I can watch this video with the best sound system in the world and no one believes me when I say I has the best sound system in the world everyone just gets angry at me
@@vaclav_fejt there was a kit that actually injected a kerosene mix that brightened the lights momentarily between injection pulses worked on a car that had it (last time I serviced it was 18yrs ago just before the owner passed and left the car to his grandson)
Now I understand why people's say Old Is Gold. All the gold now can't buy this level of prestige that one felt in the early 20th centuries while driving this on a dark night. It's super cool.
@@Coolalabright well, in reality there was a flint that probably could be flicked on the outside to ignite the gas. Like a zippo lighter or even a cheap bic lighter does. I don’t know for sure, but I’m sure it’s documented on how the average guy did it when they couldn’t afford a lighter or something
The old cars had very good views around compare to the modern cars, and also considering they were slow and not so many blind upcoming cars, I think it was not so bad
The closest we will ever get to time travel is well preserved relics of the past. A car like this is a amazing example of automobile history and its great to see that ones like this still exist.
The light thrown off by these things is no joke. It is on the order of the light from a hundred-watt bulb! Just yesterday I sold an antique on eBay I have had for years. It is a carbide headlight on a fork that is part of a frame that holds a Presto-Lite tank and a wood handle. It was made to either bolt on a fender of a truck or motorcycle, and was also at the same time a hand-portable light! It makes a serious amount of light! I hated to sell it, but I am getting old and I don't want to just die with all my antiques!
cool stuff hi junkdeal have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
a long time ago an old man showed me the way they used to light them with gas pellets and water . water dripped on the pellets creating gas which went along the pipe at the side of the vehicle next to the foot boards and the lanterns had hinges tovopen and light them . the light eas rubbish but the lanterns really where a work of art . thank you sir .
Then came Prestolite. They developed the method to store acetylene in tanks. Mr. Alison of the aircraft engine fame was a major contributor to the technology.
my granduncle had a motorbike with an acetylene front light, youve got the gas in a bottle but in the old days it was a water drop on carbide in a small tank, my grandparents gave me the last carbide they had back in the early 80s , they showed me how to make bangers with it , they also had those lights on bicycles
No modern day light can beat this in terms of feeling what you get during preparation . Just amazing maybe modern day lights are more convenient , but that convenience have no match for this carbide lamp because the best part part is the preparation itself .just lov3 it😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
"It's not cheating, just practical". I think that will be my life motto from now on. Great stuff. Thanks and cheers from 1914 Chevrolet-free Vienna, Scott
They were satisfactory, lets face it the car is about 106 years old, vehicles back then were not travelling quickly especially at night, the roads were not very good back you probably would not get over 20mph at night. I had always wondered what lights on these old cars were like so Thank You Kaydene O'day.
Thank you for the great demonstration. I was wishing I could take the wheel but I appreciated you let me ride along. Beautiful car. Thanks for the light demonstration, I was reading an article about James A Allison and his invention of Carbide gas headlights and was curious what they looked like and how they work.
@S2 turbine Oh well, that saves me writing something similar ! They'll all be Americans making this mistake as it's a typical mistake Americans make - through ignorance.
@S2 turbine I guess you could be right - it's quite possibly just the Anglo-Americans. I don't know anywhere else where the people have the inability to understand their own language. I've come across so many unscripted examples - so doesn't apply to TV shows but I can only remember 2 examples: Sully, telling ATC that he was ditching into the hudson - and the ATC guy didn't understand that. The other one was the WTC disaster - when the reporter stated the building had collapsed, the guy in the studio took this to mean the whole side of the building. Take the term 'swing' for instance, when used as a measurement of space - relates to the length of something that could be swung right round without hitting anything and is effectively the radius of a circle - Americans misunderstand this and believe it relates to the diameter of a circle. Another....if I mention, in relation to a car, the 'transmission' you probably incorrectly interpret that to mean 'gearbox'. The term comes from 'power transmission' - and that means from engine to wheels - including clutch, gearbox, drive shafts, differential and finally the 'half-shafts' - the whole of the rotating components between engine and wheels. I've also discovered that Americans call half-shafts, 'axle shafts' - well an axle is a shaft and just as daft as saying windshield window.
@@coloradostrong That's correct. I think the number of dots is more to do with how long I hold the full stop key down. In this case, I got four full stops and zero ellipses.
amazing how bright that is, some of the top dollar brass lamps have a lighthouse style git up, solid silver, 1" thick curved lenses, really light it up nice and bright, dual orifice tips, super super bright, some of the lamps they had for ships back then are just unreal how bright they are, the huge spot lamps, 3/4-1 mile range, 3ft diameter .. even the 18" are just crazy bright . . .
carbide lights are still used today by cave dives because of their long lasting fuel it's a lot easier to carry carbide and water which doubles as drinking water then a ton of heavy batteries
This is one of those things where it's impressive enough that they work - it's doubly impressive that they actually provide a useful amount of light. At least if you're driving very very carefully.
I was totally amazed by this presentation; mainly because I did not know the lights on these cars were acetylene lamps. Plus the car started with one turn and sounded great !! Wow! Very impressive for a vehicle of that time to be in such great shape, but daytime driving only for me.
Fascinating technology. Thanks for sharing this. The headlamps appear brighter than I thought but it's difficult watching a video to see how effective the illumination is. My '70s era Fiat can develop a shadow in front if an SUV is behind me making it difficult to see the road. I would think other cars completely blind you trying to use acetylene. Cheers.
Wow. I learned something today. I had no idea that's how it was done. Thank you so much for this video. I enjoyed it immensely. It really made my day. Don't get rear ended though. It would make a Pinto look safe.
You have a fantastic car! What is the other car in your garage? I see that you have a cylinder of acetylene gas mounted for the lights. Originally, did it have the carbide or acetylene gas generator on the running board? You had to add the carbide rock to the 'generator' and then it would dribble water on them and the gas was created. An old name for kerosene was 'coal oil'. My great grandfather (he was born in 1870) had a 1920 Hudson rigged so he could run it on straight 'coal oil' instead of gasoline. It would start on gasoline then he would turn a valve on the dash to switch it over to kerosene after the engine warmed up. Gasoline was $.18 per gallon and kerosene was $.03 per gallon and that was reason he did the conversion. He said it worked fine but it would build up carbon in the cylinders and start to ping so he had another valve on the dash that would drip water into the carburetor and he said it would bust the carbon out of the cylinders and it would run smooth after that!
When I was a kid my dad had a 1932 McCormick-Deering crawler that was set up that way. Small tank for gas, big tank for kerosene. And yes, it also had a water-injection valve!
Nearly every tractor from the 20's to the 40's had dual fuel arrangements either on the base model or as an option, started on gasoline and switched over to distillate fuel once warm. My neighbor has a 1948 Case DC which does not have the dual fuel option, but did come with adjustable radiator shutters which if it had a distillate tank would be partly closed to keep the engine at the correct operating temperature despite the lower amount of heat generated by distillate.
I had a 1935 John Deere B like that. It had a small gasoline gas tank on the back of the main tank. You start it with gas and then switch over to kerosene. I believe they might’ve also called it tractor fuel. This was back in the late 70’s through the mid 80’s. I always ran it on gasoline because it was easier to find.
I'd be scared of someone driving fast and hitting me...that is quite interesting... I take it would not be hard to outrun your lights ... I can picture some kid in a new car going to fast and leaving the light back at the beginning of his trip ...that was a pleasure watching this video I did not know that the front main light were acetylene gas ..thank you for the information..
An older plumber told me, the acetylene tank sizes plumbers used were “B” and “MC”. He stated the B stood for “Bus” and “MC” stood for “Motor Carriage “ back in the day when they used acetylene lights.
I heard that MC stood for Motorcycle as it was stored on the handebars. No idea if true. But that looks like a B cylinder he is using there. I also heard the Bus thing.
This is one of those things I have occasionally wondered about. Now I know. Thank you. It's not one of the super duper old timey 'water dripping on calcium carbide' units, but close enough.
On the Acetylene Tanks, the “MC” is for Motorcycle. The “B” is for Bus. Also the busses had an Air Compressor, Belt Powered off of the Engine. There was an Air Storage Tank. An Air Powered Motor Started the Bus. If they ran out of Air trying to start the Bus, another running Bus would have to provide the air.
I’ve used carbide headlights in caves in the 90ies, quite easy to reload and at that time the Battery versions were rather heavy and kept for,when you need more light
Excellent video on the acetylene lights. Thank you for documenting this for future generations. I often wondered how effective the gas lights were. They are better than I thought. I'm wondering what the intended purpose of the side marker lamps was?
They were there to keep lit if your car was parked on the side of the road. Lighting them ahead of time meant if you broke down you didn't have to worry about spending time to light them.
Yes acetylene burners were bright, count about 400 lumens for each light. Side lanterns come from the horse-drawn vehicles, so automotive vehicles had to use them by law. Furthermore, car drivers didn't use the acetylene headlight projectors in cities (too bright and useless) so side lanterns remained useful.
This would really come in handy in the event of EMP, a vehicle with 0 electronics, I always wondered how would the head light problem be addressed without electricity, and here it is!
hi ilikecheetos have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
Technology from 100 years ago never ceases to amaze me. Absolutely stunning.
I can watch this video with the best sound system in the world and no one believes me when I say I has the best sound system in the world everyone just gets angry at me
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Yea you don’t have that
@@tunic7794 dude.. what? 😅🤣
Almost elegant although quaint.
You mean engineering from 100 years ago😊
"we might as well light the side lamps too. they're oil lamps, kerosene"
Finally, the hidden meaning behind "blinker fluid"
Must be a pain to put them out and them light them repeatedly whenever you want to turn or change lanes.
(jk)
They don’t blink…..
@@vaclav_fejt Naw, just light a match and repeatedly wave your hand back and forth in front of it.
@@vaclav_fejt there was a kit that actually injected a kerosene mix that brightened the lights momentarily between injection pulses worked on a car that had it (last time I serviced it was 18yrs ago just before the owner passed and left the car to his grandson)
Now I understand why people's say Old Is Gold. All the gold now can't buy this level of prestige that one felt in the early 20th centuries while driving this on a dark night. It's super cool.
Cool and all but I rather be driving a brand new car at night then this lol
So you're saying, blinker fluid actually was a thing
More like headlight fluid, but yeah, I suppose so.
Hahaha right? 🤣🤣
Headlight gas no fluid. Acetylene is a gas not a liquid.
They had to use a lighter to light up the carbide lamps
@@Coolalabright well, in reality there was a flint that probably could be flicked on the outside to ignite the gas. Like a zippo lighter or even a cheap bic lighter does. I don’t know for sure, but I’m sure it’s documented on how the average guy did it when they couldn’t afford a lighter or something
Now imagine driving without pavement, stripes and reflectors.
Probably not so bad compared to what they were doing before this vehicle lol
You'll go with a pace like you lost your keys on the road.
At least there was nobody with blinding HID lights coming the other way to ruin your night vision back then.
The old cars had very good views around compare to the modern cars, and also considering they were slow and not so many blind upcoming cars, I think it was not so bad
Writing a WW1 novel--your short video was very helpful as i needed info about auto lights, thanks
Are you publishing it?
Is it available?
The closest we will ever get to time travel is well preserved relics of the past. A car like this is a amazing example of automobile history and its great to see that ones like this still exist.
Truly beautiful. The simplicity and reliability from that bygone era is a stark contrast to today's plastic, overly complex automobiles.
Simplicity yes, reliability no
Nice ride and a good presentation. I appreciate the lack of blather as much as the knowledgeable and interesting how to.
Love the dog greeting him at the gate.
People should make more pov driving at night videos of these classic cars. Takes you back to old days 💗💗 its amazing.
That is a beautiful car. And the lights are charming.
The light thrown off by these things is no joke. It is on the order of the light from a hundred-watt bulb!
Just yesterday I sold an antique on eBay I have had for years. It is a carbide headlight on a fork that is part of a frame that holds a Presto-Lite tank and a wood handle. It was made to either bolt on a fender of a truck or motorcycle, and was also at the same time a hand-portable light! It makes a serious amount of light! I hated to sell it, but I am getting old and I don't want to just die with all my antiques!
cool stuff
hi junkdeal have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.
a long time ago an old man showed me the way they used to light them with gas pellets and water . water dripped on the pellets creating gas which went along the pipe at the side of the vehicle next to the foot boards and the lanterns had hinges tovopen and light them . the light eas rubbish but the lanterns really where a work of art . thank you sir .
That was original Carbide lamps, that was how they worked, you can still buy Carbide today and create acetylene by putting water on it.
Then came Prestolite. They developed the method to store acetylene in tanks. Mr. Alison of the aircraft engine fame was a major contributor to the technology.
There is just something so charming/ romantic about lighting gas headlamps go for a night time ride.
What a great car. I’d love to drive it.
Before the world got itself in a big damn hurry.
❤👍
Now that's the pluckin truth. Tailgatin whole masses going fruckin no where
Brooks are you there?
Imagine how exciting that was back then to have a car with acetylene lights; we take so many things for granted.
my granduncle had a motorbike with an acetylene front light, youve got the gas in a bottle but in the old days it was a water drop on carbide in a small tank, my grandparents gave me the last carbide they had back in the early 80s , they showed me how to make bangers with it , they also had those lights on bicycles
That is a beautiful car and that is really really awesome not something people with cars like that do is drive at night
Everything in this video is just so nice and wholesome. It makes me feel good.
And that classic car starts far more easily than my 2014 van does!
He probably pre-warmed that engine !
I can imagine driving around in the middle of a December night in freezing fog.. or even worse, in torrential rain.
But better for the horse.
You wouldn't. Roads weren't good enough.
The gearbox gear tooth were still square apparently from the sound not helical.
No modern day light can beat this in terms of feeling what you get during preparation . Just amazing maybe modern day lights are more convenient , but that convenience have no match
for this carbide lamp because the best part part is the preparation itself .just lov3 it😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
"It's not cheating, just practical". I think that will be my life motto from now on.
Great stuff. Thanks and cheers from 1914 Chevrolet-free Vienna, Scott
They were satisfactory, lets face it the car is about 106 years old, vehicles back then were not travelling quickly especially at night, the roads were not very good back you probably would not get over 20mph at night.
I had always wondered what lights on these old cars were like so Thank You Kaydene O'day.
You have a real treasure... Take good care of it.
That was the coolest thing I have seen in a long time
Beautiful car. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the great demonstration. I was wishing I could take the wheel but I appreciated you let me ride along. Beautiful car. Thanks for the light demonstration, I was reading an article about James A Allison and his invention of Carbide gas headlights and was curious what they looked like and how they work.
@S2 turbine Oh well, that saves me writing something similar !
They'll all be Americans making this mistake as it's a typical mistake Americans make - through ignorance.
@S2 turbine I guess you could be right - it's quite possibly just the Anglo-Americans.
I don't know anywhere else where the people have the inability to understand their own language. I've come across so many unscripted examples - so doesn't apply to TV shows but I can only remember 2 examples:
Sully, telling ATC that he was ditching into the hudson - and the ATC guy didn't understand that. The other one was the WTC disaster - when the reporter stated the building had collapsed, the guy in the studio took this to mean the whole side of the building.
Take the term 'swing' for instance, when used as a measurement of space - relates to the length of something that could be swung right round without hitting anything and is effectively the radius of a circle - Americans misunderstand this and believe it relates to the diameter of a circle.
Another....if I mention, in relation to a car, the 'transmission' you probably incorrectly interpret that to mean 'gearbox'.
The term comes from 'power transmission' - and that means from engine to wheels - including clutch, gearbox, drive shafts, differential and finally the 'half-shafts' - the whole of the rotating components between engine and wheels.
I've also discovered that Americans call half-shafts, 'axle shafts' - well an axle is a shaft and just as daft as saying windshield window.
@@millomweb "Another...." An ellipsis is made of three dots called ellipsis points. Ellipses are exactly three dots, not two or four. ₚₘₐᵢₗₖₑₑy
@@coloradostrong That's correct.
I think the number of dots is more to do with how long I hold the full stop key down. In this case, I got four full stops and zero ellipses.
amazing how bright that is, some of the top dollar brass lamps have a lighthouse style git up, solid silver, 1" thick curved lenses, really light it up nice and bright, dual orifice tips, super super bright, some of the lamps they had for ships back then are just unreal how bright they are, the huge spot lamps, 3/4-1 mile range, 3ft diameter .. even the 18" are just crazy bright . . .
That's a beautiful piece of machinery
Way brighter than I expected wow
AWESOME car, with even more awesome headlights! ❤
lucky, Thanks for the video, nice to see the good lights for once.
Wonderful video. There are so many videos that tell and don't show. Thank you.
Simply fascinating! Thank you for sharing this. I admire your commitment to preservation.
Awesome car, thanks for the ride-along.
My first reaction to the night driving was, "I can't see shit"..
Yep me too. I'm so glad I live in the 21st century instead of the 19th
Man. The coolest thing ever
You know that's not actually that dim. I think they're usable today easy!
carbide lights are still used today by cave dives because of their long lasting fuel it's a lot easier to carry carbide and water which doubles as drinking water then a ton of heavy batteries
I was surprised by how bright they were tbh
Almost bright as my 05 neon headlights .. need to change dull plastic lenses.
Yea they’re not very bright
@@terrybyrd3738 Just upgrade to the new Neon, the Dodge Dart.
What a sweet car. Sure beat walking back in 1914 and today too. Thanks for making this.
1st time I have seen those type of lights working. They look like they work pretty well. Great video!
4:21... That dog scared the living crap out of me😂
When you just want to know what a " carbide lamp" is and find this gem in the search, amazing headlights!
These aren't carbide lamps !
Thanks so much for making this video to preserve history for those of us who will never ride in a Model T :)
I like your old Chevy! Very cool. And the lights shine a good distance ahead of car especially considering the speeds your driving it.
This is one of those things where it's impressive enough that they work - it's doubly impressive that they actually provide a useful amount of light. At least if you're driving very very carefully.
Beautiful car, I love the lighting!!!! 👍
Cool engine sound - the sound of history.
Nice 'pop' when he lit the headlights.
I was just thinking about finding a video about this very thing :-) Thanks.
Thoroughly enjoyed 🇺🇸
That’s amazing, thanks for posting!
I was totally amazed by this presentation; mainly because I did not know the lights on these cars were acetylene lamps. Plus the car started with one turn and sounded great !! Wow! Very impressive for a vehicle of that time to be in such great shape, but daytime driving only for me.
He'll have started it and warmed it up before that start !
VERY interesting! I’m 78 years old and I learned something new.
I love the old cars worked on a few! And I know from experience you definitely have starting and driving her down!
What a great video thanks for sharing !!!
Fascinating technology. Thanks for sharing this. The headlamps appear brighter than I thought but it's difficult watching a video to see how effective the illumination is. My '70s era Fiat can develop a shadow in front if an SUV is behind me making it difficult to see the road. I would think other cars completely blind you trying to use acetylene. Cheers.
Can't believe that they had such good camera quality in 1914
Great video 👍🇺🇸
You're lucky to have them beautiful cars
Wow. I learned something today. I had no idea that's how it was done. Thank you so much for this video. I enjoyed it immensely. It really made my day.
Don't get rear ended though. It would make a Pinto look safe.
There's a reason why carbide lamps we're such an improvement to previous miner's lights. Those things are pretty bright.
These aren't carbide lamps !
@@millomweb still an acetylene flame though.
Gives new meaning to the wording " candlepower " .
Шикарный автомобиль!!! Отличная сохранность!!! Браво!!!
"Luxurious car !!! Excellent safety !!! Bravo!!!" - is what he said.
I'd bring one of those hi power hand held spotlights just in case.....🤤
That's not bad, I've seen halogens not as bright as this
So beautiful
You have a fantastic car! What is the other car in your garage? I see that you have a cylinder of acetylene gas mounted for the lights. Originally, did it have the carbide or acetylene gas generator on the running board? You had to add the carbide rock to the 'generator' and then it would dribble water on them and the gas was created. An old name for kerosene was 'coal oil'. My great grandfather (he was born in 1870) had a 1920 Hudson rigged so he could run it on straight 'coal oil' instead of gasoline. It would start on gasoline then he would turn a valve on the dash to switch it over to kerosene after the engine warmed up. Gasoline was $.18 per gallon and kerosene was $.03 per gallon and that was reason he did the conversion. He said it worked fine but it would build up carbon in the cylinders and start to ping so he had another valve on the dash that would drip water into the carburetor and he said it would bust the carbon out of the cylinders and it would run smooth after that!
When I was a kid my dad had a 1932 McCormick-Deering crawler that was set up that way. Small tank for gas, big tank for kerosene. And yes, it also had a water-injection valve!
How clever!
Nearly every tractor from the 20's to the 40's had dual fuel arrangements either on the base model or as an option, started on gasoline and switched over to distillate fuel once warm. My neighbor has a 1948 Case DC which does not have the dual fuel option, but did come with adjustable radiator shutters which if it had a distillate tank would be partly closed to keep the engine at the correct operating temperature despite the lower amount of heat generated by distillate.
That's interesting.
I had a 1935 John Deere B like that. It had a small gasoline gas tank on the back of the main tank. You start it with gas and then switch over to kerosene. I believe they might’ve also called it tractor fuel. This was back in the late 70’s through the mid 80’s. I always ran it on gasoline because it was easier to find.
Sweet ride!
Great demo thanks!
I'd be scared of someone driving fast and hitting me...that is quite interesting... I take it would not be hard to outrun your lights ...
I can picture some kid in a new car going to fast and leaving the light back at the beginning of his trip ...that was a pleasure watching this video I did not know that the front main light were acetylene gas ..thank you for the information..
Thanks for posting. I have a 1912 Maxwell that I've never lit the lamps on.
That looks insane
An older plumber told me, the acetylene tank sizes plumbers used were “B” and “MC”. He stated the B stood for “Bus” and “MC” stood for “Motor Carriage “ back in the day when they used acetylene lights.
I heard that MC stood for Motorcycle as it was stored on the handebars. No idea if true. But that looks like a B cylinder he is using there. I also heard the Bus thing.
incredible.
Wonderful...!!!
This is one of those things I have occasionally wondered about. Now I know. Thank you. It's not one of the super duper old timey 'water dripping on calcium carbide' units, but close enough.
Marvelous!
Beautiful car.
Hey, that was fun, Mr. O'Day!
Oooo, love that sound after crankup :-)
Legend.. included combustion chamber,quiet high tech
I love driving my Model T like that!
Perfect
Yeah for1914 driving okay but for 2021 need something better. Nice video thanks for sharing enjoyed it
On the Acetylene Tanks, the “MC” is for Motorcycle. The “B” is for Bus. Also the busses had an Air Compressor, Belt Powered off of the Engine. There was an Air Storage Tank. An Air Powered Motor Started the Bus. If they ran out of Air trying to start the Bus, another running Bus would have to provide the air.
thats awesome
I’ve used carbide headlights in caves in the 90ies, quite easy to reload and at that time the Battery versions were rather heavy and kept for,when you need more light
im impressed how quiet it is
I'd be afraid of getting rear ended with that one tiny light in the back.
I hope you post more videos !
Excellent video on the acetylene lights. Thank you for documenting this for future generations. I often wondered how effective the gas lights were. They are better than I thought. I'm wondering what the intended purpose of the side marker lamps was?
They were there to keep lit if your car was parked on the side of the road. Lighting them ahead of time meant if you broke down you didn't have to worry about spending time to light them.
So you can still be seen when you run out of gas for the headlamps :) That's why they're not fed from the same gas tank.
Yes acetylene burners were bright, count about 400 lumens for each light. Side lanterns come from the horse-drawn vehicles, so automotive vehicles had to use them by law. Furthermore, car drivers didn't use the acetylene headlight projectors in cities (too bright and useless) so side lanterns remained useful.
What a beauty! That's when cars had soul.
할아퍼지 짱이십니다요!!!!!
VERY COOL!!!
The straight cut gear sound.. lol
You haveLegendary car keep it like this only 🤩
This would really come in handy in the event of EMP, a vehicle with 0 electronics, I always wondered how would the head light problem be addressed without electricity, and here it is!
hi ilikecheetos have you become a flat earther yet? If not I suggest watch a 13 part series called _What on earth happened_ by Ewaranon to learn that the earth is not a globe. I got it in my about tab.