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No. I couldn't care less about crappy earphones. Remove the sponsored segment and reupload the video.

@@737Garrus That is unreasonable. Robert needs to make a living too. And, Robert's sponsored segments are fun to watch. Why so negative?

@@ModelA because the headphones/in-ears he's advertising are a borderline scam? any audio related channel warns about these turds

Even though I know what raycons are, mentioning they have water filters made me visit the raycon site for the first time ever. Congrats on making the most compelling raycon ad I've ever seen.

That would be great. My grandfather had an Isetta that he drove quite a bit, but it wasn't his only car. After retirement, he drove around the countryside with my grandma and visited cafes. I remember us driving to play minigolf once.

Imagine being stuck inside this car, in the middle of the trafic with F150 like trucks all around you 🤣😂

To give you an indication of how bad these things are my mother is from The Isle of Man and she was coming of age when these things were made and one of her boyfriends had an Isetta despite living down the street from the factory that made these.

You wouldn't be able to drive this without someone picking it up and turning you around by the handle at the back. Top Gear has a lot to answer for. 😂😂😂😂

@@podfuk all around and above you 🤣

What needs to be converted?! :D

@@drippingwax well it is using a right handed steering wheel.

Back then there were no speed limits outside built up areas in the rest of the UK or much of europe either.

The door's on the left side, I count it as a LHD already.

@@drippingwaxYou just switch hands.

Second guy was kinda shady.

Yeah, Raycon definitely getting their money's worth here, I don't mind an ad if it's funny.

I never skip the ads on this channel.

I think that's the first time anything in a sponsor section has ever made me laugh.

They were called Bond Minicars. I had a friend at school who owned two of them back in the very early 1970s and got to do a little work on one of them. Very strange things to drive around in. The latter of the two had a two cylinder 250cc Villiers two-stroke engine, and like all Bond Minicars, the engine was mounted over the front wheel which was attached to a vertical strut via a trailing arm suspension system. The whole thing, engine and suspension, would rotate as one. If you put the wheel over on full lock it would essentially rotate round the centre of the back axle. Like all Bond Minicars, you could start them by opening the bonnet, putting one leg over the "grill" and use the kickstart. Some had a lawnmower type pull-start in the cabin, other later ones could have electric start with the capability of stopping the engine and starting it backwards, which gave is 4 reverse gears. It could do that as it was a two-stroke and had two sets of points (a system designed by a German company called Dynastart). It was remarkably inconvenient, it it worked at all, and it was simply easier to push the car backwards out of a parking spot and it was seldom necessary to go backwards because of that ability to essentially spin the vehicle around on the spot. No need for a three point turn on those things.

My dad's first car was a Reliant Regal, and let me tell you, after doing the 500-mile trip to his parents' in a Russian motorbike and sidecar, mum riding pillion and my little brother and I bundled up in the sidecar with frozen snotsicles out past our ears, that car was sheer luxury. He later got a Reliant Robin.

It's such a shot of dopamine, I love it everytime

is he giddy or is he terrified? we may never know

@@RoamingAdhocrat Yes.

It's not just the UK, although we have our fair share. Look at other European vehicles. Lots of microcars and other unusual designs. France and Italy made them, and even the Germans got in on the act. No doubt there were many others that a came and went with varying degrees of success in many countries. I'd love to try a few.

Japan has a whole K-car thing. Which yes is bigger then micro cars but... compared to an actual full blown car???

Kei cars are not that small compared to actual full blown cars as long as you are not american :D European and asian city cars are barely larger if at all.@@MasticinaAkicta

Just like the infamous Invacar, for example

That's because you had a long period where a couple of guys getting together in a shed, with a lot of beer, to make a car, was the norm. A surprising amount of them turned out semi successful.

An electric one with a removable battery might almost be a sensible vehicle!

The Viking is actually really attractive, it looks like a derpy British Z car, I rather like it.

The EV option is already available as a kit option

Eddie Hall has an EV one and has been doing...interesting things with it, trying to go shopping etc

Yes, there's engine options up to 300cc now, the ev is available, and there's a convertible version, you can get one with racing stripes in a whole myriad of colors and they start around 6,000$ US if I remember correctly

and apparently the last V5C Logbook was issued on October 21st, 2005 (probably when it was imported to the US) EDIT: I ran a DVLA check on the Bamby, and it was last taxed on August 1st, 1988 and the last V5C Logbook was issued on November 30th, 2005!

Ok I lied, but a self build gas kit is under 20k

This is actually an edited variant of the video. He originally did bring up the fact that someone is making repoductions, but after some unprofessionalism, he decided against advertising they existed.

​​@@deefdragon Carbon fiber is the new fiberglass. Plus it's really cheap to get polystyrene forms made by someone with a robot. Three e-bike motors, with a battery pan would be fun. The battery on the bottom would make it pretty stable too. I would want mine to look like a Porsche 550 Spyder. Call it "Mini Bastard".

Being legally considered a motorcycle (for tax and/or licensing purposes) was the whole point of three-wheelers like this, so chances are that if there's a country where it's officially a car, they weren't available when they were new.

@@stevethepocket That's a good point!

It looks like a toy car at first with a gas engine.

@@stevethepocketAlso, the reason those didn't have a reverse gear. Imported Isettas even had their reverse gear mechanically blocked off to be motorcycles. For a front-entry car, that was quite risky, as parking too close to a wall would trap you inside.

wow that's one heavy peel p50 (I'm American so my first thought was pounds as in the unit of weight lol)

He can buy it in an electric version too, even

You can also buy a cabrio version 😂

​@Xatzimi it even does 50mph. How scary 😂

This is actually an edited variant of the video. He originally did bring up the fact that someone is making repoductions, but after some unprofessionalism, he decided against advertising they existed.

Was it the most popular car at the show?

Presumably a summer-only car. I can't imagine it handling snow very well.

It's like on most 49cc mopeds in the 60s.

If it's a sequential box (likely) the first is below neutral and everything else is on the other side. This is quite common especially on smaller motorcycle engines.

That is most definitely motorcycle shifting. First is down, all the rest goes up.

Yeah, scooters back then often had a twist grip shifter, with the gear pattern being. Its not quite the same as a modern motorcycle shifter as there was no ratchet mechanism and every gear is a different position on the grip but very similar. The shifter on the peel likely just operates that mechanism.

The description immediately reminded me of a motorcycle transmission. They're weird if you're used to a car, but make a ton of sense if you're shifting with your foot.

I would rather say he put on the P50. 🤣

@@Colaholiker Fifty percent more sturdy than a cardboard box Gundam, it only fails to be one. At least it's red...

good thing it only goes 25 miles per hour cause if it gets into a crash your Doomed

Yup, I don't think CVT scooters were that popular back then.

There is a man in the U.K. that actually built a road legal and road capable Little Tikes Car…

And the Robin like a stationwagon

@@mrjed6912 Right?!?

Invacar?

Technically they were motorcycles. They were a trike per the licencing authorities.

It was indeed called the Invacar. They were given to disabled people free if they could get a licence to drive a moped. Weird times. Some invacars still exist in private collections.

Invacar - Ian Seabrook of @hubnut fame has one and a whole series of videos about it. Uses it as a somewhat daily driver

There's an Invacar in the opening scene of Ali G Indahouse, where Ali steals the disabled parking bay from him.

if that is a car it's a baby smart car🤣🤣🤣

That would be a fascinating project. It's essentially a trike in a fancy hat, but there are some wrinkles like the proper steering wheel. You could use _some_ modular parts from small cars --- cheap, reliable, and easy to source --- but things like building the steering assembly would have to be made from scratch. Not complicated, but not trivial either.

@@bewilderbeestie or just add a gas engine to a bumper car🤣🤣🤣

boat building apprentices learn fiberglass lamination too, sometimes on a whim when the company decides it needs a few parts done, so it wouldn"t be too much to ask for to do this in a fabrication class

Especially here in the States where the opposite is true!

​@@sys-administratorI suspect that a 1960s CVT wouldn't stand up to much wear and tear, material science wasn't anywhere near as sophisticated back then