1970s Outspan Orange - the strangest car ever made?! скачать в хорошем качестве

1970s Outspan Orange - the strangest car ever made?!

Thank you to Beaulieu Motor Museum for lending this car. You can see it yourself in person by visiting the museum. it's a great day out - totally recommend! *** It’s the 1970s and the Outspan company are in some serious trouble, which is a whole video in itself but there were troubles with the apartheid, how workers were treated and the political landscape of where the oranges were sourced. This being a car channel and not a political channel, we will focus on the vehicles in this video and not the political back story. Anyway, I’m not sure it would be a solid marketing strategy in the 21st century, but the company decided the way to win hearts and minds was to create these memorable Outspan Orange cars to use in regional and national marketing campaigns. The vehicles were ridiculous and brilliant in equal measure, built largely from components from the Mini of the time, or as we’d now know it, the classic Mini. The oranges were designed with two subframes taken from the Mini, fitted to a short space-frame chassis to give the vehicle a wheelbase of 48 inches. Although there’s no bonnet and you’re accessing the engine from inside the cabin, the underpinning rationale remains the same with the front subframe supporting the engine, a 998cc A series engine, the automatic gearbox as used in the classic Mini of the time and the front suspension. Again, classic Mini suspension on these. The rear subframe holds the rear suspension but that’s not all, because to stop the orange rolling away like a marble on a coffee table or toppling over like a lurid Humpty Dumpty, there’s 200lb of ballast in the back too. However, despite the 998cc engine being capable of speeds in excess of 60mph in a Mini, the top speed in one of these is 30mph, because you guessed it, any faster and you’ll be rolling away. Now you’re probably wondering how many of these delicious vehicles were made, well there were only ever 6 made - with five used in the UK, France and Germany and one heading off to South Africa. There are at least four survivors but I suspect i could find at least one more with a bit of digging. Another lives in a museum in scotland at the Grampian Transport Museum and Edd China has been restoring one on YouTube - the love for these will never expire, unlike the traditional orange you find in your fruit bowl at home. Made from 1972 - 1974, each one is slightly different and in a way, it makes them even more special in their own right. This one is on display at Beaulieu Motor museum, so if you are desperate to see it in the peel as it were, you can find it on display in their permanent collection. It’s definitely a long timer, because it was there when I went as a child over 30 years ago, so if you can’t visit straight away, don’t worry. i don’t think it’s rolling off to pastures new anytime soon.