Inside the Berkeley Cars Factory: How Britain’s Tiny Sports Car Dream Collapsed
9.4K views · Sep 24, 2026 · People & Blogs
Comments · 16
@rogerbranton1752 · 4 days ago
Who can argue the Mini changed the automotive landscape on more than a mini level!
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@RosemaryBentley · 4 days ago
Lots of historic pictures.
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@laszlofyre845 · 2 days ago (edited)
The one at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSdxXfMgPHk&t=1449">24:09</a>, used to be mine I think! In '86, in the UK, reg'd as YUF786. A B105. In white, with half depth doors due to having steel chassis stiffeners bridging the A and B pillars- the chassis on all these cars could and did, flex. The early ones had steel members where the later ones had alu. Riveted together, and they could come loose. Mine had been raced, and thus needed 'the treatment'. It's now in the USA, and AFAIK still racing, but I think it now has a Triumph engine.
@harrynew340 · 6 days ago
Zero picture editing by the producer
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@robinoconnor1203 · 6 days ago
Interesting video, such a lot of random images. I knew a good amount of the story already. The last and only time I saw a Berkeley Bandit was in the late eighties, it was parked on London Rd Ascot, a few yards past the Renault dealer that was there, its now Mercedes Benz. A car ran into the back of it, causing a lot of damage. I have no idea what its registration number was.
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@keesstam909 · 6 days ago
Wrong pictures
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@carpetcrawler284 · 6 days ago
Interesting but some very confusing pictorials. and no mention of the Morgan three wheeler, surely the most famous ever.
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@HookedOnBooksFishing · 6 days ago
Interesting - wonder what happened to Fairthorpe - anyone remember the Fairthorpe Electron Minor 😊 I did have one !
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@grahamchivrall30 · 6 days ago
Too many irrelevant but interesting images. This will mislead trainee car buffs.
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@MarkGory · 6 days ago
whats with the mercedes stock pics ?
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@alancollard8939 · 4 days ago
this video was 50% information mixed up,b s , when people do these video please use correct photos of cars being talked about instead we had pictures of sprites whilst talking about the qb 105 , quite honestly it did a diservice to berkely cars , did we ever get a photo of the bandit more info on this would have been the icing but no it never came , lots of excuses about servicing well the people who bought these were motorcyclist used to doing there own , sorry i ended up switching it off
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@cerealtiller · 6 days ago
Nice Mercedes???
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