Old folk lore.
Q. When was the first auto race?
A. As soon as the second auto was built.
That’s a great capsule history. Thanks for sharing.
I didn’t realize Ford sold Model T cars for five years (1908 to 1913) that were hand assembled the old-fashioned way and that he didn’t introduce the assembly line until 1913. That was such a huge achievement! Can you imagine taking the assembly time down from 12 hours and eight minutes to one hour and 33 minutes? And then, a year later, making 308,000 vehicles, more than the output of all other carmakers combined. That is really astonishing. He was turning out almost 1,000 cars per day from one factory.
Was Ferrari made aware of that?
I am soooooo glad he wasn’t driving a two wheeled vehicle! It might have evolved into very long ten passenger two wheeled vehicles! It really would have thrown the 48 foot rule out of whack.