Did you know Peugeot started out in 1842 making salt and pepper grinders before moving into bicycle production 40 years later? All car makers had to start from somewhere, and our guide will give you all the details
and the Great War, three more prototype cars were built including one called Bunny, but none of these cars survive. By 1921 Aston Martin was ready to start selling cars and its first production model featured a 1496cc four-cylinder engine. Just 69 were made before the company went bust – and not for the last time. The car pictured is the oldest surviving Aston Martin, chassis number 3, now owned by the Aston Martin Heritage Trust.
Built until 1926, around 2500 of these two-seater steel-bodied tourers were made although there was also an aluminium-panelled sports model offered too.Walter Chrysler had turned around the ailing Maxwell-Chalmers car company which had been founded in 1904. That company closed down in 1923 so the next year Walter created a new company bearing his own name – and here he is with his very first car, the.
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