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 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.
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?
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
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
I'd like to see the truck run the quarter mile but then I got to thinking about it about halfway down I think that would be a bad idea just saying food for thought
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.
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.
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.
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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
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 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.
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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.
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.😂
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.
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! 😃
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?
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
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW ! ! ! ! ! ! AWESOME ! ! ! ! ! ! AMAZING ! ! ! ! ! ! FANTASTIC ! ! ! ! ! ! TOP ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
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 Cessna pick up is the best, the other cars were interesting
Some of these cars can literally blow away the competition
The turbine even at low rev's sounds like a giant vacuum cleaner.😜😜😜
From the B pilars back, Leno's car is sporting styling from a 1968 Biuck Rivera Boattail.
Now that was a slice of pure cool!!!
Every video this guy puts out is very entertaining.
Insanely smooth footage
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.
Some of the coolest cars I've ever seen and I'm not even done with the video yet
Extremely Cool
O som de um motor acionando é muito bom...
Dear Santa, I've been SUPER good this year!! All I want is that Batmobile.
the batmobile with a jet? I NEED!
Oh Yeah 🔥🔥🔥
I miss the Rover-BRM turbine car which ran at Le Mans in '63, '64 and '65.
I see cooling system nightmares.
I saw the Chrysler turbine car rolling around Livonia, Michigan back when it was being tested!
3:30 probably gave the GT40 a run for its money.
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.
Simplesmente 💯 sacional valeuuuuuuuu
Remember Preston Tucker's car was powered by a piston helicopter engine
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.
All we need now is a turbine-powered Knight Rider car now.
YES
Joker escapes while you look amazing sitting there waiting for the Batmobile's turbine to spool up.
Вот это полет мысли вот это умные конструкторы инженеры восхищаюсь вашими автомобилями они все один эксклюзивнее другого....
Ростовская бэха круче
Beautiful machines 🤩
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Saw a old Dodge Power Wagon (WW2) up in Oregon with a big radial in front. Impressive!
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.
PLEASE....AIRCRAFTS....is not a word
God bless the gearbox inventor.
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.
That batmobile is hokey !
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 👍
The 70s were funnn. I remember art affrons green monster
The plymouth is very cool.
the camera man on that merlin wagon, LORD
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Batmobile really legend...!!!!
That Batmobile would likely be more awesome with an F-15 jet engine
COOL 😎
ALL DUDS.
Jay Leno and the French Fry car……👏👏🤣🍟
if it fits its gold
it must be nice to throw around that kind of money and not worry about it
“Ain’t Nuthin but an E thing baby”
That bat mobile looks like it has a pt6 in it.
PLEASE buy the camera operato a steady cam mount!!
Great video maybe slow down writing
The kind of thing which Peter Griffin would drive into Cleveland's house, after he's run out of Petercopters and Hindenpeters.
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.
That EcoJet looks like a Cadillac Cien/Koenigsegg Agera Hybrid
まさかの星型エンジンを積んだクルマがあるとは💧
Amazing👍👍👍👍❤️
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Ok please corek my woork shop
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.
i like the Jay Leno bio-jet: so , while you are driving you can fry and egg.
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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.
There is also the Lotus 56 Indy 500/ F1 turbine car
Someone please rescue the Merlin out of that monstrosity and get it back in a Mustang or Spitfire where it belongs.
Great, if the man with the plan batmobile driver was dressed as batman, an uncanny combo, don't know what to think of the Lino mobile.
*They were afraid that cars wouldn't have moved without aircraft engines????* 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Cool cars but no James Bond car here-NO EJECTION SAT
@ 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.
I'd hate to be the gopher that gets sucked in to that air intake
I think I saw that radial truck in Calistoga CA
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 missed one of the first aero engined cars, Babs.
... and the Howmet TX has rear lights from a 1960's Ford Cortina/Lola Mk.6/Ferrari GTO/TVR Vixen.
Bis das batmobil anfährt ,ist die Ampel wieder rot
Mine would hav 2 turbines from an f14
Came here for the Radial Engine.
Ok
Chrysler should have switched to making vacuum cleaners.
I know turbine powered cars are rare, but just once I'd like to see one do afew doughnuts! Something iv never seen before!
All of these make Gretta Thunberg cry, which puts a BIG smile on my face!! Up yours Gretta!
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.
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I'd like to see the truck run the quarter mile but then I got to thinking about it about halfway down I think that would be a bad idea just saying food for thought
7:55 imagine getting that steering column through your chest in an accident. 🤭
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?
Can you imagine Leno's Corvette melting the Kia sitting behind it at a traffic light ? 😮
Hold my beer while I turn up my jet...
Oh yeah, drink beer and listen to jet engine sound.
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.
eco jet looks like jackson storm.
The bat mobile is real, my dad has one!
Said the coolest kid ever.
Nice!
@5:13 the all new ford truckster...
i hope the BM has air cond. if the BM went too fast would that make you have a BM asking for a friend
You won't find these in a Walmart parking lot!
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.
To bad you didnt have the turbine S-10 in this.