Helps
Niche: Automotive
$3 to $10 per 1,000 views
$0typical $6$15
Long videos in this niche typically pay about $6 per 1,000 views to the creator.
Vice Grip Garage
Estimated monthly ad earningsLikely monetized
$37,200a month
About $446,000 a year, likely $315,000 to $652,000
Low end$26,200
Most likely$37,200
High end$54,400
Where the money comes from
Monthly ad earnings by format, middle of the estimate
$37,200a month
- Long videos5.5M views a month$36,60099%
- Shorts4,362 views a month$10%
- Live streams98.7K views a month$5351%
What one sponsor could pay per video
$21,600 to $54,100Separate from ad earnings and never added in. Based on a median of 1,081,269 views per long video and typical sponsor rates for this niche.
Views per video
The last 30 public uploads, oldest on the left. Tap or hover a bar for the video.
Long videosShorts
02M4M
Median 1.3M
May 1Nov 6
Show as a table
| Video | Format | Posted | Views |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will The Liberty Chevelle Survive The East Coast Drag And Drive? Can't Believe I'M GIVING IT AWAY! | Long video | Nov 6 | 481,191 |
| Liberty Chevelle is BACK! East Coast DRAG RACING and ROAD TRIP! | Long video | Oct 31 | 665,267 |
| Will These Iconic Muscle Cars Survive 4,000 Miles? | Long video | Oct 23 | 1,362,318 |
| Budget ABANDONED HOUSEBOAT Renovation! HUGE Interior & Engine Upgrades! | Long video | Oct 16 | 1,778,672 |
| SECRET INSANE PROJECT! I've Hidden This For YEARS! Time To Finish It! | Long video | Oct 9 | 2,055,261 |
| Mouse to Macho! HUGE Classic Dodge Truck UPGRADES! - Will It Survive A Road Trip Now? | Long video | Oct 3 | 1,430,177 |
| Drive Your Junk. Who you saving it for? #vicegripgarage #originaldriveithomechannel | Short | Sep 27 | 219,851 |
| 1-Owner Chevelle Parked 24 Years—Can It Make 600 Miles Home? | Long video | Sep 25 | 2,629,225 |
| Can A 96 YEAR OLD Ford Model A Make It 450 Miles Home? Parked For 16 YEARS! | Long video | Sep 18 | 1,954,071 |
| Will This CLASSIC CADILLAC PULL This Camper For The Ultimate Road trip? | Long video | Sep 11 | 1,399,458 |
| ABANDONED REPO AUCTION Houseboat! Will It RUN After Decades? | Long video | Sep 4 | 3,540,007 |
| NOBODY TOWS With A '68 Cadillac Anymore - So I am! Bags, Shocks and Receiver Hitch Fabrication! | Long video | Aug 28 | 1,078,209 |
| Barn Find ORIGINAL UNMOLESTED Low Mileage Cadillac! Will It RUN AND DRIVE After Many Years? | Long video | Aug 21 | 1,908,185 |
| Can This Abandoned Silverado Make a 1,000 Mile Drive Home? | Long video | Aug 14 | 1,962,466 |
| 1,800 Miles Home - Will This Cobbled Together Truck SURVIVE after being PARKED 15 YEARS? | Long video | Aug 7 | 1,198,244 |
| BUICK Powered Chevy Luv ABANDONED FOR 15 YEARS! Will It RUN AND DRIVE 1,800 Miles Home? | Long video | Jul 31 | 2,214,558 |
| From DEAD to DRIVING: The Forgotten Ford Galaxies Final Day | Long video | Jul 28 | 463,115 |
| Bearings, Brakes, and Hammer Beatings - LIVE Ford Galaxy REVIVAL Continues! | Long video | Jul 24 | 456,583 |
| Will This Ford Galaxie FINALLY RUN After 30 YEARS? LIVE In Front Of A Audience! | Iola 1 of 3 | Long video | Jul 17 | 809,196 |
| This Abandoned Ford Galaxie Sat For 30 YEARS - Let's Save it! | Long video | Jul 10 | 1,802,109 |
| I Can't Believe This Car Was Savable! INDEPENDENCE CHEVELLE RETURNS! | Long video | Jul 3 | 830,433 |
| BARN FIND Pontiac Grand Prix Forgotten For 25 YEARS! Will It RUN AND DRIVE HOME? | Long video | Jun 26 | 2,483,160 |
| NEGLECTED Oldsmobile Powered Buick Wagon PARKED FOR YEARS! Will It RUN AND DRIVE? | Long video | Jun 19 | 1,524,959 |
| FORGOTTEN '71 Chevelle Parked for 20 years! Will It RUN AND DRIVE 600 Miles? | Long video | Jun 12 | 3,181,723 |
| Will This Ford F100 RUN AND DRIVE 700 Miles to Tulsa? Guinness World Record DISASTER! | Long video | Jun 5 | 927,287 |
| Black Hills To Badlands In A Nova Bought SIGHT UNSEEN-Going To Towns Tour with HUNDREDS of CLASSICS! | Long video | May 29 | 965,783 |
| Attempting 3,300 Miles In This Untested 68 Pontiac Firebird was A MISTAKE... Catastrophe! | Long video | May 22 | 1,128,777 |
| EVERYTHING IS BROKEN! Fleet Repairs, Maintenance, and Updates! | Long video | May 15 | 1,160,530 |
| Ford Guys Will Hate This Budget Chevy Swapped Ford F100 Build | Long video | May 9 | 980,766 |
| BUDGET DIY "King Ranch" interior In a '71 Ford F100 truck! | Long video | May 1 | 1,001,299 |
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What lifts the estimate and what holds it back
Helps
Where viewers likely are
100% of US ad rates
0%US rates
Based on the channel's language and country (English, based in the US). Ads pay far more in the US, UK, Canada and Australia than elsewhere.
Neutral
Shorts in the mix
0% of views this month
Long 98%Shorts 0%
Shorts pay about $0.18 per 1,000 views, a small fraction of long videos, so the same views earn much less.
Helps
Long enough for mid roll ads
median 51 min
0 min8 min mark20 min
Videos of 8 minutes or more can carry ads in the middle, which lifts earnings per view.
Neutral
Upload pace: steady
1.09 per week
That is 0.93x the 90 days before.
Neutral
Views per video are steady
1.07x
Median views of the last 10 long videos compared with the 10 before them.
Time to monetize
When this channel can earn from YouTube ads
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Unlock with ProHow we got this. Views from the last 30 days are rebuilt from each public video's views and age, cut to the views YouTube pays on, then priced with niche, audience and video length ad rates from published creator data. We run this 2,000 times with realistic variation and show the middle half. Data read November 10, 2026, 07:20 UTC.