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That beautiful... Rev counter... I know I'm weird... Love Berkeleys, I would like a B90 as my fave version.
Nice car, shame about the egregious "man spreading". Yuck.
Did any early British hot rodders put these mills in cars like the Austin 7, Ford Popular, Model Y Ford or Morris 8?
Lovely car! I saw it a few days ago at the Louwman Museum in The Hague/NL.
Such a lovely car well done. It's got everything we love about prewar cars. It's noisy, the gears whine, the cockpit is cramped, the gear lever rubs on your leg, there's no room for your feet, and I imagine it's slow and the brakes are useless. And great styling! What's not to like! Lovely, thanks
Imagine this,or a three wheeler with a Hayabusa(!)Has anyone seriously modified one? I have seen them racing with Cooper S engines but quite heavy.With a modern bike engine they would be totally mental!
Fabulous!
Very interesting.
11 years well spent she is lovely. Beautiful colour too . My first car was a bond gt4s that I ran for many years. 200 quid on the road . They both come from a time when motoring was interesting !
Rolls Royce produced this car partly in response to the proliferation of V12 engined luxury cars in the United States. Rolls Royce engineers traveled to America fairly regularly and kept a close eye on the trends there, visiting manufacturers such as Packard, Lincoln and Pierce Arrow to glean what they could from those manufacturers of 12 cylinder engines. They also talked extensively to Cadillac about their V16. At this stage, these manufacturers were starting to obsolete their straight eight engines (though they would stay in production for many years) from their top-of-the-line models. The American V12s were very small in size for their capacity (about 7.3 or 7.4 litres) and despite their emphysemic side whacker layout, they ran very smoothly. Rolls entered the fray with a V12 of 7.33 litres in 1932 but borrowed Cadillac’s OHV layout instead of the more common side valves. I have never understood why they bothered with this at all. The company’s aero engine division had been producing overhead cam V12 engines for some time and they had a very good Idea how to make them work having been winners in the Schneider Cup with their Series R engine. While the adaptation of road engines for aviation use is fraught with difficulties, the reverse is not generally true and OHV represented a neater solution in engineering terms (though they could not have used aero engine camshafts in their road car) than OHV. This model of Rolls Royce has the dubious distinction of being regarded as the most difficult to service. The driver was provided with a special tool kit in a slide out tray under the front seat. It was said that there were many components which were impossible to service, the most notable were the spark plugs. Several components had to be removed to service them and there was apparently a special tool in the kit for this purpose. One is inclined to wonder how a driver - who was also likely to be a mechanic in those days - would be able to service the car in an emergency on the side of the road. Rolls Royce had apparently given this some thought. Just for the record, one doesn’t drive a Rolls Royce Phantom. One is _driven_ in a Rolls Royce Phantom. The driving characteristics - good, bad or indifferent - are someone else’s problem. If you must drive, get something vulgar, like a Bentley.
Definitely the best looking of the minicars, and with that (Constellation?) engine I'll bet it goes well too!
Turning your flat cap backwards is the 1900s equivalent of pushing the sport mode button :)
Wow. Fuel gage is all over the place!
What a lovely man Old school gentleman
I nearly bought one of these in the 1970s (maybe '76) from a cycle shop opposite where I worked. Can't remember how much the guy wanted for it. Around the same time I was offered an Austin Healey Frogeye Sprite for £75. This was more interesting to me, but it needed the splines renewing to get it through its MoT, and they were £25 each at the time, plus there was some work to do to the engine. So I bought a Honda CB250 G5 and got my first serious girlfriend because I stopped when she waved to me one day! Yes, bikes could win girls back then. Have passed up a lot of classic cars since then, but the Berkley has always appealed because it was so rare and quirky. Thank you for sharing.
Point the camera at what he is talking about NOT at him. I understand there are night school courses on basic film making!
Learn to use a camera or don’t
Цвет как у моей буханочки!
Nice car and one hell of a rebuild. But you got to fire your camera man. We need to see the car, not your crotch. Happy trails.
If a R.E. engine vibrates, then it’s not been put together properly. All Enfield twins were dynamically balanced at the factory and were renowned for their smoothness in comparison to every other manufacturer of vertical twin motorcycle engines.
Lovely. 😎🇬🇧
I had a T60/4, 3 wheeler, 328 Excelsior engine, and supposedly would seat 4-which it did on a couple of occasions when we were young and stupid. This would have been in 1967-8.
A HONDA CBR600 mill would shoehorn into there...
A simple 471cc CB500 twin with 48 hp would do, too. No reliability issues, lots of torque and a low redline.
Always nice to have a look under the bonnet...
Modified but ??????
It sounds like my vw pole 3 cylinder 14tdi lt runs smooth past 20000 rpm its the num now to make cars with less cylinders fiat 500 twin air is on axample
Very AC in its rear end
"The true home of the motor car is on the open road". I love the sentiment. That's exactly the way I feel wearing my watches. They're things or beauty and craftsmanship meant to be worn. Thanks for the video.
What joy!
Dear old Steady, he was a great man indeed.
Fantastic car...and owner!
A wonderful video and nicely presented.
Très belle auto !
A short but sweet film. Thank you.
In Southern California had a Berkeley of about the same vintage but it was powered by an Excelsior 2-stroke, 2-cylinder engine with an exposed chain drive. The chain drive featured a fiber gear that would wear out every 1000 miles, requiring a new gear be fitted, not an easy job. The Excelsior engine had a built-in generator/starter motor combo mounted at one end of the crankshaft. The gas tank was where the battery is in this one. With a capacity of 2 gallons (IIRC) it allowed a run of between 150 and 200 miles between gas stops. Same gearbox. Might have kept it with this engine but instead I passed it onto my younger brother in High School and bought a '62 MGA. I quickly learned to buy fuel at truck stops because they never bothered to charge me for the little bit (pint) of oil needed with each tank of gas.
Ron, That would be the B60 - named because the top speed was 60mph.
Well done sir, you deserve lots of happy motoring
video just for looking à old man ! ! !
My first car was a blue 1958 Berkeley. It had problems with charging the battery and no one could fix it. I finally sold it and got a 1952 Mercury 2-D coupe. The Mercury was a great car.
Beautiful car look me up if you wish to sell!
I have a 1959 Berkeley b95 left hand drive I need to sell
He's pointing out engine components and the photographer is filming ... HIM! What, you got a crush on him or something? Pan down to the #@! engine, idiot!
"Sports performance"? Well, guess it's all relative.
Err. It's from 1937.
@@984francis There were some VERY good sports and performance cars then.
Ahhhh.... (weeping tears). I had a red B105, top speed 105mph, Nex - I had twin Amal 1 3/16" carbs on her, and 10:1 pistons plus loads of mods to correct everything on Berkekeys that broke. Pirelli P3's too - the go-to tyre at that time. She was an absolute dream to drive - went like the proverbial shit off a shiny shovel. Gave me 50.8 mpg driving back from Belfast to London. Blip the throttle hard and she'd suck back through the exhaust with the sound of ripping calico. Handling was stunningly good - true go kart stuff. 271 JKE was her number - I've been trying to trace her, but no luck so far. She remains to this day the absolutely most exciting car I've ever driven (more weeping).
Hi Robin, According to the DVLA, road tax check website, the vehicle is currently on SORN and that the last logbook for it was issued in 2018 (usually with a change of ownership) What condition it is in though I have no idea, but at least it doesn't appear to have been scrapped.
what is the top speed at new
miss you uncle wilkie. i love you so much. i hope i can see you, auntie judy , uncle ben,auntie judy, aunty louisa and all my cousins xx
yes, i like old car.
where i can find one please ?
Nice car! but the camera guy could use a little work the camera was on you jacket a lot of the time
The camera person had no idea of what to point the camera at. Waste of time.
It would have been nice to see - the car.
Yeah, that was a bit disappointing...
Those WW II scrap drives including "Saucepans for Spitfires" killed a lot of classic cars. My late friend flew Spitfires through the war. His mother donated the wire wheels and tires from her Jaguar SS 100 to the war effort. Strangely enough they were returned to her in totally used-up condition in 1945.
Yeah, cars that should've been turned into hot rods. Just Imagine a Model Y with a Frazer Nash straight six, mated to a Mazda MX5 transmission to the rear wheels.
great stuff! more videos like this please !