Steam 💨 Powered CAR?!?! Stanley Steamer!!!

[@alg003]

127 miles an hour in that would probably be the single scariest experience possible.

[@sc1338]

That old girl was moving! Bet she could still do it. It was the sport model tho

[@dawildcatz87]

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.

[@griffinbell2795]

Bruh you can do that in a modern car and the only thing that is different is it is significantly more flammable

[@mikecorleone6797]

@@dawildcatz87where is STL? Genuinely curious

[@Chris-nd3yp]

​@@mikecorleone6797St Louis at a guess? I'm Aussie though.

[@johnny_boi_0161]

We makin Radiator Springs with this one 🗣️🗣️🗣️

[@battles.digital]

YOOOO

[@Chernochegger]

What's the relation?

[@Creador-de-una-causa-justa]

​​@@Chernocheggerthe founder 😶

[@Big_Caesar1]

@@Chernochegger Its from the kids movie cars

[@rj6110]

i want to see that doing 127 mph

[@captainphilips5469]

12.4 more like.

[@j.vallejo7302]

Forreal 😆

[@theMG174]

Wooden spoked wheels and all!

[@jondonnelly4831]

I think Jay Leno has one and pushed his. I don't think it did over 100.

[@vHindenburg]

@@captainphilips5469 The do 60, though usually they cannot hold it for long the boiler is unable to evaporate water that fast.

[@bcgrittner]

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.

[@battles.digital]

Like 5x the cost of a comparable car of the time

[@somethingelseaswell]

A Stanley steamer sounds like something one could get arrested for

[@phillipfry5669]

That would be a Cleveland Steamer

[@martinroa1480]

Dang imagine going 120 in that 😮

[@battles.digital]

It’ll do like… 30?

[@Docstantinople]

@@battles.digitalso you’re just lying about what you said in the video. Liar!

[@SugmaDubNation]

@@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

[@jondonnelly4831]

​@@battles.digitalJay Leno had his at Highway speed, easily keeping up with traffic. Worth a watch.

[@90sbuickguy84]

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

[@stevewenners]

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.

[@samsoknight4306]

The steamer commercial theme was literally the first hum I had when I heard that

[@battles.digital]

Haha that’s what I assumed people would think of.

[@joeleonard9965]

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

[@GabrielGarcia-300]

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.

[@JustRaj]

If Stanley made a comeback, that'd be wild. I wonder how much this weighs.

[@battles.digital]

It weighs quite literally a ton. Well, 2 tons. Would be crazy to see steam make a comeback 100+ years later.

[@davidwelch3887]

The power of steam!😅

[@arichithechimericvelvetwol84]

I mean, there may be a chance, depending on if steam power can rivle electric.

[@UP4014]

I would love to see steam make a comeback

[@peterparker9286]

Burn scrap wood. Alot of 3rd world countrys running burn barrel steam. Steam punk

[@whokid187]

What a beautiful example

[@billwilson-es5yn]

The Age of Brass.

[@marchess923]

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.

[@rickstevens1479]

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...

[@battles.digital]

Yes, that one was the car that broke the steam powered speed record.

[@dougfisher1813]

Isn't that the same car that injured him recently?

[@mikem4633]

Some impressive engineering and performance for its time.

[@lyn-jhonosia8981]

That's a Century's worth of product quality 😎👍🇺🇸

[@battles.digital]

Sure is

[@billwilson-es5yn]

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.

[@tetsusiega2]

Next do the Cleveland Steamer!

[@battles.digital]

AYO

[@theregalknight8366]

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

[@itsme-ps5kx]

I would love to see a modern version

[@battles.digital]

Jay Leno has something like that

[@Th3Pr0digalS0n]

Is this the founder of radiator springs?

[@ethanheitz4489]

yes

[@dav1342]

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

[@chronicandironic8701]

Stanley Steamer your certified cleaner?

[@battles.digital]

Keeps the home cleaner lol

[@circeowaggles]

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.

[@jakebrookesactor]

My grandfather always told me, "Stanley steamers broke down."

[@bryansunday5493]

127MPH in a metal death trap?😂 they were quite advanced tbh

[@Duke_of_Prunes]

No seat belts, no safety glass, no airbags. 127 MPH sounds like a death wish.

[@karlinharris1827]

127 mph?! Dang that's some real hot water he got himself into!

[@battles.digital]

That’s hilarious 😂

[@Justin-fl1nv]

Thank you for clearing up if they were related to the carpet cleaning company. Always wondered about that.

[@ObamaoZedong]

Thank god it wasn't named Charleston

[@spiralnapkin]

I was thinking Cleveland. 😆

[@ristube3319]

Having lived below Mt. Washington, and gone up and down, ITS TERRIFYING! I don’t know how they made it down without losing brakes?!

[@618Hellbilly]

Fred Marriott was chosen to drive it because he was the only bachelor on the team.😂😂😂

[@gpilsitz1783]

It could make a come-back!

[@bigscrewg]

Okay no the car itself never exploded. But Jay Leno took a fireball to the face from one of these

[@mydogbrian4814]

> 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.

[@bennyboogenheimer4553]

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.

[@benfrantz4585]

Stanley steamer your certified cleaner

[@chadwhitman1811]

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.

[@ronnieroberts9478]

Steam edges also produce the most torque of anything on the road

[@battles.digital]

That’s true, it’s got the torque

[@johnwyman6126]

Electric motors have entered the chat.

[@SethLikesToEat]

That kind of speed would be insane in that car

[@Kiefer_Unmanned_Aviation]

From the same era as electric cars

[@johnwyman6126]

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.

[@AAB6432]

Top speed 127mph that’s faster than a lot of electric cars now days

[@johnwyman6126]

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.

[@akshayparab5672]

Imagine in today's world a car having a steam engine... Nobody would be poor

[@Martin-xh1hd]

This could provably pull anything up mount washer machine. 😊

[@johnwyman6126]

What? Proof read before sending.

[@jaidencracknell2326]

The reason there has never been an explosion on one is because they physically can't explode from how the boiler is built.

[@mistert7958]

The first explosion was in Jay Leno's garage.

[@stevenhall9009]

Just to clarify, by 1924 steam powered cars were no more! However we still use steam power even up till today.

[@theMG174]

Those cars were extremely fast!

[@mitchellandrew3318]

Yet we can hardly make much much lighter on perfect pavement and 120mph is a challenge.

[@battles.digital]

For the time, this must’ve seemed like a rocket ship.

[@teucer4]

It was replaced by the Cleveland steamer and the Cincinnati steamer in modern day.

[@subaruthug]

Who in their right mind would drive something like this at 127 mph? Insanity!

[@CarlBeaudry]

Talk to Jay Leno.He knows more about these things than you do

[@MichaelOKeefe2009]

The only steamer I preferred is a CLEVELAND STEAMER!

[@darylhudson777]

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

[@battles.digital]

Hmmm makes one wonder.

[@kiwibro6454]

Imagine one of these coming up to your rear view mirror

[@Kyioo-ym4wx]

Be Screaming bloody Murder going that fast in that! But that be cool

[@Kollnox]

Stanly cup? Nah we got stanly steamer

[@hanspotterman]

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

[@battles.digital]

Motor vehicle for on road use

[@qcube._.8342]

imagine an electric car that can last for 100 years

[@gman9297]

Jay Leno has one, mind you probably refurbished.

[@battles.digital]

There’s quite a few out there

[@sc1petrol]

Imagine waiting for at least an hour for your car to boil before going anywhere! Every frickin time.

[@David27mk]

127 miles per hour 😂 yeah.

[@battles.digital]

It’s the truth. Look it up, feel free to fact check me on it.

[@David27mk]

@@battles.digital really no way 127 on that technology is crazy thanks for the info 👍

[@chickensashimi933]

Take that to prom and sway all the girls away.

[@battles.digital]

Choo choo!!!

[@agoraphobicadam1171]

Drive and clear your sinuses at the same time. :)

[@battles.digital]

Good idea!

[@raheem300]

Fly away stanley BE FREE

[@scottposey1793]

There's one parked in the lobby of the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park,Colorado

[@jameshester1450]

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

[@jaradtucker806]

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

[@musmuk5350]

The last sentence should have started with "Due to" instead of "Thanks to"...

[@StarHunter28]

Thy mustve jacked it up and floored it in the air to check the top speed lol

[@whydahell3816]

The world be a better place if we advanced with steam engines.

[@johnwyman6126]

What makes you say that?

[@battles.digital]

It would certainly be a different place!

[@TheNathanchavez96]

34.474 bars for those who refuse to look it up themselves.

[@FlatBroke612]

I highly doubt they ran those pressures. Saturated steam would tear metal to shreds at 500psi.

[@katkatthecat]

It ran out of steam when the starter turned up or rather turned over.

[@mikelang8020]

LENO HAS A STEAMER

[@frankkirby5763]

Very dangerous vehicle. Boilers

[@RealSaulGoodman78]

Not a single explosion I mean uhh yeah your right

[@PinpointR]

These are made from solid steel and brass not plastic junk

[@MRworldEtIkA]

always the guy named 1924 smh

[@ristube3319]

WHAT PSYCHO WOULD DRIVE THAT AT 127/MPH?!?

[@gohphaqurselfeeputhy622]

Way more than 100 years ago my fucking car is from 1948 and it’s 75 so yeah

[@Chernochegger]

There wwere steam engines until the 30s in fact

[@leroydonnelly2563]

Similar to the Cleveland Steamer ?

[@theyoutubegameplayer7225]

Steam? Is that some new type of steam deck?

[@Hrodn]

1899 Steam is the future. 2024 Electric is the future. Both wrong.

[@Zolega89]

Why is there smoke coming out of your car, Seymour?

[@egay86292]

still fossil powered, not steam.

[@battles.digital]

It’s a steam engine.

[@4057hofft]

Where is Mount Washington? There's a mount washington in pittsburgh

[@Predikant]

The one in New Hampshire.

[@apachelol]

you mean 127 km/h.

[@costaliberta5969]

Cars 1

[@battles.digital]

Wait til you hear about cars 2

[@joeymatus]

Didn’t jay leno get injured from this vehicle

[@battles.digital]

Possibly, or one like it

[@deddiyudanto7620]

This is can remove EV cars...

[@battles.digital]

The tech has always existed, but so has big oil

[@shark_is_screaming]

Would be funny to see that as a drifter car skkrt skkrt 🤘

[@Martin-xh1hd]

Hehehaaahha thay would be so fucking hilarious

[@Bellbottomsandvinyl]

Literally, no one cares.

[@customfinishcarpentryandmi8053]

OK you need to edit this video. That’s very inaccurate that there’s never been an explosion of these. Ask Jay Leno how his face felt.

[@awol_molly]

I think he was saying back when they were primarily used.. we're not talking about jays fun.

[@battles.digital]

This right here. Thank you

[@leeduncan6595]

127!!! Bollox!!!