Tis is not just a car, it is both a technical masterpiece and a piece of art. Absolutely beautiful.

"Gentlemen, start your engines!" Crowd takes a nap.

@MyMathex

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

@MulletMTB69

4 жыл бұрын

That's a good funny

@theleo77

4 жыл бұрын

7min of my life that I will NEVER get it back...

@mitchellpeters1527

2 жыл бұрын

@@theleo77 u wouldve wasted it anyway on another video

@Workerbee-zy5nx

4 ай бұрын

Um, yeah..interesting. 👍😉

That's exactly the same amount of time needed to start a car in horror films.

@hackd6959

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@steffenrosmus9177

2 жыл бұрын

Nope the same amount of time to start any common American car from the 1970- 90ies

@fredgervinm.p.3315

2 жыл бұрын

That was good.

@ericstiles9708

2 жыл бұрын

And they are all 5.0 sounds in movies

@mewrongway

2 жыл бұрын

Same amount of time it takes to walk to town! 🤓

i was 9 years old when this video started. i am 67 now.

@Scott-vx2ks

5 жыл бұрын

"Hurry" the cops are coming... Just give me another 10 more minutes.

@caratcranker5874

5 жыл бұрын

@@Scott-vx2ks Das coppers, Das coppers! we are Das fuckenheimered.

@TheMattzki

5 жыл бұрын

Ha ha i know....i grew a fkin beard watching this

@sly2392

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheMattzki hella funny.

@tonytiger943

5 жыл бұрын

@sly123 it’s 2.45am, everyone in the house *was* asleep. Then I read that. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭👍👍

6:35 Art in Motion!!! Beautiful!!! Got to love that "pedestrian safe" radiator design, quickly relieves undo suffering in a pedestrian collision.

@michaeltomaszek1307

4 жыл бұрын

Quick death by german Mercedes Benz 21,5 litre

@tim2015

2 жыл бұрын

"Pedestrians? On our road?"

@williamkerr3350

Жыл бұрын

Looks like it would be perfect position to take out the aorta of an adult.

I just saw one of these going flat out around the track at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Bloody fantastic. It was in a race with a whole lot of similar machines (including the "Beast of Turin"), all of which were also going flat out, it was the most epic thing I think I've ever seen.

@CamaroMann

Жыл бұрын

And heard, I guess.

Whoever piloted that to 140mph back in the day, had balls of pure German steel.

@Bierschiss667

5 жыл бұрын

Balls of Kruppstahl!

@ushoys

5 жыл бұрын

After someone else started the engine for him

@TheCartercat

5 жыл бұрын

bob bob You mean he had rusty balls?

@lionsteinmetz7672

5 жыл бұрын

@@jacobhall979 thats a german car and by that time

@jakobtroyer1240

5 жыл бұрын

140km/h not miles!🤦‍♂️

Engineering becomes artwork. Imagine the pride in building one. It really shows.

@ExplizitDuester

5 жыл бұрын

That's why you wait with a running engine ;)

@marimgggg.7525

4 жыл бұрын

Não falei nada.

@fredgervinm.p.3315

2 жыл бұрын

And the Germans are carrying on Workmanship.

Well, I'm never going to complain about how hard my lawn mower is to start again.

Dad, can I borrow the Benz? Sure son if you can get it started!

@EleanorPeterson

5 жыл бұрын

Don't be silly, Clint! The family that could afford such a beast would have had great herds of tame chauffeurs roaming the grounds of their Schloss. In fact, I'll bet even the chauffeurs had their own butlers and footmen, so the start-up would have been an even more complicated affair. "Always follow the chain of command..." Worth waiting for, though! ;-)

@clinthymes5067

5 жыл бұрын

Elli P great point! Lol

@EarthAdvocate *actually 8 cars were built.* 1935 mercedes benz built car no.7 (shown in this video) partially with parts from car no.6, and remaining parts from car no.3, which 1922 was almost fully destroyed in a crash. and 2004 an american collector built car no.8 with help of mercedes benz. as a model for the private project, the mercedes benz museum provided him with his own blitzen benz (car no.7) for one year. in order for the replica to be as true to the original as possible, he received the parts of the crash car (no.3) in the mercedes magazine, including the engine no.9141 and a few ancillaries. parts of an original body still existed in the united states. greetings from germany 🙂

Beautiful machine. Can only imagine the awe and wonder of a boy watching this back in 1909. Like the Star Trek Enterprise to a kid now.

"Sorry I'm late boss, I decided to drive in today"

@rafaeltorres2886

5 жыл бұрын

you should of taken the horse.

@karolpasiut8124

5 жыл бұрын

In any reasonably big european (or Japanese) city this would be taken seriously. To get to my previous workplace in Cracow it took me, door to door: 40 min on foot, or 25 min by streetcar or 10 min riding a bicicle or more than an hour driving and parking (anything larger than Ford Contour doesn't fit anywhere anyways)

It's so nice to hear the Benz. My great-great uncle Bob Burman drove this car. Thanks Bob !!

@EarthAdvocate

9 жыл бұрын

Brian, this is the greatest comment of all! Thanks for checking in, and I hope your family has a treasure trove of stories, pictures and pride for what your great-great uncle achieved. They were true pioneers back then, with skill, and nerves of steel.

@bennyhannover9361

8 жыл бұрын

+EarthAdvocate You are absolutely right, Bob Burman achieved several International Records in 1911, with flying start over a kilometer he reached 226,7 km/ h, about 141,5 m/h . over a mile 228,1 km/h nearly 143 m/h and also kept 225,9 km/h after 2 miles and added several american records over 2,3,5 and 20 miles to that. He sure was the fastest man ever for about 16 years(?!) until the big Sunbeams appeared.

@Pr1v3sc

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Burman yeah its the greatest comment of all, you've got no idea how many people came to this clip to learn a little more about Bob

@keithlarcombe4694

5 жыл бұрын

Well at least I learnt something while waiting for them to start it.

@leeisaac4642

4 жыл бұрын

He didn't drive it much then

"Hans, what are you toing with ze car?" "I'm starting him up for ze roat trip on Freitag, Greta.." "But itz only Wednesday!"

@keihlafrane2423

3 жыл бұрын

What da f@ck..hahaha

@MeisterPommfritt

3 жыл бұрын

I know, Greta. I‘m pretty late this week.

Why is this car not in the Louvre? More a piece of art than a A to B contraption. Sumptuous piece of design and workmanship. 21.5 litres though. Hats off to those responsible for the suspension and ballast design.

What a beautiful piece of engineering!

@thomasschwarting5108

2 жыл бұрын

Makes me think of chitty-chitty bang bang

Lovely! Just superb legs at 3:47. That is the work of true craftsmanship!

@winnie-the-poohahaha4428

5 жыл бұрын

Tooth picks

@Hastur876

5 жыл бұрын

Down grandpa.

@justhacked593

5 жыл бұрын

I have to admit, I was checking out the MILF in the background as well.

What a beautiful piece of machinery

Not just a car guy but a machinery guy. This is very special. Thanks guys.

Magnificent German engineering! Wouldn't expect less!

I can't think of enough words to describe how awesome that car is and to see how it started and ran....

Engineers in 1909 hadn't yet solved the mystery of how to jump start a car. Every time they tried to put the jumper cables on, the horse would kick them and run off.

@lukewarmwater6412

2 жыл бұрын

when you compare this to getting a horse in harness and the cart hooked up, it is fairly close as far as time taken and work done.... and this thing will stay where you park it, unless it has help, it wont run off.

@earthtruthhunters1642

Жыл бұрын

ja 300- can't trust a single horse...

The registration clearly states, "NOT TO BE USED FOR BANK ROBBERIES."

I've seen an Early, (1912 I think) Rolls Royce started like this; no starter motor used! First prime the cylinders by turning the engine over a couple of turns. Press a button to turn on a trembler coil; similar to a door bell. The trembler coil fires a high voltage coil that makes the spark plug that is in a cylinder on the compression stroke fire, igniting fuel that was sucked in during priming. The engine runs and the magneto takes over the spark!

@dizzywilliams3557

5 жыл бұрын

thank you neil.

@markflierl1624

5 жыл бұрын

I was wonder how it started.

@JollyMcStanson

5 жыл бұрын

I was wondering how it started with out the crank also.

@michaelszczys8316

5 жыл бұрын

That’s what I thought. Almost started a car that way once, except it went the wrong direction a few turns

@charlesparadise969

5 жыл бұрын

Great info Neil. I just learned a lot from you. I wondered how it worked.

That engine sound is music to my ears and a hymn to the automóvil engineering 👍

@jarnominodagostino9848

2 жыл бұрын

So you are telling me that this thing runs at 140 mph without a diff on the back????? 😱😱😱😱

The car is a beautiful piece of art all on its own. I couldn't imagine driving that car back in the day and comparably nothing was fast and nothing was near as fast as that thing was.

Start stop technology has come a long way since 1909 :-)

What a beauty. Respect !

It's like a living piece of art! As a car guy, i definitely appreciate the revving. Thanks for the video!

That car is absolutely beautiful!! Back when people took pride in their work.

Since I started to watch this, I've had 46 work christmas parties and I'm still waiting for the car to start :) All I can see is a damn heavy paperweight :)

1909, how sweet it was. I can just see the engineers sitting around the design table when some had to ask in German of course. "So; do you think this is sufficient displacement to be competitive guys, or do we need to think bigger?"

@like2view

5 жыл бұрын

It might go something like this... please any Germans... correct this!! "So glaubt euch es reicht mit der Verdrängerungsraum oder sollen wir noch grösser überlegen? "

@realulli

2 жыл бұрын

@@like2view "Was denkt ihr, reicht der Hubraum oder sollen wir groesser planen?" (Not quite exact, but probably closer to what they were saying/thinking :-))

Never ceases to amaze me. What a beautiful machine. Great video!

great job! thank you very much for providing this video clip :-)

What an incredible piece of engineering, especially for the time period.

So great to see these beautiful old cars preserved for future generations to see! Nice video!

Absolutely incredible piece of history and machinery. It is hard to believe that this car is 102 years old and still runs beautifully. I'm sure it has been fully restored and the engine has been completely rebuilt (if not multiple times) but it is still amazing that this machine purrs the way it does. I would give anything to own even a replica of this car. My all time dream car is a 1929 Bentley 4.5 litre but this is probably a very close second. This machines are incredible.

As beautiful as it is and as fast as I am sure it is I would have walked wherever I was going before I could start it!

@topivaltanen4432

2 жыл бұрын

Using this when going to work only mean you have to wake up little bit earlier than with modern car.

@davelowets

Жыл бұрын

@@topivaltanen4432 ALOT earlier..

Imagine 140 mph with that huge chain spinning near your right arm. Scary and fantastic at the same time. Drivers of the era deserve more than just respect.

That's not an engine, it's a work of art.

Check out the other video, that includes an interview about this car, with Nate Lander. Think of this as a dragster or Formula race car from 103yrs ago: its 'gas mileage' was approximately TEN gallons PER MILE. 21.5 litres, four cylinder. 200hp, when a Ford barely put out 20hp. Twice as fast as the world's fastest plane at the time puts things in perspective.

more than 5 litre in one cylinder, wowwww

5:10 he was dying to turn/wind that thing. 😂

Not the best getaway car for bank robberies.

@garfius

7 жыл бұрын

Reaches 228.1 kilometres per hour (141.7 mph)... once you spend 30 minutes to start the engine.

@Johnclark300

6 жыл бұрын

Jack Frost it is if you leave it running

@danceswithstone

5 жыл бұрын

rrrrrrright. . . leave it running. John should be in charge : )

@efini_fc4276

5 жыл бұрын

Could you sell the car for more than the bank has on hand and be gone in 55-60 seconds?

@SuperDanMega

5 жыл бұрын

Not your type of car, most definitely not, a total sure bust.

Merveilleuse mécanique, et très propre ! Félicitations.

Love the extra long pushrods!

Beautiful engine n smart looking as well as classic one !

I raced one of these at Daytona, the race was over before I got it started.

What's the maximum depth that it can safely dive to?

@danceswithstone

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, it can go all the way to the bottom.

@gerald4027

5 жыл бұрын

@@terryk5412.me balls will be crunched at those depth.

@flippert0

2 жыл бұрын

Needed a second to notice the reference to "Das Boot" and "Johann"

Seeing the drive chain @ 1:36 reminds me of the world speed record attempt in 1927 using a similar car....the driver was leaning out of the cockpit to watch the front wheels and the drive chain broke and took his head clean off. Parry-Thomas.....Pendine Sands, Wales. An urban myth apparently....but the thought popped into my head. Merry Christmas.

Holy smokes,look at the size of that engine! The pistons must be enormous!🙀

Even if this oldie does 140 mph, you could arrive faster in a 30 mph car with a starter.

@tjroelsma

5 жыл бұрын

But would it be as much fun? What a machine.

What a great rare car! That's when starting an engine was a selabrated event! What a record setter.

@peterherrington3300

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't fancy school then ? *Celebrated*

Man those lightened rockers helped it achieve a few extra miles! Talk about a massive heavy engine. But boy it sure is pretty, low RPM and loads of torque. Engine deserves to have a nameplate on each bank for sure!

It´s so beautiful!

Double speed record for top speed and slowest start sequence in history.

OMG the ritual make me crazzy😀😀 But I love the ancient technology... The man who made that is a superman...

The words: “steampunk”, “ridiculous”, and “wonderful” spring to mind…

Respect: Beautiful car by original geniuses! Must have been strenuous to engineer it. Today's are simply an improved works of our ingenious ancestors!

Bela restauração,creio que esse benz não saia tão belo da fabrica quanto esse esta agora.

Here I sat awe struck till @ 6:26 she breathed once more, her massive heart beating rythimically, my pulse raced uncontrolably as history once more sprang to life. What a Truly Beautiful Piece of engineering. :-)

@fenrichlee2867

Жыл бұрын

Your a poet, but you didn't no it...

Once the worlds fastest method of transport. I don’t think anyone can comprehend that. It’s not just a land speed record, it’s an overall record. That puts it on the same scale as the X-15 hypersonic aircraft, not the land speed record cars. The fastest manned vehicle anywhere. Incredible.

Now all we need is someone who can shoot good video.

140 mph back in the day wow like a space ship 🚀 actually impressive engineering

The car was started. Me: What a journey!

@scottprendergast2680

5 жыл бұрын

Susanna Kristiina yes and by the looks of things after that "very weird" head pat the car wasnt the only thing started UP

My God, My Great Uncle Barney Oldfield won the Indy in 1909 in this car! This is great! I still have a cute '69 280sl I bring out of the garage for a fun day. Love the Benz

Work of art.

Wow, 21,5 liters engine, it's amazing that you even can get that ammount of fuel to ignite properly in that volyme! It's gotta have been hell sitting behind that engine at full rpm when it was driven in 1909

@markchriestenson9160

Жыл бұрын

It's a good thing it has dual ignition

The perfect bank heist car :-)

@FRANKMEHORSE

10 жыл бұрын

better leave it running

@TheRidestv

10 жыл бұрын

bill mcgillem might run out of gas though

@wilburfinnigan2142

9 жыл бұрын

Cop car ????

Not sure which is the more amazing feature of the valve gear--the ratio of the intake rockers, or the span of the exhaust rockers.

has some vibe of a barista working on his apparatus for some delicious coffee .. Thanks for sharing! - haha

Sounds much the same as a modern day diesel Benz

@mercomania

2 жыл бұрын

They are a lot easier to start though😀

@small-china

2 жыл бұрын

@@mercomania not in russian winter -50

@user-kq9he4mc2c

2 жыл бұрын

Это не дизель,бензин и свечи походе современного типа

@larryhullinger4141

Жыл бұрын

A modern day diesel isn't a huge pain in the ass to start

@eg1789

10 ай бұрын

No it doesnt.... check your ears.

they dont make this kind of engineering these days, just fantastic

@morganrussman

6 жыл бұрын

Oh, I know, these cars prior to about the 1970s or 1980s were geniusly built, unlike today's cars where you have a computer timing 98% of everything on a engine these days, these cars were mechanically timed.

@mountainman5025

5 жыл бұрын

@@morganrussman And everything computed to the very last

Love the lumpy beat of the Blitzen Benz :-)

What an amazing getaway car!

The thing I find most amazing about this... is that someone actually FIGURED OUT this starting sequence in the first place!

@brunodesrosiers266

2 жыл бұрын

You should teach strategic thinking.

@PiefacePete46

Жыл бұрын

@thirteenfingers : The did it by trial and lots of errors! 😉

110 years old now (2019) 😍

From what it looks like you first prime the engine by cranking it with no ignition, then fire the tremblers when the engine is top dead center so the fuel ignites, and if it doesent start you have to do it again.

@cageordie

2 жыл бұрын

If you fired it at top dead center the crank and connecting rod would be in line and the engine wouldn't turn. So you'd have to align it just a tiny bit after.

what a piece of awesome engineering

Dude, I'm almost crying. 1909? The soul of this car beats in my E55. Shes put away for the winter 3 days now and I already miss her. Every other car maker is still playing catch up. MB invented the automobile. :-D

@fredfinks

10 жыл бұрын

Those krauts have made some awesome cars over the years. Donner und Blitzen! Let's hope their car industry lasts a thousand years, at least.

@vetb882

10 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, love the santa reference. I think it will. Mine has 70k on it and feels newer and tighter than most new cars.

@nigelnorth5835

5 жыл бұрын

Hi are you saying Mercedes Benz invented the car?? Am pretty sure most authorities give the credit to Daimler

1312 cubic inch inline 4. Must have pistons the size of a dinner plate.

Such a beautiful car !

Beautiful piece of engineering

"When NOBODY knew how to make an engine work... or to make this engine work... someone got it working." Someone didn't just get it working. Someone designed it to work the way he thought it should work. My point is that anyone with a basic knowledge of internal combustion engines could probably figure out how to get it working.

Picture doing this every morning before work...

Thank you

I think this video should say, "He did something in the cockpit, he did something on the far side of the car while the camera showed a closeup of his shirt, he tweaked some unknown stuff on the firewall, some other guy turned a crank, the camera followed bits and pieces of it, and the engine started."

Your forgot to add the Fahrvergnügen

Listen to Edward Hermann in the back round.

Un bijou de mécanique !

As a hopeless gearhead, there is nothing more mesmerizing that exposed rocker gear.

Cool car and nice video. Thumbs up! :) Greetings Mega

I'm intrigued. I bet that car is priceless. Seems well engineered and I love the attention to detail. I bet those pistons are huge. Does the crankshaft run on shell bearings supported on five journels like today's four cylinder engines?

@brunodesrosiers266

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, exactly!

wow impresionante. verdaderamente que ha ayudado mucho ell encendido electronico y el invento de la bateria. sin esos dos no hubiese mejorado el arranque del motor. que hermosa pieza de ingenieria mecanica

Gut Schabbas!!! Wirglisch Wunderschä!!! It is so nice to see this vehicle and to see the Prussian Emblem, Prussia May be gone due to my great grandparents and grandparents dismay, but when historical relic survive that is amazing just as it’s amazing that my grandparents from East Prussia had their synagogue rebuilt by the Russian-Soviet occupiers of East Prussia at this time

Nothing like a good head rub @ 5:56...

I'm getting a lot of old recommended this is 9 years old now it'll come around when covid comes back. Let's go Brandon!

It would have been better with narration. I think he was getting one of the pistons to TDC before engaging the starter. Also, turning the engine over prior to start spread oil on the walls of the cylinders to make the starting easier and provide some protection to the cylinder walls. But I am just guessing and would have liked an explanation.

I saw them do this at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorks, England a few years ago. Boy oh boy does it make a noise.