Comments by "Adrian McLean" (@adrianmclean9195) on "I Saw My First TATRA! u0026 So many Classic European Cars" video.

  1. Wow - awesome video, awesome car collection. So good to see these cars in the US. Helps inform the general US public about these cars, that you may not have got and the innovations and advancement. The Light 15 Citroen, was first FWD I think, and other things, including independent suspension all round.? The big Citroen was an ID - the one skewed upside down, vertically on its debut at the Paris motor show in the 1950's. Everyone was stunned - so ahead of it's time, and masses of orders were taken there and then, guaranteeing it's production. The DS is the evolution with the big frog headlights that turn on the inside with the steering wheel, so you can see on corners, where you are looking, as normally your beam is straight ahead. Have come back into fashion - eg Volvo. However, when you see the dates on the Tatras, it just blows your mind, and actually makes them look far more advanced than the Citroen. Perhaps our current cars aren't as modern as they appear when relative to our time versus back then
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  2. And the Peugeot is an affordable classic
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  3. Could you give a link to these reverse races - sounds hilarious and very cool. I think the Volvo 360 GLT, with rear transaxle, was also a DAF. An Australian adventurer, who made films, stubbled upon a little DAF in Africa with the variomatic transmission, and fell in love with it. Was easy to repair and the transmission's action was easy to understand with basically cones and bands.
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  4. Okay, cool, thankyou - it was Australia's first " small " Volvo - we had only the 240 series and the 740/60 series up until then. They used them to rally here and the motoring journalists rated them very highly. Unfortunately we never got the awesome coupe with the pop up headlights and the grille under the bumper - 480 ? They looked really good and different. We eventually got the C30 coupe. I do like the Polestars.
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  5. The doors had to have a new, incredibly expensive hinge system developed, so they could open narrowly - Hubnut review explains. Wish we had got this and more French cars in Australia - but so far away, small market, ultra competitive, huge tariffs, local content laws, emission laws, hard to establish a dealer network and suited for Australian conditions, compliance, exchange rate, right hand drive etc. There was also the Renault Vel Satis.
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