OK- this has nothing to do with anything- but it's still cool
27-liter Bentley
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I have seen that clip a few times - really like "Jay's Garage" The old Bentleys were really great for the development of the automobile.
As an aside, when Ian Fleming first wrote about James Bond, Bond's car was a Blower Bentley. One of Fleming's readers suggested that an Aston Martin might be more appropriate and Fleming agreed and made the switch.
I enjoy his channel, he's not just a collector who puts his cars in a museum hoping they increase in value.
he is a real car guy- I mean who even knows how to drive a Stanley Steamer?
Although none of the cars on which Fleming based Chitty Chitty Bang Bang were Bentleys
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Big fan of the Doble steam car, it's a remarkable feat of engineering. Amazing what that restoration must have taken.
Time for Leno to start thing out of the box
10. The Monowheel (Dynasphere) from the 1930s
This bizarre vehicle was based on a design by Leonardo da Vinci! The concept for this wheel, popularly known as a monowheel, was patented in 1930 by a British inventor called Dr. J. A. Purves, who based his design on Da Vinci’s drawing. Purves was so sure that his monowheel would be the next great thing in the automobile world that he even wrote an article about it in the journal “Popular Mechanics.”
Risk of "gerbiling". In most designs, if the driver accelerates or brakes too hard, it is possible that the force applied overcomes the force of gravity, sending the rider spinning around the inside of the wheel. This is known as gerbiling because it has some similarity to the situation of a gerbil running too quickly inside of a hamster wheel.
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