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What do you think takes the most time? DOING the mind numbingly slow slog that is abrasive blasting, or the time it takes to JUST set up the camera and lighting, then positioning the part in the same spot and orientation to snap all the progress pictures for the stop motion sections of the videos? I'm thinking it's too close to call. 🤔 If you really think about the work it takes to do all this stuff, he's actually not really a mechanic filming the rebuild of his car...... He's a videographer/editor/producer/director who's fixing a Lotus in his spare time. 😏
I love the blend of stop motion, and real time George. You're an artist mate. Came for the Rangie, stayed for the Esprit, Patreon for the rest. Bless you man. Peace and love. Yet to place my sticker, maybe this weekend now the S124 has dried out. Who knows?
Wow! Back to classic Soup! Really appreciate the extra effort on this one! I know how time consuming it is! Also, Manta is looking…wow. For a “presentable” paint job, it looks stunning
The only thing I don’t like about this channel is that I have already seen all the content (much of it twice!). You are the best! Keep up the awesome work!
Mmmmmmm, sublime cinematic solace. Such a lovely way to spend a Friday evening. Such good quality viewing. Currently my most anticipated YT video drop!
When You heaved that backbone/frame on the sawhorses all that added Chapman-lightness was clearly visible for an instant. You might probably have doubled its weight with those reinforcement welds 😅. Thanks for all that work You put into these stop motion parts, and for sharing that!
Holy shit, the worlds only Irish lilted stop motion Esprit resto is back! After such a promising start was followed by radio silence for so long I’d all put given up on it ever rolling its wheels in anger again… Good to see the work resurrected George…
I like the detail with the file - I am a 'filer' for final detail. I have enjoyed every video of the LOTUS build, and it will be great to see you smiling whilst driving it - HA - but 'sad' for us viewers - as it will be the end of the LOTUS project. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
Great to see you back working on the Lotus! One of my favourite cars of the 1970s (maybe because of the connection to James Bond lol, in addition to the wonderful Giugiaro styling). Looking forward to the next episode, and I applaud you sticking to your plan of keeping it basically stock, and resisting the urge to fix what isn't broken. If Colin Chapman wanted it that way, that's the way it should stay IMO.
Only relatively new to your channel (December) but I’m deffo here for the long haul. I’ve already watched every episode I think. Really enjoying the content. Thank you
I love the stop motion, it reminds me of early Arrdman. I saw one of those Lotus in JPS colours, unrestored at a car show in Hobart last weekend, and thought of all the hassle you've had. I couldn't hang around long cause it was 37c, and full sun with no clouds....
I miss my opel manta GT 1985. I did dream about still owning it in a forgotten garage and taking it out for a spin. It was gold colored. It was a 4 speed. It made a bunch of older people coming to me to talk about it. That was strange but also a compliment. I wish it was a gsi :)
I love the attention to detail. Great videos. Thank you. Can't wait to see the finished result, although I realise that's going to take some time. I'll be with you all the way.
I watched another tuber who showed how reinforcing the gear lever aperture in the chassis, significantly increases chassis rigidity, It's just a plate welded around the cutout for the gear lever that makes the wall of the box section thicker. It makes up for the loss in rigidity caused by cutting a hole in it.
Thanks earthstick. That mod is redundant on the early cars, they don't have the means to flex the chassis to that extent and don't tend to crack it around the gear shift box!
The other thing the Manta and Esprit have in common? I wanted them both as a younger guy. Still do. That Manta is gorgeous, can't wait to see the Esprit getting the same treatment.
I'm absolutely blown away! All the hard (and excellent work), on many many levels, and then all of that is held together by this stellar production. Just amazing, the stopmotions themselfs are a huuuuge effort, and then there is the rest! Excellent job, on all sides of the camera 👏👏👏
I always have good luck with anti seize compound. Regarding the brake line brackets it’s what I’d do at assembly time with just enough in the right places. Here in Canada with the road salt it proves invaluable. The other option can be graphite spray but it can make an overspray mess and not quite as much body to it (but still good as the graphite spray doesn’t attract dust).
great bit of stop motion, well done, buying in parts from a parent company is normal, you wouldnt believe how common in vag group, or ford group, at the time gm was lotus parent company.
Off-topic, I know, but initially - and I was concentrating on the video - I thought that the chord progression in the first piece of background of music was from Get Outta My Way (Minogue). Always interesting to find out what something really is AND get a link to it. Ta!
stay stuck in is right.....from one Irish man to another you have done a great job on the video presentation and the car...i like your dead pan cynical wit as it’s the same as mine...only difference is mine is a TR6 and at the same stage. Greetings
This episode gets me thinking of the best way to rig a camera in the blasting cabinet. It's a tough spot cuz as soon as you hit the trigger there's sand flying everywhere and your lens or hopefully (!) lens cover/filter is gonna get trashed. I've used rain deflectors that are essentially a spinning disc of clear plastic in front of the lens. One extra bit that is used involves pointing a small air nozzle at the spinning plastic to help deflect any moisture. I wonder if that could be rigged in the cabinet since there's an air supply? ...or not! 🤑
I'd normally mark each yoke's position in relation to it's partner before replacing the X, better chance of being in balance when back together, although it probably won't matter on such short shafts. I wonder if anyone's got a cv joint solution for these.
I really wish I was in a position to become a patron mate, but for over 2 years now I've been medically unable to........ Well, have anything resembling a normal life, let alone work. The benefits I'm getting just about pay my bills, and for any unexpected nececcety for extra cash, I just flog off things like tools from my "BACKUP" backup collection. Luckily, before illness jumped up and bit me in the a*se, I was a bit of a hoarder of old car parts, tools and workshop equipment, this meant that I'd held onto a lot of stuff, like my old Capri parts, for so long that a lot of it had become alarmingly collectable........... Which has been handy (And to think, around 20 years ago I was getting so sick of shuffling the "Ford Crapi" parts around in the sheds and garage, that I seriously considered loading it all into the van and weighing it in !!!! :D ). Anyway, I've always had a soft spot for Esprit's, and really like your video style. I also know that all the pratting about involved in FILMING a project's progress seriously eats into the workshop time where you could actually be making significantly MORE progress, so showing us your project is physically holding up it's completion. As I said, I wish I was in a position to give something back, but unfortuanatly, all I can offer you at the minute is a big thankyou for letting us watch your project take shape, and the assurance that if my circumstances change, you'll be one of the first to know. :)
Lotus: How a lightweight budget and simplified development process can still yield a fantastic sports car! Add lightness (But, if bespoke is not budgeted select from existing parts bin) and simplify (The development process and associated costs).
I had a 72 Ascona 1900 wagon and a 74 Manta. Buick Opel is how they tagged them stateside. I almost got a Kadet wagon but it was too far gone. I was a member of OMC for a while.
@@soupclassicmotoring the Manta you showed was badged as a Cevy Vega, Oldsmobile Omega, and a Pontiac Ventura I think. Cool cars. We use them for drag and road courses.
"They definitely aren't the same weight." Oh the indignity that poor car must have suffered in the past. I would guess somebody damaged the chassis brace and decided replacing the tubing with a vaguely similar diameter bar stock was good enough.
It's funny isn't it. Bitter sweet finding extra weight... when it shouldn't have been there in the first place. This is a difficult car to find flab on.
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As a man with a film background, I really appreciate the hard work you put into making those videos. Thank you.
Thanks Serge. The videos are let down by lack of res. I need to get it into 4k ASAP.
I was just thinking watching this video, i've often heard that film school is waste of time but watching this channel shows thats absolutely untrue
What do you think takes the most time?
DOING the mind numbingly slow slog that is abrasive blasting, or the time it takes to JUST set up the camera and lighting, then positioning the part in the same spot and orientation to snap all the progress pictures for the stop motion sections of the videos? I'm thinking it's too close to call. 🤔
If you really think about the work it takes to do all this stuff, he's actually not really a mechanic filming the rebuild of his car...... He's a videographer/editor/producer/director who's fixing a Lotus in his spare time. 😏
@@soupclassicmotoring It looks fine to me. 👍🇦🇺
@@soupclassicmotoring Not once have I thought your videos need 4K.
Man, the production in these videos is way beyond that of most TV shows, you really are a man of many many talents, I’m in awe…
I love the blend of stop motion, and real time George. You're an artist mate. Came for the Rangie, stayed for the Esprit, Patreon for the rest.
Bless you man. Peace and love. Yet to place my sticker, maybe this weekend now the S124 has dried out. Who knows?
Love that Jim, thanks man
Many thanks on a wet, icy, snowy shite day in Eastern Canada. Love the sound of the Manta. Woulda liked to hear it at full cry. Cheers George.
A real red blooded fun machine, Brad. Thanks man
Wow! Back to classic Soup! Really appreciate the extra effort on this one! I know how time consuming it is! Also, Manta is looking…wow. For a “presentable” paint job, it looks stunning
Enjoying the frequency of vids lately. Every episode is a joy to watch.
That Manta was very cool. The Esprit as well, even in its bare shell.
I can't thank you enough for the clip at the end where the manta is just there, idling gloriously.
The only thing I don’t like about this channel is that I have already seen all the content (much of it twice!). You are the best! Keep up the awesome work!
The best car YT channel! love that stop motion and music, sparing us from grinding - the wife doesn't moan "Turn that down!" thanks for that!
Love your use of stop motion. Can't imagine how much time that adds to your restoration progress. Cheers! Mike
one of the best paint jobs ive seen on youtube in forever
Opel Manta. First car I remember we had here in Cork in the 80s. 😊
I still have the original number plates from it. 😊
Mmmmmmm, sublime cinematic solace. Such a lovely way to spend a Friday evening. Such good quality viewing. Currently my most anticipated YT video drop!
Really happy to see your videos again. A relaxing watch.
When You heaved that backbone/frame on the sawhorses all that added Chapman-lightness was clearly visible for an instant. You might probably have doubled its weight with those reinforcement welds 😅.
Thanks for all that work You put into these stop motion parts, and for sharing that!
Really refreshing car resto video with stop motion and a dog no shouting and I learned something too notch
Lovely to see the Esprit getting some love again 😁 Great stuff. That Manta is tasty too.
What a beautiful pup.
Never seen this channel before, but it's so well done and mesmerising to watch. 😎
And another step is taken. Cool to hear you keep it all factory. You will be driving a brand new Esprit in a while. Must be a magical experience 🤤
Watching the transformation a gentle media blasting can do to old parts never gets old.
Great to see some more progress on the Lotus!
Yes, thankfully we are back on the Lotus. This and your great videos is what i came for. 😎
Holy shit, the worlds only Irish lilted stop motion Esprit resto is back! After such a promising start was followed by radio silence for so long I’d all put given up on it ever rolling its wheels in anger again… Good to see the work resurrected George…
I like the detail with the file - I am a 'filer' for final detail. I have enjoyed every video of the LOTUS build, and it will be great to see you smiling whilst driving it - HA - but 'sad' for us viewers - as it will be the end of the LOTUS project. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
Great to see you back working on the Lotus! One of my favourite cars of the 1970s (maybe because of the connection to James Bond lol, in addition to the wonderful Giugiaro styling). Looking forward to the next episode, and I applaud you sticking to your plan of keeping it basically stock, and resisting the urge to fix what isn't broken. If Colin Chapman wanted it that way, that's the way it should stay IMO.
Much awaited, much appreciated excellent work as always.
Thanks ✌️
Mr. Soup, thank you for making such quality and relaxing videos.
Only relatively new to your channel (December) but I’m deffo here for the long haul. I’ve already watched every episode I think. Really enjoying the content. Thank you
Such a lovely video. I’m enjoying the new schedule so much 🥰😍 the Lotus is coming along nicely 🎉
Love your work 👍
I love the stop motion, it reminds me of early Arrdman. I saw one of those Lotus in JPS colours, unrestored at a car show in Hobart last weekend, and thought of all the hassle you've had. I couldn't hang around long cause it was 37c, and full sun with no clouds....
I click like in advance knowing that every video you put out is amazing.
What a brilliant start to the week end, fresh soup content.
Fabulous video work and I really enjoyed your comments during the fabrication. Brilliant! Cheers
As always Brilliant Stop Frame Animation.
I miss my opel manta GT 1985. I did dream about still owning it in a forgotten garage and taking it out for a spin. It was gold colored. It was a 4 speed. It made a bunch of older people coming to me to talk about it. That was strange but also a compliment. I wish it was a gsi :)
Always a treat seeing your progress on the Lotus! Outstanding!
Another excellent video! Can’t wait for more Esprit!
The amount of time and work in your videos is impressive.
Best TH-cam car content, by far… hands down!🤩
I love the attention to detail. Great videos. Thank you. Can't wait to see the finished result, although I realise that's going to take some time. I'll be with you all the way.
I watched another tuber who showed how reinforcing the gear lever aperture in the chassis, significantly increases chassis rigidity, It's just a plate welded around the cutout for the gear lever that makes the wall of the box section thicker. It makes up for the loss in rigidity caused by cutting a hole in it.
Thanks earthstick. That mod is redundant on the early cars, they don't have the means to flex the chassis to that extent and don't tend to crack it around the gear shift box!
@@soupclassicmotoring That was it, cracks in the corners of the gear shifter cutout. You're welcome.
imagine being able to just "lift" the frame your self. wonder what kind of torsion strength on these things are. i really like the design of them
This is getting exciting, mate! Just keep plugging away at it.
Great video! The Manta was cool too - I kinda preferred it pre-paint
sehr schöner animierter Beitrag, hat Spaß gemacht zu sehen.
Still a joy to watch your wonderful production quality. And I'm with you on wobbly holes. Yuck!
🤣 stop
oh a manta SR still want one of those now pref with a red top swap :)
It's getting there. Always best to make haste slowly. The grit blaster makes things nice and _shiny!_
Awesome as usual 👌👌
Wonderful as always. A treat to watch.
The other thing the Manta and Esprit have in common? I wanted them both as a younger guy. Still do. That Manta is gorgeous, can't wait to see the Esprit getting the same treatment.
Thank you, sir. I'm sure that when you're done, it will be better than new . JDS in AZ
They're both unfinished? Great episode. Keep going George! I really feel for you with those salted roads. It's a car killer.
Great video. Really enjoy them. All the best!
I'm absolutely blown away! All the hard (and excellent work), on many many levels, and then all of that is held together by this stellar production. Just amazing, the stopmotions themselfs are a huuuuge effort, and then there is the rest! Excellent job, on all sides of the camera 👏👏👏
Hi George!
I always have good luck with anti seize compound. Regarding the brake line brackets it’s what I’d do at assembly time with just enough in the right places. Here in Canada with the road salt it proves invaluable. The other option can be graphite spray but it can make an overspray mess and not quite as much body to it (but still good as the graphite spray doesn’t attract dust).
You’re an artist, man.
Thanks again for your great video.JDS in AZ
great bit of stop motion, well done, buying in parts from a parent company is normal, you wouldnt believe how common in vag group, or ford group, at the time gm was lotus parent company.
Refreshingly original video! It's like chill-out for petrol heads...
I loved Lotus' use of the super-pretty door openers from an Austin Maxi I think it was.
Ouch.
Off-topic, I know, but initially - and I was concentrating on the video - I thought that the chord progression in the first piece of background of music was from Get Outta My Way (Minogue). Always interesting to find out what something really is AND get a link to it. Ta!
stay stuck in is right.....from one Irish man to another you have done a great job on the video presentation and the car...i like your dead pan cynical wit as it’s the same as mine...only difference is mine is a TR6 and at the same stage. Greetings
It’s the cynicism of the Irish ;)
This episode gets me thinking of the best way to rig a camera in the blasting cabinet. It's a tough spot cuz as soon as you hit the trigger there's sand flying everywhere and your lens or hopefully (!) lens cover/filter is gonna get trashed.
I've used rain deflectors that are essentially a spinning disc of clear plastic in front of the lens. One extra bit that is used involves pointing a small air nozzle at the spinning plastic to help deflect any moisture. I wonder if that could be rigged in the cabinet since there's an air supply?
...or not! 🤑
This is the project Binki of the Lotus world, and I love it…
Just love your videos thank you very much
nice of you :)
You're doing a great job !
I'd normally mark each yoke's position in relation to it's partner before replacing the X, better chance of being in balance when back together, although it probably won't matter on such short shafts. I wonder if anyone's got a cv joint solution for these.
The Turbo Esprit and Esprit S3 had CV joints.
Finding out the Esprit - Manta connection is interesting, that must make it easier to source parts.
Does the manta go go as good as it show shows (it sounds healthy btw)
Would love to see added qualities in the lightness of Lotus and Chapman handiworks. Because of the life serpentines and roads, off course.
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure the started motors are similar
I have a 75 Manta A, I'm surprised how many parts it shares with the Lotus.
Friday night soup, yass!
Another great update. Did you decide that the front bar that was different was made to replace the original?
How on earth did you stop motion the UJ bearings out whilst the shaft stayed still?
Seriously… it’s one of the sketchiest sequences I’ve shot. 😅
0:15 I'm glad I'm not the only one who "just cleans".
man love the video... but wtf are those fans in the back of the frame? is there some weird active cooling back there?
in the Lotus frame?
@@soupclassicmotoring at 2:28
It’s a part-time submarine, remember? ;)
@@nickboylen6873 ooooh snap!!! i didn't realize we had THAT ONE!
@@AlteredCarbons 😂😂. Nah, it’s not that specific car. The engine and rad are at the back of the car; those are the normal fans for the rad.
Most excellent 👌
Great great work. Congratulations
Great vid. Love it
Well that's a title I didn't expect in the feed 👀
How in the world are you making stuff take itself apart what kind of camera trick are you using
I really wish I was in a position to become a patron mate, but for over 2 years now I've been medically unable to........ Well, have anything resembling a normal life, let alone work. The benefits I'm getting just about pay my bills, and for any unexpected nececcety for extra cash, I just flog off things like tools from my "BACKUP" backup collection. Luckily, before illness jumped up and bit me in the a*se, I was a bit of a hoarder of old car parts, tools and workshop equipment, this meant that I'd held onto a lot of stuff, like my old Capri parts, for so long that a lot of it had become alarmingly collectable........... Which has been handy (And to think, around 20 years ago I was getting so sick of shuffling the "Ford Crapi" parts around in the sheds and garage, that I seriously considered loading it all into the van and weighing it in !!!! :D ).
Anyway, I've always had a soft spot for Esprit's, and really like your video style. I also know that all the pratting about involved in FILMING a project's progress seriously eats into the workshop time where you could actually be making significantly MORE progress, so showing us your project is physically holding up it's completion.
As I said, I wish I was in a position to give something back, but unfortuanatly, all I can offer you at the minute is a big thankyou for letting us watch your project take shape, and the assurance that if my circumstances change, you'll be one of the first to know. :)
Lotus: How a lightweight budget and simplified development process can still yield a fantastic sports car! Add lightness (But, if bespoke is not budgeted select from existing parts bin) and simplify (The development process and associated costs).
I had a 72 Ascona 1900 wagon and a 74 Manta. Buick Opel is how they tagged them stateside. I almost got a Kadet wagon but it was too far gone. I was a member of OMC for a while.
That’s interesting, thanks
@@soupclassicmotoring the Manta you showed was badged as a Cevy Vega, Oldsmobile Omega, and a Pontiac Ventura I think. Cool cars. We use them for drag and road courses.
Confused about the parallel content between the red (Opel) and white (Lotus); perhaps it's a metaphor?
Old school Soup, right there 😁
You're moving forward, that's all that counts.
AMAZINGNES!!!
"They're wobbly.! And that messes with my calm..!"
Beaytiful video..
"They definitely aren't the same weight." Oh the indignity that poor car must have suffered in the past. I would guess somebody damaged the chassis brace and decided replacing the tubing with a vaguely similar diameter bar stock was good enough.
It's funny isn't it. Bitter sweet finding extra weight... when it shouldn't have been there in the first place. This is a difficult car to find flab on.
Good job. I am more the golf guy, than manta.
My two favourite cars...
When your car restoration project is going that bit too fast that you need to stop motion most of the work! 😝