#history
Henry Ford and the Motor Car.
The first car that Henry Ford ever constructed was the Quadricycle Runabout, a vehicle that looks more like a carriage crossed with two bicycles, than the cars that we are driving around today.
The QR was Ford’s first model of a gasoline-powered car, with a chain drive and a buggy seat. At the time Ford had to come up with his own ignition system, an example of his ingenuity.
The Quadricycle Runabout was a very simple automobile with a two-cylinder engine. In 1896, Ford sold the car for $200, in order to raise funds to build his second car. After his success, in 1904 he bought the car back for $65. The QR never stopped running.
photo (1946):
Henry Ford with his wife in the first car he built in 1896.
