Cars & Coffee | 10/6 | 1917 American LaFrance Interview
At Saturday's Cars & Coffee at the Elms Mansion in Newport, Rhode Island, Audrain's Matt Jones caught up with two gentlemen who brought their 1917 American LaFrance fire vehicle. They told the story of how they brought this 101-year-old LaFrance back to it's former glory.
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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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