1952 Crosley farm-o-road, the Swiss Army knife of Jeep like Vehicle.
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Thank you for tuning into what it’s like, sorry it’s been a couple days, but today a little late on what it’s like 1952 Crosley farm o road the jeep like Vehicle that could do it all.
A couple corrections that need to be made Crosley didn’t go bankrupt, he What is losing money and decided to stop selling automobiles, The gearshift selector that I said was the PTO is actually the emergency brake. It’s possible to get this up to 50 miles an hour but they do get a little bit Squirrley due to the size of the vehicle.
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Suite Judy blue eyes ...Crosby Stills and Nash
Yeah buddy.., Congratulations you got it RIP David Crosby
Be sure to tune in next time for 1940 Lincoln continental coming up next on what it’s like (Monday’s episode)
LOL, I think she's named "Sweet" Judy Blue Eyes
Good call! Haven't heard it in YEARS!!!!!!!> Thanks!@
David Crosby just recently passed away according to Western Journal this past week.
Just beyond this vehicle I noticed a 2 door blue Chevy that appeared to be a 1965 Biscayne. Can you please video it if possible? Thanks
I know a little bit about Crosley. The older models had "COBRA" engines, which stood for "copper brazed". You are correct that they were made from stamped steel, but they were held together with oven-baked copper brazing !! They were made by Taylor Engines in San Francisco. The problem with these engines was electrolysis from the coolant. Over time pin holes would develop from rust and the engine would leak. 1949 is when Crosley changed to the cast iron engine, but the damage had already been done in the publics eyes. These engines would go up to 40 miles on one gallon of fuel.
40mpg when nobody cared about that. Yeah, Crosley was a doomed idea, but isn't it a tidy little car?
In 1962 my brother's first car was a Crosley station wagon. In those days there was a parts supplier on Long Island.
My father told a story from WWII. He and 3 other guys were driving on an elevated road in Algeria. Suddenly, they had incoming. They all jumped out, picked up the "peep" turned it around and got out of there. Crosley built a light weight utility vehicle for the military. That may have been one of them. I wonder how similar it would have been to the Farm-O-Road?
If Chrysler tried to sell them now, they'd want $50,000 and there would be no warrantee. Good Luck, Rick
Great story thank you for sharing those memories
Totally agree all jeep stuff is over priced in my opinion and is nothing like the old stuff don’t even get me started on the new wagoneer and grand wagoneer
You can buy a Mahindra ROXOR which is marketed as a "side-by-side" but is actually built from original 1947 Jeep stampings under license from Stelantis. I believe they are built here in the US. some dealers can even get them road legal.
They can be made road legal as a utv only per legal agreements between jeep and Mahindra
i have a huge crosley radio stored in my upstairs, it has a short wave band on it along with the regular stations. about 4 ft tall and well over 2 ft wide and pretty deep, never measured the depth. worked when i got it in the 70s from the grandma of a friend, one of the tubes was bad and i actually found one at an old tv radio repair shop in san antonio, now another tube has gone out and i just stopped looking for parts.
Interesting =)
If the Jeep had a mini me it would be this Crosley for sure. I find it hilarious that a company known for making radios makes a vehicle that doesn't have one in it. And also that 70 mph speedometer is wishful thinking at best. IDK Maybe they use that speedometer in the other vehicles.
Very cool to see this out in the wild. Thanks Jay for bringing this video to us.
I’m going to hit this video the Crosley farm O road again apparently there was a lot of information that wasn’t spot on a lot of information splitting hairs in this one evidently was a prototype it wasn’t a real car as some people from the club say it’s not 100% real so I plan on heading out again maybe I can find one with some accessories and show how that works that would be really cool but I’m glad you like this episode
1940 Lincoln Continental is coming next it might come out tonight I’m gonna try to get back to the early afternoon schedule Tomorrow =)
@@What.its.like. well, splitting hairs or not. If it was indeed a prototype then that makes it even rarer and worth even more money.
Very interesting car. I'll correct you on the wiper motors. They're vacuum, not electric. The engine is particularly interesting. The high location of the fuel pump suggests an overhead camshaft. The cam is not visible in the diagrams, but it looks like there is a vertical shaft at the front of the motor to drive it. Also, peak power at 5400 RPM is really high revving for 1952.
Thank you so much for that correction I’m used to seeing knobs for the wipers in a Crosley =) To see that these ones were powered was pretty cool
There was an article on Wikipedia saying that in England they made a dual overhead cam version of this engine which is super interesting
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandini_750_sport_internazionale
High rpm up to 6000 was common in Europe and the UK in the 1950's. Even the Holden Grey Motor here in Australia had a recommended red line of 6000 rpm and was released in 1948. The latter was tested at rpms between 8000 and 10,000.
However, in the USA it was very much different. There was many very large and very long stroke motors that could barely rev above 4000 rpm without destroying themselves.
The COBRA and CIMA engines were the first production overhead cam engines in the USA depending on how you count some dusenberg engines; they're driven by a shaft at the front with a bevel gear assembly.
A few years ago, there was a single bay shop on Park Ave, Edgewater,FL full of Crosley engines and parts AND a restored Hotshot.
Sweet =)
Do you know if it's still there?
First time I saw a Crosley was a concept art piece of a crosley coupe body on a slingshot dragster frame. Absolutely maddening
That’s sad.. I hate when people cut cars up
my dad had one in mid 50 it was used to ride around the farm and thur the woods thanks for the reminder
It is an interesting little vehicle! The vintage ad really nails it "Sensationally Versatile" 😎
Someone said that it was mostly just for show most of the accessories only worked one time. Front mower would somehow get grass in radiator that’s not good.
As usual, I liked your way of describing everything.
Also I never heard an angel sing on a car channel or a lilting song at the end.
All appreciated by me.
Try to be different =) because being normal is boring glad you dig this episode.
A friend of mine growing up used to sing that all the time I wanted a go of it, might do something like that at the end of some shows as extra for the ones who stuck around for the end =)
When I was a kid in New Jersey had a Crosley station wagon, sing Ryan super everything works perfect I wish I had it today
Awesome little machine! I would have one in a heartbeat!!! Ahead of it's time! (loved the little song at the end, ha)
Haha yeah I might do something fun like that from time to time. I’m good at impressions too thought about doing something like that at the end just for fun for the ones who watched the whole thing =) glad you dig this episode
There was a Crosley wagon featured in Hot Rod magazine once , the owner installed an Mazda rotary engine in the engine bay . The car ran 14 inch 60s series tires on the back , they looked huge .
Interesting thank you so much for sharing that =)
The early Willy's Jeep had similar farming options. PTO rear farm type hitches etc.
Great information
That thing is so cool. Reminds me of something I would see driving around the airshows my pop took me to back in the 70's.
The accessories are really cool I would love to find one in private hands that has the accessories and go over how all the accessories work..
@@What.its.like. That would be really cool.
Allis Chalmers had a small tractor that looked like a small road grader. I don’t know what they called it but that is the description. Thanks for sharing something that is really a weird vehicle.
I’ll have to look into that you know we love the weird and off the beaten path Vehicles on this channel =)
@@What.its.like. Allis Chalmers Model G garden tractor. I think a company called Tuff-Bilt makes an updated version now. The engine is behind the driver and the implements are mounted in front of the driver. It looks like a mini road grader.
The Allis Chalmers model G. Rear mounted engine, the operator sat between the middle and the engine, allowing excellent visibility of the mid-mounted implements.
Enjoyed watching and learning
Glad you dig this channel and episode
The paint scheme and the interior make it look like a miniature early series Land Rover.
Yeah I guess in a way it kind of sort of does
I've known about these my whole life...but never saw one in person! Looks about as useful as a King Midget.
And yes, every summer cottage my famiily rented had a Crosley refrigerator and they all worked great! Too bad their cars were'nt as efficient, they'd still be in business!
It’s weird to get into, both king midget and farm o road
Hi Justin, good video! I work for a small equipment shop, thank you for explaining the difference between a lawn tractor Vs. a garden tractor, a garden tractor is a little bigger and has a more powerful engine with a larger cutting deck, you can do more with a garden tractor. And thank you again for pronouncing "Willys Jeep" correctly. Please reply. Dave...
Thank you for digging this episode =)
I love the skis in the front as an accessory! 🎿😊.
This is the first one i ever see , have seen cars but not this guy . Lol what a treat
It was the only one that I’ve ever seen in person aside from they have a fire truck that is based on the farm o road in the car corral I didn’t feature it because it was pretty rough..
Super interesting vehicle it was marketed almost as a Swiss Army knife of utility vehicles it was a great idea just evidently poorly executed.
Someone commented and I shared the comment on here on a thread on Facebook and he said that most of the accessories did not work as advertised.
Hey Jay, sorry I missed your live chat, I was at a dinner party with extended family. The Crosley is certainly an interesting vehicle!!! 👍🙂👍
No worries I’m sorry I’ve been absent for the last few days I went back to classic auto mall Wednesday and shot some cool stuff.. =)
There three crosley cars in a gift shop in Seligman arizona and a crosley farm unit in the museum in Ash Fork AZ.
Ohh baby I’d put that girl to work!!
Little hobby farm that would be perfect!!
Haha yeah Jeremy Clarkson needs one.. could you imagine that episode how funny it would be if Carson could get one of these and test all of the accessories out on his farm.
That is so awesome!!!! I live near Morgantown. The Roof Palomino was a tractor and a lawn mower that had an opposed twin. I know a guy who put a crosslet in one and it is really great. New subscriber here. I am getting ready to start my RUclips channel with a 1928 Morgan MG special 4 wheel three wheeler. I am also sourcing the parts to build my version of the pembleton. I would love to start a shop/garage that specializes in pre WWI race cars and makes kits and turn key sports cars similar to a Morgan or Pembleton. We should get together sometime. I will try and find you on Face book.
Hey sorry for the late response.. yeah post I link to Facebook in a comment and I’ll check it out when it’s up and running =)
Yeah I’ll totally up with meeting I’d love to do a bit on your 1928 Morgan MG do you have any other cars?
Here is Facebook link then just send me a message
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King midget club near me. Seen them other day cruising thru town. Most powered by Briggs 35 hp vanguards. 😐
You should do a video on the history of that motor and its many uses thru the forties up thru the seventies.
We will most definitely cover this in an engine episode one day this week the engine episode is going to be on the Lincoln V12
One of the Crosley OHC variants was also adapted and used vertically in the also failed Homelite outboard motors
Awesome information thank you so much for sharing that =)
The band is Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young
That's just an OG golf cart 😂!!!
With tons of accessories
Woh... stop. "...if you got it to the top of Everest and just let it rip." Damn dude, my coffee came out my nose man... you gotta warn a guy before that kind of stuff. My nose still burns omg. Lmao!
Haha glad you got a literal kick out of that. I’m sorry about your nose. =D
It looks like a road legal platform tractor for hauling luggage at European train-stations only with seats instead of a cage for carrying suitcases.
This car is cute and hope you do more crossley car :)
We did the hotshot plan on doing some more Crosleys that’s for sure.. as well as other micro cars
Not an auto-correct issue, it really is "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"
5 stars 😀😀😀
You need a 9 point roll cage in that
A telescopic steering wheel might have been a good idea.
Most modern small tractors, dont put out much more nominal torque and horsepower than these did.
considering a new John Deere starts at 24K even back than it was a bargain, on the 55-57 thunderbird you could get a telescopic steering column
Yeah that’s crazy I have a John Deere 212 I can’t believe what that cost new I think mine is a 87 could be wrong tho
For scale on this, how tall are you?
I drove around England in the late seventies and there were still Crosleys and Coopers all over the place. The English seemed to love tiny cars. It was like driving in a heard of sheep! One of the people attending a Horse show I was at had a little woody wagon that I loved the look of. He invited me to get in it and look around. The man had a cruel sense of humour. It was as tight as the first version of the Honda Civic! Trust me, that's tiny!
I would love to have one of these! However forty-five grand for a toy is a bit much for me.
I’m 6 foot 2 inches it just didn’t feel natural to me I didn’t feel tumbed out enough there was nowhere for my legs to go lol but like I said in the video I knew an older gentleman he was a little shorter than me and he had one but he sold it to buy the super sports Crosley
For another budget "utility vehicle"- look up the Trekka, built in NZ...
I’ll have to look into that thank you so much for that information
When I first looked at it I thought it was an International
With more and more people homesteading today, I would think something like this could be a big hit today.
Yeah this concept would do really well now
So in todays dollars it's cheaper than a side by side and would be far more handy for actual work. Most of em around me are used for booze cruising and that's about it.
I still can’t get over how much people spend on side-by-side
Is it a Jeep a land rover or a Toyota? Who knows it's part of the fun😂😅
It needs a Cincinnati Reds sticker!
Totally agree
There a lot of rover parts in one of them
A useful vehicle with no fluff? Unheard of today.
I'm sure that part of what killed these is the glut of WWII surplus Jeeps flooding the market
Jay you should try to find a Muntz Jet
That would be awesome if I could find one of those or a Kurtiz or Cunningham.. I really wanna find a Delahaye this summer shooting for the stars but doing a Bugatti would be really cool too from the 30s
One day over the rainbow I really want to go to California and go and do some cars that pur sang even though they’re not originals they are exact copies that’s always been a bucket list thing for me I would love to compare of the Bugatti type 35 to Alfa 8c
Let's not forget the other appliances Crosley marketed bedsides the radio. Our first refrigerator when I was a kid growing up in the 1950s was a Crosley Shelvador. He was the guy who came up with the idea of putting shelves in a refrigerator door.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powel_Crosley_Jr.#Appliance_and_consumer_products_manufacturer
These werent fast but they did much work on the farm !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Totally agree
45 miles per hour in this would feel like 200 miles per in a super car
Someone call Leno. That thing would be useful in a shop environment too.
I want to go to his garage one day it’s been a bucket list thing for me for years decades before the channel even
@@What.its.like. I love sports cars but he has so many cars from the entirety of automobile history.
I have yet to meet him but have met tons of people because of this channel and everyone says he is just as he is on camera in real life =) great down to earth guy
❤
Any relation to the british Crosley ?
Not sure
Crosby still Nash and young, suite Judy blue eyes
Judy blue eyes Crosby stills and nash
Would YOU want to go over 40 in that little thing?
No that would be terrifying lol
No turn signals on these
I’ll take 2 please.
A Tonka truck on steroids. But very cool.
Cool allergy =)
That was based in Cincinnati.
Powell Crosley Junior what is the owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team
What you talking about willis?
I had a 52 hotshot, and a station wagon ! My mother sold my station wagon for 25 $ , & I am still Pissed !!!!!
Wow that’s crazy I would be mad too..
That was one thing that I never got was what gave them the right to sell other peoples property.. just different time I guess
It's not a jeep Bantam designed the original jeep I believe
Yes bantam designed the original jeep and they very rarely get credit for it
Dude, can't find it,,,,,,, but : I KNOW IT/ It's a "HIPPY Band" in the early 70's..........
=) tribute to the late David Crosby
@@What.its.like. Yeah, just commented to the guy/gal> GOOD Job! Reminds me of better TIMES!~
@@What.its.like. Thanks Jay!
About as useful as a first gen Unimog, but twice as cute.
I got to do a 50s unimog it’s coming sometime this month =)
Fifth dimension
Some factual errors such as year CIBA debuted.
No wonder why he went broke .
Those are not running lights. Goodbye forever.
Toodaloo
Wow. What a strange, quirky, and unique vehicle. A vehicle with an identity crisis. Is it an off road vehicle? A tractor? Perhaps something else? Sort of in the ugly but a cute ugly category.
You hit it right on the head it’s a vehicle with an identity crisis, it was a Hail Mary from a company going under and they literally offered just about every accessory or equipment that could be ran off a pto.
I was going to ad this would make for a great jeep life boat when the jeep breaks down you could use these to get help =)
this video is fraught with MANY errors and misinformation regarding facts about Crosley, Crosley automobiles, and this particular FarmORoad as well. HIGHLY suggest that you remove the audio to this video and re-record it after doing some research and fact finding first.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosley
And used google search for the information as well as asked Crosley page for information about the buttons switches and knobs
What information is wrong, seems everyone remembers things a little different
But seriously if the information is wrong someone needs to get in touch wiki and have a corrected on there, that’s where most of the information for this episode came from.
@@What.its.like. NEVER and I repeat NEVER use wikipedia as your source of reference for any research or fact finding. Just in case you aren't aware, wikipedia is created and written by users of the site just like yourself. Information is recorded and edited and changed as users see fit, so there is no guarantee that the information is accurate or factual. There are folks that host parties even to see how many wikipedia entries they can screw with to add false details and information on entries. If you want to learn about old vehicles and history and aren't in the community to visit with and record information from the old guys that actually lived it and worked in the car industry back in the days or what not, try looking up the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) museum library, they have one of the largest collections of old car publications and resources.
Fascinating!
Hi Jay! Thank you for featuring this auto oddity. I think at that time if in the market for a small tractor I would have gone for a Ford 8N or similar. Like you said not much of a jeep or tractor. As to the song. YES, it is spelled Suite Judy Blue Eyes. Actually, a tribute to singer Judy Collins. Keep 'em coming!
Lawn tractor, lightweight tractor designed to mow grass or turf without damaging it. They dont have a lot of power because they dont need a lot of power. Garden tractors are designed for anyone from a small farmer to a homesteader, the main difference being its designed with farm tools like plows or small cultivators for actual tractor work. Lawn tractor=above ground work, Garden tractor=subsurface capable. Granted these days that line has begun to blur slightly, but you can still find dedicated lawn tractors AND dedicated garden tractors as well as ones that are intended to do both (if you are going to own a tiny tractor for your tiny farm, why buy another even smaller one to mow your grass?)
Think about this. Harley 45. Tremec 3.03. That would turn this fun toy into a very interesting, well, kinda more modern version of what they had intended in the first place. Harley V-twin, B-W T5, I would use this all over my land.😊
I just saw one of these today and it was equiped with a heater. It apparently was an option. this one had a dump box and was equipped to ;plow snow.
when i was a littlee kid my parents friend had an open top crosley, i dont think it was this exact model but close.
Had a single seat Crosley rat rod. What a piece of junk ... but I loved it.
You really need to get to the Sinsheim Technical Museum in Germany!!!!!!
They have The Blue Flame, that four front wheeled F1 car, a Concord jet, and tons of other strange and classic cars!
I would love to go to Germany one day I definitely want to do the auto Bon I’ve never been across the pond I’ve been to the Caribbean though and I’ve been as far south as Aruba which is only 20ish miles away from South America.. Almost went to South America on that trip just to say that I’ve been there but they were having conflicts in Venezuela the people in Aruba persuade otherwise they said you might be able to go there but getting back might be an issue
We have a couple crosley station wagons a crosley sedan a crosley hotshot and a crosley outboard motor for boat racing
Awesome =)
Shoutout to those people who watched the grand tour special, with james may in the crosley 'a fine car' and laughed the whole way
Hahaha I’ll have to check that out
Its a win, its a 10 out of 10
Sorta like a Gator embryo.
I had one of those when I was a toddler 😊
Any cool stories? Did you have any accessories
Great video. Not so much on the singing. I subscribed anyway.
Welcome to the community that is just a tie in to old cars, some don’t have radios and I’m a really person not afraid to be different even though I don’t have the best voice =)
The crosley tin side was used in SCCA racing, class Dsr. They were light. I have some articles on hopping up a Crosley in some of my ild magazines.
A radio and a heater was optional on all cars until the 60s.
Not all cars most cars
Came standard on high end stuff like packard Caribbean, Continental Mark II Cadillac El Dorado brougham.
Jeep had an agricultural jeep model too. Both probably too light for farm work.
The only thing wrong with the Crosley is, I don't have one.😊
The attachments look very interesting
Those windshield wiper motors look like vacuum motors, very common for the time.
An obscure and rare vehicle indeed. I'd guess that many were used as intended, and were scrapped as they wore out or rusted out. Maybe a few still hidden away in the back of a barn behind decades of more unused stuff. Crosley got a bad reputation from the early 'Cobra' engines which impacted their future sales. That engine was chosen for it's cheapness; it was a wartime design meant to be used only for long enough to win the war, and even then it barely met those needs. The Farm-o-Road concept was good and filled a need, but that need was very small as for farms to be economically viable they had to be bigger which required real tractors and trucks. Home gardens were too small to need these, and most of those were tilled by hand due to lack of money for machinery. Eventually the 'garden tractor' emerged and while not roadworthy, they did serve the small farm purpose better than this did. It would still be neat to have one 😁
Thanks for the video, I love the unique stuff - especially an old farm vehicle!
You bet.. I personally love the stuff off the beaten path as well
No ridges or cross-breaks? I'm shocked how straight the sheet metal is!
The engine continued to be built for a while after car production ended, it was used on refrigerated trailers for long haul trucks
Great information =)
I live 45 minutes away from there and visited the Auto Mall before. : )
Love that place
@@What.its.like. It's cool they use it for That. I have a member of family out that way in Morgantown and when visiting them we used to see a lot of show cars go by over the years due to there being local car shows around. It's neat to see they have something local that you can see old cars whenever ya like. Also I remember before that was the Auto Mall Its was used as a Furniture store. And before that it was actually a local Mall called Mom's Mall. But Malls are dying sadly and that one died long ago. Hope this Auto Mall doesn't die however.
Thank you so much for sharing that information,
I live 5.5 hours from there so I go there once maybe twice a month depending I try to do 15-25 cars in one day and then I’ll have enough content for the month they have 1000 cars for sale it just makes sense I don’t have to go looking for cars.. I’m going to try and go a few more places this month to separate things for variety also thought about doing a few new cars as well