Jaguar XK8 – Morning Mission : Moonraker

With only a morning to myself I took the Jaguar XK8 on a drive retracing part of James Bond’s journey from London to the Kent coast from the Moonraker novel. I had a great time trying to squeeze this into a morning so if you enjoyed the video let me know and I’ll try to do a few of these in the future! Route taken: – M25 westbound leave to join M26 and subsequently join M20 – Leave M20 junction 6 towards Maidstone on the A20 – Follow A20 out the other side of Maidstone towards Lenham and subsequently Charing – At Charing roundabout take the A252 towards Canterbury – At Chilham take A28 towards Canterbury – Upon entering Canterbury you hit the Wincheap roundabout, take a right to navigate around the city wall, then take a right at next roundabout to head away from Canterbury on the Old Dover Road towards the A2 – Stay on A2 all the way to Dover but taking a left towards Deal after the Premiere Inn and Shell Garage – Follow the Deal Road and take a best guess at where the Moonraker base should have been 🙂

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MGB Maintenance – Part 3 : 6000 Mile/6 Month Service

Part 3 of my MGB Maintenance videos, this time going through the 6000 mile or 6 month service. This is the interval advised by the ‘official’ drivers handbook but may not make sense to you based on how much you use your car, also, as cars get older there might be other things/other methods for addressing these services but this is as per the drivers handbook, feedback welcome!! Items covered: 0:05:04 – Gearbox oil level check 0:06:46 – Differential oil level check 0:11:02 – Engine oil and filter change 0:19:16 – Lubrication miscellaneous 0:21:10 – Greasing front suspension and driveshaft (spoiler my grease gun breaks and i can’t complete this!) 0:22:58 – Things I should have done but didn’t for whatever reason, hope to cover in future episodes!

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Lotus Esprit S2 – Restoration Plan

A quick update on how I plan to record the restoration of my Lotus Esprit S2. In order to try and keep the channel content somewhat consistent I won’t be doing a detailed restoration log on youtube but I do plan to produce more focused videos on different components of the car. This will be supplemented by a more detailed build log/diary recorded on this Google Sheets doc: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1VkO9wuWyH6OA5_PV5jnuyoBOZLLmCs1dE4TyUcg8BbU/edit?usp=sharing I suspect I’ll also do a build thread on the lotus forums which I’ll share in due course. The Lego Esprit I show at the end is being built using the instructions in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPayCzJ8FBY

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Jaguar XK8 – Tunnel Run

I take my Jaguar XK8 on a run through the Hindhead Tunnel (not sure why I screamed though)! The car has a modified exhaust (replaces the rear 4 silencers and over-axle section with straight through pipes) from Adamesh. I move on to a jaunt through the Surrey countryside back to my house as an excuse to use my drone, hope you enjoy! Apologies in advance for the ‘scream’ remix at the end, my friend was very proud of it for some reason…

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Lotus Esprit S2 – ‘Barn Find’ Walkaround

A closer look at my ‘barn find’ Lotus Esprit S2, a single-owner, 30k mile car recently recovered from over 20 years in storage. In this video I review the interior, bodywork and engine and what might have to be fixed…. spoiler alert… its everything! Hope you enjoy the video and any advice for jacking the car or where to start is greatly appreciated!!

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Jaguar XK8 – In Detail : Engine and Drivetrain

An ‘in detail’ video about the Jaguar XK8 engine and drivetrain. Focusing more on what to watch out for when buying and the sound of the engine rather than facts/figures as I think this is potentially more useful to a prospective buyer.

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Lotus Esprit S2 – New Project Car!

I’m super excited to reveal my new project car, a Lotus Esprit S2! This single owner 30k original mile car is in awful shape but hopefully I’ll be able to restore it to its former glory with a bit of luck and help from other YouTube channels such as ‘Soup Classic Motoring’ who are undergoing similar work albeit with better presentation and artistic flair than me 🤣🤣 I hope you like it and hopefully I’ll be able to bring you some interesting content during the restoration!

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Channel Update – 1K Subscribers! Plus Special Announcement!

Another channel update, this time a special one as we’ve hit one thousand subscribers, woohoo! Apologies for swinging on my chair in the video but I’m trying to contain my excitement as there is a special announcement to be revealed very soon. Also, a bit of highlight reel of my videos to date. On a serious note, thank you all so much for watching, commenting, liking and subscribing, I’m a car enthusiast and this is my hobby, I’m not a natural presenter but I really enjoy making these videos and the response from people is my motivation to put more content out there for people to share in my passion. Sincere thanks, Mark

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MGB GT – In Detail : Interior

Another MGB GT ‘In Detail’ video this time having a look at the interior of the MGB and describing some of the quirks and features. There were numerous changes over the years so I’m interested to hear what differences there are between mine and later models so let me know in the comments!

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MGB Maintenance – Part 2 : 3000 Mile/3 Month Service

Part 2 of my MGB Maintenance videos, this time going through the 3000 mile or 3 month inspection/service. This is the suggested service according to the official drivers handbook, there may be better ways of doing these service items or additional checks you might want to do but I’m just going by the manual. Also, do this maintenance at your own risk, if you’re not confident then please seek a mechanic but if you’re reasonably happy with doing this kind of job it can save hundreds of pounds by doing it yourself!

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