What is A Vintage Car?

Vintage Cars are cars between 1890s to 1930s, restored or none restored.

CONTENTS

1900s

Gasoline powered horseless carriage become predominate after beating steam, and electric cars.

1910s

Cars become the most preferred mean of traveling by all people, overtaking the horse and train.

1920s

Led by innovation, technical advances in cars flourish, increasing reliability, safety, and functionality.

1930s

Beauty, Power, performance, comfortability and design features become apparent.

INTRODUCTION

Vintage cars are the first of classic cars subgroup. First generation of cars developed in late 1890s, early, 1900s, 1910s,1920s, and 1930s.

1939 is the cut off year for all Vintage cars. It can be said that Vintage cars are both pre-great depression and  pre-World War 2 cars.

Cars of late 1890s were still more on the early develop trial and error stage. Many doers were on the race to develop a different mean of transportation away from the horse carriage during the time.

In Europe, Karl Benz who would go on to develop the Mercedes Benz brand is credited for developing the first automobile in the 1880s. Globally it wasn’t  until the early 1900s that Cars  would start to be seen commonly in public.

Early cars of the 1900s mostly resembled the horse carriage, and were commonly called horseless carriages.

The Wheel was more of a wheel than a tire, resembling more the wheel of horse carriage.

The ride was not yet as comfortable due to early suspension system, early seat design and undeveloped roads.

Features such as roof, windshield, lights would be put in place in the 1910s.

In the 1920s the design look of the cars would start to resemble more of an automobile than a horse carriage. At this time cars would become a bit bigger in size, increase safety features, reliability and functionality.

The 1930s cars, saw the technical and design feature from earlier years come together to make the car more like the modern car. Car companies would test their might in car performance to develop powerful engines, comfortable cars and artistic look.

SUMMARY

All early cars before 1939 can be considered as Vintage Cars. The late 1880s through the 1930s development of the car saw natural progression in the car, look, feel and performance.

Sir James.