I've tried to watch Cold War Motors. Hour long videos are a commitment, and he just seems to ramble too much. I also don't believe the guy owns video editing software. The cars are cool, but...
I've tried to watch Cold War Motors. Hour long videos are a commitment, and he just seems to ramble too much. I also don't believe the guy owns video editing software. The cars are cool, but...
One of the reasons I like Coldwar Motors actually is the hour long videos...it's like sitting down every Saturday evening to watch your favorite TV show.
Yeah, I think it's a bit of an acquired taste, but I'm with you, I look forward to to watching his latest episode, Saturday's at 4:00.
I have four that I watch that I didn't see here.
Finnegans Garage - I think everyone knows or can picture that one
Ambition Strikes - it's a husband and wife that build things. They made a boom docking camper truck that I found interesting. It's just kind of calm and interesting and not annoying to me so decent casual watching
Andrew Camarata- this guy builds and does a lot of stuff pretty interesting and clean so I can let the kids watch it
tech zone- it's kind of weird digital automated talking deal but cool top ten kind of deal
I'm not sure all episodes have made it to youtube yet, but this PBS from the UK show was great. Henry is really into motorcycles, and has a few Land Speed records on them. But they restore/fix nearly anything, from ancient race cars to tractors. And then they actually USE them as intended. Love of all things mechanical.
Here's the YT promo vid:
stuart in mn said:https://www.youtube.com/c/ThrottleStopGarage/videos is Throttle Stop Garage, a guy in Canada building a heavily modified Volvo 122. If you're interested in how to make carbon fiber parts he goes into great detail, plus there's also a lot of welding fabrication.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaIIoFbVqP6NNF78iit5-Xg Is Irontrap Garage, a guy in Pennsylvania who's into traditional hot rods, there's plenty of welding, sheet metal forming for rust repair and general fabrication.
https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperfastMatt/videos is Superfast Matt, he's putting a Tesla model 3 drivetrain underneath a 1950 Jaguar saloon.
https://www.youtube.com/user/Squatch253/videos is Squatch253 a Ford mechanic in Minnesota. he rarely does anything automotive on his channel, but he goes into intricate detail of the restoration of old tractors and Caterpillar crawlers.
https://www.youtube.com/user/retropowercars/videos is Retropower, a shop in the UK that builds very cool restomods, including a Ford Escort for Sir Gordan Murray.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsAaakmE0dAtG7AVFb7oUEA is the personal channel of Lucky Costa, the host of Hot Rod Garage on the Motor Trend Network. He builds a lot of muscle cars and trucks for clients.
https://www.youtube.com/c/RonCovell/videos is Ron Covell, master metal shaper.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2pQT90JBqbMHSVLtbJBvyw is Tyrell's Classic Workshop in the UK, they repair and restore exotics.
https://www.youtube.com/c/Harrysgarage/videos is Harry Metcalf, former editor of Evo magazine in the UK. He has an amazing personal car and motorcycle collection, and also does reviews of lots of interesting new and used exotics. His second channel Harry's Farm is interesting as well.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl9I7RgD0i7JZ58CK17kKHQ is Soup Classic Motoring, a guy in Ireland who's slowly restoring a Lotus Esprit along with a Range Rover and a Mercedes saloon.
https://www.youtube.com/c/fanatikbuilds/videos is Fanatik Builds, a young guy and his dad building a restomod Triumph GT6 with a crazy combination of engine, transmission and suspension donors.
https://www.youtube.com/c/MacroMachines/videos is Macromachines, a college student hand building a replica of a 1930s era Indy race car.
Came here to say this. Well done, Stuart. (Actually, you had way more channels than I.)
Guy from Newfoundland teaching practical bodywork and rust repair.
ddavidv said:
Uncle Tony's Garage never fails to teach me something. I'm not put off by his New York swagger as I grew up around people like him. Some people can't stand him. For me, it's like hanging out with a guy I knew in high school.
His mopar slant 6 into NA Miata project has been pretty interesting.
nocones said:I don't think anyone has mentioned Robot Cantina. His project is very strange (still a car tho) but he does a lot of technical discussion. His helper Gnome is a bit of a personality though. He's also one of us.. I mean literally he's on the forum (I appologize I can't remember his handle) but his channel is growing massively.
Hey, thanks for the mention! Robot Cantina is GRM's Doc Brown and formally Fujioko. The channel is dedicated to getting an old Honda Insight to go as fast as possible with a lawn mower engine and recently a fuel injected 420cc Hemi cement mixer engine. Its all just for fun, but I do try to throw in a little bit of knowledge.
In reply to Doc Brown :
I've been enjoying your channel and the Honda build, I'm looking forward to the forced induction down the road as well as the speeduino to run it.
In reply to adam525i :
Thanks!
I really enjoyed Bad Obsession Motorsports and I really like Vice Grip Garage with the road trips.
I'd suggest a lighthearted new guy in OK having doing some junkyard "make it run" videos with oddballs like Internationals and several Datsuns called:
Also some cool field find rebuilds, tv car replicas and a few BMW Isettas on
"Restored"
This is an older thread, maybe I've missed a newer one. Looking for some new automotive-ish YouTube channels. I've reached the age, I wont call it wisdom, where I've accepted that building mega projects is beyond everything except my imagination. So I'm not so interested in build channels other than Bad Obsession and occasionally Retro Power just for the sheer mind blowing awesomeness of their builds, and plans for what I'd get them to build when I hit the mega millions. My favorite channels in terms of watching are:
Basically never miss an episode:
Watch 50-90% of their stuff
Watch some stuff, in general descending order
Specifics for racing
Non car stuff
I kinda like the car review and drive type things, but getting tired of Doug refering to a button 1/2" off it's standard position being called a 'quirk'. I like Harry Metcalf, Ian Tyrrell, Jay Emm etc. as they talk about the issues, history, real world gotchas and things.
Any suggestions?
TIA
A quick pass through the earlier responses and I don't see I Do Cars mentioned. He runs a dismantler and parts business in the Midwest and tears down a broken engine each week. It's a really good technical look at engine failure modes. He's also been doing occasional repair and revival videos lately.
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