So you brought a Barkas to the USA and it even runs, that is so amazing. Thank you very much for taking care of this vehicle. The sound alone almost brings tears. All the best to you

"I am not gonna leave a Barkas behind" ha ha you are a legend. It is absolutely fantastic, that you brought these cars to America. Having even several of them makes it just more amazing. It looks funny when you drive the car on this rural streets in Kentucky. If you would have said to the driver of that specific Barkas in the GDR that one day his car will drive through Kentucky he probably would have laughed it away because it was so unthinkable then.

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

This blue Barkas is a world traveller. Came from Hungary to Texas. Then I drove it on Route 66 to Arizona. I’ve used it in Las Vegas and now it’s in Kentucky. I have several East-German vehicles. Will be posting videos of them soon. Thank you for your nice words!

@Maris_Hvidt

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop A world traveller, who would have thought that, it is really cool. Keep it up. I am looking forward to your videos about them.

For some reason I was telling my girlfriend about east european cars and wanted to show her the Barkas. I searched it up on youtube and found your video. Thank you for the video it's nice, brings back memories (.. I am also from Hungary and living here in KY - 🇺🇸)

@budapestspeedshop

10 ай бұрын

I have a large East-German car collection. Some bikes too. Where do you guys live?

@kekesip

7 ай бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop Bowling Green KY

Childhood memories.. I grew up in eastern germany. My father had a repair shop for Simson mopeds and a Barkas was his delivery- and our familycar. It was a retired ambulance car and very old. A private person would have had no chance to buy a new one. Remembering the vacations we went on in this car, I wanted to buy one and restore it, but then I decided for a ROBUR B21. Now it's the 6th year that I'm working on it and hopefully I will finish it this summer.

@budapestspeedshop

2 ай бұрын

Great story thanks! I have a few Simson bikes as well! A 1959 425 Sport and a Schwalbe. The Barkas is an advanced collector car. Most people don’t realize this. Not only the parts are scarce now, but it was a complicated design. Just try to adjust the front hub bearings for example…. I always loved the Robur bus! That air cooled diesel engine is very strange…. I wish you luck with your restoration! I’ve been to a classic car show where I’ve seen many commercial vehicles too. There were several Roburs as well! I’ve made a video of it. It was north of Chemnitz in a small town.

@universalmanufaktur

2 ай бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop Thank you! I agree: The Barkas was, when it came out in 1961, ahead of it`s time and very advanced. Front engine, front drive, low floor, the suspension... If you like, you can have a look at my bus on my channel. "Robur Bus Restaurierung Teil 1" is a slide show with a lot of photos. It's very cool to see east german cars driving in the USA and I wish you a lot of fun with them! Greetings, Peter

My dad, hailing from Chemnitz, takes a lot of pride in Barkas. Sometimes, whenever we visit that city, we see other B1000.

@budapestspeedshop

9 ай бұрын

I just been to Chemnitz and went to a huge car show next to it in Hartsmanndorf. You can see the video here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5-Vw8mnndCdZpM.htmlsi=Y7q4cx6BFxAlcxUf I love this van! I also have a 3 axle Barkas wrecker truck and several other East-German motorcycles and cars.

@tinosenf4007

2 ай бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop would you like to sale our barkas?

@budapestspeedshop

2 ай бұрын

@@tinosenf4007 I don’t think you want to buy it😂 it’s a constant challenge and can’t get any parts for it… I actually have 4 vans and one wrecker truck version.

Ein Barkas B1000 Bus in den USA 🤩👍Sehr schön! Allzeit gute Fahrt und viel Spaß mit dem "Van" Made in GDR👍 Viele Grüße aus old East Germany, ein Wartburg 353 Tourist und Trabant 601F Pilot 👋😀

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Danke für deinen Kommentar! Ich liebe DDR-Fahrzeuge! Ich habe 6 Barkas B1000 2 Simson 3 Wartburg (2 353 1 312) 3 Trabants

@derMenix

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop WOW💪😀👍👍👍Ich fahre auch Simson S51, MZ TS 150 und eine ETS 250 Trophy Sport 😁 Ein schöner Barkas fehlt mir noch😅

So many cool cars!!

@bountyflyer

Жыл бұрын

Never enough!

I remember when in early 90's I just started working for MALEV Line Maintenance as very young aircraft engineer and I hired an old Barkas from MALEV that was part of a reserved fleet of them no longer in use. We made a journey from Budapest to Prague with friends of which I was the only driver but with only a tiny little driving experience. We made it but with my old mind I don't undersand how I dared to take such a responsability. This is when bravery couples with sedulity. No mobile phone, no GPS no nothing, but only 2 boys and 2 girls in a crap old Barkas. And itnwas in January of course😂

@budapestspeedshop

9 ай бұрын

What a fantastic story! Thanks. I wish I could have one of those Malev Barkases!

They're also getting very rare and pretty expensive here in Europe :( Kinda want one as a camper van and use it later as a working/hauling vehicle. Tho seeing as how diesel engines aren't allowed to drive down town in cities here anymore, I'm afraid 2strokes will be denied soon too. And 90% of why I like IFA/DKW/Wartburg/Barkas is because of their 2 strokes. Also currently in Europe these B1000's go for 4 times as much as a Wartburg 353 goes.

@budapestspeedshop

10 ай бұрын

Two stroke engines are part of the appeal to me as well. I’ve heard of all the insane regulations in Europe and in the U.K. as well. I wish they would exempt the old cars so history could be preserved…. Barkas prices ran away but people don’t realize that a Barkas IS an advanced collector car. Not for the faint hearted…. I have a “parts department” to keep mine running…. Most camper vans I’ve seen were modified to 4 cylinders so they can cross a hill…I’ve seen some for sale in Hungary, try www.hasznaltauto.hu or www.vatera.hu

I'm pretty impressed that someone from the other side of the world got a lil van from east germany... it brings me joy that you like the barkas :)

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I also have several Trabants and Wartburgs. Some Simsons and a QEK aero camper as well😃

@cutehomelessman

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop woah that is insane and how did you even import all that stuff

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

@@cutehomelessman one at a time😂 soon I gonna have a video up of my 1970 353 Watrburg and the camper.

@cutehomelessman

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop sounds great ill watch it when its out!

sorry for the correction! The GDR license plate is not from Leipzig. This vehicle was registered as a commercial vehicle in the city of Apolda! The license plate is composed as follows, the first letter L stands for the district of Erfurt (Thuringia), E was distributed over several cities, the numbers indicate from/to whether the vehicle was registered as a passenger car or commercial vehicle or in which city! In this case, LE 00-01 to LE 37-15 are registered as commercial vehicles in the city of Apolda! The license plate LE 24-80 is exactly in this range.

@budapestspeedshop

3 ай бұрын

This is very very interesting! Thank you!

really unusual vehicle - bet it gets lots of looks!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

people usually don’t know what they’re looking at. I know 12 of them in the US, I have 6 out of the 12. I love it. Provided that it’s working😂

As few cc is as a crossmotor in this large van. But still it can cope because it is 2 stroke. Amazing.

@budapestspeedshop

8 ай бұрын

Thanks! It was made for city use or to go between villages. It always broke and it was complicated to repair. But this is how I like it🤣😅

I found this video after this van was added to a video game I play. I was surprised to find out there are only about 12 of them in the U.S., and half of them are in the same state as me! I also love vehicles and odd mechanical things, so I loved the whole video and the fact the you put so much effort into keeping these things alive!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

I wonder why did someone put this van into a video game. In real life it’s an unreliable POS, or I could say it’s “guaranteed to brake soon” design. So when these are running (and stopping) it’s a great day! Perhaps this is why I like them😅 American manufacturers also made similar vehicles. Ford had a front engine version, Chevy had the rear engine Corvair van. Now those were much more reliable.

@Herrtobins

Жыл бұрын

​@@budapestspeedshop The video game is called The Long Drive and is made by only one guy from Hungary I believe. The newest update added a few Barkas and Wartburg variants. It also features Trabants and Skodas. I've always found older vehicles like this to be neat, and the more odd the better! I find it interesting that two-stroke engines were used for larger vehicles and enjoy the angry weed-eater sound! I also love small vans and regret selling my 1970 VW bus. After watching you explain the suspension and the bearing adjustment and the rarity of parts, I'll keep my Barkas experience digital, where it works every time and doesn't breakdown 😂.

@ARandomFortniteTruck

Жыл бұрын

​​@@Herrtobins I play that game too! That's how I also found about this video!

I always can't wait for you to show up at the store with a different vehicle,

@bountyflyer

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you’ve found my chanel. I’ll be putting up videos every Friday, I hope you’ll watch them.

@bryansexton4159

Жыл бұрын

@@bountyflyer I definitely will my friend

The plate is: Kreis Eisenach LD, LE, LF And 2-stroke with 3 pistons is the same like 4-stroke and 6 pistons! You can easily lower it if you adjust the torsion bars, then you have a lowrider hahaha With best regards from Germany

@budapestspeedshop

2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much to write this down for me! I have a few East German plates bit not enugh for all my Ostalgia vehicles. In Kentucky we can put ANY licensence plates on a car as long as it’s registered as an antique vehicle.

I’ve seen Barkas and drove it as well! My dad use to have one, it was lots of fun!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Where are you from?

@nazarnozhak3696

Жыл бұрын

I’m from Ukraine. There was few Barkas in my hometown. Now I live in Canada, I even thought about bringing my dad van here, but it’s too late, my dad sold it. My dad was trying to restore it for many years, but getting parts was too hard and expensive.

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

@@nazarnozhak3696 getting parts is even harder now. I’ve heard of two Barkases in Canada. One is in Montreal

@Miniorpernik

11 ай бұрын

​​@@budapestspeedshop Trabantwelt and LSM tunning can help with parts.... LDM tuning...

@budapestspeedshop

11 ай бұрын

@@Miniorpernik Thanks you, I just been to Trabant Welt a few months ago to visit Frank. He doesn’t have much Barkas parts. I haven’t heard of the other place, will check it out, thank you!

I know more about eastern European cars watching your videos then any where else, i do have an old foreign car spotters guild book from the 1970s of cars imported to the USA with English fords, wartburg,skoda, DAF,DKW before they created Audi.advertisements in it.Some of the mechanical engineering on those cars was simply genius if totally alien compared to Amercican cars. LOL great vidoes.

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Was your old car spotting book called auto parade? I bought all of them and seen many of my cars from the past Audi was always present. In the 30’s there was a merger where they’ve merged 4 brands. Audi, DKW, Horch, and Wanderer. After the war Audi and DKW went to West Germany and they’ve retained the auto union sign (4 rings after the Olympic games what happened in Germany during Hitler) Horch become Trabant and Wanderer sort of become Wartburg. But all East German vehicle manufacturers were under the IFA umbrella compareable to GM.

@josephseverino674

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop No, it just was a phone book type of paper back cover book,over it reads as foreign car spoters guide ,cars that were imported into the USA some not very long and in limited numbers ,for example Mercedes-Benz were bought through Studebaker dealers until the late 1960s,and the Engish ford line in the eastern USA sold through some American ford dealers from early 1950s until 1970,mostly angilas and cortinas.

You know the Eran Riklis movie 'the human resource manager'? Big role for the Barkas. Anyway excellent!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

No I haven’t seen it. I’ll check it out thanks

You are not correct about the licence plates in East Germany - they did not resemble the town by the start letter(s), instead they were sorted from north (Rostock got A, Cottbus got Z) to south, Leipzig had first the Letter S, latter they added U as all with S were used. The letter L was used in Erfurt.

@budapestspeedshop

9 ай бұрын

Very very interesting! I used to fly into Erfurt with Interflug when I was vacationing in Gotha! Thank you!

Очень приятный автомобиль, жаль перестали выпускать, он недорогой в производстве и цена должно быть не высокая. Я читал что японцы запатентовали новый двухтактный двигатель, вот это будет технический прорыв, цена машины будет ниже чем со сложным четырехтактных двигателем.

@budapestspeedshop

4 ай бұрын

Thanks! This wasn’t a good engine design. It was weak, regularly broke and had to rebuild it quite often. Not to mention the pollution it created. But as a collector car I love it!!! I have 6 of them! One is a wrecker truck version.

Glad to see. I also own one. 👍

@budapestspeedshop

3 ай бұрын

Where do you live?!

@pebbles2002

3 ай бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop Germany, near Berlin

The engine is very similar to a DKW 3=6 engine minus the hydrosyphon cooling.

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it looks similar and both engines have close origins but after the war they were separated by a “wall” so consequently they’ve evolved in a different direction. No parts other then the ignition coils are interchangeable.

Nice video,I have exactly same type of B1000 it needs the split cv boots replacing any chance of a video of you doing cv rubber replacement?

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Yes, I have to change mine soon. It’s super easy. Just got to tale the old one off and put the new one on😂

@davecullen5986

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop yes super easy 😂

i play a game called the long drive and it has a barkas and id love one

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

I’ve heard about the game! This thing is faily unrliable POS but thats what I like about it!

Sir, it is not only in your head. There is the east part and the the west part 😉

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

I was in East Germany last summer for the Wartburg Sport (313) treffen. I can still see a difference between Bavaria and Thüringia. (I like the East parts better because I spent many summers in Gotha when I was a kid)

@Maris_Hvidt

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop Das ist super. You can wake me up at night and just by the sound of the slamming door I could tell wether it is a Wartburg, Trabant, Barkas, Москви́ч and so on. In the early 90s people literally abandoned them. As kids we played with them on dirt roads or across the fields ( one is the driver and the others have to push from behind). From that perspective you could say by the time I was 9, I already have been driven all of them 😄 Now you pay a fortune if you find one in decent condition.

I don't know the Spy x Family van has a motorcross & tuk tuk style 2 stroke triple!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Now you got me. I have no idea what is the spy x family

@mrdaykurutakuchannel

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop it's an anime set up during cold war era, which includes cars like these, that's why i call it the spy x family van!

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

@@mrdaykurutakuchannel very interesting, I‘ll have to look it up. Just seen a movie called U.N.C.L.E. It was full of East German cars at the beginning.

ez mikor lesz felujitva restaurálva

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

Majd ha megjavitottam a szomszéd néni corvettjét, össze raktam a 64-es F100 as pickupot, meg csapágyaztam a Barkas auto mentomet, megepitettem a T Ford versenyautót és készen van a V12 es versenyautóm is. Szóval a válasz az hogy nem tudom. Nagyon élvezem hogy működik, a hátsó kipufogó dobot ki kell majd cserélnem de különben csak hasítok vele…. Magyarországon viszont épül majd egy platós amit igen szépnek tervezek megcsináltatni. Azon nem én fogok dolgozni hanem egy barátom fogja végig vinni.

@zsoltdobroczki6206

Жыл бұрын

@@budapestspeedshop video lesz rola amit a bartod fog renbe tenni

@budapestspeedshop

Жыл бұрын

@@zsoltdobroczki6206 körülményes lesz de megpróbálom majd

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