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Gold bars for a car: George J Saliba's pawn shop detour

A customer offered gold bars instead of cash, the bars went off to Mega Pawn for testing, and the same episode closes with a Ferrari F8 Tributo sold.

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

He Traded His GOLD for a CAR?!He Traded His GOLD for a CAR?!

A day old, "He Traded His GOLD for a CAR?!" is the video doing the heavy lifting at George J Saliba's New Jersey dealership channel. According to the description, a customer came in to buy, the deal looked dead, and then he offered to pay in gold bars. The chapters follow it through: a call to price the gold, a trip to Mega Pawn to test the bars, and a verdict on whether the shop came out ahead.

It is a busy episode around that detour. A Lamborghini Revuelto comes off a trailer, a G63 with seven miles on it gets George's dream-spec treatment, a father and son weigh an F80 M3 against a G80, and a 2021 Ferrari F8 Tributo is sold. George also mentions a slow month and the end-of-year Section 179 season ahead, and a car giveaway tied to a million subscribers.

Fifteen uploads went up in all. The best start of the week belonged to "Should I Buy His RARE BMW for $110K?!", and its comments mostly do the depreciation math out loud, set the original sticker against the asking price after only a few thousand miles, and guess what the car will be listed for next. Plenty of viewers also had something to say about the seller's shoulder bag.

Across the week the channel picked up close to 12 million views, the most among the car channels near its size, ahead of TheTopher and NoNonsenseKnowHow, both well clear of a million. Subscribers inched up by about 2,000, leaving 902,000 on the board and the giveaway's million still some way off.

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The videos drawing views on George J Saliba right now

The facts
Subscribers
902,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
11,678,287
Videos published this week
15
Video published
October 2, 2026
Video views so far
324,231
Views on its first day
233,083

The numbers

Here is how George J Saliba's channel moved over the week.

views gained this week, compared with similar channels
George J Saliba
11,678,287
TheTopher
1,504,655
NoNonsenseKnowHow
1,488,136
Harry's garage
1,092,339
DEBOSS GARAGE
211,909
effspot
178,699
Petrolicious
167,061
superspeedersRob
113,206
Evan Shanks
18,598
subscribers
902,000
▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,653,528,411
views per day
2,211,038
typical day: 1,370,704
compared with similar channels (subscribers)
Evan Shanks
944,000
superspeedersRob
935,000
Petrolicious
933,000
TheTopher
925,000
George J Saliba
902,000
effspot
897,000
Harry's garage
890,000
NoNonsenseKnowHow
880,000
DEBOSS GARAGE
869,000
As of October 5, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
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