What Happened to the Marmon V16? The Perfect Engine Built for a Dying World

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  @chaso4937 · 1 month ago

  I DIDN'T "GOOGLE" IT, BUT, I'M 71 YEARS OLD, AND IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, MARMON WON THE VERY FIRST INDIANAPOLIS 500 IN 1911, WITH A DRIVER NAMED RAY HARRON, AND HE CHEATED!!  IN THOSE DAYS, THERE WERE 2 GUYS IN EACH RACE CAR, A DRIVER, OF COURSE, AND A "RIDING MECHANIC" HIS JOB WAS TO MONITOR THE ENGINE, MAKE SURE IT WAS RUNNING CORRECTLY, AND USE A MANUALLY OPERATED HAND PUMP, TO KEEP THE OIL PRESSURE UP.  HE ALSO WATCHED BOTH SIDES OF THE ROAD BEHIND THEM, SO HE COULD TELL THE DRIVER IF ANOTHER CAR WAS COMING UP TO PASS, AND ON WHICH SIDE OF THE CAR, SO THE DRIVER DIDN'T HAVE TO KEEP CRANING HIS HEAD AROUND TO THE RIGHT,  AND LEFT REAR OF THE CAR, SO HE COULD KEEP HIS EYES ON THE ROAD; WELL, MARMON, AND HARRON FOUND A WAY TO ELIMINATE THE RIDING MECHANIC, SAVING 150 LBS IN THE CAR, FOR BETTER HANDLING, AND FUEL ECONMY, BY INVENTING A NEW DEVICE, CALLED "THE REAR VIEW MIRROR!!

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• KE

  @kevinbissett293 · 1 month ago

  What a sad ending to a great entrepreneur. That on grieves me.

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  @herrerajimenez2095 · 4 weeks ago

  que buen videos  es lo que anadba buscando para mejorar mi ingles con un temas que me intereas

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  @VerifyVeracity · 1 day ago

  Simply a work of art of course just wonderful but it is also free market economics at work there is a saying that I've known for years and somewhat live by at least I try to it goes like this.  The enemy of a good plan is the pursuit of a perfect plan. Thank you for the video people do like to drag it out and be a little dramatic what was the one statement something about the hardened steel cylinder sleeves couldn't be a few thousandths of a mill off seemed a little unrealistic I mean what is a mill a thousands of an inch in itself I don't anyways super nice video thank you for posting it do you guys type this out or is it all auto-generated from the internet?

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  @kennyfulleton6905 · 3 weeks ago

  Explain "case hardened STEEL cylinder liners" .  Never heard of it

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  @chaso4937 · 1 month ago

  I HAD TO LAUGH WHEN YOU DESCRIBED THE GRADE OF ALUMINUM AS AERO "SPACE" GRADE, BECAUSE UNTIL WW2, AND DR. VON BRAUN'S V-2 ROCKET, THERE WAS NO "AEROSPACE" BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ANYTHING MADE OF ALUMINUM THAT COULD MAKE IT INTO REAL "SPACE" JUST AERO, PERIOD.  MAYBE THE COMPUTER THAT WROTE THIS STORY ISN'T OLD ENOUGH TO KNOW THAT??

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• CH

  @chaso4937 · 1 month ago

  DID YOU CALL IT A "VEYE-16"??

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  @waynemacgregor5614 · 1 month ago

  AI is ruining YouTube.

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  @johnellis2347 · 7 days ago

  I can't teach from your videos because your pics don't match with the audio. For example in this video you ainis talking about an ohv v16 while showing a pic of a flathead 6.

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  @bobfreeman4962 · 3 weeks ago

  The AI generated data yoo are using in this story Vlog isn't correct

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  @christopherjohn8521 · 4 weeks ago

  EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS CAR IS REPEATED AT LEAST 6 TIMES  TAKING 40 MINUTES TO EXPLAIN SOMETHING THAT WOULD TAKE 10 MINUTES TO SAY. MONOTINOUS DIALOGUE TO FILL TIME.

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  @alwaysbearded1 · 2 weeks ago

  My friend's father had one of these he drove as a hot rod. Lots of stories I heard second hand. I wish this was not a 10 minute video by a monotonous voice (computer generated?) from a script paid by the word. This whole series is like this. A few minutes of fact and sloppy emotional vapid production with the few facts repeated ad nauseam. I want to know about the history and the car but not 10 times! I want facts if it is going to be anywhere near this long. What is the HP, at what RPM, torque, was it naturally aspirated or supercharged, and so on. Talk about the photos, are they of this car or others, where there different models? How many were produced? Are there any left if so where? I want to hear this engine run. Tell about the poor brakes and other possible issues. I know it had bad brakes at least compared to modern cars because that friend's father cut a model T in half that was stalled in an intersection. I won't watch any more of your productions. I only watched this one hoping it might give me some info on the car.