About

Enjoy, preserve, repeat

stradascholar is Lucas Rodrigues' garage, opened up.

Lucas

Lucas has been into cars for as long as he can remember, thanks to his dad. He has owned some interesting cars over the years and used to run an automotive business. He's mechanically inclined: when something breaks, he'd rather fix it himself than send it somewhere else.

That's what the YouTube channel is about: cool car projects, keeping these cars on the road for as long as possible, maintenance, and general how-to videos. This site keeps the full record of each build, every part and tool, and where it all happens in the videos.

Nick

Nick Petrachuk and Lucas have been friends since their skateboarding days, about 16 years ago. Nick fabricates and wrenches on the builds; he made the custom exhausts on the 1M and the X5. He has his own channel with his single-turbo E30, plus service, maintenance and fabrication content:@NicholasPetrachuk.

Affiliate disclosure

Some "Shop" links on this site are, or will become, affiliate links. If you buy through one, the channel may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. It never changes which parts are listed: everything here is what Lucas actually used, named in his videos.

Where there's no reliable place to buy a part (OEM conversions, custom fabrication, discontinued items), it's marked "No link". Prices aren't listed because they change.