Market Friday Back to the Heritage Gardens Car Museum
A post for Market Friday hosted by 
This is the one tag and daily challenge that I always make a point of joining, and also look through the posts of others that join the challenge and seeing markets from all around the world.
For this weeks post, I Doing as I did in a previous market Fridya post sharing a few more shots of the vintage vehicles in the Heritage Gardens car Museum
Starting off with the 1910 Knox Model R touring, when it came out the purchase price was $3,250, which when you consider the average annual income back then was $575, so about 5 and a half years of the average wage worth of car.
From 1900 to 1915, the Knox Automobile Company of Springfield, Massachusetts built sturdy, reliable vehicles, all excellent examples of what are referred to today as “brass and gas” autos. These cars are so named because they were outfitted with brass radiators, headlights and trim, were fueled by gasoline and used acetylene gas for their headlamps. Brass required a lot of upkeep and was replaced by nickel around 1916 and later by chrome in the late 1920s.
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Next up we have a 1909 White Steam Car Model M, with an original cost of $4000, so a fair expense, well a huge expense for the average worker,
the following info and other info provided in this post i found on this site
President William Howard Taft (in office 1909-1913) was the first president to be officially transported by automobile rather than horse and carriages. He ordered a number of automobiles when he first came to the White House, including this car. He also converted the stables on the White House grounds to auto garages.
White steam cars were mechanically sophisticated automobiles. They used a steam generator mounted in the center of the car, put the engine under the hood and positioned a condenser up front like a radiator. The condenser recovered exhaust steam and recycled it, which extended the cars’ range to that of comparably sized gasoline engined automobiles (about 150 miles). They were also luxurious, comfortable and expensive, and were owned by many prominent Americans.
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Next up the 1903 Stevens-Duryea Runabout which originally cost $1300
Brothers J. Frank and Charles Duryea have been credited with building America’s first successful gasoline-powered vehicle in 1893. In 1896 they manufactured 13 cars of the same pattern, considered the first example of mass production of cars in America. The Duryea motorcar is recognized as “the first marketable car in America” and thus the beginning of the automotive industry in this country.
The firm started with small but mechanically sophisticated runabouts. Sales literature for the little cars touted that “It starts from the seat” by means of a short crank attached to the tiller steering post, which connected by a chain to the engine, adding that “A boy of eight readily starts one of these machines.” The Model L here is an excellent example of these earliest years. Note that the driver sits in the back seat.
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And I mentioned in the first post that there were two levels in this museum, here I am looking down to the lower level, the vehicles down there I will get to in future posts.
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and I finish off with another shot of the Stanley Steamer runabout
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And that’s all folks
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