He actually did.

I wouldn't be surprised if once achieved it's what really made man think he could fly because they probably already did for a few feet

Feels scary in a lot of modern cars - would’ve been terrifying in this thing! lol

Or maybe he felt like he was doing 127.

@@mattouli scary? Try doing 90 in the Kern Canyon at 2am in a 85 Chevy Blazer.

You can see he's worried a little each time he lets mustache guy drive one. And I think if it was 'up to him', he wouldn't let others drive, and would only drive it himself once, or just enough to know one is road worthy. But he realizes that what he is doing here is bigger than himself, and the cars exist to be driven. Like he hardly owns them, but is just the current caretaker of history. Jay is so cool.

I greatly admire Jay Leno for genuinely appreciating the engineering that went into these old cars. :) His driving a steam car on modern highways is absolute cool.

Nope, none ever did. They are firetube boilers.

@@wholeNwon I have no idea what that is or means. I'll just take your word for it. Question. Does this thing run on water or kerosene? Why haven't anyone built a modern version of a steam powered car?

@@sentry9834 Some used kerosene to boil the water, others used gasoline to boil the water in the same boiler Stanley boiler design. External combustion engines are inefficient.

Smile on Jay's face; terror on Dennis'.

jack002tuber a good line jay is funny when he wants to

supercrapnstuff11 if he ever gets tired of being a mechanic, he should consider becoming a professional comedian. 😁

@@thedos2922 it was a joke. Everyone here should be aware of his comedic success. Not just with stand up, but with Late Night as well. That’s how he’s able to afford such a massive collection.

SinriWoah LIVE!. I love seeing Jay's steamers flash off. The running fuel is Kerosene (almost diesel) but the pilot and starting fuel is....wait for it....gasoline dripping through an open tube and faucet. Back in that day, gasoline was 30 octane so it went poof if you looked at it crosseyed. This is most likely 87-93 octane, and much harder to ignite, till it goes

@@STho205 that octane thing... is that y you see embers light gas in old movies and they can't replicate it in tests today? Just thought about it...

SinriWoah LIVE!. Yep. Gasoline was originally a waste product of Kerosene distillation (in things (columns) resembling moonshine stills). Thus it was mostly hexane and heptane (C6 and C7) and at best 30-40% octane (C8) and neptane. Very very dangerous, and transported on wagons and trains in wooden barrels.

The whistle isn't "factory", of course.

People wore denim in 1906

Lmfao

Early 2000s were really just the late-late-LATE 90s.

i also really want one, just have to beaware of the backfires

1800-steamer Stanley steamer is the certified cleaner

Literaly!

Great story. Fred Marriott was almost killed, of course.

So would I

Stean whistle?

Everyone is looking around for the train.

I seem to remember a story about how people who lived around the area where jay drives, they were hearing what they thought was some kind of ghost train because of the steam whistle but turned out it was just jay in a steam car :).

Wouldn't everyone?

I love the sound of that too! lol

That's not even in the top ten of best advice ever

Nope, that's why they often just kept the pilot burning.

More to be seen than to see at night.

Actually not - burns quite a lot of kerosene to keep the water boiling.

it's slow external combustion, so you could technically make burn very cleanly, but there's probably a lot of thermal energy loss

It surely was, yet water is more plentiful and ubiquitous. I wish steam engines can be rekindled.