http://www.youtube.com/user/CarsandCameras
My most recent kick has been this YouTube channel called Cars and Cameras. I’m pretty sure I stumbled upon this when I fell asleep with YouTube playing, and woke up an hour later down a rouge rabbit hole.
Like many of you, my automotive roots come from a childhood of power sports: go karts in particular. I was fascinated by the idea of a 4-wheeled vehicle made for a small human and the intentions of off-road adventure. My early childhood years of go kart shenanigans led to later childhood years of modifying go karts, which paved the path for my (toxic) automotive hobby in adulthood.
The basic premise of this YouTube channel doesn’t actually have anything to do with Cars or Cameras, it seems like. Instead, this channel focuses around John and Isaac, and their adventures building go karts and minibikes to levels that 14 year old versions of ourselves would never have been able to imagine. The one that really got me was the 900cc Ducati shifter cart build, appropriately named “Ducarti,” which is exactly as outrageous as it sounds. They do a lot of informative comparison videos, with their backyard loop as the testing ground. These guys use some quick tricks and quality parts, courtesy of a channel-sponsor, mixed with a little bit of backyard ingenuity, to show you all the things you wish you were able to pull off as a kid.
Will I ever buy a go kart or minibike as an adult? It’s unlikely, until I inevitably push that onto children someday. But you can bet your ass I’m subscribed to watching this channel of two grown men doing what I wish I had done!
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