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The first official White House car was a
1909 White Steamer, ordered by President Taft.
The first drive-in gas station was
opened by Gulf in Pittsburgh in 1913.
The first city to use parking meters was
Oklahoma City, on July 16, 1935.
The first drive-in restaurant was
The Pig Stand that opened in Dallas in 1921.
The 1953 'Vetted' Corvette was available
only in one color - which was Polo White.
Ford's answer to the Chevy Corvette, and
other legal street racers of the 1960's
was the Carroll Shelby's Mustang GT350.
The first car fitted with an alternator,
rather than a direct current dynamo was
the 1960 Plymouth Valiant.
The first car fitted with a replaceable
cartridge oil filter was The 1924 Chrysler.
The first car to be offered with a
'perpetual guarantee' was The 1904 Acme,
from Reading, PA. Acme closed down in 1911.
The American luxury automaker that began
by Making cages for birds and squirrels
was the George N. Pierce Co. of Buffalo,
who made the Pierce Arrow and iceboxes.
The first car that referred to itself as
a convertible was the 1904 Thomas Flyer,
which a removable hard top.
The first car to have it's radio antenna
embedded in the windshield was the 1969
Pontiac Grand Prix.
The first car with successful series-production
Hydraulic Valve lifters was the 1930 Cadillac
452, their first production model V16.
The World's first three-color traffic lights
were installed in Detroit, Michigan in 1919.
Two years later they experimented with
synchronized lights.
GM's 100 millionth car built in the U.S. was
in March 16, 1966. An Olds Tornado roll out
of Lansing, Michigan captured that honor.
The first drive-in movie theater opened
In Camden, New Jersey in 1933.
The first autos to use standardized production
key-start systems were the 1949 Chryslers.
The Olds designation of 4-4-2 stood for:
4 barrel carburetor, 4 speed transmission,
and dual exhaust.
The first car to place the horn button in the
center of the steering wheel was The 1915
Scripps-Booth Model C. The car also was the
first with electric door latches.
US production car with the quickest 0-60 mph
time was the 1962 Chevrolet Impala SS 409.
Did it in 4.0 seconds.
The only car to appear simultaneously on the
covers of Time and Newsweek was the 1964
Ford Mustang sports car.
The lowest priced mass produced American
car was the 1925 Ford Model T Runabout.
Cost $260, $5 less than 1924.
The fastest internal-combustion American
production car was the 1998 Dodge Viper
GETS-R, - tested by Motor Trend magazine
at 192.6 mph.
The first automaker that incorporated the logo
Of the Star of David was The Dodge Brothers.
They wrote to Henry Ford:
"I have drove fords exclusively when I could
get away with one. It has got every other car
skinned, and even if my business hasn't been
strictly legal it don't hurt anything to tell you
what a fine car you got in the V-8". - Clyde
Barrow (of Bonnie and Clyde) in 1934.
The first production V12, along with the first
production car with aluminum pistons was the
1915 Packard Twin-Six. Used during WWI
in Italy, these motors inspired Enzi Ferrari
to adopt the V12 himself in 1948.
The first cars to use power operated seats
was on the 1947 Packard line.
This Chrysler "letter car" sold the fewest
amount of Only 400, 1963, 300J's were sold
(they skipped" "I" because it looked
like a number 1).
The car company that was originally known as
Swallow was Jaguar, which was an SS model
first in 1935, and ultimately the whole
company by 1945.
The car that delivered the first production
V12 engine that kicked off the cylinder wars
in 1915 was after Packard's chief engineer,
Col. Jesse Vincent, introduced its Twin-Sis.
Seat belts were first fitted to a motor vehicle
In 1902, in a Baker Electric streamliner racer
which crashed at 100 mph. on Staten Island.
In Jan. 1930, Cadillac debuted it's V16 in a car
named for a theatrical version of a 1920's film
seen by Harley Earl while designing the body.
Its name was The "Madam X", a custom coach
designed by Earl and built by Fleetwood. The
sedan featured a retractable landau top above
the rear seat.
The car company that started out German, yet
became French after WWI was Bugatti. It was
founded in Molsheim in 1909, and became
French when Alsace returned to French rule.
Cadillac introduced the first
electric sunroof in 1969.
The U.S. production car that had the largest 4
cylinder engine was the 1907 Thomas sporting
a 571 cu. in. (9.2liter) one.
The car that was reportedly designed on the
back of a Northwest Airlines airsickness bag
and released was the 1970 Gremlin, (AMC).
The official name of the mascot of Rolls Royce
is the Spirit of Ecstasy. She is the lady on
top of their radiators.
Inspiration for MG's famed octagon-shaped
badge was the shape of founder Cecil Kimber's
dining table. MG stands for Morris Garages.
The "double-R" Rolls Royce badge changed
from red to black 1933.
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