Air Cooled Road Trip - CA to Canada

onewhippedpuppy · 04-06-2017, 06:37 AM

I really enjoyed this video, three guys from Canada pick up air cooled 911s and drive them home via Route 66. It's a fun watch, especially for the "younger generation doesn't like cars" crowd.

recycled sixtie · recycled sixtie's Garage

Thanks Matt for that. I think it is well done. I will take more time to watch it later...

speeder · 04-06-2017, 08:18 AM

Had to turn it off, has an incredibly corporate feel to it. It's a television commercial but not sure what the product is...doesn't matter. Pretty bad.

KevinP73 · 04-06-2017, 08:55 AM

I tend to agree with speeder. Not much Porsche content. It's more "me,me,me and what I'm doing ". The production quality is good but just didn't hold my attention more than a third of the way.

Won · 04-06-2017, 01:04 PM

One of these guys went to university with a friend of mine. He runs a successful startup doing video analytics, so they should know how to make high production value videos. I agree about the "me, me, me" aspect. I guess being self-promoting goes nicely with running a startup. When they were doing the trip and posting videos, my wife and I thought, we do a lot of cool road trips too but we would never think to "produce" a video about ourselves. That's the difference between someone with a good business sense and, well, chumps, I suppose.

speeder · 04-06-2017, 01:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Won

One of these guys went to university with a friend of mine. He runs a successful startup doing video analytics, so they should know how to make high production value videos. I agree about the "me, me, me" aspect. I guess being self-promoting goes nicely with running a startup. When they were doing the trip and posting videos, my wife and I thought, we do a lot of cool road trips too but we would never think to "produce" a video about ourselves. That's the difference between someone with a good business sense and, well, chumps, I suppose.

I know plenty of people w good business sense who don't make these types of infomercials about their lives. If I filmed every cool thing I ever do, a 5-day road trip would take a month.

I've also worked quite a bit in advertising/commercials at a high level and yes, this video has decent "production values" but zero creativity. It's a lame Pepsi ad w/o the Pepsi, (or Doritos/Velveeta/Masingil/whatever), just complete white bread corporate crap. Sorry.

onewhippedpuppy · 04-06-2017, 01:41 PM

Wow, you guys are pretty much effing up a wet dream here. I really enjoyed the enthusiasm that they all had for not only the experience but for the cars, especially in the climate of "young guys don't like cars". Made me think I need an air cooled daily driver.

motion · 04-06-2017, 02:15 PM

Pretty cool vid!

Denis, looks like they were in your hood.

Nickshu · Nickshu's Garage

I enjoyed that. Thanks for posting Matt.

speeder · 04:38 PM

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Originally Posted by motion

Pretty cool vid!

Denis, looks like they were in your hood.

Oh yeah, the screen shot @ top of page is on Santa Fe. Didn't even notice that. One Santa Fe on the right and SoCal Institute of Architecture on the left, with the cool visor.

Didn't watch more than a couple minutes of it, was rubbing me the wrong way.

Don Ro · 04-06-2017, 04:45 PM

"...was rubbing me the wrong way.

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That is so unlike you.

daepp · daepp's Garage

Wow - super fun video. Thanks for sharing!

(ps but they didn't go, or just didn't show, one of the best segments - from Oatman to Kingman!)

Won · 04-07-2017, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by speeder

I know plenty of people w good business sense who don't make these types of infomercials about their lives. If I filmed every cool thing I ever do, a 5-day road trip would take a month.

I've also worked quite a bit in advertising/commercials at a high level and yes, this video has decent "production values" but zero creativity. It's a lame Pepsi ad w/o the Pepsi, (or Doritos/Velveeta/Masingil/whatever), just complete white bread corporate crap. Sorry.

No, I agree with you Denis and am glad that I wasn't the only one. To me, the "Pepsi" in this video is 1) their life, and 2) indirectly their internet business. But for my generation, it's now normal to point a GoPro at someone's face for 24 hours a day with a blurry background (is that enough of a metaphor for the self-promoting culture?) and show the world how awesome MY life is. What really got me from the beginning of this project is that they called it "Endangered Experiences"... Yes it's good that young people are showing interest in classic cars, and it's not every day one drives in a convoy across the continent, but surely it's not such a rare occurrence that it's "endangered". Again, a show of self-importance more than anything. I do respect the guy for his talent and being successful in business, but maybe seeing too many Instagram posts along the line of "look at my GT3 RS to replace the Lambo I crashed" set the wrong context for the video, unfortunately.

Sorry for the rest of you who liked the video, that I sound as bitter as certain old farts on the OT.

daepp · daepp's Garage

(Repost, but it was such a great trip...) They shoulda taken the road less travelled:

Oatman to Kingman - the longest continuous stretch of the old road: