Wow this is far better than any newer age car video... I ABSOLUTELY LOVE how you can see everything working in this video!!! This is a beautiful car and wonder piece of history. Thank you for this wonderful video! FANTASTIC WORK ON THE RESTORATION!!
@@MrTheHillfolk I beg to differ. By then internal combustion vehicles may very well be a thing of the past. If any normal boring commuter car that runs on gas still existed, better yet still *runs,* then I can almost guarantee people would admire it simply because *no one* would've preserved something like that. I saw a late '70s Honda Accord on the road a couple days ago and almost broke my neck trying get a look; albeit rusty and used the fact that it's still running and on the road is definitely interesting. Cars like that were meant to be used up and thrown away, like an '09 Taurus. If I saw one in 2100 that thing would be the center of attention.
wonder how said clutch behaves compared to a more modern stick car cause i want to give it a ride around town too (even if it's only to to a steam-punk event)
This is why I always say learn to drive a car from the 1910's before you drive a car from today. You learn to appreciate the changes cars have made over time, especially by owning a car from the 1910's. Excellent video demonstration!
Sounds delightfully. In less than half a century we are admiring a 1970 vw beetle internal combustion like this... and consider prius as obsolete and unneficient...
@@0852657luis Hello, Luis. I mean that in our fashion for antique machines, we are prone to see an old VW, that is obviously a primitive machine as more valuable, and cute than a 1st gen Prius. In the future -I guess- Prius is going to see kind of ordinary and lame... but internal combustion: really genius.
A really interesting video. Thanks for taking the time to set up the shots of the linkages, clutch etc. It would have been time consuming but something rarely ever seen now.
I USE 2 OWN A CADILLAC 1994 ,YOUR CAR 1912 LOOK MUCH MORE FUN N MORE INTELLIGENT,THANK U VERY MUCH OLDER BROTHER,SERVANT OF GOD,VERY COOL N EAZY MECANIC.
Cadillac were innovators back then. It could be said they invented the V8 engine as well. A Scottish engineer working for Cadillac first came up with the idea of arranging two banks of 4 cylinders in a 80 degree vee configuration. I have no idea when it went into production, but they did come up with it first
@@The2fiddyridah he's right, read on "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."
Amen to that! Whenever my Dad heard someone say, "They sure don't make 'em like they used to", he would remark, "Thank God!" This car was the first to have an electric starter. Crude, noisy, - but it sure beat cranking the engine by hand.
A fine piece of machinery from 1912. If I lived in 1912, I probably would have had a Cadillac. These days, I'm driving a crappy used VW (which I'm gonna sell soon, thankfully). I'm probably gonna get used a Chevy next.
you have a very nice car thank you for making this instructional video I am trying to learn as much as I can about how to operate older cars I plan on buying one just not sure what I want yet trying to get a feel for a brand that is reliable (well as reliable as a 100 year old car can be ha-ha )
Very Nice.and still running like a Caddilac. I'm not certain but my grand father who only owned Harley's & Buick's claimed the fuel pump was a Buick first and that before the late 20's the town ambulance had to climb hospital hill in reverse to keep the gas tank higher than the carburetor
lol, much respect, this is why we have such great cars nowadays, and even then engineering was way better than some of the cars built today, but I still lol'd, that horn sound just makes me laugh every time
A nice look back to 1912. I wonder what kind of "rush hour" our grandparents had to deal with back then. Assuming they could even afford such a car like a CADILLAC!
