Gaylord Gladiator - More than a Name

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  • Greetings! :D
    While many take this car at face value, either because of its name or its strangely styled prototype models, the Gaylord Gladiator was in fact a far more advanced car that one might expect, integrating a perfect mixture of power, performance, simple, lightweight construction, sheer comfort and advanced technology to create what could have been a barnstormer for 1950s grand tourers, though sadly, due to issues with construction, the contentious styling of its prototypes, and the demands for perfection from its namesake progenitors, the Gladiator would never go beyond a handful of examples, and today is remembered less for its many superb facets, and more for its name.
    Special thanks to Lou Costabile for allowing me the use of footage from his fantastic video examining the sole-built production Gaylord Gladiator. Be sure to check out his incredibly insightful video at the following link that really goes into detail as to this lone survivor:
    • Batmobile in a Tuxedo ...
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ความคิดเห็น • 313

  • @LondonTransport466
    @LondonTransport466 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +331

    “Gaylord Gladiator” sounds like an Xbox Live gamer tag from 2007.

    • @rickrudd
      @rickrudd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      Dude, I was about to say, "Gaylord Gladiator sounds like something my older brother would've called me."

    • @rzan1700
      @rzan1700 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      True, and perhaps a troller's name tag

    • @jonnyc429
      @jonnyc429 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Gaylord Gladiator definitely kicked my ass a few times in MW2 camping in the airport map

    • @ytcensorhack1876
      @ytcensorhack1876 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      There's a town in michigan in america called Gaylord..they have an annual beer festival

    • @Peter1Europe
      @Peter1Europe 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      ​@ytcensorhack1876 Imagine football team : Gaylord Gladiators.

  • @Boric78
    @Boric78 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +87

    LOL. "So what do you drive these days?" "A Gaylord." Made my day. But then I do have the mentality of an 8 year old.

    • @richardmcmillan5534
      @richardmcmillan5534 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Nothing wrong with 8 year olds likes.

    • @klausstock8020
      @klausstock8020 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Now that I'm grown-up, I don't dig these jokes anymore. I now do adult things, like asking women for a date.
      "How about going to the club? I can pick you up with my Gaylord at 8."

    • @malcolmwhite6588
      @malcolmwhite6588 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@klausstock8020 so what does she say? I don’t care if he is gay - if he’s a lord and he’s packing “eight” he can pick me up with you🎉😂❤

  • @tylerdean5443
    @tylerdean5443 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    My late father was friends with Ed Gaylord. He always talked about this car. I think it was brother Jim’s unrealistically high quality standards that doomed the car, plus the crazy amounts of money spent. Ed also was a big Ferrari client so my father was always describing these cars too me. Led me to my current 40 year career at a Ferrari dealership.

    • @einundsiebenziger5488
      @einundsiebenziger5488 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ... describing these cars to* me.

    • @spectrumofreality
      @spectrumofreality 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I think it had a lot more to do with gay the name!

    • @HauntedXXXPancake
      @HauntedXXXPancake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Old man Ferrari knew, that quality
      isn't everything, as long as you can get
      people to really, really want your car 😄

  • @marinedrive5484
    @marinedrive5484 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +79

    It's been described elsewhere as a Batmobile in a Tuxedo which is not far off the mark, however, you can't overlook the fact that it had some pretty advanced engineering. The brothers should have gone to one of the Italian styling houses such as Pininfarina for a design and put more effort into keeping production costs down. Fascinating bit of automotive history though.

    • @arthuralford
      @arthuralford 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Even the smaller Italian companies like Giha would have been a better choice

    • @davidhollenshead4892
      @davidhollenshead4892 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      If they had been available in a flat black finish, I'm sure batman would have bought a few of them, for "customizing"...

    • @UberLummox
      @UberLummox 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      And perhaps one of them to redesign it, instead of Brooke Stevens haha! Though he did do some great work.

  • @smorris12
    @smorris12 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Molly-bendium 😂😂😂 Quite the reverse of what molybdenum does for steel!

    • @francisboyle1739
      @francisboyle1739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      Isn't she a wrestler?

    • @DrivermanO
      @DrivermanO 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      That surprised me too!. Made me smile!

    • @vinnydaq13
      @vinnydaq13 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@francisboyle1739Pretty sure I saw her in a WWE match against Polly Propelene! 😎

    • @francisboyle1739
      @francisboyle1739 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@vinnydaq13 I remember that! It was a tag team match with Ethel Alcohol and Ruby Binium.

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@francisboyle1739 This all sounds like weapons-grade Balonium.

  • @GreasyBelcher
    @GreasyBelcher 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    I work in a place that manufactures amazing high precision custom items from steel, we use CNC laser, film, acid baths, banding machines, lathes, etc. it fascinates me to see the precision and finish on some of these items such as the Gaylord badges and instruments on the dash. I have no idea how these things could have been manufactured without CNC laser cutting. It’s kind of mind blowing to be honest.

    • @miguelcastaneda7257
      @miguelcastaneda7257 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      It's called skill and craftsmanship...and yes am a machinist..prototype...manual..automatics..cnc 45 yrs

    • @theothertonydutch
      @theothertonydutch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      My educated guess is that it is very likely those badges weren't machined but cast. Zinc, Bronze, Brass, and finished with chrome coatings. Those processes are fairly ancient (look up "lost wax casting"). It's much more economic to cast a shape like that. Machining that sorta stuff didn't make sense in that time.
      Source: I worked at a bronze and synthetic resin foundry. I've worked with very similar items. Those (museum grade) items were copies of ancient art, statuettes/sculptures of housegods, jupiter, minerva, mercury, and contemporary sculptures (in materials such as bronze and resin).

    • @HauntedXXXPancake
      @HauntedXXXPancake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@miguelcastaneda7257 Makes one kind of sad,
      that crafting beautiful things with tools in your hands
      is a dying skill, but I guess with new technologies
      we don't have to chose between having nice things
      AND people not having to work for pittens to make it possible.

    • @miguelcastaneda7257
      @miguelcastaneda7257 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @Xigano1 it's called pride in work could say things I built made...but that would be vain..but I can drive by or use something sometimes stare at something and know I made that wasn't paid much ..but I did that

  • @drwalker9093
    @drwalker9093 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I can hear Peter Graves' voice: "Joey, do you like movies about gladiators?"

    • @drd6416
      @drd6416 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      😅😅😅

  • @Kevin75668
    @Kevin75668 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    The prototype would have been perfect for Priest's car in Superfly. I don't think I've ever seen a car so pimpin'. Must look awesome at night with those massive lights on.

  • @timonsolus
    @timonsolus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Even the beautiful model draped over the car can't keep from laughing! 😄

    • @marksaxby607
      @marksaxby607 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      True, but she's enough to sway any Gaylord, I'd say 😉

    • @johnfpotega2017
      @johnfpotega2017 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      "…..thought she was pretty hot!

  • @DKS225
    @DKS225 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Not quite sure about the look of the prototype version but the only production example looked awesome now as it did back in The 50's. It's sad that not many more units were ever produced as they would have possibly garnered at lot of attention at Classic Car Shows.

    • @theothertonydutch
      @theothertonydutch 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think it looks gaudy even for the time.

  • @rontauranac
    @rontauranac 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    2:53 "The car also featured the world's first electric powered retractable hardtop, as designed by James Gaylord..."
    The 1936 Peugeot Eclipse entered the chat.

    • @jean-charlesweyland129
      @jean-charlesweyland129 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Designed in 1933 by a dentist named Georges Paulin, he patented the design and called it Eclipse. The first application was done by the coachbuilder Marcel Pourtout on a Panhard, it was first offered on a Peugeot as a dealer option by Emile Darl'mat before being integrated to the catalog in 1935.

  • @thetman0068
    @thetman0068 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Talk about flamboyant! It looks like a true Bond villain’s automobile!

    • @DKS225
      @DKS225 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Spectre No 1 or No 2 probably or Goldfinger.

    • @rpsmith2990
      @rpsmith2990 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Liberace would have had to play the villain...

    • @3ducs
      @3ducs 17 วันที่ผ่านมา +1

      A flamboyant Gaylord, who would've predicted?

  • @ArfurFaulkesHake
    @ArfurFaulkesHake 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    The tubular structure might have been made out of alloy-chrome-molybdenum,
    i doubt it was made of alloy-chrome-mollybendium which is probably too flexible for chassis work.

  • @Andrewjg_89
    @Andrewjg_89 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Never seen that car before but my Grandad used to drive one of them before and he once said to me that those cars were his favourite. My Grandad before he passed away in 2015 drove some older cars that were so reliable. And I actually went on one of his favourite car around Essex when I was very young as he lived in Basildon.

  • @alancrisp1582
    @alancrisp1582 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    🤔 Wow, would love to view this amazing futuristic looking vehicle in person and up close !. Gorgeous 😅

  • @ploppyboothanger4648
    @ploppyboothanger4648 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks for this. I'd heard of the Gaylord but had never seen one. A real shame it never went into production. Still gives my inner 10 year old a snigger though. Could you imagine asking a garage to look at your Gaylord's big end? You'd probably end up on some kind of register these days.

  • @keno77
    @keno77 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I don't think I ever heard of this car but I love it, especially the two giant headlights and with a big hemi engine it must have been a beast 💪

  • @rpsmith2990
    @rpsmith2990 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I'd first read about this car when I was about eight. It's interesting to see someone go into the story behind this car. There was a lot I didn't know about this car, for example, about those custom gauges.
    They weren't wrong about the demand for an American grand tourer. Many companies attempted to fill that role for whatever reason (like racing homologation). Ford took some money and quite a bit of engineering out of the equation and sold a bunch of them. It was called Thunderbird.

  • @daz746
    @daz746 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Very classy looking Automobile. When cars had style.

  • @amp9930
    @amp9930 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Very interesting, I'd never heard of this car before watching. Thank you

  • @mndlessdrwer
    @mndlessdrwer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think the first prototype design is certainly more striking and iconic compared to the revised design. The giant headlamps really do give it an interesting look.

  • @sloboat55
    @sloboat55 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A Gaylord Tucker collaboration is a thought, after watching the vid of what look to me is the wickedest ride I never knew existed.

  • @drstevenrey
    @drstevenrey 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    One: Gaylord, a name that I, being born with it, would change to absolutely anything else immediately. I'd rather have a name like Gridpick-Hardcock. Two: It's not really that ugly, in fact, I kind of like it.

    • @ytcensorhack1876
      @ytcensorhack1876 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      There's actually a town in america called Gaylord. In fact they have a convention centre the Gaylord ops

    • @timonsolus
      @timonsolus 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Imagine being 'Mrs. Gaylord'... That woman deserves sympathy!
      Hardcock... now that's a rare name...
      "The surname Hardcock is the 8,193,072nd most frequently held surname worldwide. It is borne by around 1 in 1,457,509,183 people. This surname occurs mostly in The Americas, where 80 percent of Hardcock reside; 80 percent reside in North America and 80 percent reside in Anglo-North America.
      The surname is most widely held in The United States, where it is borne by 4 people, or 1 in 90,614,733. In The United States it is primarily concentrated in: California, where 25 percent are found, Mississippi, where 25 percent are found and New York, where 25 percent are found. Aside from The United States it exists in one country. It is also found in Germany, where 20 percent are found."

    • @jimtaylor294
      @jimtaylor294 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nice Rowan Atkinson reference 😂👌

    • @rickrudd
      @rickrudd 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      It's a conversation starter!

    • @lawrencelewis2592
      @lawrencelewis2592 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      How about Dick Reacher or Rod Clutcher?

  • @noscwoh1
    @noscwoh1 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    You can always tell Brooks Stevens' designs; they're always piano black and ivory and have that characteristic scallop down the side. You can tell one from (literally) a mile away. I kinda dig it as a unique stylistic signature.

  • @jeffbrinkerhoff5121
    @jeffbrinkerhoff5121 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    To make a small fortune in the car business one begins with a large fortune...

  • @luvr381
    @luvr381 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam won't let me give this video a like, but I did like it.

  • @kevinrice7635
    @kevinrice7635 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Never heard of it Hombre perciate the update never to old for knowledge..... love the Car

  • @TheHylianBatman
    @TheHylianBatman 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a unique plate, I've never seen a "Manufacturer" plate before!
    And that car! It looks so cool!!

  • @AntoniusTyas
    @AntoniusTyas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not gonna lie it looks stunning. I want one now.

  • @kaitlyn__L
    @kaitlyn__L 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow, that's striking looking. I think I prefer the production version showed at the very start, but the prototype was certainly more unique with its huge headlights and narrow front.
    I must admit, hearing you say molybdenum as Molly-bend'em was kinda funny though.

  • @pizzagogo6151
    @pizzagogo6151 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I always thought the Damlier SP250 was the ugliest deliberately “styled” sports car from this era.....I now know I was wrong...😅 (.......mind you I was also distracted as the lady model used in the 1950s promo shots she was an absolute stunner 😍)

  • @robinvandekerkhove1898
    @robinvandekerkhove1898 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    If I'm correct, the first hard top fully automated convertible was the Peugeot 402 and 601 eclipse in the 30's. Otherwise, I love your content

    • @x19kittyboo
      @x19kittyboo 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are indeed correct.

  • @jamesstuart3346
    @jamesstuart3346 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Learn something every day. Thankx for posting!

  • @gwheregwhizz
    @gwheregwhizz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    A name unlikely to be resurrected.

  • @CathodeRayNipplez
    @CathodeRayNipplez 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    That is so bonkers and weird I love it.

  • @KyrosTheWolf
    @KyrosTheWolf 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've never heard of this car, but the production version looks like a mix of Chrysler's 1955 300 concept designed by Ghia, and the 'Green Hornet' Imperial Lebaron

  • @michaelburggraf2822
    @michaelburggraf2822 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello Rory, thank you very much for that interesting video.
    Actually I'm living not too far away from one of the "crime scenes"😅.
    Kind Regards from Germany

  • @PrimoStracciatella
    @PrimoStracciatella 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    "The name is Lord, Gay Lord. I like my Martini with huge olives."

  • @Nastyswimmer
    @Nastyswimmer 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    1:46 - "Molybendium" ROFL

  • @observer4916
    @observer4916 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    i heard that the gaylord gladiators of ancient times were extremely proficient in sword fighting

  • @markrossow6303
    @markrossow6303 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    in the opening, this blends the M-B 190SL with the 300SL ! we had a 190SL when I was in K + 1st grade in Mainz (we lived on an ex-French Zone Housing Area)
    190SL was nice,
    but just a ,,Ponton" sedan with different bodywork...
    300SL was an early Supercar

  • @milanb.6022
    @milanb.6022 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I clicked on this thinking it was a music video. Gaylord Gladiator needs to be a band name 😂

  • @deoeers
    @deoeers 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The expression on the car’s face is “you called me what!?”

  • @auntbarbara5576
    @auntbarbara5576 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you Rory dear

  • @DJJ81
    @DJJ81 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    That thing is dope. Never heard of it but it would be amazing to get my hands on one

  • @adenkyramud5005
    @adenkyramud5005 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've seen one in the Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen, Germany. It's difficult to put in words how striking the car looks in person. It's one of the weirdest looking cars I've ever seen, especially in person, but at the same time one of the most beautiful. From what you said at the end about the whereabouts of those few produced cars it might be a mockup. I can't say much about that since i had never heard about the car before i saw it in the museum and the plaque did not say anything about it not being real. All it said is that it was lent to the museum by the Zeppelin GmbH. If you're ever near Lake constanze (Bodensee in german) i highly suggest you visit both the Zeppelin museum and the Dornier musem (both are in Friedrichshafen, not very far from eachother).

  • @johnmoorefilm
    @johnmoorefilm 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you another great video, appreciated ❤

  • @henryrodgers7386
    @henryrodgers7386 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Excellent video, but a slight nitpick. Peugeot had a car with a retractable hardtop prior to the Gladiator. It was a one-off prototype, but I have seen pictures of it. It was built for the 1936 Paris Auto Show, IIRC?
    I'll edit if i can find the damn thing
    Found it! The 1935 Peugeot 402 Eclipse, with a Paulin retractable hardtop.
    Which, of note, was also a big two-seater with luxury aspirations... and was also extremely expensive.

  • @LUNATIC75
    @LUNATIC75 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I quite liked look of these, but every time he said 'Gaylord', I couldn't help but laugh.

  • @MalachiBurke
    @MalachiBurke 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beautiful

  • @XmarkedSpot
    @XmarkedSpot 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    3:54 Damn, my car barely beats this agile beauty of a dinosaur by a second and a bit albeit being 600kg lighter

  • @Transit_Biker
    @Transit_Biker 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really awesome looking automobile.

  • @terribletelevision6980
    @terribletelevision6980 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing video as always , mate!

  • @johnfpotega2017
    @johnfpotega2017 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a great car! Many of the features of this car have been/are featured in today’s modern cars! The prototype body was a little “different “, but the production model was spot on; Ford copied the retractable metal top later on, and check out the leather interior and electric controls! The female model with the car is kind of hot, also!

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler930 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I can Happily say if you gave me the keys and the title I would Smile Real BIG and say Thank You Very Much!!! 🤠👍

  • @adrianmonk4440
    @adrianmonk4440 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    According to research by writer and historian Don Keefe, a total of five Gaylord chassis were produced, with 3 of them receiving bodies. The single L-Z built production car, along with another chassis, are the only Gladiators known to have survived. After decades of ownership by the Gaylord family, they both now reside in a private collection in Arizona. Of the Lucas-lighted prototypes, one of the cars was confirmed destroyed. The second car was stolen from the Gaylords in Europe during in the late 1950s.

  • @thatcheapguy525
    @thatcheapguy525 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I much prefer the front-end of the prototype with those open wheel wells. the original lights were a bit too big but the Rolls Royce twin arrangement distract from the uniqueness of the car making the front look too much like a Rolls

  • @3ducs
    @3ducs 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Hairpin empire. Those were the days!

  • @jebsails2837
    @jebsails2837 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I seem to recall a scale plastic model by Renwal featuring a very similar vehicle if not the Gaylord then possibly a retro version of a bygone marquee. Never knew that they were actually built. Narragansett Bay.

  • @JA-pb7oz
    @JA-pb7oz 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The prototype looks like it started life in a Disney film as the villains chosen transport.

  • @barrettwbenton
    @barrettwbenton 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Looking at the thumbnail for this video, I could only imagine the one-liners: "Goodness, those headlights! No, ma'am, not yours...the car's. Really."
    Honestly, their going cheap on designers was a grave mistake: looking at all variations of this reminds me of the AnyCar made for Manufacturers Hanover Trust.

  • @JackF99
    @JackF99 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Brooks Stevens also designed the equally whimsical Oscar Mayer Wienermobile.

  • @Beauloqs
    @Beauloqs 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Now that is a gopping car

  • @crabby7668
    @crabby7668 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting. Never thought I would hear the phrase hairpin empire.

  • @tommaguzzi1723
    @tommaguzzi1723 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well this video sent me on a research journey I never expected where I read all about the history of Sol H Goldberg, his wife, their children and the Hump Hair Pin company.
    Sometimes I love where the Internet takes me.

  • @assininecomment1630
    @assininecomment1630 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1. 4:30 - The oversized headlamps definitely weren't from the model of Rolls Royce the 'bot included in this vid. It's a 1958 Silver Cloud, with totally normal headlamps. (A few other RRs did have the large lights.)

  • @brianedwards7142
    @brianedwards7142 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well I like the look of the prototypes. Very anime looking.

  • @joe125ful
    @joe125ful 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That car design is like batmobile.
    Also name...Gaylord cars compamy:):)
    Did anyone notice that or its me only??

  • @snuscaboose1942
    @snuscaboose1942 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The prototype version stands out from the crowd and looks fantastic compared the production version.

  • @klausstock8020
    @klausstock8020 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4:50 -- Ah yes, back in the days, when it was still acceptable to say: "And now bend over and grab the Gaylord spear."

  • @t0mn8r35
    @t0mn8r35 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting. I have never heard of or seen this car before. Still chortling at the name though...

  • @tremensdelirious
    @tremensdelirious 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I saw Gaylord Gladiator on the main stage at Manchester Pride 2017

  • @adrianmonk4440
    @adrianmonk4440 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    She sure had a
    nice pair of headlights.

  • @ahirschfeld1974
    @ahirschfeld1974 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Rover P6 would make for a good subject for a future video.

  • @etherospike3936
    @etherospike3936 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagine the Gaylord brothers creating a joint venture with the aircraft manufacturer Fokker !

  • @Navoii.
    @Navoii. 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "The gaylord brothers" I want this, would be so fun

  • @a11csc
    @a11csc 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    a rare beauty

  • @scootergeorge7089
    @scootergeorge7089 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The production car looks much better than the prototypes. The open front wheel wells guarantee the sides of the car would quickly become filthy and the headlights look like they belong on a pimp-mobile. And often overlooked American grand touring car maker is Studebaker. Their first would be the 1955 President Speedster followed by the Hawk and GT Hawk featuring supercharged engines and available disc brakes.

  • @cbmsysmobile
    @cbmsysmobile 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Silver Cloud did not use Lucas P100 headlamps. It used PL700 (7")

  • @amadeo_serrano
    @amadeo_serrano 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It appears that the Gaylord brothers were fans of GM concept cars. The styling of their prototype closely resembles a cross between the 1954 Wildcat II and the Cadillac LaSalle.II roadster.

  • @GalootWrangler
    @GalootWrangler 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such flamboyance of name and form, from a fortune built on something as prosaic as hairpins. Or perhaps not so prosaic: Hump Hair Pin Mfg Co.
    (Source: Made in Chicago Museum website)

  • @user-sd3ik9rt6d
    @user-sd3ik9rt6d 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A ' Hair pin empire ', only in the 50s

  • @stephanevdv
    @stephanevdv 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The retractable hardtop was already a feature of the 1936 Peugeot 402 Eclipse... So nothing new there.

  • @jamesgudgeon4868
    @jamesgudgeon4868 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The Grille is Similar to A Facel Vega 9:30

  • @holeshothunter5544
    @holeshothunter5544 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    from the hood up it's pretty fair but below the belt line it's a lead pig. Open front wheels = fun cleaning

  • @jamesbehrje4279
    @jamesbehrje4279 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I can just picture people going around saying things like "Im taking a ride inside a Gaylord gladiator!!!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
    No wonder why it was a niche model!!! Lol!!!!

  • @raepaul8158
    @raepaul8158 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think it’s a sad story , a shame it failed , as it sounds like a great car !

  • @mr_canoehead
    @mr_canoehead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    There is a Gladiator in the ZF Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen. It's huge.

    • @michaelburggraf2822
      @michaelburggraf2822 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Are you sure? I only know of a large Maybach. I think it was the car of the director (CEO) of the Zeppelinwerke.

    • @mr_canoehead
      @mr_canoehead 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@michaelburggraf2822 Yes, it's parked right beside the Maybach (or was in the summer of 2022). I posted a link to the museum's website where there is a picture of the car, but I guess TH-cam took it down. You can search "Gaylord Gladiator Zeppelin Museum" and it comes up.

  • @macjim
    @macjim 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Can’t help hearing the Batman theme when looking at it…

  • @1951GL
    @1951GL 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating - the engine would have been bullet proof. Agree with other comments, should have had an Italian design and build.

  • @jameswitkowski6736
    @jameswitkowski6736 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My mother the car with glasses...!!!

  • @kfl611
    @kfl611 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I want one !

  • @robbybobbyhobbies
    @robbybobbyhobbies 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1:44 Like the sound of “molybendium” (I think I was at college with her sister.)
    The word you’re looking for is molybdenum - moll - ib - duh - numb.

  • @JG-mp5nb
    @JG-mp5nb 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    May we introduce our newest model of the Gridpick-Hardcock.

  • @olegpopov3868
    @olegpopov3868 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:00 Who wouldn't love a Gaylord convertible with '69' hubnuts?

  • @agriperma
    @agriperma 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I do like the grill rear end, looks almost high tech electronic, and the giant headlights look cool, I do not care for the open wheel well design part, rest of the car looks very nice though.

  • @user-cl1pr1rn6m
    @user-cl1pr1rn6m 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Please do overview of Muntz Jet

  • @vikkij5221
    @vikkij5221 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    in all honesty, despite the name, i would love to actually own one. just for it being little, european, pocket american muscle :D

  • @michaellinner7772
    @michaellinner7772 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The nose does bear a strong resemblance to the Jeep of the same name.

  • @MrButtonpresser
    @MrButtonpresser 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The paint inside those open fenders wouldn’t last a week on our local gravel roads.