#Just taking my mods for a walk for free

Garrett is a good friend of Jimmys from the BMX days, so theВ evening after I had shot Garrett's Jetta Coupe (read here)В We headed over to see Jimmy and some friends at his now old shop. Jimmy loved that car but after some time got a bit sick of it so sold it and bought the Red Z32, and the YouTube journey started. This then upgraded for a MK4 GLI Jetta, getting the same treatment as the Jetta before. Jimmy saved up for a long time for a second car and purchased a MK4 Jetta which Brian helped him build with simple mods of wheels and coilovers.

#Just taking my mods for a walk for free

His first car was actually a Saturn SC2 '92 which he got for free off his stepdad. This gave Jimmy a heavy Volkswagen influence from the start. He worked at a local bike shop and that's how he met Brian a guy who owned a MK3 Golf and they became good friends. Jimmy, like many car people, and especially drifters, he came from an obsession in the BMX and Skateboard community. To get into Jimmy's car journey and how that started out, we have to back up quite a bit. There's no half cuts, no filler, just quality content and that's impressive for a man who uploads 3 times a week. This is where Jimmy's dedication comes in, not just on the cars but his channel.

Vlogging and filming whilst you're building a car, well many cars in Jimmy's case, can be a long, tedious job which many times carries on into the early hours. Jimmy has worked out a fine art of making sure the content he produces is to a high standard, but in way where he enjoys every moment of the process.

Not trying to play a character or anything, just being himself on camera and that hasn't changed. From the opening minute of his first video you can already gauge what kind of person he is, just a humble, genuine guy. If you go back and watch that video and then his most recent ones, you can understand how Jimmy has made the YouTube thing such a great success. It wasn't anything serious, just him and a friend, RJay working on the current car build and documenting it as they went along. So the question is, with so much choice out there how can you stand out and make it successful?ДҐ years ago, Jimmy uploaded a videoВ to a brand new channel. So much content is out there now, I'm sure many of you could agree we're spoilt for choice, but once again is this a good or bad thing? Quality over quantity? Even if we take a look at just the car community, the more IВ dived into the car world of YouTube, the more people I discovered.

If you go on any one of these sites, thousands ofВ people are uploading content daily. Honestly that's a great thing, but also can it be a bad one? From the great days of Vine, the thousands of Instagram influencers, Twitch streamers and the term 'Youtuber', anyone can start their own channel, upload videos and maybe make some money. With today, that 15 minutes of fame has been made more accessible due to the huge rise in social media. With this it's always easy to forget that there are many people out there doing much better for the world but we never know their name in the mainstream. Going back people will do all kinds of things to gain that 15 minutes of fame and try to make a quick buck.