This 100-year-old Chevy is still working and has never been restored. Follow Driving! Twitter: / drivingdotca Instagram: / drivingca Facebook: / drivingdotca
We have a 1918 Chevrolet Babygrand. Was bought new on our farm. We usually get her out once or twice a year and go for a ride. The car went from our farm to California and back - Twice back in the day.
Chevy had overhead valves from the beginning. The guy who started Chevy had previously owned Buick and got the OHV from them. Buick had the patent, dated 1904.
@@ThunderAppeal No, his name was Billy Durant. You could have looked that up. Louis Chevrolet never owned Buick he was just a famous race car driver. He made his name racing for Buick. Buick was owned by Durant who started General Motors. Then he started Chevrolet.
@@hyzercreek No. Louis Chevrolet started Chevrolet. He *sold* it to Durant because Chevrolet the man needed money. But Louis Chevrolet started Chevrolet.
@@ThunderAppeal That's rubbish. Louis Chevrolet was just a name tag to hang on the company. Chevrolet was started by Billy Durant after he got kicked out of GM for selling too many stocks. So he cashed in his GM stock and started Chevrolet and named the company after the race car driver who drove Buicks for him in all sorts of races. Louis Chevrolet was just a race car driver, he didn't have a penny and Durant paid him in stock. Right away, Durant bought the stocks so Louis would have some money and get lost. Durant made so much money with Chevy that he bought back GM and merged Chevy with it. You could have taken 30 seconds to look that up.
One thing I hope that is NOT original on that truck is the windshield. No safety glass back then! (that didn’t start coming until 1927) Before safety glass, people became “glass necklaces“ when they flew through the ordinary household window pane windshield, not a pretty sight.
1918 ,Overhead Valves too cool. It's operated without a Rocker Cover, wondering what the recommended oil change intervals is . Great truck, thank you for sharing, i love it❤
