https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws-Kp2aLcEc
The 1913 Stanley Steamer car takes almost 45 minutes to start up but it's quite a treat to drive.

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/steaming-sensation-1925-doble
And then, on the horizon, a dust devil should appear--getting bigger--and suddenly a whooping, hollering 19-year-old Howard Hughes comes straight at you doing 133 miles per hour in a Doble E20 steam-powered roadster. That actually happened back in 1925--and in the very car featured here, no less.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_steam_road_vehicles
Steam-powered showman's engine from England. The history of steam road vehicles comprises the development of vehicles powered by a steam engine for use on land and independent of rails, whether for conventional road use, such as the steam car and steam waggon, or for agricultural or heavy haulage work, such as the traction engine.. The first experimental vehicles were built in the 18th and

https://www.manufacturing.net/operations/video/13212066/behind-the-wheel-of-a-100yearold-steam-car
These days, electric cars are making inroads against old-fashioned gasoline models. Well, there was a time when there were three ways to power your car: Gasoline, electric, and steam. This 1913 Stanley Steamer car takes almost 45 minutes to start up but it's quite a treat to drive.

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/01/let-jay-leno-show-you-how-to-start-a-112-year-old-steam-powered-car/
Let Jay Leno Show You How To Start A 112-Year-Old Steam-Powered Car. You can't just jump into a steam car and go. You needed to do a lot of prep to go for a drive in 1909. One of the best things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_car
A steam car is a car (automobile) propelled by a steam engine. A steam engine is an external combustion engine ... William D Thompson, 69-year-old retired San Diego automotive engineer, also announced he planned to enter a steam-powered race car. Thompson was working on a $35,000 ($290,799 in 2023 dollars

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-did-people-think-steam-powered-cars-were-good-idea-180961872/
The car wasn't perfect. "Such steam-powered automobiles, which were at one point manufactured by 125 different firms, could take up to half an hour to light the pilot, fire up the boiler and

https://bigthink.com/the-past/steam-cars/
In January 1906, a Stanley-built steam car showed up on the sandy beaches of Ormond Beach, Florida. Driven by Fred Marriott, the two-cylinder, 50-horsepower vehicle set a world land speed record

https://historycolored.com/articles/5397/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-steam-car/
The introduction of the electric starter in the 1920s ended any hope the steam cars had for a comeback, and by the 1930s, commercially manufactured steam cars were no longer readily available. Attempts to revive the steam car during the Oil Crisis in the 1970s failed to garner any mainstream interest. Today, the steam car remains more the

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-steam-cars-were-combustion-engine-won-180955959/
With a low hum, the car's steam engine briskly pushed the vehicle forward with 1,000 foot-pounds of torque, smoothly accelerating the car and its four passengers to forty miles per hour in just

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-last-great-steam-car/
During the years between 1906 and 1909, while still attending high school, Abner Doble and and his brothers John, Warren, and Bill built their first steam car in their parents' basement. It was comprised of parts taken from a wrecked White steamer, but reconfigured to drive an engine of their own design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTkwad8rRY
This is for sure the oldest vehicle that's been here at Fat Fender Garage, a 1926 Dodge Brothers touring. An old buddy of ours' wife asked us to surprise him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7xbM4HBBm4
Jay Leno takes us for a drive around Los Angeles in his 1925 Doble E-20 Steam Car. Once owned by Howard Hughes, this is the greatest steam car ever built! It

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a1908251/60-miles-1902-toledo-steamer-take-three/
Antique-car-collector Nick Howell has attempted the 60-mile journey from London to Brighton, U.K., twice in the past two years, both times in his 112-year-old, steam-powered Toledo. Next month

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a6014/land-speed-record-seekers-revive-steam-power/
The next morning, every newsstand in Britain is bedecked with triumphant headlines: "British steam-powered car boils 100-year-old record!" Later that day, Don Wales takes the driver's seat and

https://jalopnik.com/the-first-car-to-ever-go-over-100-miles-per-hour-was-an-1851152622
What it's Like to Drive a 100 Year-Old Electric Car Racing To Sell Cars The old adage of "win on Sunday, sell on Monday" is a very old one, maybe even older than the car itself.

https://drifttravel.com/100-year-oldsteam-engine-for-the-future/
A 100-year-old steam engine still chugs itself to the Grand Canyon and back, and has become a global showcase on how ingenuity can save the past for future generations. The Grand Canyon Railway (GCR) is believed to be the last daily standard gauge U.S. railroad to run steam engines in scheduled regular service - a rare sight and sound to

https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a1609/4215940/
The newest was built in 1925; the oldest, 1909. Each one is a rolling manifestation of a brilliant idea. Sadly, they were all way ahead of their time and all three makes failed. My Baker Electric

https://money.cnn.com/2013/08/06/autos/age-of-cars/index.html
Driving a 100-year-old steam car America's aging car fleet is good news for companies that sell auto parts and provide repair services, Polk said. Coolest million-dollar cars for sale at Pebble Beach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taFRJCiY88U
Dennis heads over to Ferdinand, Indiana to check out a couple Brass Era cars. 0:00 - Brass Era Cars0:44 - Starting a 1907 Locomobile 1:02 - Starting a 1909 K

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/14zkur/til_in_1924_there_was_a_steam_powered_car_which/
A steam engine is nothing but a set of pistons and valves that sit across a pressure difference. The steam power plant is what people don't understand. 90 year old technology is safer and more efficient than what we have today. We can keep the status quo with gasoline for the next 30 years, so no one gives steam a second thought.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/12s2ezg/what_its_like_to_drive_a_100_yearold_electric_car/
Yeah steam cars took like 20 mins to boot because you literally had to boil the water lmfao. But once you got going its silky smooth, quiet, and like a thousand fucking horsepower. The Doble steam car apparently could warm up way faster, the Leno video on it is really cool.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/75-year-old-veteran-racer-cheats-death-in-302-mph-speeding-car-crash/ar-BB1oR3Mj
The car uses 11,000 horsepower to reach 0-60 miles (0-100 km) in just one second and hit 330 miles (531 km) an hour in just four seconds, using eight-cylinder engines.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/when-the-paxton-phoenix-tried-to-take-steam-mainstream/
Late to the party, but I remember a Williams brothers car made in in Hatboro, outside of Philadelphia, I believe in the late 1950's. My father owned several steam cars and was very interested in seeing a modern steam car. T. Clarence Marshall was a well known Stanley collector and had converted a Packard to steam by simply installing a boiler and a 20HP engine.