This channel is all about antique cars and trucks. The content will feature cars mostly before 1980 and generally will be unmodified factory correct machines. I'm located in the United States, so most of these videos are going to be of American cars. Please note that I do make mistakes from time to time, and not everything I say in my videos can be taken at face value. You can contact me at carhistorian@icloud.com. All credit for the channel goes to God.
Durrig WWII Henry, going senile, wanted to stop all production and retool his factories to start producing the Model "T" again, To save the company the navy released Henry 2nd to take over snd save the company. The last Volkswagen bug was a far different car from the first, as a result of continuous changes and improvements.
Give Edsel Ford some credit... It took him years to win his father's support for the 1928 Model A. It was a huge step forward at the time, much more refined than any update of the Model-T could have been. Still, the latest offerings from Chevrolet and Dodge were very competitive.
This ford is like the beautiful woman in the distance ...you long to reach out and touch her gently...but you know you never can...because her beauty is timeless and beyond mere mortals !!!
Impressive poetry. I can’t wait for the days when God will remake our world and we won’t have to deal with rust or the curse of decay. I can only imagine what we will build.
I remember seeing this bird sitting in a field at Marana amongst a bunch of P2Vs, Beech 18s, and a couple other Connies when I was in flight training in 2010. Glad they’re giving it the restoration it deserves.
I can argue that from the Brass era as important as the Model T was Cadillac's pioneering in interchangeable parts based on precision engineering. I wonder who actually came up with that idea.
@@carhistorian I also have no idea who started the idea of interchangeable parts. However I can argue that Henry Leland seemed to be important as far as helping to bring them to the automobile. Seems before he got into the automobile business he learned some things about manufacturing machinists instruments and firearms.
@@carhistorian Thanks but not really. I watched a video about the Ford Piquette Avenue plant. It had one of the first fire sprinkler systems. And somehow that led to a post somewhere about the similarity between the Ford Model A (the 1903 one) and the Cadillac Model A, and how they shared some of the same people. As you know the cars from this period and the ingenuity and inventiveness of the men designing them is fascinating.
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I had a '56 Ply Savoy 2 Dr From 1960 to 1963 with the 270 CID engine bored .060 over with .030 off the heads, dual exhausts, a carter 4 barrel & a 4.10 rear end. It ran pretty good, good enough to beat my friend's '57 'Vette 283 4 speed. His engine had more modifications including a cam than mine.
@@carhistorian Thanks... I still have my '65 Studebaker Cruiser ... One of only 2901 made ... And a '47 Studebaker step side trailer ... Also, a '73 AMC Hornet Sportabout X with the Gucci interior. One of around 2600 made ... And, a '65 Willy's CJ 5 & an '88 Jeep Comanche 4X4, long bed ... All rare, fun collectables ... Best regards ...
Although Motor Trend held the shovel to bury Studebaker, and all Independent US automakers, they held a National Poll in the 80's I think. The question was what was the most beautiful car of the 50's? Studebaker won hands down with this design. And, BTW the Avanti, from the same design studio won the 1960's best design.
@@carhistorian Yes, maybe some of the brands would still be around. They started the merger process by putting the new Packard V8 into the big Hudson and Nash cars, then the respective President egos got involved and ruined everything, eventually dooming both companies. It was both, but the Packard President fully expected to run the whole show. After Packard, he wound up head of the MEL division of Ford, where he oversaw the brand new Edsel. Talk about bad Karma.
Who made this kid an automotive historian? All he did was Google the Model A and create this vid. The Model A was quite literally the replacement and betterment of the Model T. End of story…
If I had the money and space (two things I very much lack), I'd love to have a car collection featuring a car from every decade from the 1900s to 2000s.
I've been thinking about how quickly America abandoned the horse for automobiles. This says something about our expectations for the rate of change in other areas, also -- that is, for the schedule in other situations upon which one technology is replaced by another. One might expect that use of the horse experienced a long, slow decline until finally it fell below some threshold and was recognized as having "disappeared" from America's roads. But in fact, while the horse as a means of transportation was overwhelmingly dominant until about 1908, automobiles had almost entirely replaced in non-farm applications it by 1918, just a decade later, by which time the many points of superiority of the gas-engined auto over animal power had become clear. Lesson: This is the way things usually go. When a superior product/technology comes along, the public tends to replace the old one, FAST. The horse's many defects became all-too-manifest once automobiles broke through into the public consciousness as a practical tool.
You make an excellent point. However the automobile wasn't an entirely new concept in 1908 as it had been seen by the American public for at least two decades, and many people were interested, but few could afford one though, until the model T came along. The Model T was first made in 1908 and it sold very rapidly since it was affordable. I believe that may explain the 1908 to 1918 change.
Well, I'll admit that there's quite a bit mentioned in this video that I don't agree with. For example, chrome didn't replace brass- nickel did, then chrome. The true brass cars weren't made after World War 1- brass was needed for making small arms ammunition and when the war was over, manufacturers didn't go back to it. And mass production didn't begin with Henry Ford. Mass-produced and thus not hand-made cars date to the late 1890's and beyond. Ford did employ the moving assembly line for the first time but assembly lines could be found at Oldsmobile, De Dion Bouton, Renault, Peugeot, Winton, Humber and many, many other factories long before 1913. There's more I could mention but in my final analysis, I do believe, Sir, that this is very much oversimplified.
I understand your point of view. I am certainly not perfect in my research. However the goal of this video is not to recite the complete history of the brass era, but to provide a general understanding of it. I currently lack the necessary amount of footage and time that would be required to produce a video with a more detailed history, but I am doing my best. Thank you for your corrections.
The Model A was also the first Ford car with brakes on all four wheels, and the clutch on the left side. The automobile was virtually unchanged ergonomically until now, 2024. Thanks for the video. Have you watched Paul Shinn's videos on the Model A?
