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Originally Posted by Z-man

Cool picture, but you are incorrect in one aspect -- that was not the first automobile. Two years prior, in 1885, Karl Benz, one of the co-founders of Mercedes-Benz, built the Patent Motorwagen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benz_Patent-Motorwagen#:~:text=The%20Benz%20Patent%2DMotorwage n%20(%22,patented%20and%20unveiled%20in%201886.

When working for MBUSA, there was a replica of the Motorwagen in my building, and I even saw one running around our campus from time to time.

Ford did not invest the first automobile. Benz did.

To be clear, the mercedes was a 3 wheeled, so it was a tricycle not a quadracycle. I went on a ride in it in Mahwah, very cool. Loved the smell of the exhaust as i think it was kerocene. Also, in all fairness. While benz patented the car...there were several others before him. BTW, have we met? I live in bergen county? I miss MBUSA! I'll be at the June Jamboree this weekend.

One of them is this some 100 years before benz built by some French dude. Just because they had the lawyers, doesn't mean he was first...