To think my great grandma was born in 1900 and got to live to 2001 she really got to see cars change drastically in her lifetime

@krozareq

11 ай бұрын

It's wild to talk to people that lived through those times. Met one lady in WA who left the east coast when she was young and travelled there by covered wagon. When she was much older she returned to her old home town on the east coast by jet airliner.

@hannahk1306

11 ай бұрын

My great grandma lived 1905-2005, it's wild how different life was at the start of their lives compared to the end. Especially considering technological advances, including cars, space flight, computers, mobile phones, the internet, new fabrics and manufacturing techniques, not to mention all of the societal changes during that time.

@nickybritain3661

11 ай бұрын

@@hannahk1306 In a way it’s frightening what a baby born today will experience over the next hundred years. What will life be like in a hundred years time, how about a thousand years from now? From horses and carts to landing on Mars, postage US to Australia taking a week - mobile phone contact in a millisecond (or two!).

@salma_Nella22

11 ай бұрын

@@hannahk1306 wow, she lived through WWI, WWII, the Korean War, Vietnam War, the Gulf War, the war in Iraq. She was around to witness Anna Jarvis push for Mother’s Day to be an official Holiday, she saw the evolution of sanitary products for women, the Titanic sinking in 1912, the March on Washington, the assassination of Kennedy and Martin Luther King, the World Trade Center bombing, the Oklahoma City bombing, etc. she’s a BEAST

@DanneyTanner

11 ай бұрын

@Lurch Cars now days are better and safer but the car speeds now is much faster and drivers are worse so a horse a piece.

In 1908 my great grandparents were married and after their honeymoon, my great, great uncle gave them their first car ride ever when he went to pick them up at the train station. The trip back to their farm was so bumpy and uncomfortable that my great grandma thought, "Oh these things are terrible! They'll never catch on." Then my grandma was born a few years later and she prided herself on being of the first generation to grow up without ever knowing what it was like to live without cars.

@miketwomey4923

11 ай бұрын

​@@Mullikia Faster?

@GudieveNing

11 ай бұрын

​@@MullikiaAh, well we probably didn't have smooth paved roads then. Horses step over bumps and holes although carriages probably still bumped but would have had some suspension. I imagine early cars were not using the advanced suspensions of today and being cars went faster than trotting horses, the bumps would have been more frequent. Just a guess. I was born in the 60s!

@quanbrooklynkid7776

11 ай бұрын

​@@GudieveNing yea

@sandymackay4017

11 ай бұрын

@@GudieveNing Beautiful comment. Suspension saved some kidneys (Bike rider).

@PaulTheSkeptic

11 ай бұрын

@@Mullikia Faster and heavier I imagine. Heavier than just the carriage of course. And they didn't work like modern cars. You couldn't just slow down when you get to a rough patch. I'm not sure how these old ones work but with the Model T, they called it the Model T dance. Your throttle and a spark control was at your hands, near the steering wheel. Kind of like where the modern turn signal and wiper control is. At your feet was 3 pedals. Break, reverse and clutch. So once you're going, that's pretty much the speed you're going at. Lol. You can, of course, throttle down but it wasn't as simple as it is today.

"I miss the 90s cars".

@Headenrevende

8 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂

In the early 1920s my grandmother wanted a car but my grandfather said a horse and buggy was good enough for him. She went out and bought a car, a 1921 Dodge. My mother said her earliest memories were of her sitting in the backseat while the car salesman was in the front seat teaching my grandmother how to drive.

@BSport320

10 ай бұрын

Nice, thanks for sharing!

@Calc_Ulator

5 ай бұрын

Wow how old are ya? My granny wasn't born until '21...

In 1915 my great grandfather drove his family from So. Dakota to San Diego. He had 3 flats on the first day but none after that. Driving across the California desert was scary. In some places the road disappeared. He had 4 children with him and wife too!

@1995arv

11 ай бұрын

Wonder if he took Cajon pass

@voicetube

10 ай бұрын

Darn, if only he had gotten some footage on his iPhone!

@dnegel9546

10 ай бұрын

Source: trust me bruh

@mclark23

8 ай бұрын

What about gasoline?

@user-pi4fq1bv8n

7 ай бұрын

We freak out when we leave our cell phones at home. Our ancestors were bad ass.

"Up to 40kph the streets were OK but with higher speeds the bumpy streets became increasingly dangerous" - I can attest to this with my bike.

@shaunpcoleman

11 ай бұрын

Me going down the Niagara Escarpment on Centennial Parkway hitting 80 km/hr +. Shake. rattle and roll!

@ImpreccablePony

11 ай бұрын

5 years ago Paris introduced a 30 km/h limit for cars for a reason. You are not meant to drive so fast in the city.

@sharonbraselton4302

7 ай бұрын

1980 soeed liñíted 155 mph

Really enjoyable. My grandfather, who I knew in his old age, was born in 1871 well before the motor car. My father in 1908 a year before Bleriot flew the Channel. Me in 1943. My only son in 1998 so he has only known the computer age. My grandfather saw the beginning of motoring and my son, now 24, may see the end of the carefree travel that I knew. Four generations come and gone.

@togowack

11 ай бұрын

1870 wasn't before the motor car it was a few thousand years after the motor car. We are the repopulation, they had better cars during cowboy days than we do now

@MacAttack1776

11 ай бұрын

@@togowack you should get some help

@tappajaav

11 ай бұрын

@@togowack ok:D

@ranjittyagi9354

11 ай бұрын

Times flies but the change past century or so has been exponential. I am 46 and have no desire to think how it'd be 200 years from now. It's messy already. My father was born in 1934 and mom in 1935. I am single, no kids or siblings and I don't think I would like a kid brought into this world. Love and regards from NW India currently ❤

@happynhalfway

11 ай бұрын

my grandfather was also born in 1871 (lived to be 95) and i have read stories he wrote about using horse and buggies up until around 1918 when he finally got wheels. when his license was revoked at age 89 he told grandma (20 yrs younger than he), "okay mabel, it's time you learn to drive." and she said , 'not on your life dowe". he was a character.

The muffler didn't come about 'till 1899. These machines were also despised for their great clatter and noise. Their best advantage was they didn't leave poop on the road, but that didn't mitigate how often they were poop on the road.

@stephensedlon8414

11 ай бұрын

Funny I despise Harley motorcycles for their clatter....

@TheAmericanCatholic

11 ай бұрын

Cars replaced the use of the horse as a form of a personal transportation but during this time walking + electric mass transit was the dominant form of transportation

@johnbockelie3899

11 ай бұрын

" Those darned new fangled contraptions will never catch on !!!."😂

@didibrant7326

11 ай бұрын

Talking about her early life, my mother who was born in 1914 in Liverpool, England, told me how her father would rush outside with a shovel to collect the treasured horse manure for his garden. When I grew up in the 50's in The Hague, Holland, only a handfull of people on our street of 126 flats had a car. Horses were still coming through the streets daily carrying their merchants wares but by then the poop was caught by bags behind the horses' backsides. It was the dog poop you had to watch out for as almost everyone had a dog.

@yourhandlehere1

11 ай бұрын

Maybe not poop but some engines had "flow through" designs. No oil pump to recirculate. You filled up a reservoir with oil and it was gravity fed, dripped out the bottom.

It's mind-blowing that besides inventing the car, Benz in the forms of the person and the company were responsible for a large chunk of automobile innovations

@android584

11 ай бұрын

Sadly the German people are on the road to extinction since losing WWII.

@EdgeBaborPhilippines

10 ай бұрын

👋👋👋

As someone born and raised in Detroit and a third generation auto worker I love these videos on automotive history. Great job!

@DennisRaymond-mg5kg

11 ай бұрын

You're absolutely right...... you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's a lovely day that the lord has made

I once had a neighbor who built an 1890's replica (4 wheel). It was quite authentic. I rode in it, once. It was pretty scary, just going around the block at 5 mph.

@danrhone9756

11 ай бұрын

That was awesome

@EdgeBaborPhilippines

10 ай бұрын

👋👋👋

@EdgeBaborPhilippines

10 ай бұрын

​@@danrhone9756 👋👋👋

@danrhone9756

10 ай бұрын

@@EdgeBaborPhilippines 👋 Hi

my country was way behind on cars, my great grandfather had one in the 1920s (maybe in 1918) and still the whole village would run out to see it.

RedBull should replace their so called "extreme sports" events and create a "let's go on the highway in a 19th century car" extravaganza

@commodoresixfour7478

11 ай бұрын

They could with the Model T Ford. The start of the race could be them assembling them. Just like the Jeep and the Bug, anyone can do it with little training.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

11 ай бұрын

​@@commodoresixfour7478 You people talk about the Model T like it was the first vehicle in America.

@commodoresixfour7478

11 ай бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar No not really. Because the model "T" was the most mass produced vehicle in THE WORLD until the VW Beetle. It was the first when it came to mass production. That's why it's so well known.

@commodoresixfour7478

11 ай бұрын

@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar Also if you want to argue that The model "T" was more of a tractor than a car, that's an argument I can get behind. Except many cars were like that back then.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

11 ай бұрын

@@commodoresixfour7478 Please leave the information to people who study the era and from where I sit, that basically means just me...I find it hard to find even car people who care about the early 20th century, let alone study it, let alone study anything about vehicles during it. So you have 4 dilemmas there. Now, the Model T was an awful looking vehicle and basically everything around it looked better; Chandler, Winton, Cadillac, Buick, Thomas flyer, Essex, even Baker. Doesn't help that the Model T is based on early 1900s design, Sears company was based on a carriage exactly. Other companies didn't look like Carriages at all but they did look a bit like a tractor but only because the tractor was invented around the same time and by the same design.

Horses were, of course, at least as dirty and dangerous. Their hooves threw up mud and muck at the carriage and occupants, especially at speed, so if one were to 'dash' one needed a 'dashboard' for protection. Nice video. Thanks.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

11 ай бұрын

Typically you were completely safe in an ornamented passenger room, also horses were large, and so were the tires, the vehicle, and how far away you were from the ground. But yes upperclass and nobility had plenty of handmade carriages compartmentalized, enclosed, with curtains inside and hats large enough to hide their identity.

These early cars were already nicely designed and some looked exclusive and luxurious.

Great topic. I love the way everything is so strange yet relatable to any gear head. These very early cars were ridiculously expensive and crude. I can't even imagine what it must have felt like having to leave a "pride and joy" on the side of the road until they could find a horse to tow it home. Given the rural animosity toward such evil playthings it wouldn't surprise me if said car needed even more work before returning home.

@Greg3070

11 ай бұрын

And it wasn't that long ago. One of the fastest changes human kind as experienced. Seems like the idea was pretty good. Like half a century later, nobody uses horses for much anymore other than sport and recreation.

@Silamon2

11 ай бұрын

@@Greg3070 I'd argue the fastest change in technology was in naval designs. We went from wooden hulled ships to ironclads to dreadnoughts in less than 20 years.

@bebereyes5514

11 ай бұрын

I think it was airplanes. From bicycle parts at Kittyhawk to murdering machines in WW1, all in a span of 15 years.

@davemckolanis4683

6 ай бұрын

@@Greg3070 Too Much Horse Sheet On The City Streets To Clean Up And Try To Avoid Stepping In It. And The SMELL Would Be Horrific, With Even Dead Horses Left On The Street To Rot After Collapsing From Over Working Or Old Age. Something BETTER HAD TO BE DONE...

@Calc_Ulator

5 ай бұрын

"Given the rural animosity" Citation need.

God bless the tenacity n endurance of the creators n users of the first cars....it is because of their efforts that we are mobile today.

To think that it was forbidden to park your car in public spaces and today more 50% of parking public space is taken up by cars. Imagine how a city without cars would look like today

@android584

11 ай бұрын

I wish they were forbidden to park on suburban streets, these days you get cars parking on both sides of the street leaving only a narrow lane in between them.

@MaxRamos8

11 ай бұрын

It would actually be nice

@9Tailsfan

11 ай бұрын

It would be all trolleys and trolley tracks.

@EdgeBaborPhilippines

10 ай бұрын

❤

@trijezdci4588

10 ай бұрын

We need to go back to that. And the Netherlands have made quite some progress on this already.

Wow ! Attaching a rocking horse head bust exactly like shown on my tricycle was first thing I had my dad do for me when I was 4 !

Looks like having a mustache was mandatory to own and drive a car.😄 As well, " The more things change the more they stay the same " Cars were a pain in the butt 130 years ago, and in one way or another, they still are. Great vid. Love the old photos. Great history lesson.👍

A great documentary. As for me this shares many struggles with my lawn tractor with belts for just about any drive...

Give mad props to the designers and builders of the machines that made the parts possible

So they used steel reinforcement in the car tyres already in the 1890s!

you are excellent at creating incredible videos, because it is a long video we do not even notice the number of minutes, but the quality that is your work.

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

@soarornor

11 ай бұрын

@@BSport320 Yeah, it was an excellent video. Great pictures!

It seems like a miracle that drivers in the early days persisted at all. I was also surprised to see radial spoking on the bicycle style driven wheels of the early cars. There must have been frequent breakage of these spokes.

@WitchKing-Of-Angmar

11 ай бұрын

Rarely, compared to thin wood spoke.

@stevek8829

11 ай бұрын

It seems to work on motorcycles.

@ImpreccablePony

11 ай бұрын

Imagine being able to ride a bike faster and safer than a car but really insisting on taking a moving sofa with you everywhere. So brave, those trailblazers.

@ranjittyagi9354

11 ай бұрын

​@@ImpreccablePony just imagine their thrill back then. Heavenly!

@davemckolanis4683

6 ай бұрын

@@stevek8829 Bikes Today Have ADJUSTABLE Metal Spokes At The Rim. Wooden Spokes Had None...

it’s amazing that something so hated has become such a big part of our life and we could never live without them now.

@hannahk1306

11 ай бұрын

Lots of people still live without them, even in countries where the majority of adults can drive.

@android584

11 ай бұрын

Western cities used to have extensive rail networks but those got removed to help fuel car sales. Very short sighted way to get rich.

@spunkyspice4777

11 ай бұрын

Back east as well New York City for one.

@ObsessedwithZelda2

11 ай бұрын

I remember when I was in my teens thinking apps on phones was the dumbest thing I ever heard of along with the concept of texting, so I really feel this transition xD

@spunkyspice4777

11 ай бұрын

@@ObsessedwithZelda2 In your teens? Apps on phones? When I was un my teens everyone was using rotary phones. Mobile phones were not even thought of.

I can't imagine driving Vis-a-Vis at a high speed. - To me, it's like a social party with a tiller in between. Great video!

It's a wonder those newfangled horseless carriages ever caught on! :)

My grandfather was born in 1883 so he saw some of the very first cars ever made. He lived to be 70 years old. I'm too young to remember him. My grandmother told me stories about him and their life together.

I love how about 3/4 of the way thru this video he pointed out Old School road rage 11:30

What about steam cars though? I used to work in a brass era car restoration shop and 90% of our work was old Stanleys. The customers took them on "tours" a few times a year, by which I mean some rich guys ship their cars to interesting places and drive around a little (one guy I knew drove an old White across Europe and Asia, much due respect there), but Stanleys especially had some peculiarities though they were still a lot better than early gas cars. Locomobiles were the earliest steam cars we had with a tiller steer and very similar design to those Benz four and three wheelers with little more than a frame to sit on, but they were much more useful than these gas cars seem! There's a reason steam power was much more popular early on, and while Stanleys were a bit primitive, they would easily do 60mph down a modern freeway, while Whites with front mounted engines and radiator/condensers were arguably still viable vehicles and I've heard stories of some still in use today. The one brass era gasoline car I dealt with was a 1900ish CGV (a french car), and though it had been updated with a starter, it was still a vast improvement on these buggies. There was a full enclosed driver and passenger compartment, prop shaft, conical clutch, and the engine itself wasn't too dissimilar from a modern lawnmower engine, albeit water-cooled and four cylinder. By far the biggest difference between it and something from the modern era was the body and frame construction-- they still were built like wagons with wooden bodies and frame posts with very little rigidity. Without going on too much longer, the cars in this video are leaps and bounds behind that which came about less than a decade later. IIRC the land speed record for a steam powered vehicle was only broken in the mid 2000s after around 100 years when a wooden chassied Stanley first set it at 160mph or so, and only by a few MPH! I always appreciate homage to the early innovations in mechanised transportation and semiseriously long for the day that steam cars make a comeback for the efficient, simplistic means of transportation that they are.

@davemckolanis4683

6 ай бұрын

Simple Reason WHY The Steam Cars Never Caught on. It Took TOO LONG To Get The Water Heated UP For The Vehicle To Move. Even Locomotive Shops Had To Have Firemen Stoking The Fireboxes Of Steam locomotives A Half Hour BEFORE The Engineer Could Move The Engine To Use It...

In my western trilogy, my main character and his adopted daughter return to the USA after 14 years across the Atlantic moving around in Europe and they show up in a steam-engine car at a friends house. The year was 1890.

Yeah, that was fantastic !! So many things I have never considered when the car was starting out. Mainly, the owner had to be mechanic & engineer also, no one to come help you out, they knew less than you did.

"If they don't have a bucket full of water, then the men had to..." and I thought, is he gonna say it? But no, it was their hats... But the thing that is at least ironic is that the "respectable citizen" are the same still today at some parts of the world. Not necessarily the Mayor, but the priest, the cop and the teacher are still there making society better. Thank you for another great video with very good pictures of the era, I hope you'll have the time to make some more car history stuff.

At 5:11 you mention that means : in old fashioned dancing, there is a move called a dosie-doe which involves passing back to back. I wonder if they are related.

@ericemmons3040

11 ай бұрын

The French word "dos" means "back", so the term "dos si dos" or "dos à dos" means "back to back". . .

My great grandmother's ride in my grandfathers model T was new to her. while underway she would hold her hand out and declare the wind was blowing terribly. When grandad stopped she would say the wind had stopped suddenly.

@noellemcclain

2 ай бұрын

Awww

I was recommended this channel from a commenter on The Intercooler, I have to say I am very glad! Also really liked your videos on the current F1 floors.

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Welcome aboard!

Another fantastic video, I have notifications turned on so I watch them the moment I notice a new one. Thank you!

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

The first cars with driveshafts were in Hotchkiss cars, and the term at the time was "Hotchkiss Drive".

I worked at the Tampa Yacht Club got to see a collection of the oldest Rolls-Royce’s in the world. Very rich people gathered annually at the club. We employees got to see them up close. Many like these.

Ty for ur time and efforts! Well done

This is great, thanks! It's amazing to think both of the amazing brands that still exist today that were founded during those times (Mercedes-Benz, Peugeot, Renault, Fiat (or should I say F.I.A.T.), Skoda, Opel, Maybach), and some of the amazing ones that unfortunately disappeared after leaving a big impact (De Dion, Wolesley, Oldsmobile, the UK Daimler). At the time, everything was still possible... Today, the companies that survived are still some of the biggest, most important brands in the market (and they're all in Stellantis apparently).

@ambergris5705

11 ай бұрын

@Lurch I get what you say, though it's true for the British Daimler too in some ways. I was only highlighting that it's a shame that pieces of history like that disappeared, either quickly or not.

5:07 This is a contemporary word in Romanian, meaning close. Pretty cool to see its origin

Have enjoyed every video from the last few years, cheers !

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

Yep my grandpa that passed years ago told me one time that if you was to drive 40-50 miles back in the day prepare to have about 2 maybe even 3 flats. After seeing this vid I guess he wasn’t joking😂

@BSport320

8 ай бұрын

He wasn't!

Briscoe Darlin patented the "hat in the horse trough" water system. His truck was always good for 11 hat fulls.

@EdgeBaborPhilippines

10 ай бұрын

👋👋

@ricktaylor3748

10 ай бұрын

@@EdgeBaborPhilippines Are you hitting on me ??

This is fascinating . Well done!

I think it was interesting watching this and finding out that they had cars with fake horses in the front. I never knew that. It probably looked silly but then, as the narrator described, it seemed that it was helpful for the driver in a way.

@dbadagna

11 ай бұрын

Wikipedia says it is unclear whether the Horsey Horseless was actually ever built.

@Oliviux78

11 ай бұрын

@@dbadagna oh. I thought they showed a photo of one built in the video.

Absolutely subscribed! Great content!

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Great! Welcome onboard!

This is the only thing i have seen that actually showed a horseless carriage that actually looked like a Carriage. So that term Horseless carraige predated 1900 maybe as far back as 1888 There was a horseless carraige a steam car patented in the mid 1880s by Pagenhart of Clarke County Virginia who drove his contraption from Winchrster to Romney West Virginia

I bought my first car in 1921 and it was the biggest pain in the a$$ to maintain.

Great video, I love your subtle sense of humor too.

At least here in the UK a very common source of petrol was (of all things) hat maker’s shops. Milliners use petrol in hat making to stiffen the fabric, so before the first petrol stations & as cars became more common many milliners made a little extra money selling petrol as they could just order extra to sell on. @B Sport

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for this great video.

@BSport320

7 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Very informative and interesting. And I see you have much other interesting content on your channel. Suggestion: Video on early 1900's *electric* vehicles.

yoo i love this, more history stuff pls it's great

Thank you for this video! Finally a video without loud shouts "Hello guys" at the beginning. What a relief!

Beautiful works of art.

Excellent content thanks!

Excellent video mate 👍🏾

@BSport320

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot!

Great and very informational video!

Vielen Dank für die tierische Mühe die Du Dir mit Deinen Videos gibst. GENIAL!!!

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Gerne!

History is beautiful in any dommain. Tnx for sharing !

Yes I love the historical significance especially the first car in 1885

In Brussels we have a very nice musée (Autoworld at the Cinquantenaire) where you can see some of those beautifull machines !

Very informative. Thanks

Very informative thanks for such video.

THANK YOU FOR SHARING 🇺🇸

Great review!

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

All these problems and how everyone seemed to hate it just shows you how disruptive the revolution automobile was at the time

It's kind of amazing the automobile even continued to be developed after the early problems.

this will never catch...

@MsZeeZed

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure the fake horse will solve most of these problems 🐴

@Oldgoldminer

11 ай бұрын

You just wait! I'm hearing they will be available 10 years from now. I've been hearing that about flying cars since the 1950's

@brianwilson6403

11 ай бұрын

​@@Oldgoldminer Where's my Jetpack???

@Oldgoldminer

11 ай бұрын

@@brianwilson6403 5 years or less.

@brianwilson6403

11 ай бұрын

@@Oldgoldminer We were supposed to have them in 2010.

Very enjoyable and informative

My maternal great-grand-dad had a liveried coach pulled by 4 strong, white stallions. My maternal grand-dad was quite the car buff, though. He switched between a number of brands: Talbot, Lagonda, Sunbeam, Samson, and ending with the Nash 600.

I can totally relate to these modern machines of there time. Everyday i get into my Tesla and let it drive me around and it feels like magic. My wife laughs to see my Ford over a hundred years old next to my 1000hp commuter car. What an amazing world.

Great video! And unusual one!

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Great video!!

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Thanks!

What I'd like to know is why there were not steam cars everywhere from the early 19th Century until the internal combustion engine took off. Plenty of steamships, big and small, and trains were all steam powered. And we had macademised roads from the 1820s. Plus, solid rubber tyres were around from the mid 19th Century, and paraffin was in good supply. Sure, internal combustion engines were far more convenient, and a better idea all round, but steam would have been very useful in cars until then. One of life's mysteries.

@TIMEtoRIDE900

11 ай бұрын

I heard the early railroad investors suppressed the steam car - didn't need the competition. Also, if you scale a Locomotive down to car-size you still have a lot of cast iron to move around which overwhelm wagon wheels. Steel wheels and an iron frame. Trains run on smooth rails with only a slight incline. Ships glide thru the water. The car will sink into soft dirt. But there were steam tractors. Going from cold to steam takes an hour and you can't "throttle" a coal fire. You need to blow off the un-needed pressure which is loud. The Stanley Steamer solved all these technical problems but this tech wasn't available in 1820. See Cugnot steam cart.

@jaydlytning

11 ай бұрын

There were steam buses in 1830s england that did not use a track, but they were made illegal.

@markwriter2698

5 ай бұрын

There were more steam and electric cars at first. The steam powered took a long time to get up steam and could blow up or catch fire. Electric cars had limited endurance and less power and would get stuck in mud. .

I’m glad I can honor my ancestors by trying out new cuss words when I have to change a tire on the side of the highway

With motorized bicycles picking up traction, wouldn't be surprised if they bring these back

A “friend” of my father’s gave me a ride in a Model T when I was a child. It was something else! To think that it was advanced at one point in time!

This was very interesting learning about cars from their beginning ☺️

Excellent, B Sport. Thanks to Karl Benz for my Merc.

Oldsmobile tried electrics at that time. Didn't work then either.

Outstanding! Late 19th-century automobiles...

I thought the first car with internal combustion engine was made in 1808 by François Isaac who slapped one of his engines on a 4 wheeled wagon, so technically, this was a car by every conventional means, it had 4 wheels, steering column and an engine.

@e.s.6275

11 ай бұрын

There was one French guy who did the same (put a steam engine on a trolley and ran it down the street) even earlier in around 1783, but I forgot his name.

Great video, thanks, subscribed.

@BSport320

11 ай бұрын

Thanks! Welcome on board!

Great Episode 🤠🇨🇦

It is amazing on how far we have come.

Love the video's, keep them coming. Just a small grammar mistake to point out: tyre puncture or flat is not a flat spot. A flat spot is either a temporary effect of a tyre standing still or a permanent one of skidding the rubber in one spot.

@BSport320

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!

Fascinating and wonderful

I'm new to your channel and I enjoyed this video so much. The witty narration made me chuckle throughout the video and it made the information very lively and relatable. I'm amazed geese stayed at the side of the road instead of tearing cars and occupants apart. They must have been much better behaved back then :-) Looking forward to watching more of your content.

Beautiful account of an innovation and the problem it created and they were solved! Self belief and perseverance were key to this. Food for thought for present day innovators!

11:38 - Road rage began much sooner than I thought.

Very interesting video. Every morning when i drive out of the Ardennes village where i live, a woman walks thee with her dog. When i drive past them, the dog on the lash becomes an idiot and turns about 3 times ( he makes 3 circles very fast). Once i asked the woman why he does that. She answered that he is crazy. So, tomorrow it will happen again. My fathers aunt, born in 1900, told me once when i often visited her during my school breaks when i was 14 in 1987, that she also drove a car when she was about 22. My fathers family had a big laundry (factory size) company in the Netherlands ( where i come from) so they had plenty of money to buy a car. My oldest car now is a 1940 Opel Kadett cabrio-limousine. To be restored.

10:53 early picture of the tram in my town:D

Oh my gosh! Very Interesting!❤

Very nice presentation.

@BSport320

3 ай бұрын

Thanks a lot

Interesting. When everybody argues against electric cars, because of the lack of recharging stations, one never thinks of the fact that there were no gas stations either, when automobiles were in their infancy.

Added to this are the dangers of the railway and tram rails with the narrow tires of the cars.