I learned about the Doble steam car when I read a book called The Tin Goose to my young son. The story is centered around a young man who gets a job at an airfreight company and their big plane is a Ford Trimotor. His grandfather, an eccentric old codger, has an old Doble and the car ends up, oh, wait, I don't want to spoil it for you.
I wonder what other episode Jay Leno was talking about when he mentioned talking about that Steam Motorcycle... because it has been quite awhile and still no Steam Motorcycle. ???????????????? curious
What a well built machine. Truly a marvel, thankyou Jay for keeping these engineering feats looked after. I love how you actually drive them. You should have an open day, I would love to come and visit. Love from the UK.
Just imagine, with the modern capabilities our technology has today, what we could do with an idea so 'simple' as this. The power of batteries and allowing us to make a system like this so much more efficiently and able to make one of -the- most common elements on our earth into a fuel.
@@ghoulbuster1 Yes, but we learned how to make the combustible fuel drive the wheels directly without the need for water, making it more fuel efficient and obviously much lighter with no need to wait to heat up the vehicle. Steam power isn't totally obsolete though, as its still good for generating power from a heat source like nuclear power.
awesome piece of history ! Any time Jay gets involve it’s going to be something special sadly a couple of weeks ago my next door neighbor in his late 90s passed away he was my freind and a retiredMachinist fromPensylvania on his wall he had a picture of him driving a Antique steam Powered Tractor that was featured onthe local 6 OClock evening news because it was done by a local FarmClub as far as the restorationmy Buddy always bragged that he helped them by making various parts that were no longer available and that it was the same make,model, and year of one that JayLeno has in his collection I believe it was the Advance one I asked my freind jokingly if it was fast and he said yes he thinks he was going 5 or 6 MPH in the picture
Alcohol can make an excellent fuel. Not difficult to make or refine, and it can burn really well. The only real difficulty would be getting oil for it.
Wicked Houston lol I think he meant that there would probably be low amounts or contaminated amounts of fresh water and not as easily accessible as it is today in most parts of the world to use as fuel for a steam car. I assume it’s a given that we would have to adapt the engines to run the dirty contaminated water or have to find a way to purify salt water/find resistant material that won’t corrode from the salt residue being boiled off from the ocean water. Let’s hope we as a species don’t keep messing up our earth enough to mess it up for everyone and everything on it because I would much rather we put time into advancing our species imagine building a steam engine car right now with the tech that could be added to make it more efficient, quicker, more stable and safer and more aerodynamic with the modern features we now take for granted
My grandfather was a CA gold miner, pioneer S. Francisco Bay Area, 1870s to 1930. He owned The first Stanley Steamer of the Bay Area. That was prior to the earthquake of 1906. The car and my Grandfather's furniture business in S. Francisco were wiped out by the earthquake along with his fortune. My Father was 11, the family lived in Alameda. That first car, the entire front was long and open. I was told it made alot of noise.
Well couldnt have been a Stanley Steamer, when it was noisy. I experienced old Stanley Steamers at a steam rally. These where quit, more quit than even a modern gas or diesel powered car. Also the front of a Stanley at this time was closed, these had no radiator. Maybe they had a another car than the Stanley Steamer?
This would be the best car these days because even though there is no doors and no locks or any security features no one will be able to steal it because they don’t know how to do anything with it other melt it into scrap metal which will be almost impossible without the car being able to drive
Mr. Leno I made a punch and die set that stamped out spacers for White boilers. Mike was building a boiler for you. He gave me a 1938 Atlas shaper as payment. I cut sprockets for Erector set chain on it.
We shot the first ep on the Doble back in 2004, and it is on Vol 1 of the Leno DVD series. The ep you're referring to was shot in 2014 and may not have made it onto the Vol 3 Leno DVD before it went out the door. It aired in Season 19 (2015) and that full-season DVD is still available on ebay.
The only way Jay can go back any further would be a Horse Drawn Carriage, and what fun would that be other than unhitching the horse and going for a gallop. But then we get into the motorcycle thing, it's all a big circle.
That thing is truly a wonder. Question.. steam is being vented under the car, I thought all the steam was recycled? Or is that just a high pressure valve that vents when it has more than it recycle?
steam is recycled until the point where the condenser at the front of the car can't keep up, the temperature rises and a relief valve vents the pressure. on a long steady cruise the temps stabilize and the relief valve doesn't vent very much. climate could be an issue as well, i don't think a doble would survive a freezing weather event very well with hundreds of freeze-exploded tubes.
Steam cars use petrol, too. They cause emissions too and are less efficient because they're external combustion engines, so they cause more emissions than Otto engine cars. The drama about petrol, emissions, etc, is because some powerful people don't want us to drive good cars. We can't avoid the drama by going to different types of engine. The only solution is political.
@@Rainer67059 You seriously gonna sit here and say 'ThEy EmIt MoRe EmMiSiOnS ThAn EnGiNes' the otto engine has a lot of issues with it, it is a pipe dream.
i find it funny how all those years ago people made impressive cars like this but now a days the car engineers make everything over complicated and impossible to work on
What amazes me is how silent the steam car is. It look like he is more silent then a electric car. On the other hand, steam locomotives are always hissing, sighing, moaning and sneezing around, even when standing at a platform. I wonder why that is.
open system vs closed system. a steam locomotive is an open system where all of the water is lost, the doble is a closed system where the spent steam is condensed back into water and reused to make more steam.
Very nice. Would be nice if someone made a steam car today using modern technology. Suppose it could be even more efficient and more powerful possibly requiring even less fuel.
***** I must have missed something in Physics class for Convection. You're telling me that filling the reserve tank with 135 degree water makes no difference for bringing to a boil than water from the Cold faucet that is about 60 Degrees( depending on where you live for the frost line where the main pipe runs into the home or building) .
If you live in a freezing environment and decide for some reason to take this out than it might. The way the car works is water instantly vaporizes the second it hits the boiler pipe.after a few minutes or so the pipes are already well passed the 135 degree mark. Dobles were very very efficient cars. Filling a stanleys with hot water would help only because you're heating 15 gallons at a time Dobles your only heating up a few quarts at a time
I respect a man who can explain how it works, rather than simply planting his boot on the pedal.💪
as a boot planter..i fully agree!
was this the one leno got in an accident with
As an engineer, I say this steam engine is a work of pure genius.
The engineering and thought that went into that is enormous...what a cool vehicle.
ZIGgassedUP stfu
@@brandonk1287 what?
@@lobmin what'd he say
@@thenegus5469 some nonsense that was out of place I think
not really
Love it when you get together with Jay
Me too!
I absolutely love that Jay Leno is a steam car engine professional in my timeline.
Thanks Dennis! Love every visit with Jay.
I am in love with Doble Steam powered cars
I learned about the Doble steam car when I read a book called The Tin Goose to my young son. The story is centered around a young man who gets a job at an airfreight company and their big plane is a Ford Trimotor.
His grandfather, an eccentric old codger, has an old Doble and the car ends up, oh, wait, I don't want to spoil it for you.
I wonder what other episode Jay Leno was talking about when he mentioned talking about that Steam Motorcycle... because it has been quite awhile and still no Steam Motorcycle. ???????????????? curious
Love how Jay has a little bit of everything.
What a well built machine. Truly a marvel, thankyou Jay for keeping these engineering feats looked after. I love how you actually drive them.
You should have an open day, I would love to come and visit.
Love from the UK.
Man I love steam power.... I can only imagine what a modern steam car would be like unfortunately :(
Several "modern" ones have been built and tested. Unfortunately the laws of thermodynamics are immutable.
why dont you build one then ?
@@wholeNwon I mean, most of those died because the companies that drove those projects closed them.
What an impressive piece of engineering even being so old ❤️❤️❤️
Its no doubt a master piece of technology, a great planning, a great designing and wonderful workmanship.
Just imagine, with the modern capabilities our technology has today, what we could do with an idea so 'simple' as this. The power of batteries and allowing us to make a system like this so much more efficiently and able to make one of -the- most common elements on our earth into a fuel.
I hope you're not imagining that the fuel of this car is water.
it still uses fuel, but it can be anything that burns, as long as you have water boiling, it will move.
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@@ghoulbuster1 Yes, but we learned how to make the combustible fuel drive the wheels directly without the need for water, making it more fuel efficient and obviously much lighter with no need to wait to heat up the vehicle. Steam power isn't totally obsolete though, as its still good for generating power from a heat source like nuclear power.
@@JasonSmith-vp6vl fusion reactors son!
This is one of best shows on You Tube. Jay's knowledge is amazing. Plus as a bonus Jay almost always messes up Dennis Gauge's fantastic mustache.
I LOVE these videos with Dennis and Jay I wish they made more!
Old but gold
Now this is my dream car
I think the double is the most amazing car I've ever seen,
Doble*
Tesla
I wish we still drove around in those things lol
If I could have one of these for free but it had to be my main car, I would definitely have it
This was fascinating! Thank you.
Great episode Dennis...really enjoyed it.
I believe Jay also collects friends with period specific mustaches.
COOL
My Classic Car Season 19 Episode 2 - Jay Leno's Doble Steam Car
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing this.
Honestly, this engine, but with variable fuel and a modern chassi and you have the ultimate green-car.
Keep the videos coming with Jay please, point
Dennis and Jay.....two of the coolest guys on the planet.....
well i now love this channel i love learning about the history of cars this is great
The car is almost a century old now.
awesome piece of history ! Any time Jay gets involve it’s going to be something special sadly a couple of weeks ago my next door neighbor in his late 90s passed away he was my freind and a retiredMachinist fromPensylvania on his wall he had a picture of him driving a Antique steam Powered Tractor that was featured onthe local 6 OClock evening news because it was done by a local FarmClub as far as the restorationmy Buddy always bragged that he helped them by making various parts that were no longer available and that it was the same make,model, and year of one that JayLeno has in his collection I believe it was the Advance one I asked my freind jokingly if it was fast and he said yes he thinks he was going 5 or 6 MPH in the picture
Best show on you tube
Really interesting masterpiece of engeneering art!
Just fantastic!
If the world ever ends. We can still get around using steam cars :)
And your fuel source would be?
Alcohol can make an excellent fuel. Not difficult to make or refine, and it can burn really well. The only real difficulty would be getting oil for it.
Chuck U.Farley if you have wood you could make bio crude oil creosote
Dean Desmond Get a horse! 🐎
Wicked Houston lol I think he meant that there would probably be low amounts or contaminated amounts of fresh water and not as easily accessible as it is today in most parts of the world to use as fuel for a steam car. I assume it’s a given that we would have to adapt the engines to run the dirty contaminated water or have to find a way to purify salt water/find resistant material that won’t corrode from the salt residue being boiled off from the ocean water. Let’s hope we as a species don’t keep messing up our earth enough to mess it up for everyone and everything on it because I would much rather we put time into advancing our species imagine building a steam engine car right now with the tech that could be added to make it more efficient, quicker, more stable and safer and more aerodynamic with the modern features we now take for granted
My grandfather was a CA gold miner, pioneer S. Francisco Bay Area, 1870s to 1930. He owned The first Stanley Steamer of the Bay Area. That was prior to the earthquake of 1906. The car and my Grandfather's furniture business in S. Francisco were wiped out by the earthquake along with his fortune. My Father was 11, the family lived in Alameda. That first car, the entire front was long and open. I was told it made alot of noise.
Well couldnt have been a Stanley Steamer, when it was noisy. I experienced old Stanley Steamers at a steam rally. These where quit, more quit than even a modern gas or diesel powered car. Also the front of a Stanley at this time was closed, these had no radiator. Maybe they had a another car than the Stanley Steamer?
Yes definitely a Stanley Steamer.
this is incredible!
I wonder how fast this car will do a quarter mile.
Yeah, me too
This 1925 Double E-20 Steam Car, has a maximum speed of 133 mph(212.8 km/h), a torque of 1000 lb-ft.
Awesome video
I still cant get over the torque figure
My favorite Leno car!!!!!!
This would be the best car these days because even though there is no doors and no locks or any security features no one will be able to steal it because they don’t know how to do anything with it other melt it into scrap metal which will be almost impossible without the car being able to drive
Mr. Leno I made a punch and die set that stamped out spacers for White boilers. Mike was building a boiler for you. He gave me a 1938 Atlas shaper as payment. I cut sprockets for Erector set chain on it.
Why didn't this episode make the DVD for My Classic Car with Jay Leno? I certainly enjoy this episode every time I play it!!!!
There are actually three Jay Leno DVD’s. All the eps are there.
@@MyClassicCarTV I have those DVD's already! This episode about this Doble steam car isn't there! Can you explain why?
We shot the first ep on the Doble back in 2004, and it is on Vol 1 of the Leno DVD series. The ep you're referring to was shot in 2014 and may not have made it onto the Vol 3 Leno DVD before it went out the door. It aired in Season 19 (2015) and that full-season DVD is still available on ebay.
This has the same cylinder configuration like a Great Western Railway Hall, Castle class locomotives.
2:06 newspapers used to be much bigger
Nice
AWESOME!!!
Remember, It's not the car that reveals the owner's character, it's how the character treats their car that defines the person.
Did I just make up something good, or am I stealing in ignorance?
Beauty full work sir ji.
Love this
Beatifull. Everybody should have one a these and it would be better on all fronts then an EV.
Величайшая машина за всю историю человечества! надо заглянуть в этот музей в Калифорнии.
I wish he had said something about the big plume of steam visible under the car. Very cool car.
The only way Jay can go back any further would be a Horse Drawn Carriage, and what fun would that be other than unhitching the horse and going for a gallop.
But then we get into the motorcycle thing, it's all a big circle.
Dennis , & Teams: the Video is oddly , & extra interesting! Thank you…..the Doble appears to be a Marvel…
I would love to see a video on the steam motorcycle.
Habe gar nicht gewusst, dass Horst Lichter so gut Englisch spricht.👆👆👆👆🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Viele Grüße aus Germany
"and now the warning; you don't want one of those internal combustion clocks."
That was the funniest joke i've heard this guy say.
Amazing!!!
Also, it's handy to one wheel to turn right and a different one to turn left.
Hughes was rhe musk of my day - only w/o all the subsidies.
Resulting in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
That thing is truly a wonder. Question.. steam is being vented under the car, I thought all the steam was recycled? Or is that just a high pressure valve that vents when it has more than it recycle?
steam is recycled until the point where the condenser at the front of the car can't keep up, the temperature rises and a relief valve vents the pressure. on a long steady cruise the temps stabilize and the relief valve doesn't vent very much. climate could be an issue as well, i don't think a doble would survive a freezing weather event very well with hundreds of freeze-exploded tubes.
sick i want one
We should drive steam cars now and avoid all drama,petrol, service,gas emissions
MrCina86 not run it out of water then u got a bomb
@@jarroddraper5140
When you run out of water, you run out of steam, hence pressure. A water level sensor might cut the flame.
But we still need fuel to heat the water
Steam cars use petrol, too. They cause emissions too and are less efficient because they're external combustion engines, so they cause more emissions than Otto engine cars.
The drama about petrol, emissions, etc, is because some powerful people don't want us to drive good cars. We can't avoid the drama by going to different types of engine. The only solution is political.
@@Rainer67059 You seriously gonna sit here and say 'ThEy EmIt MoRe EmMiSiOnS ThAn EnGiNes' the otto engine has a lot of issues with it, it is a pipe dream.
Jay's steam punk drinking game, each time he says, "dollop', take a shot. Works for all his steam car videos.
It's great to have
That Doble is very impressive . How is it that few people have heard of them but many have heard of Stanley Steamers ? They were awful .
$$$$$$
I want one!
i find it funny how all those years ago people made impressive cars like this but now a days the car engineers make everything over complicated and impossible to work on
the companies make more by forcing you to replace it.
back then, this steam car would be as expensive as a brand new lambo
@@ghoulbuster1 yet so easy an 18 year old could have fixed one, today you have to go to a lambo mechanic to fix one, back then you went to your father
A lot of people don't realize water isn't a lubricant. Water doesn't minimize friction.
That Jennifer Lopez comment Jay Leno made was hilarious. 😂
I always wanted to drive a tea kettle.
Instead of tea leaves, put the oil in the water.
I want a steam car
VERY INTERESTING :)
How many miles can you go on one "fill up" ?
24 gallon tank getting between 10-14 mpg so about 280 miles per tank, depending on how fast you drive of course.
The only two bad things in all steam cars is heat exchangers and not the best using of heat
Jay gotta have a whole closet of the same clothes lol
What is the fuel, gas, diesel? What is the mileage? If you have a condenser, what is the steam exhausting under the car?
The Doble can run on kerosene. Gasoline or Diesel.
Jay gets around 3.5 to 6 mph on unleaded gasoline
Someone make a modern steam car and ill buy it! Lets get back to what makes sense! Water for fuel!
Water for fuel? Last time I tried, water didn't burn.
What amazes me is how silent the steam car is. It look like he is more silent then a electric car. On the other hand, steam locomotives are always hissing, sighing, moaning and sneezing around, even when standing at a platform. I wonder why that is.
Much bigger
open system vs closed system. a steam locomotive is an open system where all of the water is lost, the doble is a closed system where the spent steam is condensed back into water and reused to make more steam.
I wonder what the top speed on that would be
a little above 120mph.
@@giovannicesaramorim9adigan961 Howard Hughes drove that very car at 132 mph!!
Jay has great eyesight.
Fred Dibnah would have loved all these steam vehicles.
Classic
What is better..
To be Jay Leno, or Jay Lenos car ?:]
🤔
It seems like something that would have a flux capacitor 😂
Today I learned they had blown steam cars too
dont mess with thomas the steam train
+J “two3lights” Grey Ya i heard hes gay
Why is there a dent in the camera car mustang hood???
1000+ ft lbs of torque, Steam is THE King of Power. Steam is power efficient, not thermal efficient.
All the good stuff's in the trunk. 😂😂😂
Wow very fast
THANKSGIVING
Very nice.
Would be nice if someone made a steam car today using modern technology. Suppose it could be even more efficient and more powerful possibly requiring even less fuel.
What if i said there's a company that's getting ready to do that very same thing?
Would it make a difference if Jay filled it from a hot water tank where it's already at about 120 degrees .
+Gary wood Not really.
*****
I must have missed something in Physics class for Convection.
You're telling me that filling the reserve tank with 135 degree water makes no difference for bringing to a boil than water from the Cold faucet that is about 60 Degrees( depending on where you live for the frost line where the main pipe runs into the home or building) .
If you live in a freezing environment and decide for some reason to take this out than it might. The way the car works is water instantly vaporizes the second it hits the boiler pipe.after a few minutes or so the pipes are already well passed the 135 degree mark. Dobles were very very efficient cars. Filling a stanleys with hot water would help only because you're heating 15 gallons at a time Dobles your only heating up a few quarts at a time
+Gary wood You would spend so long heating the water at home that any time saved would be negated by the fact it took longer to fill.
If it made a difference, Jay would have done it.
How does air exit combustion chamber...Jey forgot to explain..
It flows downward through the coil stack and exits under the car via a very, very short exhaust "pipe".
How many MPG of gas, or whatever the fuel is, does the vehicle get. How big of a tank is it?
30 gallon fuel tank, this car averages between 3.5 and 6 MPG on unleaded gasoline with a max rated horsepower output of just 150 bhp.
I wonder what a RR engine would have been like----much more efficient & quiet !!! might have saved them!?!? Much less pollution !!