What It’s Like To Drive A 5-Wheeled Porta Potty | Jason Drives
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- This 1975 Acoma Mini Comtesse is part of a category of cars known as “voiture sans permis,” which is French for ‘car without a license.’ Even though you could be a drunk 14-year old and drive this, we sent Jason Torchinsky instead.
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in the cars defence they make an excellent get-away car. Just drive it into the back of a van. Boom it's vanished
Jason needs his own TV show I never get tired of this guy
60km/h or about 36mph
bad choice for breaking out of prison
As this car made in France, the speedometer says of course 60 km, not 60 miles. The allowed top-speed with that class of microcars in Europe is 45 km/h, which is around 25 mph.
There's no speed limit for microcars, but a speed limit for some kind of driving license and insurance. If the car was faster it was taxed as car, not as scooter, tractor, wheelchair or whatever.
Make them google it.
Jakob Friðþjófsson - Cool name. Iceland is a beautiful and unique place and your language looks and sounds kind of alien yet familiar at the same time.
I wonder how Doug would look like driving this thing.
yeah
He probably wouldn't fit in it... That's probably why he doesn't review these cars thinking about it.
Eric Ortiz give it a Doug score
Eric Ortiz I don't care to hear him whine that much honestly
I wonder what borderline clickbait title he’d use for it
He looks like he just escaped from prison
Yeah lol, why is he wearing a prison jumpsuit.
WATCH THE VIDEO
Nope, prison jumpsuits say "prisoner" or "department of corrections on them", orange jumpsuits scream "don't run me over while I fix your f-ing roads"...
@@davidhollenshead4892
Thats literally a jail issue jumpsuit. They get printed by whatever facility buys them.
By your logic, a car without a license plate is not a car?
If this guy was on the American Topgear it may actually be watchable. Loving this show so far!
With Doug DeMuro and Robert Dunn (Aging Wheels) as co-hosts.
@@Desmaad I'll have to check out Aging Wheels but Doug would be just perfect for Top Gear :D
Its such a pitiful little car lol. I love it lololol
I wanna see more of these funny little automobiles. And there's something utterly hilarious about seeing Jason wrestle with these things.
As a french, it's fun to see that the car I drive everyday (a Fiat Panda, the blue car you can see in the background at 0:17) is a curiosity in the USA, strange enough to be part of a museum's collection. Great car by the way.
No, it's a pos, and you know it lol
James May owns one.
+Dédé LABINOUZE take back your mean words!
McHallfin
Soowwy haha
Americans drive normal cars.
The speedometer is in km/h, not in mph.
That's still optimistic
Are you sure that the speedometer shows mph not kph?
Either way, it's a bit optimistic lol
Bichingo why would he be its a french car after all
it's a french car made for the french market, it's km/h obviously
@@Twinspinner 50kph wouldn't be impossible even for something like that
Love the shopping cart casters in the front, just in case you start to roll over.
Making Falcon doors before Tesla made them cool.
Saman Orou before Mercedes made them cool actually
The OG OG hipster
More of a pigeon door in this instance
But only on the left side, I am surprised it was not mentioned
Gull wing doors have been around since the mid 1950's
Actually, "sans permis" still exists! The law has evolved so basically they just have to be extremely light (I think it's 450 or 500kg max) and slow (45 kph max) cars and some other things like having only one gear (plus reverse), etc. So now those are some kind of ridiculous two seaters that makes you go mad when it's in front of you on the road :D
So basically you could drive a go kart on the street if it has lights and turn signals
Someone will shoehorn a Hayabusa engine into it
i swear this thing's the stapler guy from _Office Space_ in car form
Id...... pay some good monies for one of these if it counts as a moped.
Manual falcon doors? On a Peel P50 lookalike thing? I'll take 2!
only one was made
What are you talking about? About 18,000 Mini Comtesses were produced.
austinmini1275 I'm sorry to hear that.
Lok, I thought it kinda looked like an SUV version of the P50!
@@GreenJeep1998 in my opinion the peel p50 looks more like a suv, with a flat back. The mini comtesse has slightly a bacl to it if you look closley from the side, so i thinks its more of a coupé version, or copared to the peel p50 its probably faster so itd be a SUPER SALOON.
Life was easy in the 70's haha, now in France you need a 50cc license to drive this, you can't be drunk at the wheel (obviously) and you can't drive it on every type of road.
Oh and i'm pretty sure the speedo is in km/h, but 60km/h is still a very good joke haha
Why do you look like you just broke out of prison?
Oops. I watched the video.
In danger of being smooshed by a VW Bug 2:57
When I heard the 14 year old part: "YEEEEEEEEAH!!!" When he said the drunk part: "YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAH!!!"
Since it's French, that will be kilometers per hour, not miles. Not everyone uses the obsolete imperial system. Metric FTW.
60 is still a bit optimistic though.
pingpongpung oh. bless you, oh great one.
I hate my country for that (UK)... In school we learn to use cm and mm, but our parents teach us feet and inches, we measure ourselves in feet and inches, weigh ourselves in stones and pounds. use MPH and buy litres but measure in gallons... I'm just glad we don't use Fahrenheit
Joshua Beckett celsius is so much easier for me,
0 is freezing and 100 is boiling
Literally
The Imperial system is more practica for day to day uses.
0 = Very Cold
30 = Cold
50 = Moderate
70 = Warm
100 = Very Hot
Celcius
0 = Very Cold
50 = Extremely Hot
100 = Dead
The fact that your thermostats have to use a decimal point really highlight the poor daily relations of the metric system as a whole. Lets say measurements. Using my feet I can tell you with a high degree of accuracy with ZERO tools the area of your room etc. Or my finger to measure inches. Or my hand to measure a cup. Or my step to measure a yard. Yes metric is easier when doing math on paper, but is terrible for daily measurements
The thing legitamately has shopping cart wheels 😂😂
Id put a V8 with a 4 speed in that
erich84502ify youd sit* on a v8 with a 4 speed in that
where did you think you could fit the gasoline?
on the roof
car is too light it would fly out of control
Axel Martell that's the point u goob.
It's French, and it's from the 70s -- is one of those dash knobs a cigarette lighter?
Modern cars have ciggarette lighters too?
Villnius all of them
probably, and i have to say, i fucking love the french
And a white flag
+Aidan Guthrie The car IS a white flag.
Move up to a Yugo!!
If no one else said it ... The canned ham absorbing the shocks in that car was you.
I think if we swap out the transmission with a generator and a electric motor on it would be like able to runs faster.
Saviliana You stole my comment!
The Emperor of Mankind Eh, think I'd want the carbon more for safety purposes that light weight, I've used garbage cans that are sturdier than that thing looks!
"I love how every time I come to Lane I find a new way to be terrified going so freaking slowly" - This line sums up Jason Drives perfectly.
Liberté, égalité, fraternité in other words when you wake up in the gutter looking up there is always an MC
This thing should be the required auto for repeat DUI offenders.
The logo looks like a couple of safety pins.
大きな発泡スチロールの箱が風で飛ばされて転がって来たのかと思えるシルエットがイイ感じですね♪ 他には無いスタイルが良いですね♪
I would motor swap this thing in the first week of ownership.
Uh, I'd say it's safer to just build your own mobil porta-potty than try modifying that thing.
TheVintagetamiya Same here, think I still have an old starter from my XJ laying around, or a motor from a washer or drier that might work!
Id take my uncles riding mower engine and stick it under the little hood.
I hope sometime that Jalopnik makes it to Bangkok, to the 'Jesada Technik Museum' . Just google it, then select 'maps' , and take a streetview journey within the museum. Why? Well, just about all the wild and wacky old or little cars are roadworthy, still used on the roads for special occasions
the driver of that beetle behind him is officially the most patient driver on a planet
All those cars in that museum and you picked that. Brilliant choice
OWH MOTHER OF GOD!!! i saw what engine that car used, you can't hide it from me. IT'S A SAXONETTE AUTOMATIC MOPED ENGINE!!! holy fuck...
A Fiat Panda in the museum!! What is it doing there??
I found that weird as well. I went to the museums website and it turns out they have quite a few EDM and JDM cars for show
I did a search on their website, too!! I was curious to see, what's all about!
I enjoyed how the shot from the lead car was used for your narration so much.
You should be required to drive one of these if you get a DUI. That would likely be worst punishment than losing or having a restricted license.
At 5:05 it's like the v8's are like WHATS THIS KID DOING HERE
"Symbology? Now that Duffy's relinquished his "King Bonehead" crown, I see we have an heir to the throne. I'm sure the word you were looking for was "symbolism".
CasperInkyMagoo Got any theories to go with that tie?
^this guy got it
this guy has a knack to make these disgusting cars seem fun.
i like this guy. watch the one he made about the Hoffman.
I've been to the Lane Motor Museum before. The first time I was there was about 10 years ago and I want to go back to it.
The overall line made me lose it 🤣
imagine driving over the railroad tracks keeping your posture thanks to your vehicles suppension, then look over to see a man in that box car wobbling all over the place while wearing a jumpsuit.
I love the moped with a roof! C'est chic.
I'm really glad that at 0:50 they address that he's clearly in a prison jumpsuit.
Swap out the sprockets and get a 4 valve cylinder conversion and that thing will be cookin lol
4 valves? On a two stroke? :p
+ThirteenMatt didn't realize it was a two stroke
+ThirteenMatt make it a 50cc V twin lol
Just get another cylinder, something to cut in the block and welding equipment. Perfect :D
Ive seen hopped up lawn mower engines that could get that fucker to 55 no problem
When I first read the title I was "if I could drive and take a shit at the same time, that's a win-win!
The Lane Motor Museum is so freakin' great. Local treasure.
Damn that'd be a kick ass field trip for those kids!!
Only thing this is good for is culvert fill. Thanks for sharing, haven’t laughed as much since watching your vids on the Hoffman and mobile food processor lol!
That 2-part door though. Really awesome!
Surely this was developed as a 3 wheeler, flipped and rolled during testing, and got shopping cart wheels bolted on as a fix.
0:17 A Fiat Panda in the background😍
You don't look like an idiot you look like you just got out of prison. with the orange jumpsuit.
Your description of the French when they created this thing made my day :'D :'D :'D
I asked for more Jason Drives, and the Torch is delivering >:)
I love Jason's enthusiasm for such crap cars No matter how bad things are they can always get worse...
This car isn't much bigger than a bread box which is fitting it's at the Lane Motor Museum because that building used to be the Sunbeam Bread Co.
I love this man.
Wow man. You make that car look huge!
Potty Racers came to life!
The best bit about this car is he needed someone driving behind him with hazards on to make it even remotely safe
any one notice stalker VW it was in the whole video
Bob Bob it's probably a camera or rescue car
I don't know how good canned ham is for shock absorbers, but I'm sure you could replace the oil in a regular one with Bovril or something.
A perfect example of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
So basically a french peel p50 with falcon wing doors
Saw another one of these unlicensed little things in Monterey this year called a SEAB Flipper. Apparently that one had a pedal mechanism for extra power. Very strange little cars.
Seems like a modern upgraded version could probably be a lot more driveable while remaining within the restrictions. Given the various attempts at ultralight vehicles and pedal cars and modern materials and engine options I think it could be done.
This guy is a good presenter, would make a good fit in motortrend
LMAO it looks like you escaped from prison in a mail truck
6:29 A pair of old Italian grandmothers.
You totally got it wrong. Think about it. Thins thing was built to take drunk french old men home from the pub at night during raing without getting wet. Imagine that in a small french village or town with narrow old streets and no traffic at all. The suspension though... old people would have to be drunk... to not feel the broken spine....
i hate his voice but he's relatively funny and the cars are insane
That's probably the most ridiculous attempt of a motorized closed vehicle I've seen so far!
But I'm gonna keep watching the channel to find even worse ones! :D
I agree with the comments, it looks like you were smart enough to break out of prison but not-so-smart with the escape plan so you resorted to this as your getaway car.
That could make people laugh all day long. Happy driving. Set it up for Uber rides!
When he said "symbology," I had a Boondock Saints flashback
if not for the fact it appears to be slower than a moped. This would be very economical and fun. Still wouldn't mind having one, they do look like fun. In the same way a go kart is . And if you put the right go kart motor on that you'd be having a code Brown. Quickly LOL. I used to have a racing go kart that would do something like 60 or 80, no I'm not joking, and it had roughly the same size motor as on this little piece of interesting. I kept thinking to myself what it would be like to drive that vehicle with the motor that's on one of those racing go carts. Would be a interesting experience and you definitely wouldn't have to worry about going uphill.
The extra wheels are good ideas for a nominally 3 wheel car. The Reliant Robin could use those too.
Why does Jason look like an escaped convict?
Man and I thought the '80 LNA Enterprise I drove was slow, you should try it, would slip it into neutral downhill to go faster.
0:33 Falcon wing door, manual version. This is where Tesla got the model X door design from.
Death trap 😂 starting putting politicians lol.
Curious to know if he's implying that the parallel between the car and his jumpsuit reflects how prison-like the car is...
Jason, I hope you will forgive me for asking, but how tall are you? Because when I watch you driving some of these micro-cars, the first thought that comes into my head is there is no way I am going to fit into them. Not because I am overly tall or anything (I am about five-eight and change), but because I am fairly broad-shouldered, heavy-built, and cannot imagine sitting in there without getting intimate with the walls.
Mike Wolfe from American pickers own one of these cars... I think they're ace!!!
Just put a bigger engine and better suspension and let's see what it does
It'll roll
Hacks509 it'd probably end up flipping on turns and shit
More fun on 3! Wind in your hair, up on 2 wheels attempting a curve, just before winging a gendarme! Vive la sport! Twenty years ago in my small provincial French town there appeared for a year or so a pre-war invalid carriage, prob'ly dragged out of a barn after a long sleep. It had a wicker body, single wheel up front, two trailing, with a lever-joystick and a mighty 2-stroke motor, no muffler. I must have been at least 350cc. Jesus H., could it shift up to 50mph plus, with this white knuckled old man clinging to the controls, fly-spotted false teeth gleaming, trailing blue smoke... Driving is for fun, not just going shopping!
and there are still cars like this available even now in Britain you can buy an axiam coupe s with 4 wheels, heating, a radio/cd all powered by a small diesel engine and can be driven on a learner bike licence with a CBT, even has 2 seats for people who have a full moped licence Still limited to 50Km/h though
60mph? I think this is Km/h, which is realistic on a 50cc moped, most can drive a bit faster then that, but this "car" is probably heavier and less aerodynamic, so I guess 50Km/h is probably a realistic max.
Maybe if you dropped it out of a plane.
I'd rip the doors off of that or die of heatstroke.
Concerned Aleks why does one door flip up, and the other hinges to the front?
build in france, nuff said, love it.
If you're French all you have to do is get in the car and it'll smell like a port-o-potty!😂
Soooo funny. Thanks a million
What "seatbelt"? It's a moped!
P.S. You think crossing railway track was bad? Here in Europe we still have cobblestone streets in some places. XD
2:40 Symbology? ... I'm sure the word you were looking for was "symbolism."
At 1:44 in I can't stop laughing!