Automotive Vloggers (Vol. 4)

[Smacko]

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

[simonw67]

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

What don't you understand?

[Smacko]

DomesticM said:

Odd. On the Car Chat podcast not that long ago he said he’d never sell the TDF, I wonder what changed.

Finances, his views have been going down the swanny

[red_slr]

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

Stradman did very similar. Maybe a coping mechanism. I guess its hard being in the public eye and having to get the news out there you kind of have to rip the plaster off I guess? I have been there being young like AH and its difficult.

[Smacko]

red_slr said:

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

Stradman did very similar. Maybe a coping mechanism. I guess its hard being in the public eye and having to get the news out there you kind of have to rip the plaster off I guess? I have been there being young like AH and its difficult.

Fair enough, obviously not being a youtubers I couldn’t think of anything worse , but I get what you are saying.

[DarthtaterM16]

DarthtaterM16 said:

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I’m assuming that’s a no?

[red_slr]

Smacko said:

red_slr said:

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

Stradman did very similar. Maybe a coping mechanism. I guess its hard being in the public eye and having to get the news out there you kind of have to rip the plaster off I guess? I have been there being young like AH and its difficult.

Fair enough, obviously not being a youtubers I couldn’t think of anything worse , but I get what you are saying.

Yeah I get it. I dont like telling people. Some people are just the opposite I guess. He wont probably even be able to remember making the video in a few weeks because his head is probably all over the place.

[fridaypassion]

Well one criticism that would never be leveled at the guys is that he's not a nice chap and I think even the most hardened PH life hater would be hard pushed to do anything other than offer condolences. Time and a place and all that come on chaps.

[SVJBalboni]

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

[jayemm89]

People all deal with grief in very, very different ways.

I am not a particular fan of Archie's content but I have nothing but sympathy for the guy. I count myself very, very lucky that I do not know what he is feeling.

I find the suggestion that he would leverage/use something like this for any more than a coping mechanism or just a way of getting news out there very odd.

Sometimes I wonder if many commenting on this thread are far more cynical than the people they're talking about.

On this thread I consider most YouTuber related topics fair game, this one I think needs to be left well alone or handled as others have with simple condolences.

[MrC986]

SVJBalboni said:

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Everyone handles grief/loss in their own way. Archie's Dad not only appeared in a number of his videos, but was also an accomplished motorsport competitor and well known person in the automotive world following on from his Dad/Archie's Grandad who won Le Mans. If you don't like what Archie does, you don't have to watch it & I suggest your comments might not be agreed with by plenty of people who watch Y/T.

[DarthtaterM16]

SVJBalboni said:

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Horrible post you stupid little man.

[Mark-996-911]

SVJBalboni said:

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Even if privately you believe that, posting it here is a bit of a dog move.

[Digga]

MrC986 said:

SVJBalboni said:

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Everyone handles grief/loss in their own way. Archie's Dad not only appeared in a number of his videos, but was also an accomplished motorsport competitor and well known person in the automotive world following on from his Dad/Archie's Grandad who won Le Mans. If you don't like what Archie does, you don't have to watch it & I suggest your comments might not be agreed with by plenty of people who watch Y/T.

I was not aware of the video. I don't really enjoy Archie's content but, on this occasion, I will go seek it out because I'd agree his father's life was one worth celebrating, but also because I have great sympathy Archie and his family have. The one video of Archie's I'd previously watch through was the one he'd filmed with his dad.

[Ben Jk]

SVJBalboni said:

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Seriously? Absolute bullst. His Dad has just passed away and you still have to have a pop on here? You sir are an absolute bellend.

[Twaddle2]

614-HSO said:

reapercushions said:

The majority of ‘his’ cars are his business partner (multi millionaire bloke who owns the production company l, bunker etc..)

Notice the Senna has ‘joined the channel’. Very carefully chosen words. Same for the Gemera.

The channel James owns is MrJWW, he mostly drives his own cars on the channel, he says "x car" has joined the garage or stable" which means it is his business partners, I think though that this "business partner" is nothing of the sort, he is a guy that has a lot of money and loves exotic cars, he likes to share them, but doesn't want to be known or in-front of the camera and doesn't have the skills to do it himself, James does it all for him and he gets content out of it.

James and the "business partner" don't sit about chatting about what car would be good for the channel, the "business partner" buys what cars he wants and James films content with them, I would say that any car with his plates on "JWW" are his owned cars, I cannot remember a car that has joined the garage showing a plate at all.

This is what I think anyway, sort of like that GerCollector guy Tim is friends with, he never shows his face and always covers his plates up.

Not wanting to stir all this up again, but from Jame's videos I don't think he has ever lied about owning a car, he may have not been 100% but at the least 99%, he knows that he would get found out and for being his dads cars, maybe he used some of his share of family money, but this doesn't make it "his dads car".

maz8062 said:

waynecyclist said:

reapercushions said:

The majority of ‘his’ cars are his business partner (multi millionaire bloke who owns the production company l, bunker etc..)

Notice the Senna has ‘joined the channel’. Very carefully chosen words. Same for the Gemera.

Does it really matter who owns the cars, I would sooner see content and cars like this instead of grown men with a DB meter and traffic cone.

People waste so much time nitpicking on whether a car is his, his dads, his business partner’s, the lease company’s etc. What does it matter? If he drives the car on the channel, pokes it with a stick and acts like he has access to the thing with impunity, who are we to judge. Best just to enjoy the footage, or not.

I agree.

I do think though that James has all-ways been Mr Sensible, but he's seen that his peers are able to have a large collection of cars, Tim and Tom (TGE) and he has moved very much into the financing of cars especially with that Charles and Dean finance company he is working with, he could have sold the TDF, maybe even to his "business partner" and used the cash from the sale of the TDF as a large deposit on the 911 4.0 RS and Senna and this other up coming car, this is what I think has happened.

DomesticM said:

614-HSO said:

He must have had some change from selling the TDF.

Odd. On the Car Chat podcast not that long ago he said he’d never sell the TDF, I wonder what changed.

Using the TDF money as a deposit on other car to finance them.

WestyCarl said:

jamesth32 said:

I take it back that was a good video from Shmee that Tesla is rapid

I knew the Plaid was fast, but watching the speed numbers increase is completely unreal. I so want a go in one just to feel it.

I agree, that accelerator pedal is more like a hyperspace button!!!!!!!!!

JWW does not buy the cars, his sugar daddy does. Usual 'influencer' nonsense. This all came out after the Yaris incident.

[AyBee]

SVJBalboni said:

Smacko said:

Why is Archie making a
Video of his dad dying? I really don’t get it.

YT'bers will do anything for views, they have no shame and uploading a video about your recently deceased dad is in bad taste. I bet in a few days he'll upload a "normal" video like nothing happen.

Condolences to him and his family but personal family matters should be dealt in private not YT.

Don't agree. If your life is public (which it is for youtubers), then people wonder what's going on if you don't post. I suspect putting that video out there is a way to let his followers know and to give him some time off without all the "where's Archie gone" questions.

[LanceRS]

People are all different. If Archie’s way of dealing with the passing of his father is to tell the world how he feels, so be it.
When my father died, everything was very private, but that’s me. I wouldn’t dream of criticising someone for finding their own way of coping.
Archie and his family have my condolences and I would imagine those of most of the people here.

[Roberto71]

As people have said, people deal with grief differently and Adrian Hamilton was a huge figure. He was even mentioned on Good Morning Britain I believe.

Have a read of the obit in Motor Sport Magazine below to get a flavour of what a huge figure he was.

https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/articles/road-c...

[DomesticM]

AJB1971 said:

Carfection - Audi Sport Quattro S1 Evolution 2

Oh my, that car is pure pornography.