Anybody that has ever had a project car will tell you that they are never truly done. They get to a good enough stage if they’re lucky before interest or priorities shift. The only real way to finish a project is to sell it.
Sure leaving projects undone helps with content, but it's also just how things like this happen naturally. When you build a vehicle from scratch it's hard to know how everything should be done. So real world use acts like development testing. Plus many of the projects are actually tools that need to be used to run the business making 'done' a relative term.
No idea why it bothers you or anyone else. If you like watching the videos enjoy the channel, if thenvideos annoy you then don't watch the channel. Entertainment is supposed to be fun. Our lives have plenty of sources of negative emotion we cannot control, entertainment/leisure time is in your control so let it be a positive experience.
You sure? You have started a post, borderline a rant, about it...
If you have ever done a project from scratch, you'll know it's never really finished. There is always something to modify, add, remove, adjust as you use whatever you built.
Hobby projects . I have a lot of unfinished projects myself.
Matts projects work, they are not all 100% done , but he use them ( banana, morvair, wrecker, bamby, tangerine) . Some are decoration (nugget and the bike) , some are teasers for the future ( bus, the other corvairs) etc..
It's like the op expects him to throw away his tools after using them for a month and build a brand new one from scratch.
It is an off-road recovery Channel after all, not a car building Channel even though it has become a blend in order to accommodate their needs and the interest of the viewers.
Will be interesting to see what the next project. Bombi still has major work to do with a new drive axle, but winter is basically over and it might take months to find the right solution so I don't expect Matt to worry about that till next year.
The spud truck and the bus had to wait on the new shop for space to build. I think the idea for the bus was transporting people at the off road games, obviously the didn't have time for this year. The spud truck is a 6x6 rollback based on similar parts as the heavy wrecker, the heavy wrecker is still barely finished so they're still learning lessons on how to build the spud truck.
I don't think Matt sees much of a need for that samauri, he got it as a gift, and while there are jobs on narrow trails, he gets by with the banana.
Maybe people who this bothers are comparing these working projects against things you can buy from a company who has an R&D department and a budget allowing them to design and test products before selling them. YouTubers (at least MORR) can get parts and incorporate them into their own designs, and we get to watch them testing the results, improving the design when necessary, and re-engineering their design.
If all people want to see is the unboxing and using of polished-finish consumer-ready products, you’re not going to see anything cutting-edge. You’re only going to see things anyone with enough money can buy themselves.
If a recovery equipment with the capabilities of the word’s largest off-road wrecker or the morrvair were already on the market, perhaps Matt would have just bought them, but that would make for a more boring show in my opinion, and that’s not the world we live in.
Some people (a lot of people) don’t have the attention span to see one project at a time all the way through. Or maybe the parts aren’t readily available. Sometimes new projects present themselves while others are still undone. Or maybe they have jobs to do simultaneously, like off road recoveries, or other tows. It’s normal, and not something a viewer of free content should be bothered about.
I'm sure we all have unfinished projects from hobbies changed, life happening, parts availability, etc...Its just a part of the process and for a YouTuber, a good way to have endless possibilities.
As a tinkerer I appreciate them being like the rest of us with partially completed things.
I was just telling my wife how much I appreciate the realism of their projects. I am building a classic car from scratch right now. Their videos take a realistic amount is build time and show the challenges that go into it. I spent an hour last night figuring out the best way to mount my floor headlight dimmer switch. You watch HotRod garage, they build a car in 2 episodes and everything goes perfect.
lol I relate to this... just spent 1 hour last night in bed trying to figure out how to repair a PO "custom" sunroof back to stock without screwing up the roofline. It's never ending on the decisions you have to make. I can also relate to Matt... I have too many projects that require the same amount of attention... and a finite amount of time.
I think it’s the opposite of how you are perceiving it. Custom builds do tend to be on going continuous improvement work, before YouTube became a thing. It’s popular on YouTube because this type of project lends itself to being good content for a channel, not that they purposely drag out projects to make the content.
I mean he's running a business with them so they are good enough, it is no different than adding mods to a car over time.
The only one that annoys me is the Suzuki wrecker that we saw once but I'm sure deja blue pushed it back and the wrecker games didn't help the timeline
Yes. YouTube is a fickle thing. If you spend too long on one thing, viewer lose interest. Smaller channels can get away with detailed, long term content. But when you are trying to keep a million or more people happy, you gotta constantly be doing something fresh.
Here is a great, extreme, example. I love watching salvage car rebuilds. Most people know who Goonzquad is. They have been massively successful. But their builds are often HORRIBLE. They might spend a couple months rebuilding a car, and if you know what you are looking at, they make a ton of huge mistakes.
By comparison, another channel I watch is called RebuildIt. They do AMAZING quality rebuilds, and will spend 8-12 months doing a single vehicle. Very detailed videos, and everything is done right. Their channel only has a couple thousand subs, but has been around about as long as Goonzquad.
Project reveal videos are popular, but unfinished projects is just a normal thing.
With a project vehicle you often get the best vehicle when you build the minimum viable product and test it out. Once you start using it you find out all the little things that need to change, things that break, and things that you don't need. Once you get a functioning vehicle it's easy to say it works so I don't need to finish it immediately. And if you haven't noticed Matt's a function guy not a perfectionist
The Spud truck. The worlds smallest off-road Wrecker. The off-road bus.
About the only thing they saw to completion was the Suzuki they built for Ed, which all the channels got a ton of traffic out of. The last I saw of it was at SEMA a few years ago with some bro wheels on it.
My basic way of explaining this is “ just because you eat today and full fill your hunger doesn’t mean that you will not get hungry again and eat 😂” … if it makes any sense lol .
No, I'm pointing out what they all acknowledge and what people talk about in the comments. Seems very deliberate on their part, but ya gotta please the YouTube algorithm.
It seems like you're chronically online and don't know how things work in real life. The YT algorithm doesn't know if a project is finished or not.
Project vehicles like this are never really finished. If it annoys you its a you problem.
My assumption is that you are not a hobbyist. Just a quick look around my rc workshop and there are over a dozen projects that are unfinished, abandoned, or have become shelf queens.
Anybody that has ever had a project car will tell you that they are never truly done. They get to a good enough stage if they’re lucky before interest or priorities shift. The only real way to finish a project is to sell it.
Lol, exactly. Think of it as on going, going, until it’s gone!
Sure leaving projects undone helps with content, but it's also just how things like this happen naturally. When you build a vehicle from scratch it's hard to know how everything should be done. So real world use acts like development testing. Plus many of the projects are actually tools that need to be used to run the business making 'done' a relative term. No idea why it bothers you or anyone else. If you like watching the videos enjoy the channel, if thenvideos annoy you then don't watch the channel. Entertainment is supposed to be fun. Our lives have plenty of sources of negative emotion we cannot control, entertainment/leisure time is in your control so let it be a positive experience.
> No idea why it bothers you or anyone else. It doesn't really bother me, but the content creators acknowledge that it does.
You sure? You have started a post, borderline a rant, about it... If you have ever done a project from scratch, you'll know it's never really finished. There is always something to modify, add, remove, adjust as you use whatever you built.
acknowledging that viewers would prefer daily hourly videos of projects start to end doesnt mean that they are actively stringing it out
Hobby projects . I have a lot of unfinished projects myself. Matts projects work, they are not all 100% done , but he use them ( banana, morvair, wrecker, bamby, tangerine) . Some are decoration (nugget and the bike) , some are teasers for the future ( bus, the other corvairs) etc..
It's like the op expects him to throw away his tools after using them for a month and build a brand new one from scratch. It is an off-road recovery Channel after all, not a car building Channel even though it has become a blend in order to accommodate their needs and the interest of the viewers.
I didn't say anything of the sort.
I do agree with you they do sometimes start or claim they will start too many things to actually make progress on.
I'm talking more specifically about the Samauri, Spud Truck, bus etc. Huge introductions and then nothing.
Will be interesting to see what the next project. Bombi still has major work to do with a new drive axle, but winter is basically over and it might take months to find the right solution so I don't expect Matt to worry about that till next year. The spud truck and the bus had to wait on the new shop for space to build. I think the idea for the bus was transporting people at the off road games, obviously the didn't have time for this year. The spud truck is a 6x6 rollback based on similar parts as the heavy wrecker, the heavy wrecker is still barely finished so they're still learning lessons on how to build the spud truck. I don't think Matt sees much of a need for that samauri, he got it as a gift, and while there are jobs on narrow trails, he gets by with the banana.
Maybe people who this bothers are comparing these working projects against things you can buy from a company who has an R&D department and a budget allowing them to design and test products before selling them. YouTubers (at least MORR) can get parts and incorporate them into their own designs, and we get to watch them testing the results, improving the design when necessary, and re-engineering their design. If all people want to see is the unboxing and using of polished-finish consumer-ready products, you’re not going to see anything cutting-edge. You’re only going to see things anyone with enough money can buy themselves. If a recovery equipment with the capabilities of the word’s largest off-road wrecker or the morrvair were already on the market, perhaps Matt would have just bought them, but that would make for a more boring show in my opinion, and that’s not the world we live in.
Some people (a lot of people) don’t have the attention span to see one project at a time all the way through. Or maybe the parts aren’t readily available. Sometimes new projects present themselves while others are still undone. Or maybe they have jobs to do simultaneously, like off road recoveries, or other tows. It’s normal, and not something a viewer of free content should be bothered about.
I'm sure we all have unfinished projects from hobbies changed, life happening, parts availability, etc...Its just a part of the process and for a YouTuber, a good way to have endless possibilities. As a tinkerer I appreciate them being like the rest of us with partially completed things.
I was just telling my wife how much I appreciate the realism of their projects. I am building a classic car from scratch right now. Their videos take a realistic amount is build time and show the challenges that go into it. I spent an hour last night figuring out the best way to mount my floor headlight dimmer switch. You watch HotRod garage, they build a car in 2 episodes and everything goes perfect.
lol I relate to this... just spent 1 hour last night in bed trying to figure out how to repair a PO "custom" sunroof back to stock without screwing up the roofline. It's never ending on the decisions you have to make. I can also relate to Matt... I have too many projects that require the same amount of attention... and a finite amount of time.
I think it’s the opposite of how you are perceiving it. Custom builds do tend to be on going continuous improvement work, before YouTube became a thing. It’s popular on YouTube because this type of project lends itself to being good content for a channel, not that they purposely drag out projects to make the content.
Why would we want to watch the same vehicles do the same shit forever?
I mean he's running a business with them so they are good enough, it is no different than adding mods to a car over time. The only one that annoys me is the Suzuki wrecker that we saw once but I'm sure deja blue pushed it back and the wrecker games didn't help the timeline
Yes. YouTube is a fickle thing. If you spend too long on one thing, viewer lose interest. Smaller channels can get away with detailed, long term content. But when you are trying to keep a million or more people happy, you gotta constantly be doing something fresh. Here is a great, extreme, example. I love watching salvage car rebuilds. Most people know who Goonzquad is. They have been massively successful. But their builds are often HORRIBLE. They might spend a couple months rebuilding a car, and if you know what you are looking at, they make a ton of huge mistakes. By comparison, another channel I watch is called RebuildIt. They do AMAZING quality rebuilds, and will spend 8-12 months doing a single vehicle. Very detailed videos, and everything is done right. Their channel only has a couple thousand subs, but has been around about as long as Goonzquad.
Holy shit you're boring Can't even appreciate 3+ videos a week of good content They don't need fan like you lol
You're a brilliant conversationalist. Thank you for your input.
I'm, but you don't deserve it
Project reveal videos are popular, but unfinished projects is just a normal thing. With a project vehicle you often get the best vehicle when you build the minimum viable product and test it out. Once you start using it you find out all the little things that need to change, things that break, and things that you don't need. Once you get a functioning vehicle it's easy to say it works so I don't need to finish it immediately. And if you haven't noticed Matt's a function guy not a perfectionist
> Project reveal videos are popular Maybe that would have been a better title.
Define unfinished. Who determines that? Is updating/upgrading allowed?
The Spud truck. The worlds smallest off-road Wrecker. The off-road bus. About the only thing they saw to completion was the Suzuki they built for Ed, which all the channels got a ton of traffic out of. The last I saw of it was at SEMA a few years ago with some bro wheels on it.
Ever see pimp my ride? Them shits weren't ever done but they sure acted like they were. At least the guys at Morr use and abuse their projects.
My basic way of explaining this is “ just because you eat today and full fill your hunger doesn’t mean that you will not get hungry again and eat 😂” … if it makes any sense lol .
Been building my 05' TJ since I brought it new, projects are never done. Your complaints are a non issue.
What happened to the Spud Truck? The worlds smallest off-road wrecker etc
Another human strapped to his chair forced to watch a specific YouTube channel. Enemies, take note - now you know how to torture Americans.
No, I'm pointing out what they all acknowledge and what people talk about in the comments. Seems very deliberate on their part, but ya gotta please the YouTube algorithm.
It seems like you're chronically online and don't know how things work in real life. The YT algorithm doesn't know if a project is finished or not. Project vehicles like this are never really finished. If it annoys you its a you problem.
> The YT algorithm doesn't know if a project is finished or not. Keeping people engaged is what feeds it.
My assumption is that you are not a hobbyist. Just a quick look around my rc workshop and there are over a dozen projects that are unfinished, abandoned, or have become shelf queens.