My dad used to own 2 Franklins. Unfortunately he had to sell them years ago. I took him to a Franklin Museum recently and he was like a kid in a candy store!

Sounds wonderfully like a sowing machine. Beautiful!

I recently found an old photograph from the early 20s of my great grandfathers 1919 Franklin four door touring car.

The Franklin Air Cooled Engine Company was sold to the Government of Poland in 1991 and reportedly still exists. It is the lineage of the Franklin car company.

Excellent cars. I want to buy one, have for years.

What's with the music being louder than the dialogue?

Very neat Franklin. Cars collect with the owners mainly one is my Dad !

What a beauty.

The music is WAYYY too loud!!

@kentward6516

4 жыл бұрын

If I want to listen to music, I'll turn on the radio!

@dabomb101777

15 күн бұрын

FR FR FR

When he explained how that motor worked, he lost me!

It really does sound like a sewing machine!

Music is too loud! It's really hard to hear the commentator let alone the sound of the engine Does KZread demand you use music?

I think Doc Brown there would love the new fangled Beetle.

I couldn't take it. The music drove me away after 1:28.

Excellent

I managed 2:44 before the music pissed me off

I liked the music.

I "knew" about air-cooled Franklins, of course, but did not know about concentric valves or dual exhaust porting or why aluminum pistons were such an improvement for them. The cranking technique was a little scary.

@greenmountainsuriving

4 жыл бұрын

Johnathan w Just did a Franklin 1st start in 70 years video and he is putting the Franklin he got in Newyork back on the Carolina roads

@paulstandeven8572

4 жыл бұрын

He owns the car, and has probably started it many times. So he knows what he is doing......

@wholeNwon

4 жыл бұрын

@@paulstandeven8572 Owning the car and knowing the safest way to crank are not necessarily related. Most of those people generations ago whose wrists or arms or worse were broken (some killed) also owned their cars.

@paulstandeven8572

4 жыл бұрын

@@wholeNwon Yes, that is true. I was thinking that, and also that the owner may know things too - such as that it's very low compression, and just doen't kick back. Yet........ !! Correct technique is what saves you when the unexpected happens

🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔can't hear with that music playing 🎼🎹🔊🔊🔊🔊too loud. I love seeing the Franklin though🤗

1925 in europe you had rock paved roads.and also old rome roads

I can't hear you over that music.

Would have liked to watch all the post but the background music was far to loud blocking out the commentary. Sad.

La historia escrita en cuatro ruedas

Chitty bang bang..

🤝👍👍👍

I'll bet the frames are even made of wood !

@79tazman

4 жыл бұрын

Yes the frames were made out of ash until 1930 I believe a guy on KZread that I follow just bought a 1928 Franklin that sat in a barn since the late 40's and it has a wooden frame

@nunyabizness199

4 жыл бұрын

@@79tazman I knew that...😉

To the naysayers, from one who despises gratuitous noise added to videos, I suggest that if you want information and concentrate on the dialogue, you will find, as I did, that the music passes pretty well unnoticed. In looking at light aircraft on Yt a few years back, I recall a very popular model from Piper of the Cub, with a Franklin engine. The name was unknown to me then but it all falls into place now. Thank you!

@brianevans656

4 жыл бұрын

Franklin air-cooled aircraft engines powered a number of successful light aircraft, including a helicopter. Most Piper J-3 Cubs were powered by Continental or Lycoming air-cooled engines, but the Cub model J-3F was indeed powered by a 65-hp 4-cylinder flat four engine displacing 171 cu. in.

@jayphillips4058

4 жыл бұрын

@@brianevans656 In 1978, the tiny FBO I flew out of in high school had a PA-22-108 Piper Colt with a Franklin engine, can't exactly remember the hp rating but I want to say either 65 or 80. Flapless, clipped wing version of a Tri-Pacer, IIRC. Side-by-side seating, the one we had was equipped with spats and pants, was subject to needing a fair bit of runway for a plane it's size, especially with high density altitude days. It would spin abruptly, and had the glide ratio of a streamlined brick - was good to land it with a little power on.

I’m convinced that most of the engineering was much better back then but was unfortunately lost or stolen.

What a dork😨!!!!

I gave up on this after 2 minutes. Background music f...ed everything up.

Wood frames loud nusic cant do it sorry.

music too loud

skip the music

Кеппи не по размеру! Подогнать надо было в размер.

Great cars and video…….get rid of lousy music 😮!

No music would be better. So wont finish watching.

music loud and wrongggg

Kill the music !

Kill that crappie music so we can hear what's important.