Exactly. But mobsters weren't the tree huggers they are today. "Turn that bugger off Johnny. Me and the boys still want an Earth to exist for us to enjoy this loot, see?" - 21 century robber.
Interesting fact, Cadillac was the first company to introduce electric start. In 1908 a woman was driving her car accross a bridge when it stalled. Because of the difficult starting technique of the crank start she couldn't get it started. So a man named Byron carter stopped to help her. While he was cranking, the engine backfired and spun the crank around backwards hitting him in the face and breaking his jaw. Gangrene top effect and he died later that year. Carter was a close friend of Cadillac so he decided to get rid of the crank start because no one would ever be hurt by his cars again. So he contact Charles Kettering, who worked for DELCO at the time and contracted him to being an electric starter/ generator for his cars. By 1912 they were completed and installed in the Cadillac model 30. And the rest is history.
Out means use your right hand from the right side, it's about body position, if he did the other side, facing opposite direction, that's the issue, not literally which hand you use
I have a 1946 International Farmall Super A tractor with a belly mower that I use to cut my grass with. About 10 years ago the electric starter went out and I had to use the hand crank. Cranked it probably 50 times with no problem, but I messed up and was standing in the wrong position and it kicked back. I let go, but the crank handle got me on the back swing. Broke my right arm (radius) and wrist, shattering 3 metacarpals. I was in various casts and splints for 6 months and it was over a year before I could bear my full body weight on my right wrist. Even at a low 6.0:1 compression ratio, the kickback is no joke on those things!
I just imagine the robbers and the cops looking at each other frantically as they both try to start the engines then start driving at 10 miles per hour
@daleyfun2247 honestly I would rather deal with horse dung than gallons of oil spilled on the floor, plus cleaning up any that spilled on the car. But I get your point
@@lasercat538 as a person who has both horses and cars, I can tell you first hand that a horse is guaranteed to crap. If you manage to spill gallons of oil then that on you. Never did that before, and I change my own oil. No stains in my shop floor.
My family still has the model T my great grandfather purchased in the 1910's, I can say, they are a bit of a hassle to start, but once they do start, they are absolutely gorgeous.
Actually, the Ford model T held the world's record for acceleration for first ten feet of travel from a dead stop until the 427 Cobra came on the scene.
*This video is literally arguing that "getaway cars are always turned off until the getaway begins" even though everyone leaves their getaway cars running lol* This guy should try to make money being a Russian troll bot.. *because his arguments make no sense at all.*
@@spaceengineeringempire4086I recall seeing a 1920-30 something steam car, that had a condenser to catch steam coming out and turn it back to water for the tank, and used some sort of gas for the boiler, so no smoke at all.
@@paladinbirdy6032 did YOU know it? Do other people coming in this little niche of the internet know it? Ever heard of expounding on what others say? You know, adding more information for the people who don't have it yet? You should try it sometime. :) Lots of what I say on here is not for the person to whom I am replying, but to the periphery, the other people who come in and read comments. Also the guys with T's who live near me had no idea they were dual fuel... until I showed them.
@@Mr-pn2ehIf you go outside the US you'll find cars from the mid 90s that were still running a carburetor and a distributor with electronic ignition (meaning no points but still very basic).
@@Mr-pn2eh I've got a 1988 f250. No computer. Diesel. Manual. Its like a new car without all the annoyances. Good mpg for it's size. Turbo so power is ok. Should go another 200k miles easy
And yet, it was a revolutionary car and Henry Ford was a genius. It was so rugged that you could go offroading in it. Its engine was used for tractors and tanks as well, and it was often stripped down to even serve as conveyor belt lines. If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -Ford
@@tsm688 H Ford is not an epitome of technical innovator. He is mostly remembered for ruthless exploitation of the working class, failed stupid kauchuk tree plantation in Brasil, goofy "fordit" material made out of hay and shit, and for his prolific antisemitism. It is known that A.Hitler put H.Ford's portrait in his office, and surely - Ford put Hitlers in his. What a match! No surprise that boneheads praising him.
At that point the blues already captured you, book you, went off duty for the day and spent the remainder of their careers in service until they retired.
If it's your getaway car you don't shut it off no matter what it is being a model a or model t a 2023 whatever it is that's like a rule-of-thumb you never shut off the getaway car
That’s a before Model-T. All model-Ts came with some form of a roof whether it was hardtop or convertible. Also they had 2 doors as Ford came with the 2 door system in 1909.
You know, if you would've set the spark to BATTERY instead of magneto you could have probably started the T in a half crank....(assuming everything else is set right and functioning properly)
At least it isn't Stanley Steamer. Imagine having to wait an hour for the boiler to heat up. 😂 In all seriousness though, the T was quite useful. It was very off road capable because there were no good roads and you could use it to power a sawmill, cook food (no joke. There was an accessory for this), generate electricity, and fit it with tracks and skis for winter use. The list just keeps going...
A lot of People: “Gosh, I want to go back to Simple Times.” Simple Times, Contextually Speaking: Cars had one door on the opposite side, you had to push a bunch of levers both inside and underneath, and then crank it repeatedly, all to just start the thing up! What Simple Times really mean: Apply the Brake, and push an Ignition button to start your Engine!
DO NOT start the car the way this doofus did. Lift up on the handle with your left hand. A half turn is all it takes. If the handle were to kick back, it'll roll off your hand, actually moving your arm out of the way. (It's still a bit scary, though) If you're ever pushing DOWN on the crank, that's when you'll get your arm broke. I guess you could pull the crank sideways a half turn across the TOP of its rotation with your right hand. But the wire to operate the choke is on the left side of the radiator where you couldn't reach it. If the car is already warmed up you wouldn't need the choke.
@@trayvanderbilt1138 it's a quote from Henry Ford about the model t. They only came in black so he told people they "could have any color, as long as it's black"....🤔 Yeah no racism here bud, take that malarkey elsewhere.
Well actually you don’t need to turn off the gas under the gas tank and the levers should already be set from when you parked the car after the last drive. Just turn the key to battery, go out front and turn the crank while pulling the choke wire. Also, never ever ever turn the crank all the way around … just set it at 7:00 and pull up. I drive a 1923 model T every day. A very reliable car and starts a quickly as any modern car.
You drive one of these every day? I have so many questions: What do you do when it’s raining/snowing? Do you have to take side roads everywhere and stay off the highway? How many groceries can you fit in the car? Do you have to wear goggles and a hat when you drive it? What sort of gas mileage do you get? How do you get new tires and I guess parts for the thing?
Imagine the 1910s era cops watching from afar as the bank robbers start their model ts like "should we do something?" "Nah we got time, light another blunt."
I had a '26 Coupe, and I heard that by then, old Henry Ford was letting them out of the factory short of a few ponies in the corral. Mine would do 35 mph on a flat road at full throttle. I once got it up to 50 going down hill with a tail wind according to my brother who was following me in my Jeep Cherokee.
You probably know this, when you have to climb a long hill. you have to do it backwards because the model T had no fuel pump and depended on gravity to feed the carburetor.
By the time my '26 was made, they put the gas tank under the dash, so that wasn't a problem. Earlier ones where the gas tank was under the seat had a problem with that. Yep, old Henry and the crew designed and tested it in Michigan where it it pretty flat.@@guypehaim1080
Yes, after all that, you can make your getaway in the most distinct car on the street, which will also be moving at a snail's pace in comparison to the cops.
you would probably be out of there faster by running but also i would not trust that thing at anything more than 50km/h which it can supposedly achieve.
We always joked what a bad getaway car our 76 mecerdes 240D would be. It seemed like you had to hold the start.lever halfway out forever waiting on the glowplugs, and then the car barely got moving, especially if you had the ac on. I think I got it over 80 once, and that was on a long hill.
My grandfather was born in 1919 in a little town called Sunset Texas, and he used to tell me about how his grandfather had a model T and that it was real easy to start because they had done work to the Magneta where you could push it over with one finger and start model T
In 1995, an owner of a fully restored 1908 Ford demonstrated how to crank start the car and invited me to try it. Actually it was very easy to start (as long as the engine was properly tuned and properly maintained). Of course there weren’t too many trained auto mechanics who knew how to do proper auto maintenance at the time.
Cars have come a long way since then. I remember when the dimmer switch was on the floor, now they are on the steering column. Initially, older people had trouble using the column mounted dimmer switches. Yeah,they kept getting their foot hung up in the steering wheel. 😊
First of all, they keep the car running and the getaway driver is just that, he doesn’t leave the car. Second, the getaway vehicle doesn’t need to be perfect, it only has to be faster than the cops… and it was
Love it! A very old farmer told me they ran out of twist tobacco and coffee beans, in the 30s, they didn't feel like walking in the slush and snow, so they laced old farm rope around the spokes and tires for traction. He said it worked! R.I.P
When they were talking about how fast you could go with the Model T compared to a horse, it reminded me of the Michelin Tire Company’s tour guides. They were the reason why cars started be associated with freedom during that time, because a car could take you places the train couldn’t reach, within a fraction of the time needed to get there by horse. When these Michelin guides started mapping American routes, road trips became much more common because the guides gave 2 pieces of info that most people didn’t have which made it impossible to go on these long trips. They didn’t know the routes, and they didn’t know how to maintain or sometimes even drive their car. The Michelin guide had in depth explanations on how to repair your car, where all the filling stations were, how to safety make a turn and react to other cars on the road, and what the best routes are to reach your destination. That guide was a monumental step in making cars the dominant mode of transport.
1). you left out the gravity feed fuel tank(no pump). If you went up too steep a grade, it stalled because of no gas. I met an old gentleman one time, who told of going across country, with his brother in one. At some point after reaching the west coast, they had to push it up a mountain road.
“Keep the car runnin, Johnny. Me an the boys will be right back with the loot, see?”
Hmm, I alway wonder why in those old movies they left the car running.
Exactly. But mobsters weren't the tree huggers they are today.
"Turn that bugger off Johnny. Me and the boys still want an Earth to exist for us to enjoy this loot, see?" - 21 century robber.
Best anti car theft 💯
And the driver would already be behind the wheel, the door would provide access for the rest of the guys. When there's a will there's a way.
*drives away slower than a good horse with a skilled rider*
Interesting fact, Cadillac was the first company to introduce electric start.
In 1908 a woman was driving her car accross a bridge when it stalled. Because of the difficult starting technique of the crank start she couldn't get it started. So a man named Byron carter stopped to help her. While he was cranking, the engine backfired and spun the crank around backwards hitting him in the face and breaking his jaw. Gangrene top effect and he died later that year. Carter was a close friend of Cadillac so he decided to get rid of the crank start because no one would ever be hurt by his cars again. So he contact Charles Kettering, who worked for DELCO at the time and contracted him to being an electric starter/ generator for his cars. By 1912 they were completed and installed in the Cadillac model 30. And the rest is history.
And caddy were the first to have conventional driving controls like 3 pedals znd gear stick
Thanks for the information.
Cadillac aka Henry Leland 👌
@@orderofmagnitude-TPATP Ah yes l remember seeing that on old top gear! 🐁
Thanks for the history lesson! 📖
“You gotta do it with your left hand”
Meanwhile: Proceeds to crank with both hands
Out means use your right hand from the right side, it's about body position, if he did the other side, facing opposite direction, that's the issue, not literally which hand you use
Hes wrong. Itl break your arm if you forget to flip the magneto switch 😅
@@Zeina107💀💀
It can legit break your arm.
I have a 1946 International Farmall Super A tractor with a belly mower that I use to cut my grass with. About 10 years ago the electric starter went out and I had to use the hand crank. Cranked it probably 50 times with no problem, but I messed up and was standing in the wrong position and it kicked back. I let go, but the crank handle got me on the back swing. Broke my right arm (radius) and wrist, shattering 3 metacarpals. I was in various casts and splints for 6 months and it was over a year before I could bear my full body weight on my right wrist. Even at a low 6.0:1 compression ratio, the kickback is no joke on those things!
I just imagine the robbers and the cops looking at each other frantically as they both try to start the engines then start driving at 10 miles per hour
Lmao. Whoever starts there's first wins.
Well I see why men in those day stayed strong they had a workout every time they drove 💀💀😭
*40mph
Leaving the car running. That's why you need a get away driver
Which was 3x the speed limit. 😆
"YES! WE STARTED IT!"
Just in time for your lawyer to drive it to the station for the interrogation.
"I'd take a horse over this any day"
-John Marston
Yes!!!!
I got a Plan John you and Arthur go rob the bank and me and Micah wait here
Never had a car poop on my shop floor though.
@daleyfun2247 honestly I would rather deal with horse dung than gallons of oil spilled on the floor, plus cleaning up any that spilled on the car. But I get your point
@@lasercat538 as a person who has both horses and cars, I can tell you first hand that a horse is guaranteed to crap. If you manage to spill gallons of oil then that on you. Never did that before, and I change my own oil. No stains in my shop floor.
Pro tip: have a getaway driver waiting in the running car.
This thing like a hellcat prolly use up like 2 gallons a minute
Exactly
@@imtrxshy6977*7,57086 liters
@@imtrxshy6977not even close
@@imtrxshy6977you get 13-21 miles per gallon fam
Imagine wearing a full three-piece suit and a hat on a blazing Summer day, and you have to do all that bullshit lol
id be half naked until i start that mf and i dont think it has ac 😂
No wonder Thomas Shelby aka Ernie McJingle used horses
To be fair most young people can't imagine wearing a 3 piece suit
@@jacobishii6121THE THREE PIECE IS REEEAAAAALLLLL
(I'm not a 1 piece fan I'm just dumb)
I thought you said t h r e e s p e c i e s s u i t
My family still has the model T my great grandfather purchased in the 1910's, I can say, they are a bit of a hassle to start, but once they do start, they are absolutely gorgeous.
*Inside the prison cell:* "But I was just trying to save some fuel boys.."
Rich man had cars. Poor man had horses. Now rich man has horses and poor man has car.
-master oogway
Both drink during the day though
Poor Man got legs
@@nczioox1116nope that’s just you😂
@@Yolaf_supply and demand at ita finest
Actually, the Ford model T held the world's record for acceleration for first ten feet of travel from a dead stop until the 427 Cobra came on the scene.
If you ever get to ride in one they are surprisingly quick
thats a new metric..."eyoo whats that 0-10 feet time?"
I don't know, but it was due to the planetary transmission the Ford had.@@mikester9er
@@vancetrella1330but very hard to race away in, seeing the throttle is on the steering column which can get tricky on quick curves.
I highly doubt it, I would assume any 2 stroke car would be faster off the line.
*steam power has entered the chat*
Some steam cars had a 30 minute start up procedure lol
True, but you could keep the boiler going so the car was ready to go, without a running engine to attract any attention.
@@buddyclem7328 the smoke from the boiler
*This video is literally arguing that "getaway cars are always turned off until the getaway begins" even though everyone leaves their getaway cars running lol*
This guy should try to make money being a Russian troll bot.. *because his arguments make no sense at all.*
@@jonslg240why thicc letters
@@spaceengineeringempire4086I recall seeing a 1920-30 something steam car, that had a condenser to catch steam coming out and turn it back to water for the tank, and used some sort of gas for the boiler, so no smoke at all.
"A runabout! I'LL STEAL IT! NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!!!"
*Proceeds to steal **_his_** own car*
The cop: Nah bro you don't have to getaway, just rest.
Model T Nerd Dept.: Set the spark to Battery, not Magneto. Then switch to magneto once it starts.
Also... are you aware the T is dual fuel? They would run on ethanol or gasoline, and they ran a lot better without overheating on ethanol.
@@SweatyFatGuy Bro just said he's a model T nerd and you just told him the most obvious fact about Model Ts anyone could have thought of
@@paladinbirdy6032 did YOU know it? Do other people coming in this little niche of the internet know it? Ever heard of expounding on what others say? You know, adding more information for the people who don't have it yet?
You should try it sometime. :)
Lots of what I say on here is not for the person to whom I am replying, but to the periphery, the other people who come in and read comments.
Also the guys with T's who live near me had no idea they were dual fuel... until I showed them.
@@SweatyFatGuy name checks out
@@SweatyFatGuyshit I didn't know it, but now I do!
Two words, getaway driver. Keeps it running while he waits for you.
i dont think it would stay on long enough
Well he didnt mention how "fast" it can go
It uh
It only has one seat.
@@barnabasrsnags482842 mph
Or she
"It was marginally better than a horse"
Cheaper to feed.
and you can have it any color you wanted. just as long as its black.
“I could walk faster than this peice of crap”
-John Marston 1911
Edit: bro you guys gotta chill with the like button 💀
RIP
Exactly
piece *
No
Its meant for the edit
Don’t worry about likes little kid , just worry about the future and important things
GREAT GRANDPA BE DRAG RACING WITH THIS BAD BOY 🔥🔥🥶🥶
I got to change the magneto on a 1915 Model T in high school. It was a trip to work on a hundred year old vehicle that still drove.
I bet you attracted quite a lot of attention!
This actually makes me miss the simplicity of older cars. Maybe not Model T old, but pre-everything-must-be-computer-controlled old.
70s basically
I’m surprised how you’re not getting a boner over this like manuals
@@Mr-pn2ehIf you go outside the US you'll find cars from the mid 90s that were still running a carburetor and a distributor with electronic ignition (meaning no points but still very basic).
Amen to that.
@@Mr-pn2eh I've got a 1988 f250. No computer. Diesel. Manual.
Its like a new car without all the annoyances. Good mpg for it's size. Turbo so power is ok. Should go another 200k miles easy
And yet, it was a revolutionary car and Henry Ford was a genius. It was so rugged that you could go offroading in it. Its engine was used for tractors and tanks as well, and it was often stripped down to even serve as conveyor belt lines.
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses." -Ford
The car was garbage, compared to the more or less modern cars of that time manufactured by Cadillac or Oldsmobile
@@odissey2 Eh, not true. Ford did what he claimed and the car was widely used by all kinds.
@@gammadion by 1927 Model T looked archaic
he made a lot of good engineering guesses too. Stuff like vanadium steel bearings which is an obvious decision now but brand new and risky in the day
@@tsm688 H Ford is not an epitome of technical innovator. He is mostly remembered for ruthless exploitation of the working class, failed stupid kauchuk tree plantation in Brasil, goofy "fordit" material made out of hay and shit, and for his prolific antisemitism. It is known that A.Hitler put H.Ford's portrait in his office, and surely - Ford put Hitlers in his. What a match! No surprise that boneheads praising him.
Because of you I realize I need to work on cardio thank you sir also love the content
This must be why they always had a 'wheel man' in the get-away car'......(*insert eye roll here*)
At that point the blues already captured you, book you, went off duty for the day and spent the remainder of their careers in service until they retired.
Indeed
100th like for you bro 👍
If it's your getaway car you don't shut it off no matter what it is being a model a or model t a 2023 whatever it is that's like a rule-of-thumb you never shut off the getaway car
It's also a good rule if you pull up to a sketchy area and you're not sure if you want to get out yet. :3
Of course. 😄
Video concept was just a humorous way to show all the steps involved starting up one of these things.
@@thebasketballhistorian3291 oh I understand that there
But then global warming 😂😂😂
@@LynxStarAuto Well, in that case, just leave your getaway bicycle running! :3
Not to mention the fact you'd be like the only one driving a Model T in the area, so it'd be a little hard to blend in or anything.
Ye unless he goes to a old cowpoke area where they sometimes ride these
There are two model T's that cruise around my hometown. But, my homeboy owned them both, so.....
That's why you need a fiux capacitor in it
It depends when. There were more than 15 millions produced.
That’s a before Model-T. All model-Ts came with some form of a roof whether it was hardtop or convertible. Also they had 2 doors as Ford came with the 2 door system in 1909.
I always thought you just had to turn the crank. This is way worse
You know, if you would've set the spark to BATTERY instead of magneto you could have probably started the T in a half crank....(assuming everything else is set right and functioning properly)
🤓
@@Hulksmashbigman🤡
@@HulksmashbigmanAvarage 10 yr old:
@@Farquaad-Gaming touché
Crazy how far we've come. This will make someone grateful to drive any modern car.
_"I'll steal it! _*_NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW!"_*
The police just watching as the robbers attempt to crank start the car
This is why you need a getaway driver and the car running. Duh!!!!
Over 100 years ago cars were for the rich! The model T broke that and was affordable for the masses! It was meant for honest working class people!
Where'd you read that one.
The masses of slughtly less rich people yes
@@censored4christ162 50 percent of America had automobiles by 1910.
Interesting how history repeats itself because now only the rich can afford cars now
@@WitchKing-Of-Angmar
He probably read it the same place you did.
NEVER wrap your hand, or even your thumb, around a car's starter crank! If it were to backfire, you're in for a broken arm!
At least it isn't Stanley Steamer. Imagine having to wait an hour for the boiler to heat up. 😂 In all seriousness though, the T was quite useful. It was very off road capable because there were no good roads and you could use it to power a sawmill, cook food (no joke. There was an accessory for this), generate electricity, and fit it with tracks and skis for winter use. The list just keeps going...
All cars should be so versatile. 😀🔧
Cars should have those features now, instead of being as cheap as possible with defects.
Jay Leno has a couple of steam cars that are ready to drive in minutes if regularly driven. Residual heat from yesterday.
You'r mentioning of the steam cars goes to show how at the time the model t was actually a pretty decent getaway car at the time
@@creditcrazy597 The steam cars were way, way faster though than a Model T.
Looks easier than crank-starting a horse
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A lot of People: “Gosh, I want to go back to Simple Times.”
Simple Times, Contextually Speaking: Cars had one door on the opposite side, you had to push a bunch of levers both inside and underneath, and then crank it repeatedly, all to just start the thing up!
What Simple Times really mean: Apply the Brake, and push an Ignition button to start your Engine!
DO NOT start the car the way this doofus did. Lift up on the handle with your left hand. A half turn is all it takes. If the handle were to kick back, it'll roll off your hand, actually moving your arm out of the way. (It's still a bit scary, though) If you're ever pushing DOWN on the crank, that's when you'll get your arm broke.
I guess you could pull the crank sideways a half turn across the TOP of its rotation with your right hand. But the wire to operate the choke is on the left side of the radiator where you couldn't reach it. If the car is already warmed up you wouldn't need the choke.
All that fighting and with an I-4 engine.
Imagine trying to hand crank a 460.
Gears
Not to mention the flat head 4 has a ridiculously low compression ratio too.
Imagine the snap back force of a modern i4 and how hard it'd be to manually crank that mf 😭
Now... imagine hand crank a diesel engine
Uhhh . you can hand crank a tank engine from ww2. But it takes two people
This is why you have a getaway driver and you tell them to keep the car running… 🤦🏼♂️
The police dispatch to bank teller
“Give us half an hour to get there the car needs to be started”
"Saying That The Model T Is The Worst Getaway Car" Me Thinking = Wouldn't The Worst Getaway Car Be A Car Without A Engine?
"you can have any color, as long as its black"
-Henry Ford
@@marvinthemaniac7698 yes sir!
@@justincasey995 good
That's racist 😢..
@@trayvanderbilt1138 it's a quote from Henry Ford about the model t. They only came in black so he told people they "could have any color, as long as it's black"....🤔 Yeah no racism here bud, take that malarkey elsewhere.
Well actually you don’t need to turn off the gas under the gas tank and the levers should already be set from when you parked the car after the last drive. Just turn the key to battery, go out front and turn the crank while pulling the choke wire. Also, never ever ever turn the crank all the way around … just set it at 7:00 and pull up. I drive a 1923 model T every day. A very reliable car and starts a quickly as any modern car.
You drive one of these every day? I have so many questions: What do you do when it’s raining/snowing? Do you have to take side roads everywhere and stay off the highway? How many groceries can you fit in the car? Do you have to wear goggles and a hat when you drive it? What sort of gas mileage do you get? How do you get new tires and I guess parts for the thing?
@@pm1783Parts are surprisingly easy to get! I'm interested in the answers to all the other questions.
Imagine the 1910s era cops watching from afar as the bank robbers start their model ts like "should we do something?" "Nah we got time, light another blunt."
Thus the invention of the get away driver
*starts the vehicle*
Police: congratulations... you have been caught
Our great grandparents deserve respect if they were fortunate to have a car, much less crank it up.
bri'ish people be like: "Make haste Reginald, for the constables are approaching!"
British people of the 1910s might have said that...
The Constable: *" 'ello, 'ello, 'ello. What's all this then?"*
You got a loisance for that there automobile
"A'm fookin' goin' as fast as me arms can crank, ye right twat!" -Reginald, The Scot
I had a '26 Coupe, and I heard that by then, old Henry Ford was letting them out of the factory short of a few ponies in the corral. Mine would do 35 mph on a flat road at full throttle. I once got it up to 50 going down hill with a tail wind according to my brother who was following me in my Jeep Cherokee.
You probably know this, when you have to climb a long hill. you have to do it backwards because the model T had no fuel pump and depended on gravity to feed the carburetor.
By the time my '26 was made, they put the gas tank under the dash, so that wasn't a problem. Earlier ones where the gas tank was under the seat had a problem with that. Yep, old Henry and the crew designed and tested it in Michigan where it it pretty flat.@@guypehaim1080
@@guypehaim1080 depends on the hill.
Yes, after all that, you can make your getaway in the most distinct car on the street, which will also be moving at a snail's pace in comparison to the cops.
you would probably be out of there faster by running but also i would not trust that thing at anything more than 50km/h which it can supposedly achieve.
This start sequence is remarkably similar to starting a small prop plane piston engine!
Perfect replacement for GYM 👌🏼🔥
Imagine the getaway car killing you cause you tried to use the getaway car to getaway
Where the heck did you find one of those?!?! I never though I’d get to see someone start one up in today’s day and age, but somehow you delivered.
We always joked what a bad getaway car our 76 mecerdes 240D would be. It seemed like you had to hold the start.lever halfway out forever waiting on the glowplugs, and then the car barely got moving, especially if you had the ac on. I think I got it over 80 once, and that was on a long hill.
I got to 97 in my 82 240d
@@porsche928s4 maybe they upped the power later on?!
@@stingypaperwaffles I've got 66hp did u have the auto or manual
@@porsche928s4 manual, 4 spd
@@porsche928s4 he definitely had an automatic. The manuals with higher gears could go FAST for what they were
Nah imagine waking up late for work and you gotta do all that
90% of getting caught but 100% Stylin'
**crawl underneath your car**
My grandfather was born in 1919 in a little town called Sunset Texas, and he used to tell me about how his grandfather had a model T and that it was real easy to start because they had done work to the Magneta where you could push it over with one finger and start model T
Crank start is a good way to break your arm.
Not so much if you do it right... which he did NOT.
World’s worst bank robber was a solo act with a getaway car back then.
You actually made a video without having to take turns speaking with a partner. Amazing.
In 1995, an owner of a fully restored 1908 Ford demonstrated how to crank start the car and invited me to try it. Actually it was very easy to start (as long as the engine was properly tuned and properly maintained). Of course there weren’t too many trained auto mechanics who knew how to do proper auto maintenance at the time.
Cars have come a long way since then. I remember when the dimmer switch was on the floor, now they are on the steering column. Initially, older people had trouble using the column mounted dimmer switches. Yeah,they kept getting their foot hung up in the steering wheel. 😊
Don’t shut er off in front of the bank, Johnny…
Lol! Now I know where the term "keep the engine running" comes from!
They probably had a driver
To make the robbery happened the key is to work as a team, it's all about team work 😂
I got an idea. Do another one in black & white, with piano and text.
That was like starting the Citroen!😂 just uh make sure u have more time
Yeah, I remember starting my Citroën 2cv that way a couple of times. Not that many years ago. Wonderful car!
@@Finnec123 I've started my aircooled Beetle with a socket wrench on the generator pulley nut.
@@joeaverager I don't know what a generator pull me nut is. Jk but really? What's it?
My old English teachers has one of these. I will never forget the day he pulled up to school in it.
At least you get to ride away in style😎
First of all, they keep the car running and the getaway driver is just that, he doesn’t leave the car.
Second, the getaway vehicle doesn’t need to be perfect, it only has to be faster than the cops… and it was
Love it! A very old farmer told me they ran out of twist tobacco and coffee beans, in the 30s, they didn't feel like walking in the slush and snow, so they laced old farm rope around the spokes and tires for traction. He said it worked! R.I.P
probably one of the first ideas for tire tread he was probably a black man historically speaking😮😢😅
Jeez back in my day, we could use our voice to turn on the car,
What 15 years in the future is gonna be like 😂
You're thinking of a horse. X3
When they were talking about how fast you could go with the Model T compared to a horse, it reminded me of the Michelin Tire Company’s tour guides. They were the reason why cars started be associated with freedom during that time, because a car could take you places the train couldn’t reach, within a fraction of the time needed to get there by horse. When these Michelin guides started mapping American routes, road trips became much more common because the guides gave 2 pieces of info that most people didn’t have which made it impossible to go on these long trips. They didn’t know the routes, and they didn’t know how to maintain or sometimes even drive their car. The Michelin guide had in depth explanations on how to repair your car, where all the filling stations were, how to safety make a turn and react to other cars on the road, and what the best routes are to reach your destination. That guide was a monumental step in making cars the dominant mode of transport.
"so what you have to do is you have to CRAWL UNDERNEATH YOUR CAR" The part where it just got loud out of nowhere caught me by surprise 🤣🤣
One of very few fords I'd still get
Only when it’s cold👍
Beautiful car! Surprised it made it through the WWII recycle scam.
Ok the first thing u have to do is crawl UNDERNEATH YOUR CAR and then
😂 thanks i needed a good laugh today 😅
"The first thing you gotta do is crawl UNDERNEATH the car and turn the fuEL VALVE"
I definitly gonna remember that
And that is always why you keep the car running. :)
You’re looking more and more like your father
My man explaining his getaway plan to the cops that are... definitely already there lol
I love how the dog in the background was like "what the human doing"
Crazy tip: Don't use it for a getaway car
1). you left out the gravity feed fuel tank(no pump). If you went up too steep a grade, it stalled because of no gas. I met an old gentleman one time, who told of going across country, with his brother in one. At some point after reaching the west coast, they had to push it up a mountain road.
The dog in the background 👁️👄👁️
Or maybe it's because it had 20 Horsepower
That's why in the old days they had a getaway drivers. So they can keep them running. Love classic cars build them . Like your videos
I was fully expecting it to be a lame joke about their lack of speed, but this is way more creative. I love it
What if someone is waiting in the car
If you close your eyes and imagine an excited little dog barking like hurry up when he cranks it up! Lol