there will Never Ever be a channel like Haggard Garage
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 มี.ค. 2023
- A short summary of the rise and fall of Haggard Garage, this video could have easily been over an hour long but I really didn't want to bore everyone with all that info and a lot of the videos that would be needed for context have been lost.
All the info was taken from scouring old instagrams, reddit, and re uploaded videos. Combined with some personal recollection. Thankfully I was around for 95% of Haggard so I felt I should probably make a video about it. Some info may be incorrect or slightly off, ive left a pinned comment for corrections.
Please refrain from being negative in the comments surrounding anyone involved in the video or reaching out to them in anyway to harass, although they are all public figures, its also been half a decade, and these are all real people.
Thanks - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
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miss haggard, not planning on watching the video but damn that was a good channel
You clicked on the video, made a comment, but won't watch it? What kinda retarded shit is that? I'm sure Cian appreciates your engagement nonetheless, idiot.
shoulda jus watched it dood .
I really enjoyed this drive down memory lane. Haggard Garage was a interesting “golden time” for TH-cam for sure.
Glad you enjoyed, thanks boss man
Make good content you fell off
We all gangster until Sammit rolls up
I hated loving their channel so much, made me mad the things they did to their cars but I loved watching them do it lol
@@Swaytic we all gangster until it's time to do some gangsta sh!t
it’s insane how long ago this was. i remember watching these videos in highschool wishing i had friends who were into cars like that.
Yo deadass same bro! Now we closing in on 30 and shit
You’re feeling that 2015 is long ago dude? To me and most others 1980 will always be 20 years ago.. 2015 is the future man!
facts man i think every viewer dreamed of slamming some pos on hockey pucks w the boys
Man I remember watching haggard in late elementary school and middle school, I watched ricer miata heavily thought high school
I remember being haggard garage for 3 years in high-school with my 4 drift friends, then TH-cam deleted our account after a series of street shark videos and 2 days later, haggard garage showed up.
I think Rudnik leaving after the house and starting his own channel was a huge part of OG Haggard history
There’s only one other rudnik in the car scene on TH-cam and he’s on adma lzs channel, same guy?
@@johnsolovera6993 yeah but he has his own channel “ricer miata”
@@johnsolovera6993 that’s who we are talking about, one of the original members of Haggard Garage
This comment is JUNK. 😂
@@johnsolovera6993 same dude. On the left in the first clip. what a time man lmao
Guess I'll always be known as the guy who got his weed stolen...
Legend
KWAB
ALEX, hope all is well
Orion was a thief and a huge chotch ! Hes a shitty person period !
Hey i would be mad too if my "friends" stole my shit, weed or not its the principle
It's crazy to remember that Cam's "Heirloom 240" is now Jimmy's Cherry hatch, tbh. That thing is almost as OG as the Ricer Miata itself, and it *might* get painted soon!
i always wondered what happened to that car. im glad it went to him.
@@OhWizzer If you want to see it, it's visible in most videos of his. Currently has an unpainted bodykit, but will go to paint soon, supposedly. But I wouldn't hold my breath, Jimmy ain't exactly super fast on finishing bodywork lol
That car was the gem of Haggard. A legitimate grandma owned, automatic 240. And the history of the car is pretty dope
@MarchuxProductions Jimmy has so many cars I'm surprised how many actually have complete kits, 4 matching wheels, and fresh paint. Dudes a beast when it comes to doing full builds.
That's cool I didn't know that. But there are some similar interesting things. For example there is an old video called "Low and loud purple AE86" from sugg films which is actually the More Skids AE86 before Quentin bought it. It was stolen from the previous owner, and then sold off to more skids.
If it ain't Haggard, It ain't Mint.
Well executed video.
“Don’t cry because it happened, smile because it’s over” had me dead this vid bangs
so weird seeing this, its like I seen it all go down and didn't realize until it was over haha, Chris deserves his success though. genuine guy
Yeah for sure. His haggard side does still shine through though once in a while. If he had put the work in a few years ago, and started to do things legit back in Florida, I can imagine he’d had have a much larger following rn. He is the sole reason I’ll always “buy once, cry once” lol. At least he’s finally trying to grow his brand
Yeah but by going home I think you learned a lot about people and real friends. I think he had some major life lessons by going home.
These people convinced me that I was capable of working on my own car, and turbo'ing my b18 civic back in the day. I watched them and thought "if they can do this shit and it works, I can absolutely work on my own car without worrying so much". And I appreciate all the laughs along the way.
Same here I was doing a single turbo conversion on my legacy and I had the exact same thoughts, especially with the upside down manifold mx5 turbo that thing hissed and was so dodgy haha.
I was about 10 when I was watching them, now I’m on a track multiple times a year all around the country, feels like yesterday I was watching Chris repaint his e46
lmaoo same man definitely brought me some peace of mind on my first clutch swap bahaahah
100%
🥲🥲 good times!!
Man, never realized you watched Haggard too.
@@Why_Kirino man every on watched hagard every one who likes racing games or cars...
i remmeber when slap would always rock the mint hoodies
man i wonder how many people actually remember this channel. honestly, they really pushed my intrest in cars and shaped my life into being a mechanic today
I think about it constantly bro. Every now and again I have the urge to get a random sub $1000 shitbox and weld the diff. Then I go yeah, like haggard always did. That video of them trying to a kill a 1uz still gets talked about too. They're the reason ls400s are expensive now🤣
@@tougewagon I honestly think theyre good looking cars man! my buddy at work has a fairly clean one
I was eating a bagel while watching this, thanks for the memories, my guy
Classic quote lmao
It’s definitely a vibe that can’t be recreated today. Was just a different time 😢
You just had to be there to understand 😭
This was such a good trip down memory lane, I miss the days of the Diesel Van, the Green drift car squad, it was a different time, but a good time. Props to you for making this brother
This was the golden age of TH-cam for me, I’d watch TJ, haggard, rudnik, LZ, thatdudeinblue reviews, Evan shanks, and the wrx guy
It’s crazy most of them became so huge
Can't wait to see cam, Brendan and Chris drift together with the og cars
Brendens to big of a wimp to drift anything more or less just drive his car !
Brendan can't drive nothing's changed
the worst part is that if Orion split the money with everyone evenly and treated everyone equally and worked well with everyone the channel would still be alive and well today! Orion ultimately single handedly killed haggard garage himself! also if he didn't bring in people like alex, dom, dillan, burky, damien and chow and just kept haggard as it was originally it would have lasted a lot longer than it did
Orion was also responsible for the channel existing in the first place... You can't expect all of your teenage buddies to stick together and cooperatively build a successful TH-cam channel out of thin air just because you split the money evenly. There still would have been drama and people still would have parted ways. Orion could have acted more responsibly and ultimately much blame does lie at his feet alone but regardless, haggard garage was never meant to last forever.
amongst all the other dodgy shit he's done.
Rapist Dylan was the end.
Fantastic job on this video. Summer of 2015 was such a great time. The OG Haggard era was unbeatable. I’ve stuck with Chris ever since. So glad he’s bringing Cam and Brendan back with their og cars.
I'm leaving a pinned comment for any corrections or info I got wrong, leave it below here, thanks boys
Punk ricer video is inspired by another video created by Roberto Victoria aka Scumberto. You didn't mention that Dylan was a convicted rapist and when on their tour when they visited Hoonigan no one wanted to interact with them because Dylan was there. This was confirmed by one of the HG filmers (Burky or something similar like that) They also promised the Little Miata that Could to Dylan and then did a 180 and announced a giveaway.
Please do a "What happened to garage sideways" video next ;)
I think the guy just got a job lol and became an adult tbh
@@cian___ yo does anybody know anything more about this whole dylan situation? Didnt know guy was such a scrand.
I feel like I remember someone saying Cam won the lottery of like $10,000 or 15,000 that helped buy a lot of the things at the first Haggard house. I remember being so confused how all of a sudden they could afford a bunch of TVs and Xbox's when they were moving in
I'll never forget the diy turbo Protoge video. I think that was the video that made me realize that building cars didn't have to be a boring shopping trip, and you really can do your own thing with a bit of knowledge.
That video is how I found the channel because I had a protoge at the time. I forgot about that haha
I'm glad haggard hasn't been forgotten, rudnick just dropped mint merch with a mint banner! Just ordered a hat, cam was in his newest video, I'm super hyped
Haggard garage was incredibly influential to me this was a trip down memory lane
In Chris' most recent videos he's trying to rekindle at least Brendan and Cam's passions for drifting, buying back Cam's e36 and getting Brendan's miata back in working order. Even had a merch drop with Mint merch to help fund their "revival" of haggard garage.
Wow, everything you mentioned hit my nostalgia like a hammer blow. I remember watching religiously as a teenager, their videos in the shop. “Haggard South” was in my hometown, and it was so cool to see them there. Stopped watching soon after though, saw some of the Life OD stuff pop off but seemed like death knells.
Found this video when I tried to figure out what happened to them all, and it’s incredible. Criminally underviewed, I think hundreds of thousands of people had the same connection to them that I did. Keep it up man, this is awesome
I grew up with Haggard Garage. Loved watching them daily and I still remember when they got the house in the woods for the boys only. That was pure content. Miss those days. Hope the creators of HG know how much they meant to us viewers.
Right in the feels. Everything in this video was perfectly spoken. I used to love watching it back then for all the shenanigans. Its unfortunate how it ended, but I am glad I was around for it.
what, no mention of the arson??? sheeeesh!
Haggard era was definitely so different. I was literally in 6th grade watching them on my iPod. As sad as it was how it fell apart, that channel inspired a lot of people to get out and work on cars. They showed people that you can work on your car anywhere, they had single car garages that they were pulling engines. Just a group of friends sharing content. Was truly an awesome time
Being 17 in 2015, this is some of the videos that started it for me. Getting home from school and just binging these videos while tinkering on my cars at the time.
1 am diff welding with the boys is my all time favorite qoute ever
I happen to get a Miata at the age of 18, I discovered these guys like a month later. I watched them from the beginning and low key felt like they were my friends due to people around me hating on the Miata because it used to not be popular.
well done, as someone who had their first video pop up on my feed the night it was posted and followed through all the bs, this was spot on. i had fallen out of love with cars around that time and watching them fuck around like we did but x10 was awesome.
Haggard was my initial introduction to the car world in middle school, as a kid I loved their videos and wanted to do stuff like them when I got older. I was lucky enough to meet them just before everything fell apart at one of the Canaan events and even made it into their video with all my friends. I'll always hold onto my old haggard merch (including an og shredder hoodie of course)
2014/2015 i got my license, and finding these guys changed my life haha. So much fun messing around with my Jetta, doing haggard mods and hooning it around.
i remember the long Q+A they posted what feels like forever ago.
id watch all their videos, and they 100% got me into the youtube side of car stuff, the true "haggard" style of doin things.
i was literally inspired to just "eehhh see if this works" with cars n stuff, and didnt think i was lost if i tried.
2024 Haggard Reunion ❤️❤️
It’s crazy really started watching them as a freshman in hs kinda knew by my senior year the channel was dying but I started working on my own projects myself also cool that now Chris is trying to bring back the vibes especially with buying cams E36 and building it for him dope video really enjoyed it
Thank you so much for making this video, I literally grew up on haggard garage. They introduced me to drifting when i was in 6th grade. I will forever be indebted to the channel for being the reason I love cars.
Fantastic video. ThatDudeInBlue got me into modified cars in the first place in middle school, and Haggard showed me how anyone can do it, but also the reality of a budget in high school. They really were unique, but it's sad to see how it all went later down the line. Stopped watching probably in late 2017 and saw Chris in some other video recently so they've been on my mind.
Tbh, the closest equivalent of Haggard that currently exists and is actually watchable is DJ's channel. It has the same crackhead energy, only Donnie's and Ant's cars are actually pretty cool, plus they have Jimmy, Brian and occasionally Spoon and Derek to give them shit
Its Haggard Garage with cool cars and DUIs lol, probably my favorite "Haggard" channel ATM.
What channel is this?
@@manatheg Djnoway, a friend of Jimmy Oakes
i second that, DJ is so funny lol im happy he made his own channel along the way
I’m stuck on ricer Miata rudnik s adhd keeps his channel with that haggard feel
Great video, lots of nostalgia. Laughed when you mentioned chow cause I hadn’t thought about that whole saga in forever.
I was on the fence about dropping the full sub, then the closer music started. Fantastic work man
Never expected a never ever on a car channel, wait, this guy isn't EmpLemon, anyways, great video
I needed a name and thought it would be funny lol, thanks man
Dude Nujabes background music! You're the man!
Haggard Garage and River Miata were some of my biggest inspirations to build my own cars. I was kind of local to where they were, and I'd see them at drift events and car meets. I don't watch TH-cam like I used to, but I remember going from HG to RM, and I remember all the cars and builds. I met Damion through a girl I knew, it was cool talking to him about some of the history. Crazy how long ago this channel was, feels like yesterday
Dude you went deep many times while watching I said “omg I remember that” the haggard days are what inspired me to wanna become an automotive TH-camr / influencer myself. This video was well edited and the history is accurately presented well done my boy definitely earned a sub ☝🏻🔥
First time on this channel, subbed after watching the whole vid!! Love the insight to a part of youtube i never saw
I had a Mint banner/decal on my old V6 Rav4... We sold that car to my uncle and its still there after 6 years of Michigan winters. Can't believe that banner outlived there channel by years. Loved to look back and laugh at what they did, but I've watched Chris pretty much since he left. Even if I honestly did not like him the first time I watched a Haggard video, I love his channel and have always considered it the spiritual successor to Haggard.
Amazing video man!
i remember watching these vids back when i was 7-8 with my brother who was 14-15 at the time i never understood how he watched everyone of those vids until now, i see how much you could do for so cheap and how much fun and memerios you can make with some friends and a garage. when i was around 10 i popped back in on the channel started watching them just like my bro. i miss haggard as my brother mirrored them, from watching him cutting springs in his hatch civic to mounting an bumber light bar on the front of it, it was cool to see what could be done. i am now 15 everyday i wish i could go back and watch them. amd watchimg chris trying to bring them back brings a tear to my eye😢
great commentary, made me look back thinking how influential some of these videos really were to my own car passion
I think for a lot of us, Haggard Garage really captured the feelings we all had at this age and doing our first mods to cars and the genuine reactions we also had. I do miss Haggard. All good things come to an end
I remeber when I was like 18yo at school watching haggard garage boosted protege and I was thinking "damn i wish i could do some crazy shit to cars like them". I think that channel was one of the biggest puzzle that inspired me to work on cars. I still follow ricer miata channel lol
Honestly rud needs a lot more credit . His channel is absolutely fantastic. Chris is a testament to what car content should be like it’s no bs it’s a real car channel changer ❤
I wish I got into Haggard earlier. I only started watching in 2016 when they had the shop near jimmy. I think around the time Onion got the genesis.
I found Haggard shortly after high school in 2015. I remember thinking why my school years kinda sucked but I realized the kids in my school were into sneakers, footballs etc which I had no interest in. I was into drifting, dirt bikes, video games, racing simulators etc and it was because of Haggard I met so many friends that had similar hobbies like me by going to the car meets they hosted and drifting tracks they went to. Seeing them starting from their parent's houses working on cheap cars in a quiet suburb, drifting on parking lots to move onto drifting on proper race tracks was a big inspiration. This was a new chapter in my life all the regrets of not enjoying my high school years to it's fullest was suddenly gone. So many successful channels I see are now stemmed from this channel.
Awesome video, thanks for the nostalgia trip. As funny as it might sound, haggard inspired me to get into cars and drifting and they showed that you don't need to be an expert to go have fun.
I miss getting home from school and seeing a new haggard video, glad I was there to witness it in the best days of it.
You forgot the biggest build of the Cornwall house. The mint van😂.
Also surprised you didn’t mention Rudnicks car fire around the time of the split. Or their invention of “trips to Mexico” whenever hooning.
Crazy how long ago this was but it was always funny or interesting content! I liked the fact it was literally us watching 4 car guys learning their way in the car world and finding out what they really liked about cars and had fun doing it.
Damn this brings back memories, seeing Orion post from time to time to no avail nowadays and then coming across this video... also reminds me of Quad Ricers, a very similar channel to Haggard Garage, they peaked at the same time and were so entertaining in a similar style, loved both of the crews back then
coming back after the return of orion on the ricer miata channel... this is the nostalgia we all need
earned a sub dude, great video that filled me with nostalgia and took me back to highschool watching the hockey puck slamming video lol, could you do something similar with JSR Cars if you know who they are? miss those guys alot, especially Eric, Brandon and Bailey
The feels this video just hit me with. Haggard was so unique at the time and was one of the OG channels that brought me to TH-cam back in the day.
Awesome video dood! Thanks for the nostalgia.
yo ur editing is awesome. love the music you chose 2015 was a different era
its cool to see one of these about a car channel. i see alot of these type of rise and fall videos but never about a car channel.
Amazing video brother! Gotta love the Acura fire at the end haha
Seriously though thank you for making this video :)
I'm so glad you added the Acura fire at the end
Damn bro, 2015-2018 Hitting hard vibes here. Around 2015-16 i got my first Mk4 Jetta a 17 ish. Great car! Ngl it's crazy how long ago that all was, Most days i still live like it's 2015-17! Time moves Wicked fast as you Age. I started off watching chris when he was working out of his Parents house and the Haggard Garage, until it split and died. Still, i stayed and watched Chris. The best times i remember the most is when he and some friends had that really shady/rundown warehouse they rented and ofc The videos with WILL. That was fun watching the late night videos/Lives. I watched him until about 2019 or so. They both deserve their sucess FR! These days i am on the lookout once again for a GLS TDI Mk4. Thanks for making the video and bringing us along memory lane!
how sick that they're getting back together now
Interesting video man, thanks for putting it out there! I'd wondered when I'd see a less click-bait Haggard retrospective video come out. I really enjoyed their content when I was in college, but it did always seem like the type of channel that couldn't last.
Absolutely amazing work my friend, great to reminisce. For future reference, raise your voice audio. That way when your transitions come in, people don't have to change their volume. Review them with headphones before finalizing. Cheers mate
It’s nuts watching this put together like this I remember watching all this in high school and it honestly doesn’t feel like it was that long ago but damn man they really did kickstart everything I still have the gs300 sticker on my computer lol
So many memories reminds me of simpler times. Great video sir
Wow man, good job on this. TH-cam culture fascinates me, it's crazy to see the progression of content quality. subbed and all that stuff.
Watching this makes me feel old, I remember coming home from school and watching these videos like crazy. Good times
Man this made me so nostalgic for the good ol Haggard days!! I was obsessed, I had a protege and looked them up on youtube and and happened to stumble upon Haggard in it's infancy. That year or so before they moved to the big house was so awesome, even some of the videos when they just moved were really cool. I used to make videos with my buds back in high school, and had been graduated for about two years in 2015. So it was already hitting on some nostalgia for hanging out and fucking around with friends all day every day. I wanted a project car so bad and wanted to make videos like crazy. I feel like everyone did lol. But there were some true characters to arise from the original group, Chris Rudnik is my favorite of them all. But Cam, Grillo, Marcus, Brendan, Alex, the true OG's are great and I wish them the best. Onion, however, was a huge disappointment because he started off super cool. But ended up being trash. Such a shame. Good times! TH-cam was a simpler landscape back then!!!!
Dope vid, loved watching haggard back in the day. Side note what is that intro beat?
these guys were the first car channel I found, and I got to meet a few of them at my first drift event Lock City Drift in july 2017 before everything fell apart.
I still have my signed hat
Haggard and early Ricer Miata were my favorite channels back when I was a freshman in college. 2014-2016. Got me hooked on building project cars for life. They were rare back then- TH-camrs who drove cars that I could afford. Same age as me. Then I got my first car, an 8th Si, and BoostedBoiz started posting videos the same month. That 2014-2016 era of car youtubers was sooo rad. It'll never be replicated.
Remember when they lit that huge wildfire at The Thing in Arizona, then straight dipped without calling the authorities??
Good times, man, Good times.
ODDMHGA
love watching your videos cian please keep making them
The curiosity that this channel sparked in me when I was younger was awesome
Fun fact: Garage Ta1k, Drift Theory (not mentioned), and Haggard Garage were all the same channel. They all had the same channel URL.
I discovered the channel in early 2015 and loved watching it. My interest in the channel dipped and I unsubbed after the move to the Cornwall house and people like Grillo, Chris, Marcus, Alex, and Brendan were shelved for the likes of Tone Bone and Slim Jesus. The 100K subscriber celebration was really cool too. The videos of them speeding down the highway getting deleted mid 2015 was interesting as well.
holy shit does this video hit my nostalgia in all the right places, down to the vaporwave music, good times that are never to be lived again
in 2017 with one drift game and Haggard garage my passion for cars started and it changed everything, i have to say i stoped watching them when they moved to Florida, but for the age i had and lack of passion was really great inspiration for me.
bro... OH. MY. GOD. THE MEMORIES
I remember my brother used to watch Haggard when I was in 7th or 8th grade back in 2015. I won't say they were what got me into cars, but they definitely made me more interested than any other form of media. This was a nice flashback to those times.
Kinda crazy to see alot of this footage I thought was lost and never to be seen again so nostalgic
I remember finding these guys when they had like 30k subs, back when I was trying to make this channel a thing. They really did completely revolutionize the genre at the time, it was sad watching them collapse in on themselves.
Thank you for the context! Loved the video man
Great video, man. Can you share the song name playing when they crashed while drifting?
Damn I’ve been waiting for someone to do this documentary 🤙🏼🤙🏼
lol it's awesome to watch back the punk ricer talks up his evo video, I was still in college when I saw it and now 9 years later I graduated, been working at a full-time job for 8 years and got myself an r33 skyline. Crazy how time flies
Literally watched haggard garage from 3.5k subs, it was amazing watching them rise through the ranks and then falling off like they never existed
These guys legit where my youth from like 16 to 19, it always seemed fishy after they moved to cornwall, I still enjoyed the videos, up until the move to washington. You broke it down really good.
What a good video essay man jeez. 22:30 speech was was so dialed in
Man I loved this channel. I was hooked from the LS400 slammed on hockey pucks video on. Legendary
The hockey puck video was the first one i've watched. Now after all these years i'm still watching every single video Rudnick makes.