Practical Performance Car - Youtube channel

[jbailey114]

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[Bluevanman]

Either I'm going deaf or they need to sort the audio out, better microphones perhaps

[jbailey114]

Yeah, looks like they're working on it though. New video just up: Rover SD1 with a tank engine in it. Nuts.

[Bluevanman]

jbailey114 said:

Yeah, looks like they're working on it though. New video just up: Rover SD1 with a tank engine in it. Nuts.

Might be a new video but that car was featured in the mag many years ago.
They'll have to up their game to compete on YouTube

[Sebring440]

Bluevanman said:

Might be a new video but that car was featured in the mag many years ago.
They'll have to up their game to compete on YouTube

Some people may not have read the mag, many years ago...

[jbailey114]

Sebring440 said:

Bluevanman said:

Might be a new video but that car was featured in the mag many years ago.
They'll have to up their game to compete on YouTube

Some people may not have read the mag, many years ago...

Yeah, been a few videos on it but nothing for a few years until now too.

[jbailey114]

Sebring440 said:

Bluevanman said:

Might be a new video but that car was featured in the mag many years ago.
They'll have to up their game to compete on YouTube

Some people may not have read the mag, many years ago...

Seems to be doing well - more than 100k views on it.

They also posted this the other day. 2CV with a BMW motorbike engine! Sleeper/deathtrap but very fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUR7p6TX0FE&t=...

[anonymous-user]

Bluevanman said:

Might be a new video but that car was featured in the mag many years ago.
They'll have to up their game to compete on YouTube

Some people bought that mag regularly and want to see where it is and what's going on with it now.

[LeighW]

MrBig said:

Some people bought that mag regularly and want to see where it is and what's going on with it now.

Yep, I subscribed to the mag, it was a shame it finished. Always interested to see what Charlie's doing with the SD1, I wouldn't want to live next door though.

[Red9zero]

jbailey114 said:

Seems to be doing well - more than 100k views on it.

They also posted this the other day. 2CV with a BMW motorbike engine! Sleeper/deathtrap but very fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUR7p6TX0FE&t=...

Love that 2CV ! That motor in the van Wheeler Dealers have just done would be good.

[jbailey114]

Anyone else watching this channel? Doesn't seem to get noticed around here much. They seem to feature some pretty interesting/quirky classics every week now. Worth a shout about (or maybe I'm the only one )

One recent example:

[Megaflow]

I have tried it, but Will is just a bit too wooden in front of the camera and spoils the watch.

[jbailey114]

Fair enough! I find the quality of the videos/production/etc has been improving since they started. Not annoying and shouty like some other channels too - nicely understated

[Megaflow]

Ah, ok. I might need to try again then.

[LARK F1 GTR]

I liked the Mk1 Astra on there the other day. I thought it was great!!

[jbailey114]

LARK F1 GTR said:

I liked the Mk1 Astra on there the other day. I thought it was great!!

Oh yeah, that was looooovely!

[jbailey114]

Anyone else been watching recently?

It's been a bit hit or miss I've found. The Dave Walker (Emerald m3d) episode was particularly good: https://youtu.be/NzkrYvE-EmA?si=U_LiAPv-cM1jcw7Z - he's an amazing communicator

The E-Type to Le Mans road trip: not great. Audio was way off. Hopefully things improve from there over the winter..!

[Megaflow]

I watched the Dave Andrews one, lost of time for Dave, incredible engineer.

I haven't watched anything else though.

[robemcdonald]

I used to buy PPC good mag even if they never actually got around to finishing projects.
Good preparation for Binky I suppose…

Will check out the YouTube channel.

[jbailey114]

robemcdonald said:

I used to buy PPC good mag even if they never actually got around to finishing projects.
Good preparation for Binky I suppose…

Will check out the YouTube channel.

There's not a lot of project stuff on there currently. There was a 205 GTI episode a while ago and Will's Mercedes SEC but that's about it. No major builds or anything, at least for now. Perhaps it'll change?!

Best of the bunch (the YT algorithm seems to agree) would be this 2CV video: