I believe that the spelling you're looking for is Awes-Car ( Awesome Car or Cars !) What extraordinary vehicles, what extraordinary filming! Truly delightful!!! A moveable feast!
absolutely stunning. looks beautiful. sounds heavenly. everything you want in a car. and this video is exactly why I love Petrolicious so much. I'm somewhat familiar with the history of this model but didn't know about the rennsport kit. petrolicious not only gives us gorgeous cars to look at and listen to but always gives us a little history lesson as well. also, petrolicious camera work/cinematography is the best on RUclips. the shot at the 2:17 exemplifies how this car is right at home winding it's way down a tree lined highway.
The car is amazing. The video is amazing. I think Sir Stirling Moss would be wearing the goggles not using them as a prop/fashion statement. I'm very glad this car is owned by a person who puts it on the road and it's not sitting somewhere rusting away or hidden away.
Car is rotten lol. Dude spent every dime in the absolutely wrong things, jay leno did it best. Outside looks like shit, original. Engine and mechanical bits running like a dream.
To Petrolicious and everyone else involved in the making of this video: thank you, thank you, thank you. I've said it and I will say it time and time again: this is the kind of video I'll show to anyone who asks me why I like cars. The footage, the sound, the people, the cars, the groovy feeling. Amazing every single time. Thanks again for establishing what the love for classic cars and mechanics in general is
You all probably dont give a shit but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account? I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
@Kenzo Eddie I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im trying it out atm. Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
hipster was actually a term that was used a lot 2005 - 2010. Nowadays its just a buzzword/insult for some young person who might dress differently from you. Kinda like a yuppie.
He's a hipster. No doubt about it. And you don't use words from 2005 to 2010. A word is a word. It doesn't lose meaning after five years. It still means the same. Representing a modern, mild, soft mannered, technologically more advanced, Apple loving, vintage caring, beard wearing type of a guy that's somewhat or totally apolitical. They're prone to use stuff their grandparents used to use just because they think they look cool, usually not interested about the history of the item at all. Overall more intelligent that you average guy but still flawed by vanity .
One of my favourite cars on this channel. I love the "period" look...far from a show car...paint imperfections, dirty carb bodies, rust on the block, and past fluid dribble evidence. Exactly what you'd expect to find if you went back to its heyday and peeked under the bonnet at a racer. Shame it doesn't have the 300 SL engine - but I imagine the number of things that break would shoot up then, and I hate to think what repairing that fabulous injection system would cost. :-)
I feel the same way with my little '67 Vw Beetle. Shortly after I came into this country my earliest remembrance was a yellow 69 beetle driving the opposite way. My father and I searched for the perfectly weird one, then after my 16th birthday I scrolled through Craigslist and I saw this little red beetle and I instantly fell in love. When we went out to take a look I was grinning ear to ear - I was like shaking nervously. Few days later I got her, fixed her brake lines, bought new front shoes, and a spark plug. In a couple months it'll be 3 years since I had her. 😄😄😄❤
Man, oh man..... even the seat upholstery....the jazzy soundtrack..... such perfection. The glint of light off the instrument panel and that beautiful steering wheel. Y’all are KILLING IT!! This is true automotive art. Thank you guys. Sincerely.
I feel the same way with my little '67 Vw Beetle. Shortly after I came into this country my earliest remembrance was a yellow 69 beetle driving the opposite way. My father and I searched for the perfectly weird one, then after my 16th birthday I scrolled through Craigslist and I saw this little red beetle and I instantly fell in love. When we went out to take a look I was grinning ear to ear - I was like shaking nervously. Few days later I got her, fixed her brake lines, bought new front shoes, and a spark plug. In a couple months it'll be 3 years since I had her.
My first car was a '55 190SL in the same color. It was a well-worn original in 1973, and the same green as this wonderful preservation/reiteration. Below the dark green were six earlier alkyd enamel paint jobs! The cars of this era aged in characteristic ways this video show up well. Mine still had the OEM Solex sidedrafts. They were a plague I could not, at 19, in the USN on active duty, deal against. They were both cracked across the venturi sections because a previous owner had removed and discarded the carb braces. The Solex bodies were priced at $1400 each (!) at that time. I did not know about Webers ,or much of anything. I only knew the 190SL was the car of my young dreams. I bought it, a pig in a poke, from a Navy chief from Columbia, SC for $1.400 and owned it for several years. When I passed it along to a new owner of more substantial financial means, I included all the NOS parts I had managed to obtain, including a $112 factory fresh steering wheel, from the Summerville, SC MB dealership. What a sweet and quirky car the 190SL will always be. This video and its production and the car and owner are first rate. Thank you, Petrolicious.
He says "I don't really understand how people got around in the mid 1960s based on the rate things break at". Obviously he wasn't around then to see how dependable and FIXABLE old cars were and still are. Fun video just the same.
Changing up the shooting style...definitely much needed. Definitely has more of a "story like" feel, versus a documentarian feel. I also like the in car camera movement. It takes me to the movie Bullit, where I felt like the way they shot in car back then felt so real. It was clearly a camera guy in the seat of that black Dodge with some fat, 40lb shoulder mounted rig movin around. Automotive cinematography got so stable with suction mounts and trailers that towed the actors around to look like they were driving. This feels more "real". Also looked like some crazy jib shots off of a moving vehicle...didn't seem drone-like...all very interesting and innovative for this channel it seems. Good stuff. Plus I didn't have to read the video....I hate to be American and want to hear english but....I do enjoy understanding the words so I can actually watch the video.
Purists, wrenchers, hotrodders, collectors, lifestyle aficionados, we all catched the same virus, Michael Potiker sure drives the dream and it suits him like a jacket, that's what it's all about. beautiful car, love the 2nd day mods.
I rewatched this video at home instead of in my work vehicle and I have to tell you guys this, it's spot on! I can't ever speak like this about anything, just not that astute, I'd be more "shot from the hip" but then again I'll never have my dream car but that's a story for another day. Any who, this guy, as well as many others featured here on Petrolicious, really "get it" when it comes to cars. Chalk this one up in the rafters of the Petrolicious Arena HOF!
Okay, first the production quality of this video is superb! The opening scene is just amazing! I do not jest when I say you should seriously consider making a full length feature film with several of these stories (I would most defiantly include this one in a maybe more extended form) The evening scenes driving in the city are outstanding! I can almost feel the excitement in the air as I watch this. Very nice work!! Thank you!
Most definitely one of the coolest Petro videos I've seen (although Derek Hill in the 250 GTO will always be #1). Great visuals, lighting mood, music and of course, that car! Great work, please keep them coming.
Your Videos are Simply Amazing , the Quality , The sound , the editing . 4:31 Felt like "DRIVE" from Thomas Winding Refn . Keep making Gorgeous Videos of Beautyful Speed Masterpieces !
These videos are works of art. So much thought and effort goes into producing them that they are unique in their own way. As to the car, I was just getting interested in cars when the 190SL came out. I never saw or heard of one in "racing costume." They were lady's cars, uninteresting in the shadow of their big brother, the 300SL. I had no idea anyone would put Weber carburetors on one. The Solex 44PHH were considered more than adequate and much easier to set-up and adjust than Webers. When I moved to Germany in the 1960s the 190SL was not well thought of and inexpensive to be had. I certainly never heard of anyone interested in racing one. I guess that must have been left to the folks in southern California. I had a chance to buy one in the early 1970s and was not impressed after driving it, which is good, because even though they only wanted the equivalent of US$ 2k, I couldn't afford that as a grad student with a family. All that said, it is nice to see a car of that era being driven and the gentleman seems to truly love the car. It's very good that the suspension has been upgraded. I would hope the brakes have also been improved.
Thanks! It's not necessarily the car I would have chosen if I was buying one at market price, but I happened to get very lucky and snagged this when it was rotting away with no tires and animals living inside of it. I have a Facel Vega Facelia with a V8 swapped in, which I was fine with as the French 4 banger is a HORRIBLE nightmare, but I just don't have the heart to motor swap this thing so that it's actually a performer as it's so original...
I'm not a purist in any way. The Facelia engine was a horror and that car also languished away beneath the overwhelming attraction of the HK500. Dressed up the way your 190 is it takes on a different character and is more like the British cars of its time. That's a very good thing. How does the Facelia drive with a V8 in it?
The front frame on the Facelia was reinforced to tighten the steering as stock it flexes too much even with the Pont a Mousson 4. It drives FANTASTIC with the V8. I have the Buick/Rover aluminum 215 in it with a 5spd rover box and the motor was 300lbs lighter than the 4cyl with like 2.5x the power.
I like how he wears an old school helmet and gloves while he's driving. I saw a young guy at a gas station once. He was riding an old BMW motorcycle. Old school helmet, knee boots and pants and goggles. I gave him a thumbs up.
I feel like those wheels are off a crown vic cop car. The whole vibe and sound of the car is pretty good but those wheels are killing it looks wise. Doesn't help that the driver wears shoes that look like your grandmas couch.
They look like the generic steel wheels you can purchase from Les Schwab for mounting snow tires on to leave in garage until winter. Appallingly poetic for a hipster doofus.
My dream to this day, and many will hate me for this is to take a 300sl (preferably a gullwing) shell and restomod it. Modern engine, updated interior a few modern touches but still keeping the spirit. Basically I want a gullwing I could drive every day. And that looks stock...
3:41 This is one of the best little roads in Rancho, but this turn has special meaning to me. It was the turn where I lost the rear end of a 911 for the first time. I managed to save it, but it was pure luck. One of San Diego's Porsche dealers lives near this turn. I still have this nightmare where I crash, and he pulls me from the wreckage and tells me that Porsche has banned me from ever owning another 911. Anyway, strange things happen when you watch Petrolicious. Maybe this video will reprogram my memory somehow.
Pleassure and satisfaction here, comes from the exctraction of feelings by driving this pure car, with no useless gadjets and 200 lbs of electronics...but operating an item -car-, made of very good engineering, quality parts and functionable simplicity. Today, we end up driving even hundreds thousands $/€, ... apps. We care 90% for multimedia and gadjets and 10 for the car itself.. And that'why driving satisfaction touches almost zero, except if you 're feeling well when advertising how much you spent to buy it. Seems like feelings aren't that much of expensive rather than constraint...
Gawd what a beautiful car! Love the lines, love the engine note, love the colors...wow! Not sure that bucket will do anything besides keep your cranial contents from fouling up the interior (lol)...also LOVE the leopard print house shoes!
I like the normal, street-legal convertible version of this car better though... (I know, anything this old is probably street-legal in the USA now, but I'm talking about Germany, where this came from. They made a "civilian" version, and it is just gorgeous!)
Strange...I thought this channel was about unique cars. Anyway, this is an absolutely wonderful car. I have always loved the 190 and the 300 convertibles but this as a roadster is beyond awesome!! I actually love the paint too, which really surprises me a lot, but for whatever reason it just WORKS on this car! For me though those things are all secondary...its...the...FUCKING AMAZING SOUND OF THE ENGINE!!!! Oh My God!! I want a 3 hour loop of just the exhaust note to play on repeat!! Great car!!!
Chris F even though I'm apparently some hipster that doesn't understand the car (I barnfound it myself and spent weeks getting it running before it went off for metal repair and upholstery), I can actually explain this one: the carbs are tuned correctly- the issues with them are with the linkage. The original Solex's had a vacuum operated second chamber, which allowed a delay in the barrels opening until higher RPMs and made the throttle action a lot smoother. These Webers are really crudely linked with a period kit that is like a metal rod on bearings so all four barrels open simultaneously. I'm designing a cable linkage that should allow the 1-2 sequence again, but am not putting it on the car until after Monterey car week as I'm in the originals class at an event up there.
Michael Potiker Thanks for the response. I wouldn't assign labels like others do. I can hear that there is a midrange stumble usually associated with fuel, but could also be timing. I like your ride and want you to have the best possible driving experience.
@Michael Potiker : do not pay any attention to the keyboard warriors, they usually are better at typing than at fixing a car with grease up to their elbows. Great car, enjoy it as much as you can, F the rest.
Difficult not to assume you're a sad troll when you start a sentence with "Hey idiot"... Anyway, please be so kind as to read M.Potiker's comment 3 lines above, regarding his linkage issues. Have a nice day, buddy.
The cinematography is amazing, maybe one of your best Petrolicious. Its now more like short-movie.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed.
Hello, teal&orange Look!
Only if i could nominate this channel for an oscar.
I believe that the spelling you're looking for is Awes-Car ( Awesome Car or Cars !) What extraordinary vehicles, what extraordinary filming! Truly delightful!!! A moveable feast!
I absolutely love the way you've filmed this video and the music in each section was fantastic!
absolutely stunning. looks beautiful. sounds heavenly. everything you want in a car. and this video is exactly why I love Petrolicious so much. I'm somewhat familiar with the history of this model but didn't know about the rennsport kit. petrolicious not only gives us gorgeous cars to look at and listen to but always gives us a little history lesson as well. also, petrolicious camera work/cinematography is the best on RUclips. the shot at the 2:17 exemplifies how this car is right at home winding it's way down a tree lined highway.
The car is amazing. The video is amazing. I think Sir Stirling Moss would be wearing the goggles not using them as a prop/fashion statement. I'm very glad this car is owned by a person who puts it on the road and it's not sitting somewhere rusting away or hidden away.
Car is rotten lol. Dude spent every dime in the absolutely wrong things, jay leno did it best. Outside looks like shit, original. Engine and mechanical bits running like a dream.
To Petrolicious and everyone else involved in the making of this video: thank you, thank you, thank you. I've said it and I will say it time and time again: this is the kind of video I'll show to anyone who asks me why I like cars. The footage, the sound, the people, the cars, the groovy feeling. Amazing every single time. Thanks again for establishing what the love for classic cars and mechanics in general is
This was a great video! Loved the juxtaposition of modern LA against the old Merc.
You all probably dont give a shit but does any of you know of a method to get back into an instagram account?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any assistance you can give me.
@Kairo Davian Instablaster =)
@Kenzo Eddie I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and im trying it out atm.
Takes a while so I will reply here later with my results.
Is that LA? Salazar's is in San Diego.
He's a hipster yes. But, there's room for hipsters in the car world. A very beautiful Merc.
plenty of hipsters have money. see Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
hipster was actually a term that was used a lot 2005 - 2010. Nowadays its just a buzzword/insult for some young person who might dress differently from you. Kinda like a yuppie.
sunglasses with goggles on the helmet. dead give away.
He's a hipster. No doubt about it. And you don't use words from 2005 to 2010. A word is a word. It doesn't lose meaning after five years. It still means the same. Representing a modern, mild, soft mannered, technologically more advanced, Apple loving, vintage caring, beard wearing type of a guy that's somewhat or totally apolitical. They're prone to use stuff their grandparents used to use just because they think they look cool, usually not interested about the history of the item at all. Overall more intelligent that you average guy but still flawed by vanity .
Daniel Z most people are flawed in some way. I'd rather they be flawed like you describe than almost any other way!!
One of my favourite cars on this channel. I love the "period" look...far from a show car...paint imperfections, dirty carb bodies, rust on the block, and past fluid dribble evidence. Exactly what you'd expect to find if you went back to its heyday and peeked under the bonnet at a racer. Shame it doesn't have the 300 SL engine - but I imagine the number of things that break would shoot up then, and I hate to think what repairing that fabulous injection system would cost. :-)
I feel the same way with my little '67 Vw Beetle. Shortly after I came into this country my earliest remembrance was a yellow 69 beetle driving the opposite way. My father and I searched for the perfectly weird one, then after my 16th birthday I scrolled through Craigslist and I saw this little red beetle and I instantly fell in love. When we went out to take a look I was grinning ear to ear - I was like shaking nervously. Few days later I got her, fixed her brake lines, bought new front shoes, and a spark plug.
In a couple months it'll be 3 years since I had her. 😄😄😄❤
Man, oh man..... even the seat upholstery....the jazzy soundtrack..... such perfection. The glint of light off the instrument panel and that beautiful steering wheel. Y’all are KILLING IT!! This is true automotive art. Thank you guys. Sincerely.
I feel the same way with my little '67 Vw Beetle. Shortly after I came into this country my earliest remembrance was a yellow 69 beetle driving the opposite way. My father and I searched for the perfectly weird one, then after my 16th birthday I scrolled through Craigslist and I saw this little red beetle and I instantly fell in love. When we went out to take a look I was grinning ear to ear - I was like shaking nervously. Few days later I got her, fixed her brake lines, bought new front shoes, and a spark plug.
In a couple months it'll be 3 years since I had her.
it smells of rich mahogany...
Didn't know much about this car...man I'm pleasantly surprised, looks and sounds beautiful
Such a true enthusiast car! This is what its all about.
My first car was a '55 190SL in the same color. It was a well-worn original in 1973, and the same green as this wonderful preservation/reiteration. Below the dark green were six earlier alkyd enamel paint jobs! The cars of this era aged in characteristic ways this video show up well. Mine still had the OEM Solex sidedrafts. They were a plague I could not, at 19, in the USN on active duty, deal against. They were both cracked across the venturi sections because a previous owner had removed and discarded the carb braces. The Solex bodies were priced at $1400 each (!) at that time. I did not know about Webers ,or much of anything. I only knew the 190SL was the car of my young dreams. I bought it, a pig in a poke, from a Navy chief from Columbia, SC for $1.400 and owned it for several years. When I passed it along to a new owner of more substantial financial means, I included all the NOS parts I had managed to obtain, including a $112 factory fresh steering wheel, from the Summerville, SC MB dealership.
What a sweet and quirky car the 190SL will always be. This video and its production and the car and owner are first rate. Thank you, Petrolicious.
Seeing this car In Little Italy was an Event! Such an Awesome car!
Wow, what a beautiful automobile. The amount of time and dedication spent on this vehicle is apparent at first sight. What a great video petrolicious.
He says "I don't really understand how people got around in the mid 1960s based on the rate things break at".
Obviously he wasn't around then to see how dependable and FIXABLE old cars were and still are.
Fun video just the same.
Not usually a Mercedes fan but in this case I'll make an exception. Nice work.
Changing up the shooting style...definitely much needed. Definitely has more of a "story like" feel, versus a documentarian feel. I also like the in car camera movement. It takes me to the movie Bullit, where I felt like the way they shot in car back then felt so real. It was clearly a camera guy in the seat of that black Dodge with some fat, 40lb shoulder mounted rig movin around. Automotive cinematography got so stable with suction mounts and trailers that towed the actors around to look like they were driving. This feels more "real". Also looked like some crazy jib shots off of a moving vehicle...didn't seem drone-like...all very interesting and innovative for this channel it seems. Good stuff. Plus I didn't have to read the video....I hate to be American and want to hear english but....I do enjoy understanding the words so I can actually watch the video.
With the music and the final scene it reminds me of Comedians in Cars getting Coffee. Great cinematography again.
Fabulous classic being used. Thanks for sharing.
Nice!!!I love the rear overhang and the general shape of your old Merc....the sounds and smells must be a real and honest experience...I'm Jealous.
Beautiful car and kudos to the guy for keeping it going!
holy shit, this one just raised the bar. The filming was amazing, something even better about this one than your usual ones.
Purists, wrenchers, hotrodders, collectors, lifestyle aficionados, we all catched the same virus, Michael Potiker sure drives the dream and it suits him like a jacket, that's what it's all about.
beautiful car, love the 2nd day mods.
I rewatched this video at home instead of in my work vehicle and I have to tell you guys this, it's spot on! I can't ever speak like this about anything, just not that astute, I'd be more "shot from the hip" but then again I'll never have my dream car but that's a story for another day. Any who, this guy, as well as many others featured here on Petrolicious, really "get it" when it comes to cars. Chalk this one up in the rafters of the Petrolicious Arena HOF!
Beautiful car. It takes real commitment to drive something like that Mercedes every day. It sounds awesome with the Webers too.
The cinematography and the edits is insane!
Brilliant video and a car full of character.....thanks for preserving such cool car.
Great video. You really captured the essence of owning and driving a classic sports car ( any classic sports car ! ). It's about the driving!
You are one lucky man! I've always had a thing for the 190SL's. Beautiful classic!❤️❤️❤️
Okay, first the production quality of this video is superb! The opening scene is just amazing! I do not jest when I say you should seriously consider making a full length feature film with several of these stories (I would most defiantly include this one in a maybe more extended form) The evening scenes driving in the city are outstanding! I can almost feel the excitement in the air as I watch this. Very nice work!! Thank you!
Most definitely one of the coolest Petro videos I've seen (although Derek Hill in the 250 GTO will always be #1). Great visuals, lighting mood, music and of course, that car! Great work, please keep them coming.
You are definitely living the dream! Good on ya'!
Petrolicious: what jazz song is played at 1.16?
Im curious too! Shazam doens't recognize it either
limerot please if someone find out put it in the coments
Same question for me !
+1
Same for me. Shazam couldn't recognize it as well!
Lovely car! I love the BGM of this one!
Totally Rad Machine, another fine example of what being a Car Guy is all about no matter where or what you drive....
This guy's having a blast with that car. NIce to see. Great video -- Thanks!
Your Videos are Simply Amazing , the Quality , The sound , the editing . 4:31 Felt like "DRIVE" from Thomas Winding Refn . Keep making Gorgeous Videos of Beautyful Speed Masterpieces !
Ok, this video has now gone up in the top 5 petrolicious videos.
1:53 Got to love the plugged coolant outlet hose.
the car shows its age and history. perfect. perfect.
These videos are works of art. So much thought and effort goes into producing them that they are unique in their own way. As to the car, I was just getting interested in cars when the 190SL came out. I never saw or heard of one in "racing costume." They were lady's cars, uninteresting in the shadow of their big brother, the 300SL. I had no idea anyone would put Weber carburetors on one. The Solex 44PHH were considered more than adequate and much easier to set-up and adjust than Webers. When I moved to Germany in the 1960s the 190SL was not well thought of and inexpensive to be had. I certainly never heard of anyone interested in racing one. I guess that must have been left to the folks in southern California. I had a chance to buy one in the early 1970s and was not impressed after driving it, which is good, because even though they only wanted the equivalent of US$ 2k, I couldn't afford that as a grad student with a family.
All that said, it is nice to see a car of that era being driven and the gentleman seems to truly love the car. It's very good that the suspension has been upgraded. I would hope the brakes have also been improved.
Bruce Boschek I lucked out... when I found it rusting away it already had the aluminum upgraded Alfin's on it :)
That's good! BTW, I love the exhaust note, too.
Thanks! It's not necessarily the car I would have chosen if I was buying one at market price, but I happened to get very lucky and snagged this when it was rotting away with no tires and animals living inside of it.
I have a Facel Vega Facelia with a V8 swapped in, which I was fine with as the French 4 banger is a HORRIBLE nightmare, but I just don't have the heart to motor swap this thing so that it's actually a performer as it's so original...
I'm not a purist in any way. The Facelia engine was a horror and that car also languished away beneath the overwhelming attraction of the HK500. Dressed up the way your 190 is it takes on a different character and is more like the British cars of its time. That's a very good thing. How does the Facelia drive with a V8 in it?
The front frame on the Facelia was reinforced to tighten the steering as stock it flexes too much even with the Pont a Mousson 4. It drives FANTASTIC with the V8. I have the Buick/Rover aluminum 215 in it with a 5spd rover box and the motor was 300lbs lighter than the 4cyl with like 2.5x the power.
I like how he wears an old school helmet and gloves while he's driving. I saw a young guy at a gas station once. He was riding an old BMW motorcycle. Old school helmet, knee boots and pants and goggles. I gave him a thumbs up.
the new season of Louie looks great..
one of the best to date
Car is brilliant. Who'da thunk that an 190SL could be so cool?
The personification of the Petrolicious logo.
Wow, another Tastefully done video! Kudos, guys.
Another Petrolicious masterpiece. I wish I could give thumbs up more than once!
What a beauty, thanks Petrolicious!
How cute. Nothing at all "look at me, look at me" about that car!
Thanks for explaining its quirks and features.
I feel like those wheels are off a crown vic cop car. The whole vibe and sound of the car is pretty good but those wheels are killing it looks wise. Doesn't help that the driver wears shoes that look like your grandmas couch.
They look like the generic steel wheels you can purchase from Les Schwab for mounting snow tires on to leave in garage until winter. Appallingly poetic for a hipster doofus.
Literally just explained how I feel
just the perfect film. Cathartic!
This is the best channel i have, one day i will have my dream car !!
Man that car is such a lovely Turtle Wax green.
The cinematic is so great!
My dream to this day, and many will hate me for this is to take a 300sl (preferably a gullwing) shell and restomod it. Modern engine, updated interior a few modern touches but still keeping the spirit. Basically I want a gullwing I could drive every day. And that looks stock...
3:41
This is one of the best little roads in Rancho, but this turn has special meaning to me. It was the turn where I lost the rear end of a 911 for the first time. I managed to save it, but it was pure luck.
One of San Diego's Porsche dealers lives near this turn. I still have this nightmare where I crash, and he pulls me from the wreckage and tells me that Porsche has banned me from ever owning another 911.
Anyway, strange things happen when you watch Petrolicious. Maybe this video will reprogram my memory somehow.
gorgeous car...even more gorgeous filming
0:29 Wow, what an alpha hipster image composition... but he's got excellent taste, so he's got my respect.
This is a beautiful film, said the deaf man.
Just stunning.
Very cool car, very nicely filmed as well!!
A YEAH !!! Hes a car guy . Dude nice shoes .
Pleassure and satisfaction here, comes from the exctraction of feelings by driving this pure car, with no useless gadjets and
200 lbs of electronics...but operating an item -car-, made of very good engineering, quality parts and functionable simplicity.
Today, we end up driving even hundreds thousands $/€, ... apps. We care 90% for multimedia and gadjets and 10 for the car itself..
And that'why driving satisfaction touches almost zero, except if you 're feeling well when advertising how much you spent to buy it.
Seems like feelings aren't that much of expensive rather than constraint...
homes is chillin' hard
I love this channel so much.
WOOHOO! Another Stirling Moss reference!
Love the 190s. Dare I say I like them more than the Gullwing.
This video made me happy .
Superbe car. Awesome video quality. Loved that :)
Gawd what a beautiful car! Love the lines, love the engine note, love the colors...wow! Not sure that bucket will do anything besides keep your cranial contents from fouling up the interior (lol)...also LOVE the leopard print house shoes!
So cool! Thanks!
I like the normal, street-legal convertible version of this car better though... (I know, anything this old is probably street-legal in the USA now, but I'm talking about Germany, where this came from. They made a "civilian" version, and it is just gorgeous!)
This was shot so damn well.
great video great car
Another amazing video!
That engine sounds so good
Strange...I thought this channel was about unique cars. Anyway, this is an absolutely wonderful car. I have always loved the 190 and the 300 convertibles but this as a roadster is beyond awesome!! I actually love the paint too, which really surprises me a lot, but for whatever reason it just WORKS on this car! For me though those things are all secondary...its...the...FUCKING AMAZING SOUND OF THE ENGINE!!!! Oh My God!! I want a 3 hour loop of just the exhaust note to play on repeat!! Great car!!!
like a switch...because the carbs are tuned horribly for part throttle. Please do some research and tune your carbs!
Chris F even though I'm apparently some hipster that doesn't understand the car (I barnfound it myself and spent weeks getting it running before it went off for metal repair and upholstery), I can actually explain this one: the carbs are tuned correctly- the issues with them are with the linkage. The original Solex's had a vacuum operated second chamber, which allowed a delay in the barrels opening until higher RPMs and made the throttle action a lot smoother. These Webers are really crudely linked with a period kit that is like a metal rod on bearings so all four barrels open simultaneously. I'm designing a cable linkage that should allow the 1-2 sequence again, but am not putting it on the car until after Monterey car week as I'm in the originals class at an event up there.
Michael Potiker Thanks for the response. I wouldn't assign labels like others do. I can hear that there is a midrange stumble usually associated with fuel, but could also be timing. I like your ride and want you to have the best possible driving experience.
@Michael Potiker : do not pay any attention to the keyboard warriors, they usually are better at typing than at fixing a car with grease up to their elbows. Great car, enjoy it as much as you can, F the rest.
ShamWerks
Hey idiot, he is right the carbs are tuned wrong ask anyone. Please spend more time and money on your engine and less on the Hipster crap.
Difficult not to assume you're a sad troll when you start a sentence with "Hey idiot"... Anyway, please be so kind as to read M.Potiker's comment 3 lines above, regarding his linkage issues. Have a nice day, buddy.
J'adore !! Superbe vidéo. C'est Hollywood :D !!
As ALWAYS this is EPIC.
Hears subject say "cosplay time machine". Eyes so roll so far back into head the optic nerves snap.
Cosplay time machine??? Really? Whatever floats his boat I guess. Awesome car.
I don't think they had those shoes in the 60s, thankfully.
It's a good description. We all have our different favourite cars to escape to.
He stopped for a glass of milk. The helmet is for safety purposes.
Great story.
Whats the music used at 1:18?
Visage De Sable
Lovely car. Great camera work. Terrible loafers lol.
Someone can tell mee the names of song at 1:10 ?
Visage De Sable
Great car so unique
Great but I have to wonder, judging from the engine bay, the last time this car was cleaned and professionally tuned or maintained.
Speaking from experience, any car, in any time period, running webers will ONLY run wide open. Idle is not a setting that was included.
Que calidad de video, que musica, ese auto... cada vez me enamoro mas de los autos.
Beautiful car. Sound good too.
Does anybody happen to know the music at 1:16?
Visage De Sable
I watch more of these amazing automobile cinemas more television.
Simply amazing.