My dad was born in 1903... his first motor car (that’s what he called it) was a 1913 Buick. He bought it to drive back and forth from Toledo to Columbus while in college at OSU. He had lots of stories about keeping that car running. When I was a boy in the ‘50s he still had a box of spare parts in our garage.
@@USA-freedom you might look at air craft spacecraft before making a blanket statement. Hubble and James Webb and the ISS are good examples of the skill which still exists...and which probably could not exist without capitalism. It's why China just did what the U.S. did 50 years ago when they finally go to the moon
@@TheHonestPeanut still beats socialism.. it's only the greed portion of capitalism that has led us to where we are today. just about every other aspect has led us to innovate some pretty amazing things. that doesn't happen with socialism
That is one of the prettiest engines I've ever had the pleasure to see and not because it's all polished up! The architecture is the standout for me, it's physically beautiful!
Unfortunately this is a dying trade. They more and more electronics in the cars, the more specialized tools you need. Like a diagnostic box even close to what software dealers have, the ones available for purchase to public, or the ones a place like auto zone has doesn't even come close to the dealer' software. There are some models of electric cars now that you cannot even open the hood without a dealers diagnostic box, because they are worried about people hurting themselves on high voltage components. Pretty soon you will need to be an electrician to work on these cars, not so much a mechanic any more
This is why I say I feel like I'm born in the wrong time. I'm fascinated by engines, wind up clocks, and all sorts of mechanical things that this so called "technology of tomorrow" is replacing. I feel like we rely too much on it, and should at least keep a majority of the past alive. Heck, if something happens we might even need that old time technology again
Runs as smooth as a sewing machine... Love those oldies... Love doing this with old A's.. Can you guys do an air cooled Franklin or early GM (exposed rocker) next?
What an absolutely beautiful engine! That low compression, long stroke with its slow rpm with up draught carby and low BMEP had a sound all to its own! You can see the engineering and near architectural design that not only went into the car itself but also what they installed under hood or bonnet as we say here in Australia, I only wish I was able to have a close look and hearing her running, as I love engines especially older sidevalve units the only thing the manufacturers do these days for aesthetics is making the cheap plastic covers to hide ugliness of their engines, take them off and they look like a skinned cat!
A bunch of old guys, getting and even older engine running in the garage in the middle of winter.... HA HA That is is so awesome.... God Bless and Happy New Years....
Wow, this is so far beyond what I’m used to. About the oldest engine I’ve torn into was a ford flathead V8 which is still honestly a fairly modern engine. But this? I wouldn’t know where to start! This is seriously just way too cool.
just a pushrod operated four cylinder, with some shiny brass sleeves over the cylinders, its pretty much the exact same engine thats in a honda civic, only built in 1914 instead of 2014.
The Kettering starter needs 24V to work right. There are four six-volt batteries wired in series, and one is tied in to provide six volts for the ignition. The starter also acts as the generator for charging the batteries through a shaft which also drives the air compressor in the front of the engine, which is used for inflating the tires if needed.
@@jasbirsmith299 That looks like a tiny pump, so it would just need a lot of storage. Extra storage wouldn't be a big deal, I think it's got something to with seals, hydraulics hadn't taken off yet either. I've never found out what the hold-up was keeping hydraulics from being developed. I think it wasn't until the 50s that hydraulics started being used in heavy equipment.
@@bigredc222 Parker Hydraulics did all the work to give us modern hydraulics. Well - Vickers-Armstrong did some of it by inventing swash+plunger pumps and motors. You are welcome.
The sad thing is many are getting older and not able to continue doing this work, or are dying and the skills and talents they have are being lost because the kids of today aren't interested. I think when the current generation get older they're going to regret the fact they spent their formative years with their heads buried in phones and ipads.
Awesome. I have 3 just like it in my garage that I saved from goin to the scrapyard last year. If anyone wants to buy them I have $400 bucks in em and will take that for em. I just didn't want them to get scrapped. All 3 run
What a beautiful sounding engine, especially the sound coming out of the tailpipe. Brings back a flood of memories when I was a little kid, not back in 1914 of course, but when engines were simple, and sounded like engines, and could be fully maintained by the owner. The old Dodge Power Wagon being one that I really love.
that is a beutiful engine and sounds cool and looks super steam punk themed even sorta sounds like a steam engine running at a higher rate of speed if you ever watched some of those super big old engines the multie storey ship engines and such sounds similar just smaller scale for this guy
Congratulations to the bloke/s on your restoration of the engine, it runs really sweet. However when I saw the Triumph chop on the work lift I was more interested in that . Did it belong to one of these blokes . Hard to imagine them tearing around the place on it, but we were all young once . Cool bike and cool engine.
You’re correct, that is beautiful. A work of art, for sure. But thank goodness engines today don’t look like that. As pretty as that is and sounds, it was woefully weak and inefficient and polluting. But yeah, bless these guys for keeping these engines alive.
That is really a beautiful engine. I’d like to know which vehicle it powered. I suppose this fellow has to put lead-replacement in the fuel. Back then, the alloy of these engine blocks wasn’t as good as what we have today. Most car owners would have the valves reground every thirty thousand miles.
Leaded (Ethyl) gas was still about 10 - 15 years away when this engine was originally built and very low octane. That's why so many engines then had to have valves done at fairly low mileage, 10-15,000 miles.
What a beautiful piece of art. Have often heard that anything automotive can’t be considered as art. I think we can agree looking at this engine that theory is totally wrong. Thanks so much for sharing this video.
Drivers side, easy to figure how the Mag is driven... whats the air pump doing? vacuum? whats the drive looking mechanism into crankcase? There was something very magical going on about the machine age in the years 1911 to 1922. Mankind struck the mother lode of ingenious mechanisms and they were free of Government to pursue it for the most part, the technology didn't exist for the Government to breath down their necks every waking moment.
That is an air compressor for inflating tires. It is driven by the same shaft which drives the starter/generator to charge the batteries while the engine is running. It was a rather ingenious system Charles Kettering came up with, using the same device for both starting the engine and charging the four 6v batteries.
Is that an air compressor on the front left side of the engine, or some other kind of pump? I was surprised to see it there, and was wondering about its use.
One of my dad's friends sold a 14 Caddy out of Upstate South Carolina about 15 - 20 years. ago. They picked it up on the way back from Hershey in 1975. Touring car with jump seats. Runs alot smoother than the 1905 Cadiallac Engine I helped my father in law do a ring and valve job on. His car will go 25mph top speed No windshield No top...
I talk to Fred every few months when we get together. I'm older than him and I still learn stuff from him. He's been toying with old cars for a very long time.
Neat old Caddy 4 banger,, super smooth running when fresh, and it also helps to have your shit together. If I had a choice from the era, it would have to be the 1917 Cadillac Roadster V-8. Back then, they were $4000.00 in 1917. Even MORE Monopoly money now., now that our money has been turned into Monopoly money. Also, the "1917??? V8???", question would always come up, , like, , "Caddy had a V8 in 1917??" ,,why yes,,they did.
I know how modern engines work, like DOHC vs SOHC vs pushrod, injection vs carburetors, 2 barrel, 4 barrel, 4 valves, VVT, VVL. I'm gonna need to research this engine, I literally couldn't tell a single thing about it 😂
I have absolutely no love for this new junk we are building but this stuff, wow,nothing but art. A buddy was telling me the other day that BMW either has or is working on a system to idle the car by moving (yes, moving) the camshaft around,when a throttle cable or a sensor to tell the throttle body where the pedal is probably cost the bean counters a dollar why go thru all that trouble of fooling with the camshaft? something that shouldn't move ANYWHERE to begin with except in a circular motion? nothing but more complicated junk waiting to conk out, why? why?
Whats so unusual about that? Henry Leyland designed it & Charles Kettering was the brains behind the ignition & starting systems. The “unit” injector on Detroit Diesels was his baby, also. Talk about a smart man! Looks like a 2 stage air compressor on the acc. drive. About 40 HP?
I like the ones I've been sitting for years and years getting fired up not the ones have been completely ripped apart and restored to brand new not really surprised that they're running
Too bad all that ingeniousness is wasted on an 'old piece of junk' by modern day technology. The first thing I would do, is increase compression ratio, lower tolerances, and add a closed loop, single fuel injector system, to compensate for lean burn, as well as add fuel upon startup. The carburetors should run on the lean side under normal operation (the fuel injector correcting the A/F ratio to stoic).
I'm guessing that's the water pump discharging to the lower copper header and that the return to the radiator is the unconnected one on the top. What I couldn't make out was the water pump inlet or what the inactive two cylonder apparatus was above it. Nice restoration of something truely rare. Thanks for sharing.
We had a 1956 Packard Executive and I’m still amazed to this day with some of the engineering that went into those massive land yachts back in the day. This model had the air Ride suspension on it so when you started the car , it would rise about 6” and was auto leveling when going thru curves. The older cars are absolutely incredible!!
It is almost as smooth above idle than some much later engines, and the aluminium valve cover, intake manifold, flywheel housing and the starter motor must have been well ahead of their competitors.
My dad was born in 1903... his first motor car (that’s what he called it) was a 1913 Buick. He bought it to drive back and forth from Toledo to Columbus while in college at OSU. He had lots of stories about keeping that car running. When I was a boy in the ‘50s he still had a box of spare parts in our garage.
Great memories! Thanks for shearing.
He didn't drive back then. He traveled
Respect Chris, I thought I was old until I read your comment. Ace !
Seu pai estava na faculdade com apenas 10 anos de idade e já tinha um carro e já podia dirigir?! Algo de errado não está certo.
@@ivantaler
When you get to 17 or 18 the car is still a 1913 model, in fact, it may well still be a 1913 model, they built them to last! 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Good to see some 'ol boys still play with their toys. Smiles for miles.
Oh how our country used to have pride and true craftmenship in everything we made...beautiful motor...so smooth and balanced
That's capitalism for you; an endless push to produce the cheapest disposable product possible.
🤣
@@USA-freedom you might look at air craft spacecraft before making a blanket statement. Hubble and James Webb and the ISS are good examples of the skill which still exists...and which probably could not exist without capitalism. It's why China just did what the U.S. did 50 years ago when they finally go to the moon
@@TheHonestPeanut still beats socialism.. it's only the greed portion of capitalism that has led us to where we are today. just about every other aspect has led us to innovate some pretty amazing things. that doesn't happen with socialism
@@UnacceptableViews greed is capitalism. That's the entire portion. What part of workers owning the means of production do you not like?
That is one of the prettiest engines I've ever had the pleasure to see and not because it's all polished up! The architecture is the standout for me, it's physically beautiful!
Man, look at all the brass and copper--engine styling back then was a real art, and you can tell. Such a cool old engine.
A real beauty; that one was for keeps!
When you go from centuries of walking and horse drawn [fill in the blank], this WAS the future! A lot of pride went into these designs!
They wouldn't spend that kind of money on a modern engine.
@@l337pwnage You are joking right? Copper and brass is cheap... Modern engines are built from highly engineered alloys
@@dickard8275 recycled coke cans and other crap)) with silicone from a tube instead of gaskets
People that can do this kind of work are simply incredible. The youth of today should be studying with people of this caliber. Great stuff..
These guys are mechanics not part changers
Unfortunately this is a dying trade. They more and more electronics in the cars, the more specialized tools you need. Like a diagnostic box even close to what software dealers have, the ones available for purchase to public, or the ones a place like auto zone has doesn't even come close to the dealer' software.
There are some models of electric cars now that you cannot even open the hood without a dealers diagnostic box, because they are worried about people hurting themselves on high voltage components.
Pretty soon you will need to be an electrician to work on these cars, not so much a mechanic any more
This is why I say I feel like I'm born in the wrong time. I'm fascinated by engines, wind up clocks, and all sorts of mechanical things that this so called "technology of tomorrow" is replacing. I feel like we rely too much on it, and should at least keep a majority of the past alive. Heck, if something happens we might even need that old time technology again
today China rules the world!
Runs as smooth as a sewing machine... Love those oldies... Love doing this with old A's.. Can you guys do an air cooled Franklin or early GM (exposed rocker) next?
What an absolutely beautiful engine! That low compression, long stroke with its slow rpm with up draught carby and low BMEP had a sound all to its own! You can see the engineering and near architectural design that not only went into the car itself but also what they installed under hood or bonnet as we say here in Australia, I only wish I was able to have a close look and hearing her running, as I love engines especially older sidevalve units the only thing the manufacturers do these days for aesthetics is making the cheap plastic covers to hide ugliness of their engines, take them off and they look like a skinned cat!
Built like an old church organ. Ingenuity and art combined to a beautiful piece that makes music.
We don't say that in Australia. Maybe you're from Perth.... eugh
Just A BEAUTIFUL ENGINE......PURRING LIKE A NEW BORN KITTEN💪🇺🇸😊❤👍👁
Oh wow that’s beautiful! As a true gearhead I’ve honestly never seen one of these. This would be pure jewelry in a 20’s / 30’s rod!
I know right? Won’t get you there fast but it will get you there in style!!!
A bunch of old guys, getting and even older engine running in the garage in the middle of winter.... HA HA That is is so awesome.... God Bless and Happy New Years....
Wow, this is so far beyond what I’m used to. About the oldest engine I’ve torn into was a ford flathead V8 which is still honestly a fairly modern engine. But this? I wouldn’t know where to start! This is seriously just way too cool.
just a pushrod operated four cylinder, with some shiny brass sleeves over the cylinders, its pretty much the exact same engine thats in a honda civic, only built in 1914 instead of 2014.
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Those are copper cylinders not brass sleeves.
@@goingjag Ehrmm akctually~
@@carlwheezerofsouls3273 Actually that's what the guy that did the work told me.
The Kettering starter needs 24V to work right. There are four six-volt batteries wired in series, and one is tied in to provide six volts for the ignition. The starter also acts as the generator for charging the batteries through a shaft which also drives the air compressor in the front of the engine, which is used for inflating the tires if needed.
I wonder why they didn't use compressed air to start car engines?
@@bigredc222 im going to imagine it wasn't a big enough compressor. Air starters need a lot of go.
A lot of cars were 6v back then.
@@jasbirsmith299 That looks like a tiny pump, so it would just need a lot of storage.
Extra storage wouldn't be a big deal, I think it's got something to with seals, hydraulics hadn't taken off yet either.
I've never found out what the hold-up was keeping hydraulics from being developed.
I think it wasn't until the 50s that hydraulics started being used in heavy equipment.
@@bigredc222 Parker Hydraulics did all the work to give us modern hydraulics.
Well - Vickers-Armstrong did some of it by inventing swash+plunger pumps and motors.
You are welcome.
Ahh I love old machines from the early 1900s. Like art and engineering meeting; functional yet looks like some sort of steampunk art piece.
Neat! Where is the rest of the car?
scrapyard
What a piece of art
Never underestimate an old man in an apron! These guys have knowledge
Keep their clothes clean and wife happy, that's a smart man!
The sad thing is many are getting older and not able to continue doing this work, or are dying and the skills and talents they have are being lost because the kids of today aren't interested. I think when the current generation get older they're going to regret the fact they spent their formative years with their heads buried in phones and ipads.
Awesome. I have 3 just like it in my garage that I saved from goin to the scrapyard last year. If anyone wants to buy them I have $400 bucks in em and will take that for em. I just didn't want them to get scrapped. All 3 run
Boys with toys, but thankfully there are men like this keeping these beautiful machines running!
What a beautiful sounding engine, especially the sound coming out of the tailpipe. Brings back a flood of memories when I was a little kid, not back in 1914 of course, but when engines were simple, and sounded like engines, and could be fully maintained by the owner. The old Dodge Power Wagon being one that I really love.
Just the ol boy's having all the fun !
Get those youngsters in there !🤓
and teach .
The engine alone is a peace of artwork. Great job..👍👍👍
Would have loved to have seen more of the restoration... Sounds fantastic, wel done, Guys.. 👍
that is a beutiful engine and sounds cool and looks super steam punk themed even sorta sounds like a steam engine running at a higher rate of speed if you ever watched some of those super big old engines the multie storey ship engines and such
sounds similar just smaller scale for this guy
That is quite possibly the most beautiful piece of machinery I have ever seen. I'd have that in my living room as a talking piece. Work or art!
I'd have it in my living room instead of the TV. I could watch it all day.
I'd like to have the engine in a low slung roadster and go racing.
Beautiful. I wish engineers these days would put some art into their design
They kinda do.
We just dont see it that way.
The engineers of the day would be in awe looking at a modern engine. Especially the plastic parts.
We would but the bean counters won't let us.
That's a real piece of art
Congratulations to the bloke/s on your restoration of the engine, it runs really sweet. However when I saw the Triumph chop on the work lift I was more interested in that . Did it belong to one of these blokes . Hard to imagine them tearing around the place on it, but we were all young once . Cool bike and cool engine.
Absolutely beautiful! What an amazing piece of history!
A friend of mine has two of these he is restoring . The design ,especially regarding the cam followers etc was world leading at that time.
Cadillac always had the best engineers and designers!
Absolutely beautiful engine WOW I was amazed to hear it run nice work guy's.
интересный моторчик. и так тихо работает. класс
Bellissimo ! Un opera d'arte , suono e ritmo perfetti !
What a credit to the guy who rebuilt it, marvelous.
Yes, he's amazing. Not much he can't fix, watches, guitar amps, cast parts, he does it all.
wow es un placer ver una reliquia como esa
"what does it sound like outside?"
"sounds like an engine."
my kinda man.
You can't get that sound out of an electric engine (motor).
I love it !
What beautiful craftsmanship. You will never see a engine in any car of today that comes close to looking this good at any price!
You’re correct, that is beautiful. A work of art, for sure. But thank goodness engines today don’t look like that. As pretty as that is and sounds, it was woefully weak and inefficient and polluting.
But yeah, bless these guys for keeping these engines alive.
Been doing similar work for the past 6 years , It's a bloody good feeling when you fire up a car that hasn't run in decades
That is really a beautiful engine. I’d like to know which vehicle it powered. I suppose this fellow has to put lead-replacement in the fuel. Back then, the alloy of these engine blocks wasn’t as good as what we have today. Most car owners would have the valves reground every thirty thousand miles.
Leaded (Ethyl) gas was still about 10 - 15 years away when this engine was originally built and very low octane. That's why so many engines then had to have valves done at fairly low mileage, 10-15,000 miles.
@@JrGoonior ????? I would say not having hardened Valve seats were y ppl had valve jobs done every 15 to 30 k
That’s the most beautiful looking and sounding engine I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing.
What a beautiful piece of art. Have often heard that anything automotive can’t be considered as art. I think we can agree looking at this engine that theory is totally wrong. Thanks so much for sharing this video.
Drivers side, easy to figure how the Mag is driven... whats the air pump doing? vacuum? whats the drive looking mechanism into crankcase? There was something very magical going on about the machine age in the years 1911 to 1922. Mankind struck the mother lode of ingenious mechanisms and they were free of Government to pursue it for the most part, the technology didn't exist for the Government to breath down their necks every waking moment.
That is an air compressor for inflating tires. It is driven by the same shaft which drives the starter/generator to charge the batteries while the engine is running. It was a rather ingenious system Charles Kettering came up with, using the same device for both starting the engine and charging the four 6v batteries.
I love that the dude is wearing a denim apron like a chef. What a cake!
This must be the most beautiful engine I've ever seen. Congrats. I'm sure a lot of work went into this restoration!
Absoulutly brilliant first start for a rebuilt motor obviously a lot of careful preparation prior to starting.
Is that an air compressor on the front left side of the engine, or some other kind of pump? I was surprised to see it there, and was wondering about its use.
Air compressor for inflating tires! Not uncommon on larger cars back then.
Yes air compressor
That tickover sound is music to my old ears! Beautiful job guys, I am impressed!
Preciso come un. Orologio senti che. Minimo il. Motore 💪💪💪
I would have loved to have been there when it fires. This is history! I am envious!
After all that time and work why would you run a water cooled engine with no cooling system?
Man that engine is almost too pretty to run and she sounds equally as good. Awesome job
Hard to tell- hopefully the water jacket had water in it!
That’s not an engine. That’s a work of art!
Still overly complicated but it works.
Superb looking engine ! 👍
Beautiful when cars were built right great job
My Honda K24 engine is superior to this in every way...except for the extreme cool factor.
That very signature popping/putting sound from these early inline engines! Very great!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Mani d' oro
veri old 100 gold good condisan
I had the sound off, so at first glance, I thought it was a top-of-the-line whiskey still.
Never even knew what kind of engine was in those old cars. Beautiful restoration running smooth as a prom queen's thighs!
One of my dad's friends sold a 14 Caddy out of Upstate South Carolina about 15 - 20 years. ago. They picked it up on the way back from Hershey in 1975. Touring car with jump seats.
Runs alot smoother than the 1905 Cadiallac Engine I helped my father in law do a ring and valve job on. His car will go 25mph top speed No windshield No top...
That was a great looking engine and it sounded really smooth while running. Good job.
Blown away by the beauty and craftsmanship! Brass, copper, bronze alongside polished steel and aluminum. 1914. So have we gone forward or backwards?
THEATS WAN THE YOUSTO LAST .NAT LIKE THE WORLAS JAN S OS THEIS ERA.. .PLACTIK .AII OVOR . THEATS WAN THEY MEST AUP .
That's a beautiful engine
There’s a lot to be learned from guys like that!
I talk to Fred every few months when we get together. I'm older than him and I still learn stuff from him. He's been toying with old cars for a very long time.
That is one Beautiful Engine, and OMG that sound is heavenly, especially idle. Great job guys.
Well done fantastic
love it! i looked it up- 365 ci, 4 cyl, 50hp
Pretty good technology for 1914.
The days when you had to adjust the carb to get air/ fuel mixture right..what a work of art that thing is.
Beautiful!
YOU NEED A MASSIVE CAR FOR THAT ENGINE. LOOKS MORE LIKE A ENGINE FOR A TRAIN.
Neat old Caddy 4 banger,, super smooth running when fresh, and it also helps to have your shit together. If I had a choice from the era, it would have to be the 1917 Cadillac Roadster V-8. Back then, they were $4000.00 in 1917. Even MORE Monopoly money now., now that our money has been turned into Monopoly money. Also, the "1917??? V8???", question would always come up, , like, , "Caddy had a V8 in 1917??" ,,why yes,,they did.
Condratulacione molto belo
I know how modern engines work, like DOHC vs SOHC vs pushrod, injection vs carburetors, 2 barrel, 4 barrel, 4 valves, VVT, VVL.
I'm gonna need to research this engine, I literally couldn't tell a single thing about it 😂
I have absolutely no love for this new junk we are building but this stuff, wow,nothing but art.
A buddy was telling me the other day that BMW either has or is working on a system to idle the car by moving (yes, moving) the camshaft around,when a throttle cable or a sensor to tell the throttle body where the pedal is probably cost the bean counters a dollar why go thru all that trouble of fooling with the camshaft? something that shouldn't move ANYWHERE to begin with except in a circular motion? nothing but more complicated junk waiting to conk out, why? why?
Whats so unusual about that? Henry Leyland designed it & Charles Kettering was the brains behind the ignition & starting systems. The “unit” injector on Detroit Diesels was his baby, also. Talk about a smart man! Looks like a 2 stage air compressor on the acc. drive. About 40 HP?
Beautiful!
I like the ones I've been sitting for years and years getting fired up not the ones have been completely ripped apart and restored to brand new not really surprised that they're running
Beautiful it purrs like a kitten fantastic job on the restoration 👏
Too bad all that ingeniousness is wasted on an 'old piece of junk' by modern day technology.
The first thing I would do, is increase compression ratio, lower tolerances, and add a closed loop, single fuel injector system, to compensate for lean burn, as well as add fuel upon startup.
The carburetors should run on the lean side under normal operation (the fuel injector correcting the A/F ratio to stoic).
My wife and I celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 1915 and we celebrated by buying a 15 Cadillac. It still runs this good. Nice job guys 👍
Your a hundred and fifty years old? Nice bro
@@Jordan__Sloan lots of vegetables and pop rocks 👍
@@Jordan__Sloanonly 150 years old? No, "bro" had already been married over 155 years when you commented.
Just how good is that. Congratulations to all involved.
What a work of art! Beautiful craftsmanship and engineering. Looks brand new. No doubt the compression ratio is very low, maybe around 5 to 1.
I think you could burn a decent whisky with that engine :-)))))
I'm guessing that's the water pump discharging to the lower copper header and that the return to the radiator is the unconnected one on the top. What I couldn't make out was the water pump inlet or what the inactive two cylonder apparatus was above it. Nice restoration of something truely rare. Thanks for sharing.
North East is the best! I work for a Packard repair shop in Holden Ma. Constantly amazed by the great local talent we have up here.
We had a 1956 Packard Executive and I’m still amazed to this day with some of the engineering that went into those massive land yachts back in the day. This model had the air Ride suspension on it so when you started the car , it would rise about 6” and was auto leveling when going thru curves. The older cars are absolutely incredible!!
@@1982MCI I'm amazed too. They are really something.
Wonderful craftsmanship
Absolutely a beautiful piece of machinery.
There is a video of a 1928 or so Fairbanks Morse 4 cyl 2 stroke diesel. Huge cylinders. Idled just like the Caddy.
Work of practical art!!!!!
It is almost as smooth above idle than some much later engines, and the aluminium valve cover, intake manifold, flywheel housing and the starter motor must have been well ahead of their competitors.
MAGNIFICENT!!! We did make some very beautiful and useful things. NOT MADE IN CHINA
this engine was designed to run on 60 octane naphtha fuel. Modern high octane gasoline was unavailable and invented only for aircraft in WWII.
Purrs like a kitten.
One day, this will be me and the boys standing around a 2JZ making a video.
Thanks for great vid!Odd seeing exposed cylinders.Are the copper parts are the coolant circuit components?