The problem with the radial engine truck is the cooling, as there's not enough airflow to keep it running without overheating and seizing for more than a couple of minutes. The fix was to install an oil cooling system that allowed the truck to make the five minutes or so needed to perform at big truck shows, and that was developed and installed by Radial Engines in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Lets not forget that several cylinders are upside down. So oil will fill the combustion chamber. If you don't empty it out you can hydrolock those cylinders and do some major damage to the connecting rods and such! There's a reason radial engines went away quickly!
@@thecman26 anyone who uses radials should know to crank the engine over before engaging the ignition. When I was in college I watched a doctor who had just bought an old Cessna 195 (beautiful plane) blow out the lower cylinders when he forgot the rule.
@@thecman26 Radials did not go away so quickly, they were pretty common in the 1960's and some are still used today. The reason they lost their dominant market position after WW2 is two-fold. First, the advent of gas turbine engines with much better power/weight ratio, scalability, reliability and streamlining, burning a cheaper fuel, left radials with no chance in the high power market sector. And second, the introduction of flat-4,6 and 8 engines which were simpler, more streamlined and equally well suited for air cooling eliminated the need for radials in the low-power general aviation market.
I'm constantly amazed at the creative, artistic, and mechanical engineering skills of people who design, create, and build machines such as these. Just amazing skills. Very impressive.
Another example of a jet powered car is the Jaguar C-X75 prototype which had two small gas turbines which charged a battery that fed four electric motors.
The Beast did not have a Merlin engine, it had a motor derived from the Merlin, a Meteor tank engine, built by Rover cars. Early ones used Merlin crankcases taken from crashed aircraft, with visible cosmetic damage. The Merlin is single overhead camshaft, bevel driven with 4 valves per cylinder.
My buddy and I were riding our motorcycles to Vegas one day ( Phoenix to Vegas) and I believe it was a Chrysler that was powered by a gas turbine engine blew by us. We came upon it 15 miles ahead of us. The engine was scattered all over the road and they had a support truck cleaning up the mess on the highway. We tried to talk to them, but they declined to say anything about the car. Anyway thought that was interesting.
With automobile talent like this, what took us soo long to get a car on the moon? And why don't we have another car on Mars or racing around the rings of Saturn?
It's an old set of videos, but it's interesting to watch special cars and never show how they drive on the road and how they accelerate! Drive on the spot so slowly and carefully! When I drove an old refurbished Cadillac, I still enjoyed driving and accelerating and the comfort of the car and its power, especially in urban traffic, where it is often necessary to speed up from behind a traffic light so that other cars can also pass through the green light and no congestion. would occur in Europe's small towns, at intersections! The car is still for driving and a powerful car to enjoy driving, albeit a rare one!
Mario Andretti was supposed to be the driver.STP was the major sponsor. The rules commission kept reducing the size of the intakes until it was no longer competitive. Like the Plymouth super bee and Daytona charger it just got away from everyone and had to be stopped. Both signaling the end of real competition in racing.
I remember in the 70s a freightliner conventional powered by a P51 Mustang enguine,but they had alot of problems keeping it running right.and GMC had turbin enguine experimental cabovers
I love the sound of those jets but I doubt you could get away with that in a suburb neighbourhood. The high pitched screech would be as bad as open headers.
00:34 Boeing turbine engine 🤣 Boeing isn't an engine manufacturer 🤣 and, it is of very great importance to note, the Chrysler Turbine Car was powered by a gas turbine that wasn't designed for any aviation application - that being said, one of the engineers of that car's engine later went on to make a company that does produce gas turbines for small business jets!
I've seen the Radial engine truck in person. They keep it at their man cave at the junk yard along with other projects. I don't think its open to the public. But they do have a radial engine sitting in the lobby that all visitors can see.
The Merlin had to have Lake plugs in the exhaust pipes. Chrysler should have kept the basic body design of its production turbine powered car. It was sharp as a tack, and had those headlights we still love.
Jay Leno's car is cool, but the turbine runs on biodiesel, not cooking oil. The long chain molecules are cracked in the process of making the biodiesel, and methyl groups added on the chain ends. What results is a long way from cooking oil.
Aircraft engines are an incredibly poor choice for cars, especially the turbines. The use profile is completely different with the aircraft engines designed to put out 75% of rate power for virtually 100% duty cycle at a constant rpm and with as close to 100% reliability as possible. They were not designed to put around at 5 to 10% rated power output at vastly varying speeds. Use an aircraft engine if you wish to cruise at 175mph.
@@177SCmaro Depends if it's been de-stressed like the used to do with the Late SWW tanks. It didn't have the stress requirements of High altitude so the Meteor was quite a reliable engine but still had loads of power. If they were using them in full Air trim then yes they would be issues with the more erratic power usage in a car. The early Shermans used Aero Radials too. It had a good power to weight ratio but was prone to overheating when stationary due to lack of airflow through the engine.
The chassis for the John Dodd car was built 200 yards away from where I lived. I could seethe factory from my bedroom. What you show is its Mk2 body. Interestingly where the chassis was built is only a 5 minute walk from Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham base.
Pretty sure technically it would be a Meteor engine if it doesn't have the Superchargers. That's the one that would have been in the Cromwell and Churchill tanks. Still a beast of an engine though.
i like the part on the jay leno car about it burning clean jet a,jet fuel is a kerosene liquid and still based on petroleum liquid,so how clean is it it would still have to emit co2
you noticed the bat mobil during start up there a clicking sound? thats normal on jet engines. Its the sound of igniter plugs its a large version of the spark plugs.
Fantastically interesting video, but please whoever is doing the information boxes that pop up, PLEASE leave them up long enough to read the information, they simply aren’t on screen for long enough.
The Italian Designed, coolest car Chrysler ever built, appears to have a roof from a '53 Studebaker. 8:08 thru 8:11. Guess that's all Chrysler needed to design a cool car, somebody else's roof.
@tecdessus The Meteor was initially produced by Rolls-Royce but to free up capacity for Merlin production; RR agreed to move Meteor production to the Rover Company at Tyseley and Morris at Coventry. Rover was closely involved in the development of jet engines. RR struck a deal with Rover and swapped jet engine work folr tank engine production - Rover taking over the Meteor in January 1944.
Too bad no Ford GAA engines...though if you can find them they would be in only the V8 used in tanks which was cut down from a V12 originally intended for aircraft.
The bobbing information is irritating and not enough time to read. Real bummer.
In addition to the palsy camera work. Great content incredibly poorly executed. Indeed a shame.
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Remember reading about Gilda and the Turbine in my brothers car mags from the ‘50’s. Had to sneak em because he didn’t want me in his stuff.
Slow down the playback speed, but that doesn’t fix the wobble.
🤣😂🤣
The problem with the radial engine truck is the cooling, as there's not enough airflow to keep it running without overheating and seizing for more than a couple of minutes. The fix was to install an oil cooling system that allowed the truck to make the five minutes or so needed to perform at big truck shows, and that was developed and installed by Radial Engines in Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Lets not forget that several cylinders are upside down. So oil will fill the combustion chamber. If you don't empty it out you can hydrolock those cylinders and do some major damage to the connecting rods and such! There's a reason radial engines went away quickly!
@@thecman26 anyone who uses radials should know to crank the engine over before engaging the ignition. When I was in college I watched a doctor who had just bought an old Cessna 195 (beautiful plane) blow out the lower cylinders when he forgot the rule.
@@thecman26
Radials did not go away so quickly, they were pretty common in the 1960's and some are still used today. The reason they lost their dominant market position after WW2 is two-fold. First, the advent of gas turbine engines with much better power/weight ratio, scalability, reliability and streamlining, burning a cheaper fuel, left radials with no chance in the high power market sector. And second, the introduction of flat-4,6 and 8 engines which were simpler, more streamlined and equally well suited for air cooling eliminated the need for radials in the low-power general aviation market.
I don’t care what anyone says, that turbine powered batmobile is badass! I’d daily drive that thing 👍
Yes, that's right. Awesome!
instead of 12 miles to the gallon, you'd get 12 gallons to the mile
I'm constantly amazed at the creative, artistic, and mechanical engineering skills of people who design, create, and build machines such as these. Just amazing skills. Very impressive.
the main thing seems to be the noise these silly "artistic" creations are making.
There are some very talented, brilliant, artistic and down right INSANE people in this world.
Yeah yeah yeah COOL 😎
Wayne Andrus yes sir. And we love them dearly LOL.😂
Another example of a jet powered car is the Jaguar C-X75 prototype which had two small gas turbines which charged a battery that fed four electric motors.
The Beast did not have a Merlin engine, it had a motor derived from the Merlin, a Meteor tank engine, built by Rover cars. Early ones used Merlin crankcases taken from crashed aircraft, with visible cosmetic damage. The Merlin is single overhead camshaft, bevel driven with 4 valves per cylinder.
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW ! ! ! ! ! ! AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! ! AMAZING ! ! ! ! ! ! FANTASTIC ! ! ! ! ! ! TOP ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
A car powered by a blowtorch-hot jet engine driving past all those bales of hay is comforting and reassuring.
My buddy and I were riding our motorcycles to Vegas one day ( Phoenix to Vegas) and I believe it was a Chrysler that was powered by a gas turbine engine blew by us. We came upon it 15 miles ahead of us. The engine was scattered all over the road and they had a support truck cleaning up the mess on the highway. We tried to talk to them, but they declined to say anything about the car. Anyway thought that was interesting.
With automobile talent like this, what took us soo long to get a car on the moon? And why don't we have another car on Mars or racing around the rings of Saturn?
Would have been cool to see" The Brutus" as featured on top gear.
It's an old set of videos, but it's interesting to watch special cars and never show how they drive on the road and how they accelerate! Drive on the spot so slowly and carefully! When I drove an old refurbished Cadillac, I still enjoyed driving and accelerating and the comfort of the car and its power, especially in urban traffic, where it is often necessary to speed up from behind a traffic light so that other cars can also pass through the green light and no congestion. would occur in Europe's small towns, at intersections! The car is still for driving and a powerful car to enjoy driving, albeit a rare one!
the batmobile with a jet? I NEED!
Oh Yeah 🔥🔥🔥
Amazing👍👍👍👍❤️
Thanks and please share 🙏
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Ok please corek my woork shop
Beautiful machines 🤩
Nice, hope you enjoyed, please share 🙏. Thank you!
Insanely smooth footage
Dear Santa, I've been SUPER good this year!! All I want is that Batmobile.
The Cessna pick up is the best, the other cars were interesting
From the B pilars back, Leno's car is sporting styling from a 1968 Biuck Rivera Boattail.
PLEASE buy the camera operato a steady cam mount!!
The turbine even at low rev's sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner.😜😜😜
Every video this guy puts out is very entertaining.
Now that was a slice of pure cool!!!
Some of these cars can literally blow away the competition
FYI, there was also a turbine powered Indy car. STP-Paxton Turbocar, 1967.
Mario Andretti was supposed to be the driver.STP was the major sponsor. The rules commission kept reducing the size of the intakes until it was no longer competitive. Like the Plymouth super bee and Daytona charger it just got away from everyone and had to be stopped. Both signaling the end of real competition in racing.
I remember in the 70s a freightliner conventional powered by a P51 Mustang enguine,but they had alot of problems keeping it running right.and GMC had turbin enguine experimental cabovers
Saw a old Dodge Power Wagon (WW2) up in Oregon with a big radial in front. Impressive!
3:30 probably gave the GT40 a run for its money.
@ 8:30 yep its sitting right in the main entrance area you can go check it out. It's a little east of Santa Fe you can't really see the from the road.
Interesting video. It might have just been me, but the text wasn't on screen long enough to read it all!
Thank you for your suggestion 👍
I paused it as needed.
That batmobile is hokey !
Someone please rescue the Merlin out of that monstrosity and get it back in a Mustang or Spitfire where it belongs.
I remember seeing the Chrysler Turbine car at of all places a Chevrolet dealer. Central Chevrolet in Atlanta Ga. I was 16 and already a gearhead.
I love the fact that when Jay leno is leaving, you can hear just a regular ol airplane in the sky and this beast is on 4 tires! 😃
I love the sound of those jets but I doubt you could get away with that in a suburb neighbourhood. The high pitched screech would be as bad as open headers.
Вот это полет мысли вот это умные конструкторы инженеры восхищаюсь вашими автомобилями они все один эксклюзивнее другого....
Ростовская бэха круче
I miss the Rover-BRM turbine car which ran at Le Mans in '63, '64 and '65.
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Remember Preston Tucker's car was powered by a piston helicopter engine
Great video maybe slow down writing
I see cooling system nightmares.
Simplesmente 💯 sacional valeuuuuuuuu
I saw the Chrysler turbine car rolling around Livonia, Michigan back when it was being tested!
00:34 Boeing turbine engine 🤣 Boeing isn't an engine manufacturer 🤣 and, it is of very great importance to note, the Chrysler Turbine Car was powered by a gas turbine that wasn't designed for any aviation application - that being said, one of the engineers of that car's engine later went on to make a company that does produce gas turbines for small business jets!
... and the Howmet TX has rear lights from a 1960's Ford Cortina/Lola Mk.6/Ferrari GTO/TVR Vixen.
PLEASE....AIRCRAFTS....is not a word
it must be nice to throw around that kind of money and not worry about it
I've seen the Radial engine truck in person. They keep it at their man cave at the junk yard along with other projects. I don't think its open to the public. But they do have a radial engine sitting in the lobby that all visitors can see.
The 70s were funnn. I remember art affrons green monster
Great video but, where is the Railton Special? How can you have a video of cars with aircraft engines without the fastest car in the world?
God bless the gearbox inventor.
Jay Leno and the French Fry car……👏👏🤣🍟
All we need now is a turbine-powered Knight Rider car now.
YES
The Merlin had to have Lake plugs in the exhaust pipes. Chrysler should have kept the basic body design of its production turbine powered car. It was sharp as a tack, and had those headlights we still love.
I think I saw that radial truck in Calistoga CA
まさかの星型エンジンを積んだクルマがあるとは💧
Leno's car looks like a cross between a Cadi and Riviera, they should make this car with a LS motor
Perhaps a good idea 👍
Jay Leno's car is cool, but the turbine runs on biodiesel, not cooking oil. The long chain molecules are cracked in the process of making the biodiesel, and methyl groups added on the chain ends. What results is a long way from cooking oil.
Aircraft engines are an incredibly poor choice for cars, especially the turbines. The use profile is completely different with the aircraft engines designed to put out 75% of rate power for virtually 100% duty cycle at a constant rpm and with as close to 100% reliability as possible. They were not designed to put around at 5 to 10% rated power output at vastly varying speeds. Use an aircraft engine if you wish to cruise at 175mph.
What happens if you run it at varying, lower loads like in a car though? Does it damage the engine?
@@wageslave387 Probably shortens the service life and is really inefficient.
The M1A1 Abrams MBT runs on a turbine.
@@damagar8 A tank is not a car. It's a different duty cycle. A tank uses much more of its available power for more time than a car.
@@177SCmaro Depends if it's been de-stressed like the used to do with the Late SWW tanks. It didn't have the stress requirements of High altitude so the Meteor was quite a reliable engine but still had loads of power. If they were using them in full Air trim then yes they would be issues with the more erratic power usage in a car.
The early Shermans used Aero Radials too. It had a good power to weight ratio but was prone to overheating when stationary due to lack of airflow through the engine.
The chassis for the John Dodd car was built 200 yards away from where I lived. I could seethe factory from my bedroom. What you show is its Mk2 body.
Interestingly where the chassis was built is only a 5 minute walk from Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham base.
It has now been sold, rebuilt with the original Rolls Royce grille, and repainted in a better colour. Still looks fantastic.
the camera man on that merlin wagon, LORD
That Batmobile would likely be more awesome with an F-15 jet engine
COOL 😎
Batmobile really legend...!!!!
if it fits its gold
que Padres coches donde es ese lugar
7:55 imagine getting that steering column through your chest in an accident. 🤭
John Dodd's Merlin Beast, amazing. "John how much torque your car have?" John: "Yes".
Pretty sure technically it would be a Meteor engine if it doesn't have the Superchargers. That's the one that would have been in the Cromwell and Churchill tanks. Still a beast of an engine though.
What are the emissions.
That bat mobile looks like it has a pt6 in it.
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The plymouth is very cool.
Got to be honest when all said and done ! I was expecting such greatness but was very much let down by the junk that i just watched.
You missed one of the first aero engined cars, Babs.
There is also the Lotus 56 Indy 500/ F1 turbine car
Deveriam ter postado à data do vídeo. Deve ser dos anos 80 🤔🤔🇧🇷
i like the part on the jay leno car about it burning clean jet a,jet fuel is a kerosene liquid and still based on petroleum liquid,so how clean is it it would still have to emit co2
you noticed the bat mobil during start up there a clicking sound? thats normal on jet engines. Its the sound of igniter plugs its a large version of the spark plugs.
Fantastically interesting video, but please whoever is doing the information boxes that pop up, PLEASE leave them up long enough to read the information, they simply aren’t on screen for long enough.
Nice, thanks for your suggestion🙏
The Italian Designed, coolest car Chrysler ever built, appears to have a roof from a '53 Studebaker. 8:08 thru 8:11. Guess that's all Chrysler needed to design a cool car, somebody else's roof.
Yeah 🙌 Nice!
Wish you had made the information readable.
*They were afraid that cars wouldn't have moved without aircraft engines????* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The John Dodd car does not have the RR Merlin aeroplane engine; it uses the RR Meteor tank engine.
@tecdessus The Meteor was initially produced by Rolls-Royce but to free up capacity for Merlin production; RR agreed to move Meteor production to the Rover Company at Tyseley and Morris at Coventry.
Rover was closely involved in the development of jet engines. RR struck a deal with Rover and swapped jet engine work folr tank engine production - Rover taking over the Meteor in January 1944.
I know turbine powered cars are rare, but just once I'd like to see one do afew doughnuts! Something iv never seen before!
“Ain’t Nuthin but an E thing baby”
@5:13 the all new ford truckster...
Quanti milioni di litri di carburante consumano al minuto ?
ALL DUDS.
i hope the BM has air cond. if the BM went too fast would that make you have a BM asking for a friend
The yellow car did not original have power steering , not sure it's been modified since
O som de um motor acionando é muito bom...
The Chrysler Turbine car is NOT powered by an aircraft engine. The turbine used was purpose built for that application.
Thumbnail is located in Denver Colorado ....
Can you imagine Leno's Corvette melting the Kia sitting behind it at a traffic light ? 😮
Too bad no Ford GAA engines...though if you can find them they would be in only the V8 used in tanks which was cut down from a V12 originally intended for aircraft.
To bad you didnt have the turbine S-10 in this.
Chrysler should have switched to making vacuum cleaners.
Some really cool vehicles and some lame ones. That Chrysler Turbine car was in the top though.
The sound loks similar a bell 206 jet ranger
Yes, the same engine sound!
That EcoJet looks like a Cadillac Cien/Koenigsegg Agera Hybrid
Where's the Tucker ???
Sorry but I think Tuker is nothing special, right?
@@CoolCarTvYou said "aircraft engine".