Restoring Richard Hammond's Subaru from The Grand Tour | Project Martin Ep.3

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Only Addtribe can get three minutes of content into twelve!

Wow, slight improvement, just over 4 minutes on Hammonds Subaru. Can't see us being that lucky on the next video.

oof, this could've been a 2 minute episode. "We're painting it, here done". AdTribe getting very silly now.
When you guys have a meeting to discuss why the channel isn't doing well, remember videos like this, and all the comments complaining. Quality over quantity is something that needs to be remembered.

I know Subaru people (me included) were cringing at the damage caused in the GT episode. So satisfying to see this beautiful car being restored.

I understand why Ads are important on youtube, but these episodes havent been enough. I watch car youtube so i can learn all of the small specific details about something as "simple" as painting a car. I (and everyone else) want to see all of the little details. Dont be afraid to get technical and explain every little part of each process.

The dog was a great part of the episode. One question though, where was Martin? I feel like I barely saw him, between the advertisement and crossover promotion being most of the video.

I bet the paint guys loved you touching all those prepped parts! 😊

Man, I really enjoy watching this build! I'm so glad you guys aren't going nuts with mods on it. I've always thought the perfect WRX STI was a stock+ with some simple suspension upgrades and some standard EJ25 issues addressed 👌🏻👌🏻

Great project, can’t wait to see the end product. Only small criticism would be that the videos are too short.

Since the last update on Martin, I was still eagerly waiting for my scooby to be back from repairs.
Had it back almost 2 weeks now and should be MOT'd and road ready come Wednesday morning. Loving this series loads! These blobeyes are absolutely brilliant cars, and (not biased at all) the best of the scoobies

Amazing show Mike love everything u all do .. keep u the great work ❤️

this is brilliant! A car from a show we love, driven by people we love, takes a turnover restorantion. thanks DRIVETRIBE!

For me the 97-2000 STi’s is where it was at. Absolutely loved that body shape 👌

You know what? I did actually like the martini livery/wrap, but after seeing the fresh paint job it really does look gorgeous in blue.

Loving. this build series!! hopefully we'll see the rest of the paint in 2 months when you upload the next episode. Keep up the great work AdTribe!!

I can’t wait to see Martin all done. Taking him round the car shows soon?

Really struggle with drivetribe videos. Less than half the video is actually relevant to the title of the video, even less if you discount the intro and outro,

What a treat, finally get a Subaru build and every video has 10% content and 90% Ads.

Absolutely loving this series

Car Vertical won’t tell you if the car was damaged between the factory and the dealership with 0 owners on the logbook, I’ve repaired loads of cars that’s fell off the transporter trailers from the top tier, 1st owner buys the car and doesn’t have a clue it’s been wrecked 👍

Peeling off bits of wrap and a few shots of it being painted, yawn.

Mike, show us more detail and explain the restoration process. I would have loved to see the process of fixing those rear wheel arches, not just 30 seconds and then the final primed result. Show and explain the details!

I love these cars, I had two when I was younger, a ‘99 Turbo 2000 tuned to 350hp and a 330s tuned to 400hp by the leg that was JGM.
They’re great cars but the prices have gone absolutely mental which is madness as an A45 AMG, S3, M2 would smoke them. It’s just bonkers!

I love this, I cannot wait for the end result 🙌🏾‼️

I remember that welding on the rear arches from the last episode. No surprise to see inches of filler in the rear quarters.

It will be interesting to see it back together again.

Love your work 👍

It's incredibly satisfying watching the Colour being sprayed on the car , Awesome video

Richard will regret not doing the underside!!!! Won’t be long and there will be a hole in the floor!

Love the videos but a 2:30 AD in a 12 minute long video? That's just mental....

I'll never get tired of that epic Subaru blue.

Way to turn a 1-minute update into a 10 minute video

Be very careful if you are thinking of buying a WRX STI of the final version. The 2.5 engine is fragile in standard form. The bores go oval and if that happens it’s a full rebuild. I had a 2014 car. It was a nice car but not relaxing to drive. It had constant torque steer on a straight road so driving long distances was tiring and the fuel consumption was eye watering driving it hard. Like 6mpg on a racetrack. Road tax was high, £550 last time I had the car 4 years ago. The suspension was pretty hard as well. Great fun if you drove it like you stole it but it’s a heavy car and can quickly become a handful. It was always at the back of mind that if I lost control it would hurt a lot as the car so quickly picked up speed. I definitely wouldn’t have another one. There’s much better high performance cars out there. Hence why you very rarely see many of the last versions of the car.

With all the work that went into repairing, preparing and improving it, why wasnt all the car painted fresh? It seems silly to have masked off the drivers door and other bits.. The whole car should have been painted fresh to avoid any colour mis-matching... Surely cost wasnt a factor?

I was rewatching the GT Special a few days ago and while doing i thought "Hey lets look up the Cars MOT, maybe one is still driving" and out of the 3 only the Subaru had its MOT renewed just a few days ago, well now i know why!

Lower rad support's are that cheap i wouldn't have patched the old one up.

That front end repair looks like an MOT bodge. Would expect better from a specialist. Shocking.

A build series that doesn’t show anything being built.

To be fair you probably would get a better power gain with a sports cat rather than original cat if this car is heading for big power, plus a sports cat would be still road legal.

My Favourite is that FD, obviously! Next is the S2000. 👍👍

Nice video, just don’t know why you wouldn’t repair the horrible dent on the front of the bonnet!

Some days I like Drivetribe more than others. This was a new low. The amount of non-Martin content was ridiculous.

Lovely Jubbly, nice video and can't wait to see it finished now.

I'm going to be that nerd but the exhaust system won't make it very burbly as it's an Equal length header twin scroll car so it will always sound a bit more inline 4-y than the typical classic Subaru rumble. sounds great though, I've got a Hawkeye JDM STI with the same setup and they scream!

Now that youtube have introduced the "Sponsored content Skip" option (same as Sponsor Block) it really helps let the viewer know what videos not to watch with different icons on the thumbnails, if you see green or yellow, it means there is advertising exceeding the allowed advertisement time of 30 seconds per 10 mins of video or the video is so full of sponsors/ads that the algo can't tell where the content starts. It also tells you the actual video length minus all advertising and sponsors. This 12mins video is actually only 8:48s of content.

Love this car 🥰

Don’t know why they decided to put a clear blend in the uniside upper rail above the B pillar, would’ve been better to spray all the way down the A pillar and reduce a future fail point. Would’ve been less work than doing the blend too.

Another video of bare minimum content so they can get paid from the sponsor.

I'm just here to once again say how much I love Mike's shirt

Like Hammond implied, it’s nothing without its natural competition - the Evo. Also, stripping Martin of its Martini livery made it bog standard and harder to spot when it gets nicked.

On the topic of car vertical, even if a car had been in a crash like that golf, as long as its not offically written off if its been fixed and certafied as roadworthy again id still buy it at a big discount.

Hammond always had a heart for the Subaru WRX/Sti, Source of the Nile & this Martin from A Scandi Flick, maybe the next episode he will drive another STi 😁😁

A few week old camper already having repair work done 😮

Have you guys thought of putting up a long gorm exit ofnprojects when they're completed? It'd be nice to sit and watch them in one hit.

I hated how many times he touched the prepped hood scoop. Every painters nightmare

The boys at torque GT are insane!! Martin and their 22B/project P1 video? 🤔🤔

i had a type RA ..sold it in 2014 after 6yrs of ownership..really wish i hadnt ! It was 300 bhp and went like a scalded cat ! i aso had a sierra cosworth which i sold a year earlier and i dont regret sellling it even though i had it for 13 yrs.. i owned the cossie and the scoob together from 09 ..id buy the scoob back tomorow if i knew where it was!

The Isengard jumper is a 10/10 choice!!

The annoyingly long commercial ends at 3:52 everyone

HKS parts? Thats gonna sound nice.

They should have repainted the whole car, not just the parts of the car that were repaired.

He should replace the dented hood and put a carbon fiber hood

Let's address the classic in the room: that "Patagonia" jumper wins.

So the Liqui Moly Orange power cleaner didn't work then to remove the left over sticker marks? from part 1 a month ago. Could of guessed that to be honest.

That Scooby looks amazing 😻

I've been installing and removing vinyl wraps for 27 years, the easiest way to remove them is with a blow-dryer type plug in heat gun. If you feel daring you could use a Bernzomatic or Lenox handheld propane torch and if you feel really daring & confident you can use what i use- a Shrinkfast boat shrink wrap heat gun attached to a 20lb propane tank

Hammond got me back into the subaru fever and now im looking for another wrx

I am by no means an Evo fan but by all means if ANY car from the scandi flick deserves to be restored is that Evo…. THAT car deserves to live. Get to it!!!! Nooooooooooooow.

i bet it costs more than the cars worth to have all that work done

Dude the episode was so short, Definetly not worth almost four minutes worth of ads

Cracking video as always. Also, Cracking LotR jumper!!

Who on earth signed off on that rad support repair???

GC8 will always be the best in my opinion

Why didn't the smallest cog do the spray and welding job

That was playing kind of beast at there❤

That front rust repair looks awful, I'd be ashamed to show that on a video.

And now a message from our sponsor proceeds to fast forward.

Peeling stickers with 45 seconds of spraying... All filler. You do better. Always. Don't get lazy. More meat less potatoes

Get one! I have a VA Gen WRX and it's fun to drive and tune.

At the end of the day, it's still a subaru with a boxer engine, which is one of the most unreliable types of engine in existence, especially the subaru boxer engines!

Should have gone with anything other than the standard blue. British racing green would have looked great

"In the next video we'll show 2 minutes of viewer worthy content in a 15 minute video."

I know you come from tv but over 20% ads in you video is just too much.

Glad I’m not the only one who is noticing the ads are getting crazy now, it seems to me the channel is primarily an advertisement board and cars are just a vessel to achieve it.

I want his Isengard jumper, what brand styling is it mimicking? (Patagonia?)

Less time on the app info more time on the Subie please. These episodes are too short.

The rad support repair looks pretty awful to be honest, surely you’d have just replaced it? And yes doing the minimum content video to get the sponsor in is daft, it’s a shame really.

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