1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die

Autoblog's 1001 Car Things To Do Before You Die Video Broadcasts: Bring on Crazy, Wild, and Free

Video Blog Hosts: Jesse & Patrick
Jesse is a diehard roadstar who likes to take the wheel and show the automotive world that cars are definitely a chick magnet, but for other reasons! She has starred in Mythbusters, Xtreme 4X4, and All Girls Garage. Follow her on www.jessecombs.com
Patrick is best known for his work on Mission Improvable. He has a long stated career in automechanics, and with Jesse, they have come up with the best and most adventurous list for automotive journeys and entertainment.

My favorites on the list include:
#0555 Drive A Monster Truck
#0147 Escape A Car Underwater
#0071 Compete in a Demolition Derby
#0011 Drive to the Arctic Circle
#0035 Drive the German Autobahn

Watch on: http://www.autoblog.com/the-list/#sn-//the-list/page/2/

How to Broadcasting

I call this Lego-chanic work.

Howcast.com is pretty much what it states-a video uploading site that explains everything thing from How to Diagnose Problems in your vehicle, to how to purchase the right vehicle. It's a great site to not only help your customers, but to also can help refresh your auto shop's systematic ways of checking and problem solving vehicles.

Check out this video cast here:http://www.howcast.com/videos/10736-How-to-Diagnose-Problems-with-Your-Car#

I Love Scott

Ahhh Scott. If this was me I would have many name tags from my many places of employment, mostly waitressing, but sure is useful for the once a mechanic, always a mechanic kind of person.

Photograph by: http://www.anthonygeorgis.com/levis/

Monday's Site Upload: Hooniverse

http://hooniverse.com

Hooniverse devotes its web space to all things with wheels and an engine, including forums, projects, merch, car uploading sites, blog posts, road test reviews, and auto industry news. Forums discuss topics such as cars available for sale, car updates and modifications, how-to help for the DIY mechanic, and simple voices from automechanics and like-minded enthusiasts. I immediately fell in love with this post: why don't they make these kind of cars anymore?? I'd take one any day!!

"When you think 1963 International Harvester Travelall, you usually think rusted, clapped-out raccoon sex dungeon on the back 40 of some farm in Iowa. Today’s example is no such hulk. This one’s been completely gone through and received a collection of new parts including paint, tires, a carb rebuild, battery and other details. There are basket cases, there are cars with what seems like a bunch stuff added, and there are cars cleaned up correctly. This one’s the latter.

With a 266ci V8 and 4 speed manual, it won’t win any races, but it will tow a small boat or sports car of similar vintage. It’s only two wheel drive, but let’s be honest: you’re not going to do any serious offroading or snow duty in a classic like this. Besides, the tires are 33″ BFG All-Terrains that offer enough clearance and traction should things get interesting. If you really wanted to, you could convert it to 4wd for less money and effort than it would take to bring a typical 4wd example up to this condition."

Check out more amazing vehicles and voices from the mechanics at hooniverse.com!!!!

Mondays are Painful, Watch a Video

Robinson's Auto Repair Video Blog:

 How-To Guide to Auto Repair on Youtube

I have a few friends that go by simple Youtube videos to work on their cars or to vamp up their motorcycles, and they often find it super helpful especially when dealing with custom work. There are many Automotive Repair Video Blogs around, such as Robinson's Auto Repair, to help those who have DIY home projects or for those faced with an ugly, unusual situation. Also interesting to see how others fix similar problems. My friend built a simple 1980 Yamaha 450 cc into a low rider simply by following Youtube! Thought it was incredible. Having medal welding supplies was a plus for him as well, but probably couldn't have done it without handy helpful videos.