1962 AC Bristol: The Grasshopper

[@C345OFR]

Good to see that you're still going to release this type of content for free, Petrolicious. Long may it continue.

[@BlueHopi144]

thankfully

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

Thankfully, it isn't for free. I am certain the content creator is making sufficient enough money which would allow him/her to continue this.

[@762x69]

We need more tastefully green cars. This is a great story.

[@HooptieDoodle]

I totally agree! Green can be a great color, but there is a fine line. 😉

[@MarkWladika]

And less gray!

[@jakekaywell5972]

Do not worry, I have a car that exactly matches that description!

[@ominous-omnipresent-they]

I have a green turbocharged '01 Volvo S60. I love her.

[@tompilling4154]

Painted my Willys 1960 Aston Martin DB5 California Sage Green

[@gregoryrapier3021]

Love the video good to see a woman into cars . Robin you rock.

[@bobstuckrath1805]

This woman has fantastic taste. Coupled with brains and determination, she's one in a million.

[@stewartw.9151]

That AC is the grandaddy of all Cobras! Looks beautifully original in it's race-trim!

[@erichakanson7010]

AC Bristol, AC Ace and most of all IMHO, the AC Aceca are some of the most beautifully designed cars ever made. I know most of the fervent fans and enthusiasts of British sports cars have long been aware of these cars but I'm always shocked when I hear of people who are unfamiliar with them. These cars rank up there with the DB5 and the E-Type in terms of sheer beauty. Fantastic video. This one right here is a great example of why I love Petrolicious so much!

[@michaelwcarpenter5824]

166 MM clone without the V12 but love the color green. This is one of my favorite Petrolicious videos now.

[@erichakanson7010]

@@michaelwcarpenter5824 I'm not so sure I'd call it a "clone," but the resemblance is there. If you called it a "clone," you'd have to apply the term to countless other cars of the era. And the reason for this of course is the "cross breeding" of Italian and French designers working with manufacturers outside of those countries. Spada, Michelotti, Guigiaro, and even the great Pinin Farina either worked for or greatly influenced not only Italian cars but English, German and on occasion even American cars. Now I'm not really a fan of American muscle cars so some people will grill me for this but I'd rather have one of the earlier AC cars than a Shelby Cobra, esp the later ones. The early Cobras still look like English sports cars but they then became fatter with more junk on them, lessening the timeless design of the originals.

[@shanehnorman]

Eric Hakanson: Absolutely. I once had use of a 1962 Ace with the Ruddspeed-tuned Ford 2.6-lite straight six. Gorgeous beast of a car - 170 bhp and less than 900 kgs kerb weight. It had a longer, better-shaped (IMHO) nose than the standard Ace and it was that body that was used for the Cobra.

[@Wi9hT]

Yes, the sound is back to being perfect! :)

[@marcryvon]

Nothing sounds like a Brit straight six, right !? Tr6, E Type, AC Bristol... much better and refined than any Yankee or German V8s !!

[@jerrytee2688]

@@marcryvon Keep telling yourself that.

[@Larstig81]

@@marcryvon yup, straight 6 engines with carburators has the best sound. 👍

[@SovereignKnight74]

Awesome! The car that made the Cobra possible. This is a very important piece of automotive history.

[@larrykirkpatrick4221]

What a treasure. I love it when a car finds he right person!

[@patrickarmitageWWW]

Beautiful car, great story, fantastic camera work, and editing. One of your best episodes.

[@brunotulliani7483]

Beautiful car and a lovely lady. She's a keeper!

[@RollYourRock]

Cool lady with a great car story! 👍👍

[@stevielegrand]

So glad I found this site, what a wonderful one it is too, Robin. I love the AC Bristol, they are great cars and so esoteric.

[@jakekaywell5972]

Absolutely fantastic! From a star-struck, weird, and self-professed autophile of a teenaged boy I wish you all the best with a slice of Great Britain's finest! I myself own a 1962 Studebaker GT Hawk and love everything about it. From the bodywork to the history, that car is best described as "irrational exuberance". Like yours, it is a resplendent shade of green and has a four-on-the-floor.

[@austinado16]

Robin, I really enjoyed hearing about your career and your background, as well as your huge success in the world, transporting cars. Love that you continue to learn, adapt, and evolve. Love your courage! Your car is fantastic and you are a great match for it. I hope you both have many years together! Thanks for sharing your story, your car, and your journey. You put a huge smile on my face! Ignore the keyboard jockeys who lack the intelligence, talent, drive, and skill to have lives and stories to tell of their own, and are so poorly developed that they come here to spew their little insipid comments.

[@BlueHopi144]

I totally support what u expressed . Loads of men today are still locked up backwards in the old paradigm where they still believe that a Passion for cars is not accessible to women ....

[@stillsearching1284]

Really inspirational story. This lady worked hard her entire life and managed to combine her love for cars with her career.

[@Samantha-xp8cn]

Safe to say, I have the coolest boss! Way to go, Robin! :)

[@basithph8958]

I love that green

[@SpeedandChromeTV]

Agreed

[@TomSilver_42]

Thank you for showing up amazing car. I still have a little goose-bumps and have a gently itchy/frozen fingers. No doubt I'd like to touch and drive such a gem. Thank you!

[@TexasScout]

“I got a stick shift and that’s when things got fun”. I wish more people would see/try that. Manuals are going away. My wife much prefers a stick. We still have our 2005 G35 Sport Sedan MT6 and, as she says, “I just feel more in control, closer to the car and the road”. That’s a feeling that will be lost soon. When you do the California 1000, you need to find one of those old half helmets with the visor and the leather sides and a vintage pair of goggles. Keep driving, never stop.

[@BlueHopi144]

In Europe we prefer sticks to automatic . So here , Manuals are gone last ....longer than in Usa .

[@KofieBluejay]

Honestly, I prefer robotic gearbox for daily drive (like a compact or sedan), especially in city. I wish I had one. But yeah, for a sport car, maybe driving it along the coast or something, it can be nice. For me, it depends really on the situation.

[@rickc2102]

I love stick, but only if it also has a proper manual handbrake. These new cars that are coming out with electronic parking brakes on their manuals just don't get what it's like to have to stop for traffic on a steep incline without a proper handbrake.

[@TexasScout]

Rick C AMEN Brother!

[@iamrichrocker]

as the wind whips thru her hair her smile says it all..great video..

[@georgeure1942]

one of the prettiest cars ever made, bristol straight 6 engines sound so good, take a listen to the bristol powered frazer nash's and coopers

[@maxime9587-e4v]

So happy to see a lady behind the wheel ! Excellent content btw

[@BlueHopi144]

the ancestor of the Ac Cobra body !!! wonderful piece of Car history

[@p.t.g.7179]

I enjoy watching these.

[@cecilwilson5442]

Good to hear your story and brilliant that you took to the car your its custodian excellent to see you now are enjoying life with it its not all about work heart warming 😁🍀

[@mnhsty]

Somewhere I've got a vinyl LP that is nothing but the sound of an AC-Bristol doing it's thing. Amazing sounds.

[@unclemuir]

She knows how an oil temp gauge works. Don't trust it until you give it a tap.

[@austinado16]

Oil takes a long time to get up to its real operating temp. Short jaunts around coastal Long Beach, CA and similar areas where engine loads are going to be light (easy driving) and air temps relatively low/mild, are not going to induce a lot of heat into the engine oil. It's actually not good for engine oil to run on the cool side, because it doesn't lubricate as well as it could, and it doesn't get hot enough to burn off the moisture and other mild contaminants that are byproducts of combustion.

[@oljefri]

I can't trust an analodue dial until i tap it! doesen't matter what it shows haha

[@JoshuaSolanes]

This is one of my favorite videos you've made. Hearing her own personal story and how it led her to the car made it a lot more interesting!

[@AndorRadnai]

It’s good to see someone discovering their car. It’s usually just people who have had theirs for a really long time and know it’s quirks. So it’s nice to experience the process of getting to know it. Also a very interesting phase of car ownership

[@jameseastwood4984]

Lovely film. Our car is in the book too; 200GPD, Bill Shaws racer from the '61 season.

[@khurramsoomro1079]

That is one badass car, and one badass woman! Great storytelling as always, and glad to see you guys implement a membership product. Content this good for free is already too good to be true!

[@1946jeeplover]

Great story, great car, great lady.

[@CommercialVehicle]

great story, nice car, awesome lady, thanks for sharing

[@RL-dj4zl]

The future and the evolution of the sport/hobby, long over due and well done.

[@Sunbumpaul]

What an amazing video. I just love her passion. Perfectly shot and transposed.

[@fan388]

I watched it twice. Great story. Rock on.

[@HeiligerBimBam9]

you know why i god damn love this channel? you can scroll all the comments down and you will not find any comment of sexism. there is no one screaming milf, or anything like that. wow! I just got so suprised. thanks!!! :) Petrolicious just makes the right content for the right people

[@nateisright]

Raydot mirrors, competition windscreen, tonneau cover, green paint, sounds about perfect 👌

[@rjung_ch]

What a petrol head, go gal, so great! Oh, and a Koenigsegg cap as well? Amazing woman!

[@andrewgray452]

I know the gentleman well who did a lot of the work preparing the car and actually found the car for her. Great attention to detail as always by David Zumstein of Abingdon West LTD in Fallbrook. He selected the cam thats now in the car and did a lot of work to get it to the level its is now well done sir,its all the little details on a car like this that help to make it very special like the scrutineer stickers he found under the seats that are now on the roll cage, It would be really nice to see it out on track being driven how a car like this should be driven

[@nrs6956]

Great clip. She shows elan for a machine which is something in common with other petrolicious drivers. After all you are what you drive!

[@ionacjohnj.59]

That smile her face tells the whole story.

[@MrSapper21]

Awesome lady, awesome story and awesome car. I love this channel.

[@kongquestkustoms8858]

What a great story. I love this one.

[@gregorytimmons4777]

How beautiful. Yes, i said it. The beauty is the role caring for a classic car. Researching and learning about and loving the car. How the car influences your life. It sometimes leads to an owner who is equipped to manufacture parts for the marque. It's not even always about racing. In the extreme i have read about a guy restoring a Thomas Flyer and other "walking beam" engined cars of the era who becomes a partsmaker and specialist. Becomes "the guy" to see for a particular ultra rare type of car that very few people in the world own. Amazingly i am thinking here about a "the guy" who has actually logged relatively few miles in these cars. It's more about helping the few people involved with them and his own story of restoring one that there was damn little of left.

[@oliversworldofwheels4910]

That green color is just awesome! That car is really cool and goes a pretty good speed! Love the video like always!

[@andrewipp426]

Where to begin, great video outstanding car, the history, documentation and racing lineage. This incredible woman’s comment “when you drive a car you become one with it” a true gear head, she is a remarkable role model for all car people regardless of gender....keep doing these testimonials for the rest of us, who have 93 octane in our veins!!!

[@robertmardosian727]

Another great story found in car Universe. Thanks P.

[@93455Driver]

Great story, beautiful car!

[@SpeedandChromeTV]

Really nice feature, that car is amazing.

[@beegee22]

Great car, cool lady! She had a good matchmaker. That car suits her nicely.

[@DriversSide]

Amazing looking car! That color is killer!

[@richardbarnes3757]

A beautiful video, so well put together and a joy to watch. Great job!

[@ludovic9477]

Magnifique AC, une page d'histoire de l'automobile. 👍

[@stevendeacy7399]

Thank you that is a great video , give it more throttle and enjoy it , I have an AC Aceca ,just love it and have sprinted it at Goodwood England .

[@thedogbarber]

Love seeing gals in a traditionally men's hobby. Go girl!

[@roykenyon886]

Great story Robin; A+

[@Rob901]

Beautiful car . Nice and original.

[@TotheSoundOfThunderingEngines]

I was in my grandfather one of those when I was younger and I can say for Sure they are fun cars, He raced his too.

[@bearbergmann2782]

Another great story!

[@basithph8958]

That grasshopper is so good on track

[@375GTB]

Le Mans 2.0 liter class winner, 1959. Impressed Carroll Shelby OA winner with Roy Salvadori, DBR1 We see one at our yearly Brits car meet here in Chicago. Silver AHHHHH! J.C.

[@JimS870]

I looked up the value of those things...wow! Beautiful car! I love the colour.

[@MrJacksonBollock]

That smile at 05:40. Don't matter if it's a bloke or a bird. If it runs through your veins, you know.

[@warwick39]

Beautiful car, great story, true you do need to bond with a car👍

[@jogb9515]

Love the car, great story.

[@jamesallison4875]

Lovely lady, very cool car!

[@tismeDenis]

Nothing beats 'time served' 🚘

[@citywalker44]

Really enjoyed this video Very well balances Initially searched for Robin Grove (because of the article on Bloomberg about woman who gets that $30 million Ferrari to Pebble Beach) and then clicked on this video because of AC Bristol. I guess click bait works, I doubt there would be more people here if title was Robin Grove lux car trader.

[@johnnichols9056]

Love to see women into cars, she rocks, the car does too. Her doors will always be opening in the automotive world.

[@jakespeed63]

3rd or 4th time I've watched this magnificent film. Industrial Long Beach makes for a such a great back drop. Fits this car perfect. She is no trailer queen, and the owner, no pre-Madonna. JTOrlando, Fl

[@glennbelfiore5776]

SPECTACULAR!

[@sankalproy442]

We need a petrolicious podcast

[@clarkkent2913]

Beautiful car. BTW: The Bristol engine is originally a BMW pre-war engine (known from the 328). Sounds great.

[@aussiebloke609]

Wow, I thought I was the only person left that was interested in little details like that. :-) Btw, I believe it was derived from the M328, but was built by Bristol - so I have to assume the internals are a bit different, to account for the 50% increase in power (from 79 to about 120, if memory serves.) A good, solid donk - just what one wants when modifying for racing applications.

[@55Bentley6]

WOW !! I'm in love.

[@paulpan2553]

Great lady

[@Stridercondor]

Very nice.

[@marcscordato4385]

Rich, intelligent, attractive I like her and the car is sweet as well.

[@mannyfox8089]

sick car! love the story too - koenigsegg hat is the cherry on top

[@michaelfont7239]

I love you guys!!!!

[@ozzstars_cars]

That car will continue to appreciate. Awesome story, what's it take to go for a ride? 😀

[@MaxSpeedMike]

The grasshopper that gracefully glides along the pavement

[@MrDanty64]

MaxSpeed as only a grasshopper could !

[@Gacha-iv8mh]

Awesome❤

[@Yudaev_top1]

Тачка зачетная. Баба огонь, мало кто так может автомобили любить, как она.

[@375GTB]

Via Tojereo / '53 Ferrari... Even the Cooper/Bristol Mike drove has a part.. What a story.. Hot rodder's world wide Dan, Ritchie... Phil Troutman Barnes Lance The IRS sale.... Goose bumps! FORZA FERRARI J.C.

[@captaccordion]

Petrolicious - I found detail on the car to be sadly lacking. What gearbox does the car use? Were disc brakes standard for 1962? The motor is BMW derived and achieves a hemi head via an extra set of pushrods across the top of the motor. What power is this one delivering? What capacity is it? What is the suspension arrangement?

[@randycairns2041]

wow! love it

[@surplussean3364]

If I find a company with a kit of one of these, I'm buying it

[@ilmllc.232]

Beautiful... the girl 😍

[@jeffreyalexander7504]

cute car!

[@theemacsen1518]

@Petrolicious I am planning on buying a 944 Turbo, what should I know like be prepared for issues, or spares and where to get em?

[@armiman123]

Respect

[@dougauzene8389]

John Tojero (original AC body designer in 1953) would approve!

[@MrEsaleniuc]

Seems like the AC Bristol isn't the only car she drives. Nice little collection she has going there

[@atos.nympha3451]

Stop creeping around. Lol

[@TheInsaneShecklador]

Her business is shipping cars so they may not all be hers. However the Koenigsegg hat may say otherwise.

[@BerlinettaFerrari]

I have seen this car at Amelia Island!

[@ProjectFairmont]

A very attractive personality,

[@aussiebloke609]

The Shelby before there was a Shelby. Very nice. :-)

[@opulentexposure7851]

filmed in carson, san perdo Ca

[@jvs3231]

yes!