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A three-wheeled car that gets 70 to the gallon! Murder in a corporate office! Financial crimes and possible mob ties! A CEO with a surprising past! Even though this story takes place half a century ago, people keep coming back to it. But of all the failed auto start-ups, why are people still captivated by the story of the 20th Century Motor Car Corporation? This is everything you need to know to get up to speed on…The Dale!
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the carlson father-son reveal was honestly the most mindblowing part of this to me
Yup. I gained more respect for them
@@Scisca1a2a More respect for Donut Media or for the Carlsons?
He's been uncovering leftist lies since the beginning
@@dbyrne231 The Carlsons
@@Scisca1a2a me too 😎
I'm suprised you guys didn't mention the revival of the scam with the Elio three wheeled car that promised the exact same thing and has been taking deposits for the last 10 years without producing anything.
That is the first thing I thought about when I saw the thumbnail for this.
Ironically just like at 13:30, my mom works in New York and they had a working prototype there for everyone to see
I'm surprised you guys didn't mention the scam with the Beetle car that promised to give everybody in Germany a car but then taking the money it earned to do some not good things.
Yes, I have a customer every time I come mulch I ask when his Elio is getting delivered. I think he’s been waiting 7 years now same with his tesla power wall or something even though he doesn’t own a tesla but a Bentley, old Porsche and an amg wagon.
For real, I got an old '73 suzuki enduro in trade a couple years ago that may look a little beat up but starts first kick every time! I can't believe it was built 50 years ago by men in japan that are probably long gone by now.
My uncle worked for GE/GE Plastics back in the day and he was part of the team that would go around and demonstrate the properties of Lexan (polycarbonate plastic). To show its versatility in molding they would hand out Lexan beer mugs (I still have a few) and another property was its ability to stop bullets so, of course, they shot at panels of it. This was the early to mid-70s obviously inspiring the folks at 20th Century Motor Car who apparently got their wires crossed because you weren't supposed to shoot at the Lexan mugs.
Oh, this makes a lot of sense!
I guess James feels annoyed every time he has to mention the gas crisis, but he shouldn't have. The gas crisis is intertwined with car history.
Which one? The first or the second?
@@bettycocker2226 I can imagine him having a "No Regerts" tattoo now.
@@bettycocker2226 please explain exactly how Biden caused the gas crisis
@@bettycocker2226 or get this…it’s really not that deep
The biggest crime in this whole video is James pointing out that the 70's were "half a century ago"! That's an aggressive reality check!
Imma go get my walker...
It is also weird to hear that I was born in the late 1900s...
All the boomers are angry
@@derrickstorm6976, I'm a millennial...
@@silmarian Come on grandma, lets get you to bed
I hope there was an Up To Speed/Past Gas episode about Stirling Moss, one of the so-called best F1 drivers who never won a single championship. I wanna know why he is considered one of the GOATs despite no F1 title to his name
Yup, there's a past gas episode
Hell yeah
Because there's more to sports than just titles
There is
Jim Clark was better!
Great report. Your presentation, visuals and well documented time-line made for the best telling of this story I have seen. Thank you.
Check out Seduced By Speed on Motorteend. Full 45 minute episode on the Dale, and ecerything toed to it.
Brings up bad memories of giving Paul Elio $1000 of my hard earned money figuring "the Dale saga" couldn't ever happen again in this day and age.
These features are gold. Thanks for doing a deep dive into these stories. Car culture is more than just tires and rims.
This entire video was made for the “Vector, hardly even knew her” joke. And I totally approve! 👍🏼👍🏼
I dont think there is any channel out there that puts their heart into everything they do like james. This man literally makes a workout out of presenting I love the heart, fantastic video.
Donut Media has a team of people that make informative and entertaining car videos for sure, but there are people like me who do it all by themselves. I hope you'll enjoy this one too! th-cam.com/video/K7OLe62H01A/w-d-xo.html
I love how the titles change after a few hours on every Donut video
I had no clue the high-low vehicles were in a museum. Thats something I definitely need to check out if I visit
They are?
@@kevinrueb3941 I think most people would just call it a junkyard
@@kevinrueb3941 yeah he mentions it in the video, they're in the Petersen automotive museum.
0:52 i didn't knew donut media could make John cena do a sponsor segment for them
Wow, this was far more fascinating (and incredibly well-told) than I expected. Great work, Donut.
I know this will probably get buried in the comments, but I am a trans woman and I have to say that I’m really happy about the way you guys approached the topic. It sucks to say, but I don’t expect to hear this kind of supportive language about trans stuff coming from the car community very much. I think it’s great that y’all had her gendered properly and didn’t bow to any ideas that her transness was an inherent part of the illegal things she did 🖤
It's 5 months into the future, but me too :) I'm sure there are literally dozens of trans women into cars, haha! I knew these were cool guys, though.
I agree with you entirely
I'm constantly on edge about my identity around car junkies for this exact reason, and it's really nice to see things like this. Very reassuring
@@RealShebang there are DOZENS of us!
Hiiiiii 💜💜💜
"The only thing separating a get rich quick scheme from entrepreneurial genius is how successful they get"
As good as that line is, I don't think it applies in this case. When the person in charge of the company already has a history of fraud, it's hard to prove the Dale was anything more than a crash grab.
@@joshjlmgproductions3313 That would make more sense if there were never any prototypes being built or demonstrations to try and gain more investors, after all she already had the money from the deposits, she could have just dropped everything then and left. That's how most scams work, promise the moon, get the money, get out. You definitely wouldn't pour your swindled money into actual R&D. It definitely seems like they were genuinely trying to get into the business.
How does Donut always have great content every single day which is high effort and well thought out. You gotta give it to the team
Beat me by 11 seconds
dont care
@@MiguelRivera24437 👍🏻
I’m more concerned with the level of commitment to the thumbnail pic faces
Faxx 🙌
I read about this quite a while ago when I was collecting 70s magazines. Crazy story and I like that it comes back around every so often on TH-cam.
You're a great story teller, dude. I was enthralled from start to finish.
Damn! I vaguely remember hearing about the Dale, it was a bit before my time. All I knew was that it was a car company that flopped. I didn’t realize there was this crazy story behind it! You all do such amazing work!
Given the previous scam, it’s hard to say the Dale was ever intended to be a serious venture. But this is the first I’ve ever heard about it. I can wait to get off work so I can look into it more because this is a really intriguing story.
They did a whole podcast on Liz iirc. Past Gas Podcast
@@Javierm0n0 i used to watch their podcast all the time, but they stopped doing face cams and stuff. Idk. I don’t watch it as much as I used to, but I’ll give that episode a listen. Thanks.
@@nighthawkcm8872 np
There is a show on I think Hulu called the dale. It's all about this. Might be HBO too
Regular Car Reviews has a really good story on this. It's available on TH-cam and as a podcast
Anyone obsessed enough with Ayn Rand to name a company after her is a huge red flag lol
This entire story was a rollercoaster!
What happened to the guy that was in the "audience" that James always talked to??? I miss him, bring him back!
Sadly he became Jamesina and she moved to Massachusetts
@@desdicadoric and started the first women's car company ran by a man, oops I mean second.
Imagine a time when reporters actually reported stuff.
Hunter’s laptop…….
They do now too, those reports just don't get published.
Let's go, Brandon!
Imagine thinking everything is a conspiracy lol
Now they just bury the hatchet and move on.
I did NOT have Tucker Carlson on my Donut Bingo card. What a ride.
You guys are the best thing on TH-cam. James never stop making videos please.
Donut doing true crime? I'm in.
Car culture has a shitton of stuff like this .
I remember watching that Unsolved Mysteries episode as a kid (hard to forget a car that looks like that) and never realized that she was caught.
Yo I've always been a car guy, and have loved this channel, but I recently showed my GF donut media and she has fallen in love with pumphrey🤣, every time I put it on she gets all happy and says " hey its my favorite TH-camr (pumphrey ofc) , she now understands my love for cars and has found a way to understand my love for cars and their history thanks to this man 😁
probably the best car insurance ad ive ever seen
the best video on the Dale is RCR but donut did an awesome job bringing the tale of the Dale to a bigger audience 👏
I don't regret not skipping that ad segment
lol At 12:53 I died laughing thinking he was going to say “the Nurburgring” instead of “the road.”
You guys do such a great job of story telling. Love it!
Always wanted you to tell this story, very well done. Thank you
I'm pretty sure there's a podcast episode about it! I've definitely heard this story before in a donut video
This may get buried, but this video is drop-dead amazing. You guys are killing it!
I see what you did there😂
That cyber truck clip will never stop being hilarious
"I swear im not making this up... dale texas". I havent laughed that hard in a while.
I was wondering why I did not remember this incident until I heard the years involved…1973 - 1974. I was at Missouri trying to graduate with an Accounting Degree. Still, I thought I was keeping up with the world. I guess not. Very interesting video. Thank you. Reid.
Indeed. Keeping up with the world was completely different back then though. We live in some damn crazy times these days.
Comments like this make me realize why everybody thinks the world is a hellhole now. Every single bad thing that’s happened is instantly known to everyone. We need to stop reading so much news all the time, it’s so easy to feel hopeless that way.
Would love an episode on lemans/group c racing in the late 80s/early 90s! An episode on dtm or btcc racing would be sick too!!
This will Included Rotary Engines ? (: 🙌
DTM, YES!
James looks great, keep it up man definitely look like you are in a healthier state! 😃
A fascinating story told in a very (and surprisingly) sympathetic way. Props to you, James!
Exactly what i was thinking, I love the tone they used in this. Donut is nice people.
@@sethmarcell1131 it’s not nice to support mentally ill criminals in their delusions
Sympathetic? To a fucking con artist? Y'all need to seriously check your mental health if you feel sympathy towards someone who fucking stole money from people.
Whats there to sympathize on when a person is stealing peoples money? Smh
@@kjh4112 I feel like there's too much sympathy because of transgenderism in this video i could care less about the persons gender.
Healthiest James has looked in a long time, whatever you are doing it's working man!
Yeah, he got pretty rough looking a few weeks ago and I was actually pretty concerned. He was way too red and flustered looking.
"Faces charges of grand theft"....
Me: AUTO!!
This is my absolute favorite episode of your show. Very well done and well written. Nicely done, James.
I contacted the zebra to find me car insurance and then they blew up my phone will calls, texts and emails 24/7 for a week. Don't recommend
same. perfect sponsor for an episode on trans people
Just like every other company
@@fauxtool952 go on, do tell more
@@fauxtool952 why even have the "faux" if you're such an actual tool
I tried the Zebra, it gave me 1 option for insurance, and now I'm getting a massive influx of spam emails everyday that get around the spam/junk filters
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The fact she named her company after a FAILED fictional car company is befitting lmao
I love these Donut Media mini documentaries. Putting that unique Donut take on a very compelling story in Automotive History, really gets me excited about learning more about history in general. Channels like Donut make watching and listening to automotive history, fun and entertaining as Jeremy Clarkson has done for every documentary he has narrated for the BBC, Top Gear, and The Grand Tour. I'm anxiously looking forward to the next video.
Upto speed is one of the best series to ever grace the entire face of the golugolu. Thank you Jimmy.
golugolu
Well this episode escalated quickly...
"Apple... the guys who make the best watch" was really funny
Love the up to speed series. Would love to see an up to speed for DeTomaso and/or Mosler!
Do an up to speed on Tatra finally. They have everything. 3rd oldest car manufacturer, being copied by Porsche, Dakar trucks, Mad Max trucks, starring in Kanye video, big aircooled V8s, killing nazis. Like what more do you want?
The same Tatra who makes trolleys for Euroup?
@@CaseysTrains At some part of history (the early 1900's) they were a part of the same company Ringhoffer-Tatra. Ringhoffer making trolleys/trams in Prague, and Tatra making vehicles in Kopřivnice.
you should make an up to speed episode on the chaos hypercar really interesting(trust)
The Zebra really said “we want to work with you but we think invisible people would be more personable than any of you guys”
no they didn't want to put their face on a scam company probably
how about a series following how to get started in track days and going through what happens at a track day going from novice to advanced classes and maybe even through race school to get licensed as an amateur racer...
This was a phenomenal, fascinating episode, well done all!
I think the "pleatherdome" joke was top notch
That was an elite joke for sure
I gotta tell you the Donut is one of the few car influencers I follow on TH-cam because you guys give to the ACLU you have humor and common sense and also a true sense of fairness and you don’t subscribe to the bullshit that Fox News pumps out. I am proud to be one of your subscribers.
That Zebra ad was so creative and funny it reminded me of Geico commercials
Every since I found yalls channel around 2-3 years ago I always hoped y’all would make an episode on the Dale!
Still waiting for an up to speed on James dad!
I love stuff like this that I can listen to while driving home without losing much from not seeing the video. TH-cam podcasts
Hey, did i mention that i really like Donut? I do. Keep up the good work, this was good content.
Trikes need a weight bias over the 2 wheel end for stability. With that layout most of the weight is in the real
What a journey. Well done, team. Keep up the great work.
If it is just a container around a motorcycle, why was this hard to reach the point where you can build a factory for this? What was charging them so much money that they could not build a single unit despite millions of pre-order deposits?
They were.....drum rolls.... completing their basic mechanical engineering degrees.
Damnn there is no way not to click with such a title 😍 Love the uploads as always donut .. i take alot of editing tricks from ur videos .. so thanks 😝😜
@sitiy "23" Quit spamming
This was way better than the HBO doc. Great job, Donut!
yah this is a story i knew, and it's complicated. this retelling focused on the important things and not the gawky parts. respect. fosho gawk away though; what a crazy life they led. the donut podcast is excellent followup for this amazing story.
@@SB-pf5rc I completely agree, I knew the Dale story too and was really interested in hearing James's retelling of it and it was, of course, great.
i had watched a documentary with my dad about this brand years ago, and always forgot the name of the brand but not the story. thank you for reuniting me with this bombshell of a company😂
Wow James, I really enjoyed this mini-documentary man......never knew about any of this, and I was born in '70! thank you!
No one is asking the very obvious question: “What role did L.W Right play in all of this?”… Surely he was involved somehow… Probably the test driver during the investor demo.
Yo, dude, thank you for this facinating story of the Dale. I never knew and there was a lot that you revealed in detail. Awesome job of covering this subject and her/him. Peace!
So basically " Dale " was the cybertruck of the 70s
The original “Girlboss Gatekeep Gaslight.”
best comment
What a story, I wonder how I never heard or read anything about this before. It's like a movie could be made about this and it could win an Academy Award.
The Elio was a scam from the start, they were looking at three or four front different wheel drive deals, mostly the three cylinder Metro or Suzuki engines, but the Goons at GM didnt want to sell those surplus engines to a competitor, most people I heard, never got their deposits back, for a car that was never built
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Regular Car Reviews did another amazing video on this! Definitely worth a watch!!!
I would watch if rcr wasn't so pretentious. The guy really is making use of his worthless English degree.
Rcr is awesome all around
I’m a Trans guy 8.5 months on testosterone. I love cars and today I had some really hard things happen, I was harassed in public today and treated pretty coldly by people who knew me before transitioning, I came home and put a donut video on. I wasn’t prepared for someone I admire to openly support my community after all of the hardships I’ve been through lately, I just cried for the first time in months. It feels lately like everyone hates us so seeing someone openly defend us is beyond refreshing, so thank you. Ordering merch now
youll never be a man.
Shoutout to Roman from Regular Car Reviews! Remember watching the story of the Dale!
As a Trans person who is into cars, almost all of the car shows I watch on TH-cam use lazy jokes about gender non conforming people. The way you speak about Trans issues in this story is A++ Thanks for the respectful language and not shying away from having a full conversation, Rather than centering it around her gender, for clicks, as the media did back in the day, and usually still do. Great work team
Stoked as to be a watcher.
Can we please get an up to speed on top gear/grand tour pls??
The promotional picture with her holding a siggy, those days 😁
why am i finding this out on donut? wow awesome best story
Incredible story, amazing story teller - thank you
This became a wild ride in a hurry
Why did he make it seem like we don’t think 70mpg is absolutely amazing right now🤣
Average mpg of a new kei car is 85
@@clarksonoceallachain8536but the kei car is 5 leagues below an average car, even in europe
Because mpg hasn’t really changed unless you can pay for it, saving the planet and being eco friendly is more about money, just like everything else.
0:43 "I love big wheels" - shows 16" wheel xD
Very interesting story and really well done! Great job, James & Donut! 🐧
I hope Donut will do an episode of Up to Speed about Proton, a Malaysian car company which co-op with Mitsubishi. Or even Perodua, the second Malaysian car company co-op with Toyota and Daihatsu.
@Hall of Legends 6365 The Bricklin!!! I was trying think of that a couple of weeks ago but I could jog the brain enough to recall the name. THANK YOU!
This person should not be a trans icon. She was a con artist that stole people's money and was rightfully imprisoned.
Yeah, I'm a bit confused why he's painting her in a sympathetic light. Would he have done the same with someone like bernie madoff?
@@brianho4933 I didn't think our guy here is painting this criminal in a sympathetic light so much as they're clarifying that being transgender wasn't the thing that they did wrong - the actual crimes were. If there was one thing an average person knew about that criminal back then, it's that they were transgender. Forget the actual crimes, they were painted as a transgender deviant. That was primary in the media, and it was fucked up.
Honestly, Donut tends to go neutral with scandal people talks, giving both thumbs ups and thumbs downs depending on how interesting the specific things they did were. Neither support nor villianizing, but a full focus on the 'wow'. This was all about on-par with the talk on the Nissan Ex-CEO.
Agreed 100%, and the reporter who covered this, and exposed this fraud did great work, so more people did not scammed, and his Son Tucker should not have been dragged into the mud(HBO did the same BS).
Even when in hiding in the 80's she/he/it/whatever you want to call them, pulled flowers on the corner scams conning people into working for her for next to nothing, while still dogging the cops, and the IRS, and the family admitted it all on camera.
@@Heimdal001 That would be fine except he didn’t really cover that at all. I never knew about this until recently, so didn’t know how this was covered in the media. He presented it as a story about a woman dreaming big and trying to make a name for herself, only to not live up to expectations. Oh and she was actually born a man. And tucker carlson’s dad’s a pos for exposing her. At no point did he delve into how the media portrayed her and that it had nothing to do with the fact that she scammed people out of their money and it was only because she was a man identified as a woman. To me, at best this came off as a sympathetic take on the story of a con artist and at worst, its straight up gaslighting.
No one should be, let's be honest
I can’t believe this just came out what an amazing episode
You guys outdid yourselves with this one. Great work!
Liz was such a con. All attributes aside. She was a con artist. Everything was a lie. The Lady and the Dale on HBO was a great series.
Even Liz her/him self was a lie....😉
@@lightning95sc except it wasn’t? She literally lived as a woman. That’s truth
@@djalex8080 Did you not see the wink? It was a joke. I'm well aware of the story....long before this video. I do have a question, though. Where did the 5 kids come from?
@@kjh4112 what does the year have to do with anything?
Did you not see where I said it was a joke? Stop taking yourself so seriously...I don't.
@@kjh4112 You are reading wayyy too much into a comment that DID NOT mean any of what you think. You don't know me and DO NOT assume you do from an erroneous comment made on the interwebs. This is a dead conversation...let it go!!!
IIRC, there was an article I read about the Dale flipping during it's test run and that it was actually caused by a civilian getting too close to the Dale, since they were curious about it's design, and inadvertently hitting the car thus making it flip.
Ah yes, hitting a car, making it flip. Like a 70's cartoon.
The cyber truck is objectively garbage, yes. The windows get all the bad press despite doing exactly what you expect from bullet proof glass. Anyone who has spent any amount of time in an MRAP in a combat zone saw that end result happening. You would swear the 6 year olds were throwing faster than Randy Johnson in his prime.
You right lmao but people don’t care lol which sucks
Not so related, but any idea why the Cybertruck hasn't been built yet? Apart from the microchip shortage issue. It's been *four years* since they announced it and unveiled the design, and other companies they beat to the EV market, like Ford and GM, are already producing electric trucks, in low numbers because of the chip shortage, but still producing.
@@damilolaakanni my father was an 18 wheeler mechanic for almost 40 years before he physically couldn't do it anymore and he summed up all electronic trucks like this.
The amount of weight in batteries needed to pull a standard truckers load load with current technology isn't realist, safe, financially possible and would probably collapse most bridges in the US right now.
My opinion on the cyber truck though is this. Who is buying a truck to do real truck shit and wants to make it electric? It works in big cities for attention, but right now it can't fulfill the practical needs of people who require a truck.
Elon is a smart man. He probably saw that his buying base was LA and NY and realized it wasn't worth the effort. So he made better space ships.
@@damilolaakanni also, no. EVs were made decades ago by many different companies. They just never caught on.
@@Ryanbmc4 I mean, a lot of trucks are just status symbols these days.
The sad thing is a lot of people would've bought a Dale. A motorcycle powered sports car is a neat idea.
closest thing i know to that is the weird sport version of the volkswagen XL1 with a ducati engine
They do sell the slingshot from polaris but its more of a fair weather toy than a daily. Totally agree would love a simple point a to b commuter like this
@@penelopeboivin3191 it was a neat car, but its still extremely overpriced when it came out (I think around $100k) despite being a 70-ish hp, TDI hybrid three-wheeler which is one hell of a combination