The story of my Lotus Esprit, Sports Motors Manchester and NAS hitch fit // SOUP Classic Motoring 18
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ค. 2024
- It’s time! We catch up with a past owner of our dejected Lotus. Gonna build something new too. Taking care of biz on the Vogue restoration and coaxing Tina back to life as well… have no fear.
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i'm watching all of these episodes back, but just came here to stop and say: you are a really unique creator and it's a blast to watch. Keep on pushing trough and stay motivated because it's a wonderful thing you're posting here and you have a small but very hooked audience that loves each and every quality video that you post.
Thank you Gerard, really uplifting.
i wish i had better words to describe how good, satisfying, honest and fxxxing cool this guy and his content are ! thank you bro
I appreciate that!
That Ian is a lovely bloke, could imagine sitting over pints listening to him all night. Great find George, when is he coming back on ?
yeah myself an Ian are on a pints promise soon as I can get back into the UK. All the four owners I heard from are sound men, but that makes sense when you think they were into getting back in touch when I reached out. Looking forward to continuing that story.
i cant begin to say how HUGE to me it was when you stated that you dont do sensationalist titles or thumbnails. Its long been a big gripe for me, especially as the car videos in particular on youtube are absolutely stuffed to the brim with that crap. Your videos, aside from the incredible cinematic and post production quality, has really struck close to my heart through its content and your demeanor. I dont own a Lotus or a Porsche, however my passion and love for the marques is very much abundant in my thoughts all the time. Inspiration this channel serves, as I aspire to build my own Lotus Elan, my quinessential sports car, essence of Chapman and Lotus history. Thank you so much
Don't wait Kyong! Tomorrow keeps rolling over and over, today's the day. Lovely words mate thank you.
@@soupclassicmotoring absolutely! This video is just so wonderful, completely original and everything that someone whom is passionate about automobiles can enjoy. Its been a year since I first watched this video and left that comment, I think you had about 5k subscribers at the time, and now your close to 70K! congratz, so happy you are getting your due because you deserve it.
Don't know how i missed this episode. I've hit that bell so i won't miss it when it comes out next. I found some rust in my Discovery 1 last week after dropping it in a mud hole and pulling carpets out to clean them. Just spent my sunday patching the floor and come home to watch this thanks for the inspiration to get out there and do it.
Great to hear, hope the floors good for many more miles :) There seems to be something going on, you're not the first to say they didn't get notified even though everything's in order. Here's hoping it's a temp glitch.
I have only discovered soup the last two weeks when the full Range Rover restoration video was released. I’ve have made it through every episode and currently at 18 and loving it. I wish the best for George on this show. I’m from Meath watching you in a hotel in Kuwait but unfortunately I have no beer 🍺 but cheers 🍻 see you soon on the latest episodes 😂👌
Kuwait is a new market for SOUP :) Thanks man. Up the Royal 🍻
I’ve now completed watching all your shows and up to speed. Now I will go through and like each one as I forgot to 🙈 now I will press the bell button too👌Patreon is coming man just need to get my account sorted
@@MsBugativeyron Really appreciated!
Thank you for not making sensationalized thumbnails and clickbait titles! I have stopped watching channels that do that to excess and honestly, I think that they do that because their lower quality content won't get views otherwise. On another note, nice bending brake so far! I would be up a creek if I had to bend anything over 18" on my little bending brake :)
These days it's just the done thing - hamming up thumbnails. The interesting alternative is using a picture that is so good you don't need text. I might still be up the creek with the brake man, it'll probably need a lot of bracing ;)
Man, it was like waiting for Christmas when you're a kid. Clicked on the notification the second I saw it. Absolutely love your work, George.
Wow. This is the first video of yours I've seen. It is amazing. It must have taken hundreds of very skilled hours. Easily the best quality car videos on TH-cam. Thanks so much for your efforts. I'm about to binge watch all the others.
Takes a little time yeah ;) thanks man.
Thanks again for a great video. The people and experts you get to interview are fantastic and the fact they open up with great stories is a testament to you. Cheers.
Appreciate the kind words Ernie, I have been lucky with some great people
Another interesting episode George, great to see the old pictures of the Lotus, it really is a stunning thing.
Yes! The full profile photo has me totally inspired for the build. It may have been a pup from the outset but man it sat right... I don't think they all do that, and we can build the pup out of it. Cheers Dave :)
Oh, you made my evening with this upload! As per usual - thanks for amazing quality!
It's nice seeing you back on TH-cam, keep up the great quality
It's been a while but I was finally able to get back watching the series. Most of my time seems to be taken up messing around with my MGF and trying to keep my problem child Mk1 Land Rover Freelander alive. It's one of those awkward cars that is just technologically advanced enough for the electronics to be a PITA and it is challenging. Keep up the good work!
Least you're working with the same engine right? Or maybe your LR is a Td4? Anything I can help with? Not sure if Nanocom do a system for the Freelander but they make good things. Cheers Rich!
Great to see you getting some history on the car. Our Elan + 2 has nothing from its first 18 years of life..... would love to know it’s early life. Cheers George.
Worth the wait as usual! The Lotus will be better than new when you've finished...
You said it Steve, all that engineering with the build quality it deserves.
Awesome episode keep up the great work. Original pictures of the lotus are brilliant. Stunning car
Thanks mate, very excited to see the Esprit finished. So much to do to get there but all good fun.
Wow, how awesome it must be to find previous owners and see photographs and hear stories about your car! I sure would like to know some history of mine. I was lucky enough to find the build sheet stuck onto the gas tank. Keep up the fantastic content, it definitely helps motivate me to do some work. Thank you!
Happy New Year George. Its good to have you back.
Just getting over the hang over Chris?
Another great episode George👍
dude.. stop motion builds really? your editing is off the charts + image quality.. just insane.. not saying you content is the best, but man, I had to congratulate you editing effort, subscribed
Thanks for the sub Johny
Another great episode. A little tip, whenever you fold a piece of metal you will gain a thickness of metal to your dimensions. All the best.
oh cool, so you mean if I'm folding a piece of 1mm sheet to 90˚and the folded side was supposed to be 10mm, it'll now be 11mm?
It's been a while since I folded any steel but I think if your making a box section say 90mm deep by 90mm wide you need to take away the steel thickness away from the 90mm when marking out the steel. So if the steel is 1mm thick you mark out at 89mm then you gain the remaining 1mm when you fold.
Ok gotcha, I'm probably a grind it off at the other end kinda guy but sounds worth a bit of experimentation.
Just found your channel and I'm becoming hooked!! Really enjoyed the owner interview, great work
Great guy aye! Thanks for watching and saying hi :)
love what you're doing, Georgeeee
Cheers man, appreciate it.
I'm still working my way through all your videos before I catch up with your latest, (so a lot more tea to go!), but gotta comment on this one - Ian..... what an absolute legend!!! Top, top bloke!!! :D
Ian is fantastic. What a great guy.
To paraphrase Campbell's, "Soup is good Tube."
Yeah we had great craic even though it was a short meet. I'll get back to Ian for a pint and a chat with more time once the Esprit is done. I'm sure he'd like a spin 40 years later.
Fascinating to hear from former owners - "Carcheology" - a bit like "who do you think you are' but for cars! Love the metal bender build - looking forward to more of that
Chasing up the past owners has been great fun, there are a couple more so here's hoping I can sit down with them. Looking forward to getting the metal brake finished too, feels good to build a tool and the steel cost less than if I'd bought the pre fabricated rails for the Vogue's boot floor.
Finally! Welcome back George!
sorry man ;D
Loving the vids... Lotus leads to Porsche.... why not? I've added 944 to Elan and Cherokee to Disco... Fulvia to Estafette...eh?
That's a lovely back catalogue!
New SOUP! Interesting stuff. Great work on the history of the Lotus.
Hopefully there's a few more interviews in that story, really cool.
your time lapse sections are great.
brilliant video again, George!
Cheers Jeff :)
George, The carb is a VV or variable venture, I worked at a ford dealership as a mechanic in Harrogate and there was a mass call back on this carb when it first came out, The plastic pistons would expand and stick in the body so it jammed the RPM very scary when you took your foot off the throttle, Another great video and i will give you another shout out! Cheers Dave.
Dave! I'm relieved you have VV knowledge. The only in depth stuff I can find is in Russian :D. I'll be right onto you if [when] I'm scratching my head over some part of the rebuild. Sorry the reply took so long, getting to Greece to work on the van has been distracting.
Your videos are totally amazing. You are a artist .
Nice thing to say pal, cheers
Another excellent episode George......................well done & love the piece from the previous Lotus owners !!
It's a fav of mine too man, I only hope I can get over to chat with the other two owners I'm in contact with. Good spirited all of them.
Another top notch episode George. I've finally started work on the Dolomite and I've even created a couple of videos documenting my progress. I've revived the battery (it is a calcium battery so it doesn't have the same issues as a lead acid battery) after I had a brand new one stolen. I've replaced the negative battery (earth/ground) lead to give myself the best possible chance of getting it running again.
Deadly news, don't be shy man lets have the link.... [is this calcium battery a new thing or an old thing?]
The videos are already uploaded to my channel so take a look.
Part 1: th-cam.com/video/wvm4TWg3PNc/w-d-xo.html
Part 2: th-cam.com/video/mlQMNqZ9sag/w-d-xo.html
I've done some videos previously but these are the first ones for 2018. The calcium batteries are just an alternative to lead acid. It isn't a new thing.
Brilliant and yet the Esprit is gorgeous, always loved them.
It'll be a fine machine and have its day ;)
Another grate episode George! I love the idea of tracing the owners of the lotus i might trace the owners of my bronze Porsche when i get around to restoring it, as it seems to have an interesting past. Also, I have shot my first video using the Canon i will send you the link to it as soon as its uploaded.
Fair play Richie, great fun finding past owners. Not easy but fun. Link us to the vid!
Lotus guys with Porsches- I suppose it depends on which Lotus they've had. I can see where the late-model guys would more easily go between the two, but in the Lotus Elan Forum I've seen many posts in which a chap will say that the more he drives his Elan, the less he drives his Porker and many wind-up selling their Porsches.
Another good episode George great stuff!
Good fun Sid hope youre going good.
Always thought the S2 was the nicest Esprit, S3 started to look heavy, also love the S2 Elite, fantastic looking cars. Great videos.
We think the same on that one, the S3 actually is a bit heavier but then it's got 200cc's extra too for more torque. Don't care ;)
Interesting history, I too have own a Lotus and now own a Porsche 911 😆
It must be catching 😅
SOUP . Classic Motoring but I will be back in a Lotus soon
@@petrol_burner What's happening?
SOUP . Classic Motoring I’d like to get into an S3 Turbo, but I might regret that. 🙈 however, what I love is a 2002 Esprit V8
@@petrol_burner a toy is a toy, I don't think you can be regretful if you're buying an object of pleasure. I can say this, as far as I know if things get problematic with the V8 it could be a bigger headache than the Turbo Esprit. Not trying to sway you either way, they're both amazing cars. Maybe take a trip to www.thelotusforums.com/forums/ where you'll find every question you could ever have answered, and some great folk ready to help.
Oh good
I saw the video well ^^
I have subscribed to you
This is my style
Thanks for subbing!
Ah, memories of starting my Mums '78 Cortina Auto Estate, 1.6 or 2.0 with exotic power steering. It also had the Motorcraft VV carb with the automatic choke. Cold starting trouble you say? It was the very first thing I ever fixed on a car. Every morning. Imagine what it was like before climate change. I assume a manual choke conversion is in the offing. Great stuff and great production. Your true alien voice broke through in the first windscreen sequence. I just knew you weren't really Greek.
Thanks for the comment amkean. The old alien voice is a bit of a bummer but I didn't have time to fix, recompress and upload before my deadline. Them's the breaks. An auto estate must be a fairly rare beast now mate, whatever happened to it?
Rear ended by JCB, or JCB driver to be exact.
Haha two very different things ;)
Another great episode and well worth the wait. Europa? Yes please. So much going on in this video. Looking forwdrd to seeing the brake working, very good idea. The thing with carbs is, , ,you can fix a knakered one. try that with injection.
Watching a set of injectors be tested alone is torture if you ask me, they're great in my diesel cars but I'm really looking forward to learning how to balance and tune the Dell'Orto's
I like the new intro
thanks George for showing my BMWs don't have f22 not that rich only old school cool beemers. love the work your doing .
No worries Mickey, loved the photos. I now realise when you said 235i it must have been a typo - 325i. I was wondering why I couldn't find a 235 Touring. Least I now know that BMW now have F's as well :D
Oh yes!
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George, the first production mid-engined car was a french Matra Djet in 1962, 4 years before the Miura and the Europa. Anyway, love the videos!
Now thats good intel. I went looking after the episode and the internet doesn't give up that info straight away. Always fancied a Murena. Thank Sgt.
The airlock in the fuelline of the Cortina can be caused by an old line at the top of the fuel tank.
Thanks mate, does the tank need to be dropped to get at it?
I owned a silver S2 back in 97, sadly it caught fire one eve. I’m about to buy a shed of an S2 and follow you down the same path .....I must be insane :-))
Hi Simon, was yours the silver car with S3 lattice wheels that featured in a magazine or two?
SOUP Classic Motoring Hi, no ...it’s registration was XAB 121V . It was completely original for an S2
I absolutely love that Esprit, but imagine buying one over a Dino or a 911SC - Ouch! He seemed like a very cool guy.
Well if it's all about money then yeah... but to be honest I was never much for the Dino and interestingly the 911SC only made 10 more hp than the Esprit. The extra torque of the six makes all the difference though. Whether the engine is the wrong side of the back axle is a debate for some other time ;)
Delighted to see another video. Bit of cutting fluid for the drill bit whilst drilling and they will stay sharp for ten times as long. I use burnt engine oil as a cutting fluid. Its nowhere near as good as actual cutting fluid but better than nothing.
Tub of Moly Slip by the drill press at all times Tom, one of the best car related smells there is!
I got it up mixed - it was Ian who replaced the steering wheel on the Esprit not Chris. If you come across an original wheel for an Esprit S1 / S2 [especially with the boss/adapter present] I'm your man!
YEAH BOIIII
Fantastic Work George!! What about the metal work project with the blacksmith?? and how to sharpen drill bits!! ooooooh you tease!
The blacksmith was providing the steel for the metal brake, the drill bit stuff is pretty simple will get that done asap!
Lotus Esprit
Lots Of Trouble, Usually Serious! ;-)
Lots of track use scheduled!
yeh i had an 2.2 esprit . great car unless you wanted to go anywhere in it :)
I think your silver esprit is beautiful! Modernize the motor a bit, maybe add a turbo and zoom!
Thanks man, will keep this one mechanically standard to begin with, see what it was all about. Mods can come later
Freeze frame 1:14.
Love the Esprit. Got to make it an electric conversion! Get rid of the underpowered and unreliable engine and have the instant torque and performance it always should have had.
Loved the interviews with the past owners. Who was the first owner and why did he only keep the car for less than a year?
Thanks Craig. The first owner was a business in Salford. Long gone, and I thought I came close to finding the people twice but both times with was someone else. I even contacted the current business owners on the same street to see where there were any living memory leads. What Chris the second owner [and motor dealer since the '70's] suggested to me was that these were dream cars, so people often over reached in getting them. The business could have gone bust, or the person could have missed payments, either way I don't think the first owner even had the car for six months.
Hi George, great little interview with the owner - raw and uncut. Good stuff. Quick question. What was your lighting set up like and how far was the camera? I like how you had the fire in the background out of focus and he was in perfect focus. Again, I enjoy the stop motion that you do....a ton of work. Great job on the video!
Just the house lights Ray, I was travelling light but you can get decent results if you move the talent. The nice out of focus element is called bokeh and camera distance isn't so important as distance between subject and background. Using either a prime lens or using a zoom at it's longest focal length - as in all the way zoomed in will produce it. Who are you interviewing?
Hi George, no one really (except for you apparently!) I may at some point, if and when I do a video on my build, I would incorporate your skills and craft! Thanks for the explanation! As usual, looking forward to more vids and the development of your projects!
Great stuff..... Put kids to bed and then watch! :D
ha will I include a lullaby at the top of the next ep. ?
Watched upto ep19 in 3 days loving it, what does 'soup' refer to?
You've taken more than the recommended dosage mate, keep going ;) SOUP is just a contraction of souped up, and a catch all for oil, water, fuel and fluids. Bit weird, but stuck with it now, and it looks good.
I think you are already in touch with a couple of guys from SELOC lotus owners group, your series is highlighted in the chat pages but there is still a trend of owners going from lotus to Porsche to the point where there is an unofficial sub group SEPOC. I am sure you will find your answers for this trend on there.
Great tip Ian and what a read. I'm stretching here a little but it's like a metaphor for black and white, albeit without the prejudice.
Hey, is that camera tripod a Berlebach? :)
Not a Berleback but an O'Connor, classic support for a classic car guy ;)
I am not Irish but saw the shots of a gutted Range Rover and said "F E C K !!!"
Alcohol content, ethanol, in modern day fuels can affect carburettors.They're designed for pure gasoline. Ethanol in petrol can cause sludge in the carb, so i'm told
Cheers Joshua, I'm definitely going to rebuild the carb. Initial inspections while the top cover was off seemed ok, but not a whole lot is visible without a stripdown.
The Vice that you use that form the ripples what make is it? Thank you
I think it's a cheap Silverline unit from one of the budget supermarkets, but not sure because it wasn't mine.
Soup Classic Motoring thank you
Did you have that list of patrons on your bonnet?
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An I hearing some vocal audio processing, like a little harmonizer?
george love the channel . f##k##g class stop motion love it .... thomas @the wood factory
George, another 'Classic' and your intro had me laughing....Great to see you speaking to a previous owner, cars in the 70's and very early 80's were dreams to some, reality turning those dreams into nightmares for others. Especially UK built cars. The honesty Ian displays, with out rose tinted glasses is refreshing and now you have some real history regards some of the work that has been done....and a pointer to maybe why things are where they are today. Red leather sounds an expensive 'upgrade' from the blue interior but you will make it great no matter which route you choose.
Best check if those Ford Transit UJ's are still on there....there maybe 'upgrades' available as they must have been a known issue..probably not cheap, though......there must be a specialist company that would now...one for the future..and thanks for sharing the sheet metal brake...looking forward to seeing that in action.
Haha I hope they are... one they're greasable I'm happy enough. It eats them because the drive shafts are the upper suspension links... the 'Chapman Strut'. It was F1 top suspension tech at the time. There are some talented upholsterers and trimmers amongst the patrons and viewers so I'm excited for the time I can bring you their stories and see them work on the car.
Lol what was up with that audio at the beginning? Great episode though.
Aliens got into TH-cam's upload bot ;)