Classic Car Weekly "Coffee & Cars" Meet at Wythall Transport Museum.

hello thank you for joining me today I'm in the warshire village of Gaden I'm not stopping here for long I'm on my way to wiel transport Museum I thought I'd stop here in gayen though because gayen is somewhere very much associated with classic cars because it's got the British motor museum only a week ago I was at the British motor museum for the IFA clubs event I went there in my ladder today I'm taking my ladder to another classic car event at wiel Transport Museum the magazine classic car weekly is holding an event so for the Second Sunday in a row I'm driving my lader up the M40 except today I've got to go a bit further we get my car now let's go to wvil Transport Museum so we're now nearly at WL Transport Museum I can just see the former Church ahead which is a landmark of the area as soon as I saw that that Tower I knew we were nearly there so this place as well as having a Transport Museum a bus Museum there's also a Miniature Railway which um I'll probably put in a separate video here we are this car has been here once to an IFA event I've been to three IFA events here once in a different lader and once in a Yugo so it's nice to take it interested to see what other cars turn up here so we're just coming now into the museum and um yeah I can see a few old buses can see any modern cars at the moment but I expect somewhere I'll be shown where to go with all the classic cars looks like if I continue ahead up here I think they're opening a gate whether that's for me I'm not sure yeah I think so so it's better try be directed where to park morning morning you eyes yes thank you um5 for passenger and then Den is's in the I we'll park you up all right thank you all right love thank you very much get your pass back pocket there you go thank you very much I'll park you up yeah all right thanks very much so we'll go forward and see what other cars we're going to join just looking at some of the other car I can already see there a ren 5 I think we can squeeze you in okay um pass is blown away yeah right let's follow this man so let's go out and see the other cars so I've now parked my ladder up just over there next to a Citron which is an EMR so very similar age these two cars you know came out both in the mid90s so you've got Russian and French cars here together initially I pared up there then there was a Jaguar he left so it seems cars are coming and going there's a real mix of cars and of course plenty of buses we'll have a look at the buses we'll probably go for a ride on one let's just have a look at I'm not going to go through every car but some of them of course plenty there probably more morish Miner stroke Travelers than any other car here a really nice Rover there sometimes my knowledge on classic cars isn't as good as it might be for Railway so apologies if I do um misname any cars so um yeah we got pers pers don't re see any of them anymore you see them everywhere when I was a child two more Morris miners like the Rena 5 on the end again another car you don't see that's what I like about these events it's just seeing the cars that you know you you don't see you certainly don't see lers like mine we got a Merc another is that Granada Scorpio Maybe let's walk along here was that there's a Morris Miner Morris Miner just leave let's watch that go and then we'll we'll go down have a look at some of the other [Music] cars I do think Morris Min is great little cars and probably if I hadn't got into Eastern European cars larders dant Etc I may well have ended up the driver of one of them which is some some of the older classic cars on the whole there's no real sort of setup as to sort of different areas where but it seems to be the older cars along here got hman Morris Miner Morris traveler Capri and then like I say there tends to be the newo cars down there it's quite interesting I quite like seeing it's nice always to see people sort of admiring my car and the other cars I've seen few people taking pictures of it a mini surprised it's not more of them actually some Toyota car we got another out the way another car just pulling in probably the coest form of car to mine is uh this Fiat 127 that's a nice little car I'm quite pleased to see that there there doesn't appear to be anything else Eastern European but Fiats my car is you know is a derivative of the fat 124 and various other fats became the yugos the 125 became the fso land driver Toyotas there there is another mini another mini over there couple of MGS from here we get a better view looking across see the buses some or some of the buses a lot of buses here there's the cafe going couple te in a minute I think and we'll walk down to the other end of the site there is also the museum which we can have a look in it's either reparking or quite sure course Van there far engine they do do some bus rides so I will probably go for a ride on the bus earli this year when we went to the statfold barn Railway we traveled on a bus from to worth station up to the barn itself and the bus came from here so they do Supply buses for statfold B when um they have an event on here's the Miniature Railway I'm hoping to have a go on that later if I do that'll be a separate video so we now come down to this end of site when I come to IFA events here in the P usually we've had all our cars parked down here only once um we have an IA event up that end of the site so I think these are the two buses which you know are going to do runs there's a a model Railway up there as well as well we're going to have a look at that in a minute and then here's the Min Railway so it's a really nice little Railway there so be a bit of a shame if they're not running but I'm hoping that they are and then this is the bus stop just outside the railway station except the trains are really small and the bus is full sze so what I'm going to do I'm going to go and have another look around Sight have a couple T perhaps later on we'll have a look around inside the museum that [Music] I've just had a cup of tea I'm now going to go for a ride on this bus it's going to Longbridge and then when we get back maybe the minute rway is running I've just seen them getting the carriages out anyway I think this bus is about to go I better go and jump on it so it's later on in the afternoon now most of the classic cars are gone the weather's improved I've had a good time riding the buses I've also been for a ride on the train so now I'm going to do a quick look around the museum so we've got look at this there's a Lander over there fitting in with a carfine but look at all these buses not counted how many buses but there's a lot of buses so I thought we'll just have a walk around here seeing as this is the venue where the event has been holding held and we'll have a look at some of them um like I said I don't bit like with cars I'm not so clued up on whatever typ of buses there's a interesting open top one built by Len but I do really like buses and it was really enjoyable earlier on even though it was raining just riding the buses we we went on one to wiel station then we went on one to Longbridge it was raining so much there I didn't get out and it was a little little point in filming cuz it was just so wet um just constant rain but it's been still been a good day you see various red buses making our way through here and um yeah let's go back down this way there's a Leland bus here we'll make our way through here through the buses and we're going to get down here we get to the um electric vehicle Hall look at this there's all these milk flops and various other electric vehicles which is quite interesting to see look here we are look these are I think they're more delivery vehicles actually these are milk FL so electric vehicles often seen as a modern thing but really it isn't they have always been around and personally I it never interests me these modern electric cars isn't really my thing but these are quite cool they've been around a long time but really I always think if anything's electric it's best if it comes from either over header or third rail but they obviously are these vintage electric vehicles which is interesting see there you go another milk flow look at these look electric cars are not a new thing electric vehicles on road they've been around a long time there without a train coming go out here and um this takes us outside we got to cross the railway line here over the bridge CU I I did have a ride on the train and that's going to be featured a Miniature Railway Britain video Let's just watch the train goid it so if you want to see a ride on the train then do look out for the minute Railway Britain video where we will see the Hall of of the Railway we're going to go down here now and we're going to go in the other main hall here we might even be just in time to see the train across the road where the buses go in and out um also I'm going to put it in the minute to railway Britain video but see there Kenville model Village that's a model Railway that'll be the M Britain video the lights for the level crossing are flashing and the train is crossing the road in front of us which is always nice to see came to an event here once when they're running steam train I got a picture of my out of white ladder at the time parked there with the little steam train going past which is quite cool we're now going to go into the main exhibition Hall there one up here ahead of us and we'll have a a little look around what that is and then I'm going to go and find my car which was in a car Parker classic cars and now I think it's a bit lonely with not many other cars so we go here there's all sorts of exhibits various interactive exhibits to have a look at so it's um last I'm not going to S show you all of them I'm going to show you some of my favorite ones talks about you transport in Birmingham this never actually was a bus depot this was an RAF base I don't think there was ever any aircraft in here but it was um an RAF Bas look at this this is one of my favorite Vehicles this is a trolley bus see the wires up there I don't think they can ever use it um but this is the one trolley bus they've got in the fleet see the the Poes up there so that's where the trolley bus would have drawn its power from so not like a battery like all these modern ones you get there a fire engine there look it actually says sit on me for a photograph it says don't forget to ring the bell should we do this for a bit fun that's uh oh that's it yeah so um you can sit on here hard to get in but you can you can sit up here as if I'm I'm like the driver of this fire engine which is quite cool I you want to have a ride in a fire engine um I went somewhere where they preserve fire engines let me have a ride I ring the bell quite loud but did say I could do that F and Sam there city of Birmingham fire fire brigade so that that was quite fun uh let's have a look around here we got more more Midland red buses which is nice to see and what else have we got yes there's all sorts buses and vehicles everywhere is like I said it's a Transport Museum so it's got buses cars and railways represented in the form of the miniature raway go in this bus here so look almost feel like well I've had a few rides on but so comfortable the seats on these old buses always nice and comfortable you know it does make you want feel like you want to go out for a ride on one I do sometimes go to bus rallies I don't always make videos at them I just usually go and enjoy them now this bus here I particularly want to show you this bus cuz the interior is a little bit different now we go inside we can't go in this bit if you look looks fairly normal doesn't it but there's something different you look on that side see where there's luggage racks there's no luggage rack on this side why is there this dip bit here we'll go upstairs and I'll show you [Music] why I don't get many buses like this but look see how there's only a corridor on one side or a walkway and there's only seats on one side this is a low double deck of bus so it's a double deck of bus but it's lower than most of them so you get these bench like seats um they've been really great out at the front look you got all look how much leg room I've got I've never had so much leg room on a bus especially at the front like this and the one next to us that is also a low bus but that doesn't I believe it's a low bus it doesn't have quite the same unusual layout so you've got see all these long rows of seats you get about four people in a row be a bit annoying if you sat by the window though and you want to get off at the next stop and you've got three people to get past I have been on some um there was some reading used to have some of these low ones and I've been to a couple of events last year went to mod Ro exibition in slau and it was held at two venues they ran a vintage bus similar to this one so I did have a ride on a bus a bit like that and once at a bus running slow I rode on a similar bus um but it s had individual four seats so I've seen various different ones but it was for where a normal conventional height double decker bus wouldn't fit under the bridges but there was plenty of room but uh slightly lower double decker bus also see when I'm stood up you know it's hard to show it on camera but I am struggling to fit my head in uh so like I say it's a lower it's pretty at least a foot shorter than you know your usual double decker buses and you can see see how where I'm stood the seats are up and if I go halfway downstairs it might be easy to show that to you if you look there see how the seats are up you know a few inches so that way they fit it all in by you walking above the heads of people sat down below so I think that is a really cool double decker bus and we'll have a look at the front of it in a minute I just want to show you this this is a a coach now I spend a lot of my time on coaches because often when I'm not doing YouTube videos my main job is I'm a tour manager for a company called rail trail tours so I'm often getting my clients on to coaches like this and normally I tend to sit at the front like this with the driver and um i' be sat here if if I'd done this job sort of 50 years ago I'd be sat here chatting to the driver I always enjoy chatting to coach drivers they're always very friendly and interesting people to chat to so yeah when I'm and also my clients these days they don't tend to have suitcases like this perhaps let do a vintage one they've all got to come up with suitcases like this we go on a vintage coach um that' be fun wouldn't it anyway so let's uh let's go and have a look at at the front of the unusual um lower height bus so there you are I mean the first glance it doesn't actually look that different so it worked in the Cardiff area you can see slightly sloped it does it does look a little bit different but I think unless you if you aren't thinking about it I don't think to most people they realize it's actually a lower bus and we get to here some more buses we're nearly back to my car now having been around most of the museum like I'm not going to show you every little thing I say I don't know too much about buted I know it's a l engine cuz it's fairly easy and often know a dler engine want a SE because they always have this front whether it's a car or a so we go out here and um yeah look I'm the only classic car here now all all the other classic cars has gone but my ladder it looks quite at home with these red buses everywhere my red ladder and the red buses it really yeah looks happy there so I think it's time for me to jump in my ladder and go home so I hope you enjoyed this video been a really great day and so yeah good classic car weekly event and the museum is also great so thank you very much for watching please do feel free to like subscribe and comment trans