The Fastest Truck of the 1950s with a Special Purpose… ▶ Willeme-Michelin WR8 Story

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@clydejericho1779 3 ай бұрын

The Willem, the centième DS, and later on the berliet T100, France was going crazy with trucks at the time 😮

@GearTechHD 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for pointing that out! France really was a hotbed of innovative truck designs back then.

@carlnapp4412 3 ай бұрын

I'm afraid it's an in-line eight German Deutz-Diesel, produced under licence by Willème. The engine above sucks in air only, so it can't be a gasoline engine if we cut out the gasoline direct injection. What is more, the two bowls are Diesel filters.

@lucherve6169 3 ай бұрын

Yes it was a Deutz build under licence.

@DetroitMicroSound 3 ай бұрын

The French just have to do EVERYTHING different than other humans, for some reason.

@gringoloco5989 2 ай бұрын

Do you mean French are not humans ??? They maybe received instructions from aliens... Michelin remains certainly the most creative tyre manufacturer ... His main invention is evidently the radial tyre. The engineers were confronted to many challenges developing and adapting the radial principle to all types and categories, from cars to airplanes, via trucks, heavy construction machinery, motorcycles... Michelin remains certainly one of the top manufacturers but good old times are gone now... The challenge for occidental tyre manufacturers is to survive under the pressure of low cost Asian brands. For the consumers, tyres are only black, round and expensive... The difference is unseen because hidden inside... But slowly, slowly the Asian brands will improve in quality... The main mistake of many industry branches... technology transfer. This can cost to the occidental manufacturers their life. Difficult to explain why a tyre costs 2, 3 or 4 times more than an Asian in the same size... As a former Michelin man during 12 years, I remember the good old times and my good friends in France and all over Europe. I decided to go after the meeting in Vichy when François Michelin presented Carlos Ghosn with the subsequent cuts in personal... Not regrets...

@benjamindehr3179 2 ай бұрын

Its probably all the lead in the aquifers

@ThunderAppeal 3 ай бұрын

The narration sucks. Subtitles are better.

@joecummings1260 3 ай бұрын

Back in the day I had a 1948 LJ Mack with a 707 Gasoline engine that was pretty much stock except for the governor settings that could break 80 MPH. Not sure why they consider this truck so fast. There were guys with 100 MPH trucks in the 1950's

@kevinrice7635 2 ай бұрын

@@joecummings1260 downhill

@livingit8425 2 ай бұрын

in europe the the standard mode of transport at the time was still a cow carriage and the average truck had 1.5 liter engine

@adrianwyss2616 3 ай бұрын

My Fastest Truck i ever Drive … was a SAURER D330B a 6x2 seni Truck with a 2axle Thermo-Trailer fully loaded with frozen Frenchfries 28ton. Total = My Max Speed 177 km/h on a Swiss Autobahn Highway 1987 !!! I drived that Swiss Truck for 250‘000 km in 3years !! 😅

@kevinrice7635 3 ай бұрын

Amazing 🎉

@hmsd9597 2 ай бұрын

That was downhill 😂

@kevinrice7635 2 ай бұрын

@@hmsd9597 agreed 👍

@kevinrice7635 2 ай бұрын

@@adrianwyss2616 good 👍

@adrianwyss2616 2 ай бұрын

@@hmsd9597 nope Flat Autobahn with a Car commenting at Aarau & check for police in the Back … hee told me a bit more than 180 km/h …in real about 177………… in the Truck i got a Bus Axle with a Spicer 18 Gear Transmission 87 km/h wth low Green 1100 u/min. ( max. With ( up Yellow) 3500 u/min ….

@Trucksusa 3 ай бұрын

Long live the Michelin Man 👍

@markroderick3300 3 ай бұрын

His name is Bib

@workingguy6666 2 ай бұрын

Stupid sexy French truck. I love it.

@ml9867 3 ай бұрын

150kph is 93mph in American.

@joewalker2152 3 ай бұрын

150kph is 93mph in British. We might have gone decimal in 1971, but not for our roads. Distances and speed limits on signs ARE still in Imperial....as well as our speedometers in our vehicles. You're not the only one, America......

@ml9867 3 ай бұрын

@@joewalker2152 Oh, come on. You can't be serious. Next you'll be telling me that you measure people's height in feet and inches.

@joewalker2152 3 ай бұрын

@@ml9867 Yep, we're one fcuked up Country using both metric and Imperial. I'm 6'2" and weigh 17 stone (238 pounds to you) and drink Pints in the Pub and live in a 20mph zone. I was born in 1971 and all the way through school, our teachers would let us use what ever we found easier to use. When someone speaks in metric to me, I call it Euro's and ask "what's that in English".......

@ml9867 3 ай бұрын

@@joewalker2152 The stone thing is the weirdest to me. Kilograms are easy to figure out from pounds by multiplying by 2 and adding 10 percent.

@joewalker2152 3 ай бұрын

@@ml9867 It's just how we were raised, I suppose. 1 Stone is 14 Pounds, so its easier to say 16 and a half Stone or 12 Stone than state it in Pounds. Like I said, we're pretty messed up here.

@donnienicholson6062 2 ай бұрын

Definitely the ugliest truck back then.

@symphantic4552 3 ай бұрын

Sheesh, what a snoot!

@bennyboogenheimer4553 3 ай бұрын

Leave it to the French to put an fighter airplane engine into a truck, and only get 93 MPH out of it. "Michelin, Taking Tire Tech to the Edge." Continental Tire: Hold my Beer. We look back to see if we can still see the edge. lol!

@alexandermathar7780 3 ай бұрын

Pity that the Willeme W8 didn't go into production. Imagine a 90 MPH express delivery truck in 1950 !

@GearTechHD 3 ай бұрын

It's a pity indeed. The concept of a 90 MPH express delivery truck in 1950 would have been impressive.

@lancecozad5704 3 ай бұрын

Everything else is virtual... why shouldn't our tire testers be? We should all just have our brains put in jars so we don't have to test anything anymore.

@nikvandeneede1228 3 ай бұрын

18 liter 240 hp ????

@chrisridethatbloodything2044 3 ай бұрын

30 hp / liter Not so impressive by modern standards. But back then they had different fuel and therefore much lower compression. Similar low output / volume was only achieved again by american land yachts of the eighties ;-)

@FDKio-cq1qp 2 ай бұрын

18L and only 240 hp. Man we’ve come a long way. I’m putting out over 2x that with 3L.

@in2mixx 2 ай бұрын

berliet was better

@Quesadillareallygoodntastylol. 2 ай бұрын

I love him he doesnt clickbait us with photoshoped images of the vehicle!!!!

@Stroopwaffe1 2 ай бұрын

Nice, ty.

@AladinSarsippiusSulemanagic 3 ай бұрын

I can hear Stephen Hawking in that voice

@lucherve6169 3 ай бұрын

The truck with the tank is a Berliet

@mathewritchie 3 ай бұрын

I cant help but notice how little of the truck is cargo space,a commercial vehicles normally give far more space to the things that make money.

@GearTechHD 3 ай бұрын

It's true that commercial vehicles typically offer more cargo space to enhance their utility.

@DetroitMicroSound 3 ай бұрын

Cargo space is not needed with this rig. The small space it does have, is filled with ballast, to make the truck very heavy. This vehicle is all about heavy weight on tires, running at high speeds, in real-world conditions. This is how we are able to have tires rated safe, up to specific speeds. For example, my 1978 Kromag - Puch moped has Michelin CityPro tires, rated up to 93mph, because they have been physically proven reliable up to that speed, on real roads. This is why I buy Michelin.

@lowkeygato2133 2 ай бұрын

I’m fine with the music overlap, some people are just stumps.

@QuadMochaMatti 3 ай бұрын

@4:50, and @5:40 - Dear Goddess, what have they done to you?!? 😲 😱

@mikehotchkiss8975 3 ай бұрын

Someone needed to tell me these vehicles were french

@marcleblanc3602 2 ай бұрын

Super! Always cool to see strangeness of past days 🤪 Merci beaucoup

@GearTechHD 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely! The weirdness of yesteryear never fails to entertain.

@zounds010 3 ай бұрын

Pleases stop using the "zoom in quickly" video transition. It is really unpleasant to look at; I feel like I'm being hit in the face by the image.

@zacharyhafer2806 3 ай бұрын

Make your own video and then you wont have to worry about it will you.

@zounds010 3 ай бұрын

@@zacharyhafer2806 Does the company you work for have a habit of blaming the user when they report a problem?

@dagleason99 2 ай бұрын

Made it halfway through and it felt like it was 20 minutes already. Just kept repeating the same stuff.

@randyrocket461 2 ай бұрын

THE STATIC EQUIPMENT GIVES SAFTY , BUT HANDS ON DRIVING LOOKS LIKE MORE FUN .

@xxxy9928 3 ай бұрын

horrible to watch

@aquapisces24 3 ай бұрын

very interesting to watch

@kcstafford2784 3 ай бұрын

why do ab documentery and cover your voice with background music two thumbs down...

@DetroitMicroSound 3 ай бұрын

It's done like any production company would do it. I can hear everything he says, perfectly fine. Background audio ducking is even being used correctly, on his narration. 4 people agree with your statement? 🤣

@kcstafford2784 3 ай бұрын

@@DetroitMicroSound the whole Utube thing is no production company and obviously they don't know. What is what....production company lmao....

@DetroitMicroSound 3 ай бұрын

@@kcstafford2784You are missing my point. I am comparing his video, to how any professionals would produce a video. There is absolutely nothing wrong with his production. It's done to a professional standard.

@PeterPan-uu5vu 2 ай бұрын

Becuase he is stooooopid

@JamesThomas-kx5sj 2 ай бұрын

@@kcstafford2784There are tons of production companies on KZbin