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Charles and Frank Duryea demonstrated the first standardized gas-powered automobile on Sept. 21, 1893, in Springfield, Mass. It wasn't the first automobile ever built -- Karl Benz had essentially invented the gas-powered car seven years earlier -- but it was the first viable American automobile, and it also became the basis for the first 'mass-produced' car in the country, to the extent that demand allowed in those days. Don H. Berkebile later wrote an in-depth perspective on this event for a Duryea exhibit at the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology: The Duryea vehicle took a complex and circuitous route to completion. Its first engine, built in 1892, was essentially slapped together with spare parts MacGyvered into something resembling a machine. By 1893, Frank Duryea rejected this slapdash contraption and proposed a new model based on "previously tried mechanical principles." Even so, in later interviews, Frank (the engineer of the pair) expressed some embarrassment at some of the machine's deficiencies. Many of the vehicle's parts were scrounged or rigged up from what could be found in the workshop.
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Who owned the first American car?
Brothers Frank and Charles Duryea were the first to make an American car in 1893. But as far as who had the first American car I don't know.
Who made the first American car?
The first American car was made by Thomas Davenport.
What is the first car sold in the US?
the first car sold in us is a American car
Is a car an American invention?
yes Henry Ford made the first car and he was American
What American car had the first anti lock braking system?
The 1970 Lincoln Continental was the first American car with ABS.
Was ford the first American car?
No
First American muscle car?
The first true muscle car was the Pontiac G.T.O. They were first made in 1964
Who and which country made car first and when?
I do not know how made the first car ever but i do know that the ford mustang was the first fully American car.
When was the first American car invented?
1835
What was the first American car?
The first American car made was the Duryea built in 1893 by the Duryea Motor Wagon Company a full 3 years before the first car Henry Ford built which was the Ford Quadricycle in 1896.
The first American motor car was built by?
ford
First american car?
The first gasoline powered car built in America was built by Charles & Frank Duryea in 1893.
