I wonder if Hollywood knows that there's a surfer in Ireland working on his cars who's producing more accomplished stop-motion films than they are? 😂

I just have to write this regardless if anyone reads it. A bit more than three years ago, I bought a rusty old Merc 280CE. Luckily I didn't fully realise what I was getting myself into at the time, otherwise I doubt I would have bought it. What started as a simple brake job turned into a full on restauration. It was your videos and your tenacity and attention to detail that in no small part motivated me to keep going. I taught myself to weld in panels, to refurbish the axel components and to braid fuel and brake lines along the way. Only two weeks ago, I went to MOT "Freddy" and he passed with flying colours. So here's to you and your channel and the invisible community you provide. I couldn't be more grateful. Many thanks for your videos. Keep on trucking and greetings from Luxembourg.

Lost for words. Amazing how much work went into restoring this poor MB with Ireland's relentless climate AND editing an 80 minute stopmotion masterpiece. Seriously George....much respect. Hope you can do stuff like this in a proper workshop of your own sooner rather than later. I know all too well how difficult it is to buy anything in Ireland, especially since pure greed seems to have reached peaklevels nowadays. Seeing a video like this takes my mind off of this struggle a bit, so thank you.

I've been watching you with fascination for years, keep up the great work. The amount of time and effort to do a 80 minute stop motion video (while working on a car, or other productive endeavor) is mind boggling. Thank you for this treat.

This isn't your usual Soup update. This might be the most well produced, artistic and mind bogglingly talent filled video anyone is likely to watch on KZfaq. I cant even think how much time and effort went into producing this, never mind the effort that went into the Merc. This is George on the top of his game.

Hey, I clicked this when it said "no views". That's a first. Well, anyway, I never get sick of these love letters to old cars, thanks for taking the time to make them.

About an hour and 20 minutes ago I thought to myself there is no way I'm going to watch an hour plus restoration video. I was wrong Absolutely amazing!

I spent last evening watching and fell asleep (had a LONG day, and was THRILLED at a new Soup upload!!). But man it’s such a soothing video! Rewatching it again right now for my 2-hour afternoon break. This is better than reading stupid news and reddit. Such wonderfully and oddly entertaining and satisfying to watch again!!!

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10:30 The fact that you can flare a line while shooting a stop-motion video, and STILL not forget to put the fitting on the line first proves that you are an exceptionally talented person.

The 123 series is a brilliant car and every single one deserves saving if possible. Your standard of work is second to none. Well done for a good job.

Best car resto vids on YT - not just for the “no talking, no bullshit” but also for the fascinating cinematic work. 👌🏻

This is a brilliant video of brilliant work. Particularly the way you saved things or made them instead of just ordering endless new stuff. The way you show how to fabricate repairs has taught me a great deal.

Yes, such clips are enjoyable, and as I said earlier, you are the king of filming and montage.. The important thing is that you completed the fiber class car that you spent a long time repairing and exhausted us with you, and the clips were not enjoyable with it.. I work as a Mercedes and BMW mechanic. I own a garage for repairing and modifying these German cars, and I thank God that the work is good, and people in my country love German cars, in addition to American, Korean, and Japanese cars. Each garage specializes in a specific type. He is a specialist and has a degree in mechanics. I contacted the German embassy and they asked me for a language and I do not have time to learn the German language. I contacted the Australian embassy and they sent me a form to fill in. A long time has passed and there is no answer. It seems that they do not give residency to those who work and benefit the country. Your country.. In any case, the work is good, and I thank God, and I do not need anyone, only God alone.. Back to our subject, my friend, keep repairing these German cars, as they are fun and beautiful. The way you photograph and your method of repair is the same as mine. I repair w123 & w124 & w126 &w140 & w210 & w220 &c180 & c200 & c220 w212 Greetings to you from the country of the oldest civilization in the world (Iraq 🇮🇶) Your friend Mr. wrya 🌷

No superlatives can describe how I felt when I first stumbled upon this channel. Absolutely outstanding! Thank you very much.

This whole series was a Godsend while I was working on my 280E, love that it's in one big video now!

Absolutely too class videography and restoration, the attention to detail in both are a credit to you George. I shudder to think how much time and patience was needed to produce this content

My man. Love it

This is truly the best car restoration video ever! Professionally done. Thank you.

I hope this one goes as viral for you as the Range Rover video. Great work! Proud to be a patron.

One of the most epic KZfaq videos ever! Mercedes are you watching?!!!

Just mega! Well done George

This is not restoration - this is extraordinary - this is art...

Awesome as always. And forever grateful that there is someone else out there as obsessed as I am about cleaning, fixing and painting parts that you can’t even see!

This is like one of most faboulous automobile engineering, body work craftmanship, camera work and editing combined in one. edit: omg you have other projects too!!! I'm gonna love this channel from here on

I asked my old car to watch this video. For inspiration. Now I'm observing and waiting already for days but nothing happens.

If I were able to give this a thousand likes, I would complain I can't give it 10 thousand likes. George, thank you !!!

hahaha oh man I remember that entire series of update videos you did on Patreon for the cruise control mechanism. Wasn’t even part of the original car but you really had to have it and you made it work. That was insane determination that you got it to go!

Crazy craftsmanship & video editing skills. Watching from africa kenya🇰🇪🍿🍿

Thanks for the amazing work. I've been watching you for about 5 years, I started with a range rover. I myself am engaged in professional body repair, but watching your work is a pleasure. Greetings from Russia! Спасибо за потрясающую работу. Смотрю вас около 5 лет, начал с рендж ровера. Сам занимаюсь проффесиональным кузовным ремонтом, но смотреть ваши работы это наслаждение. Привет из России!

Crazy amount of work, both on the car and in the video production. Bravo! The Benz is just about the same color as the ocean water there at the end.

Top quality finish, sublime videography. Truly an honour to be given the opportunity to follow along.

Title checks out. A true masterpiece.

To be able to perform all this high-quality work without a lift and a proper space is so damn impressive! I want you to have a nice space to continue your fantastic work, I really want that for you. If only you were here in the states. A few years back I shared my space with a lad who moved here from Glasgow and did his apprenticeship in The Netherlands. I watched the way he approached extensive rust in a cars never regions, and I now realize you’re also working right out of that playbook. I’m more mechanics then body restore, but I’m getting better every day. Thanks to videos like this. Cheers!

Wow! Very accurate work indeed. Congratulations on the manual skills with welds and blocked bolts. The animation is also very nice! In addition to your skill, the great quality of the Mercedes parts of the time also comes out!

Absolutely no-one in the Automotive space makes content this real, cathartic or as artistic. Literally the only channel I am a Patron of. Masterful.

You have a great work ethic, can’t imagine the hours you put in every day. Love popping in here every now and again to see what your at… Keep going, and thank you ✨✨✨👍

The best car restoration video in the Universe 👑

Simply the best car video I've ever seen, absolutely mesmerising. The stop motion idea is utterly genius, wonderfully executed and incredibly original (at least, I've not seen a restoration filmed like this before). I've watched the Range Rover one too now, and this one twice! Having worked on old cars, and played around with a very small bit of stop motion with Super8mm, the mid boggles as to how you had the patience to do this. I love the way the restoration is sympathetic, not throwing masses of new parts at it. And to top it all, there is an underlying story too: it's quite emotional to see the car being used at the end. Thanks for making this!

This is absolute class, subscribed - I cannot even begin to fathom how much effort and time all of this took and all the planning involved. Absolutely superb job on the W123, I hope I can treat my W124 likewise one day as well!

George, your patience, application and creativity defies belief and leaves me feeling guilty; I watch your videos instead of getting on with my own jobs. This is by far the most intelligent and utterly facinating channel on KZfaq. How it is you don't have 10 times as many subscribers as you do is a mystery - there is truly no justice in this world. Good luck, keep the faith and stay stuck in.

Inspiring. Mesmerizing. Hypnotic...and sooooooo Satisfying! Can't wait for the straight six!

That was absolutely beautiful to watch. And I absolutely loved the tuck Pendleton inner space reference. Whoever does the camera editing is a genius

The level of details is bar to anything seen before !! Thank you.. this is a different level of restoration

Was going to say something like: "At loss for words" - but then I just typed out words there so.. Also: I literally jumped from my seat and cheered when you got away from the flux core. F'n A mate. F'n A. Cheers from Wisconsin !

Well the title certainly didn’t disappoint!! Do KZfaq do awards for videos? If they do and this doesn’t win hands down then there’s something wrong with the world!!! Top class

What a way to showcase your talents! Watching your restoration projects really released the dopamine in my brain! Thank you 🍺👍👍

Is there anyone else who'd like to buy this man a beer (or two) Sometimes the algorithm gets it spot on !

Even after watching all the episodes of this build, seeing them all together is quite satisfying to watch. Awesome job as always!

Must admit, I was getting a bit jaded with YT old car tinkering video channels - but not this one! Every video a work of art!!!

Whose got an hour and twenty minutes to watch a car resto vid?.....hmmm....seems that i have! 😅 Tuck Pendleton ...? That needs an explanation 😊 Thanks and awesome job George ❤

This video is amazing. All the time you have invested in filming in stop motion creates an extraordinary result. That's without talking about the car, or should I say the tank you have restored while filming. Extraordinary results. Cheers.

The best car restoration video ever? I'll say. You've outdone yourself again.

I don't know if it's the best car restoration video ever, but it's the most enjoyable to watch. Well done and congratulation for all the work.

As a kid I always wanted to build/restore cars. As an adult I have neither the skills, patience or tenacity to fulfill that dream. So I will let you fulfill it for me, while I sit here in my sunny garden with a chilled beer, watching it all unfold in glorious (and often excessive) detail. Thanks

Worth 90 minutes of anyone’s time to watch. Just wonderful!

And the Oscar for best stop motion restoration video goes to ...... SOUP CLASSIC MOTORING. Absolutely amazing. No resto video compares to this. EVER! This is as long as the longest Wallace and Gromit stop motion movie and equally entertaining but way more jaw dropping.

Sir! This is a masterpiece and you are a true inspiration!

The title is not hyperbole. Absolutely masterful. Thanks!

You are worthy of laser cutters, cnc's, blast cabinet, powder coat equipment, hydraulic lifts. And that's just the mechanics. Production side you deserve serious recognition. Imagine if this was the end credits of a movie about the hero car. (Obviously edited down to 4 minutes)

This is definetly not a car video, but pure art.

The W123 is Mercedes most classy car (followed by the 6.9 SEL) by far and a wonderful example of what Mercedes once was. Not this awful plastic laptop crap for the masses on finance that we see now. It has more presence and glamour than a carpark full of new C-Classes. They’re dreadful. This is true engineering and class and I’m so happy to see it restored by Soup and saved. Wonderful video, enchanting music and of course a beautiful car ❤

I sold my 230ce now I'm crying. This video is a work of astounding genius!

I applaud your efforts and dedication in restoring a worn and badly rusted W123. I live in Australia and I'm convinced I wouldn't be able to find a W123 with a quarter of the rust that yours had. I must also apologise for my tears of laughter courtesy of your ‘playing matches’ antics - very humerous, although it could of ended in a different form of tears. Hats off to a wonderfully produced video.

Oh man, this is just beautiful. The engineering, the stop motion, the video cuts, the music... Pure art! I can imagine this working really well to a back drop off a music band at a festival. Just a thought. Well done sir, I can't wait to see your other work and I really hope you hit millions of views.

A journey of a thousand steps. It didn't feel like you did that much work on the W123 week to week, but boy oh boy did you ever! Well done George :)

Thank you so much for this, we all really appreciate all the effort you put in to making these videos. They are unlike anything else.

Man I've done stop-motion before and I cannot fathom how long this took you. Such an insane amount of passion went into this project, and all your others, and I thank you for sharing it all in such a cool way!

I have watched the entire process, the longest I have ever spent on a single YT video, but you must have spent hundreds of hours... Hats off to this level of dedication, skill and artistry.

It absolutely made my day to see this uploaded, been following you since near the beginning of this restoration and every video blew me away. And somehow you saved the best for last! Awesome work sir! About to start paint and bodywork on my 83 300SD and this is the perfect motivation. I have no excuses since I have 5% of the rust to fix as yours and no stop motion to record. 😅 Again, congratulations, we're all proud of you!

Very cool to see an old car magically repair itself.

I never comment but this video is amazing....I've never seen anything quite like it. Everything about this is enjoyable. Thank you

Absolutely stunning work, both the video editing and the craftmanship!

That was nothing short of a therapy... THANK YOU!

It brings me so much relief that, when your flux core wire feed welder kicked the bucket, you finally upgraded to a gas shielded system. The combination of your stop motion shooting and the flux core just made for really ugly welds: wholly adequate for your needs, but unsatisfying. Now they're so much cleaner, it is really nice as a viewer merely from an aesthetic standpoint.

If I never see another one I think I've seen the best.

brilliant work! This is just the right amount of restoration, a solid job that will make the car go for a long time. At the same time not going overboard, not replacing every fastener, no sand blasting and powdercoating, reusing everything that can be reused. I try to fix my cars the same way. Only thing I do is lube all the suspension component bolts and screws, I use graphite grease. Lots of salt on the roads here, and the suspension rusts bolts corrode really fast.

Epic! Will have to watch a third time there is so much to enjoy and learn from. Thank you for producing something so stunning and inspirational. The colour and stance of your 230 just looks fantastic. M103 conversion is very exciting- a unit I have loved in both R107 and my current W126

is it just me ! i found this so relaxing and calme

George, thank you for the incredibly well-made refresher of the 240 journey! You did the restoration process justice with a video to match the painstaking reconstruction of so many complicated little rusted out areas. It makes me laugh to think of what a stop motion journey of the past 6 years of my G8 GT would look like-rusting, undercoating, various repairs, gradual paint and interior wear, more repairs, an occasional mod, more rust, and for the finale, a nice obnoxious check engine light appearing on a beautiful sunny night. I still love that car though :)

Respect from Taiwan.

E P I C . . . Gives me inspiration to continue wiggling and moving forwards on my several projects. Thanks for sharing George…

Im mad at the youtube algorythm. You should have thousands of hundreds, if not millions views by now... But youtube is busy recommending reacting videos and tiktoks. You put insane amount of work to your videos. I'm working on cars as well and the way you make certain tasks look easy is mad. I know that every second is actually hours and hours of work. I wish you millions of views and subscribers. You truly deserve it.

One of the best you tube videos I have ever seen. It is a masterpiece.

Why does this only have 4.6k views? It should be 4.6M!! It's just so satisfying to watch.

At ten minutes in I fully Subbed with bell and liked of course! This work that this man or people have done is BEYOND!! The stop motion must make the work take four TIMES as long to do! And it's done so excellently!! THANK YOU for this incredible work and the time it must take to create! I had a 1973 Mercedes 280SE and I sold it after it became riddled with body rust and other things. It was one of the greatest cars I've ever owned and I WILL look for another similar one if possible in Canada were I live!!

Phenomenal animation. Your patience will be rewarded.

Outstanding! So lovely to see such a lot of effort go into saving that lovely 123. Amazing work as always George!

To call Your work on a shoestring to keep this Mercer alive "stunning" was such a vast understatement that I won't do so. Thus I'll put it as: I am in a state of bliss and awe, and I thank You for being an inspiration when it comes to rebuild work and renewing an ordinary car's life expectancy with perseverance and inventiveness just to prevent her froom being parted out. Oh, and I didn't even get started on Your stop motion work. Unique. Thanks for producing and sharing!

The amount of filming and editing probably takes a lot of time compared to the actual restoration works! Awesome job! 👍

Brother, the amount and level of skills you have to gather to make the videos... It's not anyone. Thanks for sharing with us.

this is so enjoyable to watch, and 1 hour 20, you really outdone yourself this time mr. soup

I hope more people find out and appreciate the amount of effort you put into your craft and your videos. Unbelievable stuff! Cheers form Greece!

This video is an absolute work of ART! Thank you for such an incredible movie!💯👌

Georgie, yours has got to be the most enjoyable videos of any that i know of on this forum. Your dedication to giving us top quality content with the stop action combined with your humour and video artistry deserves a hearty 'Thank You!' I'm constantly amazed at the amount of time you must put into editing let alone actual metal fabrication. I honestly shake my head in wonder as to how you manage to get those segments of welding patches with what appears to be a continuous set of glowing beads of weld on some of those pieces. I know how you do it, but to manage to do it knowing how much of a PITA it is makes me thankful you do what you do. I've been watching for a while and seeing some of the old segments of restoring the W124 in this vid actually gave me a feeling of nostalgia. Those 'oh yeah, i remember that' moments that sort of makes you feel like you had some small part in your process. I could go on but i want to finish watching the rest of the vid. Just felt i had to chime in and say Thanks! and Cheers! from Eastern Canada. Stay stuck in lad!!

Wow, I am impressed, excellent restoration, excellent video, BRAVO 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😀

love the soulful funky soundtrack! The first piece of art I encountered of you was the range rover. It is awe inspiring how dedicated you are to your craft, which in my eyes, is which craft! Except maybe 51:30 ;-) Art, period. Thanks mate! Yet again.

I hope this gets the billion views it deserves

Absolutely stunning work as always, George. Somehow this is still the most underrated car channel on KZfaq.

Seriously George, this is epic. I loved every moment. My fave bit is you using the original connectors for the fog lights. The best Resto video though? Jury is out on that. It's a bloody tight race between this and some bloke restoring a range rover a few years back. But seriously, well done. Just so so good.