Car - Mechanic - A Car is born 1935

by Mike Savad

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Car - Mechanic - A Car is born 1935

Artist

Mike Savad

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Photograph - Colorized Photo

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Colorized photo from 1935
Original title: Bagley Avenue, Detroit, birthplace of the Ford car
Photographer: Unknown
Location: Ford ave and Bagely ave. Detroit, MI

Henry Ford created his first car in a garage that looked very much like this one. This is actually a recreation of his wife's Clara's shed that was behind her home on 58 Bagley ave. This recreated garage was a mini museum back in 1935 to represent his actually garage from 1896. It's still a mini museum, but not as cool looking as this.

Anyway, back in the 1890's cars were considered toys for rich people, or luxury items. There were no guidelines on how a car should look. Inventors created these cars, and many were not businessmen. Everyone tried all sorts of ideas and came up with all sorts of shapes, and whatever was accepted by the masses became the car we know today.

Henry created this vehicle when he was 32 years old. He called a Quadricycle, it ran on 3 gallons of ethanol, and it took 2 years to complete. You steered it with a joystick that was based off of tractors, and the wheels were from a bicycle. It had two cylinders, and could produce 4 horse power. It was chain driven and had 2 gears allowing it to drive 10-20mph. It had no brakes, and no reverse, but it did have a bell and a horn, and I guess you could always yell and wave your arms.

But he had a huge flaw in his master plan. He had no way to remove this thing. There was no garage door, it had solid brick walls. He had to break down parts of the wall, take the car apart then reassemble it outside then he could test drive it. This newer garage has a larger door. It's covered up in drafting equipment however. They also recreated the hole, which is where this view point is from.

He was friends with Thomas Edison, which encouraged him to keep experimenting, which he did, and eventually started a factory in 1903.

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June 16th, 2022

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