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PostPosted: April 28, 2021, 9:28 am 
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As I recall there was a brief mention that it would "Probably be wrapped around a tree", which certainly sounds like Rally driving.
So if it's now just an overdone street car that is the wrong sort of mission creep.
I still expect to see it sold to someone for silly money before it ever gets on the road.


Ever seen the countryside around their shop... plenty of trees alongside the (very narrow) roads. They never meant it to be a rally car from what they've said/done many times during the series.

The only "mission creep" were the amount of brackets. :D :D :D

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Episode 34
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Episode 35 is up.
Boys are getting closer to wrapping this one up, but still a ways to go.

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I don't think they will ever be done!!!!!!!! LOL. I just can't get over the build quality. Russ

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Once they went for black carpet instead of vinyl I knew it was never seeing rally.

It's now an ice cream getter, on the one day the UK has sun each year. :)

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I watched probably the first 20 episodes, then lost interest. At some point, I think they realized that completing the car would slow their YouTube revenue, so it transitioned into dragging out the project for as long as possible. That's fine, it's their shop and shows off their fabrication skills, but along the way, the car's intent seems to have changed. Or, maybe it was us mistakenly thinking we knew the car's intent.

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Agreed. Why not sell it and move on to a new project to refresh interest? Anyone care to speculate what the next project should be? Tough to call anything a challenge. How about a Japanese kei car or mk1 renault twingo? Vespa Ape?

Probably concerned they could lose the whole viewership. Maybe a lead in request for comments about the next project.

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They're building the old book-bus car carrier concurrently, which will help keep the tubers rooted in the ground and watching.


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They have a MG sports car body that's been shown a few times. I imagine that'll come after Binky & the Escargo.
The racecar on a Sim budget series was interesting, too.

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Episode 37 went up on 12/18.
Watching now. :cheers:

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Oops, loose bolt unwinding itself at 11:44.
Their complexity now rivals OEM. :ack:
But it does appear to have been a lucrative series, compare the current tools on hand to where they started.

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RichardSIA wrote:
Oops, loose bolt unwinding itself at 11:44.
Their complexity now rivals OEM. :ack:
But it does appear to have been a lucrative series, compare the current tools on hand to where they started.


And in that process they lost their Mad Dogs and Englishmen charm. First thing I notice was that they could do lots on a budget, ie, that angle grinder tree.

Now it's uber expensive solutions (ie, that alternator drive thing) and really nice new tools that they've picked up since this began.

And, of course, as we all know here, when you've got the thing 80% done, you've got 80% more to go, and all that last 80% is pretty boring stuff.

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Moving under its own power.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7foPqvzZOU

Seems to need a bit more sorting.

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RichardSIA wrote:
Seems to need a bit more sorting.


What project car doesn't need a bit more sorting, ever? But here we are, 8 years later, and it's to this point....

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Lots of interesting workmanship... but "Matt's Off-road Recovery" on Youtube turned a 1960 Corvair station wagon into a front engine, 4wd off-road recovery vehicle in a few months of spare time, and it's a working commercial vehicle.

The interesting thing is they didn't just set the Corvair unibody on top of a 4wd chassis; they cored it out, welded in frame members, and it's provably still a 1960 Corvair, not a later-model truck. I don't know about Utah (where it's based), but in some states that would be a *big* deal as far as licensing and insurance.

Many years into their built, the Binky guys are probably using their CAD software to design EDM'd titanium exhaust hangers or something. Granted the "Morrvair" isn't as fancy as Binky, but A) it's done and B) it's on the road making money.


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