The bevel drive on the camshaft is interesting but seems like overkill. I agree the styling is a bit eh but it is still a pretty cool car. That said I'd choose the 1926 Packard Standard Eight and the 1926 Cadillac.
5:00 Calls to mind the early seventies movie _The Brothers O'Toole_ starring John Astin, Pat Carroll, Hans Conried, Jesse White, basically an all-star cast of the greatest character actors of the period. The movie is set in a town called Molybdenum (pronounced Molly-Be-Damn in the film) and John Astin delivers the greatest rant in the history of over-the-top monologues (look up video of the Belching, spitting, and cussin' contest). Another note, Cro-Moly steel was a popular frame material for bicycle frames from the eighties on. Better ride even than Cannondale aluminum, according to my tuchis.
Honestly, for WYR I really can’t make up my mind about the cars, so I’ll cop out and say all of them. But if somebody demanded a choice, I guess I’d pick the Packard and the Cadillac, but there’s something to like about all of them.
The Wills Sainte Claire is one car I'd never heard of before, but looking at it got me thinking of the car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [the car from the 1968 movie of the same name]. That car was greatly modified & could travel on land, water and air. I had always wondered what kind of car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was derived from?
WYR1: All three of those are jewels. One of each, please. WYR2: The Knight engine is amazing, but has earned a reputation as a smoker like a two-stroke DKW. I'm just not partial to Cadillacs, so the Wills Sainte Claire it is.
I never knew that Wills made a V8. It wasn't uncommon to have engines where the cylinder head was part of the block. Crappy gasket material allowed separate heads to sometimes leak. WYR= any or all of them! Great video, Jay!
I never knew peerless made a V-8. I found out about that while doing the would you rather segment now I really wanna do an engine episode on it if I can find enough information totally will
Running a business successfully takes being good at a set of critical skills. One of the most important skills is to know when your input needs to be routed through someone else who can handle things better. Had St.Claire stayed of the production floor his company might have survived to the depression but probably not through it. I'm self-employed and have been most of my life, and though I'm very good at what I do, I have enough sense to delegate parts to others who do those things better than me, and I leave them alone to do it. If I think something should be changed I speak with them and let them handle it. In time that gets me really good people who like not being micro-managed to death, and they perform excellently because they're happy. IMHO that's the most critical skill to have in business, and usually the hardest one to master. WYR Packards rule. The Willis takes the second round.
Yes yes he did and it sounds really awesome. He has a V-8. This one has a six it would’ve been awesome to hear the six run Classic Car club of America has two of them on display. They have this one and they have a four-door phaeton
2:26 In the early '70s, I actually knew a guy who worked at a local parts house/machine shop. However he was Indian (as was said back then), and went by Sioux.
Hi Jay! Thanks for covering a 6 cylinder version of the WSC, one of my favorite cars of the 20's! A quite beautiful roadster! WYR's: Just give me ALL of those!! Please!
Great choice on the wood you rather you can’t go wrong with any of them You bet I can’t wait to find a V8 car definitely going to do an engine on the sixth cylinder as well just not entirely sure when I want to cover an engine manufacturer this week, but it all depends if I can find enough information on the Peerless V8 that might be a good contender. I just found out about that engine.
Kind of a cute car, but what an awful business model. Buy my car made out of a metal you never heard of and comes with an engine impossible to work on... but it has a back up light! LOL... Ford was such a success because he KISS'd it... Keep It Simple Stupid. WYR: 1) ohhh, that Peerless is sah-weet! 2) Caddy, and it doesn't make me proud... 🙂
Hi Jay, I hope I don't offend, but the word you struggle with "metallurgy" is pronounced "metall (the LLs are pronounced like the LLs in wiLL) then "urge" and the "y" is a long or hard E, like in technology. I don't mean to be the "pronunciation-police, but with you doing historic automobile videos, you will run into the word for the study of metals, their properties, makeup and uses. FYI: I love your videos, I've been an old car nut since a small child when my grandfather would take me around the place to visit all the old "junkers" stretching back to the 1900's if you count buggies, wagons and farm equipment, some of which dated to the late 19th Century. That and I was almost born in the back of my dad's 1950 Packard in a blizzard, but dad was able to plow through the snows in that big old Packard. I really wish mom had not traded it off on 1959 Chevy Belaire station wagon. 🤩
It’s all good I’m not the best at pronunciations or talking lol but I try =) happy you dig this channel I love doing it I was born way too late but at least I don’t have to wait for the new models to come out I just have to find them =) I went back to classic automall today some cool stuff coming the coolest car I shot today was 1962 Chrysler 300 Great story I love packards really want to drive one this year I’ve heard they are the best balanced car from that time
Thank you so much. I’m glad you did this episode. I love covering the cars that never got talked about… There are a few more more coming like a 1917 Mercer.. not the race about but different =)
Thank you so much Ben i’m glad you did this video. I just found out about the peerless V8 I’m gonna do a video on it this week. I would really love to do an engine manufacture. I’ve been putting it off. I really want to do color but I’m struggling with do I just talk about the engines or do I talk about all of it, because they were in business and for all businesses, if there was a way to market it, they would make a product for it
Interesting history, but, sadly, a short run for a car that seems to deserve a longer run. It is gorgeous in that blue so I will pick it in both lineups. They're all great looking cars! Thanks for another great find! 👍
I’ll work with anybody that wants to collaborate I’ve reached out to a couple channels which we will talk about for the Q&A on the 500th episode because I don’t have a problem with calling people out.. lol
I never heard of this car. It really doesn’t do anything for me though. I would rather the Packard in the first one and the Cadillac in the second choice.
Sweet choices all the money went into the mechanical aspect. They’re very similar to Leland Lincoln. That was a very technical mechanical car, but lacked styling
Thanks again for a great history lesson! I had never heard of this car before. I guess you prove, the more you know, the more you know you don't know. So many of the big names in the auto industry are only known because of the outstanding people they had working with them and supporting them... the unknown heroes.
There are so many unknown names of cars that were brilliant, but they just never caught on for one reason or another.. CH Wills took care of his employees.. he made sure that they had health benefits and all of that he was a standup guy from what I’ve heard and read. Just like a lot of engineers, he wasn’t a businessman and lost money on every single car he sold you can only lose money for so long before you can’t do it anymore
Scott Joplin ... Maple Leaf Rag 🤔
Yeah buddy you got it =) I love Scott Joplin
Scott Joplin.......No relation to Janice Joplin
The bevel drive on the camshaft is interesting but seems like overkill. I agree the styling is a bit eh but it is still a pretty cool car. That said I'd choose the 1926 Packard Standard Eight and the 1926 Cadillac.
5:00 Calls to mind the early seventies movie _The Brothers O'Toole_ starring John Astin, Pat Carroll, Hans Conried, Jesse White, basically an all-star cast of the greatest character actors of the period.
The movie is set in a town called Molybdenum (pronounced Molly-Be-Damn in the film) and John Astin delivers the greatest rant in the history of over-the-top monologues (look up video of the Belching, spitting, and cussin' contest).
Another note, Cro-Moly steel was a popular frame material for bicycle frames from the eighties on. Better ride even than Cannondale aluminum, according to my tuchis.
Great video! Yeah, Wills is very much a forgotten hero.
Yeah he is it’s sad really that Henry ford didn’t give him credit for anything.. happy you dig this video
Honestly, for WYR I really can’t make up my mind about the cars, so I’ll cop out and say all of them. But if somebody demanded a choice, I guess I’d pick the Packard and the Cadillac, but there’s something to like about all of them.
The Wills Sainte Claire is one car I'd never heard of before, but looking at it got me thinking of the car called Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [the car from the 1968 movie of the same name]. That car was greatly modified & could travel on land, water and air. I had always wondered what kind of car Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was derived from?
Peerless had a very common look.but it was one of the best cars out there.
26 Packard.
WYR. The Packard because of the club support. If you own a pre war car you need the support
Awesome choice great point
I wonder how many fortunes were lost in the evolution of the auto industry. I'm thinking a lot more were lost than made.
WYR1: All three of those are jewels. One of each, please.
WYR2: The Knight engine is amazing, but has earned a reputation as a smoker like a two-stroke DKW. I'm just not partial to Cadillacs, so the Wills Sainte Claire it is.
Sweet choices =)
A genius, but quirky dude.
1926 Cadillac
Sweet choice
I never knew that Wills made a V8. It wasn't uncommon to have engines where the cylinder head was part of the block. Crappy gasket material allowed separate heads to sometimes leak. WYR= any or all of them! Great video, Jay!
I never knew peerless made a V-8. I found out about that while doing the would you rather segment now I really wanna do an engine episode on it if I can find enough information totally will
I believe many of the engines were actually T - head design. Much like the design of the Pierce Arrow engine.
T heads were made obsolete after World War I they were very popular before the war
Running a business successfully takes being good at a set of critical skills. One of the most important skills is to know when your input needs to be routed through someone else who can handle things better. Had St.Claire stayed of the production floor his company might have survived to the depression but probably not through it. I'm self-employed and have been most of my life, and though I'm very good at what I do, I have enough sense to delegate parts to others who do those things better than me, and I leave them alone to do it. If I think something should be changed I speak with them and let them handle it. In time that gets me really good people who like not being micro-managed to death, and they perform excellently because they're happy. IMHO that's the most critical skill to have in business, and usually the hardest one to master.
WYR Packards rule. The Willis takes the second round.
Great choices. Thank you so much for sharing all the insight and information greatly appreciate it.
Already pre-liked. 🙂
Awesome =)
Willis-Cadillac
Nice! Jay Leno has one in green and he made a video of it a few years ago during the Covid lockdown. Very cool car! =)
Yes yes he did and it sounds really awesome. He has a V-8. This one has a six it would’ve been awesome to hear the six run Classic Car club of America has two of them on display. They have this one and they have a four-door phaeton
WYR……Wills, hands down.
2:26 In the early '70s, I actually knew a guy who worked at a local parts house/machine shop.
However he was Indian (as was said back then), and went by Sioux.
Maple leaf rag--Scott Joplin ?
That is the song in band B Parks beat you to for title
WYR: All of them.
WYR #1, the '26 Wills is a nice looking car.
Absolutely, but the Peerless and the Packard are great, too. I'll take one of each, and a Willys-Knight, too, though the Knight engines tend to smoke.
The Stupid Pollution Parts on modern cars
Metal Urge ist I think right pronunciation
1926 PACKARD TWIN SIX 1926 CADILLAC 12
All of them
Awesome
All of em.
Hahaha nice
How can you choose 🤷 all Fantastic Styling 👏👏👏👏
Packard only reason I worked on a few 😂🤷...
Great Episode
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
Yeah, the choices were definitely hard today that’s for sure gappy you dig this episode
Hi Jay! Thanks for covering a 6 cylinder version of the WSC, one of my favorite cars of the 20's! A quite beautiful roadster! WYR's: Just give me ALL of those!! Please!
Great choice on the wood you rather you can’t go wrong with any of them
You bet I can’t wait to find a V8 car definitely going to do an engine on the sixth cylinder as well just not entirely sure when
I want to cover an engine manufacturer this week, but it all depends if I can find enough information on the Peerless V8 that might be a good contender. I just found out about that engine.
Kind of a cute car, but what an awful business model. Buy my car made out of a metal you never heard of and comes with an engine impossible to work on... but it has a back up light! LOL... Ford was such a success because he KISS'd it... Keep It Simple Stupid. WYR: 1) ohhh, that Peerless is sah-weet! 2) Caddy, and it doesn't make me proud... 🙂
Great choices =)
Hi Jay, I hope I don't offend, but the word you struggle with "metallurgy" is pronounced "metall (the LLs are pronounced like the LLs in wiLL) then "urge" and the "y" is a long or hard E, like in technology. I don't mean to be the "pronunciation-police, but with you doing historic automobile videos, you will run into the word for the study of metals, their properties, makeup and uses. FYI: I love your videos, I've been an old car nut since a small child when my grandfather would take me around the place to visit all the old "junkers" stretching back to the 1900's if you count buggies, wagons and farm equipment, some of which dated to the late 19th Century. That and I was almost born in the back of my dad's 1950 Packard in a blizzard, but dad was able to plow through the snows in that big old Packard. I really wish mom had not traded it off on 1959 Chevy Belaire station wagon. 🤩
It’s all good I’m not the best at pronunciations or talking lol but I try =) happy you dig this channel I love doing it I was born way too late but at least I don’t have to wait for the new models to come out I just have to find them =)
I went back to classic automall today some cool stuff coming the coolest car I shot today was 1962 Chrysler 300
Great story I love packards really want to drive one this year I’ve heard they are the best balanced car from that time
Thanks Jay! Another great video! Never new! I'm 62!
Thank you so much. I’m glad you did this episode. I love covering the cars that never got talked about… There are a few more more coming like a 1917 Mercer.. not the race about but different =)
First pick 1926 Peerless V8, second 1926 Wills. well done video.
Thank you so much Ben i’m glad you did this video. I just found out about the peerless V8 I’m gonna do a video on it this week. I would really love to do an engine manufacture. I’ve been putting it off. I really want to do color but I’m struggling with do I just talk about the engines or do I talk about all of it, because they were in business and for all businesses, if there was a way to market it, they would make a product for it
WYR: Peerless (I'm a sucker for side-mount spares), Wills Sainte Claire.
Awesome choices
Interesting history, but, sadly, a short run for a car that seems to deserve a longer run. It is gorgeous in that blue so I will pick it in both lineups. They're all great looking cars!
Thanks for another great find! 👍
Great choices glad you dig this episode
I love the thin spoke wheels!😊
Packard Will St Claire,
Nice car ,Sounds like a pain to own though
Sweet choices
1:55 I have to agree with you ... if one is passionate about the subject, they should embrace all comers who advance the topic.
I’ll work with anybody that wants to collaborate I’ve reached out to a couple channels which we will talk about for the Q&A on the 500th episode because I don’t have a problem with calling people out.. lol
1926 Wills
1926 Sterns Knight
Great choices =)
I'll take the Dusenberg.
Awesome
I never heard of this car. It really doesn’t do anything for me though. I would rather the Packard in the first one and the Cadillac in the second choice.
Sweet choices all the money went into the mechanical aspect. They’re very similar to Leland Lincoln. That was a very technical mechanical car, but lacked styling
@@What.its.like. that was my take on it too.
metallurgist - meta-lur-jist
Peerless
26 Wills
Haha it’s not that easy great choices
'26 Packard and '26 Caddy.
Awesome choices
I'd take the Packard.
Sweet choice
Entertainer
Maple leaf rag
Thanks again for a great history lesson! I had never heard of this car before. I guess you prove, the more you know, the more you know you don't know. So many of the big names in the auto industry are only known because of the outstanding people they had working with them and supporting them... the unknown heroes.
There are so many unknown names of cars that were brilliant, but they just never caught on for one reason or another.. CH Wills took care of his employees.. he made sure that they had health benefits and all of that he was a standup guy from what I’ve heard and read. Just like a lot of engineers, he wasn’t a businessman and lost money on every single car he sold you can only lose money for so long before you can’t do it anymore