Fuelling Around podcast: Harry Metcalfe reveals how YouTube success is impacting his career

Evo magazine founder and popular YouTuber Harry Metcalfe has joined hosts Jason Plato and Dave Vitty on the ninth series of award-winning podcast, Fuelling Around, to discuss his love of cars and his YouTube channel, Harry’s Garage. 

Harry’s Garage has accumulated millions of views, with Metcalfe winning Automotive Influencer of the Year in 2020 for his knowledgeable reviews of cars like the Lamborghini Countach and Ferrari Testarossa.

The 65-year-old sat down with Plato and Vitty, chatting about everything from his favourite cars in his collection to how he juggles his career with running a farm.

Harry Metcalfe is embracing his online success

During the podcast, Harry, who’s been in the magazine and motoring industry for decades, bantered with the hosts about what the catalyst was for starting his YouTube channel. 

“My meanness really,” he joked.

“(It was) when I was running a magazine and this annoying thing called video came along and we did print magazines and websites and stuff, and I just thought, video, we ought to do video, we’ve got to do video.

“I thought, well, if – I get invited to do amazing things – if I just stick a camera on the windscreen and yammer on a bit, it’s cost nothing.

“I do it weekly; sometimes I think I’ll back off and then I get something (and) I think, ‘I can’t wait to tell someone about this thing, yeah I can’t wait.’ So I ended up doing it weekly.

“There was an MD (Managing Director) of JLR, I was at the motor show in the US, and he had to go on (stage) live right across America to display, there’s a Range Rover Sport he was about to launch the sort of concept for that and I said ‘how are the nerves?’, he said, ‘no nerves, just can’t wait to tell the world about this car’.

“He stormed on and I thought, it was just a lesson that – if you’re passionate and can’t wait to tell your viewers about these cars – there’s no nerves, no nothing, you’re just, you’re there for the moment.

“You try to explain to people how you present: ‘I didn’t know I could present, I don’t think I can but I can’t wait to tell you about this thing.’

“It’s (magazines) a bit of a clunky way of being global, sort of getting the story out there in time, and YouTube, I just now look (at it as if it’s) just magic.”

Plenty more episodes of Fuelling Around to enjoy

Series nine is now going full throttle, but if you’ve just joined us, keep up the momentum and check out all our past episodes if you haven’t listened to Fuelling Around before.

Our award-winning podcast has been graced by a string of celebrity guests that you can listen to for the first time – or as many times as you want.

You can also tune into Fuelling Around on Spotify, Apple, YouTube or various other platforms if you want to see what all the fuss is about.