The California Connection

17/11/2023

Hiya everyone, I just thought you might like to see a video of my 2018 C2C Express competition car. The beaten up old Ltd was transformed into its fake cab l...

20/06/2023

The Alfa Gt earns it's keep carting firewood around the farm, and gets sold on, and I buy the cheapest road legal running car I can find, but is it any good? And does anyone think it will become a classic?

it's a busy week as I work on the farm and have to press the alfa into service as a pick up truck, I blew the tyre on the C**t and have to get an immediate r...

14/06/2023

A Morris Marina film car? This particular car was owned by Shane meadows and then a film car company for the last 20 years, unfortunately its really gone down hill over the last few years or so!
I'm still in the uk, but I thought you guys might like to see some British classics while I'm here

this old morris has a glamorous past, owned by film director Shane meadows, it appeared as a background car in a host of British films, sadly very uncared fo...

12/06/2023

hi guys, so I injured my elbow this week and didn't video any new cars, or chase the Bentley, but I did manage to go through that Alfa I found in a castle, s...

04/06/2023

Check out this abandoned, rusty, vandalized Bentley T1 it's the one worst ones I've seen for a while

hi guys, today we take a quick look at the worst Bentley T1 I've ever seen, abandoned, vandalized, and rusty!!! also I take you for a spin on some very litt...

27/05/2023

Tommy Davies gives us a quick tour of his 1974 Jaguar Xj6 that he shipped to Amerca to compete in the 2019 C2C express.

20/05/2023

I'm back! Well kinda, since I'm in the uk for a while I thought I might buy the odd car or two, and hopefully show you some interesting places while I'm at it.
Let's start with an Alfa Romeo Gt I bought for a $100 in a castle!!

well I'm stuck in the uk for a while, what shall I do? buy junk cars, that's what! here's my first, a £100 Alfa Romeo Gt I found in a castle!!!

13/05/2023

Hi guys It's been a while but I thought it might be time to have a quick catch up post on the you tube channel. Sorry it's been a while but my mum died suddenly

Hi so sorry I've been away but my mum died suddenly and I'm back in wales handling her estate, this is her beloved car.

11/03/2023

It's time for a yard clean up!
I decided to get some of the long term residents out for a clean up and assessment.
The Volvo 164 came out not too bad, and it's about time I started to build one out of the 4 here, or maybe move a couple on.
The trans am really needs a new home.
I thought everyone would like a look at some fake patina applied for a film set car.
Also it was time for the Telstar to meet its maker!

it's been a busy week, so it's a very quick catch up of what's been going on! I drag out the volvo 164 and 3rd gen trans am, send the telstar for destruction...

05/03/2023

Awesome write up in NZV8 again this month, run out and buy a copy for car buying hints and tips, along with Trev Halsteads awesome Studebaker, a mind blowing monte custom and a wicked gt40 amongst others

25/02/2023

The trusty old Holden Hz Ute, the car that built Australasia! Tough, reliable and virtually indestructible, where have they all gone? Well sadly rust has claimed a lot of them, but the ones left are now well loved and sort after. This one sadly was driven to death and is wayyyyyy beyond restoration, it's a cool old car though, so take a tetanus shot and join me for a quick walkaround

I thought you would all like to see a rusty barnfind. the holden hq to wb series was one of Australasia's most favorite pick ups.good tough old workhorses, t...

20/02/2023

Ever wondered what it would be like to actually run the Smokey and the Bandit route?
I couldnt be there so Chace Ambrose our man on the scene gives us his report on the Southern Classic!
Let ne know what you think

Hi everyone, I thought we might try something a little different, unfortunately I couldn't make the Southern Classic this year, do our man on the scene Chace...

30/01/2023

OK guys here it is, the p76 in all its glory, it's kinda cool, definitely weird, probably siezed, what shall I do with it? Let me know on the channel. Hope you enjoy the video, it's probably the first time you have seen one of these?

I brave the terrible weather to go and pick up a 1970s Leyland p76 v8 barn find. what should I do with this thing? The P76 was a sales disaster, but a lot of...

16/01/2023

Robin bought his first car 35 years ago while in school, incredibly he still has it. heresca littlevtour of his 1960 vauxhall Victor F type.

07/12/2022

I'm I'm the big chair again!
If any of you guys would like to hear the vinwiki story on the actual car jump tune in and chill out for a little while, and we can have a little stotytime

Check out Gloss-It's best DIY Ceramic Coating offer EVER! https://vinwiki.com/r/glossit21Follow Ben at for more awesome content!VINwiki on...

29/11/2022

I was flying out of the USA back to New Zealand in the evening, it would be crazy to buy a car, and have to get it out of there before I flew out right? I kinda bought more than one!!! I hope you enjoy the video.
What would you have bought?

well it was my last day in the Usa, surely I didn't buy a heap of forgotten classic cars and have to get them pulled out of their resting place and shipped t...

24/11/2022

I thought you all might really enjoy a tour round the cars abandoned at this property in Barstow, there's cars for everyone here, French British American, Japanese even it's a really unusual assortment of cars that all belonged to the members of one family. There will be a part two to this soon.

wow what a hoard, forgotten classics sitting in Barstow, will I end up saving any of these abandoned projects?

17/11/2022

Hi everyone, I'm back in the hot seat again, hope you enjoy a little story about our trip up to Alaska!

Ben from Country Towing and Salvage shares one of the craziest road trip stories we have ever heard. They were road trip to Glacierview Alaska when a B...

15/11/2022

Here's a really odd one, are the 406 coupe a classic yet? Low production numbers, and I would think a pretty low survival rate? Certainly rare here in Nz and they drive fantastically, as long as your in a grand tourer car kind of mood.
This one's back on the road as Joe Borrell daily driver now and it's really doing well.
I really liked the shape, and the car.

I recently refurbished a long standing peugeot 406 coupe for Joe the fury owner. here's a quick look at it.

11/11/2022

http://thedukemitchell.uk/ for more weird videos plus strange film nights in London. VHS trailer for the 1980 comedy Used Cars, directed by Robert Zemeckis,...

08/11/2022

the legendary Travis Bell, owner of Celebrity machines, shows us around Brock Yates personal 1 of 1 stillen Chevy Shortbed Dually. how awesome!

01/11/2022

We stop off at the Cannonball garage to hang out with Arne and his record holding cars, also we got the chance to see a 650hp McLaren dyno run

27/10/2022

The one the only Ferris Buller's Ferrari, a tucker, and Edsel ( complete with scandal story!) And the original Bigfoot, man how can you not love Detroit!. I'm finally catching up with the footage from my American roadtrip!

some very very cool cars at the Henry Ford museum, and the original Bigfoot, Detroit is a great city!

16/10/2022

Pop rivets, plants,rust, terrible pick up conversion, this has it all

a quick walkaround of a very rough 56 plymouth we re assembled as a bit of artwork