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The R.C.H. automobile factory was purchased for production. The Liberty car was introduced at the Hotel Pontchartrain in Detroit in the summer of 1916. [1] A total of 733 cars were produced in its first year increasing to 11,217 cars in 1921. [2]
A muscle car is an American-made two-door sports coupe with a powerful engine, generally designed for high-performance driving. [1] [2] In 1949, General Motors introduced its 88 with the company's 303-cubic-inch (5 L) OHV Rocket V8 engine, which was previously available only in its luxury Oldsmobile 98. This formula of putting a maker's largest ...
Minh Le (Vietnamese: Lê Minh; born June 27, 1977), also known by his online nickname Gooseman, is a Vietnamese Canadian video game programmer who co-created the Half-Life mod Counter-Strike with Jess Cliffe in 1999 and started the Counter-Strike series. [3]
The Regal Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan was established in 1908 as a partnership between brothers Charles R., J. E. and Bert Lambert and Fred W. Haines. The Regal was a medium-sized and medium-priced automobile designed by Paul Arthur.
The Automotive Hall of Fame was founded on October 18, 1939, in New York City by a group called the "Automobile Old Timers." [4] Its original mission was to perpetuate the memories of early automotive pioneers and to honor people from all parts of the auto industry worldwide.
The car debuted at the Detroit Automobile Show in early 1922, [1] with the company planning on producing 10,000 cars a year. [2] Production never reached these figures. Approximately 25 cars were built in the Detroit factory on Cass Avenue. [2] A new factory was built in 1923, at Wayne, Michigan, where 100 cars were built before the company ...
Columbia Motors was a Detroit, Michigan, United States based automobile manufacturer that produced automobiles from 1916 to 1924. Columbia Motors was incorporated in 1916, with John George Bayerline as company president and William E. Metzger as vice-president. [ 1 ]
The company was founded with a paid-up capital of $15,000 ($455,490 in 2019). [2] Henry Ford managed the manufacturing plant at 1343 Cass Avenue and Amsterdam in Detroit; [5] initially with no pay until he left his job at the Detroit Edison Company, after which he was given a monthly salary of $150 ($4,555 in 2019).