My step dad bought a new 74 in white. He wanted red but the dealer could only get white. It was car number 653. I drove it to high school a few times...

It's good to hear Malcolm Bricklin's side of the SV-1 story.

I live in the city these where built in. They’ve got their own little cult of people here. Most of the people who own them own more than one.

They kind of look like something that a 70's or 80's action figure would drive, or a 70's Matchbox or early Blackwall Hot Wheels car.

Excellent piece. I'm certainly no stranger to the Bricklin as my father purchased one new in 1974, 2 years before I was born. Several others have came and gone within the last 46 years, but the Safety White 1974 360/4 speed has been around my entire life and still is. Definitely a neat story. I had the honor of meeting both Malcolm Bricklin and Herb Grasse many years ago at a Bricklin meet in Massachusetts.

Great work Joe! The Bricklin perspective that needs to be told! When too many people think that a Bankrupt car company means that a car is bad, not realizing that the Bricklin SV1 was ahead of it's time and is way more reliable than most exotic cars. Some are daily drivers. Thank You Joe!

I remember this car in the days of Popular Mechanics magazines. Only now do I appreciate what a potentially great car it was. Must be a really blast to drive with that burbling V8.

Reminds me of Delorean Motor Company.

That's the guy who has a slightly better understanding of the car industry with his usual perseverance.

Congratulation for this gem... Completely out of the box. That's why I love this channel.

I've never heard of this car, it's gorgeous!

This is my favorite car ever made

Well done Joe, great video. It seems to mr that Malcolm Bricklin was a success as he conceived and put his car into production, and 40 odd years later owners love them - success. How many others shared the same dream but never reached production. I salute both of you, well done guys.

Took almost a week to get back to this vid. I'm a man of my word. Just finished the vid. Imagine where we would be today in automotive progress if Mr. Bricklin was allowed to follow thru.

My Dad always liked these cars. There was one in town when they first came out. Dad wanted one, but he was a young married guy with a family. So, it was out of the question at the time.

Stand up job. What a fun and educational production. Honestly enjoyed man. thank you for all your research!

Well done! I got to see one when I visited the Gilmore Car Museum near Grand Rapids MI a few years ago. Such a fascinating story, and i'm so glad you were able to interview Malcolm.

Thanks for another awesome and interesting video, Joe! You're a very good story teller and documentarian. Keep up the great work!

What a very cool brave man, and what a beautiful car!! Thank you Joe for producing this!! 🇮🇪

Amazing story! Love the design

Love it! Thanks for posting.

Very nicely done! The pacing is really nice as you get through the story and I like the focus on Malcom instead of just talking about thell the troubles manufacturing the car.

my buddy had one back in the early 90"s, it had the 360 in it. he beat the snot out of it, but it never failed. he sold it in 95. good memories.

I am proud to say that my next door neighbor owns a Bricklin!! 🇨🇦 ,cheers from Fredericton, New Brunswick

10:00 ... Conspiracy? Sounds familiar.... DeLorean ? - i love Malcom, he is just awesome !!

These cars are from my hometown! Great video tanks for the info!!!

Very interesting & informative video! Thanks for sharing 🙂

That was cool. Nice work!

This was a cool video. Answered a lot of questions. Wish more could have been made.

Thanks for this, Joe…👍

There's an SV1 that shows up in my little city on our cruise nights. It's the pinkish-orangish color.

Thanks for the history of the car I've always wondered about

Very nice unbiased journalism, well done!.

It's so cool to come from the same province as this car, I come from chipman which is about 15 minutes from minto!

It is interesting that Bricklin chose New Brunswick to build his car. It would have made more sense to build the car in Ontario where 1 in 10 jobs were in the automotive industry.

Great documentary on cool little ride!

My former neighbor had bought one brand new. I always thought they were a cool looking car, but never looked into them (blame it on my growing up in the 1980's, and graduating in 1995), so this is the first time I have heard the story. I genuinely liked this video - thanks!

Nice job! This was really interesting.

Great story and a well made video.

This probably one of the coolest & most obscure cars of the 70s!

The Nissan 300 zx circa 1984 looks alot like this car to me

A neighbor of mine owns the prototypes

Joe U have the BEST Channel on KZfaq👍👍

Very interesting thanks for the effort great story!

Great Video! When is the AMC Full Length Movie coming? Cheers

Colors with first names being “safety” is much more fun and interesting than modern colors.

Im more for big land cruisers but this is kinda cool. Lovely video as all your videos are. You learn something every time. Or just get to time travel to a place before I was born :).

Car company goes out of business because of employees tendency to quit after 10 weeks of work so they can stay home and collect Pogey.....only in Canada.

Great content

My Dad worked for Bricklin right up to the end of the company; Somewhere I still have a plaque from the New York premiere, several catalogs, and a paint palette autographed by Herb Grasse.

360 AMC engine and a 4 speed what's not to like.

I remember seeing these on the road occasionally in my youth. Amazing since I lived in the NC mountains as a child. That was 40 years ago! I’ve not seen one since. Great story. I think ole’ Malcom pissed away a few of those millions on a lavish lifestyle but it was the 70’s after all.

Joe, As usual you did a commendable job. I knew of the Bricklin, but you provided more information and background human interest than I had seen before. Now I feel sorry for Malcolm, the employees, Canada and car fans like us. It should have been . . . Canadians missed the gold mine twice; Once with Avro Arrow and again with the Bricklin. The MIG 25 looks an awful lot like the Arrow. Stopping production of the Arrow didn't stop the Russians.

Man I thought this is basically a c3 Corvette meeting a Z31 300ZX!

Shame you couldn't locate any footage of the video Malcolm used to sell the idea of the car. There are apparently several sales videos that were made and should be many films made about the plant (though I think those are owned by the CBC and/or government of New Brunswick.) I've never gotten a firm answer (even from Malc himself) as to whatever happened to any of the corporations video/film footage. Malc actually joked with me that he wasn't even allowed to keep the blotter off his desk when the company went into receivership. Somebody out there MUST have these films....

I love how these guys were going to snub their nose at the big 3, but yet couldn't build a car without stealing suspension, engine, transmission, etc from the big 3.!

Oh, now that you talk about futuristic cars. It really looks like the car in cyberpunk2077 lol. Edit: Accept it has gull wing doors.

I found out yesterday this car exists. Man it looks so beautiful. To bad no used cars in germany

This car was built in Saint John New Brunswick from 1974-1975 in an effort to revitalize the economy of New Brunswick at the time

The biggest factor by far, for the MSRP going from 4 grand to 7.5 grand is because only 700 were being made. The cost of production is spread over the amount of product made. That is why "One off" products are very expensive to make

Malcom Bricklin was a very, very strange person. He imported Subaru, Yugo, and made himself a "safety vehicle" I would absolutely love to see a video on the Yugo or some of the early Subarus he imported, the story of both is equally as strange! EDIT: Holy crap you MET Maclcom Bricklin in person? Wish I could say the same

Great video... Came across the while searching something else... Recognize the filming location as hempfield

Welp, I'm buying one.

A friend of mine bought one of these in yellow in 1974 it had the AMC 360

I think its awsome looking half farari lambo with Dotson corvette rx7 all in one never liked the bumpers but had to have them and their nice in fender bender

hilarious , I SAW IT RIGHT OFF THE START BUT COULDNT QUITE PLACE IT, IDENTICAL TO MY 1988 nissan 300Z, even the back tail light profile ect, id say N ISSAN DID A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN COPY THE PROFILE FOR THEIR LATER 80:S 300 z"s , so funny id never reLIzed that before, and seen a few brand new briclklins in the late 80"s selling for about 18,000$ canadian ., obviously the hood flarings a bit different but seems crazy, good show!! well done video!

I just watched an episode of fanton works where they worked on 1 of these and just had to know more

Great video!! Tell us more about that AMC president!

Great video. My sister told me that a newlywed couple whom she knew of died in each other’s arms when their Bricklin SV-1 flipped over and caught fire. She said they couldn’t get out of the doors. I have always wondered if it was an urban legend because people who are on fire upside down trapped in a car are usually in such agony, they don’t cling to others. I knew someone who drove a Yugo and the bottom of it fell out with him on top of it at a four-way stop. I believe that is not an urban myth.

These cars are not stylistically out of place even in 2020

Can you imagine over 500 car companies in the USA at one time, and thousands over a span of 2 decades? That was the USA when we were "allowed" to compete between 1900 and 1920. Must have been exciting times, able to chase your dreams. I think I would have liked to be born in 1900, just as the electric grid was being set up. I wonder what I could have been?

I've been saying this for years. Just like people have the mentality of, "I saw it on the internet, so it has to be true," they also have the mentality of, "It didn't succeed, so it couldn't have been any good." There are tons of great cars out there that failed because of reasons beyond the creator's control - DeLorean, Tucker, Bricklin, Vector, Cizeta, and tons of others. As you stated toward the end, starting a car company is awfully hard to do. Thanks for the fascinating video!

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" Thinking men cannot be ruled; ambitious men do not stagnate." -Ayn Rand-

I am a manufacturing guy, but I never understood the need for making a full size clay model to figure out design or production.

Cooler to have than a DeLorean or Corvette. More style and flair than those two cars and doors that open and close on their own. The first car ever made having that feature.

I owned one. It was the car I ever had

the DeLorean prerunner

There is one for sale on ebay right now.

In my home town of Bedford Va was a company that restored these cars owned by a man who was supposed to be one of the original engineers to design it. He passed away and his family sold of all the valuable parts. He had a 6,000 sq ft building. They sprayed the fiberglass to make the panels he could completely rebuild the whole car. Blue Ridge Overland Gear Bought the property and building to work out of. There was a shell of a Bricklin sitting out back and probably a stack of 100 front bumpers the molds for the body panels was there all kids of parts sitting around. Of course they cleaned it all up but it was neat to see all the old pics from the 70s of these cars built to drag race and parts sitting around.

It also reminds me of the testirosa (sp)

Had the pleasure of riding in one of these before my friend totaled it. NOT HIS FAULT :)

My neighbor had a red one and I always thought it was an old Ferrari until he educated me

I remember I saw a Bricklin in white for sale on craigslist for about 5k. Horribly warped though.

The "perfect shot " you spent all of that time waiting for should've taken 1 minute max lol

I really wouldn’t mind building one of these cars if it the body was mint and it costed next to nothing it could be made into a cool looking car with a modern body kit.

I remember wanting one back in the day but it was just to expensive.

As of so far I believe this car is still affordable for the average 9 to 5 worker

looks like an 80s datsun 280 ZX

I have a key chain plate for this car..any takers?

Amc should. Of bought Brooklyn after they fell and amc might of stayed alive and bricklyn realy looks like a amc if you dident know what it was

This is seriously the "Boogie Nights" of automotive manufacturing gone bust! A veritable smorgasbord of fiberglass & velour to tempt the viewers insatiable desires to peek at more safety orange and dashboards as high as your eyebrows. A lusty tale it be.

I also can`t wholly believe the story that Bricklin was going around bad-mouthing AMC. a) If true, it`s not a particularly well-known fact. b) Why would AMC continue supplying Bricklin with anything? And yet, there are still many, many AMC-sourced parts to be found through-out the car: shifter, rear axle, front suspension, turn signals and side markers..... but I suppose those could have been sourced from the places that manufactured parts for AMC.... I really don`t know. Still, I`m more inclined to believe Malc as the dude struck me as very forthwith and a straight shooter. He`ll tell you how it is. And 40 years later, nobody really has a dog in the fight anymore.... and I *CAN* believe AMC playing the game of ``every engine we sell you is one less engine we sell in our own cars`` 1974 was a big year for AMC with the launch of the Matador coupe. AMC would have been producing four cars (Matador Coupe, Matador Sedan, Ambassador and Javelin PLUS Jeep trucks) and probably the most common engine among those would have been the 360 4-barrel. Add in their less-than-Detroit ability to produce anything and yeah, I can see why they couldn`t supply engines. And from my perspective, AMC upper-management was often blamed for many of the corporations issues, so it would not surprise me if Bricklin had made one off-the-cuff comment and some AMC exec got a bee in his bonnet and decided to try and pull one over on this upstart named Bricklin. That would make it wrong on both counts. It may have been such a fleeting comment that 40 years later, Malc has no recollection of it. It`s too bad though the second-year cars got stuck with the 351 2 barrel. I`m shocked they didn`t go to everybody`s stand-by: the Chevrolet 350.

Are all bricklins orange or do I just keep seeing the same one

"A monopolistic conspiracy does sound a little wild." It was proven 28 years earlier with Tucker, and we lost our right to compete then. Why is that so hard to understand?

cooler than most of the crap the Canadian governments threw money away on all the time and 25 million is a drop in their bucket. i see one or two a year at the car shows in Moncton NB not far from where they were made and they still look good. a new green one was on display in the Riverview mall in 74 and it was cool to see brand new. they throw away 1.5 billion on the cbc alone for nothing but crap

The probles now days people expect with that kinda car it dosent say reliable every day grocery store car its a keep in garadge take it out sat day and awsome sunny days and dates on friday nights

irregardless

Your riding in a several thousand pound chunk of metal, you will never be safe so get used to it people.

Friend had one in high school was a total heap almost laughable build quality