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The best automotive shows are on YouTube—where the makers, from complete amateurs to well practiced pros can make the shows they want and find a niche of enough audience to enjoy it and keep it going, either through ad revenue or just for the love of it. Yes some of it is amateur, but some of it is as good or often better in terms of production values than anything on TV. TV is hobbled and always will be by the idea that it has to appeal to a broader audience. It can't be self indulgent for fear of boring the audience, so resorts to dirty tricks like scripted and falsely created jeopardy to add soapy human interest for viewers less interested in the intricacies of the wrenching. I think moaning about TV shows when there is so much other amazing mojo-boosting car-related video available on the internet means you aren't spending enough time on YouTube. So let's not moan - 'broadcast tv' will soon be shuttling off this mortal coil in the next 10-15 years anyway. Buy a chromecast for £20 and hook it up to your TV. My current YouTube car jams are plentiful George Karellas' SouoMighty Car ModsThe Skid FactoryBad Obsession Motorsport - Project Binky / EsCargoDiecast ResurrectionCarThrottleSmith & SniffDonut MediaBenny's Custom WorksSidewaysKing 75PetroliciousThis Old TonyThese channels more than fulfill my appetite for car media, and TBH I just don't miss manipulative crud like The Grand Tour, Wheeler Dealers, TopGear et al any more. (Other content that suits your own automotive kink IS available.]
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Thanks for sharing your YouTube favourites. Quite a few I hadn't come across, but will be checking them out. Early episodes of Road Kill are on YouTube and are a bit of fun. I also like Barn Find Hunter. Not a car resto programme, but bit of an eye opener to the rusting relics in North America.
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The drag bus made me lol! 30+k to run 18's on the strip with 250bhp!!! Really??? Junk and disorderly on a Monday evening was great I thought? Think luckyseven would love it too?
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96 E320 W210 Wafter - on 18" split Mono's - Sold :-( 10 Kia Ceed Sportwagon - Our new daily 03 Import Forester STi - Sold 98 W140 CL500 AMG - Brutal weekend bruiser! Sold :-( 99 E240 S210 Barge - Now sold 02 Accord 2.0SE - wife's old daily - gone in PX 88 P100 2.9efi Custom - Sold
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The drag bus made me lol! 30+k to run 18's on the strip with 250bhp!!! Really??? Junk and disorderly on a Monday evening was great I thought? Think luckyseven would love it too? I caught this, I was peeing myself. My friends bus was about that much, it was running 10’s with an aircooled engine in it, none of that Subaru junk.
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madmog
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Trev's blog for panel beating tips and tricks
The beauty of Youtube, you can dive in and learn everything you ever wanted to about carbon fibre or MIG welding or metal shrinking. Plus if the vlogger is American and talks too slow, you can just double the playback speed in settings.
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Last Edit: Oct 6, 2019 12:53:42 GMT by madmog
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There was a recent programme on youtube about practical classics and one of project binkys creators getting an old Austin going after it was sitting for years. No interest in Austins. Yet I watched the entire thing cos it was funny, interesting, curse word rain and just entertaining.
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There was a recent programme on youtube about practical classics and one of project binkys creators getting an old Austin going after it was sitting for years. No interest in Austins. Yet I watched the entire thing cos it was funny, interesting, curse word rain and just entertaining. Saw that a couple of days ago. Very good, and we've all been there haven't we?
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1968 Singer Chamois Sport 1972 Sunbeam Imp Sport 1976 Datsun 260Z 2+2 1998 Peugeot Boxer Pilote motorhome 2003 Rover 75 1.8 Club SE (daily) 2006 MG ZT 190+ (another daily) 2007 BMW 530d Touring M Sport (tow car)
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Ah- thanks for posting some favourites from YouTube, i haven’t seen all of those before. I’m a big fan of project Binky from Bad obsession Motorsport, I find it pretty inspirational, in a ‘well, now I’ve seen you break it down into steps like that I think I could do it’ way. I’m not about to make a 4wd turbo mini though
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Oct 13, 2019 13:49:57 GMT
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That Goblin Works show- I tried to like it, I really did. But- it's all fake. They are actors, it's all staged. Nothing is realistic and I after about an hour or so, bits of 2 shows- yeah- it's a hard "NO" for me. Stupid. Gas monkey is largely staged as well, but now their producers are at least making it interesting. It's a better "TV" show that it has been in the past. As far as you tube goes- those are some heavy hitters mentioned up there! Great production values and super good content. I hope my channel can hit some of those numbers one day. But if not, It's done for the love of the build and to barely squeak past as entertainment. I have been super bored on the internet lately so if you guys see something you think I might like, DM or tag me in it. I'm going on a deep dive into RR today- it's been a while
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Jan 25, 2020 19:01:27 GMT
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That Goblin Works show- I tried to like it, I really did. But- it's all fake. They are actors, it's all staged. Nothing is realistic and I after about an hour or so, bits of 2 shows- yeah- it's a hard "NO" for me. Stupid. Gas monkey is largely staged as well, but now their producers are at least making it interesting. It's a better "TV" show that it has been in the past. As far as you tube goes- those are some heavy hitters mentioned up there! Great production values and super good content. I hope my channel can hit some of those numbers one day. But if not, It's done for the love of the build and to barely squeak past as entertainment. I have been super bored on the internet lately so if you guys see something you think I might like, DM or tag me in it. I'm going on a deep dive into RR today- it's been a while
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Jan 25, 2020 19:03:12 GMT
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Really? Is this what car related TV shows have sunk to? It was like a UK version of Gas Monkey Garage but with any cool or technical skill sucked out of it.
A £30K Escort in pastels and then they have the idea of a slammed Land Rover. Really? Their idea??
I think not.
I certainly won't be watching.
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Jan 25, 2020 19:05:45 GMT
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Just watched GWG (Toyota Supra) Alls I'll say is if your 8 years old and like Need 4 Speed you'll think it's cool. What a joke
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Jan 25, 2020 21:01:39 GMT
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I'm a big fan of Uncle Tony's Garage on you tube. It's not that i'm a big Mopar fan or anything, it's just his no nonsense, low budget approach to restomodding makes me think we might be brothers from a different mother! I've watched a few Barn Hunters too, amazing what's stashed away on the backroads of America!
Binky is absolutely brilliant, every time I look at a particular part of my current project now, I think, "Would Nick approve of the way i'm doing this?" If the answer is "Hell NO!" i look for a more elegant solution! I have no real interest in Minis and think he's doing far too much work for the horsepower liberated, (and who puts aircon into a car like that?) but his approach is undeniably fascinating. And whilst my project needs to be OTR for October this year and I don't have TIME to be quite THAT anal about details, I think watching Binky has made me a better engineer!
Watched 2 episodes of GWG and completely lost interest, Wheeler dealers and that blankety blank Mike Brewer made a better job of a Fiat 500 with an almost identical colour scheme!
Steve
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Jan 25, 2020 21:04:55 GMT
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There was a recent programme on youtube about practical classics and one of project binkys creators getting an old Austin going after it was sitting for years. No interest in Austins. Yet I watched the entire thing cos it was funny, interesting, curse word rain and just entertaining. Anybody got a link for this?
Cheers, Steve
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Jan 25, 2020 21:13:34 GMT
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There was a recent programme on youtube about practical classics and one of project binkys creators getting an old Austin going after it was sitting for years. No interest in Austins. Yet I watched the entire thing cos it was funny, interesting, curse word rain and just entertaining. Anybody got a link for this?
Cheers, Steve
Here you go, it is a good video
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Jan 25, 2020 21:36:46 GMT
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It's light entertainment, what we don't know is how much of it is down to the edit.
Pretty sure they are all mechanic's, I get the impression it's not supposed to be 100% serious.
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Jan 25, 2020 21:43:03 GMT
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when you have humour and talent in abundance in amateur youtube shows like Project Binky, it amazes me that TV shows with a decent budget are sooooooooooo bad. Discovery should just show up in shropshire and make TV shows about brackets with the lads
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Jan 25, 2020 22:00:38 GMT
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KIndig Kustoms do some amazing work but they are 400k builds, Speed is the new black has some talented lads, but the best discovery show is Handmade Hotrods with Steve Strope, who builds some beautifully thought through designs, building "what if" cars
love the door handles on this, would the IVA guys like them tho...
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