Bad grand-parenting makes for the best stories if you live to tell them!
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#Family #GearheadGrandad #Grandparents - Авто та транспорт
Chris is definitely my favorite on VinWiki. Ed is right there with him, only because I relate more to Chris. I've had many experiences that are basically the same, maybe a bit more crazy than Chris
I have always enjoyed Rabbit and Chris. I find Ed a little underwhelming even though he has great stories.
@@mrjohnklake Rabbit is right up there on the greats. I love his channel
Chris is the ideal calm cool and collected most of us need when our impulse drives us right into the den of danger before logic could even get in the car.
MORE crazy? How are you not dead?
@@ZGryphon lmao! I have no idea! The only way I can see is that God was there. I've asked myself that same question many times. That's one of the main reasons I like Chris. Things were a lot different back in the day
Chris is a great guest. I always enjoy his accounts of his experiences.
When you can immediately tell its a Christopher story ...just by the title. Thanks Chris and Ed. We really do appreciate it!
😂😂
I was born in 1982 so I caught the tail end of the no child safety era. I grew up with grandparents that were the best. Grandma was the car enthusiast and grandpa was the pilot. I grew up cutting and raking hay starting at the age of 8. I remember the starter going out on one of the tractors and we would have to pull start it with my grandpa's truck. I was on the tractor and would pop the clutch and mind you I'm not 9 year's old yet and the old tractor would come to life. Then it slammed into the back of the truck and stall out. My grandpa just got out of his truck and calmly asked me if I pushed the clutch back in after the tractor started. He knew the answer but that was his way of making me understand what I did wrong. He was a very patient man and he taught me a lot while he was here. Love you grandpa.
6:57 man, now that book brings back SO many great childhood memories. Never thought I'd hear about it on VinWiki, but then again, it's Christopher, so he's always full of amazing stories!
That’s forsure.
Thanks for watching LJ! That book has brought many of us so much joy and probably contributed to us being the gearheads we are.
@@christophermichaels THAT BOOK OMG - after USSR fell in 1990 we here in Lithuania received many of old US books/films directly translated to our language but with identical images and everything else.
And this book was definitely the book I learned to read from at 3yo, and it was my favourite early childhood book too just like Christopher's!...just that I was born in 1999 :D
As someone that never spent a minute with either of my grandpas, I'm so jealous of Chris. Thanks for sharing your story Chris!
I love Christopher and his stories! I love him even more now knowing he's an avid diecast collector, like myself!! 👊👊
I know right...
Hi JR! It’s great to meet another die cast enthusiast. I just subscribed to your channel and will be checking out your videos. Thanks for watching and for sharing the kind words!
@@ashp5406 - Hi Ashwin! Thanks for watching my story. Are you a die-cast guy too?
@@christophermichaels that is so awesome brother! You just absolutely made my day, and on my birthday nonetheless! Thank you sir! 🙏🙏
@@christophermichaels yes. Not as many as you have, but my wife have problem with the few I have on my work desk.
I knew when I saw the title this had to be Chris 😅 I think we just found out where he got his love for bikes and vehicles! My grandpa was the same way. Some of my earliest memories were of him showing up with minibikes or a dune buggy and letting my brother and I take off with no helmet or sense about us.
And as usual Chris comes through with an amazing wholesome story this man has lived a very interesting and blessed life
This story was one of the nicest stories I have ever heard.
I remember reading cars and trucks and things that go with my Grandmother! My parents have a copy still, and I read it to my daughter often. We love finding goldbug!
Brought me back to primary school I would sit in the library and read every book about cars boats bikes and planes I could find, great story brought back so many personal memories !
Love the headline! I was just thinking about the childhood safety in the 80s haha Love your stories Chris!
Three wheelers, lawn darts, lead paint, passengers in pickup beds, self-taught drivers ed and cocaine. Thinning the herd of all but the strongest long before 2019. If you need directions on shampoo, this round might not be for you.
Another great story Chris. Brought back some great childhood memories with the Richard Scarry books. Loved his books when I was a kid.
The raconteur blesses us with another gem of how wonderfully irresponsible growing up, and surviving a 70s childhood was. I too wore out my copy of that book. I was wracking my brain trying to remember the name Goldbug. Loved that your Grandpa put a helmet on you Chris, just not real sure that one was Snell approved right there. Still laughing about you and your Grandpa thinking each other were flying the plane!!
I was a kid in the 1970's as well. Chris had Grandpa and bikes. I had Dad, Uncle, and Grandpa with all kinds of farm equipment. "Hold on! I ain't stopping just 'cuz you fall off." was said many times. Love, love, LOVE a Christopher story!
Chris is the definition of the "cool dude"
Your grandfathers raised a great man! They should be proud of you.
Wow! Thanks Brian. That means a lot!
What a great storyteller, thank you Chris.
I've lost both of my grandfathers in the past year and this story is all too relatable. The things they taught me and the irresponsible shit we would do together will always guide me. Thank you for helping me through losing two of the most influential men in my life by helping me realize their stories forever live on in me.
Love it! I was driven home from the hospital in the back of my grandmother's Volkswagen Beetle. No car seat, no belts. One of my favorite things to do as a kid was ride in the back behind the back seat. I called it "the well."
I have no idea how any of us survived 70s childhoods, but i'm grateful to have had one lol.
Amen
One of my grandfathers was quite similar, I remember one time when I was 5 years old and he took me to his carpenter shop, in the garden there was this dead banana tree, he gave me a machete and told me to cut it down.
I can relate to some many parts of those storys. Born in 1970. My grandmother was an escort driver for the military. I spent the first two years on my life in a drawer seatbelted into the front seat of her cars. I have been thru 48 out of 50 states before i turned 3 years old
Chris....you're childhood is so similar to mine it's unreal. Grew up in Grandpa's shop. Got greasy, played with dangerous things, rode in dangerous cars and on bikes. I learned to swear and how to use tools. I also learned how to find Goldbug. That story made me tear up missing my Grandpa. Glad you shared.
Thank you so much for watching Andy. I’m proud to share a past like ours with guys like you!
Grandparents are awesome I miss my grandad I probably get my love of cars from him as well, he had gotten out of cars by the time I had came along but got to occasionally help work on something or hear old stories about cars he had or someone in the neighborhood, he was somewhat a mechanic for people in the neighborhood after my dad was born and when I came of age to work on stuff I could either go to his house or call him and get could walk me through just about anything I had to fix, before he passed he promised to teach me to build an engine and unfortunately never got to, so now I have a old truck my dad gave me after I got a house and am determined to fix the old truck and think of the old man while doing so.
Really great one today. Aside from the riding on the motorcycle as a baby I can relate heavily. I also have thousands of cars all started a young age, and I still have my copy of the Richard Scary book. Fully worn through. Had to get my kids a new one. Very nostalgic today, loved it.
Still have my copy as well signed by my grandparents dated 1972
Thanks Richard. You sound like my kind of guy. I love how so many of have that book and those little cars in common.
@@marchenning5037 - Thanks for watching Marc. Those inscriptions from loved ones make special books even more special. I’m happy to share a love for that book with you!
My 4 year old daughter has that same book, as I did when I was a little kid too, I remember looking for Goldbug and she does it now. She has some of my childhood Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars and accessories, and plays with them frequently.
I reckon Christopher could read the phone book and make it interesting.
I am a professional Motocross announcer here in the Pacific Northwest and this Memorial Weekend (Salute to those who gave their lives for our great nation) I will be announcing VINTAGE Dirt Bike Racing in Lewiston Idaho, seeing the Penton vs Maico shootout on the cover of CycleWorld spoke secretly to me.. Christopher, thanks bro
I’m happy to make a connection Tripp! Vintage dirt bike racing sounds awesome and I admire the energy and quickness with which racing announcer have to have do bring that excitement to the fans. Thanks for watching!
I can remember back in the day, my grandparents picking us up for church on Sunday morning after me finishing my paper route.
My mother and sister and myself in the backseat, no seatbelts and the three adults smoking cigarettes.
The good ole days.
God I love that Childrens book; I read it cover to cover all the time too, bought for all my nephews!!
One of your best stories to date Chris!👍
Thanks Matt! I love your PT Cruiser snowplow!
Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things that Go was my favorite book when I was a little kid. I went to the shelf at the library and got it every time I was taken there (couple times a week).
I think I am going to ask my wife for a copy for Christmas.
Love Chris's clips, great stuff
I really appreciate you sharing the story about the book your grandfather would read to you. I have a copy of a book that my grandfather use to read to me and every time I read it to my kids, I hear his voice in my head and it always brings a smile and a tear to my eye. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome Dan. I’m proud to share this connection to that book with guys like you. Thanks for watching!
I literally cried when he started talking about Richard Scarry. What a great story!I loved that book. My Mom read that to me as a baby. RIP Mom! I love you!
It’s wonderful how we all share such a personal connection to that book Nick. May your mom Rest In Peace until you see her again. Thank you for watching my friend.
Amazing memories that live on thru you & your craft.
Poppa sounds like a Steve McQueen kinda guy.
Thanks for sharing those memories!!
I’m a child of the 70s and I remember that Richard Scarry book fondly. I used to look at the illustrations for hours. I credit that and growing up around cars in Detroit for becoming an industrial designer.
What an awesome cool memory of your grandfather, always like stories from Chris 👍
These are the best! Always love watching Chris's stories!
Thank you for your stories Chris and thank you Ed for hosting him regularly. I can relate to being a kid when near-death experiences prepared you to be a strong, self-sufficient adult.
I had that same book when I was young. It's still on an old bookshelf, Pages are ripped out and the spine is dilapidated but it still is all there.
Born in 76 our old family photos show me, several tall cactus house plants, a cat that still had his claws, glass top coffee table with square corners and sharp rought iron base, a playpen that had a trap door bottom you would fall through, railings spaced apart far enough for a kids head to fit,.....U had skate boards and bikes with no helmets or pads, no car safety seat....my earliest words actually were "look a bone" while eating fried chicken with the adults, lead paint, school monkey bars over asphalt, later we had sketchy toys, mosh pits and crowd surfing at concerts in highschool, old rusty worn out 70s musscle cars as our first cars with me and my friends, some how I made it.
Gen X proud😉👍
Now how did I know it was going to be Christopher telling a story 😂😂
I love reminiscing about the old timers that have passed on. I could listen to grandparent stories all day long. These are people that were born 1940s back to 1900 and they grew up and lived most of there life in an absolutely completely different world. Were starting the fight to keep combustion engines on the road while they had to fight to keep their horses on the road. Indoor plumbing really didn't become common until the 1940s, they all new the feeling of walking to a shed in February to take a 💩 in below freezing temperatures lol
It’s nice to think of days when you where young! It’s interesting what you remember when someone was good to you and you where interested in what they where doing.. 🙂
That was remarkably wholesome. I was prepared for this to be the evil parallel, but instead it was just a nice set of obviously deeply cherished memories.
Thanks for the smile I got from them.
Dude you rock. Thanks for the smiles!
You got it Will. Thanks for watching!
My son been riding with me on my bike since he was 6 month. Started out pushing him around the yard on my Honda letting him hold the handle bars getting the feel of it then riding in the yard. At a year we were riding around out dead end road then a few street over now almost 5 we stick to side street and ride all over town even load up and go fishing. Ride 40 minute to grandma's. Local police are awesome and just smile and wave small town life is the best on two wheels. He had his own riding gear but the milk crate or 50cal ammo box is where he will put his toy for the trip. T-Rex rides in the milk crate and small Dino's, cars, trucks and Jeep in the 50 cal box.
Thank you for sharing We love your stories!
Chris is an awesome storyteller probably one of my favorites I hope he has a lot more stories to tell. Also my daughter has learned to read with the cars and trucks and things that go book
I love this episode cause I can relate to everything he talked about! This brought back a ton of valuable memories! Thanks!
This was my favorite so far. Love the family stories ❤️
One of the best! Thanks Christopher!
I love the stories from Chris, such a great storyteller too
Thank you Chris, as always ,excellent story. I remember that exact Richard Scarry book, it was at my Grand-Ma's , it was one of my favorites.
Gotta love having Chris on here. His stories are some of the best
I’m 38 and I read the Richard Scarry hardcover books growing up too. I still remember the worm that drives the Apple to this day.
Car people are awesome. It makes no difference your race or creed, if you have a love of cars and machines you have a friend. All of my friends are related to the love and interest in cars. Chris’ stories are always great
Always happy to hear Chris stories - you can feel the passion in every word he says. Cheers from Portugal
Thank you Rui! I’ve travelled all over your beautiful country and met so many nice people there! I look forward to returning some day soon!
Another day, another Chris video. Love to see it!
Even though there are a good few years between chris and i, his story of his early loves of cars and machinery resonates with me. Easily one of the best channels of youtube
That is one of the coolest and most effective ways to teach someone to count that anyone could come up with
I love christophers stories, thank you for making these videos!!!
Truly a touching story. I can't imagine holding those kind of memories. I cherish them for you!
Christopher always tells a great story!!! 👍👍
Awesome story Christopher, thank you!
Thank you Chris....memories of a better time.
Wow! What a story! Love it!
100000% recommend that Richard Scarry book “Cars and Trucks and Things That Go”
Now an adult but back when I was a kid that was the go to book in any dr or dentist waiting room as my eyes would be glued flipping pages to all the different vehicles at work!
Love listening to Chris and the stories he tells! The man is a legend I'd love to meet him in person one day!
Chris and his stories are great!
What an incredible story. As soon as you see it’s Chris. You know it’s going to be good.
Keep bring him back please, we love his stories .
My granddad was the car nut in our family. I remember admiring his lovely 1969 Volvo 164 which I thought for years was a Rolls Royce due to the quad round diagonally stacked headlights. At he age of 14 he took me to the nearby dirt airfield and we went all out in his Volvo 760 Turbo with me behind the wheel power sliding the car at each end with him clinging onto the grab handle with one hand and clenching his six pence with the other carrying the biggest grin on his face. Loved it! Then I grew up getting my own cars and I always went to his house inviting him out on a drive in the new car going through all the specs and tech. The last drive we had was when he was aged 94 and I took him out on a rare warm summer day up in the arctic top down in my newly acquired Porsche 964 C2 convertible with the race exhaust and 300hp kit installed. Granddad grinning, me drifting and both laughing with tears of joy running down our faces thundering down the same airfield 34 yrs after the time he taught me to drive stick in his Volvo Turbo.
Down shift and GO granddad in the heavens❤️
Right on Nord! My granddad in this story drove a 70’s Volvo and I used to think it was a Jaguar! It’s so cool we have similar experiences. Thank you for sharing!
Mothers, fathers, grand mothers, grand fathers, brothers, and sisters-the staples of humanity. Unfortunately it's disappearing leaving a empty shell behind.
Think his stories are the best, always love hearing them
That is a beautiful set of stories thanks for sharing Chris. I am sure your grandfather is very proud of you.
Thank you for saying that Arcades!
Thanks for featuring this interesting and entertaining story teller
Definitely need some more stories with Chris they're always hilarious and a good time to listen to
To this day I have a vivid memory of sitting on Mimi’s lap looking out over the hood of a Lincoln Mark series in the fast lane on 580 in California. No one in my family believed me until I described the Lincoln in great detail.
Car and trucks and things that go was my favorite book as a child. My grandpa got me a few of them!
You were truly blessed to have those experiences with your grandpa, Chris. I realize you just made a video saying this, but I wanted to stop by and say I'm happy for your treasured memories 👍
Thank you for the kind words Kimosabbe! I’m honored to share my stories and appreciate you watching!
Always good stories from Chris reminds me of times with my dad taking pipes off of manifolds and waking up the trailerpark. Or pulling wheelies in his 68 beetle infront of our old house. Not to long ago we did burnouts for about 3 hours just learning how my old buick reacts to it.. love the memories these stories bring back.
Great stuff
That book was one of my favorites as well. Proud to say my son loved reading it with me, too.
The best tools I own are from my wife's dad and grand dad. Always thankful for those tools.
This guy is one of the greatest story telling guests on the channel! My earliest memory is at about 1 year old standing in my dad’s lap steering his 1968 Pontiac Firebird as we drove down the Highway. Kid safety wasn’t hardly a concept back then.
Chris is the reason I subscribed to the channel and then later on started to love the rest of the channel would def be cool to meet him one day
This made me laugh & cry so much. Thank you!
Christopher’s memory is impressive and I always look forward to his stories about growing up in the country.
Great stories! I had the same Richard Scarry book as a kid. Loved it.
Thank you for your timing Ed!! After the weekend I had, I was in need of a Chris story or a Rabbit story (For some reason his stories seem like he dials it up just a little bit on Vinwiki as opposed to his channel).. But I really needed this this morning..
I knew it was Chris... because of the title. Thank God for Grandads that that understood safety was up to you.
Reading the title, subconsciously I read it in Christopher's voice. And what a pleasant (non) surprise, it's yet another (probably) awesome story. Now back to watching.
Well worth my time as usual.
Never a dull story from Chris.
Christopher is at it again! My favorite story-teller on VinWiki!! lol
My grandfather lived in downtown Memphis TN in 1986 I was 5, he let me ride on the top of his box Chevy caprice 12 city blocks, to a bar. So he could go get sloshed. It's my first memory, and one of my fondest.
Chris, I have laughed at most of not all your videos. Your in my top 5 people that I love your stories. You have truly had a blessed life brother.
My granddad threw me and the camera in the milk crate and we were off... LMAO...BAHAHA
This brings back memories of when dad would pick up my sister and I from grade school on his Goldwing. We would have to helmet up and the other kids would laugh and laugh at us with our goofy giant heads.