Congratulations to all members of the Retropower Team on your expansion into new business areas, enjoy the adventure. I wish you every success and look forward to catching up with your progress through your videos via RUclips.
First discovered RetroPower with the Gordon Murray Project and it’s been fantastic seeing the growth and success you guys and gals are having. Incredibly well deserved, you are a credit to the community of Car Enthusiasts. I look forward to seeing even more success in the coming years.
Well done Cal for standing in for Nat in the fabrication shop, but, you didn’t go off on a tangent 😂. The new premises are going to be a great addition to your business.
Wishing you all the success you desire, it’s well deserved ! As someone that has had multiple ismall companies I can say don’t spread yourself too thin, get good people and put them in charge otherwise it does become very exhausting very quickly.
New facility, GREAT IDEAS! Kind of like having exhibition events where customers might kindly show their cars to Retropower fans. Great stuff. Hope to see your work close up, soon. 👍
The story of what had been done to that Jensen in a previous workshop, it gives a perfect picture of the difference between what you guys at Retro Power offer in the way of complete re engineering to give a perfect performance package balance to compliment a beautifully presented customisation job. Personally I'm not much into "customisation" per se, but have grown to appreciate Retropower's "whole bespoke package" approach. On other things, nice "cammo" shorts Marc, shame about the legs. I appreciate your humourous perspective on the areas of work you're involved in, you're obviously very talented at whatever you do. Work isn't always serious!
All good. Are you doing 'RUclips subscriber evenings' at the new place? For a small amount of hard earned dosh, with a short talk and walk about, sell merch, Free coffee? Q and A, I'm in.
I really enjoy Marc's humourous updates. Brings some levity to the whole thing. Aside- Retropower team: I think I know a thing or two about cars. And then I watch you folks and I realize how little I know. Every week I learn something new. Great videos 👌👌👌
Best wishes with your new venture guys, I'm sure it'll be a success for you! By the way that's the best description of how to practically resolve Ackerman issues that I've heard Cal 👍
Great episode as usual and hope Nat had a nice holiday with his family.I also hope Marc has a blast in Turkey and does not get over toasted in the 40 degree heat.Congratulations on the new venture and hope it's a fantastic success. I might have to visit from the USA.
Hi Kev, I remember you visiting when we were in the midst of dragging an old prefab toilet block out with a telehandler to make space for our machine shop! Good few years back now!!
Great news regarding your growth plans (and also, when I heard the rumours that you’d actually signed up Adrian Newey to become Stu’s new protege I became very envious of Adrian! Ha ha! ) stay well lads! 😁
Great news about your new space ..If you require a DJ at your new event space at any time gimme a holla ;-) I play thru vintage suitcases converted into boomboxes 😊 luggage restomods u could say ;-)
Great stuff. The new site is extremely exciting. Very eager to see more developments on this especially the idea of meetings and tours. Perhaps you could consider offering the photo booth for the public's cars? Brilliant 👍
Wow the two channels that I follow in the car industry these guys Retropower and Reperformance both moving into new digs. Great to see both growing! Onwards and up!
Onwards and upwards, I think it's a great idea, where you will hugely broaden your client base, from new interiors to smaller mechanical jobs etc. Good Luck!
It’s still a lot of power for a no turbo car. Even a two litre cossie only put out two hundred bhp with a turbo. BMW M TEC Engine is a two litre without a turbo and that puts out about the same as the cossie. Two hundred BHP In a light car is still going to be rapid
Wow that’s going to be a must see looking forward to visiting new facility..absolutely fantastic have watched you guys since the start & to see how far you’ve come is truly amazing 👏👏
Fantastic news on the expansion of facilities it will make all the difference I’m really hoping I can get up and visit you at some point when it is all up and running
Good luck on the expansion. Great to see the business going from strength to strength. Im wondering how close the new bat cave is to the existing unit.... will we see Richard zinging between the two on a Segway with parts to trial fit??
Nice expansion. Suspect that it will grow much quicker than you anticipated...congrats on your success and your super RUclips stream to be able to watch..
Yes, about time you got some more space. I've been scratching my head for a few years wondering how (and why) you make such lovely stuff in a cow shed. Congrats on the Warfdales in Richard's workshop too, proper retro speakers will go well with leather and sewing machine oil.
I love the work. The Murray escort is still my favourite build. The o the escorts are great as well but I like the Murray car because it looks like an original twin cam. I don’t think does ever done an escort with the bigger arches.
I will have to mention your new space to the sevens club. Every year we like to go somewhere different for seven celebration day we have done Bicester Heritage and cheddar gorge I think this could be ideal (just don’t look too closely at all of our shit boxes)
My thoughts and Reading about Ackerman angles are. A straight line from the Steering arm Ball joint centre thru the bottom ball joint should for the perfect Ackerman angle should go thru the centre of the Axle Diff. So any steering rack mounted forward of the crossmember will be harder to get the correct Ackerman Angle. Hope you guys can confirm or Deny this. Thanks Phill
It is quite normal to have slightly more caster on one side. Road cars use this to overcome the fact that roads aren’t flat, they are higher in the centre. We drive on one side of centre so the suspension geometry needs to correct this, otherwise the car tends to pull one way. Hope I’m not telling anyone how to suck eggs, just an observation. Cheers guys, love the channel 👍
Very cool, great to see and Congratulations. The radiators are triggering the bejaysus out of me. iR panels and solar all over the roof will make it cheaper to run, cleaner, lower risk and lower maintenance. But the moneys spent now so too late!
Radiators are a hang over from when the building was constructed for its owner (and now our landlord) who had it built as a hosiery factory in the mid 1990’s.
When you reskin one of those rusty 70’s doors, do you do anything more than OEM to prevent the seam from rusting out again? Seam sealer or zinc heavy coatings or??
Do you WAXOYL' OR ZEUBART it all as well? Sorry because I'm new to your channel I'm interested.... it's ironic that they've made cars pretty rust resistant these days but ...new cars are rubbish it's the old ones that are more deserving of rustproofedness...u agree 👍?
lol! I’ve just got back to the land of mobile phone signal! The old girl does pretty well, an LS would be nice but I will keep that in my Range Rover (when I actually get it finished!) and stick with the merc diesel in the sprinter camper van. I’m usually held up by cars in it as it is 😂 could do with better brakes though to be honest!
I was quite glad (sorry Marc) when I heard that the 'Retropower Marc' channel had been stopped from diminishing the professional air that Cal and Nat convey for this awesome business. Disappointing that the same sort of content is still here on the main channel. As far as I can see, he's a great paint and body guy, as well as having many other talents around the shop, however, I just don't feel that representing your brand on such a public forum is one of them. Just my opinon though.
Opinions are like arse holes,everyone has one actually the only ones that matter are those of Cal &Nat,most of us would be obliged if you kept it that way.
There will definitely be a tension if they intend to become rather corporate and develop brand image, between that objective and the "laddish" interludes that will not really fit. People are so easily offended these days. I am sure they are smart enough to navigate this issue.
Very pleasing to see Retropower developing and moving forward. A great company. Britain needs more of this.
Congratulations to all members of the Retropower Team on your expansion into new business areas, enjoy the adventure. I wish you every success and look forward to catching up with your progress through your videos via RUclips.
First discovered RetroPower with the Gordon Murray Project and it’s been fantastic seeing the growth and success you guys and gals are having. Incredibly well deserved, you are a credit to the community of Car Enthusiasts.
I look forward to seeing even more success in the coming years.
Well done Cal for standing in for Nat in the fabrication shop, but, you didn’t go off on a tangent 😂. The new premises are going to be a great addition to your business.
The Jensen will be the best driving and steering ever after your approach to the suspension and steering. Good job Bobby.
New gaff! Great to see you going from strength to strength. Hard work has its dividends
Wishing you all the success you desire, it’s well deserved ! As someone that has had multiple ismall companies I can say don’t spread yourself too thin, get good people and put them in charge otherwise it does become very exhausting very quickly.
New facility, GREAT IDEAS! Kind of like having exhibition events where customers might kindly show their cars to Retropower fans. Great stuff. Hope to see your work close up, soon. 👍
Sunday afternoon with a cold beer and 100 Fahrenheit in Texas
Good time to kick back and watch the show
The story of what had been done to that Jensen in a previous workshop, it gives a perfect picture of the difference between what you guys at Retro Power offer in the way of complete re engineering to give a perfect performance package balance to compliment a beautifully presented customisation job.
Personally I'm not much into "customisation" per se, but have grown to appreciate Retropower's "whole bespoke package" approach.
On other things, nice "cammo" shorts Marc, shame about the legs.
I appreciate your humourous perspective on the areas of work you're involved in, you're obviously very talented at whatever you do. Work isn't always serious!
All good. Are you doing 'RUclips subscriber evenings' at the new place? For a small amount of hard earned dosh, with a short talk and walk about, sell merch, Free coffee? Q and A, I'm in.
Hey you've got my stereo in your new facility.,😊
I really enjoy Marc's humourous updates. Brings some levity to the whole thing.
Aside- Retropower team: I think I know a thing or two about cars. And then I watch you folks and I realize how little I know. Every week I learn something new. Great videos 👌👌👌
Congrats! Looking forward to more amazing content!
Best wishes with your new venture guys, I'm sure it'll be a success for you! By the way that's the best description of how to practically resolve Ackerman issues that I've heard Cal 👍
Great episode as usual and hope Nat had a nice holiday with his family.I also hope Marc has a blast in Turkey and does not get over toasted in the 40 degree heat.Congratulations on the new venture and hope it's a fantastic success. I might have to visit from the USA.
I’ve known you two for many many years. It’s awesome to see where you started and the place you are in now. Well done lads. Phenomenal.
thanks Kev, means a lot!!
Hi Kev, I remember you visiting when we were in the midst of dragging an old prefab toilet block out with a telehandler to make space for our machine shop! Good few years back now!!
Would love a tour and see the work involved in building the stunning cars you and the team turn out
A brilliant addition to your business guys…..😊
Best wishes on the new ventures.
Hoping they are a great success!
Great to see you getting ahead of the game with your new facility. Thanks for the work you put into the channel
Fantastic new facility, is it close to the workshop? Richard is getting the work environment he needs. I bet he is over the moon!
Congrats on The Den!!
Another great episode! It's great to see you growing. The automotive world is the better for it.
Loving the new venture,good luck with it lads.
Incredible work guys! Well done
Nice concept & hopefully it pays off. Quite a bit of work but makes sense when you have a ready made client base.
That's great news guys, cannot wait to be able to come up & see you.
Abso freakin' lutely awesome! You had me at "putting some of the fun part back in"! Now it only has to pay the rent! Many happy returns!
Wow moving in the right direction, will be an awesome place when finished. Them Allegro cars
are going to be rapid when done.
Great to see you guys growing 👍🏻.. love the channel. Keep up the awsome work 👌
More XJC!! Live the work you are doing in these cars.
Awesome as Always Great Update Thankyou
Best of luck with the expansion fellas 👌🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😎
Great news regarding your growth plans (and also, when I heard the rumours that you’d actually signed up Adrian Newey to become Stu’s new protege I became very envious of Adrian! Ha ha! ) stay well lads! 😁
Onwards and upwards congratulations 🥂 going to look fantastic
Cal, as a previous employee at Piper cams I think your simple explanation of the pros and cons of valve overlap was excellent.
Great news about your new space ..If you require a DJ at your new event space at any time gimme a holla ;-) I play thru vintage suitcases converted into boomboxes 😊 luggage restomods u could say ;-)
Superb to see RetroPowerCars expanding with more feathers in their caps than a feathery thing wearing a feather cap!
Congratulations on the Growth 🎉👏
Cheers!! The new space is great and well needed! Albert Canada Cheers!
love the expansion !
It's your enthusiasm and the love of cars that shows here. Keep going forward chaps.
Congrats from Guadalajara Mexico...
Brilliant idea for the future and company 🎉🎉🎉🎉
perfect timing ....just got a whisky... 😅
Great stuff.
The new site is extremely exciting.
Very eager to see more developments on this especially the idea of meetings and tours.
Perhaps you could consider offering the photo booth for the public's cars?
Brilliant 👍
Great news
Wow the two channels that I follow in the car industry these guys Retropower and Reperformance both moving into new digs. Great to see both growing! Onwards and up!
That DEN is pretty intruiging... looking forward to what it will bring about
Onwards and upwards, I think it's a great idea, where you will hugely broaden your client base, from new interiors to smaller mechanical jobs etc. Good Luck!
I remember when 100 bhp/litre was Grand Prix territory.
It’s still a lot of power for a no turbo car. Even a two litre cossie only put out two hundred bhp with a turbo. BMW M TEC Engine is a two litre without a turbo and that puts out about the same as the cossie. Two hundred BHP In a light car is still going to be rapid
just one thing missing, garrard 405, shure v15 MK3, SME 3009, detachable headset of course just to compleate the set
Wow that’s going to be a must see looking forward to visiting new facility..absolutely fantastic have watched you guys since the start & to see how far you’ve come is truly amazing 👏👏
Fantastic news on the expansion of facilities it will make all the difference
I’m really hoping I can get up and visit you at some point when it is all up and running
Richard needs his own channel
YAY !!!
Good luck on the expansion. Great to see the business going from strength to strength. Im wondering how close the new bat cave is to the existing unit.... will we see Richard zinging between the two on a Segway with parts to trial fit??
Nice expansion. Suspect that it will grow much quicker than you anticipated...congrats on your success and your super RUclips stream to be able to watch..
Yes, about time you got some more space. I've been scratching my head for a few years wondering how (and why) you make such lovely stuff in a cow shed. Congrats on the Warfdales in Richard's workshop too, proper retro speakers will go well with leather and sewing machine oil.
*Wharfedales 😉
I love the work. The Murray escort is still my favourite build. The o the escorts are great as well but I like the Murray car because it looks like an original twin cam. I don’t think does ever done an escort with the bigger arches.
I meant to say I don’t think Ford ever did the escorts with the bigger arches
The amount of nous to spot all the tiny 'faults' with the front geometry on the Interceptor and then correct it. Amazeballs. 😮
I will have to mention your new space to the sevens club.
Every year we like to go somewhere different for seven celebration day we have done Bicester Heritage and cheddar gorge I think this could be ideal (just don’t look too closely at all of our shit boxes)
New premises is awesome.Love the videos 👍
When is the green datsun on the shelf getting started?
Don't understand why you want to raise the rear arches on the xjc imo they look perfect
Wicked.... well done guys
My thoughts and Reading about Ackerman angles are.
A straight line from the Steering arm Ball joint centre thru the bottom ball joint should for the perfect Ackerman angle should go thru the centre of the Axle Diff.
So any steering rack mounted forward of the crossmember will be harder to get the correct Ackerman Angle.
Hope you guys can confirm or Deny this.
Thanks Phill
Hope your expansion goes well. You've got good company with Ultimasports a few doors along. I thought I recognised the building style.😃
The air vents on the Interceptor are mainly central to the cabin area and I can’t see the ones that would blow warm air to demist the side windows?
That s a polish brand of tool nobisk!
It is quite normal to have slightly more caster on one side. Road cars use this to overcome the fact that roads aren’t flat, they are higher in the centre. We drive on one side of centre so the suspension geometry needs to correct this, otherwise the car tends to pull one way. Hope I’m not telling anyone how to suck eggs, just an observation. Cheers guys, love the channel 👍
Camber ?
Marc, on Kumurs bumpers, do you find it neck to apply a Matt clear coat over the Matt black base coat to make it more durable?
Find a catering supplier for your den. You don't want to waste skilled people on the numerous low-tech hassle of feeding people.
Also I've invented a bog on wheels .....
You should move your merchandise down to the new unit aswell
Very cool, great to see and Congratulations. The radiators are triggering the bejaysus out of me. iR panels and solar all over the roof will make it cheaper to run, cleaner, lower risk and lower maintenance. But the moneys spent now so too late!
Radiators are a hang over from when the building was constructed for its owner (and now our landlord) who had it built as a hosiery factory in the mid 1990’s.
The Den is cool, do you think you will ever start doing commission sales for example?
When you reskin one of those rusty 70’s doors, do you do anything more than OEM to prevent the seam from rusting out again? Seam sealer or zinc heavy coatings or??
Cal how far away from the workshop is the Den? Can you walk it drive it or what?
Man alive I would not like to have those overheads to pay for good luck in your new ventures
Consult your wedding planner now!
Did you enjoy your biscuits?
Yes!!! Sorry I missed you. Hugely appreciated!
What is the story with the green car in the loft?
What's going on with the Redux Restomod M3s?
Just wondering about the amplifier & tuner sitting on the drawers. Obviously old enough to be real. Are they Armstrong units??
How much(ish) does a project like Portofino cost?
Errr - you've allowed Nat to have a holiday, how are we ever going to manage?
that only means no going off on tangents making the video 20 mins shorter..... 🤣🤣🤣🤣
We all know who’s the brains of the operation 😂😂😂😂😂😂
like 65 !
Do you WAXOYL' OR ZEUBART it all as well? Sorry because I'm new to your channel I'm interested.... it's ironic that they've made cars pretty rust resistant these days but ...new cars are rubbish it's the old ones that are more deserving of rustproofedness...u agree 👍?
Get Nat's campervan in and have it LS swapped for reliability....oh, and a bit of speed.
lol! I’ve just got back to the land of mobile phone signal! The old girl does pretty well, an LS would be nice but I will keep that in my Range Rover (when I actually get it finished!) and stick with the merc diesel in the sprinter camper van. I’m usually held up by cars in it as it is 😂 could do with better brakes though to be honest!
@@RetropowerNat Ha! I've heard that the Sprinters are very good. I don't suppose you need speed on a holiday anyway. Hope you all had a great time.
Ha ha yess, if you can get the land and the building cheap, storing rich people's cars is an extraordinary way to make BANK.
I was quite glad (sorry Marc) when I heard that the 'Retropower Marc' channel had been stopped from diminishing the professional air that Cal and Nat convey for this awesome business. Disappointing that the same sort of content is still here on the main channel. As far as I can see, he's a great paint and body guy, as well as having many other talents around the shop, however, I just don't feel that representing your brand on such a public forum is one of them. Just my opinon though.
Opinions are like arse holes,everyone has one actually the only ones that matter are those of Cal &Nat,most of us would be obliged if you kept it that way.
110% - youre not the only one who feels that way.
Chastise someone for expressing themselves, by expressing yourself! Lol
There will definitely be a tension if they intend to become rather corporate and develop brand image, between that objective and the "laddish" interludes that will not really fit. People are so easily offended these days. I am sure they are smart enough to navigate this issue.
Well said!