1926 Rickenbacker 4 door sedan
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- Today on what’s it’s like, rickenbacker not the guitar the car Rickenbacker was in business from 1921 through 1927 sold high-quality cars at a medium price point. Named after Eddie Rickenbacker, who was a total bad ass… Eddie Rickenbacker would resign in 1926. The company would. Consequently go into bankruptcy in 1927. Enjoy this episode. =)
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WYR: 1926 Willys Knight (have to honor Toledo) and 1926 Rickenbacker. This car was restored wonderfully and well cared for. Heat Wave Martha Reeves and the Vandellas. Thank you for all the work you put into this, you're awesome ~ Chuck
Awesome choices fantastic job you got this song and band. Congratulations. =)
I always thought the title was
Love is like a heat wave 🤔🤷
Well done 👍👏👏👏👏👏 Take Care ✌️🤠
Great Video. Car Choices; 1926 Rickenbacker, because it's just such an unusual car. 1926 Chandler. An even more oddball and unusual car. I saw an add for tires I think, when I was a kid that featured one car for every year from about 1900 until the then present. 1922 featured a Rickenbacker. I I knew Eddie had something to do with it. Rickenbacker the man was quite an interesting person in himself. He held a number of jobs, and was at one time or another, a race car driver, the writer of a popular comic strip about aviation, once time, owned the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and in his capacity with Florida Airways, became one of the founding members and president of Eastern Airlines. He was working for the Army in the Pacific as a civilian during World War II, when the B-17 in which he was riding ran out of fuel due to faulty navigation equipment and had to ditch. Rickenbacker and the other surviving crewmembers survived on a raft in the Pacific for 24 days before being rescued. Al Capp poked fun at Rickenbacker in Capp's popular comic strip "Li'l Abner," with the character, "Cap'n Eddie Ricketyback," the head of the fictitious Dogpatch Airlines, and once featured Ricketyback in a re-match with his World War I opponent Baron Felix von Holenhedt. The real Rickenbacker survived many terrible mishaps in his life and died in 1973 at the age of 83.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that insight and information. Great choices. We did a Rickenbacker on this channel from 1922 so I didn’t go into all of the background on Eddie Rickenbacker. I didn’t want it to be reused information I guess or repetitive but I totally should’ve probably not going to be the last one either. =)
Here is the link to that episode, if you wanted to watch it
ruclips.net/video/H3a-MilUpbU/видео.htmlfeature=shared
Sorry for being long winded, so to speak. I didn't know about the previous Rickenbacker video Thanks for the link. Love your channel.
Happy you dig this channel =)
My favorite year for cars. So many neat things were offered in 1926 and that mid-late 20s styles were just beautiful.
Awesome the 20s and earlier cars are starting to become the Rodney Dangerfield of the car hobby. They don’t get any love.
@@What.its.like. ANY love, it's depressing. I blame the Model T 100% for causing the lack of any care for vehicles from 1913-1924.
Now HERE Is something you don't see every day, and a fine example to boot! Thank you for featuring it, Jay. And I'll take the Rickenbacker in both cases.
8:01 That simple handle to pull the door shut ... I always admire a simple solution. Let's do more of that.
Hi Jay! The 1926 Rickenbacker is NICE!! The connection with E-M-F is interesting! One of the Rickenbacker's problems were that they WERE first with 4 wheel brakes on a production car. The problem was. . .EVERYONE ELSE portrayed having 4 wheel brakes as dangerous!! Even though it obviously was untrue, people tended to believe that. I believe that Chrysler had the same problem with the "4 wheel brakes are dangerous" myth. It is nice that there are a few nice examples of the make left, such as the one you show. Since the engine produced its power at what is now an idle speed for most engines, I bet that, barring lubrication problems, the engine would last almost forever! This would be a nice 1920's car to own, as you might even be able to stop with the hydraulic brakes! WYR's: #1 Rickenbacker 6. #2 Hudson.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that insight and information as always, really look forward to seeing your responses in the comment section
Great choices =)
12:00 What a _luxurious_ back seat !!
Thanks Jay for another great video. Anyways appreciate your well researched information .
Thank you so much I was afraid that this one wasn’t going to be as good as some of the other ones because information is very spotty. Plus we’ve already done a Rickenbacker on this channel earlier this year and I really wanted to make sure that they were too totally different episodes without Reusing information.
WYR 1: All of them.
WYR 2: All of them.
So, any replacement parts would have to be custom made for this car. That may get expensive, but you can't put a price on a piece of history.
I’m not sure how many are left but I know there isn’t a whole lot. I saw a gentleman at the old car festival that had one and he was nice enough to let us do a segment with it. It was an eight cylinder car very first year.
@@What.its.like. You don't see many surviving inline 8 cars.
I like the Rickenbacker in both instances. I may be unduly influenced by the lovely blue color, but the design is very appealing as well.
Tons of space inside =)
A car you won't see every day. If ever.
Good Lord, the first thing that came to mind when you were in that back seat, was you could put a huge pet dog in with you, like a St. Bernard, and keep him on the floor, there's so much room.
Anyway, for WYR, it's the Studebaker, and the Rickenbacker.
Great choices see Saint Bernard fit perfect back there and have room to spare. I could’ve added that you could put stuff in the middle that could be the trunk.
That’s a cool old car Jay! Just 2 years shy of 100 years old!
Very nice car. I wonder if the front flywheel on the engine is just a larger harmonic damper. I would think that a flywheel at either end of the crankshaft might produce a torsional vibration mode that would eventually break the crankshaft, but I'm sure the engineers knew what they were doing. I'd like to see their calculations. Although I really like this car I'd choose the 1926 Willys Knight and the 1926 Hudson.
7:12 "Single Brake Light" ... I wonder if "hand signals" are still taught in Driver Training?
It used to be so common to see a left arm hanging out for someone turning left, but I don't think I've seen that in gosh, 15 years?
WYR No.1 Rickenbacher No.2 I have to go with Hudson. Our local Ford dealer dropped Ford and went with Hudson/Essex for 1926. My Grandma bought a new Essex in 1929 from them, right before the Crash. I'd love to see a video of a 1929 Essex as we have no surviving pictures of it.
Awesome choices, been looking for an Essex ill continue to look for one
Beautiful car!
WYR Studebaker for me
Rickenbacker is pretty interesting 🤔 ?? Today we call it a harmonic balancer up front and a balanced fly wheel in the back of the engine 😊..
Engine parts and availability could be interesting 💭🤔
Audi is German.. was the engine used in military applications??? Pre War 2 is a different way of thinking..
Ford AA truck tooling went to Russia 😮 look at WW2 Russian military trucks ...
Useless Trivia 😂
My Uncle imported NEW military surplus flat head V-8 engines in the 80s for the speedsters....the tooling ford sent to France and the military and marine ( boats) used them till the middle of the 80s i think 🤔??? It's been awhile since I opened a crate with a new flathead engine 😂..
Great Episode 👏👏👏 the only thing I saw was 2 Philip screws and wrong clamps on well done restoration 👏👏.
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
Awesome
Thank you so much for sharing all that information as well as trivia. Greatly appreciate it.
I would take the studebaker, and the Chandler. I really like that Chandler! 👍🏻
Sweet choices =)
My choices would be Studebaker, and Hudson. There is no trunk, but with all of that room it doesn’t need one. 😊
That is a very nice car, but just not one I would have because there are no replacement parts.
Rickenbacker was one of the very first production cars with 4 wheel brakes but they were mechanical brakes not hydraulic.
As for which car I would choose, I already did. I own a '26 Rickenbacker.
Torn between the Studebaker and the Hudson. I'd have to toss a coin to decide.
They’re in two different scenarios, so why not have both
I think you should buy the Rickenbacker as you daily driver. You would look killer in this car. Jay lol
Hahaha I really want either
1935 Hupmoblie
Or
1937 Chrysler airflow
Or
1937 packard (really like 115c but would have any in any body style )
A classy car to haul people around comfortably, but with no stowage space it's not for shopping trips or touring. I'm not sure how faithful the restoration is with these being so rare, but the padded door panels and recessed door pockets begin the trip into restrained elegance from the moment you open the door. Manually-operated wipers weren't uncommon then and would be OK for the low speeds of the time. The rear armrests are shapely but the "T" handle window cranks are slightly weird with the rest having cranks. Considering how many smaller car manufacturers there were back then, it's likely that the Rickenbacker name and styling sold these as beyond the hydraulic 4-wheel brakes there's not any big innovation going on compared to everyone else. Still, by the mid-20's many of the smallest car makers were out of the business leaving more market room for the ones still going. Getting a 'big name' on board was a great marketing decision for sure.
WYR The styling differences are subtle, but I think the Rickenbacker does it all just a bit more tastefully and a bit more of what we now call 'upscale'. The Chandler takes that ti the next level with all the brightwork up front.
The Rickenbacker was an interesting car. I always enjoy hearing about the rare and oddball cars. Do you know where the 236 CID 6 came from ? Was it their own or did they purchase it ? One thing against it was manual windshield wipers. I would think that would be difficult with everything else you had to do.
WYR Wills- Knight (?) and the Rickenbacker.
That is the same exact color as my 2006 Forenza Wagon was! I'd like to know the thought process that went into what vehicle to buy back then, since there were so many manufacturers. WYR: 1) and 2) They all look pretty much the same, save for the Hudson...
Sweet =)
Found another good rare one that is a nice looking car, has a classy look like a Checker from the era, I'd take the Rickenbacker for my first pick second 26 Chandler. Martha & the Vamdellas-Heatwave
Awesome choices that is the song and band Charles Dalton beat you for title
Song - Heat Wave by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas
That’s the one =)
I'd take the Willis-Knight and the Chandler based on looks, anyway.
Sweet =)
Going to get to do another Chandler later on this year can’t wait
There was a Rickenbacker on an episode of Twilight Zone
That’s crazy I never knew that that’s a really cool TV series
Thank you for a very well documented history of this car. I never knew the entire correct story about Eddie Rickenbacker now I do.
Glad you dig this episode. This wasn’t the only Rickenbacker that we’ve done we did an eight cylinder one earlier has more history on Eddie Rickenbacker.
ruclips.net/video/H3a-MilUpbU/видео.htmlfeature=shared
I was in a band with a dude that played one 😎
=)
Martha and the Vandellas-Heat wave
That’s the song and band Charles dalton beat you for title
These are cute in all, gorgeous vehicles, but if we want to talk about modern design for 1926, I'll hapilly refrence you to a few other vehicles J had in mind during this. Most of these designs are more reminsicent of the body styles of 1923-1924 which is dandy! Just fine, but the modern crowd will take this as the 1926 design.
Here's a list of modern style 1926:
1926 Nash
1926 Reo wolverine
1926 Stutz
1926 Elcar
1926 Gardner (the 8 passenger sedan was 223 inches long)
1926 Oldsmobile, great contender
1926 Chrysler
1926 Stearns Knight
1926 Hupmobile
1926 Jordan.
One thing on a side note before I continue, is that Jordan, along with almost every vehicle in America had curved rich design in the 1915-1919 time period, the boxy design was modern style in 1920, sharp angular lines suck as on Standard, Dixie flyer, Cole, and Apperson...!, before that the big thing was smoothing out all those sharp 1910s angles (that were of course elegant in their own beauty). Two tones were very common around 1914-1919 if you had a hardtop, and companies like Rubay had a signature gorgeous orange under fender color that they painted. Vehicles in France where pretty colorful in the 1920s, whereas america was a grounded Edwardian, with rich dark colors, and a mix of lighter ones that hailed from soft luxury like the 1915 Haynes bird blue, or the 1914 Stevens Duryea ice red/pink. Absolutely huge cars, showrunners, and elegance and smooth driving experience like no other car after because of how heavy the sedan was and powerful the engines were. Fleet ships of the sense.
Now to continue:
1926 Paige
1926 Peerless
1926 Cole
1926 Ajax
1926 Standard
1926 DuPont
1926 Wills Saintclaire
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and I'm missing a good few that I can't think of... But these large bus like sedans, long hood, long backs, tall wheels, and ornamented in the prettiest color combinations you'll ever see. Especially in the Chicago area at the time. Storm blue body with bright red accents... pine green body with a two tone light green upper body coded off by a thick art deco black stripe... Gold biege body with dark brown two tone roof, Vermillion accents on disteel wheel white walls. A Gardner sedan which came with a mid hood two tone, that curved around the entire thing smoothly like butter, or the Stutz with it's huge side two tone banding that you just have to look up if you haven't yet. Elcar is another stunner, but so are the simplistics of Nash with such a clear big car design that you can't held but fawn over how clean it looks. Everyone should know about the proper vehicles everyone in 1926 knew about, and so understood why their era was so modern, whereas people today think it was Model T's and dirt roads.
Sorry not the REO Wolverine, that would be 1928. The 1926 T6 model sedan and roadster.
Thank you so much for sharing all of that information and insight. I greatly appreciate it.
@@What.its.like. Loved the video, great clean showcase, and I like how you talk about the lines of the vehicle, the pinstriping, almost every exterior detail. Most people are ready for the hood lift and then leave.
9:44 To our modern eyes, it seems funny to see flat screws on trim, but believe it or not, phillips head was not invented for another 6 or 8 years !!
Knickerbockers 🎉
=D
Nice video...one thing, though, it's Stratford-upon-Avon, not Starford... 😊
I have a speech impediment problem tried to say Stratford
@@What.its.like. understood, sorry! 🫢
It’s all good =)
Starford-Upon-Avon is where Captain Picard will be born years from now.
heat wave Martha Vandellas
That’s the song and band Charles dalton beat you for title
I was wondering besides the T-Bird what cars might of come with factory-installed wire spoke wheels? Did Cadillac in the 1960's?
A Google search just shows me after-market wheels and that's not my question.
Wasn’t the Thunderbird option?
Most cars from the 30s offered Spoke wheels Packard, Cadillac Pierce arrow Nash Nash was in the 20s though
@@What.its.like. Yes the T-Bird is stunning looking! What about later in time was it OEM in the 60's or 70's wire wheels offered for Cadillac or an American brand? I think Jaguar was the last to offer them but that's not American.
This is all I could find about OEM Wire Wheels '55-'57
Kelsey-Hayes-produced 48-spoke wires were offered as a factory- and dealer-installed option on '62-'64 T-birds.
An interesting question! But you'd probably need a RPO list from every car model from every manufacturer in every year to get an accurate answer. That would be nearly impossible as lots of those records were lost when companies failed or merged and offices moved. And in the early days (especially with coach-built cars) the factories could build whatever you wanted as long as you paid for it. Except Ford who wouldn't change anything for anyone because Henry knew he was always right...
I've always like real wire wheels but they're impractical and hard to keep clean, plus real wire wheels can collapse entirely when receiving a hard impact, whereas steel wheels at least remain together in the same situation. They're more suitable for light vehicles and motorcycles where their lighter mass takes some of the brunt of hard impacts. They still look superb on most cars.
@@P_RO_ lightweight cars like the Triumph is what I see them on in Texas, that makes sense.
Some interesting pronounciations here. The production figure quoted seems high, they are a very rare car . There is a club for them, so they will know. I saw one 55 years ago, a 1925 roadster found complete in a wrecking yard & restored.
Google search says 35,000
Wikipedia says 27,419
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickenbacker_(car)#:~:text=Before%20the%20company%20closed%20down,27%2C000%20cars%20had%20been%20built.
I know that song dang it... can't think of title
Heat wave
@@What.its.like. yep that's it
Could you tell if the trim was nickel plate or chrome? This was about the time when chrome plating started to gain acceptance.
It was probably Nickel. I’m finding out that a lot of companies didn’t really use chrome that much they use stainless steel and aluminum not to say that they didn’t use chrome, but stainless was way more common than I ever knew.
@@What.its.like.Nickel plate was the standard at the turn of the century and chromium plating was not common or well understood until the mid to late 1920's. Nickel shines well but is softer and needs to be polished to retain it's luster. Nickel tends to have a more white cast than chrome.
@@What.its.like.Each has a slightly different 'look' so with some experience you can usually see the difference. Early chroming was expensive to do, but being harder it lasted longer than nickel if you kept the rust away. Stainless sheet metal is soft and easily dented, but lighter damage can be hammered back to shape by a good tinsmith. Cars in the late 50's began using anodized aluminum with a clear coating a lot, and chroming on plastic was a process called "vacuum metalizing" which I've been told is nearly impossible to restore. But we all love the shiny stuff whatever it is!
Rickenbacker in both wyr
Sweet choices =)
Willys Knight
And of course I have to say Chandler
Sweet choices mark =)
Impossible choices.
Aren’t they always? =D
@@What.its.like. Just about.
baby love
Great, guess not that song
heat wave martha and vandellas?
That’s the song amp band Charles Dalton beat you for title
Studebaker Hudson
Sweet choices =)
26 Stude
26 Hudson
Sweet choices
Studebaker;Rickenbacker
Sweet choices =)
I wish I could watch these but your voice and fake inflections it kill it for me
I wish I could give you a like on your comment but you seem super judgmental to someone you don’t know, sorry my god given voice didn’t meet your standards
@@What.its.like. you're right....not very nice of me...sorry.
I do appreciate the content you choose.
I doubt very much the production figures. No way they built 4000 to 5000 a year. 17,500?
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rickenbacker_(car)
According to wiki
27,419 I didn’t see that number or would have used it
0:53 Can it possibly be true their logo contained such an OBVIOUS typo?
For all you 6th graders out there, a pronoun can't show possession!
A car "worthy of it is name" ??
They spoke differently back then.. apparently
Stop with the queer sounding toodaloo.
Nah thats our thing
Oh come on! I laugh everytime. It's a funny affectation.
That’s the point it’s supposed to give you a laugh =)
There’s a story behind it my brother did that one time when he came over but he didn’t do it as high-pitched. I’m a huge fan and I could go for a note with Brian Wilson when I was a kid in my teens, I could also hit that more than a feeling , but I did nothing with it so I lost it but I still got a pretty good head. I just can’t go no for note with Brian Wilson anymore.
@@What.its.like.Like it or not, it's a 'trademark' of this channel, unique and memorable.