Ivan, with all those plans for these future projects, seems like there's no stopping you. Just gives me so much hope for my "old age", (I'm 75 next year), I'm going to start saying, " when I'm old" I'll do so, and so. Great stuff, thanks for such a wonderful Shed Racing, Suzie, Ivan and John, (wizard craftsman).
Thank you for the update from the Shed Racing Team! Ivan is spot on regarding his comments about early days racing in the States. There was much more of a grassroots presence represented in the classes. When my grandfather raced in the early days of the Hochkraeusen team, (1920's,- 1930's), there were many unlimited, (later outlaw) classes for the hillclimbs. It was often very difficult to keep spectators off the course, no money, (Great Depression), no crash helmets, an occasional pyrene fire extinguisher, many wrecks, concussions and broken bones. Many of the cars were jetted for methanol and the racers were fueled by ethanol.
You have to admit....Shed Racing, like Christmas, is now a celebration of all that is good. Thank you all from, i think, all of your fans for fantastic content, filming, trouble shooting, and mind blowing historical events and insights. Just my favourite channel.
Good Afternoon and thank You Ivan Suzie and John, for the many hours of skillful engineering entertainment. I along with many others, look forward to 2025 . Kind regards from WLG - NZL
Merry Xmas from Christchurch NZ to the whole team, thank you so much for my shirt which arrived in time for me to wear on Xmas day. The shirt is great and got lots of comments. I think you will enjoy your trip to NZ. Keep up the great videos too.
I went and poured myself a glass of wine, settled in to watch Shed Racing and you were gone!! You old scoundrel, still courting controversy. Don't ever change Ivan! Merry Christmas to all of the gang.
Merry Christmas to Susie, John, and Ivan plus all of your families! Getting your Race license again is the great thing to have at this part of you life! A Merry Christmas to all of "Shed Racing: fan Club !! We here in Alberta Canada wish all of you a great life! Cheers!
It wasn't all that long ago I remember the outcry of the censorship boards and were dismantled, or rethought their restrictions and everything was on show. Now it's all back. Thanks for everything put on your channel, It's way better than TV.
Thank you for making 2024 so special...Fantastic videos and content, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and a safe ,Healthy New Year.. looking forward to 2025..
Seeing the opening scene with ivan in the chair and a cosy fireplace... i thought he would pick up a book and start reading a Christmas story 🤣🤣.... About a orphan mechanic who is sad on lonely on Christmas Day.... and is forced by his evil boss to work on Christmas eve in a cold and miserable garage...😢 🤣🤣....
Alastair Sim on Christmas Eve, Ivan Dutton on Christmas Day, what a great world we live in! Lovely Christmas episode, great progress on the Midget and congratulations for your upcoming racing license renewal. Wishing you all great sucesses in the New Year filled with Health, Happiness and Prosperity. Cheers, Paul.🤓
You would love New Zealand, there's a very cool car culture here, although I can't talk about the really old stuff as havn't had a lot to do with them, and the weather would be a great improvement on the UK. Hope we see the pair of you one of these days.
Very interesting video for projects of the future. Merry Christmas to all of you. I wish I could come visit you. It is a very long distance. Susie -- your videos and questions are outstanding. You have raised the quality of the videos so much.
I was also one of the fortunate 300 this morning. I find it odd that pictures I enjoyed as a pubescent teenager in NatGeo are now banned online. lol. I think I'd be grinning too if I were Jerry. ! Thanks again All the best. Cheers
Missed v1 🤬. Never mind still one of my absolutely favourite channels. Thanks for all the entertainment and knowledge freely given. Some merch to buy in the new year then. Have a great and prosperous 2025, all of you.
Ivan and Sussie.....Seasons greetings and very best wishes for new year....videos are best on u tube and u are an inspiration and make me laugh so much! Also delighted u like Bondaprimer... best stuff available
I had to laugh when I saw there was a "version 2" as I knew exactly what happened! I saw the original version and I'm not complaining! Merry Christmas to Ivan, Susie, and John. Thanks for all the entertaining videos this year. I'm looking forward to many more.
Greeting Ivan from New Zealand. Alison used to stay with me a few times in Timaru when she first came here, she based herself in Fairlie with a vintage car club member whose name escapes me. I think from the Sunbeam association. Then she moved to Dunedin and worked on the sight seeing cruise in the harbour there, 1989? I rode a BMW R80 and she brought her Black R80 with her from UK.That was written off on the road/rail bridge near Greymouth. I think she moved up to the North Island to Raglan, near Hamilton. I last saw her at the 2007 Burt Munro Motorcycle rally in Invercargill she was then based in Picton. She did give me address and a phone number. She was involved in the Vintage Car Club there of course, with a Ford Model A from memory. I shall do some work at tracking her down. and let you know if I find anything. An Awesome lady, couple years older than me I am 70 next year. Fond memories of riding with her, for a small lady she had a huge personality. I've been enjoying all you antics for a couple of years. Best wishes for next year. Andrew.
Hi Suzi & Ivan this time of year is the best to come to NZ . Heaps of Motor Sport, make sure you bring a good hat for the old fella 😂 .A pity you didn't come this year as it's the last year for Western Springs Speedway after 100 odd years ( sad really) .Hope to see you next year .
Ivan, I would suggest going to East Coast Castings Ltd and have them cast the new crank in steel. They often do parts for Bugatti and Aston Martin engines so they have experience with automotive castings.
Ivan (and Susie), love your videos, They are always interesting. So glad to hear you are coming over to New Zealand. Do hope you are visiting Christchurch (the classic car capital of NZ and foundation place of the Vintage Car Club of new Zealand} Auto Restorations here in Christchurch is a world renown company well worth a visit. Two speedways and a really good racing circuit too right on the edge of the city. All this and a variety of fantastic drivers roads all relatively unpopulated........
New Zealand, great I'm in whangarei, there's a great Packard museum close by , Graham Craw ( spelling ?)had one of the largest collections of mechanical stuff in the world, everything from antique canons to V12 merlin engines, cars , tin plate toys ,railway, huge machines , I bought an Austin A90 Atlantic from him as he had Chrysler Airflow & Desoto Airflow cars .his interest was wildly eclectic. His son now cares for a small selection compared. Plus our local stationary engine & vintage car clubs are all 5 minutes from my house . Hope to see you here . When are you coming? Marcus
I can imagine that the 2 lever mechanism of the clutch the small lever should have a slotted hole vertically. Because the 2 follow/ have a different radius .... It doesn't have to be large slotted hole... but just enough to precisely a bend pin that links the 2 arms...
I was one of the "lucky three hundred" This morning. Love all the projects, and so many more to come!! One of the best channels on RUclips, and if you do T shirts again next year, I will definitely have one. Merry Christmas Ivan, Susie and John.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year to All of your fabulous crew stay safe and well. I never miss a vlog love it all. Eddy Smith 40 S of Vegas . i was known as EDDY 70 at Newton Abbot race track in the the late Sixties and early Seventies
Another option to make a counterbalanced crankshaft is to weld weights to the existing steel crank. Used to be common with high performance air cooled VW stuff, as the stock crank is not counterbalanced and the engine will rapidly pound out the center main and it's seat in the case when spun faster than 5000 or so. That said I suspect you're right that today's steel castings can probably give something plenty good enough.
Ivan funny you talk about Gerry Marshall and the funny things he used to do . My oldest brother who was a very well known race engineer in the UK & F1 . Told me a story about Gerry & Tom Wheatcroft flashing each other in the Castrel motor home to see who had got the bigger balls . With Wheatcroft declaring him self the winner as he had taken more risks in life 😂
Haha! I saw the original! My goodness there are some thin skinned people out there. Okay that it was a bit Benny Hill, but I remember laughing at that back in the day! I also am somewhat out of our time, but we live and learn. Too many Puritans nowadays! When I saw version 2 it did not strike me that version 1 would get a ban. Best wishes from George
I have only recently framed some petrol coupons from,1956 that belonged to Father with the Registration Number of his Vauxhall 25. Interesting to see yours as well.
The welding looks similar to what I saw an acquaintance do . He was an accountant that had some vintage motorcycles. he was too cheap to buy gas for his MIG welder and welded without gas using non flux cored wire. He only had around ten million dollars in his bank account , poor old sod.
Merry Christmas Ivan Susie and John, I know a guy who lives in California now, had quite a few type 35 Bugatti,s in the 1960,s an 1970,s including the Kay Petra brooklands record holder if I’m remembering that all correctly, he shared a wkshop with a few old boys who where in to Bentley an lagondas an invictas an from their lead he always painted his chassis grey as they knew if it splits or cracks you can see the rust traces bleeding down the chassis rails, he told me stories of going to scrap yards to rescue wheels of type 43,s before the cars got buried. Crazy days. We will have to do something about the future of cars an our use of them I’ll write to you in the new year as they’re bringing things forward on the back of bad science etc an it’s down to the passionate enthusiasts to equip themselves with the correct knowledge to counter this, an keep on motoring. Cheers
To get positive leverage, the pin between the arms would need to be above the pedal pivot, but that would be awkward to fabricate. Weld arms at about 10 o'clock to pedal and clutch lever and put a link between them, adjusting radius on each arm to get desired leverage.
Saw onky slightly more than what Sabrina Carpenter does So the difference is a still not ok but full on live juno poses while singing in see through stuff is ok:)
I love how the poster of Gerry and "the birds" snuck in there at the end...👏😎😆😆😆
And YT wouldn't allow that? Too sexy? Too sexist? Too pathetic.
Ivan, with all those plans for these future projects, seems like there's no stopping you. Just gives me so much hope for my "old age", (I'm 75 next year), I'm going to start saying, " when I'm old" I'll do so, and so. Great stuff, thanks for such a wonderful Shed Racing, Suzie, Ivan and John, (wizard craftsman).
Merry Christmas Ivan, Susie & John. We look forward to having you visit us in New Zealand soon. 😊
Merry Christmas to all at Shed racing and looking forward to seeing more in 2025
Seeing more what?
Thank you for the update from the Shed Racing Team! Ivan is spot on regarding his comments about early days racing in the States. There was much more of a grassroots presence represented in the classes. When my grandfather raced in the early days of the Hochkraeusen team, (1920's,- 1930's), there were many unlimited, (later outlaw) classes for the hillclimbs. It was often very difficult to keep spectators off the course, no money, (Great Depression), no crash helmets, an occasional pyrene fire extinguisher, many wrecks, concussions and broken bones. Many of the cars were jetted for methanol and the racers were fueled by ethanol.
You have to admit....Shed Racing, like Christmas, is now a celebration of all that is good. Thank you all from, i think, all of your fans for fantastic content, filming, trouble shooting, and mind blowing historical events and insights. Just my favourite channel.
Have a happy Christmas and a Merry New Year, Ivan, John and Suzy! I look forward to your adventures in 2025.
Good Afternoon and thank You Ivan Suzie and John, for the many hours of skillful engineering entertainment. I along with many others, look forward to 2025 . Kind regards from WLG - NZL
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all at Shed Racing keep up the good work 👍
Top shelf as always. Great appreciation for having us.
Peace, purpose, and pleasure to you & yours.
Merry Xmas from Christchurch NZ to the whole team, thank you so much for my shirt which arrived in time for me to wear on Xmas day. The shirt is great and got lots of comments. I think you will enjoy your trip to NZ. Keep up the great videos too.
I went and poured myself a glass of wine, settled in to watch Shed Racing and you were gone!! You old scoundrel, still courting controversy. Don't ever change Ivan! Merry Christmas to all of the gang.
Merry Christmas to Susie, John, and Ivan plus all of your families! Getting your Race license again is the great thing to have at this part of you life! A Merry Christmas to all of "Shed Racing: fan Club !! We here in Alberta Canada wish all of you a great life! Cheers!
Brilliant Ivan, have a fabulous 2025.
Happy Christmas, Ivan, John and Suzie and thanks for all the superb videos in 2024. Here's to 2025
Merry Christmas Ivan ,Susie and John .You will be surprised what the Kiwis get up to and for a Small Country has a Rich Motorsport History
What a Legend John is ! Great work guys Merry Christmas from Australia. Cheers
It wasn't all that long ago I remember the outcry of the censorship boards and were dismantled, or rethought their restrictions and everything was on show. Now it's all back. Thanks for everything put on your channel, It's way better than TV.
Merry Christmas to all, you are a legend, bless you all 🎉🎉
Best Wishes to you all in the shed. I'm looking forward to your adventures in the New Year.
All the best from the mainland part of New Zealand and have a great new year
Thank you for making 2024 so special...Fantastic videos and content, Wishing you a very happy Christmas and a safe ,Healthy New Year.. looking forward to 2025..
Seeing the opening scene with ivan in the chair and a cosy fireplace... i thought he would pick up a book and start reading a Christmas story 🤣🤣....
About a orphan mechanic who is sad on lonely on Christmas Day.... and is forced by his evil boss to work on Christmas eve in a cold and miserable garage...😢
🤣🤣....
Best wishes from Washington state to Ivan, Susie and John, merry Christmas, and happy new year. Y’all are the best👏
1.38 Love the three mallards in flight on the wall. When I was a kid in the sixties we all had these. Oh, and a portrait of a green lady. LOL
Alastair Sim on Christmas Eve, Ivan Dutton on Christmas Day, what a great world we live in! Lovely Christmas episode, great progress on the Midget and congratulations for your upcoming racing license renewal. Wishing you all great sucesses in the New Year filled with Health, Happiness and Prosperity. Cheers, Paul.🤓
Here Mai, Nau Mai. Welcome to Aotearoa/New Zealand Ivan and crew. Justsaying
Wishing you ALL a very happy Christmas and a great 2025 live forever Ivan John and Susie
All the best 🎉🎉 Merry Christmas happy new year
Merry Christmas to Susie, John, and Ivan!!! 😀
Merry Christmas and thanks for all the videos you have made. May 2025 be another great year for Shed Racing
You would love New Zealand, there's a very cool car culture here, although I can't talk about the really old stuff as havn't had a lot to do with them, and the weather would be a great improvement on the UK. Hope we see the pair of you one of these days.
Must have been tough to match the welds to the originals :) Those looked like hell but obviously most of them have held up just fine.
Happy Christmas to you all.
Merry Christmas Ivan, Suzie, John and Tim. Let's hope you have a great time with Suzie in New Zealand!
Very interesting video for projects of the future. Merry Christmas to all of you. I wish I could come visit you. It is a very long distance. Susie -- your videos and questions are outstanding. You have raised the quality of the videos so much.
Merry Christmas, Happy Boxing Day to all! Great work on the frame will be looking into the primer.
(The poster was fantastic, all that was sent btw)
Merry Christmas to Susie, John, and Ivan happy new-year to you all,,
I was also one of the fortunate 300 this morning. I find it odd that pictures I enjoyed as a pubescent teenager in NatGeo are now banned online. lol. I think I'd be grinning too if I were Jerry. ! Thanks again All the best. Cheers
Saw it all too
With the Unsecured Bosoms:)
Thank you Shed Racing, Suzy, John and Ivan for a wonderful year of videos.
Merry Christmas and a very healthy New Year.
Cheers 🥂
Seeing the uncensored Shed Racing video puts me in an elite group....Happy Xmas all
Missed v1 🤬. Never mind still one of my absolutely favourite channels. Thanks for all the entertainment and knowledge freely given. Some merch to buy in the new year then. Have a great and prosperous 2025, all of you.
Ivan and Sussie.....Seasons greetings and very best wishes for new year....videos are best on u tube and u are an inspiration and make me laugh so much! Also delighted u like Bondaprimer... best stuff available
A must do for you in New Zealand is to visit Southwards Motor Museum , with is just north of Wellington
I had to laugh when I saw there was a "version 2" as I knew exactly what happened! I saw the original version and I'm not complaining! Merry Christmas to Ivan, Susie, and John. Thanks for all the entertaining videos this year. I'm looking forward to many more.
Merry Christmas to one of my favorite RUclipsr shows. Cheers from across the pond in Texas.
Merry Christmas Ivan,Susie, John, Tim, Jane and everyone else.
thanks Ivan John Suzie!
It's a good day when Shed Racing puts out a new video.😁😁😁😁
Merry Christmas from old New Orleans 😇
Greeting Ivan from New Zealand. Alison used to stay with me a few times in Timaru when she first came here, she based herself in Fairlie with a vintage car club member whose name escapes me. I think from the Sunbeam association. Then she moved to Dunedin and worked on the sight seeing cruise in the harbour there, 1989? I rode a BMW R80 and she brought her Black R80 with her from UK.That was written off on the road/rail bridge near Greymouth. I think she moved up to the North Island to Raglan, near Hamilton. I last saw her at the 2007 Burt Munro Motorcycle rally in Invercargill she was then based in Picton. She did give me address and a phone number. She was involved in the Vintage Car Club there of course, with a Ford Model A from memory. I shall do some work at tracking her down. and let you know if I find anything. An Awesome lady, couple years older than me I am 70 next year. Fond memories of riding with her, for a small lady she had a huge personality. I've been enjoying all you antics for a couple of years. Best wishes for next year. Andrew.
Thanks, any assistance would be really welcome
Hi Suzi & Ivan this time of year is the best to come to NZ . Heaps of Motor Sport, make sure you bring a good hat for the old fella 😂 .A pity you didn't come this year as it's the last year for Western Springs Speedway after 100 odd years ( sad really) .Hope to see you next year .
Ivan, I would suggest going to East Coast Castings Ltd and have them cast the new crank in steel. They often do parts for Bugatti and Aston Martin engines so they have experience with automotive castings.
Happy Christmas, thanks for all the great videos. Looking forward to watching your exploits in 2025.
Ivan (and Susie), love your videos, They are always interesting. So glad to hear you are coming over to New Zealand. Do hope you are visiting Christchurch (the classic car capital of NZ and foundation place of the Vintage Car Club of new Zealand} Auto Restorations here in Christchurch is a world renown company well worth a visit. Two speedways and a really good racing circuit too right on the edge of the city. All this and a variety of fantastic drivers roads all relatively unpopulated........
yes we've had an email exchange with George at Auto Restorations - aware he will be over in Paris for Retromobile early Feb
Bloody brilliant👌
🤣Suzie was right, you did get cancelled. I bet Julian will have a laugh. Merry Christmas
Thanks Ivan and Susan, merry cristmas!!
New Zealand, great I'm in whangarei, there's a great Packard museum close by , Graham Craw ( spelling ?)had one of the largest collections of mechanical stuff in the world, everything from antique canons to V12 merlin engines, cars , tin plate toys ,railway, huge machines , I bought an Austin A90 Atlantic from him as he had Chrysler Airflow & Desoto Airflow cars .his interest was wildly eclectic.
His son now cares for a small selection compared.
Plus our local stationary engine & vintage car clubs are all 5 minutes from my house .
Hope to see you here .
When are you coming?
Marcus
Merry Christmas Suzie, Merry Christmas Ivan, Merry Christmas John.
I think Dutton Grey would be a good t shirt colour, maybe other merchandise too! Seasons greetings from Melbourne Aus./
As the Hall & Scott crank only runs slowly, why not make up some bolt on counterweights?
I have seen that on a diesel crank.
Merry Christmas !!!!!
Gawd! Now I've got to hunt down the banned version...😂😂
Google: “gerry marshall macus t ward” To see his smirk face😊
I can imagine that the 2 lever mechanism of the clutch the small lever should have a slotted hole vertically.
Because the 2 follow/ have a different radius ....
It doesn't have to be large slotted hole... but just enough to precisely a bend pin that links the 2 arms...
I was one of the "lucky three hundred" This morning. Love all the projects, and so many more to come!! One of the best channels on RUclips, and if you do T shirts again next year, I will definitely have one. Merry Christmas Ivan, Susie and John.
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all. Looking healthier, chirpier and more lucid than I've ever seen you Ivan. Being sick must have done you some good.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new Year to All of your fabulous crew stay safe and well. I never miss a vlog love it all. Eddy Smith 40 S of Vegas . i was known as EDDY 70 at Newton Abbot race track in the the late Sixties and early Seventies
A very merry Christmas to you and your followers thank you for the fun this year.
Another option to make a counterbalanced crankshaft is to weld weights to the existing steel crank. Used to be common with high performance air cooled VW stuff, as the stock crank is not counterbalanced and the engine will rapidly pound out the center main and it's seat in the case when spun faster than 5000 or so. That said I suspect you're right that today's steel castings can probably give something plenty good enough.
Ivan funny you talk about Gerry Marshall and the funny things he used to do . My oldest brother who was a very well known race engineer in the UK & F1 . Told me a story about Gerry & Tom Wheatcroft flashing each other in the Castrel motor home to see who had got the bigger balls . With Wheatcroft declaring him self the winner as he had taken more risks in life 😂
Haha! I saw the original!
My goodness there are some thin skinned people out there. Okay that it was a bit Benny Hill, but I remember laughing at that back in the day!
I also am somewhat out of our time, but we live and learn. Too many Puritans nowadays!
When I saw version 2 it did not strike me that version 1 would get a ban.
Best wishes from George
Merry Christmas, be safe, and you are an inspiration!
Mweey Christmas guys. Looking forward to seeing your New Zealand adventure.
I have only recently framed some petrol coupons from,1956 that belonged to Father with the Registration Number of his Vauxhall 25. Interesting to see yours as well.
Merry Christmas! Ivan,Suzie,John and Tim!!
Merry Christmas Ivan, family and friends 🎉
Xmas treat cheers all merry Xmas all at shed racing
The welding looks similar to what I saw an acquaintance do .
He was an accountant that had some vintage motorcycles. he was too cheap to buy gas for his MIG welder and welded without gas using non flux cored wire.
He only had around ten million dollars in his bank account , poor old sod.
Casting a crank from steel like Scat did. It's awesome I believe. Nearly as strong as a forging.
A crank can be cast in Spheroidal Graphite Iron (SG) a totally different alloy to Grey Iron. Or of course, steel.
I spent seven years machining one off and specialist crankshafts.
Merry Christmas Ivan Susie and John, I know a guy who lives in California now, had quite a few type 35 Bugatti,s in the 1960,s an 1970,s including the Kay Petra brooklands record holder if I’m remembering that all correctly, he shared a wkshop with a few old boys who where in to Bentley an lagondas an invictas an from their lead he always painted his chassis grey as they knew if it splits or cracks you can see the rust traces bleeding down the chassis rails, he told me stories of going to scrap yards to rescue wheels of type 43,s before the cars got buried. Crazy days.
We will have to do something about the future of cars an our use of them I’ll write to you in the new year as they’re bringing things forward on the back of bad science etc an it’s down to the passionate enthusiasts to equip themselves with the correct knowledge to counter this, an keep on motoring.
Cheers
Ivan, King Charles should Knight you. You are a national treasure.
That not getting carried away approach doesn't last long when the helmet goes on.
r u sure you levering the clutch down & not up Ivan ?
If you put the top pin on an eccentric you would gain some more adjustability of the clutch pedal! Nice design for leverage!
Saw the calendar. Gerry Marshall was in it?
I saw the first video cheers ivan
Too late I saw it!
Me too
I saw it. I loved the smirk on Gerry's face. Priceless! 😁
I saw it too, and two or more pairs :)
Baby Bertha is still raced in the CSCC Modsports series
Merry Christmas Ivan, Susie, and John.
On the Hall Scott crankshaft, why not weld on counterweights.
Its so funny how things have changed over the years a picture like that is nothing nowadays
Best wishes to the team ❤.
I have a feeling that your clutch gearing is the wrong way around and you will need to redo it.
To get positive leverage, the pin between the arms would need to be above the pedal pivot, but that would be awkward to fabricate. Weld arms at about 10 o'clock to pedal and clutch lever and put a link between them, adjusting radius on each arm to get desired leverage.
Could you smooth-out the Hall & Scott crank with a crank-damper instead of casting a new unit???
I loved watching Gerry thundering round caravan corner at Ingliston around 1971/2.Was it a V8 firenza or magnum he drove?
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Saw onky slightly more than what Sabrina Carpenter does
So the difference is a still not ok but full on live juno poses while singing in see through stuff is ok:)
I already saw the whole first one
And i saw some snap on calendar girl's but with….
Unsecured Bosoms
And fling and in:)
can't believe we got told off on Christmas day - fortunately I was with Suzie and she could fix it asap
bit ridiculous