Editorial Policy
Curation Standards
Every clip in RedlineArchive has been reviewed against a consistent set of criteria before being accepted. This page explains what we look for, what we reject, and who makes those decisions.
Editor
Jamie McDonnell
Founder & Editor
Jamie has spent decades obsessing over automotive history, racing, and the engineering behind remarkable cars. He personally reviews every submission to the archive and is not affiliated with any manufacturer, dealer, or automotive media company.
What We Include
Genuine automotive subject matter
The clip must focus on a specific car, marque, race, or era of automotive history — not a generic vlog, road trip, or lifestyle video that happens to feature a car in the background.
Rare, specialist, or historically significant
Priority is given to footage that captures something difficult to find elsewhere — factory tours, prototype reveals, period racing footage, restoration documentation, or interviews with engineers and drivers from significant eras.
Documentary or educational value
The clip must teach, reveal, or preserve something about the car or its history. Reviews of mainstream production cars widely covered elsewhere are given lower priority than specialist content about rare or historically important vehicles.
Correctly attributed
Every clip must be accurately linked to the correct car or marque, class, and decade. Submissions with incorrect or missing metadata are returned for correction before being accepted.
What We Exclude
- —Generic lifestyle vlogs where a car is incidental rather than the subject
- —Reposts of content already in the archive under a different URL
- —Commercial advertisements and manufacturer-produced promotional films
- —Content featuring dangerous or illegal driving on public roads
- —Drag racing content focused purely on reaction time with no documentary context
- —AI-generated or digitally fabricated footage presented as authentic historical material
- —Spam, irrelevant submissions, or content that does not relate to a specific vehicle or automotive subject
Review Process
All submissions are reviewed manually before publication. The editor checks the clip against the criteria above, verifies the car or marque attribution, assigns the correct class and decade, and either publishes, returns for correction, or rejects the submission with a reason. We aim to review all submissions within 48 hours.