Aging Wheels (and his other channel about carpentry) are some of the best content out there. Great personality and even better editing skills. Do yourself a favor and subscribe if you haven't yet.
I've been watching Aging Wheels ever since he built and delivered a couple of workbenches to Tavarish's garage- he's so damned entertaining! I learned way more than I ever hoped to about Coda, and knew precisely nothing about Wheego before Robert educated me. His workworking channel Under Dunn is equally entertaining. Please bring him back- his bus project is pretty fascinating too!
@@lasskinn474 True, but it wasn’t a figure of speech. I was actually driving around when I stop at a 4 way intersection, and a random Coda just rolls by in front of me. Then 2 blocks and another 4 way stop later, a Rivian rolls on by. I had just seen Robert/Aging Wheel’s Coda series, so I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition lol
Robert is an amazing UA-camr. His videos are next level editing (even the ads are awesome, which is a first for me because I usually skip). I began watching his channel from pretty much the beginning when he built and used his camper. Do ask him about it! All of his projects are intriguing as are his vehicle projects.
I remembered this car a little bit when it was launched, since at that time for Chinese car enthusiasts it is obviously with the appearance of Hafei Saibao which is already a 6-7 years old model at the time Coda is launched. There is also one point about the original model that many don't know - it is designed by Pininfarina.
The Coda brings me back 13 years ago. I am an auto engineer who was laid off in '09. I finally got some consulting work at the end of '09 working on the Coda to make it pass US crash standards. It was clearly going to be a disaster from the start (it was ugly and clearly outdated), but it was work. I did that for a few months and then found a job at Fisker working on the Karma. I got out of there before they went under.
@@calebj2886 I only consulted for a few months with the airbag supplier. A friend of mine worked for a couple years for Coda and had some interesting stories about what it all took.
I Love Aging Wheels and the other channel Under Dunn. I found him for woodworking stuff, then he popped up on Wrench every day and I found out he does car stuff too. His videos are pure entertainment!
I am glad he is finally on here as he deserves to be just as much as the other UA-camrs he has put his heart and soul into his videos, I think the only reason he isn’t up there with the rest right now is because he took a break. That should not stratify him out of this round because he is every bit as important to see UA-cam car culture as hoovie or Tavares and his constant is a lot better more funny he gets to the point and does really awesome fast forward
Tavarish and Hoovie are interesting enough, but when Robert says he has a weird car, I believe him the most. Aside from the kit cars, most of Tavarish and Hoovie's cars are somewhat well known and desirable, therefore predictable.
I was listening to this without watching, heard Roberts voice for the intro and then the vin wiki intro and was surprised. This guy is the real deal for car nerd/ engineers/ tinkerers. Glad you got him on.
I was at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show and sat in two of three Codas they had there. One was definitely white. I remember the booth had a very odd atmosphere, even for an (at the time) eleven year old. Almost as if they were hiding something horrific and the unforeseen presence of a precocious, Mercedes-Benz hat wielding eleven year old would expose their mischief, however they also were just as foreboding for each and every person who approached them as far as we saw. The best part is, I have photos of the Coda booth parked directly next to the Land Rover booth that year. The one and only time another manufacturer has upstaged Land Rover in unreliability.
"Wwwwwelcome to Aging Wheels! Probably the 3rd, or 4th dumbest channel in all of automotiv Yoe Tube! I may do some dumb stuff, but not as dumb as Hoovie❓
My uncle has one of these, the family still uses it (they have that, a Prius, and a Subaru, all shared among them rather than each person having "their" car). He admits that it's a piece of shit and now has three wheels in the grave (every warning light on, weird clicking noises while driving) but it clearly has a lot of sentimental value and keeping it alive is a source of pride for him. His is #3, but he claims it was actually the first sold, he was first in line to buy one. There is a small but tight-knit community around these things, surviving on a dwindling supply of parts. I actually drove it once a few years ago (we didn't have a chance to do anything with it on my most recent visit), from what I recall it drove well, the heavy regenerative brake was actually great for driving in heavy traffic. It's actually refreshing in a way - just a basic electric car. Not weird or quirky like most other early electric cars. Not pretentious or overly gadget-stuffed like recent electric cars. Humble, basic, functional, in a way recent electric - or gasoline for that matter - cars aren't.
I test drove a Coda when they were first introduced. My one-way commute to work was 40 miles so I didn’t feel the claimed 88 miles range would work. The one I drove was extremely loud, as if there was a jet engine under the hood. The noise immediately killed any interest. I ended up buying a Chevy Volt which I was usually able to drive one way entirely on battery power.
I've been watching Ageing Wheels since he bought the bus however many years ago. Criminally underrated and genuinely shocking he does not have more subscribers.
LOL I started working at a certain EV company in 2011, and I remember someone telling me that Coda was going destroy us because the cars were so much cheaper.
They only produced 127 with parts for a handful of others. There is only 1 proprietary scan tool and a guy in California has it. Codas were $40,000 a pop which didn't help when the quality was terrible.
That's Tavarish's Bricklin, Robert picked it up and delivered it. IIRC, he dropped it off along with a parts car for another project, and that's when Tavarish gave him the Yugo.
I had a fleet job where we worked on Miles EV's, which was kind-of a parent company to CODA, and I have to say, I've never seen anything worse. Every single part of these vehicles seemed flawed. The added weight of the batteries cut into the payload so significantly, that two grown men would nearly put the vehicle over GVWR. They initially kept the shifters from the Chinese vehicles as forward/reverse selectors, but they didn't put any block-off plates on them, so if the driver accidentally put the vehicle in 3rd for "forward", it would smash the wiring against the trans tunnel and cause it to fail. All the upholstery failed, all the paint failed. Battery packs rarely lasted more than a year. Everything about them was garbage. In about 2012 I saw a CODA on the road with manufacturer plates. I flipped him the bird. And before you think I'm a sour grapes mechanic bitching about Engineers, I was working as a fleet mechanic while getting an engineering degree. So from both sides of the table, I can confidently say these guys are morons.
Most likely another Silicon Valley scam to take advantage of the free green Obamabux that were being handed out at the time. It didn't need to be good, just good enough to get the grant and the board members their golden parachutes.
Wow! Blast from my past. I worked at UQM during the build for these. I actually put my hands on a few of the early codas. It was the first EV I ever drove. Long story short UQM did me dirty so I left that company. There’s a few cars I have seen here in CO but I never heard much about what happened. Last I had heard UQM was trying to figure out what to do with all the motors and controllers because they hadn’t been paid for and the CEO had redone the contract for them to be able to walk at no recourse. UQM has been sold and I used to see some of the old guys from there but moved my dealership out of that town and don’t get down that way much.
AWD 4 wheel steer Coda. Do it. I'll grab popcorn. I just finished converting a 1986 Toyota van to electric using a net gain hyper 9 motor and I must say it's way better than it was before 40%. More torque and about the same amount of horsepower. It's so much fun and with putting around the neighborhood and town with regen, I'm losing 6th of a volt, very efficient.
The guys a friggin' legend ! Aging wheels, and Under Dunn are two of the most watchable "Obscure every day car" and auto maintenance channels out there, and that's purely because Robert is such an amazingly funny, likeable, and chaotic person. He's got a sort of energy and enthusiasm on camera that's almost "Puppyish" to watch. Nothing but love going out to the guy, because, as I said, He's a friggin' legend. :D
88 mile range isn't a problem for a lot of use cases. I want to say the federal highway administration put the average daily driven miles at around 35. I drive a chevy volt that has a 36 mile range and very rarely have to use the gas back up.
@Matthew Hurren Rim:noun. the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object. any edge, margin, or frame added to or around a central object or area. the outer circle of a wheel, attached to the hub by spokes. It's a wheel.
@@runed0s86 the battery is kinda small, but serviceable, provided it has a separate BCM, you could swap a programmable inverter and dump more amps in the motor
It's actually a pleasant Corrola-meets-Jetta looking thing, and that relentlessly generic styling ensures that it will blend in anywhere in the world and never be noticed by anyone - not a bad thing.
I agree, I greatly prefer the generic "just a regular car" look of it. Not everything needs 22 inch wheels, a 30 inch touch screen, gullwing doors, etc etc. It's an electric family sedan, literally the most boring vehicle in existence after a minivan, it doesn't need to be covered in tacky nonsense.
@@Thinginator thats an option although , I don't think he will use his good Coda for lemons ,and the other cars are very under powered .but with weight reduction and other mods he can put it in the race
That depends: when Robert said that Tavarish had given him the Yugo and said you could watch Tavarish's video to see that happen, did you go watch it? If you did, you would have seen Robert given the Yugo just after dropping off a parts car and the Bricklin Tavarish had bought. (I gather that Tavarish found a Bricklin in California, and then knew that Robert had access to a 2 car trailer and had to go to California to get the third Coda so would have space on the trailer, and finally found a parts car for his other project that was somewhere near Robert.
Why doesn't anybody make an electric that simulates the rotating properties of an ICE? seems like a simple solution to the auxiliary systems dilemma and it would open up all 3 types of conventional gearboxes.
I would drive one. I'm used to driving cars with a bad reputation. I have a Chrysler 2.7 with 275,000 original miles. The "experts" say that's impossible.
Funny thing is, the way they modifies the Coda with the grill, and the wheel package, I think it looks quite good. Simple, clean, invisible. I like it. I would be very happy with that car ... but with an engine of course. And less breaking bits.
And here I thought I finally found an electric car that I could afford to own. My wife has about a 15 minute, 7 to 9 mile (depending on route, highway is longer but faster) drive to work. I'm retired and rarely go further than 30 miles from home. But, reliability is essential. I've tired of working on cars. It is great that you are preserving these early EV cars. I'm afraid that even some of the more modern EV cars are going to become non-drivable for lack of parts or batteries to make them work.
there's one on a trailer about a mile from me, been there since pretty much it was "new". Owner's thinking it has a lot of value and isnt letting it go for free thats for sure. We got lots of crap electric cars when the state of California decided to start handing out "alternative vehicle" money. One guy's "plan" was to do an electric conversion of an Ariel Atom. But people acted like it was a totally new design...
It would make more sense, if it were possible to get rid of the CVT's, and use 4-speed manual transmissions with clutches. The most difficult thing, would be the bell housing flange adapters, as well as fitting a clutch pedal. (I would recommend hydraulic master and slave cylinder)
Aging wheels is such a great UA-camr, it’s criminal that he doesn’t have more followers. These coda’s are awesome
When he said coda, I was like "this is gonna be good" I'm not even done yet and I'm loving it haha
Can confirm and vouch for Rob
Aging Wheels (and his other channel about carpentry) are some of the best content out there. Great personality and even better editing skills. Do yourself a favor and subscribe if you haven't yet.
I agree with you. However his main issue is posting he posts very infrequently.
@@GummyBearRacing He was very open a few videos ago about suffering from depression. Give him a break.
Love seeing aging wheels on this channel. Thank you for all the value you all bring
I've been watching Aging Wheels ever since he built and delivered a couple of workbenches to Tavarish's garage- he's so damned entertaining! I learned way more than I ever hoped to about Coda, and knew precisely nothing about Wheego before Robert educated me. His workworking channel Under Dunn is equally entertaining. Please bring him back- his bus project is pretty fascinating too!
Me too
The first time I saw a Coda irl, I saw a Rivian R1T rolling by a few minutes later. Kinda crazy how far the EV space has advanced
You could've said same thing about coda and a tesla when they were both new, comparing the coda to the tesla, thats kinda what makes it interesting
@@lasskinn474 True, but it wasn’t a figure of speech. I was actually driving around when I stop at a 4 way intersection, and a random Coda just rolls by in front of me. Then 2 blocks and another 4 way stop later, a Rivian rolls on by. I had just seen Robert/Aging Wheel’s Coda series, so I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition lol
It’s too bad EV cars are destroying the planet worse than gas cars right now :/
Robert is an amazing UA-camr. His videos are next level editing (even the ads are awesome, which is a first for me because I usually skip). I began watching his channel from pretty much the beginning when he built and used his camper. Do ask him about it! All of his projects are intriguing as are his vehicle projects.
Knew it was Robert as soon as the name coda was in a video. Absolutely love it's genericness
I remembered this car a little bit when it was launched, since at that time for Chinese car enthusiasts it is obviously with the appearance of Hafei Saibao which is already a 6-7 years old model at the time Coda is launched. There is also one point about the original model that many don't know - it is designed by Pininfarina.
The Coda brings me back 13 years ago. I am an auto engineer who was laid off in '09. I finally got some consulting work at the end of '09 working on the Coda to make it pass US crash standards. It was clearly going to be a disaster from the start (it was ugly and clearly outdated), but it was work. I did that for a few months and then found a job at Fisker working on the Karma. I got out of there before they went under.
Not their greatest moment...
@@moniack actually that's super interesting! how would you bring s Chinese car to US safety standards? Was it a challenge?
@@calebj2886 I only consulted for a few months with the airbag supplier. A friend of mine worked for a couple years for Coda and had some interesting stories about what it all took.
@@moniackso you went from EV disaster to bigger EV disaster? Hope you have something more stable now
I Love Aging Wheels and the other channel Under Dunn. I found him for woodworking stuff, then he popped up on Wrench every day and I found out he does car stuff too. His videos are pure entertainment!
The on-point editing helps. It makes all of those many-hours-long parts of the jobs go by in a snap, or rather, a series of snaps.
easier said than Dunn
Holy shit I've been a fan of aging wheels for years and never knew about that other channel until now! Thank you
I am glad he is finally on here as he deserves to be just as much as the other UA-camrs he has put his heart and soul into his videos, I think the only reason he isn’t up there with the rest right now is because he took a break. That should not stratify him out of this round because he is every bit as important to see UA-cam car culture as hoovie or Tavares and his constant is a lot better more funny he gets to the point and does really awesome fast forward
I wish he posted more on both of his channels but when he does post it's quality. He's hilarious and his editing is on point.
Tavarish and Hoovie are interesting enough, but when Robert says he has a weird car, I believe him the most. Aside from the kit cars, most of Tavarish and Hoovie's cars are somewhat well known and desirable, therefore predictable.
Aging Wheels is probably my favorite automotive UA-camr. Great seeing him here.
I was listening to this without watching, heard Roberts voice for the intro and then the vin wiki intro and was surprised. This guy is the real deal for car nerd/ engineers/ tinkerers. Glad you got him on.
YES! Another vinwiki crossover with someone I like!
I was at the 2011 Los Angeles Auto Show and sat in two of three Codas they had there. One was definitely white. I remember the booth had a very odd atmosphere, even for an (at the time) eleven year old. Almost as if they were hiding something horrific and the unforeseen presence of a precocious, Mercedes-Benz hat wielding eleven year old would expose their mischief, however they also were just as foreboding for each and every person who approached them as far as we saw. The best part is, I have photos of the Coda booth parked directly next to the Land Rover booth that year. The one and only time another manufacturer has upstaged Land Rover in unreliability.
"The one and only time another manufacturer has upstaged Land Rover in unreliability."
This statement alone wins all of the internets.
If you ever needed a "but at least I didn't do what this guy did" reference, Aging Wheels is it. Lol. Great video.
"Wwwwwelcome to Aging Wheels! Probably the 3rd, or 4th dumbest channel in all of automotiv Yoe Tube! I may do some dumb stuff, but not as dumb as Hoovie❓
@@theanomalous1401 usually more insane and goofy than Hoovie, for sure
My uncle has one of these, the family still uses it (they have that, a Prius, and a Subaru, all shared among them rather than each person having "their" car). He admits that it's a piece of shit and now has three wheels in the grave (every warning light on, weird clicking noises while driving) but it clearly has a lot of sentimental value and keeping it alive is a source of pride for him. His is #3, but he claims it was actually the first sold, he was first in line to buy one. There is a small but tight-knit community around these things, surviving on a dwindling supply of parts. I actually drove it once a few years ago (we didn't have a chance to do anything with it on my most recent visit), from what I recall it drove well, the heavy regenerative brake was actually great for driving in heavy traffic. It's actually refreshing in a way - just a basic electric car. Not weird or quirky like most other early electric cars. Not pretentious or overly gadget-stuffed like recent electric cars. Humble, basic, functional, in a way recent electric - or gasoline for that matter - cars aren't.
Aging Wheels!! One of the more underrated and over delivering when he does something.
I like this guy, please have him back. Subscribed to his channel too. I never knew these Codas existed.
I got hooked on him back with ed's trabant video years ago!
I test drove a Coda when they were first introduced. My one-way commute to work was 40 miles so I didn’t feel the claimed 88 miles range would work. The one I drove was extremely loud, as if there was a jet engine under the hood. The noise immediately killed any interest. I ended up buying a Chevy Volt which I was usually able to drive one way entirely on battery power.
My buddies 2012 volt just crossed 250k miles with no major problems lol surprisingly good cars
Keep the Volt both of you, the Bolts coming out now are sucking hard, they are not good cars as they made them to need to be replaced every 5 years.
I've been watching Ageing Wheels since he bought the bus however many years ago. Criminally underrated and genuinely shocking he does not have more subscribers.
I was just introduced to aging wheels through the last video VinWiki posted with Robert. I love him. Thank you to both channels!
My favorite UA-cam person, he is awesome, thanks for having him in your channel. 👍
EV with a CVT..... atleast someone tried. I think it was to solve the range problem. The same reason we have CVTs in ICE econoboxes today.
except cvt's are generally hot garbage :D
@@CotyRiddle true how to make a 1.0-1.2 eco engine consume a lot of fuel? use a cvt instead of a 5 speed manual
I've been hoping to see aging wheels here for so long. Glad he's getting more eyes on his awesome content.
There is actually one of the crash test coda’s for sale right now in a gov auction
I loved seeimg his garage on cartrek a few seasons ago and am so happy to see him on here!
LOL I started working at a certain EV company in 2011, and I remember someone telling me that Coda was going destroy us because the cars were so much cheaper.
When I saw Coda, I knew there was only one UA-camr masochistic enough to be involved.
If y’all don’t watch aging wheels, do. The humor is clean and on point.
Always great to see Robert getting much-deserved exposure on other channels!
They only produced 127 with parts for a handful of others. There is only 1 proprietary scan tool and a guy in California has it. Codas were $40,000 a pop which didn't help when the quality was terrible.
Let’s talk about the Elephant in the room. That Briklin on the trailer.
That's Tavarish's Bricklin, Robert picked it up and delivered it.
IIRC, he dropped it off along with a parts car for another project, and that's when Tavarish gave him the Yugo.
@@spyone4828 Ahh! thank you! I hope Freddie makes it perfect. It is such a unique story.
Haha, I worked at a test facility that tested one of these. I remember the company going out of business and the test facility got stuck with the car
Great for you having Robert on the show, this guy delivers!
Well I'm going to sub to Aging Wheels now. This guy is a living information book.
How do astronomers organize a party?
They planet.
Love both of these channels. great story.
WOOHOO! Aging wheels finally! Love his bus project
I had a fleet job where we worked on Miles EV's, which was kind-of a parent company to CODA, and I have to say, I've never seen anything worse. Every single part of these vehicles seemed flawed. The added weight of the batteries cut into the payload so significantly, that two grown men would nearly put the vehicle over GVWR. They initially kept the shifters from the Chinese vehicles as forward/reverse selectors, but they didn't put any block-off plates on them, so if the driver accidentally put the vehicle in 3rd for "forward", it would smash the wiring against the trans tunnel and cause it to fail. All the upholstery failed, all the paint failed. Battery packs rarely lasted more than a year. Everything about them was garbage. In about 2012 I saw a CODA on the road with manufacturer plates. I flipped him the bird.
And before you think I'm a sour grapes mechanic bitching about Engineers, I was working as a fleet mechanic while getting an engineering degree. So from both sides of the table, I can confidently say these guys are morons.
Most likely another Silicon Valley scam to take advantage of the free green Obamabux that were being handed out at the time. It didn't need to be good, just good enough to get the grant and the board members their golden parachutes.
You can register them all if you go through the paperwork. It would be the same process as registering a kit car.
I saw a kit car on the freeway, it was a replica of kit from Knight Rider, maybe the original
Love the Channel! Keep up the good work!
I think I remember seeing one at the LA Auto show. We joked that a 90's Kia Sephia was a step up from that car.
Not wrong there.
I love the aging wheels YT channel. Very entertaining.
Wow! Blast from my past. I worked at UQM during the build for these. I actually put my hands on a few of the early codas. It was the first EV I ever drove. Long story short UQM did me dirty so I left that company. There’s a few cars I have seen here in CO but I never heard much about what happened. Last I had heard UQM was trying to figure out what to do with all the motors and controllers because they hadn’t been paid for and the CEO had redone the contract for them to be able to walk at no recourse. UQM has been sold and I used to see some of the old guys from there but moved my dealership out of that town and don’t get down that way much.
AWD 4 wheel steer Coda. Do it. I'll grab popcorn.
I just finished converting a 1986 Toyota van to electric using a net gain hyper 9 motor and I must say it's way better than it was before 40%. More torque and about the same amount of horsepower. It's so much fun and with putting around the neighborhood and town with regen, I'm losing 6th of a volt, very efficient.
Only Robert could find a car worse than his Trabant and still love it. I can tell because he has done it several times.
Good to see Rob on VinWiki!
I saw the title and thought "I wonder if Aging Wheels is in comments" but I didn't expect this! Awesome
The guys a friggin' legend !
Aging wheels, and Under Dunn are two of the most watchable "Obscure every day car" and auto maintenance channels out there, and that's purely because Robert is such an amazingly funny, likeable, and chaotic person. He's got a sort of energy and enthusiasm on camera that's almost "Puppyish" to watch.
Nothing but love going out to the guy, because, as I said, He's a friggin' legend. :D
88 mile range isn't a problem for a lot of use cases. I want to say the federal highway administration put the average daily driven miles at around 35. I drive a chevy volt that has a 36 mile range and very rarely have to use the gas back up.
Oh My Gosh ROBERT DUNN THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME
Edit: HE HAS A BRICKLIN
The Bricklin was Tavarish's.
He has no shortage of weird, made for only a year or two cars. But that particular one was just a hitchhiker.
@@spyone4828 oh that’s disappointing
That wheel and tire combo actually made that car look kinda cool.
Is there an easy way to fix the Coda as an electric car?
@Matthew Hurren Rim:noun. the outer edge, border, margin, or brink of something, especially of a circular object. any edge, margin, or frame added to or around a central object or area. the outer circle of a wheel, attached to the hub by spokes.
It's a wheel.
@@runed0s86 the battery is kinda small, but serviceable, provided it has a separate BCM, you could swap a programmable inverter and dump more amps in the motor
I wonder if one day you could ever get Regular Car Reviews to sit down and do some stories. Brian is sure to have some really fun stuff to talk about.
🎨 painting your single car, multiple times to look like you have a fleet of inventory... Carroll Shelby perfected
that play!!!... 😂
"Coda- conclusion to a piece of music, often an addition to the original song. " Appropriate name ☺️
Tesla swap the vinless one and take it to different Auto meats and just use it as a track car it would be a hell of a sleeper
Looks so similar to the DeClasse Premier sedan in GTA5
It does
So glad to see Aging Wheels on here!!
Aging Wheels is one of the best car youtubers, he makes videos with cars most people have never even heard of
It's a suzuki forenza
I work at Lucid Motors and someone here drives on every day! Lol
I love that they went with Audi Long Beaches for stock wheels
I hope when he gets tired of those prototypes and donates them to a couple of museums.
Aging Wheels is an amazing channel. Great to see him on VINwiki!
Robert Dunn's videos are always so fun, if anyone is into cars and isn't watching Aging Wheels, you're missing out on a lot.
Only 1 mention of the Bricklin on the trailer in the comments?
When is that video series coming out?
Ask Tavarish, as Robert was just giving it a ride.
Put a corolla engine in one of them
It's actually a pleasant Corrola-meets-Jetta looking thing, and that relentlessly generic styling ensures that it will blend in anywhere in the world and never be noticed by anyone - not a bad thing.
I agree, I find the styling "pleasant".
I agree, I greatly prefer the generic "just a regular car" look of it. Not everything needs 22 inch wheels, a 30 inch touch screen, gullwing doors, etc etc. It's an electric family sedan, literally the most boring vehicle in existence after a minivan, it doesn't need to be covered in tacky nonsense.
If these are free I’ll take two 😁😁
This guy is pretty fun. He should get his own internet show
I think one of those need a......wait for it........LS SWAP!!!! 😂😂😂
Imagine if he made a race car out of one of them , with weight reduction and the stock internals , he could hold thr record for the fastest Coda
Since he got them for free, he could enter one in Lemons and have basically no competition for their EV awards.
And he could take it to Austin and have the fastest Coda at CotA.
@@Thinginator thats an option although , I don't think he will use his good Coda for lemons ,and the other cars are very under powered .but with weight reduction and other mods he can put it in the race
@@justicegaming1412 definitely
@@justicegaming1412 And since Coda is a dead brand, he can be the first and only Coda factory racing team!
was that other car on the trailer a bricklin? did i miss that video?
Well spotted - I was wondering what that was.
That depends: when Robert said that Tavarish had given him the Yugo and said you could watch Tavarish's video to see that happen, did you go watch it? If you did, you would have seen Robert given the Yugo just after dropping off a parts car and the Bricklin Tavarish had bought.
(I gather that Tavarish found a Bricklin in California, and then knew that Robert had access to a 2 car trailer and had to go to California to get the third Coda so would have space on the trailer, and finally found a parts car for his other project that was somewhere near Robert.
where can I get one?
Those gta references for the car look was spot on. From the side with the Audi wheels , give it a Jetta look of some sort from the side.
Or the VW Pasat.
I saw a Coda in the thumbnail and immediately thought of Aging Wheels. I'm glad you guys are featuring him.
I remember looking at these new at a chrysler dealer. Price was ridiculous.
Why doesn't anybody make an electric that simulates the rotating properties of an ICE? seems like a simple solution to the auxiliary systems dilemma and it would open up all 3 types of conventional gearboxes.
It's awesome to see Aging Wheels here!
And Ferrari just sent you a cease and dismiss for that shirt
I hope you put your hands on an EMC e36 (romanian dacia ev converted and sold in us )
Two aging Wheels vin wiki videos in the span of a month? It must be my birthday
Aging Wheels sense of humour is the best part about the channel
Stopped watching this channel about two years ago.
I'll come back for this.
Would love to see vice grip garage Scotty and aging wheels in a collaboration.
I would drive one. I'm used to driving cars with a bad reputation. I have a Chrysler 2.7 with 275,000 original miles. The "experts" say that's impossible.
If the government made a car, this is the car they would make.
These might be good for a small car museum, especially the non drivable ones.
Funny thing is, the way they modifies the Coda with the grill, and the wheel package, I think it looks quite good. Simple, clean, invisible. I like it. I would be very happy with that car ... but with an engine of course. And less breaking bits.
That Bricklin is interesting too. I wonder who got that
And here I thought I finally found an electric car that I could afford to own. My wife has about a 15 minute, 7 to 9 mile (depending on route, highway is longer but faster) drive to work. I'm retired and rarely go further than 30 miles from home. But, reliability is essential. I've tired of working on cars.
It is great that you are preserving these early EV cars. I'm afraid that even some of the more modern EV cars are going to become non-drivable for lack of parts or batteries to make them work.
there's one on a trailer about a mile from me, been there since pretty much it was "new". Owner's thinking it has a lot of value and isnt letting it go for free thats for sure. We got lots of crap electric cars when the state of California decided to start handing out "alternative vehicle" money. One guy's "plan" was to do an electric conversion of an Ariel Atom. But people acted like it was a totally new design...
I watched this guy's woodworking videos before I did not realize he was a car guy.
is it bad that I want to buy all of these cars, get them operational, and just drive them around locally because I want to look like a GTA NPC?
I just love to use one of them as a battery pack for my off-grid homestead doesn't have to move anywhere I just want to hook up to the battery.
2:02 he has 3 coda's and a breaking bad camper!
I litterally thought of Aging Wheels when I saw the thumbnail. Haha.
Repainting cars for car shows, carol Shelby did that on the cobra’s for it seemed they had more inventory
I clicked on this video solely because of Aging Wheels. Many thanks for having him on the VINwiki channel!
Really happy to see Dunn here
It would make more sense, if it were possible to get rid of the CVT's, and use 4-speed manual transmissions with clutches. The most difficult thing, would be the bell housing flange adapters, as well as fitting a clutch pedal. (I would recommend hydraulic master and slave cylinder)