XL1, for a long time it was the best ever mpg vehicule in the world ( not sure if it still is ) powered by a hybrid twin cylinder diesel, lots of carbon fiber elements and a lot of work on the aerodinamic, I think it was sold new around 150.000€

11:25 the Peugeot 205 was so so popular in the UK. As someone who passed his driving test in 1992, a second hand 205 was about the coolest car you could realistically get! Actually I did pass my driving test in one (my instructor’s).

The Dymaxion was designed by Buckminster Fuller, best known for geodesic domes.

looks like a v12 biturbo that T815 cool as f....and sounds pretty too. maybe the last aircooled one.

The big sticker at 4:47 is definitely something Welsh.... 🙂

8:38 Renault Avantime. the most interesting thing about this car: the doors of the Renault Avantime measure 1.40 meters and weigh around 60 kilograms each. 1.40m = 55in 60Kg = 132lbs

The Citroen DS is such an impressive car now, back then it could have been alien tech. Watch the Jay leno garage episode on the car. 1 car I didn't see was a Volvo p1800, there are still a few on the road, but are now rare and expensive, gorgeous though. As a teenager I really wanted a 205GTI the 1600 was good the 1900 was mental!

Dat Beetle with the external AC unit.... I just lost it there.... :))))

The 1956 Beetle is the model car that my dad had in Germany at that time. I spent a lot of my time then riding in the parcel compartment under the rear window behind the rear seat backs. Had in 1956 and 1957 holiday trips down to southern Germany and Switzerland travelling in that car. We had that car until 1959 when the family migrated to Australia. There in early 1960 with first employment at the Australian VW factory on assbly line, my dad bought a VW Beetle at employee discount as our first car. To be replaced by a VW Station wagon mid 1960s. That was written off in a early 1970s T-bone smashed by a careless driver and overturned. Sliding over 100m down the road, roof skewed sideways collapsed roof to just above steering wheel level over the driver. Sad too as dad worked in VW engine overhaul/race prep engine build and had up graded the engine with Porshe racing heads. But insurance collected the wreck so quick we did not get a chance to recover those Porsche heads and restore the standard engine configuration. Suspect someone got a real special second hand engine, if not just metal recycled.

Tatra had some seriour potential back in the day what comes to sports cars in 30's

Wow. Exciting. Cool cars everywhere.❤

thanks for this video, this is an awesome museum! If I'm ever in America I should visit this!

Really odd vehicles in that museum! That's awesome. I like that people have saved and displayed these cars. I have never seen any of those anywhere

that's a really amazing collection of european cars in that museum ! and i'm saying that as an european.

Grandpa is a hero! 🙂 Too bad the Volvo P1800 wasn't there in the museum. Manufactured and marketed by Volvo between 1961 and 1973. One of my favourite car, too beautiful... :-)

What a fantastic museum, so many cars there I've never seen. You really need to check out the Citroën DS @ 10.20 , groundbreaking car in so many ways, Jay Leno did a video about his one.

nice video. Had a nice afternoon? The green Volvo you liked so much is actually a DAF. When Volvo took over the passenger car from DAF, they further built the Dafodiel, as it was called. This was the only worldwide variomatic at the time. It is remarkable that a daf could drive backwards just as fast as forwards. Reverse races were held in the Netherlands. Keep make these videos👍

the best bits of the whole vid are the (mis)pronunciations of Peugeot.

Very intersting collection they have there. The old Tatra cars I have never seen before, because they are from the communist era Czechoslovakia, and were never imported to Germany. V6 and V8 - wow - thats fancier than most German cars of that time. That car called Ligier is probably a cart made to be used at F1 race tracks, to take people around in the pit lane and parque fermé. Ligier was a race car manufacturer and F1 race team, like Lotus for example, in the 70s and 80s.

The Citroën id / ds was so ahead of its time (power steering, power brakes , power suspension, automatic transmission, able to drive on three wheel etc..) Citroën had to engage people to explain to the customers how it works the Peugeot 205 GTI 1.6 is considered as one of the best french cars of the 50 60 last years wow there's a Daf and a Citroën traction!!! the previous version of the Daf (which is rare in europe to) was equipped with the fist variable transmission while the traction (called tractbar or something like that in UK if my memory is good) was the first front wheel drive car produced in serie (not the first but the first massively produced...my grand-father had one with 9 seats) and this one is really specific version because it works with a lean gas coming from combustion of wood and these type of gas was in use during WW2

The fun fact is that you have to rev.up this engine while driving for effective air cooling...

the pink/red little car beside the blue one you liked last, is a Norwegian SMART car.

Thanks so much for loading these videos. They let car guys like me see stuff on the other side of the world I'd never see otherwise.

There's this pretty fun, entry-level form of Nordic Rallycross class, called Folk Racing, which combines small and slightly dodgy looking cars and motor racing-as in cool cars like old Volvos, Saabs and BMWs: "Mika Hakkinen Teaches Captain Slow to Drive | Top Gear", "Jokkis Finnish Folk RacIng: A Race For Anyone With Wheels!", "Racing a 1500€ Car At Epic Jokkis Race In Finland | WRC 2019" "Vicious Volvos & Smashed Up Saabs: This Is Folk Racing - Carfection" and "Hardest Jokkis Crashes 2015-2020".

Great video. As a Czech, I got to know a lot of historic European cars. Paradoxically, I was most surprised by the Tatra 49.( 18:33 ) From the shape of the bonnet, it was immediately clear to me that it was a Tatra, but I didn't know the version with 3 wheels.

8:31, it's a very old Lancia from Italy! What a beauty!!! 11:42 the legendary Fiat Panda!!! we own one just like that one!!! 17:51 the dark blue 3 wheeler behind there is an italian Piaggio Ape (which Ape means Bee)!! I know guys... I could look a bit too excited, but I'm just proud to see the old vehicles from my country over the sea in the USA

The Technik Museum is the best museum ever and you must visit it. It's in berlin

The 1938 Tatra was the real unique and precious one. It was the inventor of car aerodynamics car actually

The last car in the museum is the metallic prototype of the Citroen Mehari. It made it to production as a fiberglass car and Citroen sold some 150.000 of them. During the late '70s some crazy pyromaniac in Paris couldn't resist setting fiberglass Meharis on fire. He managed to burn more than fiour hundred of them before he was arrested by the French police.

The large round yellow sticker on rear window of the 1958 TATRA is from a visitor attraction near Blaenau Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales. It details the history of slate quarrying in the town and specifically the Llechwedd quarry in which it is located. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llechwedd_Slate_Caverns

19:17 looks similar to an old BMW, in fact in the 90s were still people friving around with them. seemed they had some decent quality. but what a nice museum, and almost for yourself :D so cool.

G'day Ian & Family hope you are all well. What a fantastic museum some fantastic cars🚗. Sending you much cheer & love from Down Under 🇦🇺🐨🦘❤️.❤️🇺🇸 🦅❤️🇲🇽🥰.

"It was only 1000 dollars". :D That is 21,336 dollars today. :). Amazing museum. Really rare European cars.

Two cobras behind the cabin is a V12 cylinder T815 engine

I saw a good youtube video on that VW XL1 - its a concept hybrid car, designed for maximum mileage per gallon/watt.. i cant remember the numbers but it was impressive in terms of fuel economy.

Tatar and Matra are both very cool. Looks like an amazing museum, I wish I could go!

We love you!!! From Czech Republic!!!

Wow, I know where I'm heading to when I win the lottery. There's a car there to suit all members of your family. Thought you were going to tuck a couple of those baby cars under your arms and walk out! PS: Small package on the way to you 😀

Who the F are you man?? I am a 53 year old 1st generation European Australian white man in Australia. I just found your site 1 week ago and am addicted. Your interest and fascination in our Indigenous is so beautiful. The fact you wear a shirt with Aboriginal print in this video is awesome. You are more Aussie than most of us. Walawaani

The red car in the "Extras" section with the door at the front - my mum used to have one of those Bubble Cars!. When you open the door, part of the steering column hinged out of the way. So it would be mum driving, one of us two kids in the front seat and one curled up on the rear shelf. Safety last! Noisy and not very fast, but a car with character.

The 603 show around the 5 minutet mark is a Type-1. The 603-2 had 4 headlights bur got rid of the centre headlight. The centre headlight turned in the directio of the bend you would be taking.' Tucker head a similar thing back in the day.

Looks like a nice motor museum. Love the time when car makers had their own identity and character, not afraid to be bold. There's a fun video called happy journey featuring a Tatra 603 you might enjoy.

Fun fact: Auto Union, as he said was the old name for AUDI. One other meaning for the word 'AUDI', is the four letters for Audi, stand for A - Auto, U - Union, D - Deutschland (Germany), I - Ingolstadt (the city in Germany where Audi was started). It's also a Latin word!!!

As a European, I fully approve of this very tasteful collection. How some of those cars were selected/acquired/got there is puzzling.

Great kids!

My uncle had a Citroen Berline 11 in the early sixties, apparently. He would impress all the ladies in the village until he broke the CV joints.

Very cool museum 👍

fun fact, the 38' Tatra is the OG Beetle. Ferdinand Porsche stole the design and implemented it, and once Germany invaded them, they couldn't sue

Fantastic video Ian 👏 I just love those old Tatras. The whole car show you featured in Nashville was brilliant, thank you. I'd love to walk around such a car show. Really appreciate the effort you and for family put into making these stunning videos. Well done Ian, keep up the great work 👍💯 MMonk 🇦🇺

Hey Ian, this is truly a great collection with above average density of quirky stuff and one-offs and I love it :) Couple of cars worth diving into: -I don't know too much about Tatra but I'd watch you learning about their weird air cooled rear engined cars. Really cool company. -The Dymaxion Replica you had a look at reminded me of a brilliant automotive artist called Randy Grubb (founder of company 'Blastolene') who used to regularly be on Jay Leno's KZfaq channel to present his insane creations. This guy does *all* the work so he for instance ball peen hammers his own aluminum bodies (crazy, but very cool) on most of his slightly retro, steampunky builds such as: -The Tank car featured in Gran Turismo 5 with a M47 Patton Tank engine which is insane. -The Decopods which are very cool -The Decoliner which is very, very cool. You're able to steer either from the roof or the regular driver's seat. -The 'Piss'd off Pete' V12 Detroit Diesel Hot Rod, the king of any classic car meet -The Rocket II Trike, powered by a blown 426 Hemi (completely over the top) Any of his work is well worth checking out, I truly hope you have a look at some of his stuff bc I think you'll love it. HOT ROD Network did a shop tour of his 6 years ago and every vehicle I listed is on Jay's channel. -The car built by the airplane company out of Denver, CO just looks insane.. I guess back then there was a whole culture of invention which drove designers to implement air craft grade design (low weight, low drag) in regular consumer cars which allowed use of the cheapest & most reliable engines available. -The minivans at 8:17 and 8:38 are part of a bit of a revolution in the late 90s/early 00s. Renault had built a car called the "Espace" which introduced the MPV class of vehicles into the European market (Mazda ended up naming their model 'MPV') and they sold like hot cakes in Europe. They were so brilliantly designed: The engine would submarine under the car in a crash instead of going through the fire wall and unaliving the passengers. It had 7 seats (5 of them usually folded down so you've got a pretty big trunk with up to 5 passengers or basically a delivery vehicle if you folded down all but the driver seat) but the footprint of a sedan and was built on a space frame which meant it was lighter than most sedans. By the year 2000, almost all manufacturers had their own model to compete in this market, from Chrysler's Voyager to the Vauxhall/Opel Zafira. Sadly, we all know about the infamous 'soccer-mom' image which became associated with these and made them very unpopular to be seen in. You could even argue the SUV trend is a direct consequence of MPVs falling out of favour, even though these 15-20 year old cars are like 20-50% more fuel efficient than an average modern SUV which usually weighs much more and has a much worse drag coefficient. I don't like SUVs much, but this isn't he place for that :) -At 10:10 you're coming up to the most innovative car ever, it's truly a marvel of engineering and French pride. The name is actually a bit of a pun, since 'DS' is a double entendre with the word for 'déesse' which means 'goddess'. The Citroen DS you were looking at is just so incredible, I don't know where to start and I know I can't do it justice here. Dang, I could talk about just the suspension for hours. As a reasonably patriotic American, I'm sure you know all about how softly sprung Cadillacs are and how they feel like you're sitting on a sofa on a boat as you're going down the road. But if you're going down a slightly rougher road, you'd still notice you're on a slightly rough road, but in a DS from the 50s that was set up properly, you wouldn't notice *anything*. There are so many details I could nerd out over but I'd much rather watch someone knowledgable introduce this to you and us viewers, just like you did with the 2CV which was perfect BTW. OK, I can't help myself from listing just a few tidbits about this car: -On the day it was presented in 1955, it sold 12.000 units. -There is no brake pedal, instead the speedo tells you how long your braking distance will be depending on your speed. You brake by pressing a knob on the floor between the pedals. -It had a button on the dashboard to pneumatically raise and lower the suspension for better aero on the highway/ground clearance for parking etc. You can even change tires without a jack. -President of France, Charles de Gaulle, survived numerous assassination attempts on 22nd of August 1962, in his presidential limousine, an armoured version of the DS. Although the assassins had shot all four tires on the car, the suspension design allowed it to escape numerous attempts on his life without ANY tires on the rims. -The headlights were revolutionary: The later models had dual headlights with the inner bulb moving up to 90° with your front wheels to illuminate corners, along with a system invented by the company Panhard (Panhard bars anyone?) which auto levelled the headlights during braking, acceleration and bumps. As I've said, I could go on but I won't, this has already been long enough. French design has something really refreshing about it, it's unconventional and weird for sure but it's never useless or poorly envisioned. There are features implemented within this 20 year long production cycle which make most car brands/designers on this earth blush with shame at how both brilliantly and bravely Citroen navigated around the challenges they were presented with. Last but not least, there's a rally version of the DS, it's hilarious :) Cheers Ian, I hope you and yours are doing well. Keep the excitement going!

If you ever find yourself in Europe, Tatra have really great museum here in Czech republic

They're also called rear-hinged doors... because that's what they are.

Thank you for showing this museum collection.

OMG!!! SO NICE❤

that blue gti you looked at. the 1.8 version hammers because they were designed and sold with a short through gearbox. my parents had one for a while exact same color and off the line it would keep up with higher power cars as it is light as with the short throw gears.

Citroen Mehari was all over EU during 70 / 80 and the beginning of the 90 was kinda its fall down, u could see that car during summer time they were everywhere.

the green volvo is a DAF, they changed it to volvo after they took over the DAF Factory, funny thing is, that daf can go as fast backwards as forward..

So many cool cars! I love those crazy futuristic cars! It's like the friggin Jetsons!