I really wish you would put the shilling at the end of the video. You already monetize the video, have a patreon account and do your occasional sales. Shilling in the video is unnecessary and is nothing but greed.
Sorry to nitpick but the Deutschmark was created in 1949. From 1871 to 1923 the currency was simply called "Mark". And 1 Mark was as much worth as 0.358423 grams of gold, so depending on the current price of gold, 600 Mark would be about $14,000. And yes, of course I am German. Who else would care about this kind of details? ;-)
so for efficiency's sake next time just say "I'm German" at the start and you wont have to write that bit about nitpicking. it will just be assumed.. ( i know you lot like to be efficient)
Oh come on, i thought most of europe was well informed about Marks and the Deutschmarks... For fucks sakes, i am near 30, and i refer to Euros as Deutschmarks quite often... Or at least, i think of the prices as they were in the olden days, as everyone from the older generations always thought of everything other than groceries in DMs... Houses, cars, everything that people bought that falls into that enduring category was talked about in DMs worth, not local currency... I didn`t know about the rest of the decimals, but i knew that 1M was .035g of gold... Hell, my father talks in Deutschmarks and carats only when talking business... Sure, we all use euros and know the math, but when you have a reference unit that like a Mark(or the olden dollar) was based on something real, or a currency that represented growth, stability, industry, quality and so on, well, it`s quite hard to just forget it and mindlessly accept some newfangled crap that oscillates all the time, or better said, the prices oscillate all the time, and the virtual currency gives the ridiculous price changes legitimacy... Those who have a solid point of reference like to fall back to it as a sanity check, just to confirm that they are sane and the world is just going batshit...
They say the first speeding ticket was given for someone going 8mph. I thought that was ridiculous but after watching the POV of driving the Benz Patent, oh my god, 8mph in an early car is terrifying lol
And if you think that's terrifying, consider that when the Ford model t was first introduced, there were still weren't many roads if there were any. Imagine going 40-45 miles an hour on wooden wheels with next to no roads!
@@crackedemerald4930few people could afford "horseless carriages" back then anyway, so patented or not there wouldn't be many of them around. And even roads were few so..
Fun fact: Well into the 1960s, you could buy replacement parts for the model T. Ford went out of its way to make sure it supported all vehicles it had made up until that time. My father grew up in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, a small college town. The fraternity house across the street had somebody go to the Ford factory every weekend and by a couple parts from their model T warehouse and he ended up constructing the only 1965 Ford Model T.
Robert's clearly having a really good time there. Jason Torchinsky, now at the Autopian, also did a number of similar and equally hilarious videos there.
I had to giggle when you started having trouble driving uphill. That problem was discovered by Bertha Benz. The wife of Carl Benz. She "borrowed" Patent Motorwagen No.3 visit her mother. She drove that thing 65 miles. No one had ever driven that far before. So she kinda invented the road trip and the test drive. The story is awesome and worth a read.
7:27 correct, there were no gas stations. Those things used petroleum the drivers bought at the pharmacy 😁👍 (I strongly suggest you read the story of the first ever „long distance“ drive with the first car, which his wife bertha benz undertook. It’s a great story, and the pharmacy she bought petroleum on the way still exists today. I know it, because i work just around the corner 😉)
Fun fact: In Germany, it's common knowledge Daimler and Benz invented the car. In France, it's equally common knowledge the Renault brothers did that. Truth is, they both filed their patents to their local authorities a few weeks apart. Not a lot of time in world that barely even knows electricity, let alone telephones or the internet. Who of the two really had the first working modern car parked outside their house, is lost to history. I like to think it's someone else entirely who just tinkered something in the farmyard for the fun of it, and never bothered to publish it.
First car was developed in ancient China and was powered by gunpowder, ancient China mass produced them in large factories and had paved roads in 507BC. China, is number one as usual
Ignore the chinese bot, they are everywhere, praising the glory of china. Strangely they are not seen under videos about democracy or tiananmen square..
About a month ago I saw a Benz bike like that and that night i had a dream where mercedes started producing it again and it was ultra luxurious. It came with an automatic choke, an umbrella hat to keep you dry, an engine block heater, and it was electric. I woke up laughing
For those interested in the big green army vehicle in the background at 2:04, this seems to be a BARC, an 80 ton amphibious vehicle mainly used in Vietnam. If you're ever in the Netherlands, there's one at the Overloon War Museum in Overloon that you can get up close and personal with. There's a short section on their website about the BARC if you're interested.
It's a LARC, and Regular Car Reviews has a video on this one, and there are several other videos on TH-cam of it being used at Lane to crush lesser vehicles.
3:25 True to Mercedes Benz form, their first car is over-engineered in the rack and pinion tiller for a linear actuator steering module instead of a regular bicycle steering mechanism.
With a bicycle-like steering you would have a direct force transmission, which would make it very hard to steer and also irregularities on the road could yank the front wheel to a side, which is very bad.
No,@@foximacentauri7891, I have seen original and reproduction ancient early automobiles that had bicycle steering wheels mechanisms (and also tillers directly turning the front fork). Plus, custom trikes made from VW Beetles that have basic motorcycle chopper front forks & wheels (or motorcycles turned into trikes with the two rear wheels being powered). The transmission is on the rear wheels.
Technically the Model T wasn't the first car made on an assembly line, that actually started with Oldsmobile. Ford was the first to start using a moving assembly line with conveyor belts.
Hey Aging! Fun fact : us, Europeans, have our own version of the Ford Model T. It was the Citröen Type A, which was André Citröen's response to the Model T. It hasn't been produced as much as the Model T, but it does take the same building techniques and drive a bit more like a "modern" car
These were both absolutely fun subjects... These videos often make me curious as to whether you knocked out tons of principal photography and got it all in the can on one long trip to Tennessee, or whether you bounce in and out of town for lots of smaller filming trips from time to time.
I appreciate you going on the road and doing these presentations. The editing on these are spot on. I do have to go back and rewatch parts, because you do such a detailed explanation that sometimes it takes a second to put everything back together. But I really do appreciate the detail. Driving that model T is bananas!
I agree he did a great job. The only slightly off thing they must have told him was the battery ignition as an upgrade. As far as I know they all came that way. Of course the "battery" was a lantern style dry cell mainly used for easy starting or as an emergency when there was a problem with the mag. I would love to see someone do an all inclusive video of all the quirks like jacking up the right rear wheel on cold days for easier starting, or Fixing a rod knock by removing a couple of rod cap shims.
11:54 correction, the oldsmobile curved dash was the first car produced on an assembly line. Another fun fact; the reason for black being the only color option for a time is because the black paint was the only paint that would dry quickly enough to keep up with production.
Former company owner had a Model A he drove to the office sometimes (it was his first car- and he still had it)... he explained all the driving controls to me once and I just stood there still confused. I guess that's one big advantage of owning one of these early cars- nobody could steal the damn thing since they would have no idea how to even drive it. Lol.
I assume that's the _original_ Model A, then, and not the "Model A" they released after the T? My neighbor owns the newer one and he says it has pretty standard controls.
Until you found out that they only made like a dozen different keys, that were all numbered with corresponding numbers on the ignition lock tumbler. See a car with a #3 ignition, pull out a #3 key, there's a #7 pull out your #7 key.
There were multiple different black paint formulas for various parts. Most of the formulas aren't reasonable to use today. Faster is mostly a myth but having one color simplified inventory and paint processes making it more efficient and lower cost. You didn't need to sort parts by color. Fun question: If you needed to pick one color for the cars you manufacture, what would that color be?
A [the?} reason for the black paint is- a status symbol---black paint, or black cloth dye is hard to make. Hence, a mans ' black suit of cloathes denoted wealth. The hows and whys are not needed here, but I can off them, PM me. Leather seats= cheap, cloth seats =expensive, due to manufacturing issues costs
The Mark that was used at the time of the Benz Patent Motorwagen isn't the same Mark that was used after the wars in Germany. It's best to look at its gold value at the time: 0,358 grams of gold per Mark. 600 Marks would have been about 215 grams of gold, which in todays US dollar is worth a bit over 14.000 dollars. That's still not a lot for a car, but it is quite a lot for a tricycle with a stationary engine bolted to it.
@@JasperJanssenthat number is for gold at the, the math checks out. Random fun fact, the cheapest 2023 model year car that I was able to find is $3000 more expensive then this thing adjusted for inflation.
My uncle actually owns a T that he restored that has a bit of a storied life- originally it was apart of our family, was sold off the farm, modified, stashed in a barn, and traded around at local swap meets until he tracked it down. We once- ONCE- had it up to 35MPH when my great aunt and uncle visited for their last plane trip (in their late 80s at the time) where we all dressed up like 20s gangsters and fucked around with revolvers. Having it up to 35 was fucking horrifying, you're never riding "in" one but rather, "on top" of one because the seats are so springy to absorb all the road defects. EDIT: one thing Robert might not have fucked with much is how odd it is to control the ignition alongside the throttle. You have to do both *at the same time* to increase speed, because if you don't increase the spark rate eventually you'll drown the spark in gas and kill the engine. When learning to drive these, you'll repeatedly get up some speed and then kill the engine accidentally because you just didn't move the lever in time lol
I own a Model T. They are a lot of fun, and a lot easier to start if you have the optional electric start installed, which I don't think was available for the 1918 version you are driving. I think the electric start first became available in 1919 or 1920. For cars that have it, the electric start is a stomp switch is on the floor under your left foot. The Touring version (the one you drove) usually had a spare tire installed over the fake front "door" which made it even more obvious that it wasn't supposed to be used as a door. The Tudor model, as well as the four-door version called the "Fordor" (I'm not making that up) that I have both have functional driver's side doors, but I never use that door because I am nowhere near tiny enough to fit past the brake lever. The controls make sense when you realize that the pedals are all for controlling the transmission and the hand controls on the steering column are all for the engine. There are two additional very important controls that you didn't mention. The first is the "air conditioning", which is that the top half of the front window flips out to allow air to flow directly onto you, and the second is the manually operated windshield wiper, though it looks like that one doesn't have that installed. It is literally just a crank that you flip back and forth to make the wiper move. Also important to note is that the gas tank is under the front seat, and there is no fuel pump. Fuel is gravity fed. That means that if you are low on fuel and you go up a steep enough hill, the engine can end up higher than the fuel level, fuel stops flowing, and the car stops. If that happens, coast back down to the bottom of the hill, turn the car around, and reverse up the hill. That will keep the tank up higher than the engine no matter how steep the hill is and how close to empty your tank is. Your Touring version was $290 back in the day. My Fordor was $660. That works out to a bit over $5000 for the Touring and $11,000 for the Fordor in today's money.
The Panhard-Levassor of 1901 was one of the first "standard cars". It has a manual transmission, shifted through a clutch, drive to the rear wheels based on a shaft, and braking on the rear wheels through drums. It took until the 1920s before we had the relative safety of 4-wheel drums, and until the 1950s before disc brakes made an appearance. That Model T steering is definitely a precursor to the recirculating ball steering of the 1930s and onwards.
Thank you for the video. I remember my Great Grandfather (Grandpa Miller) showing me his son-in-law's Model T round about 1974. It was in the garage of the house that he shared with my Grandfather's mother (Grandma King). He showed me how to start it, and what the pedals did. He also showed me how to gather eggs from his ducks. I strongly remember him reading to me on his lap, and his pipe rack. I have the tool-shelf/ drawers that he made when he was younger; the same shelf that was hanging in his garage in front of the Model T.
I simply adore it when Robert films at that museum. I'm always fascinated by a lot of the cars sitting in the background (besides whatever he's actually demonstrating, of course!). Lots of gorgeous machines, curious ones and plenty of adorably cute looking ones! I'd love to visit that place myself, someday.
Now the part about Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot inventing the car in 1769, this is debatable too since many historians consider the car to be invented even earlier than that - in 1672 by a Flemish missionary in China named Ferdinand Verbiest, although this vehicle was a toy rather than a full-sized vehicle. But anyways, it's a great thing knowing automobile history, thank you for this video 👍
if you want to stretch and distort definitions you can go back to Urg the cave man who discovered you can sit on one log as it rolls down a hill on two other logs as "the first car"
@@bwofficial1776 I heard that this happened because Cugnot didn't have an adequate braking system on the car. I wonder what that did to his insurance rates 😉.
I would be nice for you to cover the Austin 7. It was one of the first mass produced cars to have a control layout similar to what you might find in a modern car. I think it's an interesting stepping stone after the Model T to modern cars
For anyone wondering, the first "car" is called the french cugnot. It was built in 1769 and looks kinda like a 3 wheeled wagon being powered by a huge barrel
My cousin is a car restorer. He has a 1929?? Model T truck that was made in Canada. I know it was made in Canada as that is stamped on the engine, the radiator cap, the running boards, the tailgate, and the manifold. They must have been really proud of its lineage. The truck is in excellent condition as it spent most of its life as a prop in a mens clothing store. Cheers from Canada. ~ulrich
I'm glad you talked about the transmission bit @17, earlier in the video when you were describing the gear shifting and such I was like "wait is that like an automatic transmission, but with ... manual input" .. so that answered that question... It's interesting to see the evolution of these parts and pieces in context to modern equivalents. Great video as always!
@14:55 That would also happen in 70's Ford Trucks if the cab mounts were rusted out. The steering column was a main cab support (if cab mounts were gone) and the whole cab would move when you moved the steering. I've experienced that- it is not good. Lol.
My aunt has 42 Model T cars in on old metal barn on her property. It is her long term retirement. When she exhausts her other sources she plans to start selling them to museums. Most of them worked when they were packed with grease and covered in tarps.
It might be worth your time to visit the Stanley Hotel at Estes, CO and check out some of the original Stanley Steamer cars. I was happy to check them out when I visited.
Man, I love these vintage cars. I always love looking closely at them to see what bizarre and brilliant solutions they came up with to make them work before there was any such thing as doing it "by the book." Back then they were just trying stuff and seeing what worked! Nobody knew yet what would catch on, so there was endless creativity in their mechanical solutions. I was looking at a 1908 Buick a while ago at a car show, and it had a massive flat twin mounted transversely under the floor, with the chain drive to the rear sandwiched between it and the flywheel and transmission. The hood was bolted down and only contained the gas tank and radiator. The two-cylinder engine had nearly the same displacement as some V8s nowadays, but made 30 hp - quite a lot when you consider model Ts made 20 with two more cylinders. I know most kids these days aren't interested in such old archaic cars, but anyone with a passing interest in mechanical engineering really should look into various antique cars, the engineering in them is really fascinating and clever and wildly different from what we have today, even if that's sometimes for good reason ;)
The nice thing about these early cars is that anyone can fix them with basic hand tools. Tolerances are loose and designs are simple. Mechanics were rare so you either worked on your car in your barn or you were rich enough to have a driver who did all that. You have to admire the early days when engineers were throwing things at the wall and seeing what stuck. If I had to own an early car it would likely be a Stanley steam car just because of how beautifully complex yet smooth they are.
“It doesn’t have a throttle” - but, it has exactly a throttle! It’s just multiple holes in a tube instead of one big butterfly valve. What it doesn’t have is an air filter. And also a good way to modify the throttle on the go.
15:22 They made it that way to accommodate RHD markets in the UK and some other places, so when they put steering wheel on the right side, the left door would have hinges, and right door would be welded. Small detail to save production cost.
The T actually has two ignition systems. It's got magnetos, like a lawnmower, but those are hard to get going fast enough to be of any use when you crank-start it. That's where the battery ignition comes in, and it uses vibrator coils, so, bad mother of multiple spark discharge. The key goes one way for battery, other way for magneto. My dad and I drive one for a local museum, and we'll start it on battery, get the mixtures and timing right (mad dash before the engine chokes itself out), and then flip it over to magneto--being careful not to linger in the middle, because that's off, and it will stall if you're not quick about it. The box in that one looks the same as what we're working with.
A while back Fully Charged got to play with a 1901 Waverly Model 22, one of the very first EVs around. You'd love it. You should persuade the Lane Motor Museum to get one so you can do a video on it.
Fun fact: On her first, and in fact the first ever, cross country drive, where Bertha Benz covered around 100km in 12 hours* * * she actually sourced the fuel from pharmacys. It was called Ligorin, was basically petrol light, and was primarily used as a stain remover. Which is also why you could only get it there.
This was the first video I found on explaining the DETAILS of the Benz-Motorwagen! Thank you SO much! I love this machine, it's sooo beautiful. Perhaps the only Mercedes I like. I'm a Citroënist (Citroën fan). Fords Model T was also a genius thing. I like best the "improved" Mod. T's from the last 2 years 1926 and 1927. Cordial greetings from a north german living in Switzerland/ lake geneva.
Robert, you have the best job in the world. I would love to experience those vehicles 1st hand. Merry Christmas to you and I look forward to more shenanigans in 2024
I talked to a gentleman in Cooper, Texas 20 years ago that still daily drove a Model T. He had other modern cars, he did drive those on long trips, but around the tiny town of Cooper and going just a town or two over, he would drive the T. His 1920 model Model T was a 2 door sedan, and it had some period correct (ish) mods to allow it to work better on modern roads, such as an extra gear (I believe it was something like that) to allow his to do nearly 58 MPH.
I was lucky to have very brief drive of a Model T last summer. All is well once you get your head around the controls, but as the car accelerates and mild panic sets in, the temptation to stamp on the middle (reverse) pedal to slow down is so strong!
The story of the first ride of the Benz Patent Motorwagen is insanely funny. To give a little hint, it was the first GTA and joyride. By his wife... Yeah... Benz was such a perfectionist, he didn't want to show it to the world 'unfinished'. His wife was quite fed up with this because she realized it would never see the light of day. He also squandered the family fortune, to make matters worse. So one day she decide to get her eldest sons out of bed early morning, steal the car for a joyride to her mother. And along the way she had to do roadside repairs as well. look up the story, because I cannot tell the story well enough to do it justice, it is an incredible story!
Thanks, it was surprisingly accessible and let me really see and understand these two important cars! The way it's so concise, visual, and simple, but delved into what's really inside these, is much better than most that I could have read about these cars; the other sources are usually either very vague and historical or very technical and dry.
For many years the car museum at Como Gardens, in The Basin Victoria Australia had a restored (not replica) 1896 Mercedes. Very occasionally the owner, George, would give it a squirt on the local roads.
That backfiring thing with the model t happens a lot when you start a dirt bike. Anyone who had started one knows the pain it causes too, I imagine a thumb would be so much worse.
he is talking about the frame actually warping not just the vehicle tilting/shifting if you look at the driver side panel you can see it bending as he turns the wheel in that segment
I live near Wiesloch in Germany where Bertha Benz made her first fuel stop at a pharmacy there, thus making it the first fuel station (Clarkson voice) in the world…. Come and visit! :) Her son was with her on the trip and he had to push it up hills so your findings are very much correct. Btw there is a classic car club in Wiesloch and their logo is Bertha barreling and bounding about in her Patentwagen…
Dude, I can't even tell you how important your videos are to me as an amateur enthusiast. Such charming delivery and personality, accessibility of information, even if I don't follow all of the tech babble, you make it easy to enjoy the process of learning. I have passed your videos on to so many people who aren't car people and they're always well received. Love your stuff!
It does have a throttle. The amount of holes open as it's running increases or decreases the vacuum thru the carb, metering the amount of fuel drawn into the intake
I wouldn't. I"d call it a way to have a constant velocity of air move through the intake given the number of holes and length between said holes and the intake, The more of the tube/holes that are exposed, the greater the volume of air is going to pass by the throat of the carb, hence creating more vacuum, and drawing more fuel out the float bowl of the carb..@@luelou8464
The original gas stations were pharmacies in Germany, as they sold Ligroin. Bertha Benz, Carl Benz' wife and frankly, the more entrepneural of them both - and he was no slouch in that regard - took the Patentwagen Number 3 out on a 104km long tour with a halfway point at the pharmacy in Wiesloch. Her route has been memorialized, you can follow it today. I hope you have less issues than her, to quote wiki: On the way, she solved numerous problems. She had to find Ligroin, a solvent available only at dispensing chemists' shops, to use as fuel.[11] Thus the still existing Stadt-Apotheke (Town Pharmacy) in Wiesloch, some kilometres south of Heidelberg, became the world's first filling station.[12] A blacksmith had to help mend a chain in Bruchsal.[13] Brake linings were replaced in Bauschlott/Neulingen north of Pforzheim.[14] And Bertha Benz had to use a long, straight hatpin to clean a fuel pipe which had become blocked, and a garter to insulate a wire.[15]
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It should have also mentioned that she made that first cross-country road trip with her two teen sons Eugene and Richard. Giving all the credit to her is like talking about Edmund Hillary reaching the summit of Mount Everest without mentioning the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
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Hey Robert! Drop by my house if you want to drive a Ford Model A.
Have you seen the Avtotor Amber? I saw it and immediately thought of you. ... I hope you are not insulted by that.
"it has a total loss oil system, like a subaru..."
i felt that..
and it stung..
You got me to try Factor and it's pretty good. It's expensive but at least it gets me to eat healthier.
I really wish you would put the shilling at the end of the video. You already monetize the video, have a patreon account and do your occasional sales. Shilling in the video is unnecessary and is nothing but greed.
Sorry to nitpick but the Deutschmark was created in 1949. From 1871 to 1923 the currency was simply called "Mark". And 1 Mark was as much worth as 0.358423 grams of gold, so depending on the current price of gold, 600 Mark would be about $14,000.
And yes, of course I am German. Who else would care about this kind of details? ;-)
I knew my conversion was wrong, so thanks for the clarification!
so for efficiency's sake
next time just say "I'm German" at the start and you wont have to write that bit about nitpicking. it will just be assumed..
( i know you lot like to be efficient)
Oh come on, i thought most of europe was well informed about Marks and the Deutschmarks... For fucks sakes, i am near 30, and i refer to Euros as Deutschmarks quite often... Or at least, i think of the prices as they were in the olden days, as everyone from the older generations always thought of everything other than groceries in DMs... Houses, cars, everything that people bought that falls into that enduring category was talked about in DMs worth, not local currency... I didn`t know about the rest of the decimals, but i knew that 1M was .035g of gold... Hell, my father talks in Deutschmarks and carats only when talking business...
Sure, we all use euros and know the math, but when you have a reference unit that like a Mark(or the olden dollar) was based on something real, or a currency that represented growth, stability, industry, quality and so on, well, it`s quite hard to just forget it and mindlessly accept some newfangled crap that oscillates all the time, or better said, the prices oscillate all the time, and the virtual currency gives the ridiculous price changes legitimacy... Those who have a solid point of reference like to fall back to it as a sanity check, just to confirm that they are sane and the world is just going batshit...
"And yes, of course I am German. Who else would care about this kind of details?"
The Swiss?
as an autistic person I recognize my fellow autistic people when I see them! Hi hello!
They say the first speeding ticket was given for someone going 8mph. I thought that was ridiculous but after watching the POV of driving the Benz Patent, oh my god, 8mph in an early car is terrifying lol
Seriously, that "car" looks like some Kerble Space Program level engineering.
Bless mercedes for patenting it so no one else could put that dangerous thing on the road
And if you think that's terrifying, consider that when the Ford model t was first introduced, there were still weren't many roads if there were any. Imagine going 40-45 miles an hour on wooden wheels with next to no roads!
Was the fine in potatoes?
@@crackedemerald4930few people could afford "horseless carriages" back then anyway, so patented or not there wouldn't be many of them around. And even roads were few so..
Fun fact: Well into the 1960s, you could buy replacement parts for the model T. Ford went out of its way to make sure it supported all vehicles it had made up until that time. My father grew up in Mount Pleasant, Michigan, a small college town. The fraternity house across the street had somebody go to the Ford factory every weekend and by a couple parts from their model T warehouse and he ended up constructing the only 1965 Ford Model T.
How did he register it?
I wish Ford still had that level of support.
@@CreeperOnYourHouse a frat house in the 60s probably didn't
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How would they make money???
@@CreeperOnYourHouseIt probably took the whole courthouse staff and resulted in a title weighing 60lbs...
"It has a total loss oil system......like a Subaru" Classic Robert! Hilarious.
😂🤣😂 yeah and old time Pommie motorcycles
I could spend hours and hours listening to Robert talk about Lane’s cars
@@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273 can’t tell me what to do.
I could listen to him critique my grocery list and not get bored or lose attention
Robert's clearly having a really good time there. Jason Torchinsky, now at the Autopian, also did a number of similar and equally hilarious videos there.
Yep. He could be talking about anything and he’ll have my ADHD ass hooked
@@snjert8406 bananas aren’t pugs bro
I had to giggle when you started having trouble driving uphill. That problem was discovered by Bertha Benz. The wife of Carl Benz. She "borrowed" Patent Motorwagen No.3 visit her mother. She drove that thing 65 miles. No one had ever driven that far before. So she kinda invented the road trip and the test drive.
The story is awesome and worth a read.
7:27 correct, there were no gas stations. Those things used petroleum the drivers bought at the pharmacy 😁👍 (I strongly suggest you read the story of the first ever „long distance“ drive with the first car, which his wife bertha benz undertook. It’s a great story, and the pharmacy she bought petroleum on the way still exists today. I know it, because i work just around the corner 😉)
Fun fact: In Germany, it's common knowledge Daimler and Benz invented the car. In France, it's equally common knowledge the Renault brothers did that. Truth is, they both filed their patents to their local authorities a few weeks apart. Not a lot of time in world that barely even knows electricity, let alone telephones or the internet.
Who of the two really had the first working modern car parked outside their house, is lost to history. I like to think it's someone else entirely who just tinkered something in the farmyard for the fun of it, and never bothered to publish it.
First car was developed in ancient China and was powered by gunpowder, ancient China mass produced them in large factories and had paved roads in 507BC. China, is number one as usual
Not the Chinese as that daft chap below (above?) says.. It was the Romans, why else do you think they built all those roads? Use your noggin lad.
🤠@@SMGJohn_Secondary
Ignore the chinese bot, they are everywhere, praising the glory of china. Strangely they are not seen under videos about democracy or tiananmen square..
@@SMGJohn_Secondary And now Chinese EVs explode like the fireworks they invented. China, where everything including life is cheap and disposable.
About a month ago I saw a Benz bike like that and that night i had a dream where mercedes started producing it again and it was ultra luxurious. It came with an automatic choke, an umbrella hat to keep you dry, an engine block heater, and it was electric. I woke up laughing
With three wheels in some jurisdictions it can be driven on a motorbike licence, so it could have a market 😉
For those interested in the big green army vehicle in the background at 2:04, this seems to be a BARC, an 80 ton amphibious vehicle mainly used in Vietnam. If you're ever in the Netherlands, there's one at the Overloon War Museum in Overloon that you can get up close and personal with. There's a short section on their website about the BARC if you're interested.
Lane has an awesome presentation of how they managed to move that thing to the facility.
I really want Robert to do a video on that thing. It reminds me of the tanky vehicle from Aliens.
It's a LARC, and Regular Car Reviews has a video on this one, and there are several other videos on TH-cam of it being used at Lane to crush lesser vehicles.
Overloon.
I remembered seeing it somewhere before.
Thanks.
@@ReverendTedLARC(-LX) is just a rename of BARC. I guess you could say it's a BARC if it's from before 1960 and a LARC if it's from 1960 or later.
3:25 True to Mercedes Benz form, their first car is over-engineered in the rack and pinion tiller for a linear actuator steering module instead of a regular bicycle steering mechanism.
i just want to make one as an 1800s chopper with a raked out front end using the wheel from a penny farthing in the front..
who's with me?
With a bicycle-like steering you would have a direct force transmission, which would make it very hard to steer and also irregularities on the road could yank the front wheel to a side, which is very bad.
Karl Benz was a perfectionist. It shows in his work
@@ripvanwinkle2002I can imagine that chug-chug-chugging down the street! 🤣
No,@@foximacentauri7891, I have seen original and reproduction ancient early automobiles that had bicycle steering wheels mechanisms (and also tillers directly turning the front fork). Plus, custom trikes made from VW Beetles that have basic motorcycle chopper front forks & wheels (or motorcycles turned into trikes with the two rear wheels being powered). The transmission is on the rear wheels.
Technically the Model T wasn't the first car made on an assembly line, that actually started with Oldsmobile. Ford was the first to start using a moving assembly line with conveyor belts.
Came here to say that. Ransom E. Olds was an engineer; Henry Ford was a showman.
@@ChrisCaramiaHenry Ford also relied heavily on the Dodge brothers to fund his ventures.
@@cavalierliberty6838 "Someday, people who own a Ford are going to want an automobile." - John Dodge
@@ChrisCaramia A shame what happened to Olds under GM, I only knew since my first car was a Cutlass!
@@ChrisCaramiaAnd Henry Ford was a business man and innovator
Hey Aging!
Fun fact : us, Europeans, have our own version of the Ford Model T. It was the Citröen Type A, which was André Citröen's response to the Model T. It hasn't been produced as much as the Model T, but it does take the same building techniques and drive a bit more like a "modern" car
These were both absolutely fun subjects... These videos often make me curious as to whether you knocked out tons of principal photography and got it all in the can on one long trip to Tennessee, or whether you bounce in and out of town for lots of smaller filming trips from time to time.
All in one go! The museum staff was surprised I didn't have a cameraman or assistant.
@DontReadMyProfilePicture.273shut up
@@agingwheelsthe long list of things i would do to become your assistant... You are a font of knowledge sir
I appreciate you going on the road and doing these presentations. The editing on these are spot on. I do have to go back and rewatch parts, because you do such a detailed explanation that sometimes it takes a second to put everything back together. But I really do appreciate the detail. Driving that model T is bananas!
Can't wait to get back to visit that museum. Worth every penny of admission and the extra cost of the tour is even more of a bargain.
As a Model T owner and enthusiast, I'd say you did a respectable job explaining the basics of how a T works.
I agree he did a great job. The only slightly off thing they must have told him was the battery ignition as an upgrade. As far as I know they all came that way. Of course the "battery" was a lantern style dry cell mainly used for easy starting or as an emergency when there was a problem with the mag. I would love to see someone do an all inclusive video of all the quirks like jacking up the right rear wheel on cold days for easier starting, or Fixing a rod knock by removing a couple of rod cap shims.
Im so happy we are in the universe where Robert became a youtuber, you sir are a blessing for us weird automobile enthusiasts
Legend has it his dog is subscribed to Factor meals as well🤣🤣🤣
11:54 correction, the oldsmobile curved dash was the first car produced on an assembly line.
Another fun fact; the reason for black being the only color option for a time is because the black paint was the only paint that would dry quickly enough to keep up with production.
Former company owner had a Model A he drove to the office sometimes (it was his first car- and he still had it)... he explained all the driving controls to me once and I just stood there still confused. I guess that's one big advantage of owning one of these early cars- nobody could steal the damn thing since they would have no idea how to even drive it. Lol.
Or it would break their hand
I assume that's the _original_ Model A, then, and not the "Model A" they released after the T? My neighbor owns the newer one and he says it has pretty standard controls.
@@stevethepocket - Yeah, it may have more standard controls. But they still all look weird. And getting it started required the proper procedure.
Until you found out that they only made like a dozen different keys, that were all numbered with corresponding numbers on the ignition lock tumbler. See a car with a #3 ignition, pull out a #3 key, there's a #7 pull out your #7 key.
1:00 Mom, I’m famous!!
Can't get enough of Lane Motor Museum videos, Robert. So many cool cars. They had an Innocenti Spyder for sale when i was there!
I believe the black paint also dried faster than other paints, so not only was it cheaper, but it also sped up production.
There were multiple different black paint formulas for various parts. Most of the formulas aren't reasonable to use today. Faster is mostly a myth but having one color simplified inventory and paint processes making it more efficient and lower cost. You didn't need to sort parts by color. Fun question: If you needed to pick one color for the cars you manufacture, what would that color be?
@@larrycleeton Probably white. For most cars, this is the default no-cost option, probably because few people really object to it.
A [the?} reason for the black paint is- a status symbol---black paint, or black cloth dye is hard to make. Hence, a mans ' black suit of cloathes denoted wealth. The hows and whys are not needed here, but I can off them, PM me. Leather seats= cheap, cloth seats =expensive, due to manufacturing issues costs
The Mark that was used at the time of the Benz Patent Motorwagen isn't the same Mark that was used after the wars in Germany. It's best to look at its gold value at the time: 0,358 grams of gold per Mark. 600 Marks would have been about 215 grams of gold, which in todays US dollar is worth a bit over 14.000 dollars. That's still not a lot for a car, but it is quite a lot for a tricycle with a stationary engine bolted to it.
Keep in mind that gold is quite overvalued right now.
You should rather compare it to the average wage for a full-time job back then and now.
@@JasperJanssenthat number is for gold at the, the math checks out. Random fun fact, the cheapest 2023 model year car that I was able to find is $3000 more expensive then this thing adjusted for inflation.
@@the_undead yes, and the cheapest car you can buy now is also a factor of ten or so better.
My uncle actually owns a T that he restored that has a bit of a storied life- originally it was apart of our family, was sold off the farm, modified, stashed in a barn, and traded around at local swap meets until he tracked it down.
We once- ONCE- had it up to 35MPH when my great aunt and uncle visited for their last plane trip (in their late 80s at the time) where we all dressed up like 20s gangsters and fucked around with revolvers. Having it up to 35 was fucking horrifying, you're never riding "in" one but rather, "on top" of one because the seats are so springy to absorb all the road defects.
EDIT: one thing Robert might not have fucked with much is how odd it is to control the ignition alongside the throttle. You have to do both *at the same time* to increase speed, because if you don't increase the spark rate eventually you'll drown the spark in gas and kill the engine. When learning to drive these, you'll repeatedly get up some speed and then kill the engine accidentally because you just didn't move the lever in time lol
I own a Model T. They are a lot of fun, and a lot easier to start if you have the optional electric start installed, which I don't think was available for the 1918 version you are driving. I think the electric start first became available in 1919 or 1920. For cars that have it, the electric start is a stomp switch is on the floor under your left foot. The Touring version (the one you drove) usually had a spare tire installed over the fake front "door" which made it even more obvious that it wasn't supposed to be used as a door. The Tudor model, as well as the four-door version called the "Fordor" (I'm not making that up) that I have both have functional driver's side doors, but I never use that door because I am nowhere near tiny enough to fit past the brake lever. The controls make sense when you realize that the pedals are all for controlling the transmission and the hand controls on the steering column are all for the engine. There are two additional very important controls that you didn't mention. The first is the "air conditioning", which is that the top half of the front window flips out to allow air to flow directly onto you, and the second is the manually operated windshield wiper, though it looks like that one doesn't have that installed. It is literally just a crank that you flip back and forth to make the wiper move. Also important to note is that the gas tank is under the front seat, and there is no fuel pump. Fuel is gravity fed. That means that if you are low on fuel and you go up a steep enough hill, the engine can end up higher than the fuel level, fuel stops flowing, and the car stops. If that happens, coast back down to the bottom of the hill, turn the car around, and reverse up the hill. That will keep the tank up higher than the engine no matter how steep the hill is and how close to empty your tank is. Your Touring version was $290 back in the day. My Fordor was $660. That works out to a bit over $5000 for the Touring and $11,000 for the Fordor in today's money.
The Panhard-Levassor of 1901 was one of the first "standard cars". It has a manual transmission, shifted through a clutch, drive to the rear wheels based on a shaft, and braking on the rear wheels through drums. It took until the 1920s before we had the relative safety of 4-wheel drums, and until the 1950s before disc brakes made an appearance. That Model T steering is definitely a precursor to the recirculating ball steering of the 1930s and onwards.
Thank you for the video. I remember my Great Grandfather (Grandpa Miller) showing me his son-in-law's Model T round about 1974. It was in the garage of the house that he shared with my Grandfather's mother (Grandma King). He showed me how to start it, and what the pedals did. He also showed me how to gather eggs from his ducks. I strongly remember him reading to me on his lap, and his pipe rack. I have the tool-shelf/ drawers that he made when he was younger; the same shelf that was hanging in his garage in front of the Model T.
I just love a random Technology Connections video in the background during the top notch sponsor spot.
I simply adore it when Robert films at that museum. I'm always fascinated by a lot of the cars sitting in the background (besides whatever he's actually demonstrating, of course!). Lots of gorgeous machines, curious ones and plenty of adorably cute looking ones! I'd love to visit that place myself, someday.
Absolutely loved the video! I can't get enough of your presentation style!
“Total loss oiling system, like a Subaru” 😂
All the Subaru owners dropped their vapes in shock at how hard they got burned 😂
I'm hurt, but also know my oil burning EJ has over 300k miles
Aging wheels showing aged wheels, very on brand! Loved it.
Now the part about Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot inventing the car in 1769, this is debatable too since many historians consider the car to be invented even earlier than that - in 1672 by a Flemish missionary in China named Ferdinand Verbiest, although this vehicle was a toy rather than a full-sized vehicle. But anyways, it's a great thing knowing automobile history, thank you for this video 👍
if you want to stretch and distort definitions you can go back to Urg the cave man who discovered you can sit on one log as it rolls down a hill on two other logs as "the first car"
@@ripvanwinkle2002 that is mister F. Flintstone to you sir. it was leg powered.
What about the part where Cugnot invented the car crash when he lost control of his creation and hit a wall at 3mph?
@@Shaun_Jones 3MPH. That must have been pretty funny, watching a car crash at literal walking speed.
@@bwofficial1776 I heard that this happened because Cugnot didn't have an adequate braking system on the car. I wonder what that did to his insurance rates 😉.
I would be nice for you to cover the Austin 7. It was one of the first mass produced cars to have a control layout similar to what you might find in a modern car. I think it's an interesting stepping stone after the Model T to modern cars
Cadillac had the modern control layout in 1916
@@eightyd2554 While true, the Austin 7 was far more obtainable and thus common than Cadillacs.
Somebody's been watching Top Gear...
I want a horse and carriage review next time 😄
Every one is 1 horsepower 🐎
@@paulkeith9680 but 4WD
He's going to have to switch to early steam locomotives if he goes any farther back, which would be just fine with me
Aging Wheels lives up to its name big time. As an owner of a Model A and wanter(?) of a Model T, I really loved this one. Thank you!
Splendid seeing you speak about these two cars. Found out some cool info on the model T. :)
For anyone wondering, the first "car" is called the french cugnot. It was built in 1769 and looks kinda like a 3 wheeled wagon being powered by a huge barrel
"The complexity of the drive system in this thing frankly astounded me"
Well, it's German...
That was my thought, too. 😁
6:33 I felt that. Just put 2 1/2 quarts of oil in after the last oil change 2500 miles ago.
16:18 and at other times. That little boxy mini-motorbike looks cool.
Thank you to the museum, it's great getting to see these things and look how happy you've made him :)
My cousin is a car restorer. He has a 1929?? Model T truck that was made in Canada. I know it was made in Canada as that is stamped on the engine, the radiator cap, the running boards, the tailgate, and the manifold. They must have been really proud of its lineage. The truck is in excellent condition as it spent most of its life as a prop in a mens clothing store. Cheers from Canada. ~ulrich
I'm glad you talked about the transmission bit @17, earlier in the video when you were describing the gear shifting and such I was like "wait is that like an automatic transmission, but with ... manual input" .. so that answered that question...
It's interesting to see the evolution of these parts and pieces in context to modern equivalents.
Great video as always!
@14:55 That would also happen in 70's Ford Trucks if the cab mounts were rusted out. The steering column was a main cab support (if cab mounts were gone) and the whole cab would move when you moved the steering. I've experienced that- it is not good. Lol.
It’s amazing how much your channels mess with my feed. I don’t drive, I don’t have space for a woodshop, yet I’m addicted to your humor
15:27 As far as I know, only the US built model T's have no drivers door, in Canada they actually have one there.
Merry Christmas Robert, and thank you for another wonderful video.
My aunt has 42 Model T cars in on old metal barn on her property. It is her long term retirement. When she exhausts her other sources she plans to start selling them to museums. Most of them worked when they were packed with grease and covered in tarps.
Model T doesn't have separate dampers but leaf springs are damped by the friction between the leaves.
Thank you for sharing these videos @agingwheels
I find the history of different vehicles interesting at times. :D
Thanks Stefan and merry whatever you are doing :)
It might be worth your time to visit the Stanley Hotel at Estes, CO and check out some of the original Stanley Steamer cars. I was happy to check them out when I visited.
Man, I love these vintage cars. I always love looking closely at them to see what bizarre and brilliant solutions they came up with to make them work before there was any such thing as doing it "by the book." Back then they were just trying stuff and seeing what worked! Nobody knew yet what would catch on, so there was endless creativity in their mechanical solutions. I was looking at a 1908 Buick a while ago at a car show, and it had a massive flat twin mounted transversely under the floor, with the chain drive to the rear sandwiched between it and the flywheel and transmission. The hood was bolted down and only contained the gas tank and radiator. The two-cylinder engine had nearly the same displacement as some V8s nowadays, but made 30 hp - quite a lot when you consider model Ts made 20 with two more cylinders.
I know most kids these days aren't interested in such old archaic cars, but anyone with a passing interest in mechanical engineering really should look into various antique cars, the engineering in them is really fascinating and clever and wildly different from what we have today, even if that's sometimes for good reason ;)
The nice thing about these early cars is that anyone can fix them with basic hand tools. Tolerances are loose and designs are simple. Mechanics were rare so you either worked on your car in your barn or you were rich enough to have a driver who did all that. You have to admire the early days when engineers were throwing things at the wall and seeing what stuck. If I had to own an early car it would likely be a Stanley steam car just because of how beautifully complex yet smooth they are.
“It doesn’t have a throttle” - but, it has exactly a throttle! It’s just multiple holes in a tube instead of one big butterfly valve. What it doesn’t have is an air filter. And also a good way to modify the throttle on the go.
loving the car museum vids!
I enjoy all your videos, but this one was particularly good. Love it! More, more...
This is the only channel that I won't skip advertising. Robert, if you read this, you even make adverts funny and entertaining!
15:22 They made it that way to accommodate RHD markets in the UK and some other places, so when they put steering wheel on the right side, the left door would have hinges, and right door would be welded. Small detail to save production cost.
Thanks for showing these in such a fun way. You are the man!
The T actually has two ignition systems. It's got magnetos, like a lawnmower, but those are hard to get going fast enough to be of any use when you crank-start it. That's where the battery ignition comes in, and it uses vibrator coils, so, bad mother of multiple spark discharge. The key goes one way for battery, other way for magneto. My dad and I drive one for a local museum, and we'll start it on battery, get the mixtures and timing right (mad dash before the engine chokes itself out), and then flip it over to magneto--being careful not to linger in the middle, because that's off, and it will stall if you're not quick about it. The box in that one looks the same as what we're working with.
A while back Fully Charged got to play with a 1901 Waverly Model 22, one of the very first EVs around. You'd love it. You should persuade the Lane Motor Museum to get one so you can do a video on it.
Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!
I'm so glad you can experience what you love. Merry Christmas, friend!
I love these museum videos. Great work as always, have a great holiday season!
Thank you for the great Video!
Fun fact: On her first, and in fact the first ever, cross country drive, where Bertha Benz covered around 100km in 12 hours* * * she actually sourced the fuel from pharmacys. It was called Ligorin, was basically petrol light, and was primarily used as a stain remover. Which is also why you could only get it there.
Does "she" have a name, or was she just christened a pronoun?
@@stevethepocket corrected
0:11 the flexing of the entire vehicle is amazing
Most underrated video on TH-cam. THANK YOU!❤
This was the first video I found on explaining the DETAILS of the Benz-Motorwagen! Thank you SO much!
I love this machine, it's sooo beautiful. Perhaps the only Mercedes I like.
I'm a Citroënist (Citroën fan).
Fords Model T was also a genius thing. I like best the "improved" Mod. T's from the last 2 years 1926 and 1927.
Cordial greetings from a north german living in Switzerland/ lake geneva.
Great video!!!! I visited Lane museum in 2008 and love seeing these videos. Merry Christmas, Robert!
Robert, you have the best job in the world. I would love to experience those vehicles 1st hand.
Merry Christmas to you and I look forward to more shenanigans in 2024
I talked to a gentleman in Cooper, Texas 20 years ago that still daily drove a Model T. He had other modern cars, he did drive those on long trips, but around the tiny town of Cooper and going just a town or two over, he would drive the T. His 1920 model Model T was a 2 door sedan, and it had some period correct (ish) mods to allow it to work better on modern roads, such as an extra gear (I believe it was something like that) to allow his to do nearly 58 MPH.
This is the ultimate Aging Wheels episode.
Greetings from Argentina! You're right IT was assembled in LA BOCA, Buenos Aires
I feel your happiness through the screen and I'm so jealous.I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas from sweden.
I was lucky to have very brief drive of a Model T last summer.
All is well once you get your head around the controls, but as the car accelerates and mild panic sets in, the temptation to stamp on the middle (reverse) pedal to slow down is so strong!
The story of the first ride of the Benz Patent Motorwagen is insanely funny. To give a little hint, it was the first GTA and joyride. By his wife... Yeah...
Benz was such a perfectionist, he didn't want to show it to the world 'unfinished'. His wife was quite fed up with this because she realized it would never see the light of day. He also squandered the family fortune, to make matters worse.
So one day she decide to get her eldest sons out of bed early morning, steal the car for a joyride to her mother. And along the way she had to do roadside repairs as well.
look up the story, because I cannot tell the story well enough to do it justice, it is an incredible story!
Loved this, i always enjoy seeing classics, especially with roberts amusing commentary!
Thanks, it was surprisingly accessible and let me really see and understand these two important cars! The way it's so concise, visual, and simple, but delved into what's really inside these, is much better than most that I could have read about these cars; the other sources are usually either very vague and historical or very technical and dry.
For many years the car museum at Como Gardens, in The Basin Victoria Australia had a restored (not replica) 1896 Mercedes. Very occasionally the owner, George, would give it a squirt on the local roads.
That backfiring thing with the model t happens a lot when you start a dirt bike. Anyone who had started one knows the pain it causes too, I imagine a thumb would be so much worse.
Vehicle shifts in EVERY MODERN CAR as well if you rotate steering wheel while the car is stationary.
he is talking about the frame actually warping not just the vehicle tilting/shifting if you look at the driver side panel you can see it bending as he turns the wheel in that segment
I got to visit the Lane Motor Museum while on vacation a few weeks ago and was not disappointed.
Do more of these please :) cheers mate
The blue car with 2 white stripes down the bonnet iss a Midas Bronze kit car. Thought at first it was a GTM kit car. Fun cars based on a mini.
I live near Wiesloch in Germany where Bertha Benz made her first fuel stop at a pharmacy there, thus making it the first fuel station (Clarkson voice) in the world….
Come and visit! :)
Her son was with her on the trip and he had to push it up hills so your findings are very much correct.
Btw there is a classic car club in Wiesloch and their logo is Bertha barreling and bounding about in her Patentwagen…
Dude, I can't even tell you how important your videos are to me as an amateur enthusiast. Such charming delivery and personality, accessibility of information, even if I don't follow all of the tech babble, you make it easy to enjoy the process of learning. I have passed your videos on to so many people who aren't car people and they're always well received. Love your stuff!
nice video keep them coming
You could review every single car in that museum, I would watch everyone with joy.
Great video. Merry Christmas. Greetings from Brazil
It does have a throttle. The amount of holes open as it's running increases or decreases the vacuum thru the carb, metering the amount of fuel drawn into the intake
I'd call that a choke rather than a throttle.
I wouldn't. I"d call it a way to have a constant velocity of air move through the intake given the number of holes and length between said holes and the intake, The more of the tube/holes that are exposed, the greater the volume of air is going to pass by the throat of the carb, hence creating more vacuum, and drawing more fuel out the float bowl of the carb..@@luelou8464
Interesting about the evaporative carburetor. I hadn't thought of that. Thanks for another great video.
This was such a cool video! That first contraption is so sketchy looking, I had no idea about the very early history of cars, so this was enlightening
Great video, I learned something!
Pro tip, to avoid breaking your arm in case of backfire, please use only your left hand to start a model T
Great video, very well made!
The original gas stations were pharmacies in Germany, as they sold Ligroin. Bertha Benz, Carl Benz' wife and frankly, the more entrepneural of them both - and he was no slouch in that regard - took the Patentwagen Number 3 out on a 104km long tour with a halfway point at the pharmacy in Wiesloch. Her route has been memorialized, you can follow it today. I hope you have less issues than her, to quote wiki:
On the way, she solved numerous problems. She had to find Ligroin, a solvent available only at dispensing chemists' shops, to use as fuel.[11] Thus the still existing Stadt-Apotheke (Town Pharmacy) in Wiesloch, some kilometres south of Heidelberg, became the world's first filling station.[12] A blacksmith had to help mend a chain in Bruchsal.[13] Brake linings were replaced in Bauschlott/Neulingen north of Pforzheim.[14] And Bertha Benz had to use a long, straight hatpin to clean a fuel pipe which had become blocked, and a garter to insulate a wire.[15]
It should have also mentioned that she made that first cross-country road trip with her two teen sons Eugene and Richard. Giving all the credit to her is like talking about Edmund Hillary reaching the summit of Mount Everest without mentioning the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Great video and your attention to detail very good😊
These museum vids are very cool.
Its good to see these old machines (or at least replica) still in working condition.