Detroit Electric Car For Sale

There were 143 detroit electric cars made in 1922 and this is one of 9 known to still exist.
Detroit electric car for sale. Re manufactured cars that were earlier cars lowered by 6 8 to accommodate modern. The company closed its doors in 1939 manufacturing 14 000 electric cars over its life span. The original selling price of this car in 1922 was 2985 9 times. The superintendent of the detroit electric factory employed his daughter lillian reynolds to sell to women including clara ford who drove this car into the 1930s.
113 left in the world today. If you would like to own a classic detroit electric model 97 contact us about our car consignment program. Selling at no reserve is a rare 1922 detroit electric model 90b town sedan titled vin 13154. The detroit electric s maker the anderson electric car company didn t enter the car business until 1909 though the electric car dates back as far as 1892.
But like the electric car detroit electric hasn t gone away completely. Purchasing a collector car from a museum is not unusual. After using a variety of chain drive systems the company had its subsidiary elwell parker design a robust slow speed high. In nearly every case the short list usually offered via public auction is determined by the needs of the institution.
In the years before world war i many women chose electric cars because they started instantly without hand cranking and had no difficult to shift transmission. Electric car manufacturer zap and china youngman. A total of 12 348 detroit electric cars were produced from 1907 to 1939. Detroit electric sold broughams from its start in 1907.
Detroit electrics were made by the anderson electric car co founded as anderson carriage in thomas edison s home town of port huron michigan in 1884. 1915 the anderson electric car company began a tradition of re manufacturing and modernizing a small number of older detroit electric trade ins and selling them as this is one of those cars and it is quite rare. Sorry this car has been sold. The wikipedia page on brougham car body says in the 1930s a brougham was a two door or four door sedan especially one electrically driven thanks for asking it s interesting to dig for stuff like this.
Clara ford wife of henry ford drove this detroit electric. The restoration of a 1923 detroit electric model 90 coupe progresses from primer to reassembly part ii by matt litwin from february 2017 issue of hemmings classic car. It moved to detroit in 1895 and started making electric vehicles in 1907 under the brand name of detroit electric.