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A French blunderbuss, called an espingole, 1760, France Musketoon, blunderbuss and coach gun from the American Civil War era. The flared muzzle is the defining feature of the blunderbuss, differentiating it from large caliber carbines; the distinction between the blunderbuss and the musketoon is less distinct, as musketoons were also used to fire shot, and some had flared barrels.
An antique car is an automobile that is an antique. Narrower definitions vary based on how old a car must be to qualify. The Antique Automobile Club of America defines an antique car as over 25 years of age. [1] However, the legal definitions for the purpose of antique vehicle registration vary widely.
In 1909, the company hired Lee Frayer to design a full-sized car, with Eddie Rickenbacker as his assistant. [23] The Firestone-Columbus, a gasoline-powered car geared toward families, began production in 1909. [21] About 500 of the vehicles sold in the first year and it was generally well received in the market.
Police in Georgia are looking for a retired couple who went missing after responding to a Craigslist ad for a vintage car. Elrey Bud Runion, 69, and his wife June, 66, were last seen Thursday when ...
A classic car is typically described as an automobile 25 years or older, although a car's age is not the only requirement it must meet before being considered a "classic." ." However, a standard criteria for recognizing cars as classics does not exist, since different countries use their own rules and have their own regulations for classifying potential c
Vintage vehicles — usually defined as having been built between 1919 and 1930. The main article for this category is Vintage car . For preceding automobiles by period, see Category: Brass Era vehicles and Category: Veteran vehicles .
Touted as the "Everyman's Car", Brush designed a light car with a wooden chassis (wooden rails and iron cross-members), friction drive transmission and "underslung" coil springs in tension instead of compression on both sides of each axle. Two gas-powered headlamps provided light, along with a gas-powered light in the rear. The frame, axles ...
Various muzzle loading arms, to scale; number 8 is identified as a blunderbuss or musketoon (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1910) The musketoon is a shorter-barrelled version of the musket and served in the roles of a shotgun or carbine. Musketoons could be of the same caliber as the issue musket or of a much larger caliber, 1.0–2.5 inches (25 ...