@joeligo.bsky.social
Producer/Director of "The Last Independent Automaker," a documentary series about American Motors Corporation: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1hpaGZZVPlzUuzDWxBH5vMOdcJqSR2WL&si=eYCEiGcyqNga-hjm ◤▍
I saw the thumbnail but I need to watch it!
08.02.2026 03:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0make the zamboni drivers compete
08.02.2026 03:13 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
dudes rock
08.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
One of my favorite interviews we did was with actor Sam Groom. From 1981-83, he was the face of AMC's "Tough Americans" ad campaign. But he is so much more!
I'm sharing the whole interview, filled with stories from Hollywood to Kenosha: youtu.be/C0SsC-n9vjw?...
Disappointed this wasn’t part of the opening ceremonies.
07.02.2026 02:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Me 'n the boys going out to pick up chicks at the county fair:
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This is a favorite commercial from an old episode of "Home Improvement" that my mom taped off TV: youtu.be/qdK1uFFPcgs?...
02.02.2026 14:10 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This guy was definitely the real deal, though. Thing was crammed with tools, parts, and a loose acetylene tank just rolling around in the back.
02.02.2026 04:55 — 👍 33 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 0
Just a Chevette parked in the Home Depot contractor lot at 8pm on a Sunday.
02.02.2026 04:51 — 👍 17 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
One of my favorite parts of our AMC documentary was working with people who preserve and digitize old automotive media, which included a lot of vintage TV commercials and factory footage: youtu.be/K2iRe2Yuo4E?...
31.01.2026 19:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watching my favorite Japanese TV show where they interview people about what they're having for lunch, and today‘s guests are two sweet potato farmers that drink Monster Energy with every meal.
31.01.2026 04:26 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I guess this is a modern equivalent of a DVD bonus feature... here are some clips from the interviews that didn't make it into our final cut of The Last Independent Automaker.
All great people; we just couldn't squeeze everything into our 3-hour time limit for the show.
youtu.be/X_U1uKN4Vlw?...
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I'd say it's accurate, at least. Body-on-frame Trucks and SUVs are maybe the 2 things GM builds that are decently reliable.
28.01.2026 13:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Watching a documentary from the mid-90s, and this woman is reading a newspaper with a giant headline: “Reliable Chevy Tahoe”
28.01.2026 05:15 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0My brother and I still quote it:
"Weird, that package should've been crammed full of nitroglycerine!"
"Where there's a will, there's a... secret passage?"
"Get ahold of your ooze, Squish!"
"What, now he wants to be pageant director?"
Watching the "Twas the Night Before Bumpy" Christmas special on VHS is an annual tradition, which includes the original commercials from when my mom taped it off TV in 1995.
Truly a brilliant show.
My friend was an AMC/Jeep salesman in Connecticut back in the 70s/80s, and he said snow plows were an amazing sales tool. You tell a young guy that if he spends a couple hundred bucks extra on a plow, his Jeep CJ will pay for itself. Sealed the deal in a lot of cases.
26.01.2026 20:39 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Need one of these bad boys.
26.01.2026 20:35 — 👍 55 🔁 6 💬 4 📌 6
YouTube must hate our behind-the-scenes podcast, because it's absolutely wrecked my algorithm.
However, I still think our conversations are fun, interesting, and can perhaps inspire other automotive filmmakers to create car stories of their own:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEeQ...
Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Shaking hands and making friends
23.01.2026 01:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oooh, where is that???
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I’m watching a 1990s documentary about Pittsburgh, and there’s a guy eating ribs at a BBQ restaurant in a shirt that says, “I’m not DRUNK, I’m just a RACE FAN.”
21.01.2026 04:31 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
For the record, Conway Twitty was actually an incredible artist, with top 10 songs in FIVE decades, and more Billboard County #1 hits than ANY OTHER ARTIST except George Strait.
Not bad for a Pacer owner.
I believe it's his personal Pacer, too, as during an interview it was mentioned that he owned a red Mercedes 280SL convertible, but the Pacer wagon was his favorite.
20.01.2026 21:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Anyways, here's a really low-quality music video of Conway Twitty driving up to an ex-girlfriend's house in an AMC Pacer wagon, badly lip-singing, then driving away.
youtu.be/eVM_dAe434w?...
