Jay Leno's 100 Year Old Coal Truck with Hand Crank Starter

Jay Leno drives us around Los Angeles in his 100 year old coal truck. With no seat belts and a hand crank starter, this truck can be very dangerous as Dennis Gage discovers. Enjoy this never-before-seen "Director's Cut" of Jay Leno's 1916 Autocar Coal Truck.
#jayleno #jaylenosgarage #trucks
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[@rumrunner5853]

I think it’s awesome that Jay shares his car collection with the rest of the world! These cars deserve to be shown and there history told and not just tucked away in some warehouse!

[@yuGmooDehT]

When racing game companies like the ones behind forza and Gran Turismo, Jay let's them use his cars for the sounds. It's pretty awesome

[@idledanspaceman8860]

hell i had no idea this dude had such a collection of history. I never watched jay's show but I will totally check out his amazing garage anytime i can.

[@JonnyRicter]

*their

[@yuGmooDehT]

@@idledanspaceman8860 you won't regret it!

[@haraldpettersen3649]

@@yuGmooDehT- I didn't know, but it sounds like something Jay would do, cool guy

[@jamessouthworth1699]

I always love how Jay shows the same interest and respect to the simple and primitive cars as the supercars. Thats a true gearhead to me.

[@aaronhill3943]

I think he likes them more personally, but being a practical man still dailies modern vehicles so he doesn't get killed by the other idiots on the roads these days. If he could he would be driving prewar or just postwar everyday.

[@dboboc]

He’s only a gearhead when the camera crew shows up. After that he lets his staff do the real work.

[@dookieday1]

If Jay never showed us this truck , would never known about it.

[@davidlogansr8007]

dookieday1 I would know! I saw these in my childhood

[@andrewdow4839]

Are you 100?

[@davidlogansr8007]

Andrew Dow no, I’m 63. There were a few still in use.

[@Death_Vail666]

So 2 OLD guys knew about this truck?Never would of guessed that OLD people would of known about really OLD vehicles and or anything else OLD and ANCIENT but Of course OLD people will know about this truck since it was made when you were born. But now alot of YOUNGer people will see this and know it exists\existed. OLD, OLDER, OLDEST... ANCIENT... PREHISTORIC!!

[@davidlogansr8007]

Chrisbailey Thank You for the complements! Accepting on behalf of Mr. Leno and Mr. Gage will be old David!

[@robertwhitley6233]

Show up to a driving test with this just to mess with examiners head.

[@thedos2922]

Even the driving instructor wouldn’t know how to drive it

[@cameronweidert8784]

I’m going to take a 6 speed under over manual transmission in an old Chevy farm truck to my driving test

[@HrLBolle]

@@cameronweidert8784 how did it go if you already did take the test

[@HrLBolle]

doble or white steam car?

[@cameronweidert8784]

@@HrLBolle I won’t be able to take the test for another year sadly

[@snookdock]

J stay so calm while somebody drives his Priceless vehicle

[@ChairmanMeow1]

he was really grinding the gears for a bit too lol

[@lonnyjaw]

Not only does Jay like muscle cars, he likes all the real old cool stuff too. He's living our dream!

[@johnlong9534]

Jay isn't just a car aficionado. He has a huge knowledge of old vehicles and how they were made and how they work. Amazing.

[@michaelwebb8771]

It flat out amazes me that someone that worked in the hierarchy of Hollywood knows so much about cars, I was a mechanic for about 20 years and Jay teaches me a lot, baffling.

[@shaunpearson7905]

He interviewed them (barely) he didn't hang out with them you're overstating his place in the "hierarchy" or misplacing his place :)

[@flyingmerkel6]

I'll bet cars were a welcome distraction from the ugly side of show business. Probably the sme reason so many actors get into animal rescue.

[@El_Chompo]

Jay was a good late night host but he didn't truly love doing it. He truly loves cars and when you are passionate about something you can spend all day every day learning about it and it doesn't seem like work and it doesn't make you tired, you just always want to do more. He is the unique example of what happens when an ultimate car guy to the bone gets the resources to live his dream. There are others who are ultimate car guys without the money, and others who are rich but not car guys. He is the only one who was lucky enough to be both and it's so nice of him to share all of his cars on video with us.

[@Okurka.]

Then you were a shit mechanic.

[@bird10498]

Of all the things Jay could spend his money on, preserving these old cars is an eminently worthwhile thing. I like him better as a car guy than as a late night host although I still laugh my ass off over his headlines feature.

[@fixt100]

Sometimes i think the universe made Jay successful so he could save these great machines.

[@coffeepot3123]

The Gandalf of Vintage vehicles.

[@garygermain2333]

You are talking about God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob who made the universe!

[@tommyhallum2054]

@@garygermain2333 No I don't think he was.

[@sighburrevil7088]

Love the passion Jay has for these machines and the fact he's willing to actually drive them around a bit.

[@randyhughes5160]

I love that jay will drive any car he owns I think the world of you guys

[@mtnvalley9298]

The two of you are the best car guys in the biz, especially together. Thanks for your efforts Dennis.

[@LincolnRon]

13:55 Jay Leno looks like he wants to hit him when he's grinding the gears. LOL

[@fidelcatsro6948]

lol thats what i thought too!

[@samwarner6326]

Although, he did better than Jay when he figured it out

[@LincolnRon]

@@nintendork900 That could be. They both have car shows and Jay Leno is pretty petty. Just look at what he did to Conan.

[@viper771]

I noticed that too lol

[@Alloutjose]

I thought 11:51 was worse lol

[@mickgatz214]

LOL, that gearbox. "If ya can't find it, Grind it!" :)

[@bobnorman5936]

I too love that he takes these out. Have to get a daily dose of Jay

[@KPearce57]

I drove a 1961 AutoCar 10 wheel dump truck with a snow plow and wing mounted on it, had Diamond plate fenders.

[@timhiltonsuperstar]

My grandfather Jack Hilton drove these cars in the First World War. They were used to haul Vickers machine guns and the equipment for the men of the 1st Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade. Thanks for sharing!👍👍

[@Dankcatvacs]

wow scotty kilmer wasnt kidding when he said the boxer design is ancient!

[@bklynp718]

I wouldn't take that windbag's word on anything.

[@robertphillips6296]

Go Scotty!

[@johnpossum556]

"I don't know if you've noticed but there's nothing to hang on to over here." "Lucky you can't go fast enough to need to hang on to anything." Priceless! Now I'll drink the rest of my coffee while watching mustie1 vids...

[@lukelaughlin52]

I used to shovel coal for my Grandmother’s coal furnace in Roundup, MT. One time I remember timing myself. I was good for 16 minutes per ton. Our pickup would hold 2000-2200 pounds of coal. And it took me two loads of coal to fill the hopper for my grandmother’s furnace. It was a 35 minute drive to the coal mine to get a load of coal...round trip...that was 2.8 hours of effort out of my life. My energetic, youthful life. I was only 15 then, and I think that’s the best time of a kid’s life to teach them hard work and responsibility. I think fondly on those times when I used to do that type of work. Thank you for your amazing videos that show everyone what it was like to live with existing technology. Can you imagine our society dealing with “hand-cranked-to-start-engines”, now days? I’ve always enjoyed your channel, even before I saw you and Al Roker on our flight from Dubai to Bagram, back in 2014...ish. You were both such nice guys and shook every hand offered you. I remember Al Roker being given the PA microphone to give the plane load of us a weather report and he just said, “ it’s hot, it’s going to be hot and it’s going to stay hot.” Hahahah. This was after I’d been there several times so I only laughed a little. Sorry for the long message, have a good one and thank you for your work.

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

Mr. Leno has collected a treasure trove of American history.

[@papasteve215]

Big A car. They were still being used to haul coal out of strip mines in Kentucky back in the seventies. I still see them on the road occasionally Well made trucks.

[@houseofno]

Hilarious that Dennis and this vehicle look like they stepped out of the same time machine. I loved Dennis comment about the massive rear end while standing behind Jay and the vehicle.

[@marc196050]

This is really cool. I’ve seen these coal trucks as non running relics in car collections. Seeing one running and driving is a real treat.

[@RyanTreks]

SO FANTASTIC to see these two gentlemen together!! They have perfect car chemistry!

[@paulgracey4697]

When I first saw this it reminded me of a long lost truck from that era. I would love it if Jay or anybody could find a Couple-Gear truck from Grand Rapids MI. Those were made for the same purpose, but were four wheel drive, two axle steering electrics. The motors were in the wheels. No need to make sure your thumb was inside on the crank, because there was none. This was in 1905. They did build one special version of the Couple-Gear, for the Mount Wilson Observatory. While still electric drive at all four wheels, the batteries had to be left off, and a Fairbanks Morse engine and generator added to power the wheels for the 8 mile trip up the 5700 ft. mountain from the observatory shops in Pasadena CA. Sort of a hybrid, that vehicle had a crank to start the Fairbanks Morse, because it could not use the generator as a motor with the batteries left off. It was procured to be able to take the five ton tube for the 60 inch telescope up the mountain as well as other large parts. It was calculated that the batteries of that day, which worked fine for city delivery services, could not go more than half way up Mt. Wilson before needing a recharge overnight, so it made sense to put the charging system they had in mind right on the truck.

[@saiharishh609]

Jay is an example for a man with great passion for Automobile

[@donaldvincent]

Very Cool. To think of the workmen that spent long hours working on and with this truck so many years ago, makes me appreciate my AC and mp3 player even more.

[@tortron]

And this is before a closed in cab over winter too

[@kman-mi7su]

Neat! I believe the second oldest truck builder still in business is Mack trucks. In 1900 they started building trucks after making freight wagons for years.

[@colt-mz3pr]

Its sad that mack is now volvo trucks.

[@kman-mi7su]

@@colt-mz3pr Yes, nothing is sacred anymore here in the USA.

[@MrTurboRotary]

Wonderful piece of history. Thanks Dennis 👍

[@vintagecarnews5899]

for sure

[@vintagecarnews5899]

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[@davidsnigier3974]

much Thanks to both of them

[@Dave-hc6pp]

I drove an Autocar in the late 70’s. It had 3 drive axles and a 60,000 pound winch mounted behind the cab. We pulled a 4 axle drop deck trailer with it and used it to haul heavy mining equipment to strip mines.

[@nickm5419]

what it was designed for really, nice job

[@Garfuck]

I love those Leno videos! I'm not even a huge car guy, know fairly little about the whole topic but you guys have a great chemistry and the videos are always interesting, so you got a new subscriber!

[@theangrypainter826]

Thank you for sharing that amazing old truck with us .

[@blackdog850]

New RESPECT for Jay having good timing on that crank! He's got the Gear head touch! Jay is such a National Treasure!

[@briananthony4044]

I noticed he pulled the crank out each time in case of kick back.

[@300mag83]

Jay is very knowledgeable. I appreciate how much he knows about all vehicles. Very cool to see all these old vehicles.

[@thundaga4005]

haha. I didn't know that's why boxer engines were called that. Man, I've learned so much from Leno in his garage.

[@tacolove892]

@Marcangelus1 / That makes zero sense. Who made this?

[@mdtaylor2274]

I'm only here for the "hefty rear end" 😁

[@rywolf01]

Wish I didn't have to work for a living. I'd love to hang in Jay's garage all day everyday! How cool to see vehicles like this. Jay is a legend in his time. He should start collecting trains like the gentleman in Hamburg, PA.

[@easternwoods4378]

The original "deuce and a half"

[@leoweber3629]

Eastern Woods Read my mind!

[@charlese.duncanjr.2341]

Hoooooaaaah!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

I was thinking that exact thing

[@ezrabrooks12]

Leno's GOT THE COOLEST STUFF!!!!!!

[@leroymorris6036]

Thanks for the history lesson Jay, glad someone's keeping those trucks around.

[@bobbypaluga4346]

Call me crazy but I get a kick out of the trees, the videos are helpful in finding something new I want to stick in my yard. I’m going to pick up a few jackaranda trees after seeing how great they look in Jays videos. The tree has a huge purple crown from the purple blossoms. Thanks Australia for letting us borrow your favorite tree. If a species can grow all over Oz it should grow in Arizona. The service vehicles from the 1910-1940 made for a specific purpose were some of the most unique both in British truck and US versions. They had a blunt end for the most part, the engine wherever they could fit it. I bet they made these trucks to carry barrels of beer by making a few changes in the bed. Incredible truck, milkmen drove the same type of truck with a shell covering the front and the cooling unit.

[@tracylemme1375]

I rode in Acars in the late fifties with drivers who hauled Portland cement. They were the best trucks on the road at the time. The new one had a 220 Cummins the older ones had 165s. Jay just loves machines. Vehicles just happen to be more available than any other type. Thank you Jay.

[@Dekko-chan]

I just love how jay finds a practical reason for literally everything

[@brianaxb9429]

Anytime I see a Jay and Dennis video, I immediately click!

[@TestECull]

I love the way that thing sounds. Could listen to it thrumming over at idle all day long.

[@robax]

Pull up rather than push down... saves breaking your wrist. Jay does it right.

[@tacolove892]

Good point!

[@alvinatorjehosephat7777]

99% of people with money buy brand new glorified computers with wheels, jay is a wonderful guy who loves historic vehicles and puts time and effort into keeping them running and looking good. Well done gents much respect

[@gene978]

I THOUGHT Jay was going to make the sign of the Cross when Dennis took the wheel and had a little trouble putting in gear lol

[@bobjohnson205]

He would have, except he's an atheist! lol

[@RandyLaheySunnyvale]

I think he's beyond fairytales.

[@ImTHATguy...]

Best part of staying home from school sick growing up, was watching My Classic Car on TV

[@fidelcatsro6948]

marvellous machine from 1916!

[@Formulabruce]

Way Cool, I heat with Pennsylvania Anthracite Clean Coal. Its dead weight when ya have to move it, but It can beat any kind of cold ! Nice to see how it once was delivered!

[@uptoolate2793]

Fantastic!

[@kevinm3751]

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing a bit of our history with us Dennis and Jay! We have a number of our cities garbage trucks that are made by Autocar Co.

[@robertpartsmade5832]

Outstanding sir .. many thanks for showing us this amazing bit of our industrial heritage..... regards PARTSMADE 🇬🇧

[@WorldwideWyatt]

Leno is a gift to everyone who loves cars.

[@daveb5016]

Whom ever has the coolest toys wins. Jay wins.

[@robertphillips6296]

I said it before and I’ll say it again, “Jay has the neatest Toys!”

[@CH-tu4mm]

I love the banter - they really play well off each other.

[@lapinlogic6267]

I love the slow "put put" of these vintage engines, something satisfying about something like this or a steam traction engine

[@jaybrewster2475]

A "reassuring" chug. Sounds almost content to just run forever. Slow steady and faithful

[@elosogonzalez8739]

What a fun automobile. Keep 'em rollin'!

[@MrHeksas]

i thought it was running on coal :( like a steam car

[@TR2000LT]

If that was the case it would be huge in the thumbnail and would have a chimney like an steam train

[@humdinger5701]

You know it's serious when Dennis flips his hat around backwards

[@aaditjalal5788]

Ancestors to the modern pickup truck.

[@reasonablespeculation3893]

Ancestor to an F-350 level of payload,, and accomplished with only 18 horses.

[@Shane-Singleton]

Still waiting for Jay to set up a PO box, or maybe now a GoFundMe, to buy Dennis a Duesenberg, lol. I love that Dennis is still around doing what he does.

[@MyClassicCarTV]

Me too!

[@iancarter2441]

Amazing old truck would bring a tear to your eye , a survivor from another age !

[@1tylerproud]

I love old trucks. Thanks for sharing👍🏼

[@MrJayrock620]

Jay Leno is a true custodian of these cars. He not only knows the ins and outs, but how to drive every single one of them.

[@TheMarky26]

I like the fact jay doesn't just collect passenger cars..Hes got some cool stuff.

[@TheMarky26]

@Taylan Safak not what i meant smart ass.. At the end of the day most cars are passenger cars.. I like the fact he collects stuff like this and steam powered tractors..

[@jimmotormedic]

Must have been a big step up from a couple horses & a wagon. Could you imagine the learning process when it was new? Awesome truck!

[@STho205]

jim k. But the wagon was semi autonomous driving. With a well trained team, the driver can let the horses do most of the driving, most of the time. Milk wagons, the horse would follow the milkman down the street, so he didn't have to keep getting on and off the wagon to move it. Productivity in small towns went way down when motor trucks took over milk routes. Only took us a century to almost get back that feature.

[@jimmotormedic]

@@STho205 yes I recall a guy I knew ( who has long passed) telling me of a team of horses that skidded logs out of Michigan's up back in the day. They would hitch the logs up and they would drag them out of the woods. Someone would unhook the logs and send them back. No driver needed. But old Gramps used to tell me ( boy, don't ever trust anything that eats while you sleep)

[@Dream42000]

I'm personally a fan of sports cars from the JDM modding era with straight sixes and turbos. But watching this series on Jay Lenos cool classic cars makes me interested in this ancient technology. Awesome series

[@Georgealfa21]

Most of us are but if we see a car like that always get our attention. We are going close to take look at it. sniffing like curious cats .lol

[@LanceGrey]

Thanks for sharing Santa's old Coal delivery wagon with us Jay!

[@rommelchavez1285]

thanks Jay for all the history about cars! I love your collection! God bless you!

[@tummytalk605]

I like watching the comedian teach the car expert a thing or 2 about it++Love these guys==They looked like the Clampets lost cousins rollin through Beverly Hills lookin' for the cement pond

[@buddyclem7328]

My grandparents would go through that much coal in one winter! Great video, and what a great truck!

[@michaelgrubbs1618]

If these two old dudes can start that by hand crank, my hat's off to Jay Leno's mechanic who made it so. Period

[@davidsnigier3974]

Jay is the mechanic on a lot of repairs, doesn't mind getting hands and arms dirty and rather enjoys the challenge

[@floatrollorfly7872]

Just got a 1911 model t in the shop today. I love these old vehicles!

[@hoagiesherlin7732]

Jay is the toy king!!!

[@theoriginalshew]

The neighbors were probably like "Oh, there's Jay and Dennis again driving an old ass car"

[@guynorth3277]

This is really fascinating, first time I've really heard Leno talk on cars and truck to this extent. He's like a professor of antique vehicles. My mom told me that men could break their arms trying to start a vehicle.

[@LarryC213]

Jay Leno seems like such a nice guy.

[@jetenginethrust863]

That was pretty cool, thanks for sharing it with us. Have a great day and GOD Bless...

[@100forks]

What a beautiful vehicle.

[@email4664]

Thanks Dennis

[@johntilson2535]

When you consider these coal tenders were towed by draft horses less than 10 years earlier, you can imagine that the delivery men were overjoyed to have 'horseless' tenders. Even in freezing weather, the job got done faster and more efficiently, although primitive by today's standards!

[@leskrawitz2397]

I live in Ardmore, PA and I never knew we had a company that made cars and trucks! Fascinating!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

Two actually, MACK is out of macungie

[@jayrock4ya]

This sounds like a cartoon car🤣🤣🤣🍻, love Jays collection!!

[@Rockport1911]

An engine with a total loss oil system in a truck that delivers coal, sounds like the EPA wasnt around back then :) Nice video :) simple vehicle but its got it where it counts :)

[@machinerydoctor]

Crude oil was poured on the roads to suppress the dust

[@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS]

... and gasoline was a by-product that was being dumped in streams prior to creating the demand for it.... same as MILK!

[@plaid13]

Love the simple stuff like that. Nothing extra just what was needed. Cant get that anymore. Everything has to have airbags and abs and a million different sensors and pollution control tons of things to go wrong and everything to drive the price up.

[@Grenade80]

7:57 "Imagine a freezing cold day in Pennsylvania" - "Imagine Dennis's moustache turning into icicles"

[@machinerydoctor]

Snotsicals

[@JohnJohnson-hk7cj]

Jay is a true champion of history😀😀

[@rjr1227]

So Jay.....what kinda shape was this in when you got it? This is a really cool truck. Thank you for the ride....

[@woodsmn8047]

There is still a similar one on top of the gate house at what was the Garrett freight lines home office and terminal here in Pocatello Idaho...it's been sitting up there since I was a kid growing up here and my dad worked for Garretts...the truck is the original coal truck that senior Mister Garrett started his business with hauling coal around town ..I don't know what year that was but it was a long time ago and the truck was probably not new then

[@bansheemania1692]

This was Made in my Backyard.. Awesome

[@xxDOTH3DEWxx]

I love the way jay drives these old cars. just like how i ride my old motorcycles. Like im the king of the world

[@watsontcbc]

Thanks for showing us Jay’s 1916 Autocar. I’ve often wondered if Jay had one of these - seems like his kind of thing. My great grandfather bought a new one back then for his Venice of America Transfer and Storage company, which serviced luggage and cargo transport to/from the Abbot Kinney deep-water pier (Kinney is my great great grand uncle). I’d share some photos of the Autocar all loaded up from our collection donated to the Santa Monica History Museum website photo archive, but then KZbin would strip off this comment...

[@RandysFiftySevenChevy]

Dennis you almost lost an arm cranking that. BTW; I still have an "Old Car Nut" Decal on my 57 Chevy that was one of the first decals on the car, dates back to the 80s. If your ever in So Cal I'll give you a ride and let you drive it.

[@paulbates7302]

Yes he teaches so much history

[@STho205]

The oil check. Yeah we do still do that with oil. E36 BMWs with GM or German automatics have an overflow hydraulic oil check. No dipstick. Start the motor, cycle it through the gears, remove the top bolt. If oil drips out, it is full. If not hand pump oil into that hole until it leaks. Return the bolt. No dipstick. Just a mess under the car. Fun without a lift.

[@wkruit]

“..a nice way to do deliveries...” In summer!! Beautiful engine sound!!

[@MyClassicCarTV]

Indeed!

[@pacificcoastpiper3949]

@@MyClassicCarTV pretty peppy for a hundred and some odd years old two cylinder