The HOT Cars NOBODY Wanted When New !

Hello all!! As has been pointed out, the DeLorean is rear engined, not front.. and the 6 cylinder in the Toyota is a straight, not a V! Was aware of both these details but being a dork it unconsciously came out wrong!

Montreal is a 2.6L V8 but minor details! You can get handling kits for them which vastly improve the handling.

That Montreal though, gotta be one of the most beautiful Alfas ever made.

Jack, two small things. The Alfa Romeo Montreal had a cross plane crank instead of the Tipo 33's flat plane crank. I think you miss read. Toyota 2000 is an inline six, not V6. As always, best greetings from Sweden.

Love the Montreal. They came with a mechanichal SPICA fuel injection system that could be troublesome and not many mechanics were (or are) familiar with it. That was one of the reasons prices stayed low for a long time. The reason it was a failure: the oil crisis in 1973. It cannot be stressed how important that event was for European manufacturers. It killed off sp many models from non-high-end brands. The Montreal came out at the wrong time for Europe and it never had a chance competing with the larger and much cheaper V8s ubiquitous in the States.

Well! The Montreal’s 200hp was actually a lot at the time and yes, more than the formentioned Dino. :) Sure, the chassie let it down, especially to think of the Alfetta at the time.

I really like this format as a supplement to the regular videos. In a way, this video is a kind of compressed and sensible format of the videos that your fellow countryman in the channel "Big Car" makes and this tells quite a lot because he is good. Keep up the good work :)

a couple of edits required. DMC isn't front wheel drive nor the Toyota a V6

The 2000GT story reminds me a lot of the Lexus LFA (which, of course, is the spiritual successor of the 2000GT). Was very expensive, built by companies that is not known for making such hi-po machine, Yamaha did the engine, and was unappreciated when new. Oh, and both now costs easily into a million quid to get, and I would sell my family just to get one.

The SM is a beautiful car, so different to everything else on the road

Despite being in the US, My Dad crashed a new SM on a test drive (mom's last Cit was a 71' DS21 Pallas), we have a local Montreal in perfect condition and we have an S2000 in the lobby at work :)

As a young fellow l aways wanted to own that Toyota GT, settled eventually for an E Type, love the profile of both. By the time I made my move, the Toyota was "unobtainium".

I sat in the Alpha Romeo Montreal during Expo 67. I thought that it was absolutely beautiful. What most impressed my tweenage mind was that the speedometer topped out at 200 (possibly 300). Of course I had never heard of the metric system at that point.

When we talk about commercial disasters from 90s, the first two that come to my mind is Clio V6 and BMW Z3 Coupé

The Montreal is such a stunning looking car, with those Miura looks (the designer is of course the same person), I sincerely wish I had bought one when they were cheap as chips, sort of..hindsight is a wonderfully annoying thing!

I do believe the engine of the DeLorean is not in the front

OMG the DMC12, literally built at the end of my street. Early 80's Primary School, we saw the transporters moving them out. Also there was a Ford factory close by as well, building engines and other components (grandfather was a foreman there), so we didnt build cars, but NI had alot of engineers, aero, nautical, agricultural, and auto...so yeah there was that.

Very informative! Some top cars there too - especially the SM and Montreal!

I have a story to tell about trying to buy a 2000GT in 1985. Back then it took a huge amount of effort to find that there were just two examples in the UK at the time. I managed to persuade one owner to consider selling and promptly drove 300 miles to meet him. But to my absolute horror - I could not get into the driving seat at all. I’m around 6’2 and reasonable normal shape (!) but I could not contort my legs to get under/past the steering wheel, and the pedals were seemingly designed for someone 5ft high. This meant I would not have been able to operate the pedals properly even if I could of found a way to sit in the driving seat with custom smaller wheel. It also became clear that even sitting sideways in the drivers seat that my head was pressed up hard against the roof lining requiring. It was like I was sitting in a children's scale model car and this is clear from watching Connery trying to sit in just the passenger seat of the convertible made for him and the film. I really wanted to own it, and drive it, and not wrap it in cotton wool and store in a collection as an investment, so with great reluctance I had to give up on the dream :-( Folks maybe interested to know that the asking price at the time was ‘a mere’ £20k, and they are now frequently in classic car auctions for $850,000 to $1,200,000. Ouch ! All I have to show for it now is lots of photos, some books and magazine reviews and a limited run book about the cars evolution, signed by the designer, and numerous letters back and forth with him. The owner of the Toyota had a very large collection of other rarities, mostly classic Maserati’s and Ferrari’s from the 50-60’s and this was before the late 80’s classic car boom. I have no idea what happened to them all, but if he had of kept the lot, the collection would be worth at the very least £10+Million based on the photos I took at the time.

Always loved the Montreal despite its shortcomings. Nearly bought one a long time ago but the rust put me off and now the prices are too much of a stretch!