Vanishing motoring YouTube channels

[93fxdl]

Personally i found youtube almost unwatchable with all the adverts and sponsor segments, now use the smart tube app cuts out 99% of the junk leaving just the content 

Current favourite channels 

Pole barn garage

Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels 

Junkyard digs

Diesel creek 

Ttfn Glenn 

[riek]

A recent favourite of mine is Bruce in Aus.

Aussie old boy starts various trucks and heavy plant found in the Australian bush for the first time in many years.

[warren t claim]

 

[GregZX]

I have to say Ben at Tasty Classics is putting out some good stuff recently. Hes now got over 100k subs and doing well with his merchandise. 
 

Not Economically Viable is decent too.  
 

ODFS has vanished again as has Pete C. 

[Split_Pin]

I've stopped watching most of the channels I'm currently subscribed to, I think I'm just losing interest. Quite a few of them were fun to watch at first but the content tends to be the same over time and I have got bored. It's probably me but I find a lot of the so-called popular presenters to be opinionated, inverse snobs, rude or boring. 

One channel I've kept dipping into is Steve's Place Down Under. An Australian chap with a large plot of land and an appreciable collection of mostly European lorries, rusting away. He always gets them started up and driving, putting them to a few hours work. He permanently has a beer in his hand too. What a life!

It's a shame that ODFS goes months, often a year with radio silence and then a flurry of updates in the space of a few weeks. He's editor of Truck and Driver and gets very busy though. I find his channel quite varied and although it's fully GM based, his fleet is still eclectic. Plus there's a part of him that's still living in the late 1990s/2000s modified car scene which I too participated in, most likely because I'm the same age!

I've not uploaded any tinkering videos for years as I've just not got the time. When carry out repairs or maintenance I want to get it done and not spend twice as long stopping and starting for the camera.

I'm always hoping to find my next rabbit hole each time I scroll but it's not happened in a few years now.

[dozeydustman]

I’ve noticed over the last couple of releases Techmoan is looking very unwell. I know he has health issues, which may explain his shorter format releases of late.

[cort16]

I see the guy who does demolition ranch (about guns but has car cross overs) and off the ranch, which was about him renovating a big holiday resort has quit youtube. He has about 17 million subscribers between the two channels.

He says he's going it as he's realised he's missing his family growing up  while he gets caught up in youtube stuff. I wonder how long until Vicegripgarage has his revelation. 

 

 

 

[davehedgehog31]

On 01/04/2025 at 07:13, Split_Pin said:

I've stopped watching most of the channels I'm currently subscribed to, I think I'm just losing interest. Quite a few of them were fun to watch at first but the content tends to be the same over time and I have got bored.

I'm kind of the same, it often ends up quantity over quality as they put stuff out to appease the algorithm and chase numbers rather than really wanting to make a video about something.

Not a criticism of the creators really, more YouTube as a platform.