Five Years of Twin-Cam 

Ed you are a natural. Your special time is still to come. Keep doing what you’re doing buddy!

Ed, I will go out on a limb and speak for the viewing audience and say the ......nerdy stuff.....is one of the reasons we like your videos. Keep up the good work. Cheers.

Love this channel, im in the Netherlands and BL never got going here properly, so the Metros and Maestros are a bit of forbidden fruit for me. You are a fantastic presenter, knowledgeable and passionate.

In 5 years how has everybody else not realized this channel has the craziest quality to sub count ratio. Truly a hidden gem

Great channel Ed. As others have said, you are authentic and a natural. good on you

I first met you at the Ormskirk motor fest, when you brought melody to the show, love your channel, all the best

Well done and thank you for your always interesting and entertaining videos! Long may them continue. 👍

I enjoy your channel, thoroughly researched and interesting videos on cars I owned drove and maintained back in the 70s 80 and 90s, keep on keeping on.

""FIVE YEARS"" Boy time flies with great U-tube channel. Looking forward to the next five.

Happy 5th Anniversary Ed keep up your great vids mate 😎

Congrats on your fifth anniversary! I've seen you grow tremendously over the last five years in terms of your presentations etc and your knowledge of the cars you cover.

Congratulations

Happy Channel Birthday!

Pretty sure I've been watching since the beginning. Happy anniversary, Ed. Keep up the great work.

Thanks, Ed. I really enjoyed the Q&A and look forward to the new content

Congratulations on achieving 5 years. Always enjoy your videos.

That was a long one! But a great Saturday morning watch. Thanks and congratulations.

Wow 5 years. I found the channel over 4 years ago when you featured the V66. I'm a DAF66 owner and your vid. popped up on my feed for obvious reasons. I've seen most of your work and liked the style and well researched content. Keep up the good work !

Fantastic stuff. Here’s to many more years ahead 👍

Many congratulations on 5 years! If I can achieve 10% of the success of your channel I'll be very pleased. Well done again

Really appreciated you during Covid - thanks ☺️

Happy anniversary. I found your fabulous channel just before Covid when I was looking at Austin Rover videos

Happy channel birthday!

Well done Ed, and congratulations on 5 years and your success thus far. As a fellow car nerd, whom loves the detail and narrative you go into in your video's, I can honestly say I'm glad you weren't born 30 years ago - I was (well 30 ish odd actually), and I would have loved to have been doing what you are doing now, when I was your age...alas the internet/RU-vid didn't exist in the mid '80's, and I had to satisfy myself with devouring monthly car magazines, and boring my friends, for my fix. p.s Best ever "Rover" for me,...a late '80's, Australian market only, 416i Vitesse (basically a Rover badged and posher 5 door version of the contemporary Honda Integra...and, the only Rover ever to have pop-up-headlights). Congrat's again. Cheers!

I agree- you're an auto historian. As for journalism, print and television have abandoned journalism long ago, and independent journalists are the worthy ones.

Great video Ed. It is fascinating to hear your view of things. I was born in 1962 and bought a metro brand new in 1982 (City in Cinnabar Red with black and white houndstooth upholstery, £3,250). Metros were cool back then. How I wish I had that car today. It was so much fun!

Thank you for your efforts. You have become one of my favorite channels.

Your channel is sooper-dooper. I learn so much, and I'm excited about new content!! 😊😊

You're worth every subscription Ed!

Well done for reaching 5 years - I can remember you doing your 1 year anniversary video (before I had this account haha). Always love the content!

Ed, what a marathon! really glad you got your head around the Alfasud. back in the mid to late 80s when I was around your age, I had a Cortina MK3 2000 GT Auto, then an Alfasud 1.3, a FIAT Strada 1.3, an Alfasud 1.2, then Rover SD1 2300S before company cars too over. the Cortina MK3 was a leap forward in the mass market but the Alfasuds were a quantum leap in comparison. the 'Suds had it all including comfort, only the Rover was more refined.

Excellent work! Congratulations on 5 years of Twin-Cam. I agree with your comments on EV’s, ICE and Kei cars.

Congratulations on your fifth anniversary!

Gonna watch this over a couple of days. Hopefully the upcoming vids will be on your Metro's too, showing you working on them.

Congrats on five years, Ed! I've been enjoying your channel almost from the beginning. Every time you talk about Issigonis, you revel in his genius, but you recognize his madness. I've always loved both sides of him., though I'm not sure designing a door pocket to fit a gin bottle is the best idea... Anyway, congrats again, and thanks for what you do. I'm in the U.S., so I really appreciate the commentary about the social and political climate. Even though I'm old enough to remember most of this stuff, I was not "tuned in" back then. Looking forward to many more adventures.

Congrats Ed ❤

well done, I've been following for about that long

I think you are doing yourself down. Your stuff is well researched and well delivered. That in my book is journalism.

I owned an E39 for 7 years, regret selling it. Marvellous car

5 and a half minutes in: take the clutch delay valve out of your E46 and throw it in the bin, difference is night and day 😊 I do really enjoy your content and always find something to watch. E30? Yes. 2CV? Yes. Maxi? Why not

I knew your channel was doing well, but I had no idea it was so popular! Your content is unique though, you do things your own way, so it's all good. 👍🏻

Good to see you back on the beige forum, as i said there keep up the nerdy stuff!

Bravo! Very well done! 🎉tip: keep your scripts.. they are books ! For your future

Here's to 100+k subs well before the next five years are up!

Youd probably appreciate my old setup, Arcam CD player. Audiolab 8000 pre and power amp. TDL transmission line speakers. RTL turntable etc. I also had two Rover Metros. Both 1.1 Quest editions.

I compare you to Taylor on the Auto Alex channel. You’re a champion and get so excited over certain cars

Congrat Ed! I am not on any any social media where I assume these questions came from, but notwithstanding I do see you a 'friend' in that for five years I have enjoyed your fantastic reviews ( or whatever you like them to be called!) just like a friend dropping in. I am an ancient and a northern 'friend' as such have feel that I can be occasional, constructively critical which for me endorses a friendly honesty. Also as an ancient I fear existing on only state pension that I have been unable to be a Patreon support so far which means I do miss out on some of what you do, being thus limited to UTube. And I further hope that one of the traits of being northern is total loyalty, so amidst your often forced absences for personal reasons on UTube, while being saddened, I am overjoyed when the mysteries of A1 pop up one of your videos onto my equally ancient laptop. Enjoyment of your work is because of your intelligent and thorough research, professional script writing, editing and either to camera or voice over presentation. Best of all, I love your smiling enthusiasm of driving. So thank you and may if wish all future success and financial reward that I hope to live long enough to watch! Rob. 😌

Happy channel birthday. Really enjoy the channel.

Well done Ed.. 👍👍

Thanks for this blog/vlog, and congrats on 5 years being a you tuber. So many questions asked and an honest answer given. On EV’s, I don’t dislike them either as I have an electric moped, but I think to own one you need to reorganise your life somewhat, you need a home charger, and a dedicated place to park it while charging, if you live in a flat or terraced house without a parking spot that’s a non starter as charging at a Tesco or council charging station isn’t cheaper than a Petrol or Diesel car and you can’t charge an EV car in the time it takes you to fill an ICE car up with fuel. A Classic Mini(Pre 2000) is a car I’ve always dreamt of owning for over 20 years, when they were affordable I was too young to drive and by the time I was old enough they were already classic cars and totally out of my budget and still are. I’d happily consider an Austin or Rover Metro as my next daily driver though. Keep up the good work, I always enjoy your vids.👍

20:40 A man after my own heart, an electric DS is my dream car, heck i'd love a regular DS23 Pallas if i had the money and right living space to own one. There's a video on youtube of what looks like an excellent conversion. At some point i'm going to have to hunt down a car show with one, so i can actually see one in person and sit in it.

I was there for the Metro, using a different channel. 🇦🇺 Back before you had your licence too.

I’m so onboard with the incentivising small and Kai car regs, I’ve always preferred smaller cars and they’ve always been more than enough, and it’s so sad there isn’t even a strong super mini class anymore and those that survive are big for what they are, If they weren’t so pricey I’d love a Tolman 205 or a David Brown mini

Congratulations on 5 years well done ..I enjoy your video..if your ever in Dublin .I would love you to do a review on my cars ....87 starlet..89 corsa ..92 k10 micra and 68 Morris minor traveller... ..keep the great work .... K11 micra please

Good to see you back on your own channel Ed. I enjoyed the stuff you did for Manor Park too. I've always enjoyed your content as you know. I really agree with most of what you said in this video too. DS EV? YES PLEASE! Of course the Mini is the best thing since sliced bread. I think Douglas Adams got it wrong, the answer to life , the universe, and everyting is not 42, it's Mini. If I ever, no, rephrase that, when I win the lottery (deluded? me?) I would love to get hold of a Heritage shell and build it up with all the bits I have lusted over in the past. Mind you I would also have to move back from Mauritius to the UK as well so, hmm, maybe not gonna happen then. Congrats on the first five years and looking forward to the next five.

Congratulations 🎉 herzlichen Glückwunsch,, learnt a lot about british cars,,fine channel 👍👏auf die nächsten 5 Jahre 🎉,,,great Presentation,,,all the best,, greetings from northern Germany 🍀🍁

Congratulations Ed... Well that was a long video but as ever so enjoyable that i could have listened to you for longer!.. As for myself i am that person who was born in 1960, 40 years before you and i had the fortune to grow up as many of the cars you love were revealed to us, i totally get why you say the Alfasud to you was a "little disappointing" but for me coming at it from the other side in time that car was a revelation in the motoring world, even Autocar raved about it, saying "The best front wheel drive car yet", where many Ford`s were still on cart springs with drum brakes the Alfasud had a modern sorted suspension set up with 4 wheel disc brakes, inboard mounted at the front too! keep on with what you do THE BEST and here`s to the next 5 years...

omg ed with some facial hair! are you working for manor park classics now?

According to Wikipedia (which is naturally open to corrections!) the Leyland P76 it had 4.4lt V8. Was that a re-worked (ie bored out) 3.5 or their own built engine specifically for the Aussie market?

I really like your channel. Especially when you process older cars. I like to follow channels about geopolitics. However a lot of gloomy things going on around the world, and I need to get a bit of cheering up. That's when I go to channels like Twin-Cam. Looking forward to the promised weekly content. Keep up the good work.

1:19:17 I'm curious as to what your reasons are for melody not being a good daily, i'm most likely taking my mk2 metro off the road soon but in under 2 years i've driven over 30k miles and loved it all, in my opinion an a series metro is still perfectly dailyable

Switched off and unsubbed at the “ev’s are cleaner”… followed by “I’m a liberal” .. wow 😂

16:50 this is one I have to disagree with, you have a very misplaced linear historiography that is really just a fallacy, people are not healthier the world is not better and even to the extent that it is quantifiable it is just not true. I apprecieate that this is a 10 second clip here but the view of more technology = more better is just ridiculous, and I say all this as someone that is younger than yourself

The term you use ‘ you lot’ is a rather derogatory way to address your fans IMO

Congratulations on the five year anniversary!