Celebrating the Legacy of the 1903 Race Car A Monument of Motorsports History

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping ... In 1903, eighteen months after the race, Henry founded the Ford Motor Company and put his dream of making a mass-produced automobile into action – something ... assimilated was, ostensibly, prohibited. Although the automobile originated in Europe, the United. States developed the world's first mass automobile culture. It was a racing car commissioned by Jacobus Spijker for the Paris to Madrid race of 1903. The then recently appointed young Belgian engineer Joseph Valentin ... TIL Ford's first car, a 1903 Model A with an original price of $850, sold at auction in 2012 for $264,000. This specific car was the third ... The race was originally scheduled to take place on July 4, 1895, to take advantage of the crowds already gathered in the city. However, the date ... The first speedway built for automobile racing was actually constructed in England in 1906—at Brooklands, to be exact. Sprint, relay, endurance, ... In 1903, though, cars were mostly driven in cities, where the roads were paved, and no car had crossed the entire country. ATLAS OBSCURA BOOKS. Benz "Parsifal" 60 hp racing car, 1903. ... After its first, less successful outing in the Paris-Madrid city race, which ... Last week's photo showed Old 999, a race car developed by Henry Ford in 1902. It was basically a humongous engine on a frame and nothing ...