108-Year-Old GN Jap Is The Wildest Ride Of All

Meet Richard Scaldwell, who runs a stunning 1908 GN Jap. Richard will take his wild ride to the SF Edge trophy at the 74th Member's Meeting. Part of our series on Edwardians greats.

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[VelhaGuardaTricolor]

The best looking car I have ever seen in my whole life.

[groundhogggggggggggg]

One headlight, you can see the road below you, a lot of exposed moving parts, and loud as hell: It's just like my 1990 ford taurus.

[Volante]

I love the looks with the single headlight, brilliant stuff!

[tommasofossati]

The engine is securely nailed on the wooden chassis

[farazturk]

Love the fact that he drives it and enjoys doing it, instead of putting that thing in a garage to rot away with time.

[justinanderson]

He almost got creamed by that Vauxhall Vivaro!

[JakofAllTrades]

Every since I saw Chitty chitty bang bang when I was about four or five i've been fascinated by these predepression race cars. It is truely an era we will never see again, with air plane engines, single seat exposed cabins, and wheels thinner than bricks. Thank you to all those who are keeping these cars alive physically and in spirit.

[Artificeral]

What an aggressive looking car, love it! You'd never be able to tell this was from 1914.

[tronixfix]

The single headlight, those bodylines and the rivets make it look out of this world. Almost like steampunk mixed with rat-rod and some craziness!

[ces]

Class! What a brilliant car and enthusiastic chap.

[ninoschier]

I want this car! It looks so simple and primitive like it is.

[Jonny_Red]

when i first saw this GN fly up Shelsley my first reaction was... 'Blimey where did they dig that thing up from, it looks like its just come off the Somme battlefield!!' :)

[Nemoticon]

I love it.... it looks like a living, breathing machine with a soul. It looks like it has stories to tell! This is what cars are about, not paper stats, fashion wheels, stupid LEDs and screens buried in the dashboard. It's about feeling, hearing and communicating with the machine, bare essentials, pure motoring.

[GoodwoodRR]

We've met some incredible Edwardian cars on the road, let us know in the comments any great classic cars you think we need to see

[Eatherbreather]

It makes my 1968 BMC Moke look like a limousine!! I love it!!

[Proer]

I can't get over what a nice tone the engine has, and that open floor means fewer pit stops. ;-p

[ChickenboneJohn]

Wooden chassis? Feck, a wooden chassis?!!!! That is terrific, sort of makes you want to find and engine nail something like that together. And they use it to go on holidays? Way to go!

[stuartmccloud]

I wish this video was about ten minutes longer. That's a beautiful machine.

[tacokoneko]

is this what real steampunk looks like?

[alexandervanwyk]

This was very very special. Thanks for sharing a real car