Automobile History   The first "car" built in America was a
horse buggy with a 4-hp, single-cylinder engine, assembled by
Charles and Frank Duryea in 1892-93. Their second car won
America's first auto race, a 50-mile, nine-hour marathon from
Chicago to Evanston, Ill., on Thanksgiving Day, 1895.  Ransom
Eli Olds built a three-wheeled steam car in 1891 and a gasoline
buggy in 1897. By the turn of the century he was mass producing
his curved Dash Oldsmobile, selling 2100 of them in 1902 and
5000 a year by 1904, when he left Oldsmobile to found the REO
Motor Car Co. Henry Ford perfected the assembly line, but Olds
had introduced mass production and popularly-priced cars to
America.  The first practical, factory-produced automobiles were
little more than motorized horse carriages. A tiny one-cylinder
motor under the seat drove through a chain, and you steered with
a "tiller," like a coaster wagon. Nothing to it. It was enough
to be getting around a little faster than a horse could take
you. And the car didn't get