1962 AC Bristol: The Grasshopper 

Good to see that you're still going to release this type of content for free, Petrolicious. Long may it continue.

Love the video good to see a woman into cars . Robin you rock.

We need more tastefully green cars. This is a great story.

She knows how an oil temp gauge works. Don't trust it until you give it a tap.

Beautiful car, great story, fantastic camera work, and editing. One of your best episodes.

AC Bristol, AC Ace and most of all IMHO, the AC Aceca are some of the most beautifully designed cars ever made. I know most of the fervent fans and enthusiasts of British sports cars have long been aware of these cars but I'm always shocked when I hear of people who are unfamiliar with them. These cars rank up there with the DB5 and the E-Type in terms of sheer beauty. Fantastic video. This one right here is a great example of why I love Petrolicious so much!

Cool lady with a great car story! 👍👍

I love that green

Sadly from 2030 on all combustion cars, trucks and busses including classics will be banned from public streets in entire EU and Scandinavia :-( In Germany the Green Peoples Party gave order to shorten fuel supply from 2025 on by reducing petrol stations to only one state operated central gas station per city or county. They even plan to reduce the pump speed of public gas station pumps from 20 litre per minute to only 2 litre per minute to punish owners of combustion cars....from 2027 on in the EU certain car spare parts will be banned too....as exhaust systems, turbo chargers and even some engine and gearbox oils...California and New York will do the same from 2027 on.... So no investments should be done in oil burning cars any longer....They even created a completely new kind of crime here in Germany, called emissions and smoke crime.

Safe to say, I have the coolest boss! Way to go, Robin! :)

“I got a stick shift and that’s when things got fun”. I wish more people would see/try that. Manuals are going away. My wife much prefers a stick. We still have our 2005 G35 Sport Sedan MT6 and, as she says, “I just feel more in control, closer to the car and the road”. That’s a feeling that will be lost soon. When you do the California 1000, you need to find one of those old half helmets with the visor and the leather sides and a vintage pair of goggles. Keep driving, never stop.

Yes, the sound is back to being perfect! :)

"Is that your husband's?" might be a way of asking if she is single.

Love seeing gals in a traditionally men's hobby. Go girl!

Good to se a female car enthusiast in the very male lineup ;-)

What a petrol head, go gal, so great! Oh, and a Koenigsegg cap as well? Amazing woman!

you know why i god damn love this channel? you can scroll all the comments down and you will not find any comment of sexism. there is no one screaming milf, or anything like that. wow! I just got so suprised. thanks!!! :) Petrolicious just makes the right content for the right people

Le Mans 2.0 liter class winner, 1959. Impressed Carroll Shelby OA winner with Roy Salvadori, DBR1 We see one at our yearly Brits car meet here in Chicago. Silver AHHHHH! J.C.

Petrolicious - I found detail on the car to be sadly lacking. What gearbox does the car use? Were disc brakes standard for 1962? The motor is BMW derived and achieves a hemi head via an extra set of pushrods across the top of the motor. What power is this one delivering? What capacity is it? What is the suspension arrangement?

Why can't the feminazis give me stuff like this to celebrate women? This chick is rad, I want to be her friend, and not once during her story did I feel talked down to nor scolded for my white male privilege. Bravo, Madam! Thank you for your memories and insights!

That AC is the grandaddy of all Cobras! Looks beautifully original in it's race-trim!

This woman has fantastic taste. Coupled with brains and determination, she's one in a million.

Goodness a Bristol: you hardy ever see them here and I live twenty miles from Bristol. How nice to see a woman interested in cars, most see them as kind of mobile white goods.

one of the prettiest cars ever made, bristol straight 6 engines sound so good, take a listen to the bristol powered frazer nash's and coopers

And then you notice her hat: a Koenigsegg cap and you start thinking: mhhhh, does she own one as well?

Awesome! The car that made the Cobra possible. This is a very important piece of automotive history.

Wow, not another white dude with Porsche? Finally.

Lovely film. Our car is in the book too; 200GPD, Bill Shaws racer from the '61 season.

Beautiful car. BTW: The Bristol engine is originally a BMW pre-war engine (known from the 328). Sounds great.

What a treasure. I love it when a car finds he right person!

That green color is just awesome! That car is really cool and goes a pretty good speed! Love the video like always!

Via Tojereo / '53 Ferrari... Even the Cooper/Bristol Mike drove has a part.. What a story.. Hot rodder's world wide Dan, Ritchie... Phil Troutman Barnes Lance The IRS sale.... Goose bumps! FORZA FERRARI J.C.

its a bmw engine please lady

Absolutely fantastic! From a star-struck, weird, and self-professed autophile of a teenaged boy I wish you all the best with a slice of Great Britain's finest! I myself own a 1962 Studebaker GT Hawk and love everything about it. From the bodywork to the history, that car is best described as "irrational exuberance". Like yours, it is a resplendent shade of green and has a four-on-the-floor.

Robin, I really enjoyed hearing about your career and your background, as well as your huge success in the world, transporting cars. Love that you continue to learn, adapt, and evolve. Love your courage! Your car is fantastic and you are a great match for it. I hope you both have many years together! Thanks for sharing your story, your car, and your journey. You put a huge smile on my face! Ignore the keyboard jockeys who lack the intelligence, talent, drive, and skill to have lives and stories to tell of their own, and are so poorly developed that they come here to spew their little insipid comments.

So happy to see a lady behind the wheel ! Excellent content btw

Must be fun to be rich 😉!

Good to hear your story and brilliant that you took to the car your its custodian excellent to see you now are enjoying life with it its not all about work heart warming 😁🍀

Really enjoyed this video Very well balances Initially searched for Robin Grove (because of the article on Bloomberg about woman who gets that $30 million Ferrari to Pebble Beach) and then clicked on this video because of AC Bristol. I guess click bait works, I doubt there would be more people here if title was Robin Grove lux car trader.

Beautiful car and a lovely lady. She's a keeper!

I'd like to find an engineless AC ACEA A 1962 Ford Econoline 221 V-8 van with THREE speed Build my own prototype Cobra! As Shel and Phil once did! BEFORE going to Ford and AC... HA! J.C.

This why WOMEN shouldn't do these car videos. It only took her 4 minutes to start talking about the car. then she talks more about her. then back to the car. end of the video. what a waste of 8:22

the ancestor of the Ac Cobra body !!! wonderful piece of Car history

Thank you that is a great video , give it more throttle and enjoy it , I have an AC Aceca ,just love it and have sprinted it at Goodwood England .

Awesome lady, awesome story and awesome car. I love this channel.

So glad I found this site, what a wonderful one it is too, Robin. I love the AC Bristol, they are great cars and so esoteric.

Magnifique AC, une page d'histoire de l'automobile. 👍

The future and the evolution of the sport/hobby, long over due and well done.

Love to see women into cars, she rocks, the car does too. Her doors will always be opening in the automotive world.

I'm glad she find entertainment in telling men that its her car instead of bitching about how its sexist profiling.

Manual Pinto -

Amazing looking car! That color is killer!

The grasshopper that gracefully glides along the pavement

Rich, intelligent, attractive I like her and the car is sweet as well.

Not that I'm suggesting it but were you ever tempted to drop in a 289?

great story, nice car, awesome lady, thanks for sharing

3rd or 4th time I've watched this magnificent film. Industrial Long Beach makes for a such a great back drop. Fits this car perfect. She is no trailer queen, and the owner, no pre-Madonna. JTOrlando, Fl

That car will continue to appreciate. Awesome story, what's it take to go for a ride? 😀

Тачка зачетная. Баба огонь, мало кто так может автомобили любить, как она.

Beautiful... the girl 😍

An icon of when cars where cars not the stupid computerised contraptions of today, just look at the lines, listen to the engine.. You can make it sing for you! If I ever had the money then I would buy an AC BRISTOL.

Where to begin, great video outstanding car, the history, documentation and racing lineage. This incredible woman’s comment “when you drive a car you become one with it” a true gear head, she is a remarkable role model for all car people regardless of gender....keep doing these testimonials for the rest of us, who have 93 octane in our veins!!!

That grasshopper is so good on track

How beautiful. Yes, i said it. The beauty is the role caring for a classic car. Researching and learning about and loving the car. How the car influences your life. It sometimes leads to an owner who is equipped to manufacture parts for the marque. It's not even always about racing. In the extreme i have read about a guy restoring a Thomas Flyer and other "walking beam" engined cars of the era who becomes a partsmaker and specialist. Becomes "the guy" to see for a particular ultra rare type of car that very few people in the world own. Amazingly i am thinking here about a "the guy" who has actually logged relatively few miles in these cars. It's more about helping the few people involved with them and his own story of restoring one that there was damn little of left.

I like it when women are successful without a backstory of how tough they've had it making it as a woman. As long as a person is ambitious and has a good company/product, your sex/race doesn't matter. It's a false narrative

THE CAR, THE CAR, FOCUS IS THE CAR, NOT YOU!!!

Came close to getting this for $300

Good seeing a woman on here we need more female enthusiasts

Thank you for showing up amazing car. I still have a little goose-bumps and have a gently itchy/frozen fingers. No doubt I'd like to touch and drive such a gem. Thank you!

@Petrolicious I am planning on buying a 944 Turbo, what should I know like be prepared for issues, or spares and where to get em?

DP 69 would have been better....

A cute lady piloting a cool roadster... Such a yummy combo. So izzit a 2 litre twin cam six? Thanx and cheers

Somewhere I've got a vinyl LP that is nothing but the sound of an AC-Bristol doing it's thing. Amazing sounds.

She said, "When you get in the car, you become it." Not to disagree - but I say, "The car becomes you!" Well matched!

It’s good to see someone discovering their car. It’s usually just people who have had theirs for a really long time and know it’s quirks. So it’s nice to experience the process of getting to know it. Also a very interesting phase of car ownership

John Tojero (original AC body designer in 1953) would approve!

Robin and this car is perfect, all is good in the universe! More women enthusiasts PL, when you find them.

Great clip. She shows elan for a machine which is something in common with other petrolicious drivers. After all you are what you drive!

I looked up the value of those things...wow! Beautiful car! I love the colour.

Raydot mirrors, competition windscreen, tonneau cover, green paint, sounds about perfect 👌

I know the gentleman well who did a lot of the work preparing the car and actually found the car for her. Great attention to detail as always by David Zumstein of Abingdon West LTD in Fallbrook. He selected the cam thats now in the car and did a lot of work to get it to the level its is now well done sir,its all the little details on a car like this that help to make it very special like the scrutineer stickers he found under the seats that are now on the roll cage, It would be really nice to see it out on track being driven how a car like this should be driven

Has anybody noticed the insignia at the front and the flag at the rear of the cap she is wearing??? .... I did! ... Very significant!

Word seeing this and it’s not a cobra

That smile at 05:40. Don't matter if it's a bloke or a bird. If it runs through your veins, you know.

That is one badass car, and one badass woman! Great storytelling as always, and glad to see you guys implement a membership product. Content this good for free is already too good to be true!

What an amazing video. I just love her passion. Perfectly shot and transposed.

Great story Robin; A+

Another great story found in car Universe. Thanks P.

She likes the car. But she needs to learn more about it's mechanicals...

I love the story and the car. Now..... Where can I find an affordable Caterham?

Really inspirational story. This lady worked hard her entire life and managed to combine her love for cars with her career.

Hard working classy lady, they don't make them like that anymore.

Love it. In many ways I don’t like what the Cobra did to these cars. It became a hot rod and all the roadster was taken out if it.

Nice Koenigsegg hat

first 4 minutes she talks about her & her various businesses; then she finally starts talking about the car.

The Bristol 6 sounds better than the SB Ford. Change my mind.

Lovely lady, very cool car!

Great car, cool lady! She had a good matchmaker. That car suits her nicely.

Awesome❤

A beautiful video, so well put together and a joy to watch. Great job!