1901 Olds: Will it Start and Run @KlepsGarage [EP 62]
2023 ж. 30 Нау.
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Dug out one of America's first automobile's my 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile. This car has been stored for years, time to get it out and she if she still operates.
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Just saw my first episode. VERY cool! I just subscribed. Aloha from Hawaii! We don't have too many super old cars like that here-
You might not have old cars. But you make up for it by being in paradise 😎 thx for watching
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Awesome you are preserving these pieces of history for our children. Kudos to your good sir.
Thank you. A working art museum.
At least 65 years ago when I was just little one, I got to ride in an original 1903 Olds just like this one. I remembered watching the owner add oil to the crank case. I remember how going down the road at 20 or so seemed so fast. Stuck with me to this day. Thanks for the memory reminder.
Your welcome. It feels like you’re doing a 100.
I would like to drive one just for bragging rights
The tiller is a strange sensation
Awesome Story Larry, God Bless You Sir
To think that that car was already ancient back then in 1960 when you got that ride. And this particular example will still be perfectly drivable in another century, if looked after right. I doubt there will be any 2003 cars running in 2124.
Too few people know that the Curved Dash Olds was the ORIGIINAL mass produced low priced car for the average man, NOT the Ford Model T. Thanks for showing this!
Thx for watching. You are correct 😎🍺
It always has fascinated me that someone can keep old machines working, sometimes without manuals on how to guide them. And sometimes just from hand me down knowledge. Thank you for keeping history alive.
Thx for watching. They have a starting Manuel.?? Wow that would be nice. 😂😂😂😎
It's difficult today to imagine just how "incredible" all this was in 1901. A moving carriage, rolling along by itself, without horses, ropes, cables, etc. This was like magic! Great video, thanks!
Thank you. Glad you liked it. 😎
Ransom Eli Olds was a legend in his day. Very smart and industrious guy.
There was a lot of competition. Had to stay on top of the game. Thx for watching
Let's just pause for a moment to consider what a big deal this was in 1901. Back then, you could have a great time taking your girl out for a ride with a horse-drawn surrey , but this was the Koenigsegg of its time; on a whole different level. Imagine a time when this clanky contraption melted faces (and lifted petticoats). It's mind-blowing. Thanks for sharing this!
You are correct. Thx for watching
It's no wonder the first car owners had engineers on staff, garages with apartments for the engineers, and many times drivers to operate these cars for them. It took a rich man to own a car AND keep it running back then.
Just added 5 miles to the odometer, time to rebuild the top end.
The very first cars were purchased to transition from horses, so the "mechanical men" that some automotive enthusiasts had on hand were largely stablehands who were adapting their skills to automobiles. Nobody hired a staff and gave them housing to simply maintain a car; they were already there. Horsecarriage maintenance and livery upkeep were not far removed from the horseless carriage.
When driving a car required more steps than preparing a five course meal. This was an amazing history lesson...Cumbustion engines pretty much still boil down to a spark, a cylinder, and a piston compressing the fuel/air mixture, but its mind-blowing to see a car from the dawn of the Automobile and how much has changed over the past 120+ years.
My great-great grandmother said the most wonderful thing she ever saw was a car like that going up a steep hill without being pulled by horses. It seemed like magic to everybody in the small village. They had never seen a car before.
It was a witch riding a horseless carriage 😂😂😎
Nice Job! Starting that beast is certainly a days work- and it's theft proof!
Thank you. I guess if they hooked a horse to it they could steal. 😂😂
Very fun... I'd take it to a drive-thru for ice cream or something. It's just fun to see history in operation.
That’s it, they were built to drive.
F A N T A S T I C !! That is a beautiful, fantastic piece of history and machinery.Thanks so much for sharing it like this!
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What an absolutely beautiful and fascinating 122 year old car and still driving on the road, AWESOME 👍👍
Thx for watching. The old cars hold up better than people. 😎
Nice video. Thank you for putting out for us. God bless you.
Thank you for watching 😎check out episode 83. Barn find.
wow. makes my 1917 model T seem like a spaceship
And now you know why back in the twenties 50% of all cars on the road were Fords. 😎
My great-grandpa was a pea farmer in rural Idaho. One day, a motorist broke down (overheat, total engine loss) right outside the farm. Great-grandpa got his first car for the cost of supper, room and board, and a wagon ride to the train station for the motorist. He took to motor out of the car, cut holes in the firewall for horse reigns, and hooked up a singletree to the front bumper. Now the family was riding in style. A horse-drawn car, totally enclosed from the weather. Grandma said they felt pretty fancy going to church in their car. Much better than the old farm buckboard wagon.
Now that’s funny. 😂😂 I bet their neighbors were jealous.
Wow. That's a quick buggy! I didn't realize they could go up to 30 mph. Great job and thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching 😎
Finally, a vehicle worth driving. Unlike most people, I never liked modern cars.. they're ugly, fast and dangerous in some cases. But automobiles back then were outstanding! My great grandfather owned a Packard Twin Six from 1921. I still have it in my shed and sometimes I take it out for a ride. I take absolute care of it in the name of my great grandfather.
Thx for watching. You have a real family heirloom. Is it a V2 or twin ignition you can send a picture to klepsgarage@gmail.com
From a documentary on the Packard motor cars it had said that Packard was the first automobile to have a steering wheel instead of the joy stick as I call them .
@@peteloomis8456 Fairly interesting, thanks for telling us that
Don't drive at any further than you want to walk back😊
Good idea Or have your horse follow you 😂
That is so cool! Over 120 years old, and it still runs. It's literally a rolling piece of history. I know that things were 'built to last' once. But I had't realized until I actually saw this moving, just how much that still applies to machines THAT old. I'm amazed by how simple it is - not even a steering wheel as we know it today. But there was a time when this would have been the latest technology and probably a huge status symbol too.
Thx for watching. It is a great part of history and a survivor 😎
Inspiring to watch. Back then it was such a huge leap from the house and carriage. Way faster and more compact. I wish I could live back then and experience that sensation
Except they’re a health and dental care was slacking back in the day. Not saying it’s that great today.
This is an incredible piece of automotive history. I love it. It's beautiful.
Thank you
finally the oldest mobile
It is an old Olds.
In 1901 my great grandfather was painting curved dash Olds'. With a brush, not a sprayer. Had to get the consistency of the paint just right plus be an artist with the brush. He later taught one of his dons in law how to do it and Grampa repainted his 1960 F100 that way. It had been used by a prior owner carrying a camper for hunting and the sides were badly scratched up. When he sold it nearly 30 years later, the buyer was really skeptical that it had been painted so long before and with a brush. His trick for getting it smooth was thin it just right with the right thinner and his trick for durability was mixing porch enamel in with automotive enamel. The paint still looked quite good after all those years, in spite of never being garaged.
Cool story 😎 thx for watching.
This is why I always loved Oldsmobile.
Agreed 😎
The definitive 'horseless carriage'. It must have been excitingly fast in 1901. I love the one beat per telegraph pole, as my father used to say. Wonderful to see. 😊
Thank you and thx for watching 😎
no a horse was alot faster than this
Very reliable car since by the time you got it started, you either forgot where you were going to go or no longer had a valid destination.
Ow that’s funny😂😎
“Oh, you drive a ‘01 Oldsmobile? Which one: Intrigue, Aurora, Bravada, Alero…?” *_Curved Dash_*
Yes sir. 😂😎
This is a lovely horsless carriage, it is amazing history. Thank you for sharing.
Thx for watching. 😎
It takes a special kind of person to have the love and patience to deal with these old time capsules. Please know that you're very much appreciated. 🙂
Oh, I’m special, alright. There’s something wrong somewhere 😂😂😂😎
The Amish people say even _this_ is too advanced 😂
You are correct.
Depends on the sect. Many use motor vehicles for work. I know some who use cell phones but can't have them in the house. One man told me that, in his community, they could use them for necessary communications outside of the house (in the barn) but they had to be black. He may have been pulling my leg about the color but his was black.
Wow, really impressive work to restore, maintain and operate a 120 year old car! I have never seen one this old start up and run before! Thanks for your effort to make this video.
Thank you for watching 😎
Well your video shows just what a person had to do just to start a vehicle in those days and what a person had to do to drive a vehicle in those early days. There was quite a bit of oiling and maintenance to be done on a vehicle at the time. I have also viewed the maintenance required on a railroad locomotive, and there is quite the chore oiling up that piece of machinery. Now more than one hundred twenty three years later we can just go out and start our vehicles and the maintenance is not near as involved. One had to really be diligent on vehicle maintenance back then.
Amen brother.
The noise it makes when you try to crank it is like it's snickering at your feeble attempts.
It will laugh at you. 😎
The Guys who built this car are now100 years dead - but this thing is still running. Great!
Yeah what’s up with that. 😎
That's beyond cool. Thanks for keeping her alive.
Thx for watching. 😎🍰
The elegance, the simplicity, the gentleness of sound, sadly not like now.
It was a different time thx for watching 😎
What a magnificent machine. Thanks for sharing!
Thx for watching 🙏🏻😎
Automobubbling right along.
These are so elegant human-sized vehicles. My grandfather had an automobile in 1904 of model Reo. He used to be driving horse carts before that as a local "taxi" in his city. Then he bought the car which was the first one in that city ever. He started to drive taxi till 1946 when he retired while having numerous other cars along the line.
Very nice. REO of corse. Was Ransom E Olds second car and truck company. What state and city did he drive in. Great history.
@@KlepsGarage He was living in Europe. I guess in US the cars were much more popular at that time
Great story thank you.
When you tell Your friends it's you're going old school Style
This would be one room school house. Old school 😂😂😎
я в шоке.... это просто великолепно, потрясающе!!!!
Glad you liked it. Thank you 😎
russian parashen go home
The electric starter was a magical invention.
Yes, first one, 1912 Dayton, ohio by Charles Kettering on 1912 Cadillac That car is on display at Carillon Park. Dayton ohio.
So basic yet it accomplishes the same task an any car today. Safety, efficiency and creature comforts is what has improved over the last 125 years
Yes it did. Thx for watching 😎
Always amazed at the speed these things put out.
I think they were trying to make them faster than a horse, so there was a reason to own a car over a horse. Besides, you didn’t have to feed it when it wasn’t running.
Thank you for taking the time to make this happen! It's so intriguing how it all started. As a bonus we even got a chance to see a turn of the century tailgater. Ha!
Thanks for watching. Glad you liked it. Don’t forget to check out the other videos.😎
Great Video, you mentioned driving across country, I bought this back in 2010 American Road: The Story of an Epic Transcontinental Journey at the Dawn of the Motor Age Paperback - May 1, 2003 On July 7, 1919, a cavalcade of sixty-nine military motor vehicles set off from the White House on an epic journey. Their goal was California, and ahead of them lay 3,250 miles of mud and rock. Sixty-two days later they arrived in San Francisco, having averaged just five miles an hour.
Wow that’s a journey. Joy Rainy did it on paved roads a few years back in a curved dash. Thx for watching. 😎
half an [edited] hour later, "starts right up!" XD early vehicles were a trip and I would absolutely love to argue with one for two hours just to have a stupid sunday afternoon drive :D
Thx for watching 😎
I love it !! HANDS DOWN FAVOR CAR EVER I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS IN PERSON!! WHAT A GEM
Thank you. Thanks for watching.
Very informational, Awesome 👍
Thank you thx for watching 😎🍺
Please go to drive-through with this one!
Might have to do that
uau , you don't need go to the gym , only start this car every morning is enough , thanks you for share the experience
You do have a good point. Is a bit of a workout 😎🥓
A machine truly worthy of the term "horseless carriage!" Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching 😎
Having seen other original Curve Dash Oldsmobile 's run in person is a thing to behold. It is truly amazing what was considered the first mass production American automobile. I have a 1958 Merry Olds full size replica of a 1901, which is much less complicated and maintenance, but still requires much oiling to operate. It functions very much the same with two forward speeds and one reverse and will clip along at close to thirty miles an hour. Thank you for an informative and interesting video.
This is so cool! I got to see a few Curved Dashes at the R.E. Olds Transportation Museum last Summer. It's so cool seeing one operating (and what goes into doing that). Thanks for the video!
Thx for watching. Yes. Static displays suck. Make ‘em run.
A lot more character than an EV!
Amen brother
A long time ago , they would spray oil on the dirt or gravel Road , Dilworth South End...to keep the dust down
I think the cars laid down a lot of oil also😂
Interesting video. I can't imagine what people thought about this car when it was new. The transition from walking, horses, or mules must have made them feel they were moving incredibly fast. Thanks for sharing this.
Thanks for watching
Amazing how many of these they sold. Brave people back then. Looks like a lot of work, but a lot of fun. Always wanted a ride in one of these, got pretty close. Thanks for showing.
Thx for watching. Swing by this summer and will arrange a ride.
@@KlepsGarage Great offer, hope I can make that happen. Like to meet you anyway. I really want a ride in the Lincoln! BTW, my Dad's name was Bruce.
this is an awesome car
Thank you. 😎
It looks like it feels faster because you're not sealed into a cabin, or even tucked behind a windscreen. I'd be too worried about loose gravel or sudden stops to drive one! 😅
It feels like you on a Disney ride. And could die at any minute 😂
@@KlepsGarage Eek! Maybe once, then never again. 😅
Moves at a pretty good pace - and seems pretty tame. Great vehicle!
It’s as lot of fun. Thx for watching
1901 2024 123 years well maitained olds mobile cars are wonderfully manufactured up to now these cars strong and wonderfully designed i appreciate your true effort of taking care of this unforgettable but you need one helper too
Thank you I have two sons, but they’re not always able to help with these videos.
As a Brit, it's interesting that it's RHD
Buggies were right hand drive so cars naturally followed however, Ford was one of the first ones to come out with left-hand drive because it was safer to exit on the curbside and everybody was in a hurry to pass. They also couldn’t see around the buggy driving from the right side. Yes everyone was in a hurry then to.
Thanks from Australia. Liked and subscribed!
Great country you have. I’ve been to QLD and NSW. 😎🍺
Amazing....Thanks & respect for doing something very special
Thank you 🙏🏻😎
The very old cars look so much like what they were called horseless carts or buggies . The attention they got was unreal 123 years ago. Only the ultra rich could have this toy.
Yes. Thanks for watching 😎
Just think, back then they checked oil, air in tires, all moving parts, coolant level plus the things you went thru just to drive across town. And only charged $0.10 cents to tune it up .
Yes. Now they want $200 to hook up the computer which does their job to tell you a sensor is bad. Then it’s 500. more to fix it. Ford had it right easy to repair and the average farmer could work on it.
Great video.
Thanks for watching. I have others that are better.
Oldsmobiles are my favorite cars and I still drive one to this day. Its nice to see an original curved dash. Most of them are replicas.
Thank you. We have four Olds and all are very nice original shape and fun to drive.
Beautiful fascinating piece of history.
Thx for watching.
It's truly a "horseless carriage", how they used to name it back then. Because it's more resembles a carriage than a car.
Yes Sir. You are correct 😎
amazing it runs at 60 RPM or slower. Plus a true total loss oiling system.
Yes it does
It's amazing to watch one of the first cars to be driven. Today we all expect our cars to work for us, and maintaining them is easy, but when the first cars were around, *_you_* were responsible for making the car even start.
Yes, you are the computer. You tell the car what to do thx 4 watching 😎
It's funny to see the stages in which automobiles progressed- usually the next boost of development occurred as previous patents expired. Forward twenty five years from this and the driver is still very much in control of the individual aspects of the operation. Forward on another twenty five and the vehicle is unrecognizable in terms of construction and operation. My car, 50 years newer, starts at the push of a button, changes gears by itself, automatically adjusts carburetion and ignition, not to mention all the other mod cons. It really takes skill to understand, operate and care for these machines which is something people take so much for granted now. Thank you for sharing with us!
Amen brother thx for watching.
I have a replica that we built from a layout blue print purchased from the Oldsmobile museum in Lansing Michigan. With nothing in front of you 20 miles per hour can seem like way too fast, I can't imagine 30.
You wouldn't want to hit anything you would fly out of the car. Thx for watching
With such a car, George Edward Stanhope Molyneux Herbert, 5. Earl of Carnarvon had a accident, in the year 1903, near Bad Schwalbach/Germany, Bad Schwalbach is around 80 km far away from Frankfurt/M. He crashed so bad, that he was injured the rest of his life and so his doctor advised to spent the Winter months in a warm climate. He choose Egypt, became interested in the history and so financed Howard Carter on his archological campaign. They found the grave of Tutanchamun. So if the Lord Carnarvon had not a car accident with such a car, he would never financed the digging of the grave of Tutanchamun!
Didn't know that. Thank you for that story from Wiesbaden, about 15 km from Bad Schwalbach.
@@TheTotti67 Bitteschön.
I had no idea these cars were so much work, all that oiling for a couple of hours, and then yet more stuff to do! Thanks for sharing.
I guess you don’t have to oil them if you don’t want them to last that’s the problem new cars, nobody takes care of
Thanks for letting us see another unusual car in action.
Strange an unusual yep. That’s this channel. Thx Randal
Good old times
1901....no speed limits, stop signs, no 5 dollars a gallon, no cops handing out $250.00 tickets.
Amen brother
That literally looks like Emma Webster (Granny) and Tweetybird's automobile carriage.....and Granny was drawn as an anachronism. That's awesome! What a charmed life, to live in such a beautiful place and have such an awesome hobby! Subbed!
Thx man. I think Tweety would love to ride in his car.
I like his idea of the fire extinguishers at ready wise move!!
Well, it’s kind of not replaceable so don’t wanna take a chance Thank you😎
Could have been my Grand Dad's Olds, My Father was born in 1907.
“They don’t make them like they used to” How they used to make them:
Agreed. Thx for watching. 😎
LOL, Old Mobile for sure!
Can you imagine being 20 years old and your name is olds. 😂
Very well done video Sir. About 10 years ago, I read “Car Crazy;” and if I recall correctly, the round/rolled dash was the first exported car. Truly iconic, but this is the first time I’ve seen one put into operation. One needs your fantastic set up to keep something like this running.
Thank you and thx for watching. I like a working museum/gallery
that is the weirdest thing i have ever seen lol
Agreed. There are a lot of strange things over the years.
Great daily driver.
😁😂😂👍
Back in the day it was. 😎
I would love taking a trip with you across Country with my 1901 Curved Dash Oldsmobile.
I would love to experience driving one of those.
Maybe someday it will happen.
That vehicle has prolly seen some things
Would be nice to know.
@@KlepsGarageshe was made befor titanic lol..
At Progressive we've seen a thing or two.
I think your thinking of Farmers Insurance not progressive 😂😂😂😎
Looking at what it took to get it running... yeah, no wonder automobiles weren't common for another decade and a half. I mean, I get that it hadn't been run for 10 years before this, but still... And about driving it to California... there were precisely zero people who had done that at the time this specific car was produced-the first trans-continental drive across North America was in 1903, and that was west to east.
Correct. Thx for watching 😎
Wow this thing goes fast.
Top speed 30. Which was faster than a horse.
My heartfelt thanks to you! you will find my name on the Family Wall at the REO Transportation Museum in Lansing Michigan. I can't tell you what seeing the dedication and care you seem to take with your Curved Dash! I want you to know that watching you drive it on the road at speed was actually emotional for me and, my Great Grandfather would be proud (and curious about the modifications). Thank You!!
Thank you and I apologize in advance for not knowing who you are. Now I have to do some research unless you would like to enlighten me at klepsgarage@gmail.com.
Thank you, I sent you an email.
Breakneck speeds 20-25 mph I'm impressed
25 mph!
“Slow down you maniac! Speed limit is 5!”
Where is the power power steering pump and turbo booster? Did it come with a GPS?
Armstrong steering. Naturally aspirated and we don’t need no stinking GPS 😂😂😂😎
26:00 i think the video from here on summarizes my experiences attempting to start my dad's lawnmower as a teen.
Frustrating, isn’t it?
wow! that was so great! truly enjoyed that! thanks for sharing!
Thx for watching