To Be OFFERED AT AUCTION WITHOUT RESERVE at RM Sothebys' Hershey event, 5 - 6 October 2022. Offered Without Reserve Please check back soon as our dedicated cataloguing team is preparing the description for this lot. To view this car and others currently consigned to this auction, please visit the RM website at rmsothebys.com/en/auctions/hf22..
Henry Ford wasn't the inventor of the modern automobile. That would be German engineer Karl Benz. But the Model T, which first rolled out of Ford's Detroit factory in the late summer of 1908, revolutionized transportation. The “Tin Lizzie” was the first affordable horseless carriage, the one that middle-class families could save up f..
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Henry Ford wasn't the inventor of the modern automobile. That would be German engineer Karl Benz. But the Model T, which first rolled out of Ford's Detroit factory in the late summer of 1908, revolutionized transportation. The “Tin Lizzie” was the first affo..
In the spring of 1904, the Cadillac factory suffered a fire that virtually shut down the factory to near zero production for 45 days. Deposits on 1,500 orders were returned to prospective customers, however, the volume of sales still exceeded those of any other make in the country.
This terrific and rare example was restored by a gent..
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Studebaker formally began production in earnest in 1902, and the company chose battery-powered electric vehicles because they were clean, easily recharged, and worked well in urban centers without need of refueling depots (gas stations). S..
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“The Machine” designed as a successor to the first truck of 1896 was intended as a replacement for the horse drawn delivery wagons carrying beer and other goods to outlying areas. Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach worked together to produce a horsel..
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, the automobile was born and with it came a wave of new entrepreneurs trying to get in on the action of this new technology and business. Out of so many new automobile companies and designs being created at this time, few were of high quality and of a good design. One of the most..
Rather than ditch the pre-war designed cars altogether, the brains at Ford decided that they still needed a cut-price new car offering to undercut the boxy 100E. It was a simple set-up, much of the chrome disappeared, the dashboard, as a Bakelite unit, also went and it became, because of its now much reduced price, highly desirable.
Today the Fo..