What a well built machine. Truly a marvel, thankyou Jay for keeping these engineering feats looked after. I love how you actually drive them. You should have an open day, I would love to come and visit. Love from the UK.
I wonder what other episode Jay Leno was talking about when he mentioned talking about that Steam Motorcycle... because it has been quite awhile and still no Steam Motorcycle. ???????????????? curious
I learned about the Doble steam car when I read a book called The Tin Goose to my young son. The story is centered around a young man who gets a job at an airfreight company and their big plane is a Ford Trimotor. His grandfather, an eccentric old codger, has an old Doble and the car ends up, oh, wait, I don't want to spoil it for you.
My grandpa had a steam tractor that he used up until the 60 s. The wheels were steel that had spike like protrusion’s. Coal was the best fuel as it gave the best bang for the buck. Strong, sturdy and reliable. I remember it had a unique xhaust
My grandfather was a CA gold miner, pioneer S. Francisco Bay Area, 1870s to 1930. He owned The first Stanley Steamer of the Bay Area. That was prior to the earthquake of 1906. The car and my Grandfather's furniture business in S. Francisco were wiped out by the earthquake along with his fortune. My Father was 11, the family lived in Alameda. That first car, the entire front was long and open. I was told it made alot of noise.
Well couldnt have been a Stanley Steamer, when it was noisy. I experienced old Stanley Steamers at a steam rally. These where quit, more quit than even a modern gas or diesel powered car. Also the front of a Stanley at this time was closed, these had no radiator. Maybe they had a another car than the Stanley Steamer?
The only way Jay can go back any further would be a Horse Drawn Carriage, and what fun would that be other than unhitching the horse and going for a gallop. But then we get into the motorcycle thing, it's all a big circle.
Steam cars use petrol, too. They cause emissions too and are less efficient because they're external combustion engines, so they cause more emissions than Otto engine cars. The drama about petrol, emissions, etc, is because some powerful people don't want us to drive good cars. We can't avoid the drama by going to different types of engine. The only solution is political.
@@Rainer67059 You seriously gonna sit here and say 'ThEy EmIt MoRe EmMiSiOnS ThAn EnGiNes' the otto engine has a lot of issues with it, it is a pipe dream.
That thing is truly a wonder. Question.. steam is being vented under the car, I thought all the steam was recycled? Or is that just a high pressure valve that vents when it has more than it recycle?
steam is recycled until the point where the condenser at the front of the car can't keep up, the temperature rises and a relief valve vents the pressure. on a long steady cruise the temps stabilize and the relief valve doesn't vent very much. climate could be an issue as well, i don't think a doble would survive a freezing weather event very well with hundreds of freeze-exploded tubes.
i find it funny how all those years ago people made impressive cars like this but now a days the car engineers make everything over complicated and impossible to work on
the right pedal is the brake, the left pedal has 2 functions: pressed all the way down puts the engine into reverse, pressed partway down it shortens the engine's stroke length to conserve steam since you don't need 1000 foot-pounds of torque once you're moving at speed. the tiny pedal-in-pedal is what locks the pedal partway down.
Very nice. Would be nice if someone made a steam car today using modern technology. Suppose it could be even more efficient and more powerful possibly requiring even less fuel.
To hell with all electric cars. This is the real future , hybrid geo-thermal autos! The gas station will be like a dinosaur if major automobile manufacturers accept the fact that gasoline powered cars can be replaced by this tech. If you need topping off you can go to the water station ,fill up the tank with this specific water , modified for this car, and be on your way far quicker that a electric recharge station!
Stream cars burn fossil fuel to heat the water and create the steam. They actually get about the same mph as internal combustion engines. Unfortunately they’re really no greener.
At 4 steam cylinders equals 16 gasoline cylinders and the greater efficiency with speed, I am surprised that someone hasn't at least thought about steam for Australian truck trains going straight across the continent. Natural gas would be much cleaner and hotter than diesel.
Rudolf Diesel invented the Diesel engine because he wanted an engine that can carry really large loads with little to no effort. Diesels always make more power and have higher compression ratio than all gasoline engines. As well as being much more thermally efficient.
Just imagine, with the modern capabilities our technology has today, what we could do with an idea so 'simple' as this. The power of batteries and allowing us to make a system like this so much more efficiently and able to make one of -the- most common elements on our earth into a fuel.
@@ghoulbuster1 Yes, but we learned how to make the combustible fuel drive the wheels directly without the need for water, making it more fuel efficient and obviously much lighter with no need to wait to heat up the vehicle. Steam power isn't totally obsolete though, as its still good for generating power from a heat source like nuclear power.
Alcohol can make an excellent fuel. Not difficult to make or refine, and it can burn really well. The only real difficulty would be getting oil for it.
Wicked Houston lol I think he meant that there would probably be low amounts or contaminated amounts of fresh water and not as easily accessible as it is today in most parts of the world to use as fuel for a steam car. I assume it’s a given that we would have to adapt the engines to run the dirty contaminated water or have to find a way to purify salt water/find resistant material that won’t corrode from the salt residue being boiled off from the ocean water. Let’s hope we as a species don’t keep messing up our earth enough to mess it up for everyone and everything on it because I would much rather we put time into advancing our species imagine building a steam engine car right now with the tech that could be added to make it more efficient, quicker, more stable and safer and more aerodynamic with the modern features we now take for granted
This would be the best car these days because even though there is no doors and no locks or any security features no one will be able to steal it because they don’t know how to do anything with it other melt it into scrap metal which will be almost impossible without the car being able to drive
awesome piece of history ! Any time Jay gets involve it’s going to be something special sadly a couple of weeks ago my next door neighbor in his late 90s passed away he was my freind and a retiredMachinist fromPensylvania on his wall he had a picture of him driving a Antique steam Powered Tractor that was featured onthe local 6 OClock evening news because it was done by a local FarmClub as far as the restorationmy Buddy always bragged that he helped them by making various parts that were no longer available and that it was the same make,model, and year of one that JayLeno has in his collection I believe it was the Advance one I asked my freind jokingly if it was fast and he said yes he thinks he was going 5 or 6 MPH in the picture
