Welcome to hoover's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube and i'm feeling a bit in pain now, but also a bit blue a bit depressed because i have become the youtuber. The car collector that i did not want to become - and there are a lot of reasons for me coming to this revelation, which are unfolded in today's video, where i am back in italy, but also because of the previous video, which is the craziest most amazing thing. I've ever done, and it's my least watched video in six months, but that part's fine. But let's go back to italy and we'll tour some collections and then we'll talk about why i am so mad at myself for being in this place, welcome to movies garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube.

I am in serbia, italy, and you saw the earlier video with me, comparing the new sl to the classic, an amazing experience, but that was only two days: the first half of the journey they sent me in this beautiful 123 mercedes 230 ce and you're - probably wondering Why i'm wearing shorts and showing my chicken legs and well it's kind of a throwback to my beginning with the brand the first car i ever bought with my own money was a 123 300d mercedes that i bought on ebay for 2500 bucks flew out sight, unseen Drove it home and it didn't have air conditioning, i was wearing pants. I was sweating my you know what off and actually one time i stopped at a gas station to get ice cream. It had melted by the time i'd gotten back in the car, and so i just tried to throw it out the window and all the ice cream came back into me and i was just drenched in it for the rest of the trip. It was quite disgusting.

So when we arrived in the mercedes-benz classic center gave me this beautiful 230c 123 coupe. It was like well coming home, i've owned, probably over 20 of these and uh six. At one time there was a very crazy period where i couldn't stop: buying 123 chassis, mercedes uh, i noticed it didn't have air conditioning and well. I was certainly prepared - the wife - maybe not so much so today - i'm going to give you a tour of this beautiful 123 230 ce coupe.

We're also going to stop by the lamborghini and ferrari museums to check out what they have inside and then we're actually going to fly home. This will be a whole over it's just like a pinch myself kind of moment, but it'll all be over, and then we're going to check on my own fleet, that's sort of becoming a museum piece in itself. My cars, some of them, are appreciating so much that i really am scared to drive them and they're just parked like these cars in the beautiful museums. But first let me give you a tour of this incredible survivor.

230 ce. This is pretty incredible right now: they're warming up all the 300 sls to go to the start grid for day two. I certainly need to thank the mercedes-benz classic center for inviting me out and letting me have cars for every single day, including today, be sure to follow them on social media. The mercedes-benz museum we're gon na check out some museums today, but they're not even close to the mercedes-benz museum in stuttgart.

It's the most beautiful car museum i have ever been to if you're gon na go to one that would be the one to go to, but we're going to cheat and check out a few others today. But let's look at this 230 ce. If i can get away from these 300 sls for a minute getting a little louder in here, but this is from the 123 chassis from 1977 to 1985.. It's really probably mercedes best car ever made in terms of reliability, durability, they're, just fantastic machines, and they are quite gorgeous very classic lines.

Everybody's revving garbage can going great place to film tyler, but you see inside you have the velour interior, which comes in handy for the lack of air conditioning. So this is kind of a poverty spec car you see crank windows, no air conditioning, no tachometer, just a clock in there, the classic steering wheel, you see a decent sized back seat, so this is back when mercedes wasn't too concerned with uh technology as being the Safest best-built cars they just wanted really really good quality and that's how they were able to market and sell these things. You can buy the best car in the world and really this was at the time and you see under the hood. Well, it's the base model.

Four-Cylinder engine which i have never experienced before that ever sold the 230 ce in the united states. We had all the diesels, the d's e's for einspritz, so you have a gasoline-powered vehicle. Look at this crazy setup here looks like a stromberg carburetor with vacuum lines. Coming out of it, which, in the 1980s that's pretty old-school stuff, these 1950s mercedes have direct injection so really the base model, but it has been very, very fun to drive around.

But now, let's take it for a spin, we're going to tag along with the sls and then we're going to hit a few museums today holy moly. Well, it's not hard to lose the sl's. Those things are really stinking fast, so we have to make our own way uh with the maps, but this 123 is just perfect for this. You know 100 horsepower.

I do kind of miss having the extra power, but you know it fits right into where you can have a lot of fun at not a high rate of speed and you're in a modern enough car that you're comfortable, even though it doesn't have air conditioning. I feel pretty safe in this thing. It's a really solid driving car and that's why i love the 123 so much i've owned, maybe 20 of these, because it's one of the few cars that gets better as it gets older. It doesn't seem to have all the age-related issues that cars as they age, get they're just too simple and robust to dive.

For any reason, as this car is proving knock on wood, now, we've been sticking with the rally so far, but now we're going to veer off and kind of make our own way since i'm not part of it. Officially in this car i can do my own thing and we can go and check out some museums, some competition, i guess to mercedes no offense we're in the neighborhood. We got to stop by modena and bologna butchering pronunciation to see the lamborghini and ferrari factories and museums. So let's go alpina, b3s, turbo, wow and then a458 convertible because well there it is.

How do you do museum tour, youtube? Videos? You just walk. I guess there's one car there's. I guess this one got stolen and stripped huh enzo's desk, so he'd be sitting in that desk when he told ford to go f themselves. Oh another stripped one 812 super fast and that's the 812 that we can afford.

Hey all right, 40, 50 or enzo, i'm a 50 man wowzer, but then you're not buying the car you're buying the engine at least that's what they say. Right hole enzo a lot ferrari, let's just cover it all huh, which one would you pick the 40 50 or enzo or the la ferrari? That's the 200 000 battery replacement, one, that's the hybrid! You know what, when you buy those cars, you don't care about money. It's neat: they show the engines because they're just proud of what they're building there, as well as the cars kind of unique. In that sense, that's what the steering wheels are supposed to look like it says, do not touch.

I did not touch you, then here's the thing that i have no idea what it is. It's a p80, oh okay, so which grand prix winner best describes your mood right now, phil hill. He looks sad because i'm hot, oh i'm sitting in the car for over two hours now with no air conditioning, yes schumacher, so that's that's it! That's it! That's it! Oh that was that was 20 bucks or each forty dollars. First, it's over.

I was hoping that we'll see where they assembled it. Well, i got to say the ferrari: museum is kind of a letdown uh. What's more interesting is what's around it, including this uh ferrari rental, where you can rent them by the minute or the hour or the lap, but uh, it's probably the only place in the world where you can actually get an f-355 as a rental. They actually trust these things to drive around reliably so anyway.

Hopefully, the lamborghini museum is a little better periscope countach, oh yeah, o2 in saudi arabia, dubai gold. This one looks like it's just sitting brand new, how many miles on it yeah just 1200 kilometers holy moly, and these spotters just look at the gauges and switches on this thing: wild thirteen thousand kilometers on this one. Oh, my god they were greeted with a 25th countach, no wing holy moly, 6900 kilometers nice. I found my car, which one i like that combo oh diablo, 6.0, no, more pop-up headlights and then mock-up for the new taj just come back.

This is so cool, but it's time to go home. Are you ready? No me neither so i'm a little down in the dumps coming back from that trip. Knowing i will never do anything that amazing ever again, driving around on 123 is cool enough doing it in a new sl 63 and then a 300 sl and comparing the two in a video around italy driving as fast as i want that opportunity will come. Never ever again and to have the video not perform well is depressing having any video not do well is really a bummer, but it's sort of my own fault.

I pigeonholed myself into this theme right here where i stand in my garage. I talk about the latest car i purchased. The latest car that broke go to the wizard, spend some money there go to van go clean up the car there, maybe every once in a while, do something small, but that's only the result me being back in the garage complaining about the car breaking taking it To the wizard doing that over and over again and it gets results - i really am happy with where i'm at in that sense to where i have a very loyal, fantastic audience that i absolutely love that enables me to buy all these incredible cars. But at the same time, it's turned me into the person that i didn't want to be.

I've turned into the car collector, who just parks the things and then looks at them and doesn't use them and uses the money that he gets to just acquire more things to just stare at and look at and feel good. In that sense, i really wanted to use these cards. I haven't tracked the 66 mustang once since i bought it. I wanted to become a vintage race car driver and be paul newman and steve mcqueen in that mustang, and i haven't done it once yet, because i've been the hamster on the wheel, making other videos to well make a living and buy more hoopties.

That i don't need - and if i were to do a video where i tracked the mustang versus say the new mustang, i'm sure i'll do it, because i want to do it and i'll really enjoy doing it. But the video won't do all that. Well, any kind of stunt anything i've done the last couple of years. I get punished from youtube, so i have a little bit of the quandary here.

Do i keep doing what i'm doing over and over again like a hamster on the wheel, like so many other youtubers two videos a week, wednesday or friday, mostly without fail, keep going and going to increasingly diminished returns, slower growth until well. The next thing comes up before i fade off into the sunset, or do i do what i want to do? Bring a camera along and just use, be, damned money, be damned just have fun doing it and the answer is well. I don't know, i'm scared. Honestly.

I want to do things that you all want to watch and i want to do things that will do well, but also i want to do something other than standing in my garage buying the latest hoop deed, going to the wizard and all that stuff as fun As it is, there's definitely more to car ownership than that experiencing these cars doing things with these cars like what i did in the 300sl that needs to happen more and speaking of the 300sl. That absolutely cannot be my last big experience in that car. I've told myself that i would never ever buy a car for a million dollars two million dollars. It just makes absolutely no sense that car being my absolute dream, car end-all be-all, i will never ever buy, and why do i tell myself that? Because i'm being practical and i like quantity over quality, it's dumb, maybe it's dumb to go, buy it.

But it's also dumb to think that i can't buy my dream car. So i'm going to it's not going to be tomorrow, but i'm going to start selling off a lot of these cars to make it possible - and it's not going to be a dramatic change on the channel. This may be kind of a post trip slump. The summer slump with views which is pretty common with youtube and me just being you know, a little edgy from all of it.

But i am going to change things a little bit and i really appreciate you all watching and being with me through this journey and well. If you haven't checked out the last video, because the algorithm pushed it down because the click-through rate was low and the average watch time was low because it was something different well, please give it a watch, and thank you thank you as always so much for watching. I'm not selling you not selling you.