Vintage Mercury Tesla-Powered Icon "Derelict" Hot Rod at SEMA! // Revival Daily 51 

The amount of respect from the guys on camera here is fantastic. Being interrupted in the interview at such a tangent and handling it with such aplomb is real self-mastery. Kudos points to you both.

I like how respectful this conversation was from beginning to end, including the moment that this older gentlemen barges in with a discussion, which was uncalled for but whatever, both gentlemen kept their calm and respectfullness and patience, many kudos to mr. Jonathan Ward, i already thought he was doing great stuff, but i wasn't aware he is also a very respectful and pacient human being. No over the top loudmouth, he even says 'thank you sir' for recieving positive comment on his amazing work. This guy and his brand are underappreciated. Imagine if 'Icon' became a 'mainstream' brand but without all the political problems that are pushed in by outsiders like is the case with many automotive brands today. It actually reminds me of the 'good old' days. Honest, unspoiled, real, technology. I love this stuff. I just wish i had enough finances available to actually get something like this. These classic hudsons, mercuries are stunning and paired to the modern electric drive is just a fantastic combo. Cars today are lying to your ears through speakers in the cabin too so to be very honest, i couldn't even be negatively position towards having some speakers in there that mimic ICE sounds.

This IS the top end of EV conversion. We need so many more of these. We need to keep the ART in the automobile world and Jonathan is doing just that. Kudo's for a good interview and a great car !!

You guys handled that camo-capped Trumpeteer with such grace. Awesome Merc! Excellent job!

I love how Stefan kept right up with Man From The Great White North and, perfectly seriously, proposed a coal fired steam turbine hybrid. :D

And, a Star is born.

This is the future for classic cars...well done!

He can't be real.Super nerd tech gear head with an enormous eye for visual design.Priceless

I love every aspect of that old Merc. This gives me hope that a new branch of the custom, street rod community will spring up.

Guy with camo hat is your drunk uncle Christmas dinner.😅

Packaging Tesla packs like the valve covers and block of a V8? That's actually super brilliant, makes it easy to run cooling and high voltage lines too if they all come out the back

I wish you mass produced this Amazing build...Well done Sir.

Loving this! Jonathan and Stefan in one frame :) Two of my favorite geeks!

Wow. I am on th.e edge of my seat. I did not know this existed. 20th century automotive and motorsports will always be the most important vehicles. This video shows that even despite environmental concerns, the culture and industry will not only continue to thrive, but will grow. Ladies and Gentlemen, your investments are sound. This truth about the future is becoming more well understood. --

NICE CAR! if One or 2 Car Companies go back and do old school cars like that they'll be making history and more money

Don’t think I have ever been so excited about a retromobile.

I especially like how the original style is maintained most beautifully, while actually being higher in quality than the original. Unreal. Not everyone can recreate without compromising the style of the era. Consumers will demand this and a whole sector of the industry will develop. Thanks for discussing that this art, that makes sense how it causes opponents. An artist's work can develop into production and seed a whole industry.

Great project👍👍👍👍👍

I love how the camera person zoomed in on the coal-man’s name badge. Just in case. Hahaha

Definite internet gold! 🏆😂

Love the shit out of that digital dash. Tablet with a chrome surround, looks almost period correct

Two of the best in one video. Amazing craftsmen both.

That it is one cool car, I would so own that. This is my second article viewing about this car. I love the way the new tech is integrated into the retro. So glad you guys recorded and shared it. Nice camo by Joe Public, his minutes worth of fame.

I wanna see it on the road!!

Absolutely fantastic. Great work!

Gotta love Canadians.

Haha haha I’m a trucker and this is the world I’m surrounded by lol

Possibly the best youtube video ive ever seen for so many reasons

Amazing build, your the man Jonathan…..icon.

In addition to the amazing moving art pieces he makes, I love the watches he has at ICON. Great video, guys.

The only other car I've seen Jonathon Ward do is the derelict style Rolls Royce. which is pretty amazing. He's one of those people that Ive seen only a few times on youtube, yet he inspires me. (some days you think the idiots have won). His knowledge and passion for his art is infectious! Absolutely love what he's done with the EV

Absolutely priceless!!

Keeping your cool with the guy in the cap..... respect.... I would have lost it........

Amazing car but way too expensive for the average person to buy. I love the look and the engineering is fantastic. Jonathan’s work is always mind blowing to me. As a Canadian my apologies for Camo hat dude who is obviously suffering from being weaned off coal smoke inhalation.😳😮🤔

i really like it New inside but outside looks are classic

Dash is awesome

This was great stuff!

get the hook for that guy

14:27 "that's the fucken problem by the way" 🤣🤣🤣

Ive ben thinking why this conversion/upgrade concepts have taken so long. Bravo.

Wow!! Just wow

Should I apologize for all of Canada? We’re good at that.

Brilliant video. Great that you didn't edit Mr. Wise out.... Hilarious.

Dope channel, broseph. New sub for sure.

you guys are stand up professionals. how did you maintain a relative cool during that exchange?! the guy was fairly educated, but very demanding - and I'm glad someone just as informed was able to debate him and make a great point!.

Camo man was great! No social cues what so ever.😂

feels wrong but yet beautiful

"You have nearly 400v DC Direct Current. That's terrifying." There's a guy who knows what they are dealing with. Respect the beast.

Oh Tom Koole from Vulcan. Out representing Alberta on the world stage. Thanks.

John I love your vehicles and your videos but please explain to us the phrase “it jumps the shark”?

Nothing this guy builds could ever piss me off.

Beautiful job on the car! But, wow, camo man. Textbook Dunning Kruger... God help us.

15:18 Spec-D Tuning was there too, nice

You should have a non-functional key slot in the dash that's connected straight to that 389 VDC and when someone comes up telling you that we need to burn more coal to save the world you can just toss them the keys and say take it for a spin.

I got earcancer listening to that guy during the interview about the electric car.. Nice cover of sema othervice.

Thanks for this, it's pretty terrific. And boy, if you ever feel like doing a piece on the silver Guzzi V50 y'all did a while back, please, please do. It's a big favorite around here. It's a masterpiece of subtlety.

Is always one in every crowd, who has to advocate for remaining with old out dated technology and power sources that are harmful to the environment due to their fear of being left behind, or put out of a job. But good job in keeping up with him, to make him not only feel included but show his clueless mentality.

TRAGIC!

Boa noite congrats Jonathan Ward vai sema show 2021 carro cast away-an impressive project from an old oldsmobile 1946 bom trabalho icon

In the early 19th century, the meanings of motor and engine had already begun to converge, both referring to a mechanism providing propulsive force. “The first recorded use of ‘engine’ to mean an electrical machine driven by a petroleum motor occurs in 1853. In other words they are now considered synonymous.

Not only the Canadian, but I caught how the camera man kept the blonde in the black mini in shot! Snagged! Lol....

Johnathan,you should do a bio of yourself ! It would be very interesting.

Was waiting for him to say "WINDMILLS CAUSE CANCER"

The Canadian came forth placed them in their right place and left loool

If you're not pissing someone off, you haven't done anything. Good t-shirt/bumper sticker.

Fantastic vid. Apologies from Canada for the weird half-time show :)

Security!

At least you guys were nice and respectful to him. People are definitely annoying.

I had just watched Fully Chargeds interview on this car with great joy! I was doing the same with your interview until that Canadian farmer showed up! He’s at Sema for Gods sake! He misses the whole point of this build. I imagine that if he drove this monster masterpiece of technology, he would shut the f-k up quickly!

There has to be a "wingnut" in every crowd.

I thought I was the only one nutters just walked up to and started debating. I see I was mistaken now, thanks. 🤔

I just subscribed becurse you kept the part with the odd guy

my 72 yr old dad would have a stroke lol

Tom Koole had that guy shitting his pants.

I am sorry. From a torontonian

Wow, they managed to find the one impolite Canadian in the world without even trying. They should have caught it and studied it.

Camo hat has some weird ideas about--just about everything!

I'm a traditionalist but this car is well done. Only downside it no longer sounds like a V8

how many ks to a charge? down to the shop and back

That guy was exact the fucking problem. So much empathy for that throbbing forehead vein hahahaha

Nice language!

Does anyone know who the client was? Like who was the car created for?

Ahh Canucks 😆 $1.30 per 1/4 gallon regular Love this car though wicked.

13:36 Apologies for the rude Canadian interrupter but he's from Vulcan, Alberta, a town with a population of about 1,300 people in the middle of farm country. Pay him no mind please, every country has them....

The guy with the hat a wood duck

8:34 Sadly no longer in business it seems. Tom Addle, Toms Diesel Shop, Vulcan, Canada "Vulcan is a town in the Canadian Prairies of southern Alberta, Canada, within Vulcan County. It is located on Highway 23, midway between the cities of Calgary and Lethbridge. The population of the town was 1,917 in 2016."

The guy who brought it into the conversation sounded a bit like he was to California instead of Canada

I was cool until he insulted my genius president.lol....but man this is the coolest derelict/ratrod I've ever seen!

so where's a video of the car on the road?

That farmer’s no fool

Engines are mobile , motors were stationary

Wow, soo much concern over a one off electric car.

I couldn't do that to a Mercury in such good condition, but still very, very cool!

Thank you for not editing out the Canadian!

This guy's a blue chip artist

Hey again Listen I have a “problem”with my Triumph street twin, and seeing as you are pretty knowledgeable about it all, I thought I’d ask... I find my bike, not feeling like it used to. It use to have a strong coughing acceleration where I had a good like bopbopbop sound when I was accelerating in lower rpm. Now, I feel like it’s more like a steady stream when I accelerate, like sometimes it feels,like I could be in high rpm pretty quickly in 2nd and 3rd, I even found myself at the end of the throttle without the power I should be expected to have... it’s hard to explain by text (even more in English), even when I try to explain to the garage they don’t seem to pay me no mind... they take it for a ride and say it seems fine, but they didn’t have the before/after effect I’ve had... I tell myself it might be that the bike used to be new and now it’s fallen into what it’s supposed to be... it’s at 4000km I’ve played around with the clutch lever settings (1/2/3/4) and cable tightening, it does change things, but the effect doesn’t go away I know there are more settings I haven’t looked into, like the clutch cable down by the foot, or maybe it actually comes from the accelerator Dunno Thanks to you Guys Or anyone who could help Adrien

That Canuck knew more about the CO2 Farce than most. Yeah, he was intrusive, so not very polite.

i've heard it all now, coal fertilises the land and hydro isn't clean because it get a bit warm......and coal fired electricity...and a lot of it..is used to refine petroleum from crude.... a study in poland found that EV's are cleaner than Combustion engined vehicles EVEN when all the electricity comes from coal fired power station exclusively.. and as far as rain goes, we've been coal free for much of the year, but it still rains, germany has a massive amount of renewable energy supply, but its still rains half the year there aswell...

Mr Hillbilly “Carbon fibre is in the air” guy 😂🤣😂🤣

A lovely iteration, but I'm not that keen on the 'derelict' look. I think the fad for that will pass quickly, and so he will take his great Mercury creation and give it some new fresh paint. It should be resplendent in a new coat!