The forgotten behemoth: The Reeves OctoAuto
Send us a video of your car at: PreWarMotoring@gmail.com In perhaps one of the most brazen attempts at making the perfect automobile Milton Reeves, a genius inventor would create an eight wheel vehicle that "rides like a boat" and in a shocking twist of fate... no one would buy it or the smaller more "practical" SextoAuto a year later. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VintageAntiqueAutomobiles Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/prewar_motoring/
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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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