Crosley cars - a unique vehicle of the 1940s
Crosley Motors built 84 thousand vehicles over its lifespan. For comparison, ford built over 500 thousand in one year (1948). It's hard to tell how many Crosley cars are left, but it is estimated that less than one thousand are left in existence. Yet 77 years later this car found its way to me, defiant to the test of time. So let's take a minute and rewind the clock to a time when cars were just as unique as the people who drove them.
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A car, or an automobile, is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of cars state that they run primarily on roads, seat 1-8 people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people rather than cargo. There are over 1.6 billion cars in use worldwide as of 2025. The French inventor Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot built the first steam-powered road vehicle in 1769, while the Swiss inventor François Isaac de Rivaz designed and constructed the first internal combustion-powered automobile in 1808. The mode...
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