This 1909 Car Helped Customers Save Money With One Slight Catch

At a time when a Model T cost $850, you could buy a Metz Plan Car for only $350. There was just one small catch: you had to ...
NBC New York

Family bought an abandoned train car from 1909 for $3,000 and turned it into an Airbnb that brings in over $90,000 a year—take a look inside

When Deary, Idaho native Isaac French's dad saw an abandoned train car on a neighbor's farm, he knew there was potential for something great. The car, built in the 1900s, had been sitting in the same ...
Chicago Reader

[Photos] The car was ‘king’ at the 1909 Chicago Auto Show

This weekend concludes the 2016 Chicago Auto Show, the country’s biggest and longest-running car show. Sponsored by Motor Age magazine, Chicago’s first official auto show opened on March 23, 1901 at ...
The Next Web

Watch Jay Leno get nostalgic and swoon over this 1909 EV

It seems there’s never been so much chatter about electric cars as there is today. You’d think that electric cars are a product of the modern era, a totally new technology never before seen. Well, if ...
South Bend Tribune

Train car restoration sheds light on history of South Shore Railroad

SOUTH BEND — On the night of June 19, 1909, Car No. 73 of the Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway was traveling east from Gary to South Bend. The train received orders from dispatch to wait for ...
Cleveland.com

Crawford museum throws party for century-old cars that still run

CLEVELAND — Spend an afternoon around a bunch of car buffs and some 100-year-old cars and you'll have to get used to the jokes. Like, how many 100-year-old people do you know who can run as well as ...