Coltrane's Planes & Automobiles: The V8 Engine
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- From The family car to the raucous roar of the stock car , and onto the pulling power of a 4x4 truck, Coltrane surveys the impact that the V8 had on America. Fords, Cadillacs and pick up trucks all get Robbie's inspection for the V8's development
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R.I.P. Robbie...he passed away yesterday....What a fabulous career he had.
Damn, did not hear until now, RIP Robbie! Watched this series maybe 25 years ago and always wanted more!
RIP Robbie. That moment "Aye, that'll be fine now" as he walks away from that 4 pot engine makes me howl with laughter every time.
Sadly missed... the world is a duller place without the big fella in it. But what a life he lived.
R.I.P. big man. Love how as a Scot he illustrates the difference in number of engine cylinders with cans of beer :)
When I first heard of Robbie Coltrane passing, I thought of this TV series and the book from the series. I must dig it out and put a little note about his passing.
He would pop up in all manner of shows or films and it was always a pleasure to see him. Most people would know him from Harry Potter, but for me it was Black Adder and this series. RIP Robbie!
Mark from Melbourne Australia
The V8 powered air raid siren has got to be one of my favourite bits of TV with Robbie, loved this series. RIP mate. ❤
Finland did it with Saab engines. Descended from the Triumph slant-4.
Same here.....love this scene, and the other guy saying "CAANTACCT" before he fires it up 🤣🤣🤣
RIP Robbie....
agree, that always makes me laugh, especially the crew reacting.
Personally I think Cracker is one of the best drama series ever to air on British television, Robbie was a genius of an actor. Such a loss. R.I.P
I watched this episode over and over when i was younger. i got to own a V8. A TVR no less. i thought of Robbie often while driving it. The Eldorado suited his hefty stature. Rip big man.
I saw this when it came out. Great show. Imagine getting to work on a Hemi with Don Garlits. Rest easy Robbie, my daily is a 6.2 litre LS3 and my ute is a 7.4 (454) Australia has white trash too.
The 1970 ford galaxy he has here was originally brought from Arizona in 1994 by a mate of mine ,myself and three other mates . My mate sold it to a guy in Middlesbrough who worked in a body shop who really went to town on the body work which was originally white with a vinyl roof that was long gone along with the paintwork due to the Arizona desserts sun .It came from a little old lady who had it parked up for over two years .This car took us from Arizona to Baltimore with a few hiccups but good god what an adventure that was ,This is the true story of how this beautiful car came to Britain.
I had a Rover P6 with the Buick 3500 Ltr V8 engine. Ran like a dream, sounded great. Miss it.
Wonderful stuff.that air raid siren was the best!!.you could tell robbie really enjoyed making those shows R.I.P. robbie another good un gone
The greatest episode of one of the greatest series of all time. Thanks Robbie Coltrane for doing it so well! Vale.
Awesome, i remember when i was kid and this was on the tv, i got a v8 a few years later!
Similar presenting style to Jeremy Clarkson, but with genuine humour, knowledge and talent. How refreshing.
We''ll always have your humour Robbie, thanks for a great series.
Rest in peace Robbie ❤
Tento dokument je absolutne perfektny v kazdom smere a Robbie tomu dal ten spravny smrnc a stavu!!! Je to absolutna spicka a uz som videl toto video niekolko-stokrat a este nemam dost... Clovek, ktory sa trochu vyzna do motorov a vie o com to cele je, tak mi da urcite za pravdu a nyvyse Robbie uvadzal aj dalsie diely tohto dokumentu o inych typoch motorov a kazdy bol super...!!! Uzasne a nadherne zaroven...!!! Dakujem ti Robbie a je mi velmi luto, ze si tak nahle odisiel, ale dufam, ze ti je tam dobre a si spokojny s tym, co si nam tu zanechal. Mal by si to pozret kazdy motorista!
Remember this series and watching it when I was younger, his passion for engines shone through, especially liked the one with the triple expansion steam engine in the lake district, woke up this morning thinking about the v8 one as I now own an old Ford truck with a y block and was out and about in it last night down here in Cornwall. Must be 20 yrs since I'd seen it and it's still brilliant to watch
We move this technology over to loudspeakers and mosque can have a 25 mile radius on the sound from them.
Cool what part of Cornwall are you from? I live just the other side of the bridge in Devon!
@@jamespeterburch I'm in St columb major and work in newquay
The reason for the balance and the sound of most of V8s is because they mostly use a 90 degree cross plane crankshaft, which gives them, that famous rumble, and balance mentioned in the video.
Most 4 cylinders use a 180 degree flat plane crankshaft, which gives them that weeenn weeenn sound we all know, some V8s , like Ferrari V8 road cars, F1 cars, Indycars, and many other racing cars, also use flat plane crankshaft, and they have a sound, very similar to a 4 cylinder engine, and they also have more vibrations
new mustang 5.0 coyote is a flat plain as well.
It’s also got a lot to do with the firing order that the engine builder chose. Every engine manufacturer seemed to chose a different firing order (V8) and they all sound slightly different as a result. They all sound good but the Holden 253 and 308 have by far the best note. I am definitely not biased. Jeff
I vote the Triumph Stag engine for the best sounding (despite being pretty small).
@@dungareesareforfools If it sounds like the V6 in the Capri I would agree but a Holden 253 V8 or the 308 V8 with a good twin system is the prize winner.
Oh Robbie. So sad you're gone. From another engineer. Loved your humour, acting, intellect and love of everything that went up and down, round and round with a bang and whirring noise. RIP my fellow petrol head.
R.I.P. Robbie. You will be missed.
He was a great character. I once owned a 59 Buick(I'm a UK resident). 401cu i Wildcat engine. Awesome car. I did a 60 mile trip to a show with a broken piston(unknown at the time). Easy fix,and cheap!
How the hell have I missed all this untill now from such a man ????????????????? R.I.P. Mr Coltrane As all you did this is one fantastic series I have honestly learnt so so much Thankyou to you and your family !!!!!!!!
I have the VHS of this worn smooth from so many viewings and the book. Unlike Clarkson Coltrane is both genuinely funny and knows his stuff: brilliant.
Read Clarkson...he's very funny..and he does know his stuff...after being a journalist for over 40 odd years..he should..
@@feydespiel. Clarkson wouldn't know how to pull a dipstick out, let alone strip an engine down, like Robbie could..😏
@@feydespiel. Clarkson simply regurgitates the same old shtick. Funny once, but no longer amusing.
great vid.. a brit that gave a good review and with proper history with out the usual "but" hats off..good show.
What a man What a Engine
RIP Robbie. You were a genius 😊
Quite a character for sure. A couple of extra facts, the real breakthrough that made the Ford Flat Head V8 possible was in the foundry. Up until that time Vee engines were made with a separate crankcase and cylinder bloke construction because casting them together caused too many casting faults that led to failures. Casting them together was the key to making them cheap enough to sell in a lower-cost car. The engineers at Ford set up a special group to crack the problem which they finally did. Being a side-valve engine made the casting even more complex. Also, Henry Ford was not keen on the V8 concept it was his son that pushed the project.
Again, GREAT episode!
Robbie, 2 stroke engines
DO work! I've put 2000 miles
on my RD-4-00S I've had a
few.
He was a real class act, he's very sadly missed... RIP BIG MAN... ❤️❤️❤️🏴
Rest in Peace, Mr C.
R.I.P Robbie my HERO 💔
pump up the volume at 1.02, no matter if you're a ford man, chev man or Mopar man, that sound means the same to everyone, Smiles all round!
It’s not miles per gallon, it’s smiles per miles and always will be. Jeff
Robbie makes a Cadillac Eldorado look small. Quite a feat.
best show in history
He hops into that massive Eldorado and spins the FRONT WHEELS! Because despite being a symbol of the excesses of the past, the Eldorado also had one eye to the future by being front wheel drive.
The British version of Jay Leno. 🙂🙂🙂
6:14 The camera nearly knocks his coffee over.
Always fancied a TR7 V8, with the old Rover Buick US short block engine. Great noise. Generally know as a TR8, unofficially. Vroooom.
R.I.P. you will be missed
Great show, but a slight correction is needed. It was Clyde Barrow who wrote the letter to Henry Ford telling him how much he liked Ford's V8 engines. (Clyde stole several.) Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car, a Ford V8 sedan, is on display in the Primm Valley Casino in Nevada behind bulletproof glass!
bit late for bulletproof glass now aint it? lol
Although there has been some rumour that Henry Ford or one of his employees actually wrote that letter.
OK, who'd a thought. Robbie (Rubeus Hagrid) Coltrane and "Dyno" Don Garlitz.
AND, a Hemi engine!
Guys, (and, if they're any gals here) does it get ANY better than this?
The one that got me, was the reference in part one, where Robbie was waxing poetic about a Steam Engine. Sounded like Rubeus Hagrid drooling over some dinosaur (or dragon) or something.
If you don't know, you might want to visit Harry Potter.
Robbie, thanks for this whole series, except what you did to the 2 cycle engine! I'll STILL put my RD-400F Daytona Special against ANY new bike. But, you must be able to lift the whole thing off the ground.(Oh, the RD-400F, 1979.)
steve
Steve,,,you told me all ya did was computers,and you're retired!!!!
No, I've also made beers.
But, not watery beers, or beer in "tins."
I am also working on the rare American V8.
I still do computers, as well as cars.
Computers tend to leave my hands MUCH
cleaner.
Hi, Laurie!
steve
it is now available on dvd on amazon uk
I thought the first V8 engine was invented by a french guy.
It is true that inline 4 cylinders are naturally unbalanced, I think I heard that the five cylinders are actually better.
But most people agree that an inline six is supremely smooth and balanced.
Yep, first V8 Antoinette aircraft engine, a few survived, quite interesting, first one in a car was Rolls-Royce - only three made, non survive, First mass-produced V8 American (a flat plane), first cross-plane also American, it took a while the solution was not that obvious. Fours are inherently unbalanced for the second order, thus the use of balance shafts. Sixes are inherently first and second order balanced, and thus V12s are as well.
Your right, everything automotive engine wise was developed for planes in the first place. Aero engineers worked out how to get the most out of a piston engine very early on. Jeff
wow garlitz & a 8.2L front wheel drive car!
Losing Robbie is a sad thing for the world. So sorry to hear this.
In North America, up to the mid 80's, V8's were so common they were kind of boring, they were just standard.
I wanr that car Robbie is driving in the beginning!!!! :D
yah not a bad galaxie.
Read the fairly long comment I put on here about the galaxy
Read my comment on the galaxy
Rip Robbie
Shame they cut the bit with the state trooper pulling them over.
...”don’t mention Vietnam...”
RIP Big Robbie
Hi everyone, As many have rightly said, an excellent video,but what is that music that plays when he `s cruising down the the road, in that wonderfully un PC Cadillac? I wonder if little Greta has seen this video?
_How dare you!!_
Did I hear him correctly, Belgium is the birth place of the V8 engine?
i like that Ford
17:58 were is this siren now?
The ultimate V engine was the World War Two aircraft engine - the Rolls Royce Merlin V-12 engine. Amazing technology for the 1930s, decades ahead. Metallurgy, mechanical etc..
V8 have two cylinder on the same crank pin as well as counter weights which limits the responsiveness and ability to rev. The V8 also suffers from less Bore and stroke from 4 and six cylinder engines. The only advantage V8 has is noise promotion and fuel economy at highway speeds for trucks.
Actually, it was Clyde Barrows (of Bonnie and Clyde, duh) who wrote the fan letter to Henry Ford. He said that he drove Fords exclusively, whenever he could get away with one.
The Nissan came too early. Blue skies Robbie. Sadly I have only now found this series.
RIP Robbie :(
Did he do something in Red Dwarf? Was a clever interesting fella. Deeply missed already.
After 2:00 minutes.. Heineken is Dutch! Has nothing to do with Germany and their 6 cillinders. :) Just to let you know, its a awesome video!
Difficult to acquire German beer in a can.They’re big fans of the glass bottle(or draught beer,preferably in a one litre stein!)
Can someone please tell me if this was ever put on DVD?
@dodgejamesuk
Its a ford galaxie.
Classic man
I like the way Robbie says at the end that he would not be seen dead in a Japanese car. What little red car was he driving at the beginning? A Mazda 121 badged as a Ford (doh!)
13:00 - How can you build one million cars in just one year??? Blimey, Detroit must have been one hell of a place then! 😳
Hey Robbie you must be sitting in a Nissan R.I.P
Lovely video. I hate V8s. They sound like wet farts to me. Flat fours an inline fours make so much more sense, and sound lean and hungry. R.I.P. Robbie, and a big THANKYOU for all the entertainment we have been privileged to enjoy from you.
Then get a flat-plane V8 then, sounds like an angry inline four depending on how good the extractors are (as it is in essence two inline fours), the Cosworth and Coventry Climax engines were flat-planes.
Hate V8s, how dare you!
Go stand next to a top fuel dragster and tell me that sounds like a wet fart
Never mind a wet fart ,if you went in my mates Plymouth satellite 7 litre V8 you would deffo shit yourself never mind a wet fart
Robbie, ask for a biscuit and you'll get an odd looking scone
3:48 AaaAHHHhHh lol
America in a engine
Hagrid's shop class
They sound cool in a hot rod or a race car, but they sound annoying when some dork in a Ram pickup feels he, or she, has to rev up that Hemi tp pass you in rush hour.
what ford is that at the bigining is it an ltd or somthing
"propane gas"..... bottle clearly says "Fire extinguisher"
Robbie smoking and drinking his way through the show. Presume that ‘68 Ford at the beginning was one of his.
To wash dirty oil off your hands... Water?
No!!! Margarine!
Surprised they forgot to say it was Big Daddy Don Garlits starting that old Hemi with Robbie.A terrible slight...no respect.
+Dennis Keena I Met him at PRI In orlando very good guy living legend
You lucky dog.I'm jealous .
Did you watch the video?
The graphic stated they were visiting
the Don Garlits museum, in Florida.
Shouldn't have had to state it, you should
be able to identify him by his looks and
voice.
steve
15:57 'Use your brake to stop...' Really? 🤔🙄
Heineken is Dutch, not german..... lol
is this for people who dont know anything about cars?
Coltrane needs new clothes. Do you like the boiler suits he wears???
A sad loss.
The 1970 ford galaxy he has here was originally brought from Arizona in 1994 by a mate of mine ,myself and three other mates . My mate sold it to a guy in Middlesbrough who worked in a body shop who really went to town on the body work which was originally white with a vinyl roof that was long gone along with the paintwork due to the Arizona desserts sun .It came from a little old lady who had it parked up for over two years .This car took us from Arizona to Baltimore with a few hiccups but good god what an adventure that was ,This is the true story of how this beautiful car came to Britain.