@@jamesjohnson1710Actually, quality and craftsmanship are still available but you gotta search carefully. Sift much sand to find the gold nugget. Web searches all pop up the same conglomerate crap but local mechanics and craftsmen still make it right. It doesn't come cheap or overnight but it is always worth it. They don't have big advertising budgets but spend the profits on tools and stuff. Word of mouth brings us in.
My Dad worked for Ford in Dearborn as a design engineer. That was in the early sixties and late seventies, and into the eighties. We lived in West Dearborn on Newton Place Street, a suburb built by Ford for his employees. We lived in a colonial two level with a full basement, and the housing was all unique and not cookie cutter housing like you sees now a days. We were well off, had a nice education and lifestyle since Ford took great care of their employees.
@@trevking3772 I heard Henry the 1st, was a bit of a donkeys you know what, but that smoothed out and the Ford enterprise got better with better management that went the right way to take care of the employees. Took some time, but all ended well.
@@mariekatherine5238 that's not true. They pay good the ones I know. All the guys I went to school with work at a car plant and or the coal mines and we all made about the same money. Ws all had nice 3 bedroom homes with big yard and basements some have garages. A couple of em have drag cars one races round track. They're wives have part time jobs but make decent. I'd say were all middle class. None of us went to college so we did good for ourselves I think but we've had.to work our asses off which is how it.should be. We manage our money well. Most have a savings. Its usually spoiled brat millenials that's super entitled that think everything should be given to them or they waste every penny they get cause they think they gtta start out on top buy buying a 50 thousand dollar truck to drive to work then wonder why they dont have anything saved up or they cant build a race car or have a nice hobby. Hunting or fishing maybe. Anyone can do Those things but these folks think they cant go fishing without a fancy bass boat and 300 fishing rods and what not. It's all in how u manage what.u have. I know guys that worked at McDonald's forever that's paying for a nice house.
The power, speed, and durability of the Ford with the flathead V-8 was so good that on April 13, 1934, Clyde Barrow, of Bonnie and Clyde fame, wrote a letter to Henry Ford himself thanking him for building a car that allowed him to outrun the police almost everywhere. Probably not the kind of publicity Ford wanted, but I'm sure it didn't hurt.
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@@Hercules718 Just like Franklin Roosevelt. Who was also an anti-Semite and whose Democrat party was studied by the Nazis for how they were able to repress minorities. A lot of people were antisemites in those days not just the wealthy or political leaders.
Engines could run today with just a little bit of help from computers. So even if the computers were to go they would still run on. The problem is that modern manufacturers have become lazy with their designs.
These are super simple engines. Like the complex bit are the radiator and the transmission. Which are super simple by modern standards. PS, modern companies provide more of an experience* than just a car. It isn’t just about A-B anymore. It abound the journey, and the experiences that can be had during it.
Today. Mechanics won't do more than plugging a scanner. You trying to explaining that You think something is broken base in common sense they won't listen. I love dirty hands mechanics who say: Start the engine... Then look ,grab something and tell you: This is bad. Swap something and say: -Try again! Broom! Done.
Most people know who both their grandfathers are. Well, not all. But the two grandfathers often have different last names. You did not say Paternal grandfather, so why would he expect your grandfather to have the same last name as you?
I wish I could go back in time and tell my great grandfather to stock up on these 32's and store them with no miles! Could you imagine what a barn find with 10 or 20 brand new 32s with no miles would be worth today?
You might be surprised. These cars depending on options were about $500 brand new, which is about $50,000 in todays money and while a mint condition one would be worth more than most I bet you be hard pressed to get much more than more than $100k for one. There would have been many far easier ways to double your money between then and now.
@@BullittGT40 Where did you do that conversion? It's WILDLY off... (By nearly $40,000) According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and a few others just for good measure, $500 in 1932 would be between *$11,398.00* to *$11,482.00*
@@NWinnVR Believe government inflation number and all that if you want. I based it on the price of gold given at that time we were on the gold standard at $20 an oz, when I made this comment gold was at $2000 an oz now it's somewhere between $2300.and $2400 last I looked so that investment is looking worse by the day.
Ford flathead was one of the best engines ever built I think. When I was growing up my dad gave me one he found in the junk yard and that’s what I learned about mechanics. I can still remember the firing order and other facts.thankyou ford.
And today Ford is knocking out the competition, without a bailout. When I was a kid we had 2 Model A's, a 29 coach, a 32 coupe, and one 1937 V8. That V8 was SO smooth. My dad and uncles used to cuss shiverlays up one side and down the other.
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I watched this video in it's entirety and loved every minute of it!! Even tho this is only about the new V8 Ford in 1932 and the variety of models that were available that year, I really appreciate the information and all the footage!! This video is without a doubt a national treasure!! I certainly hope a copy of this is preserved for scores of future generations to watch and appreciate it as much as I do!! You can tell that the music and narration is 1932 in some parts! Surprisingly still of good quality for its age!! Thank You for sharing!!!!
What's amazing about these old cars is how amazingly tough they are! I'm seeing these cars driven FAST over unimproved roads, bouncing over rocks and ruts, going airborne, sliding around. Drive a modern vehicle, even something sold as off-road worthy, like a Jeep Wrangler, or a Toyota 4-runner, and it would be trashed in minutes, but people did this everyday to these cars, and they came back asking for more
It's because they didn't worry about efficiency back then, steel was also cheaper, everything was made of thick solid steel and everything drove like a tank but at the end of the day, they were driving 4-6L V8s that couldn't even produce the same horsepower to weight ratio of a modern 1.2L inline 4 cyl car.
This is without doubt the best automobile documentary i have seen of this era. As has been said by another commentator this vid is a national treasure. It is especially pleasing as back in the late 60s when i was 20 i managed to buy a well used Ford Pilot with the Flat Head V8 engine which was the totally coolest machine in town , especially as i lived in the small town of Crowborough, in Sussex , England. I bought it from a local businessman that sold it to me for a price i can't recall, but it was cheap. Being a mechanic i sorted it best i could but the brakes were mechanical and were nothing short of dangerous. My pals and girlfriends would all put some money together to buy petrol and we'd head off to London or to the coast so as to go bowling or dancing or whatever. It wouldn't have been the same though if it hadn't had that fabulous V8 Flathead motor. Thank to all those real and proper engineers and designers that put together something that is still recognised as great engineering even in todays world.
Excellent coverage of Ford Car Industry. Mechanical engineering is at its height. The conception, the execution, the assembly line - everything shows the man is capable of realizing anything under the sun. Ford was indeed a visionary. Thanks for the preservation of such footage and uploading it the RU-vid.
$500 for the Deluxe Roadster in 1932 is less than $10,000 in today's money. It makes you think about American manufacturing jobs and wages and how corporate profits (shareholder profits) have affected the life of working people and the price of durable goods. Of course, on the flip side, the massive layoffs that Ford was able to implement almost at whim were part of the equation too.
Yes, truly wonderful to see. The model my Dad had in England, was a great car, and powerful indeed for the times. There was a 3 gear column shift, I remember. I learned to drive in that car, and I used it a lot after that.
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Dad started at Ford as a draftsman in 1957 and became a body engineer by the mid-sevens, he was teaching and drafting on CAD computers. He retired in 1993 as lower management. The wonderful thing he enjoyed going to work every day. After contract work, he spent 42 years there. Dad was blessed.
Strange but true fact: the music featured in this documentary of Fiord and his engineers’ incredible ingenuity wasn’t developed or played till a full decade after the V8 was invented. Bluegrass music came about in the 40s thanks to Bill Monroe.
quite astounding for the day. Isn't this the Bonnie and Clyde car? Pretty amazing car for the day. Wow did the dark side put the hammer on this progress. Wow what a great video. Thank you ❤
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The true heroes are the engineers and technicians involved the hard line creation of the engines ! Management can conceive : the real skill is in creating !
Not just creating, actually making it work in the real world, anyone can make something cool in a lab, then turn it loose on low info people, like the ones I hear racing their frozen car motors trying to warm them up when it's 12 deg outside, I mean the stupidity is deep with them.
@@ian_lambert-knight Everything is easy once it's been invented/developed for you. If you think the cooling system is the most "complex" part of an engine then I doubt you truly understand an engine beyond "piston goes up, piston goes down." In fact, the cooling system is the simplest part of an engine and hasn't changed much since the inception of it.
@@Clickbaiters 99% of the engineering in this video were not invented for this car, but much before. The problems were solved over a long period of time. Engineers job is to solve technical problems mostly with known solutions as efficiently as possible. That is what makes engineering different from art; the process to design something is not chaotic but systematic, the aim is to develop efficient solution processes to common engineering problems. For example, a car can be divided into smaller sub problems; engine, gearbox, frame, body, braking system, etc. And those to even smaller problems. For each small problem, there usually is a known solution process already, like electrical spark plugs for ignition, etc. Then something new on some field may be developed, like the new type of V8 engine in this video, but even in that case, 90% of it is existing technology. Complexity is actually a very bad thing in engineering, the idea is not to make a complicate design, the idea is usually to keep it simple, because complicate design is more prone to failure, more difficult/expensive to manufacture, etc. Smart design is that design, that manages to do a complicate thing as simply as possible. But indeed even simple things can be quite difficult to get working exactly right. The devil is in the details.
Ok, the biggest problem early combustion engines face was reliable cooling. This single part is very complex in comparison to piston technology. Witch had already existed for hundreds of years. It requires you to be able to move coolant through out the engine and cool it. Adding to that you don’t want to over cool the engine and need to more or less evenly cool it.
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Cars are better in every way now. Everything from the tires to the paint is better. Modern engines can routinely go over 100k miles without a major overhaul, something engines of Henry’s day rarely did. When I was a kid in the ‘50s and ‘60s, "car trouble" was a common reason people were late for work, and cars broken down on the side of the road were a frequent sight. My parents’ first new car, a ‘63 Chevy, ran for two weeks before it had a major breakdown, a broken distributor shaft. About a year later, the transmission failed. These kinds of things had not been uncommon experiences for new car owners in America going back decades. The Big 3 automakers built junk because they could get away with it. They built cars intentionally designed to wear out in three years, when you were expected to buy a new one. It took competition from abroad to force them to improve quality.
@@danl.909 Good take. Unfortunately Detroit has given up on making passenger cars, the only products worth buying from them are sports cars and trucks.
Henry Ford was also a big Hitler fan (literally, he had wrote him letters, Hitler used to say he admired Ford, they were like actually buddies) and a known anti-semite who used to sell all new Fords with an anti-semetic pamphlet in the glove box. He also used to hire armed thugs to beat workers. Then there was Fordlandia a city built around indentured slavery in Brazil where he banned things like dancing for the workers who were sent there on one way buses with no way back thereby trapping them in the middle of the rain forest where almost all of them died of disease. So I don't much care what he thinks of modern Ford.
@@pfitz9346 I don't know about all of that. But I do know an indentured servant and a slave are 2 different things. For example, Fredric Douglas, (a black indentured servant in the USA), earned his freedom as a indentured servant, grew tobacco, and was the first "state sponsored" black slave owner in the USA. Or so we have learned. And as far as "armed thugs attacking workers", that would typically be unions strikers attacking scabs, and includes murder. And also--there was no bus (no roads, just a river), to the city Ford tried to build where over 3000 people live today. Did you know it was the factories that created cities and got mankind out of poverty?
@Mungo_T Actually toward the end of Model T production (1926) the car was available in: Black, Highland Green, Royal Maroon, Fawn Gray, Gunmetal Blue, Phoenix Brown, Commercial Green, Moleskin, and Drake Green.
Come on, don't be unfair: You know this was before colors were invented and there were so many traffic accidents because nobody could distinguish a red light (grey) from a green light (grey), from a yellow light (grey) ;-)
It's quite easy in our computer-driven world for thinking these were primitive vehicles, but I'm incredibly impressed with how much precision was attained back then as these early cars were mass produced largely by hand. These days about the only cars that get that kind of attention are race oriented and low-volume supercars. They ought to show this as mandatory training for current employees.
@@Iconhulk How often do those chips go out though? You and Mr. C-M-E clearly aren't engineers and clearly aren't versed in what goes in to engineering vehicles these days. Cars are far more reliable, last longer, and more efficient than they have ever been, in part thanks to things like electronic fuel injection, direct injection, and ECU mapping. But go on ... tell us more about your engineering expertise. lol
@@orangejjay The question is put one Of these old vehicles to a test versus A vehicle today. See which one last longer and holds up longer. Over tough terrain with the least maintenance.
im not a ford driver. but i can appreciate the amount of mechanical and technical engineering that went into the 1932 v8. its just a amazing. thumbs up
The engineering that went into early cars is just fascinating. Now ever bodies basically got it all figured out, OHV is compact but inefficient, DOHC is the way to go, the only really viable engine configurations for normal cars are V6, V8 and I4. Everything redlines at around the same point, everything is either old or using direct injection, even the different types of Variable Valve Timing and Lift systems are kinda all the same. Transverse FWD is the cheapest, struts are the way to go for pretty much everything thats not a truck or a sports car, its all kinda bland to be honest. The only place left where companies are doing all sorts of weird stuff is with transmissions. VW/Audi tries to use a dsg in everything, Mazda, Ford, and GM are all using a different really advanced type of torque converted automatic, Suburu, Honda, and Nissan are all experimenting with very different types of CVT. There is a big split coming soon of who sticks to NA and who surrenders to the bandwagon of using undersized turbos that fall flat on their face around 3500 rpm, but thats a choice between shit and not shit, not an interesting decision. Back then they had all sorts of crazy stuff. Multi piece blocks, sleeve valves, all sorts of crazy over and undersquare engines, eight or so different types of carburetors, all sorts of crazy suspension stuff. I was reading a book recently that had a picture of some touring car from the 20s, and it had this really weird semi independent rear suspension setup where a transverse leaf spring doubled as an antiroll bar. Even cooling systems varied in different cars.
I’m impressed with the tent designs they had in 1932! The Big Top they called it. There are a few fairly big temporary tents in the world today but back then they had some huge ones that were temporary and were moved around for big events!
Sure, as long as someone didn't drop a lighted match, cigar, or cigarette, see Hartford circus fire of 1944. Back then, they used to waterproof those tents with gasoline. LOL
I had a 1981 VW Scirocco. I truly loved that car. It was the best driving car I have ever owned. I am presently driving a VW Jetta Sportwagen. I like it lots. I have been driving, repairing, and modifying VW's since my family bought a Beetle in 1963. The Scirocco had an AC problem from brand new. The thing you learn about VW is you will have at least one problem from the start. You don't know what the problem will be, but there will be a problem. The Scirocco AC was controlled by a crazy system of levers and wires. Supposedly, the temperature would be controlled by this Mickey Mouse system. After 2 visits to the dealer, I decided I had enough. Went into dash and was shocked at what I saw. This Rube Godberg system would not stay in alignment. I went back to the parts counter at the VW dealer and got a lighted switch that matched the other rocker switches in the car. I bypassed the microswitch that controller the compressor clutch. So I ended up with a "desert only" AC system. Even though I usually had high humidity, I never had a problem.
This video is utterly amazing!!!! Just look at all of the machinery back then. WOW...Totally top shelf equipment. Imagine the time involved in making all the machinery in Fords factory's.... This really blew my mind. Of course other car companies were the same, I'm just commenting on this totally AWESOME video. Thankyou so much for posting this. A+ all the way.
Look at the mill operator stopping the rotating crankshaft with hand... I doubt that would be allowed today. Way too many machinists mangled around rotating objects.
I love the way that the Ford publicity machine did not dumb-down the explanation of how the car and its V8 engine was made. You just would not get that level of detail in the modern era - such a great shame. Like some others, I watched the whole thing with great enjoyment.
Agreed. The days when companies and manufacturers produced their own educational content are long over unfortunately. I think the dumbing down started in the 1980s. Now what little science and engineering you can find is focused on “fun”, with way-too-excited super-extroverted hosts catering to the zero attention span set.
Frenchman Leon Levavasseur was a 39-year-old inventor in 1902 when he took out a patent for the first V-8 engine he called the Antoinette. The V8 since then has become the most reliable and efficient internal combustion engine to power automobiles and to see extensive use in power boats and early aircraft.
Different times for sure. I started my Ironworker apprenticeship in '72 and there was a lot of changes for the better, safety, at the end of my career. Trust me there was plenty of complaining along the way.
@@stevethomas760 I graduated and joined the Big Green Machine in '77. I think that puts us within a decade age-wise. I worked in production, transportation and plumbing, and the same is true there as well. We've seen a lot of change in just our lifetimes. And a lot of resistance indeed. A few missteps for certain, but most found corrections at some point or other. After all. Safety regulations are written in blood. And we've seen plenty of it spilled in just our time on the floor. A great week to you Stevethomas.😎
Excellent video! I always loved the sound of the flathead Ford V8, I worked at an auto wrecking yard in the 1960's in Torrance CA. In the yard, we had a mobile crane that had one without mufflers. The unique rumble of that engine was music to our ears.
This is a great film which shows one of Henry Ford's most important contributions to mass production - interchangeable parts. The parts were manufactured and tested to be within very tight tolerances so that no adjustments would be required during the assembly process.
Sorry, interchangeable parts in manufacture were pioneered by Eli Whitney jr and Sam Colt, one hundred years earlier. It was the moving assembly line that Ford introduced.
@@bighands69 you're point is not in dispute. My point was to merely correct the mistaken idea that the concept of interchangeable parts did not belong to Ford and that it was a well established concept and widely used at the time he adopted it's use. There is no doubt that he did fully exploit the concept and expanded it into areas where it had seen little use yet was totally necessary to take full advantage of his moving assembly line, which WAS his idea...
Fantastic old period footage. Most educational...gave me great insight into my grandfather's era and thinking. ....although he was a Chevy man hinself.
@Fred Peterson Modern cars can either be flimsy or well built. While I can't say anything about Tesla since they haven't been mass producing cars as long - GM, Chrysler and Ford haven't really been making solid-built cars since the late 60's, the Germans fell through in the early 1990's, while the Japanese and Koreans have been beating them all out in quality since the late 90's and early 2000's.
@Fred Peterson Look up the crash test's vs old Chevy Bel-Air vs a 2018 Chevy Malibu. Trust me the old cars are dangerous for accidents. The can on older care just crash and twist and you will pretty fucked up or dead after an accident of a older car.
Those cars are absolutely beautiful. I bet if Ford reproduced these cars exactly as they were with modern drivetrains and safety features they would sell....I know I would buy one.
Or even without modern drive trains. Just the originals with the bare minimum of safety equipment necessary to be allowed and just sell them as an extremely cheap durable alternative for a new car
They could even use it under the facade of being a licensed continuation car. And then sell a new model A for like $6000 and do that with all their cars, like the more classic mustangs and stuff, all their old cars. Sell them for like $8-$16,000
It seems half the folks commenting didn't watch the video, or were too busy listening to the banjo. Nowhere does anyone claim Ford invented the V8, yet morons are complaining about it? The video points out that the Lincoln division was using a V8 for a decade+ while the Ford V8 was under design. Even the title of the video is "Invention of the FORD V8". Likewise the stupid comments about end of the four-just because some folks can't understand a storyline doesn't mean they should comment on it.
It's not the video we are calling out, but the title of this youtube clip. It's not correct to say 'the invention of the Ford V8', it should say 'the development of the Ford V8'. That is all.
The thought of finding the perfect timing/motion and the ability to generate electricity to sustain it took some serious engineering and it didn't happen overnight. Now these things run so efficiently that they are cleaner and more powerful with reliability than ever.
The Ford V8 was Clyde Barrow's car of choice because it was not only faster than most cop cars, but it was very rugged and thus could traverse rough roads and off-road terrain, and it was quite bulletproof for ordinary weaponry.
@@wazzanose Really? I did not know that --- thanks for sharing that interesting nugget of info. I Googled it, and these two letters were received by Ford Motor Company only about a month apart in the spring of 1934 --- Barrow's on April 13, and Dillinger's on May 17. Amazing, huh? Apparently, both letters were not actually from these infamous gangsters, though --- sorry to burst your bubble. Modern handwriting analysts have examined the letters, and the general consensus is that neither letter was written by its supposed author. The fact that both of the letters surfaced so close together seems awfully suspicious to me, as well. I'm guessing that the letters were probably just invented by Ford as a publicity stunt to promote their V8-engine cars as being fast, rugged, and reliable --- kinda like, "hey, we build such great cars that even the top contemporary hard-boiled criminals choose them over other vehicle-makes/models, and have praising words for them!"
@@Quacks0 Sounds like a clever publicity campaign alright. I didn't Google it I just rememberd either reading it somewhere or hearing it in a documentary about Dillinger. I imagine there would be enough genuine examples of both their handwriting and expert judges to be sure these days, but probaly not so much back then.
Awsome video. Love all the mechanical detail that was shown. these days dealers will barely tell you the engine size, can't even see it under the engine cover.
I remember the old flathead V8’s very well. I had one that ran for years without an ounce of oil pressure-the oil pump drive gear pressed on the end of the cam shaft had come loose. Mine was the popular 85 horse power but they also had a little baby brother V8 that put out 60 hp. The only reason I eventually ditched my old Ford was that the girls weren’t interested!
That explains why! A mechanic that I worked for in high school used to sell Wynn’s products. He told me about a V8 that the Wynn’s regional distributor used take to fairs for demonstration of their oil treatment. He said that they would drop the oil pan and let it run for a half hour with no oil pressure. He also said it was a flathead Ford. It sounds like they don’t load the main and rod bearings very heavily judging by your experience and this.
This is thee most interesting picture of how an automobile came out the end of an auto assembly plant. I worked at General Motors Assembly plants at South Gate and Van Nuys for 14 years and never grew disinterested in the automobile production. If you can visit and see how a car is built do it! It's a marvel of engineering.
I used to setup program and run CNC machine tools, but , some of the most amazing tools I worked with were the automatics from the period just before NC or CNC machines. The old time Machinists and engineers who built these machines had some real native ingenuity. I would say, much more than the CNC machines designers. Something that always surprises modern Machinists who use a lot of CNC machines is how fast and automatic machine could be. Once they were set up they could really haul ass.
I worked for a 100 year old gun manufacturer in the mid 80's that were still using Brown & Sharpe screw machines they had purchased from around 1905. Except for making up new cams, probably every 10 years, these machines could still spit out thousands of good quality screws per day.
What a wonderful film! I used Ford E350 cargo vans for work in the early eighties and bought a 89 used one to start my own distribution business without realizing it came with a bumper to bumper warranty up to 60 K miles. It hauled extra load of magazines in San Francisco’s 46 hills and eventually the transmission broke, I took it to my neighborhood mechanic and he sent it to a transmission shop for it to be refurbished for $3 K not a small sum back then. Then he found out that it was still under warranty but it could only be honored if sent to a dealership. I was beside myself! Then I received a check for the full amount from Ford because there was an exception, if the vehicle broke down during a long weekend due to a holiday since you couldn’t get it fixed right away. I couldn’t believe my luck and Ford’s ethics. Then and there I vowed to be a Ford customer for life. Interesting enough previously I had a bad experience buying a used 79 Ford Fairmont, probably one of the worst era for Ford quality control. When my daughter was born I bought my first brand new car, a Ford Escort Station Wagon that not only was the most affordable Station Wagon at the time but it lasted 24 years (with only a new engine as a major repair). I eventually bought two brand new E350 and another used one. After 35 years in the publishing business I closed shop in 2018, and decided to drive as a Rideshare driver biding my time for retirement, so I bought a brand new Ford Fusion Hybrid (the second time Ford offered me a 0% interest loan), I recently did my 100 K maintenance and it passed with flying colors regardless of all the SF hills! Henry Ford changed the world, and I’m grateful for that in the twentieth first century!
😂 eco boost last longer, get 10x better gas mileage, lighter, makes WAY more horsepower and is probably more reliable. I love older cars but you are wearing the thickest rose tinted glasses ever dude. New engines (even if they have some problems) are 100x better than what they had back then
@@mrwhips3623 You need to do your research because Eco-Boost engines are plagued with problems. You get a few here and there that turn out decent, but they are not even close to lasting as long as the above:P
That got me choked up. The poor bastard had no money at all. I'm sure if he tried to sell the car, he'd get pennies on the dollar so he was holding on hoping the economy would recover.
These methods of engine production and assembly were still used in some countries as late as the mid 1960s. No wonder these engines required oil as thick as 20W-50. By the 1960s , 10W-40 was the oil of choice for most V 8s , and V6 engines , bad choice when its less than 20 degrees F outside ! This is also the time when engine oil warmers were introduced , an idea brought from Scandinavia and the far European east. Yet they lasted , why ? In those days , there was no VVT , V-Tec , Mivec and so on . Engines had many many less parts and were simple to maintain. Today , a totally different ball game. Great video by the way !!!!!!!!!
X engines tend to be rough running with four cylinders, though they run extremely smoothly with 2 strokes. The type with wet sump and a light duty blower are actually clean and efficient.
That’s called a “transatlantic accent”. It was taught to upper-crust, private schooled, typically east coast Americans during the early 20th century. It’s a learned, not regionally acquired way to speak, adopting British pronunciations and turns-of-phrase. That’s why they use “coop-ay”
At 12 minutes, done with describing the development of the engine. The car, Model A development continues. I am familiar with antique cars, and this is a great collection of period footage. The amazing thing to consider is that this car/engine was like a space ship to American people. The features, design and engineering were from the future.
This video is great! The section on the Rosamond testing is particularly interesting. My grandfather (Rayford Dees) owned the garage shown in the video and my grandmother (Janie Dees) ran the hotel also shown in that clip. Rayford's garage burned down on July 8th and I wonder whether the testing was terminated early due to that event.
My dad Herb had a 1950 Ford that would vapor lock in the summer. Dad had a gas cap with a tire valve soldered into it, and he used a tire pump to pressurize the gas tank. When I was like age 7, my mom, who was like Lucy Ball, when the car stalled, had to pump up the tank. It was funny
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I'm on my 3rd Ford. A 1997 F150 5.4L V8 Lariat I got it at 197k. It has 250k. I ran it all over the West with my little vintage trailer. A very reliable truck.
