The Birth of Automotive Adrenaline The First Race Car of 1903

On July 23rd, 1903, a little over a month after being incorporated the Ford Motor Company delivered its first -ever automobile to be purchased ... In 1903, two men spent 71 days driving a Packard Model F across the US—before most of the West even had paved roads. With the steering wheel instead of tiller, this photo was taken in late 1903 or early 1904, after Henry Ford rebuilt and upgraded the wrecked ... Fast forward to 1903... William Vanderbilt introduced the first race on the beach. Dubbed the Vanderbilt Cup, crowds gathered to watch as Olds and Winton ... To celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford and his chief assistant James Bishop reenacted their first drive of the first ... 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 ... On this day in 1903, the Ford Motor Company made its first sale, with Ernest Pfennig becoming the proud owner of a Model A. This first Ford car, the Quadricycle, was completed in June 1896. Image of Henry Ford on a quadricycle. On August 19, 1899, he resigned from ... • First car was 1903 Ford Model A –a successful product. • In order to get ... into race cars, utility vehicles, sawmills and farm tractors. The first speedway built for automobile racing was actually constructed in England in 1906—at Brooklands, to be exact. Sprint, relay, endurance, ...