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The Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation was an American automobile company started by Geraldine Elizabeth "Liz" Carmichael, in 1974, incorporated in Nevada. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The company's flagship vehicle was the Dale , a prototype three-wheeled two-seater automobile designed and built by Dale Clifft.
She eventually founded the 20th Century Motor Car Company and quickly became a media sensation thanks to the promise that the Dale, with its high gas mileage and low price tag, would be bigger ...
The Lady and the Dale is an American documentary television miniseries revolving around Elizabeth Carmichael, who launched Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation and created a car called "The Dale". It consists of four episodes and premiered on HBO on January 31, 2021.
Driving.co.uk ranked it #14 on their list of the 23 ugliest cars ever made, [136] Auto Express ranked it #5 on their list of the ten ugliest cars ever made, [137] and Drive.com.au included in their article on the worst cars of the 20th century, calling it "one of the silliest-looking cars of the century". [138]
Geraldine Elizabeth Carmichael (born 1927 as Jerry Dean Michael) was briefly an American automobile executive and was a convicted fraudster.During the 1970s energy crisis, Carmichael promoted a prototype for a low-cost fuel-efficient car via Twentieth Century Motor Car Corporation, which car was never produced, and fled with investor money. [1]
The Dodge Brothers: The Men, the Motor Cars, and the Legacy (Wayne State UP, 2005). Hyde, Charles K. Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors (Wayne State UP, 2009). Langworth, Richard M. The complete history of General Motors, 1908–1986 (1986) online; Nevins, Allan. Ford: the Times, the Man, the Company (vol 1 1954 ...
Wards 10 Best Engines is an annual list of the ten "best" automobile engines available in the U.S. market, that are selected by Wards AutoWorld magazine. The list was started in 1994 for model year 1995, and has been drawn every year since then, published at the end of the preceding year.
The term originated in the United States, where General Motors was the first to form a large, multi-brand, motor-vehicle corporation (in the 1910s), followed by the Ford Motor Company, and the Chrysler Corporation, all before World War II. The term Big Three has since been sometimes used to refer to the following automakers: