You have never been to StL where people casually drive their $hit box 100mph down the highway cutting through lanes, over the side walk to pass intersections, all while looking through a busted windshield and dragging a locked up rear tire.
In the early 1900s, some believed you couldn't breath @ 69-70 mph. The Nethercutt museum in CA has a steam car. According to the curator, it'll produce 1000 foot/pounds of torque @ 1 rpm. Yes, "1"! During WW ll, there were a few 6000 h.p. steam powered freight locomotives. One still runs today. 1,500,000 pounds each, fully loaded with a "tender car".....fuel & water just behind the engine.
@@Docstantinoplea Stanley steamer could go 127mph, but not the exact car in the video. You can checkout the wiki for steam speed racing cars. It’s pretty interesting
Wikipedia: The Stanley Motor Carriage Company, which manufactured the Stanley Steamer, was located in Newton, Massachusetts. The Stanley Steamer was produced from 1900 to 1934, with over 11,000 cars built in total. In 1906, a Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile, covering the distance in 28.2 seconds, or 127 miles per hour.
I've insured a few 1901-05 Olds Curved Dashes but have yet to get a Stanley Steamer. Several steam engine tractors though. All of them looked to be nearly train size
The Olds curved dashes were one of the first cars to drive up a steep hill. Olds is by far my favorite, too bad they sold to GM in the 30s, then getting canned in the early 2000s.
when u find out the name of the car and realize its also the name of the car used in Cars, the founders named Stanley and he is a Stanley steam car his wife is Lizzie (the older car selling trinkets and little doo dadas in her gift shop) she is a Model T-2 door sedan. i love it when the pieces all come together
The steamers and BEV's were popular when the early IC engines were noisy and unreliable. A person had to be wealthy to own either one so many owned both. The BEV was used around town and the steamer was used for traveling longer distances in a shorter period of time. My grandfather was a land developer and home builder from 1900 thru 1929. He had an curved dash Olds for driving around town and a Stanley Steamer to take clients to his developments on the outskirts of town. Later on he replaced the Olds with a Model T and the steamer with a Betzmobile touring car. Betz was a local manufacturer of surgical tools and medical furniture that ventured into the car and truck business. Betz made his first car around 1903 with his oldest teenage son getting the first speeding ticket issued by the police department driving it. The newspaper reported that a cop watched him speed down the main avenue at a breakneck speed of at least 25 mph. Then the cop walked to his father's house to hand Pops the ticket.
Check out the Doble. He tried to make Stanley better, but they wouldn't listen to him. So he made his own. That is the steam-powered car that holds the land speed record.
I once drove in a steam car from 1895. It accelerated so quickly and ran fast enough to be useful in modern city traffic, and it emitted a pleasant sound, not very loud. So I had to confess: the car industry has not evolved so much since than.
A steam engine might still have some potential if that boiler using new heater technology was powered by a lithium heat source.A steam engine is an external combustible engine.
> The new electric starter installed on gas cars killed both the Steam & Electric car. Because you finally didnt have to hard to hand crank to start it. > LEAR (of jet plane fame) made a steam car in the mid 1970's. It had better overall performance & cost then gas cars. - But it didnt go into production because the super heated excaping ruptured boiler steam from a car wreak could scald a driver to death.
That is true, they were trying to innovate in all different ways at the time because there were no energy cartels yet. Around 20 years ago I heard about a man from Michigan who entered a competition with a late 1800's Roberts Electric. He was the only one in his class. I never heard of an electric going 127 though, although it very well could have been done with a high enough voltage battery, and of course a vehicle that could handle it.
That car that is featured their used to belong to a guy named Russ Duran when I was a young man I watched him steam it up to make sure that it was still functional before he donated it to them
Only because they are electronically governed. They can get exceptionally fast, I have driven some electric race cars that were not neutered like these production vehicles.
It wasn't the gas engine that killed the Stanley. It was the production line. Ford was making Model A's for $250.00, where a similar Stanley was $12,000 dollars. That's $160,000 in today money.
If you meant the fist vehicle to get to the top of mount Washington (not just a car) you’d be wrong for it was really a locomotive on the mt Washington cog railway which made it to the top on july 3RD 1869
I wonder if someone used liquid natural gas to heat the water for the steam making a new version of a vehicle maybe with computer controls and electronics to regulate things better how far one could go on a tank
Any beltmann Colorado cuz that's where the Stanley hotel came from wow what a history lesson from you he actually go there you can go into his workshop and see everything
127 miles an hour in that would probably be the single scariest experience possible.
That old girl was moving! Bet she could still do it. It was the sport model tho
You have never been to StL where people casually drive their $hit box 100mph down the highway cutting through lanes, over the side walk to pass intersections, all while looking through a busted windshield and dragging a locked up rear tire.
Bruh you can do that in a modern car and the only thing that is different is it is significantly more flammable
@@dawildcatz87where is STL? Genuinely curious
@@mikecorleone6797St Louis at a guess? I'm Aussie though.
We makin Radiator Springs with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️
YOOOO
What's the relation?
@@Chernocheggerthe founder 😶
@@Chernochegger Its from the kids movie cars
In the early 1900s, some believed you couldn't breath @ 69-70 mph. The Nethercutt museum in CA has a steam car. According to the curator, it'll produce 1000 foot/pounds of torque @ 1 rpm. Yes, "1"!
During WW ll, there were a few 6000 h.p. steam powered freight locomotives. One still runs today. 1,500,000 pounds each, fully loaded with a "tender car".....fuel & water just behind the engine.
A Stanley steamer sounds like something one could get arrested for
That would be a Cleveland Steamer
i want to see that doing 127 mph
12.4 more like.
Forreal 😆
Wooden spoked wheels and all!
I think Jay Leno has one and pushed his. I don't think it did over 100.
@@captainphilips5469 The do 60, though usually they cannot hold it for long the boiler is unable to evaporate water that fast.
Jay Leno owns two Doble steam cars. I recall that one is a 1925. Doble steam cars were advanced for their time and were extremely expensive.
Like 5x the cost of a comparable car of the time
Dang imagine going 120 in that 😮
It’ll do like… 30?
@@battles.digitalso you’re just lying about what you said in the video. Liar!
@@Docstantinoplea Stanley steamer could go 127mph, but not the exact car in the video. You can checkout the wiki for steam speed racing cars. It’s pretty interesting
@@battles.digitalJay Leno had his at Highway speed, easily keeping up with traffic. Worth a watch.
127 miles an hour for a steam powered car from 1906 well for any car from 1906 besides a race car that is really quick for a production car
Wikipedia:
The Stanley Motor Carriage Company, which manufactured the Stanley Steamer, was located in Newton, Massachusetts. The Stanley Steamer was produced from 1900 to 1934, with over 11,000 cars built in total. In 1906, a Stanley Steamer set the world record for the fastest mile in an automobile, covering the distance in 28.2 seconds, or 127 miles per hour.
They were extremely powerful..and fast ..Howard Hughes had a modern steam car that recycled the water and was really fast...Leno has it now...
Yes, that one was the car that broke the steam powered speed record.
Isn't that the same car that injured him recently?
I've insured a few 1901-05 Olds Curved Dashes but have yet to get a Stanley Steamer. Several steam engine tractors though. All of them looked to be nearly train size
The Olds curved dashes were one of the first cars to drive up a steep hill. Olds is by far my favorite, too bad they sold to GM in the 30s, then getting canned in the early 2000s.
The steamer commercial theme was literally the first hum I had when I heard that
Haha that’s what I assumed people would think of.
If Stanley made a comeback, that'd be wild. I wonder how much this weighs.
It weighs quite literally a ton. Well, 2 tons. Would be crazy to see steam make a comeback 100+ years later.
The power of steam!😅
I mean, there may be a chance, depending on if steam power can rivle electric.
I would love to see steam make a comeback
Burn scrap wood. Alot of 3rd world countrys running burn barrel steam. Steam punk
What a beautiful example
The Age of Brass.
Next do the Cleveland Steamer!
AYO
I would love to see a modern version
Jay Leno has something like that
Is this the founder of radiator springs?
yes
No way! 😃
I was thinking about the same thing! Yes, it's him, this car looks exactly like him in that short and his statue in Cars 1
That's a Century's worth of product quality 😎👍🇺🇸
Sure is
when u find out the name of the car and realize its also the name of the car used in Cars, the founders named Stanley and he is a Stanley steam car his wife is Lizzie (the older car selling trinkets and little doo dadas in her gift shop) she is a Model T-2 door sedan. i love it when the pieces all come together
The steamers and BEV's were popular when the early IC engines were noisy and unreliable. A person had to be wealthy to own either one so many owned both. The BEV was used around town and the steamer was used for traveling longer distances in a shorter period of time. My grandfather was a land developer and home builder from 1900 thru 1929. He had an curved dash Olds for driving around town and a Stanley Steamer to take clients to his developments on the outskirts of town. Later on he replaced the Olds with a Model T and the steamer with a Betzmobile touring car. Betz was a local manufacturer of surgical tools and medical furniture that ventured into the car and truck business. Betz made his first car around 1903 with his oldest teenage son getting the first speeding ticket issued by the police department driving it. The newspaper reported that a cop watched him speed down the main avenue at a breakneck speed of at least 25 mph. Then the cop walked to his father's house to hand Pops the ticket.
Thank god it wasn't named Charleston
I was thinking Cleveland. 😆
Some impressive engineering and performance for its time.
Stanley Steamer your certified cleaner?
Keeps the home cleaner lol
Guy I work for had a bunch of these old steam cars. Some of them are super cool. My favorite is a steam powered runabout.
127MPH in a metal death trap?😂 they were quite advanced tbh
No seat belts, no safety glass, no airbags. 127 MPH sounds like a death wish.
Check out the Doble. He tried to make Stanley better, but they wouldn't listen to him. So he made his own. That is the steam-powered car that holds the land speed record.
127 mph?! Dang that's some real hot water he got himself into!
That’s hilarious 😂
Better than the Cleveland Steamer 💀
I once drove in a steam car from 1895. It accelerated so quickly and ran fast enough to be useful in modern city traffic, and it emitted a pleasant sound, not very loud. So I had to confess: the car industry has not evolved so much since than.
Thank you for clearing up if they were related to the carpet cleaning company. Always wondered about that.
A steam engine might still have some potential if that boiler using new heater technology was powered by a lithium heat source.A steam engine is an external combustible engine.
Steam edges also produce the most torque of anything on the road
That’s true, it’s got the torque
Electric motors have entered the chat.
Just to clarify, by 1924 steam powered cars were no more! However we still use steam power even up till today.
Imagine in today's world a car having a steam engine... Nobody would be poor
Having lived below Mt. Washington, and gone up and down, ITS TERRIFYING! I don’t know how they made it down without losing brakes?!
The reason there has never been an explosion on one is because they physically can't explode from how the boiler is built.
It was replaced by the Cleveland steamer and the Cincinnati steamer in modern day.
Those cars were extremely fast!
Yet we can hardly make much much lighter on perfect pavement and 120mph is a challenge.
For the time, this must’ve seemed like a rocket ship.
> The new electric starter installed on gas cars killed both the Steam & Electric car. Because you finally didnt have to hard to hand crank to start it.
> LEAR (of jet plane fame) made a steam car in the mid 1970's. It had better overall performance & cost then gas cars.
- But it didnt go into production because the super heated excaping ruptured boiler steam from a car wreak could scald a driver to death.
This could provably pull anything up mount washer machine. 😊
What? Proof read before sending.
Okay no the car itself never exploded. But Jay Leno took a fireball to the face from one of these
From the same era as electric cars
That is true, they were trying to innovate in all different ways at the time because there were no energy cartels yet.
Around 20 years ago I heard about a man from Michigan who entered a competition with a late 1800's Roberts Electric. He was the only one in his class.
I never heard of an electric going 127 though, although it very well could have been done with a high enough voltage battery, and of course a vehicle that could handle it.
Fred Marriott was chosen to drive it because he was the only bachelor on the team.😂😂😂
The only steamer I preferred is a CLEVELAND STEAMER!
🎶Stanley Steamer, our car's greener🎶
It's a shame that Stanley went under. Look at all the environmental issues that the gasoline engines have given to the world.
My grandfather always told me, "Stanley steamers broke down."
That kind of speed would be insane in that car
There's one parked in the lobby of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park,Colorado
That car that is featured their used to belong to a guy named Russ Duran when I was a young man I watched him steam it up to make sure that it was still functional before he donated it to them
imagine an electric car that can last for 100 years
Jay Leno has one, mind you probably refurbished.
There’s quite a few out there
Imagine waiting for at least an hour for your car to boil before going anywhere! Every frickin time.
The fastest Stanley Steamer was a purpose built landspeed racer while the fastest Doble was street legal and only 3-5 mph slower.
It could make a come-back!
Top speed 127mph that’s faster than a lot of electric cars now days
Only because they are electronically governed. They can get exceptionally fast, I have driven some electric race cars that were not neutered like these production vehicles.
Actually the Stanley steamer company was named after the car company and they also designed the first steamer they designed after the car
Fly away, Stanley, be free!
It wasn't the gas engine that killed the Stanley.
It was the production line.
Ford was making Model A's for $250.00, where a similar Stanley was $12,000 dollars.
That's $160,000 in today money.
I was expecting a top speed of like 60 miles an hour. 127 is insane
Imagine one of these coming up to your rear view mirror
Stanley steamer your certified cleaner
That's a cool car right there just remember keep that car away from whistling diesel he will mess it up
127 mph in a steam engine must feel insane
If you meant the fist vehicle to get to the top of mount Washington (not just a car) you’d be wrong for it was really a locomotive on the mt Washington cog railway which made it to the top on july 3RD 1869
Motor vehicle for on road use
I wonder if someone used liquid natural gas to heat the water for the steam making a new version of a vehicle maybe with computer controls and electronics to regulate things better how far one could go on a tank
Hmmm makes one wonder.
Be Screaming bloody Murder going that fast in that!
But that be cool
Stanly cup? Nah we got stanly steamer
Talk to Jay Leno.He knows more about these things than you do
Who in their right mind would drive something like this at 127 mph? Insanity!
Drive and clear your sinuses at the same time. :)
Good idea!
Take that to prom and sway all the girls away.
Choo choo!!!
The first explosion was in Jay Leno's garage.
The last sentence should have started with "Due to" instead of "Thanks to"...
Someone call 1800 Steamer
So that means Arthur Morgan cloud be able to drive a car in rdr2
Any beltmann Colorado cuz that's where the Stanley hotel came from wow what a history lesson from you he actually go there you can go into his workshop and see everything
Would love to one one no EV SHIIT
WTF, 127 MPH off steam?
127 miles per hour 😂 yeah.
It’s the truth. Look it up, feel free to fact check me on it.
@@battles.digital really no way 127 on that technology is crazy thanks for the info 👍
Thy mustve jacked it up and floored it in the air to check the top speed lol
Similar to the Cleveland Steamer ?
imagine buying cars from steam lol
HAHAHAHA good one
Very dangerous vehicle. Boilers
LENO HAS A STEAMER
It ran out of steam when the starter turned up or rather turned over.
34.474 bars for those who refuse to look it up themselves.
I highly doubt they ran those pressures. Saturated steam would tear metal to shreds at 500psi.
In automobiles, that is.
Fly away stanley BE FREE
The world be a better place if we advanced with steam engines.
What makes you say that?
It would certainly be a different place!
WHAT PSYCHO WOULD DRIVE THAT AT 127/MPH?!?
always the guy named 1924 smh
But.... Does it make carpet cleaner?
NOPE
Everyone will be driving these soon if car manufacturers keep screwing the consumers
Not a single explosion
I mean uhh yeah your right
Why is there smoke coming out of your car, Seymour?
Steam? Is that some new type of steam deck?
I’d prefer the Kerosene Version.
These are made from solid steel and brass not plastic junk
Way more than 100 years ago my fucking car is from 1948 and it’s 75 so yeah
There wwere steam engines until the 30s in fact
Where is Mount Washington? There's a mount washington in pittsburgh
The one in New Hampshire.
still fossil powered, not steam.
It’s a steam engine.