Death-defying, Tiger Moth-Engined Thunderbug

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  • Fourth and final film for the edwardians series. It’s the GN Thunderbug, featuring Mark Walker
    Car facts: 1922 GN “THUNDERBUG”, ENGINE FROM A 1908 TIGER MOTH, 42. Litre, 4-speed chain drive
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  • @autofox1744
    @autofox1744 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    That looks utterly terrifying to drive. I want one.

    • @Spartan168
      @Spartan168 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They look really appealing, but I worry about that transmission coming apart right below the seat. Thing is a death trap

  • @liqwiz
    @liqwiz 8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    The joys of riding a motorcycle, in a car.
    Wonderful!

  • @victorhex6380
    @victorhex6380 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    A pair of snips, some pliers, a bit of wire and lets roll. This is what driving is all about.

  • @zzebowa
    @zzebowa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Moths had an inline 4 I thought, the school I was at had a cutaway one. Anyway, how nice to see real vintage cars used in their original, NOW tatty, well worn condition, and appreciated so highly. Well done chaps! Keep at it! :)

    • @puttputt73
      @puttputt73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He said that particular Moth had a Salmson radial, he took two cyl and did a custom crank.

    • @allanbarnes8420
      @allanbarnes8420 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Correct. Tiger Moths didn’t have radial engines

  • @modelcitizen72
    @modelcitizen72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Look up GN Thunderbug.
    Eventually you'll get to the Wikipedia article.
    "Nash and Godfrey hated cogs,
    Built a car with chains and dogs.
    And it worked, but would it if
    They had built it with a diff"

  • @90210sky
    @90210sky 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    one headlight looks evil, so cool!

  • @krtt750
    @krtt750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Mark, You are someone to admire! I wish that I would have been more aware when I was young.

  • @TaralgaBushAdventure
    @TaralgaBushAdventure 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    that 4.2 litre badge is from late 70's Holden cars of Australia, for the smaller 253 V8 they had.

  • @jaysonlee4394
    @jaysonlee4394 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    These look so cool and bet they are s0 fun to drive..

  • @keithfarrell3370
    @keithfarrell3370 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Dirty. Loud. Nasty. Pure beauty

  • @thamesmud
    @thamesmud 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The Tiger moth is a 1930's design with a DH Gipsey engine (inline). The Salmon radial can't be earlier than 1917. Still it's a stonking nice car completely in keeping with the GN specials of the time.

  • @Biokemist-o3k
    @Biokemist-o3k 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mark is such an inspiration!!! The first project I am working on originally was a Morgan /GN special....My plans right now are starting a TH-cam channel and using the machine shop I have assembled to make parts for my Restomod projects. The first one is a 1928 Morgan/MG special 3 wheeler with 4 wheels. I am building a supercharged opposed twin engine from an experimental aircraft. I am casting an adapter out of aluminum to mate that engine to an MG 4 speed manual gearbox connected to an MG differential with juice brakes and beautiful wire wheels. It is an aircraft cloth stretched over a wooden frame over steel sprayed with plasticizer for durability. It will have a Brooklands style Boat-Tail and look exactly like a 20's airplane without a propeller or wings. The next project will be a Boat -Tail Pembleton style cycle car with a BMW R-100 turbocharged opposed twin also mated to an MG 4 speed manual gearbox ending in a 10 bolt limited slip differential and either ceconite covered or mild steel or aluminum painted dark sanguine red or British Racing Green. I am recovering from getting run over by an F350 on my 1957 Harley Panhead and I will be starting as soon as it is warm enough to work outside in the barn here in Pennsylvania. Hope to see you there ....I will be calling my channel Machines and Motors tentatively...

  • @caspar0777
    @caspar0777 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Wonderfull car, thanks for sharing. Cheers from Fance

  • @AtZero138
    @AtZero138 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cool and cool can Be, from Hot Rod Orange County California..

  • @basteagui
    @basteagui 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    these are the coolest pair of guys in the elderly home

  • @ianvital8834
    @ianvital8834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    we need more young lad to takr this kind of cars

  • @themessenger5868
    @themessenger5868 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watch out for that Fokker behind you ! Wicked car.

  • @stevensams8341
    @stevensams8341 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A ripping, cool kit!!

  • @scotttait2197
    @scotttait2197 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Didnt know Farage did classic specials 😂!

  • @LeNovo-zz6id
    @LeNovo-zz6id 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Perfect professional job! Thanks a lot!

  • @leedove7255
    @leedove7255 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My understanding was the engine was a 1908 Riley V Twin crankcase with Salmson Cylinders (from a radial) on it (4.2l).

    • @desmo750f1
      @desmo750f1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes, he says it is two cylinders from a Salmson 9 cyl radial. Apart from the misplaced decimal point (42. vs 4.2) the only issue is the "Tiger Moth" bit and I suspect someone either just got that wrong or used it as a generic term for biplane.

    • @chadmeyer9500
      @chadmeyer9500 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      And he's wrong on all counts. There were no "Tiger Moths" in the 1920s and in the 1930s when they were built they had inline 4-cylinder engines. Its hard to imagine someone using a 1930s airplane name as a "generic term" for biplanes when biplanes had been around for quite a while by the time TIger Moths were built. And you'd certainly expect him to kjnow what he happened to have a couple of cylinders from. It also appears that the last known Salmson 9-cylinder radials (if Wikipedia having articles on them makes them "known") were built in 1917. Kind of old technology if your goal is a "Special" from the 1920s. Especially if you find a "standard G.N." transmission for it.

    • @jodybennett6720
      @jodybennett6720 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Chad Meyer he knows exactly what he's talking about, when he mentions tiger moth cylinders he is talking about an earlier idea he had for making the v twin. The video has been badly edited to cut that part out, and as usual the people at Goodwood mis titled the video as they often do.

    • @williamhearne8612
      @williamhearne8612 ปีที่แล้ว

      Mine too.

  • @georgesears2916
    @georgesears2916 8 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    The description is wrong. This engine isn't 42 litres its 4.2 and I don't think its from a Tiger Moth. Tiger Moths had inverted inline 4 engines called Gipsy Majors not radials and they were made in the 30s, not 1908.
    I enjoyed the video but I wish I knew more about this car. Is there an article on it?

    • @Bruisewillies
      @Bruisewillies 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      I remember this one and another GN were in a copy of Custom Car about 10 years ago. Like others have said, it was Riley crankcases with the barrels and pistons from a Salmson. The other car in the article was a yellow and purple checked one with a Curtiss V8 (or 12?) IIRC.

    • @whalesong999
      @whalesong999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same here. That engine is using two cylinders off of what might have been a radial? There needs to be a better description.

  • @Paradyski
    @Paradyski 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks awesome

  • @zackgeorgly5099
    @zackgeorgly5099 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    2:20 it seems that the age of fans correlates with the age of the car...

  • @JohnJohansen2
    @JohnJohansen2 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    0:17 Wait for meeee...!

  • @koomky
    @koomky 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Super video thanks

  • @stephencausebrook6833
    @stephencausebrook6833 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I saw one for the first time today at Cadwell

  • @NeuKrofta
    @NeuKrofta 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    what an extraordinary bloke

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      you could say that

  • @williamhearne8612
    @williamhearne8612 ปีที่แล้ว

    My understanding is that the engine has an Edwardian Riley V twin crankcase with Anzani Barrels.

  • @Ko4nan
    @Ko4nan 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing!

  • @elosogonzalez8739
    @elosogonzalez8739 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Great car! I'm a bit confused though. The owner said it is a Tiger Moth engine and that it was a 9 Cylinder engine. The Tiger Moth(DH-83) was produced by the DeHaviland aircraft in England and Canada. It was powered by a Gypsy engine. Please help me clarify the engine. There was no 9 Cylinder engine in that automobile. Beautiful! Thanks!

    • @adriantyler6911
      @adriantyler6911 ปีที่แล้ว

      Riley V-Twin crankcase, 2 out of 9 Salmson radial engine barrels and valve gear. Liberty 27 litre V12 con rods, custom Crank…..about it really

    • @MBCGRS
      @MBCGRS ปีที่แล้ว

      Little known fact that the DH 82 Tiger Moth was also manufactured by DH New Zealand.

  • @gerardomartinez8000
    @gerardomartinez8000 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such amazing 😱😱 engienes

  • @gertnood
    @gertnood 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Get the description even close and I might watch the rest...

  • @adriantyler6911
    @adriantyler6911 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mark Walker.....Walkers Crisps...

  • @carlcushmanhybels8159
    @carlcushmanhybels8159 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Click bait, apparently? No giant engine in a GN. Just a nice GN and narrator.

  • @daunteuflay4859
    @daunteuflay4859 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    i love the brits.
    i really do

  • @xXAlmdudlerXx
    @xXAlmdudlerXx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It doesn´t get more steam punk than that.

  • @tobermoryphil
    @tobermoryphil 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Whoever titled this video gets a prize for cramming the most errors in one sentence.He ought to get the sack.

  • @davemorgen3045
    @davemorgen3045 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The owner did say I think,you could build a classic.A new/old motor carraige with some real hearataige. ..

  • @ldnwholesale8552
    @ldnwholesale8552 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    4.2 Holden badge,, they were V8!

  • @theinspector1023
    @theinspector1023 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice. But a Tiger Moth with a radial engine? Where? When?

  • @fyodorseriencha6538
    @fyodorseriencha6538 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Night driving glasses are a good thing nowadays.. but you're just using them to look cool

  • @umvhu
    @umvhu 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Tigermoth first flight was 1931, the engine was the Gipsy Major, an inverted inline 4 cylinder. Is this an information roadwreck?

  • @jonathanturner7182
    @jonathanturner7182 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    The radiator mascot is a ‘Snap dragon’ not a thunder bug. See Norwich Castle Museum Snap

  • @felixmbright
    @felixmbright 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wonder what tiger moth is being referred to here. The aircraft had an inverted inline four.

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      The BS Tiger Moth

  • @gjmob
    @gjmob 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pinch a 4.2 litre badge off a Holden ?

  • @vintagetintrader1062
    @vintagetintrader1062 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Possible a Bristol Jupiter engine top end on a earlier V twin crankcase?

  • @Skoda130
    @Skoda130 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    That's not a tiger moth engine.. A tiger moth has a inline four, with the crank on top. Not a V twin.

    • @carlosdegol8751
      @carlosdegol8751 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      You are perfectly right! The Tiger Moth airplane had its maiden flight on october 26 1931. This engine was built in 1908, so I guess this Tiger Moth was not an aircraft...

  • @normanfawley7379
    @normanfawley7379 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Get it right for Gawd's sake ! That is not the engine out of a Tiger Moth !

  • @hernanjavierlopez306
    @hernanjavierlopez306 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    what is abouth this engine?
    tiger mouth is a lined engined plane...

  • @titchness8487
    @titchness8487 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This might be a daft question, but do you need insurance to drive it? If you do, then how much would it be? Does it need an MOT? And lastly, if you were to build one out of vintage parts, would it be Road legal nowadays, or would it have to be classified as a kit-car?

    • @gerardmontgomery280
      @gerardmontgomery280 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If the chassis/VIN code is over 40 then a car doesn't require an MOT. Anyway the UK has always allowed shed built or small volume cars some leeway.

    • @christianbuczko1481
      @christianbuczko1481 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      MOT rules on cars like that are complex. Some do need an MOT, I've no idea what these cars need though.

    • @jameseastwood4984
      @jameseastwood4984 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You would definitely need insurance and a registration. But as always get in touch with the relevant club (VSCC?) and find someone who's done it before. I'm not a VSCC member but loads of clubs have very active on line forums these days, where you'd likely find a quick answer.

  • @KENKENNIFF
    @KENKENNIFF 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Binkys cars faster than mine, how much does that 2nd headlight weight ?

  • @michaelroberts6893
    @michaelroberts6893 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The tiger moth was fitted with a four cylinder in line engine NEVER a radial!

  • @giovannibenanti919
    @giovannibenanti919 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Can you tell me about that country draught?

  • @vipertwenty249
    @vipertwenty249 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Um - whaaa....?? The Tiger Moth didn't have radial engine. Whatever those engine parts came from - it wasn't a Tiger Moth. I know this because (a) stepfather flew one, and (b) I helped refit a cylinder head on one once (about 40 years ago - doesn't time fly?) - it was an inverted in-line engine.

  • @30-06
    @30-06 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I like GN JAP better but this one’s sweet too!!

  • @isacchris1
    @isacchris1 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's an awesome vehicle but I hope for your sake that's not a gas container siting next to you!

    • @daytona955joop
      @daytona955joop 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Christopher Isac
      Of course it is! If you sit above wildly rotating chains protected by a thin sheet of aluminium you are hardly going to worry yourself over a container of fuel next to you!!

    • @peterrenn6341
      @peterrenn6341 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No, it’s a petrol can (so he’s fine)

  • @giovannibenanti919
    @giovannibenanti919 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi, where is this beautiful country?.

    • @rickrandom6734
      @rickrandom6734 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I think it is some island near Europe.

    • @ohshitnotanotherknob
      @ohshitnotanotherknob 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@rickrandom6734 times have changed, it used to be near Europe.

  • @oscarzt1652
    @oscarzt1652 8 ปีที่แล้ว

    what engine bits did you use then? the tiger moth had a gipsy major and then you said 9 cylinder radial?

    • @Kneedragon1962
      @Kneedragon1962 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Oscar Thorpe Yes, the Radial reference threw me too. Moths had an inline straight 6, with the crank at the top... they were not radials...

    • @oscarzt1652
      @oscarzt1652 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +Kneedragon1962 Tiger Moths had a gipsy major 6.1L inline four cylinder engine and in the description it says "1908 TIGER MOTH, 42. Litre, 4-speed chain drive...."

    • @Kneedragon1962
      @Kneedragon1962 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oscar Thorpe Sorry, four cylinder. I am getting as old as the subject...

  • @MBCGRS
    @MBCGRS ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy knows F-all about aeroplane engines...

  • @manicmechanic448
    @manicmechanic448 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I know what you mean.

  • @specialized29er86
    @specialized29er86 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Vintage car or a Rat Rod?

  • @mutterschied
    @mutterschied 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    One day one real macho biker woulda land on Goodwood facilities and blow half the redaction shack. This here engine is neanmoins one helluva ultrasexy big twin, tasty, growling, kicking and phaenomenal racing one!!
    (English ain't my 1st. language, huh?)

  • @AshleyPomeroy
    @AshleyPomeroy 8 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    So *that's* what a mid-life crisis looks like.

    • @raymondo162
      @raymondo162 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      "that's what a mid-life crisis looks like" if you're a filthy rich public-school wallah.............

    • @mrstandfast2212
      @mrstandfast2212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      That's not a crisis .... it's elemental fun motoring.

  • @dominiquethomas2054
    @dominiquethomas2054 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    bonjour super passion se voir bientot sur les rallyes viens visite ma passion youtub claude leymarie bonne visite et bonnne annee 2018

  • @GoodwoodRR
    @GoodwoodRR  8 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The death defying 1922 Thunderbug. Let us know in the comments which our our classic fearsome Edwardians cars has been your favourite so far? #gwoverdrive

    • @krtt750
      @krtt750 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Aero engined Amilcar! Hispano Suiza power!

    • @anthonyturton8091
      @anthonyturton8091 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Title is wrong. not moth engined or 42 litres. moths did not exist in 1908. and this engine is much more special than that .Does not reflect well on your organisation,
      your vids are fun but......I wish you would fix it