Hats off to Dave driving that 1915 as an everyday car.

I'm 79 years old and at age 15 I started my apprenticeship in the Montagu Motor Museum Workshops in Beaulieu in the south of England restoring old cars. I loved everything about the job but the wages were too low. When I finished the apprenticeship I found nobody else wanted to employ me as a mechanic because what I'd been doing was so out of date..

Fascinating. Since early childhood I've been mesmerized by old cars. I suppose I always will be. Wish this series was still on TV. Very well done. Thank you for the post!

I’m always amazed at 100 plus years old cars are still functional.

That steam ride is amazing! What a piece of history! 😲

It is a great thing to see these early automobiles preserved, restored and running. Evidently it was feared in the 1910’s that the automobile would soon become a thing of the past. Especially with World War 1, demand for gas and oil was exceeding supply and petroleum reserves were dwindling. In the February 1918 issue of National Geographic is an article ,”Billions of Barrels of Oil Locked Up in Rocks”, which touches on this. This article states that the recent discovery of the extent of oil shale in the US insures that the automobile will able to be enjoyed by many future generations to come. The following statement is made by this article:” The horseless vehicle’s threaten East dethronement has been definitely averted and the uninviting prospect of a motorless age has ceased to be a ghost stalking in the vista of the future”.

We still quite often drive around our 1903 Nash Rambler. Slightly updated and a blast to drive

The Oldsmobile Curved Dash had a beautiful paint job. Great color and very shiny.

Was glued to my screen every second of this. EXCELLENT JOB!! Thank you!!

Wish the kids could see a Greenfield Patterson. Honestly our generation isn't close to the skills of that time. Yet they didn't have access to information like we do. Amazing what a man could do back then. I just hate the inequality of the times on all fronts. Thanks for posting this video. Enjoyed it very much. Be Blessed.

Not a word about the Winton that made it across the states in 1903 . Almost like it didn't happen . History worthy of forgetting. :-(

So much enjoying these videos, thank you so much for posting them.

The Joy of driving is the key.. cars are designed to be driven maintained and loved!

Drove the model A everyday for a few years while I assembled it from scratch.still use it every weekend to haul stones from the river.self assemble .carl barandi

Great work was done on 'Oldies' Thank you so much.

Nice video. Could have added more info about Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot. There is some great video out there of Cugnot tinkering with one of his engines. That would be great to add to this.

I just remembered something. At Olney, Texas around 1962 or so, two guys built a steam engine in a Volkswagen car (bug). I saw a copy of a letter that the Volkswagen company sent to a Fort Worth, Texas VW dealership, asking the dealership to help the two guys locate parts. There was an article in Popular Mechanics or Popular Science magazines on this car. The article said that the guys used a couple of big Mercury or Evenrude outboard motors. The author rode in the car and said it was very quiet. Not many details were given, because the guys were busy with the patent procedure. Then it just died. I have never heard anything else about it. Was it just a hoax? Or was the thing a complete failure? I never found out, and never found anyone else who ever heard of it. I enjoyed this great informational video.

One thing cars did which never gets any attention was eliminate the tons of horse-shit in the towns and city streets!

Many decades ago, the Mother Earth News magazine did an article on a "hybrid electric," in which a small ICE lawn mower engine kept a bank of batteries charged. This was, if memory serves, later offered in plans form.

The first American gasoline powered automobile was the Duryea in 1893 built in Springfield Massachusetts.

I very much enjoyed this video and have just subscribed to King Rose Archives. The photo that drew me to click on and play this video was a photo of Horatio Nelson Jackson in his 1903 Winton. The photo was taken during Jackson's drive from San Francisco to New York City in 1903 with his hired co-driver Sewall Crocker. They were the very first to successfully drive across America. I was surprised that there was no mention of this. With the mention of the Oldsmobile I was further surprised at no mention of the Oldsmobile company having one of their motor vehicles at the very same time driving across America. Also at that very same time was the Packard automobile company having one of their motor vehicles driving across America.

A decent documentary in a style that is familiar from the 1950s -80s, it’s interesting to know that it was made in 2005 and uploaded in 2017 but feels earlier, despite there being stills and videos in the titles of cars from the 21st Century.

Amazing bit of history! Steam power, then internal combustion engines, and now electric cars!

From other industries mentioned, one could be added: Elevator manufacturing. The Sultan was a product of the Otis Elevator Co.

I think they should teach people how to drive these cars so we can keep them on the road very fascinating history

"they don't build them like they used to"...Thank God, old cars are scary compared to what we have today. It's nice to have brakes for one thing.

One type of fuel that was not mentioned is cars driven by burning wood. After WW2 you could see these in Europe. The smoke is combustible when used correctly.

Fantastic video

amazing thanx for the upload...

I am not a car buff, But this a great video, Well Done

I could watch this era of cars all day long.

The cars shown in this video are marvelous !

Much is said about how long it takes to start these early cars, but when you compare that with the time it takes to get the horse up and fed, hooked into the harness and coupled to the carriage, it's still comparable and probably a lot faster.

Vielen Dank mit Farben...................

These infernal machines will never catch on ;) .

Am glad I watched this video I thought electric cars were new thing

I have oldsmobile 1933 from my Family memorie and i also bought mercedes 1933 and 1969 Mustang

Great video!

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I'd love to own a curved dash Olds... lovely vehicle...

The devious French invented the Serpollet Steam Generator. Water tubing was arranged in the firebox, instead of a huge tank of hot water. If a tube ruptured, it just put the fire out, still it must have been a terrifying experience. It is used today in pressurized industrial steam cleaners. Early 20th Century on-demand hot water heaters used the same concept.

It´s a common myth, that the introduction of the assembly line brought the cost of production of a Ford Model Tdown to the level it is assumed it did. This is only partly true. Each car was subsidized heavily by Rockefeller as the monopolistic provider of gasoline. The secret agreement encompassed the Model T - and that´s why Ford hung on to it when competition was already way ahead of him.

outstanding video!!!

Have you head of the Sultan? This was a luxury car that was built from about 1906 to 1910. It was manufactured by the Otis Elevator Company at their plant in Springfield, MA The car's body was made either in Newark, NJ or in New York. Mr. David Baldwin, then president of Otis,imported plans, tools, dies, and other factory parts from France to produce the car. By 1910, Otis was loosing money on the Sultan and discontinued its manufacture, and vowing to stick to elevators an escalators. Has anyone seen a Sultan ant any antique auto show?

Cars with a proper tiller, not a confounded "steering wheel".

Natürlich muss ich immer nach denken für Möglichkeiten & Ausaudern...............!

At the beginning of the motor car era, there were few roads suitable for cars with their primitive suspension system and bad tyres. Even worse, there was no network of gasoline fill up stations. They probably had to drive far just to get some gas.

Did anyone notice the best car of all times at 10:08 ...the white Volvo 940 stationvagon?

No Stanley Steam Car EVER blew up due to steam issues Only one is known to have "blown up". Happened in the late 20th century at a car show. It was a conversion to LPG what had turned gas left on whilst owner talked with someone and when he went to light it, the LPG blew, not the steam engine. He died trying to save his family from the ensuing LPG fire. Leave them as they were built and they were safe. Gasoline engines had to pilots lit to heat the gas to vapor before anything cold happen. Watch Leno's Stanley videos to see what CAN happen. Burn to the ground, yes, blow up, no. Shame on the producers for repeating that lie.

My hobby loves this.

It was over so quickly. Great video.

Have anyone one notes that cars that is over the pond are big cars and the cars like the first fords was really small cars . Then in a time this had changed back in the late 20's . Over the pond cars was still big until the mid 30's . The USA cars had now gotten bigger . The late 30's and after WW2 the cars from across the pond are gotten smaller and the cars in the USA had ballooned to be big .

Fast forward 100+ years, and people get frustrated when a low tire pressure light comes on. A check-engine light can ruin your day. Having to get up early Saturday morning to get your car State inspected is a major challenge.

first storm chaser was yes a locomotive engineer singular machine to be weighted from natural occurrences | CORRECT

Years ago, in the 1980s I went to the Natural History Museum in so. CA - I think their old cars were on, the 1st floor? They had an Oldsmobile (actual size) on display, and a mirror under it , I looked down to see its engine and flywheel? Underneath ...

Great fun. There is a large Stanley collection in our town and I'm sure the owner would take umbrage at your "blowing up" comment.

Man merkt es kaum ....Der Wissenheit von Unterschieden.......

These cars might be difficult to use and maintain. Even cars from my youth (80's/90's) required more effort to use than today's cars. Also, steam cars could blow up? I'll need to remember that when I hear someone harping on electric cars catching fire.

comes with wheels change the wheels ; where does ethnical acceptance derive in shapes alike lower posture | how you feel about stance or feel

first car is Vassor (french car)

The farmer in Asia assembles 1 cylinder cars like this NOW ! 2023 / I rode on one ? !

Nice

Most of them are masterpiece ,better than any chinese electrical bomb!

At 12:35, yes, my 1904 Oldsmobile car looks similiar to that, but it also has a hood above it; ah, no, I'm talking about a 1/24 scale model size ... 😮

This is a British-made documentary and they're calling the fuel "gasoline"? They've got no excuses. They should know better. The PROPER name for the fuel is "PETROL"!

AWESOME!

fantastica!!

It's fantastic that they still drive these cars. However, preserving them is very important too, and there are plenty of idiots on the road. They go slowly, and that could be dangerous by modern standards,. unfortunately.

Interesting how they simply could not visualize anything other than a horse-carriage...minus the horse, of course. They could have made it any shape. Like the early PC's: once IBM made a boring, beige box, the next twenty years saw almost nothing but boring beige boxes. And also: Windows and Apple OS are natively able to use a Dvorak keyboard yet everyone keeps on using QWERTY. Madness.

I know more about steam than I do Internal combustion!

Is Raymond Carr the son of Guy Carr? Guy had a massive old car collection, and was the founder of Carr Chevrolet in Beaverton Oregon, around 1920 or so.....and was also my Great uncle.

NO stock Stanley has every exploded

how many new cars will still be running in 100 years if this country is still here?

Nice job

Very interest need kurbli start Than King tiger tank too

Ein Luxus Kassiker.......

Maybe use music contemporary to the era documented. The randomness of the genres is really jarring. The music is all over the map. "The Day His Jukebox Ran Away."

I think that is very interesting.

I hate Frords ,you have aMOT failure ,one has spent good money on.Ive had 3 of these contraptions,they rust out from the bottom up .I now have an auto union audi superb motor car ,no rust It can be done voondervar machine made 1998 still going strong Just turned 200000miles diesel absolutely perfect I went from Bristol to Preston diesel fuel 20 pounds ,can you beat that Audi a4 car car no rust nofrord

Hell ya that’s what I do with my vehicle and motorcycles there meant to go not sit and rot even in the winter too

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That dude with the glasses creeps me. It’s like he’s a teenager in an old guy disguise. Or maybe it’s the lazy eye...?

3:18 - All you really need are several guys pushing it from behind. What's the point of an engine?

I want a ford Anglia 105e

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Certainly, james watt, R Diesel, Otto N , did not come from the large physical body types. The large body type of people dont have the rights to extend forward unwanted explainations.we had been observing the works of Dreyse needle gun, Benz cars, diesel electric German sub, the A4 rockets und their descendants, the alternator by Fon Simens etc etc und so on.

They talk of bringing the electric car back. I wonder if that will ever happen...

Was bedeutet für Unternehmen & Erfinder Entwicklungen.................? Es gibt Gewisse Unterscheiden.........

american video for american people like a Hollywood film "based on a true story"

Love to have a steam car

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Streets to smooth lol. 🐎

so in all of its wisdom, the "GENERAL" chose to dump not just the OLDSMOBILE, but the Corvair (well conceived & with a De Deion rear suspension, Excellent), the front engined, rear trans (w/ WHIP driveshaft!!) 328 v-8 Pontiac tempest, the overhead cam Tempest, the Buick aluminum V-8 (which has lived on for more than 50 years perfected by .. of all ... the British (of Lucas fame!!), the Northstar v-8 (which supposedly could run for some time without coolant!), and now the VOLT?? For g sake, start by learning some marketing and dispensing with some of that overburdened corporate structure... & start with re-introing one of THE original autos conceived... the Oldsmobile! Go on from there.....(Even the Holden / Impala & GTO got axed!!????) WT*!! Why does half of America... (except for Chivy / Ford country) buy Toyota's, Hyundai's VW's etc..etc.. I'd love to buy American, but NO tariff is going to make up for corporate incompetence!!

as far as battery limitations ---- what's wrong with a generator/alternator as used on modern gas cars???????? Hmmm.........

Ford made the first ever car 🇺🇸

The automobile is just a fad it will never take off.

Not overly impressed, - quite a lot of incorrect information, - no mention of 'Cugnot's' machine, ok it is a so called 'gun tractor' but nevertheless it still exists in Paris and was built in the late 1700's. There is also a (very) small 2 seater car that was 'discovered' in a London (UK) museum sometime in the latter half of the last century, I believe it dates from 1865 -70.

what about Elwwod Haynes?

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