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Ed has a sponsor! Yay! Good on 'ya, brother. (I clicked the link, but I don't need something else that might kill me. Decent looking Cobra clone, though.)

Ahhhh a supposed shortage of steel and other materials after the war????? Kind of sounds like today where everybody's pretending there's some sort of shortage even though if you work in those industries you will more than likely see more than enough materials going around even on retail side you're going to see the store get in a whole host of products and a bunch of each product more than adequate the stock shelves yet you'll notice that your colleagues are only putting out so much product on the shelf you're also going to notice that when people come through and do the normal levels of shopping it looks like there's a problem!! Well the same time we're all aware that the price keeps going higher and higher and higher gee kind of makes me wonder about that they're post-worker market it also makes me wonder about all the restrictions on what they could build what they couldn't build I mean America was supposed to be so fucking better than their enemies via Japan and Germany so apparently we were living so normal well at the same time they're telling us we weren't!! No overtime because the fucking dick head retard known as FDR didn't permit that factories to pay a shit ton of overtime like they should have been doing so the company's offered up health insurance that's why health insurance is a big deal today folks!! That's how it entered the workplace which should have never have done! I think about the lies from that era and time that I've studied heard from Grand folks etc I think about the lies of hard time and I can say it's all about shit!!

Oh great, another "sponsor" to a European reviewer that is unavailable in Europe to participate.

Ok that thing is awesome, my one question is how did they put a manual transmission behind the new Godzilla engine and how can I do they same

The Jag probably wasn't seen is suburbia because the guys who owned them couldn't get 'em out of the driveway. Beautiful car, but shit electrics. Lucas eventually got it together, but those early Jags were junk.

@@rareblues78daddy YES! My dad bought his from a family friend who gave up fixing it after tearing the engine apart.Dad also kept a piston crown with pitting on top (the ring broke off). Back then people in the US had to factory order repair parts from England as well.The 120 was more expensive than the MGs & Triumphs too. Even with all the trouble he had with it, dad never complained about that car and remembered it fondly.

@@rareblues78daddy If anything early Jags were actually really good until they got absorbed by British Leyland perhaps a bit too complicated for average US mechanic back then if you think that DOHC engines wouldn't be comon place till 40 years after the XK120

@@Thanos.m He didn't mention that the Duesenbergs were powered by a 420 cid straight eight with DOHC and four valves per cyl. built by Lycoming. Not much new, eh?

Truly an awesome story! And like you said, if racing the Jag towards the hospital doesn't make you a born-to-be car enthusiast, I don't know what is. Is the car still in your family? Might be worth some bucks right now.

My dad's first car was a Henry J... but it was an Allstate. (Sold by Sears, of all places.) He never raced it, but... find someone else who owned one. Rare as hen's teeth. Not valuable, but rare.

@Rock Dog Wild! My ex father in law owned a Crosley Hot Shot since new... It was just about two inches bigger than a go kart...🤣 Even back in the early 2000s, he kept it well maintained, and he was already 95 years old himself. That was a fun little car, alright!

Sounds a lot like the “Eyerly Special” are you familiar with it?

@@mr.ogpaint3086 YES!!! Harry Eyerly's "Special" was the 'blueprint' for my Dad's car. He (my Dad) raced it at Catoti(?) a number of times.

@@rareblues78daddy There's a collector in Olivia, MN who has 14 HenryJ's.

Thanks!

Yea, a nice way to finish the weekend 😁.

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A new comment by Richard Friesinger, that makes the week complete.

The Peterson connection is what did it for me!

@@EdsAutoReviews Ha ha. Absolutely. The sponsorship with Omaze was great to see. But, the tie in with Peterson was just perfect. Loved seeing this. It’s well earned. Every new video pops up and it’s an instant click and watch. No exaggeration.

Richardin ~ My brother had a special order 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 with 2-quad carbs. It had a Hurst shifter. Quick as a wink!

@@rogertycholiz2218 "Quik as a wink" eh. What we said about fast cars, in the 60's, when I became a car nut: "it goes like a raped ape!" Works for any muscle car back in the day!!

Buick also had an underslung chassis.

the American Underslungs are gorgeous!

There is one out there with a 478 Hemi that looks bone stock. Well, if you peek under and see the tubbing...

Nice, my friend in high school or a bit after; well, his dad had a Sunbeam Tiger, Ford 260 with floor shift maybe 4 or three can't remember but a real nice little car. "Borrowed" it a few times, we did. British racing green, it was, with brown (leather? interior). Worth a bit now I guess, this was about 65-66.

So, the precursor to the LS-swap then?

some things never change

Ramblers never had 4 cylinder engines. The Metropolitan did, but they were not "Ramblers".

@@liberals_destroy_everythin2497 probably like me, I call dirt my "son"!! :D LOL

In my eyes, it really has a Donald Duck-comic-cartoon look to it.

@@EdsAutoReviews Not as cute as the Austin-Healey Sprite though.

The Crosley Hotshot was the first production sports car built in the United States, beginning in 1949. Advanced for the time, with an overhead cam engine and 4-wheel disc brakes, they sold well despite being tiny by American standards - about the size of a Bugeye Sprite.

A Willys Jeep episode will come somewhere in the (not so) distant future!

The 55 T-Bird sold much better than the 55 Corvette but not because of much better power. In 1955 the 265 ci V8 was available in the Corvette. The 265 Chevy engine was competitive with the 292 Ford engine and proved to be cheaper and easier to make more powerful.

Hey Joshua, T Bird was never a sports car.

@@busman7228 it was faster than the Vette from 55-57. And the 57 E and F code were used in racing and 100% a sports car

@@bwtv147 Nice engine; had one in my '56 Belaire, drove cross country twice when in the Army (67-69) in it!

The Crosley Hotshot was the first production sports car built in the United States, beginning in 1949. Advanced for the time, with an overhead cam engine and 4-wheel disc brakes, they sold well despite being tiny by American standards - about the size of a Bugeye Sprite.

At Hershey a couple of years ago I saw someone had "restomoded" their Muntz Jet to be a Kurtis clone.

The way I heard it, both Donald Healey and George Mason, president of Nash Motors, were camera enthusiasts. Both happened to cross from England to New York on the same ocean liner and struck up a conversation over Mason's new 8mm movie camera. Only then did they find out both were in the auto business. Healey said he was going to Detroit to negotiate a supply of Cadillac engines for his sports cars, and Healey invited him to come to Kenosha and see the Nash operation. Cadillac couldn't supply Healey with motors so he turned to Nash and made a deal not only for Nash OHV six cylinder engines, but to make a special model of Nash Healey to be sold by Nash dealers. Healey was impressed with the Nash seven main bearing engine especially when one finished in the money at LeMans against the world's best sports cars, not bad for a sedan power plant that cost less than 100 pounds.

in late 40s and 50s actually convertibles were quite popular, although sold in lesser numbers than cheap sedans.

i was wrong, it was the Ford Thunderbird driving by the two F-100 fighters

They'd go 75 stock and could be easily modded to hit 90. The engine was extremely high revving for the day and continued in production for boats and small displacement racing long after Crosley ceased production.

@@seed_drill7135 Yep; they were a staple in the 44 cu. inch inboard hydroplanes; the engine was last produced as a 55 HP Fisher-Pierce Bearcat outboard motor, last produced in 1972 (started out as the "Fageol 44"--designed by famed Unlimited Hydro racer, Lou Fageol; then as the Crofton, then--most successfully--as the Homelite "55")!

At one time you could buy a house from Sears. You had to provide the land, but they shipped everything to you, with some assembly required. You could also fully furnish every room, including the garage, with items from Sears.

@@christopherconard2831 my former FIL lives in one. From the late 19th or early 20th century. Thought it was the last of a block of row homes, but it was just meant to be narrow. At one time you could buy just about anything from Sears, including heroin and cocaine

The Dutch (and Belgians) use the UK pronunciation.

His aluminuminum made me smile…aluminium indeed ..pshaw…

Guess where the word 'aluminum' came from? Take a guess.

Would love for Ed to do a whole video on the Nash Metropolitan. 👍

The Nash Healey was the first American sports car. Not the Corvette by a long shot.

The Metropolitan was a domestic body with what could be considered MG running gear for the most.

@@chaosdemonwolf1 not even close, unless you mean the Nash Rambler in 1900. The Chysler Thunderbolt was a middle sized automobiles with about 100 made or so, and had ascess of 130 miles per hour, named after the George Eyestones automobile that he had hit a land speed record of in 1938, of 130 miles per hour. I'm kidding, 357 miles per hour. The 130 mile per hour was hit in 1905 by an eligible roadster that hardly even has a name, but notable footage and news of at the time long since forgotten to make the era seem slow and useless as most modernists happily try to make it. But even the Chysler Thunderbolt isn't even in the top 100 for 1930-1940, let alone top 1000 for the early 1900s, anything from winton motor to Pope tribune had a top speed of 60-80 miles per hour by 1902 to just about 1906, long before the dammed Model T thing that took people away from moral decency.

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Fair enough.