Learning about Classic Cars

[genuinelylas]

Afternoon all, I hope everyone is well!



My name's Luke and in essence, the world of classic cars is one I know very little about!



Having not experienced them through family members and being in my mid 20's living in London where new, big and/or electric seems to be all that is on the menu; it's something I'm really interested to learn more about. I have a small youtube channel where I've made a video starting to document what I'm learning, (link below), but ultimately I'd really love to hear any suggestions on where I could go, what I could do or who I could talk to that would help me learn a little bit more!







Any feedback would also be greatly appreciated!

[vulgalour]

One of the best places for broadening horizons and knowledge has to be the build thread section of this very forum. There's so many talented and knowledgable people on here building all sorts of stuff from bone stock to insane you can't really avoid learning something even if you just look at the pretty pictures.

Most of all, find stuff you enjoy, that's the best way to learn. Go for what you enjoy and gets you excited, that's the important bit, everything else is a lot easier after that.

[slackerTHEpinstriper]

1st post in and promoting a YouTube channel, play the game!!

[genuinelylas]

Thank you for this I appreciate the advice, I'll definitely take a look!

That is also a very fair point - steaming in with self promotion isn't a great move.

[akku]

Try running a 40+ year old car as a daily. You will learn A WHOLE LOT in a short time...

But yeah, hang about, read, ask, post pics of stuff you like... We are mostly friendly...

[vulgalour]

Feb 7, 2024 11:52:35 GMT akku said:

Try running a 40+ year old car as a daily. You will learn A WHOLE LOT in a short time...

Hey, I resemble that remark! XD

[andy88]

Welcome to RR Luke. I think it’s great that you’re getting out and about visiting garages, talking to people and driving cars, sharing your own opinions and experiences.

There has been an explosion of car YT channels over the last few years and a half the time many of them are just doing very lazy content (in order to keep up with the algorithm) such as “Top 10 performance cars for under £10k” where they’ve just searched Auto Trader & Googled for pics. Or “Why xyz car failed” & they’ll just repeat what they’ve read on Wikipedia and Top Gear etc.

[60six]

Feb 7, 2024 18:19:59 GMT andy88 said:

Welcome to RR Luke. I think it’s great that you’re getting out and about visiting garages, talking to people and driving cars, sharing your own opinions and experiences.

There has been an explosion of car YT channels over the last few years and a half the time many of them are just doing very lazy content (in order to keep up with the algorithm) such as “Top 10 performance cars for under £10k” where they’ve just searched Auto Trader & Googled for pics. Or “Why xyz car failed” & they’ll just repeat what they’ve read on Wikipedia and Top Gear etc.

when someone reads something written by someone else that they have not learnt before recording, emotion and reaction can't be put in the inflection so things tend to be read out in a slight monotone accent - when someone writes it themselves their own words spoken by themselves makes their delivery automatically more passionate. There are so many monotone channels out there.