The 1924 model Doble Series E steam car could run for 1,500 miles (2,400 km) before its 24-gallon water tank needed to be refilled; even in freezing weather, it could be started from cold and move off within 30 seconds, and once fully warmed could be relied upon to reach speeds in excess of 90 miles per hour (140 km/h).
-taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doble_steam_car

steam was a thing. alone w/electric cars. what really was impressive was the steam driven airplane.

I did qualify it in my part of the description! The Benz Patent Motor car was still pretty early, predating volume production of either electric or steam cars (in the modern sense of passenger vehicles) which both took off in the 1890s.

Forgo bathing and eat bark and poke salad for a season or two and see how expedient some government is to you there thepinky. HD was and is correct, governments suck ass that suck the most. That same year Fyodor Dostoevsky is sentenced to death and the Stanley brothers are born to later build the first steam car in 1897. Good luck on your book report, sister.

makes me wonder what a modern steam car could be.

Very cool to see this car. Especially Leno almost blowing up and the steam venting at the end.

Here is an article on a steam car that is much superior to this one. It was ready to start in forty second and was ignited by key, not by hand.
http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=669

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