@13:05 "We could do an hour-long documentary on the console alone". YES PLEASE! I'd love to see more in-depth videos about specific features/projects of individual builds.

@el_micha

2 жыл бұрын

As an industrial designer myself I second that!

I like Jonathan. He's a perfect mix of down-to-Earth, mechanical geekiness, excited, and (rightfully so) proud. I hope Jay Leno realizes Jonathan's genius someday, and has him back on his show.

@ICON4x4Design

Жыл бұрын

Just shot with Jay again this week! Thank you for your kind words

Wow, amazing skill set you have in your shop. What a lucky person to have that Mercedes. Growing up seeing 70s,80s Benz, baby fiat, Alfa Romeo, Peugeot , Renault, Citroen , opel, rovers, defenders , fj etc - so great to see that Benz.

As always, enjoyed the shop tour. Not surprised Ford reached out to him for design work.

This is awesome! Mr. Ward you are awesome! Thank you for your creations!

Just spoke to these folks on the phone, fantastic people that really take pride in thier work. I wish them. All the best.

Awesome tour. I love what you do. It pains me so much that we've become a "throw it away when it gets old" society instead of doing what you guys do making old things better. Keep it up. You never know, maybe one day I'll own an Icon.

Such a great tour. Kudos to you and to the filmer great job.

Love LOVE The Shop.. Thank you Jonathan... PLEASE.... Bring the Merc. to Bob's Burbank when it's Done.. !!!

gotta do more benz's....60's and 70's Mercedes are so bueatiful....and add performance, and the well balanced improvements......awsome

Jonathan! You Wizzed right over the 49 Merc! Gave us some bits of info! How bout and new video with all the new updates?!

Always appreciate your shop tours. Thanks. Cant wait to see the mercedes and suburban all done!

if this is in-house video production, it's worth every penny. just great marketing about a hugely interesting topic! (I love how you keep referring to future videos and "this could be a documentary by itself")

Wow. Just wow.

Beyond living the dream.

Toys of the rich and highly leveraged.

i was in shock when i hear you say .drive it a couple thousand mile,than tear it down, make it all pretty again. now i truly understand the lenght you go to for all the car,good work

Okay, I believe you. Willis. Lol. Yeah, I'm the guy who had the nerve to question you on that. Love your work.

Can’t wait for the Mercedes video

Thanks for the tour, love all you do.

Boa noite congrats trabalho icon 2023 bom 💪🏾👍🏾

We appreciate the tour! Happy Thanksgiving to you, your family and the entire ICON family!!! We are thankful for y’all! 🍁🍂🦃🦌🍂🍁

Thank you for the tour. It helps us appreciate all the time and hard work that go into your masterpieces. Icon is definitely on my Win the Lottery list.....

So thankful you were involved in the Bronco build

Thank you for the tour and you and you staff have a great holiday

"Why do something to any level other than absolute perfection?" Jonathan Ward prolly. I have loved the ICON and Jonathan Ward business and attention to detail forever, one of the shops I will call the day I win the lotto, lol

Thank you Jonathan ! Love the shop tours.

Love the work your team is doing. Always interesting to see what's going through your shop.

Great tour. Thank you very much. Looking forward to more videos on the new projects. Happy Thanksgiving to you, the entire Icon crew and all the other viewers.

Oh! Thanks for this lovely lovely tour! Nice to see You again. Amazing shop and projects! Awesome! You the Best!

Actually I'm not surprised that you worked on the new Bronco. I loved that car from minute 1. And it was clear that some real designers had a say in this car. :-) Love your videos. Love your cars. Love your shop. Greetings from Belgium. The country. :-)

Every release video I watched when the new Broncos came out had me thinking, "Man, those guys at Ford must have watched all of Jonathan Ward's videos to make them this awesome." Little did I know. My desire to get one has only grown exponentially now.

The attention to detail is crazy. Love it 😍

Please walk around outside to show the future projects. The boneyard is the best part, man!

Thanks for the tour. Can’t wait to see the Suburban.

You, sir, are the reason I’m rebuilding a 1973 F100 with modern running gear. Great tour, great inspiration.

Looking forward to seeing the finished Benz and Suburban. Great your. I totally admire your passion for what you do.

Fun fun fun Jonathan. The content excels in many ways. Thx man.

Toy-maker for the rich and famous.

Amazing work - love it!

Looking forward to that MB!

So happy to know that you were chosen to be involved with the new Ford Bronco. I know you had a lot of great ideas and input that hopefully made it into the vehicle.

Hello from New York State Jonathan & The ICON 4X4 Shop Team! :)

Wow, that was an eye opener! I had no idea of the level your company operated at. 👍🏼

Great tour Jonathan. I'd love to have any one of your rebuilt vehicles because the work and remanufacturing that goes into them does provide a vehicle that is better than new. Cheers

Thank you! really enjoyed this!

Awesome!!!

Wonderful, thank you

I can't wait for that Merc video.

Interesting and informative video, thanks for sharing this video, have a

Nice Job sir, thanks!

Thank you for another very informative tour. Enjoy watching all your videos. Looking forward to the next one. PS, I'm based in the UK but enjoy the concept of powerful V8 Wolves in Sheep's clothing.

Cool video !! enjoyed it.

I wish I could afford one of your vehicles. What you do is SO amazing!

Great builds! The Mercury is a great candidate for an LS engine upgrade and overdrive transmission.

Coral Gables 🌴🇺🇸 Enjoyable. Nice Thanksgiving J. 🏄

Amazing.

Excellent Pro shop

Good to see you walking around better w/o the cane. :)

Jonathan I’m flawed. Back in 2015 I asked you a question on Instagram is for will ever make a Bronco again and you said “no comment” lol. Love what you do and thank you for all the years of entertaining content and engineering marvel. Oh PS I still wear the Blue Pryngeps automatic I bought from you 7 years ago. 🙏🏽

Brilliant move on Ford’s part to have you on the design team! When I got my first look at the new Bronco I thought I noticed some Icon touches. We see a ton of them here in Moab.

Can’t wait for the Mercedes video. I see you have more German quality machines in Kaeser Kompressoren. Very nice

very,very goooood

Naturally I love all the stuff coming out of this facility and with the Brocnos I'd love to own the Derelict Bronco - just wow, the best of all worlds with this one. Being a die hard Chevy guy I'm in crazy love with the 'Black Chrome' Thriftmaster. Is it weird to use the word delicious to describe this truck? So tasteful, smart looking, badass yet subtle it just looks delicious - sorry. Way to go guys your people and facility are awesome and if I had the dough there would be no yachts, multiple properties, and other frivolous items - just a modest collection of machines starring at least one from Icon. Okay, two.

Thanks for the tour. Always love to see what's going on in there. I love the Derelicts. Well I love everything you build. It would be an honor to have one of your vehicles. If money was no object I'd have you build me a 4x4 Thriftmaster with a diesel hybrid motor. for no other reason than doing the r&d to see what you could come up with and something that would last a while.

Thank you ! Always wanted to see your take on a W109 or bigger W116. Your attention to detail to make them more reliable and "modern" feel. The change from unibody is.. well... interesting.. you and the costumer went all the way ! The silver is classic and the wheels are just perfect. Hope it doesnt sit too low.. would lose some of its elegance... Again, thank you for the videos.

I wanna see the full build and drive of the 6.2 Mercedes!

Looking forward to the merc video

Like to see the video on the Merc... The breakdown and road test....

Nice Adenauer

Awesome. Jmo of course but I'd love rather than, at 16:20, bring over ALL the bells and whistles, delete all but the only absolutely essential. Luv the vid. Thanks.

Awesome tour! I've been wondering about your EV vehicle, looking forward to seeing it finished. Also surprised by your involvement with the new bronco!

Wow me llena de alegria y orgullo el trabajo q haces el esfuerzo la innovación en los clasicos etc felicitaciones jonathan saludos 💪💪💪🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷

@billp5424

2 жыл бұрын

That’s easy for you to say.

Fantastic. Love to see what you'd do with my Porsche 944

Awesome

Nice, I’d take the C10 the way it is.

good job

I’ll be watching for a video on that Suburban, I want to see how you guys added a fourth door. I like the 67-72 body style GM trucks and I’d love to build a 4x4 Suburban from that era but I’ve always thought the 3 doors was a little odd.

Jonathan is such an interesting cat. Hopefully Rogan will have him back on as a guest again soon.

“Retain all the perversions of modernity” The icon tag line.

can't wait to see the finished mercedes build. Would love to build a w116

Thank you for the Willis.

Frigin awesome

I didn't realize that you're in Chatsworth! I was in Canoga Park just a few weeks ago with a couple of hours to kill. I wish I'd known, I would have gone over to see your showroom!

Love what you do. I'm a Toyota and....ahem...vintage Land Rover owner but think the design of the new Bronco is really compelling. Far more interesting than the new "Defender". Here's to hoping that Toyota will follow suit with a similarly purposed Land Cruiser variant for North America.

this guys setup is every gear-heads dream. Can I get a hell ya?! I couldn't work there as an enthusiast, too much distraction.

Thank you!

Thank you.

Those wheels on the 300SEL…. Sexy AF! You nailed that design. One off’s or are you going to market them? Looking forward to seeing the full video on the Merc.

Thanks Jonathan! Doing some secret corporate consulting huh? How about doing a shop tour of the new TLC Campus when it’s up and running 😃

Have you all ever considered franchising and having sort of an off brand "icon lite" type shops that do more limited 50-250k transformations? Supply chain people who have worked in pre launch activities would have good supply chain familiarity as far as prototype capabilities, and if your cad work thus far was made available to franchisees then alot of the custom design parts could be just remade using prototype shops, and used again since the design work has already been done. Custom work done by franchisees could be vetted by the central office and then added to the network catalog if it was a sound design.

Thank you 📷🖖👊😎

Do another walk around in your storage yard. Maybe I can get you to go out again and look to see if that Willys is still there? LOL

Thanks!

That Mercury eats small cars if you park them too close

Thanks :)

Thanks for the tour! Sorry if this is answered already, but what happened to the Hellion project?

Love the tours! Happy thanksgiving! Where ya at with the bimmer 2002 project mentioned on Joe Rogan? At the edge of my seat.

Great, always interesting. How about a new video on what you have on the lot as candidate vehicles?

@bruceh92

2 жыл бұрын

Right on, that's always a thrill...

Anything new for the electric ⚡️ vehicles? That 49 Merc may need a sibling or two?!