History CHEVROLET's name???????????????

David Dunbar Buick was a great engineer who started out in plumbing fixtures. He invented the process for coating iron with porcelain for bathroom fixtures. It was also said that he invented the lawn sprinkler.

 

the only one i know is MG stands for morris garage.. they took cast off morris parts and made their own car... lol

 

and don't forget bubba Royce.. he had so many rolls.. he needed a car he could fit in..

 

Don't for get that funny little fellow that failed Sandbox in pre-school and still went on to build cars...

Rodrick Ratner... Of Rat rod Fame...

 

Whats interesting is that Charles Nash was the president of General Motors before quitting to form Nash motors. He didnt think General Motors would last.

He also stole G.Ms head Engineer

Kinda funny huh?

 

Funny that this should come up right now.
It's been answered here so I'm not going to look it up but I was reading about this just the other night in Rod & Custom or Street Rodder.

Think the newest Rod & Custom.
I never knew the history either till then.
Mr. Chevrolet left the company because he wanted to build higher end cars instead of the average working man cars.
I believe that it said that he went to the grave without much money to his name.
He left the company just a little too soon to have made the big bucks.

 

J. Frank Duryea was the brother that built Americas first gas powered automobile not his brother Charles. They won the first automobile race held in the USA, and later won the first ever London to Brighton Run in England.John and Horace Dodge had a machine shop and built motors for Olds and Ford years before starting Dodge Brothers car production in 1914. It may have been a DB built motor in the Olds Pirate that raced at the first Ormond Beach meet, just north of Daytona.The Chevrolet brothers built speed equipment for Model T Fords, finished 5th in the INDY 500 with a Model T equiped with one of their Frontenac heads. The Stanley twin brothers, Francis E. and Freeland O. built the most steam powered cars in the USA, and set a LSR of 127.66 in 1906.

 

Morris Garages was an Oxford sales agency for Morris, where sales manager Cecil Kimber (1888-1945) began putting together sporting versions of Morris cars.

Morris was named for company founder William Richard Morris (1877-1963), who became Lord Nuffield in 1934. The Morris Motor Company, with MG and acquisitions Riley and Wolseley together formed the Nuffield Organization until merging with Austin in 1952 to form the British Motor Corporation.

 

Red Skelton......Rolls Cannardly.

 

All of those early names were from an era when real men were proud to put their own name on a product they were responsible for.
Not like todays corporate PANSIES who hide behind some BULLSHIT made up name that means nothing, that and a gaggle of lawyers, LLC, etc.

 

How about that guy who was born in Argentina and decided to build tractors in Italy.
Also a few fast cars to his name. DETOMASO.

 

No joke! LOL

"How about 'Probe'?"
"Hmmm... I like it..."
"Should we focus-group test it?"
"Nah, it's good -- go with it!"

 

George Pierce
John North Willys, Charles Knight

 

So Jerry 442 Cutlass was a real person? and Pontiac named the GTO after a character in "Four Lane Blacktop"??

 

You forgot to mention that Gaston Chevrolet WON Indy in 20 or 21 with his own car.

 

How about Enzo Ferrari and ? Lamborghini.

Jerome

 

Here are a few from around the world who made cars named after them...

Abarth - Carlo Abarth
Babcock - F.A. Babcock
Baker - Walter C. Baker
Bandini - Ilario Bandini
Bentley - W.O. Bentley
Borgward - Carl F.W. Borgward
Brutsch - Egon Brutsch
Bugatti - Ettore Bugatti
Citroen - Andre Citroen
Cooper - John & Charles Cooper
Cord - Erret Lobban Cord
Crosley - Powel Crosley
Cunningham - Briggs Cunningham
Davis - George Davis
Delage - Louis Delage
Delahaye - Emile Delahaye
De Tomaso - Alessandro De Tomaso
Doble - Abner Doble
Dort - Joshua Dallas Dort
Dubonnet - Andre Dubonnet
Duesenberg - Fred & August Duesenberg
Franklin - H.H. Franklin
Gordini - Amedee Gordini
Graham-Paige - Joseph, Robert & Ray Graham
Healey - Donald Healey
Hertz - John Hertz (made cars before renting them)
Heinkel - Ernst Heinkel
Horch - August Horch
Humber - Thomas Humber
Jewett - H.M. Jewett
Jordan - Edward S. Jordan
Jowett - Benjamin & William Jowett
Knox - Harry A. Knox
Kunz - J.L. Kunz
Kurtis - Frank Kurtis
Lambert - John W. Lambert
Lancia - Vincenzo Lancia
Lister - Brian H. Lister
Marmon - Howard Marmon
Maserati - Alfieri Maserati
Mathis - E.E.C. Mathis
Maybach - Wilhelm Maybach
Metz - C.H. Metz
Mochet - Charles Mochet
Opel - Adam Opel
Panhard - Rene Panhard
Porter - Finlay Robertson Porter
Rickenbacker - Captain Eddie Rickenbacker
Rovin - Robert de Rovin
Scripps-Booth - James Scripps-Booth
Stearns/Stearns-Knight - F.B. Stearns
Studebaker - Henry & Clem Studebaker
Stutz - Harry C. Stutz
Thomas - E.R. Thomas
White - George White
Winton - Alexander Winton

 

Norm Grabowski---- Henway

 

Dodge Brothers John and Horace.To much crap in my head when i remember that.Jimmie King

 

well ya got me to wondering..and now i know.....from Wikipedia.....


Fiat S.p.A., an acronym for Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino<SUP id=cite_ref-1 class=reference>[2]</SUP> (English: Italian Automobile Factory of Turin), is an Italian automobile manufacturer, engine manufacturer, financial and industrial group based in Turin in the Piedmont region. Fiat was founded in 1899 by a group of investors including Giovanni Agnelli. Fiat has also manufactured railroad vehicles, tanks and aircraft. As of 2009, Fiat (not including Chrysler) is the world's ninth largest carmaker as well as Italy's largest carmaker

 

INTERESTING?? I always thought FIAT was "Fix It Again Tony"

 

SAAB is Svenska Aeroplan AktieBolaget (swedish aeroplane company)
or Sälj Aset Annars Byt (Sell the cerrion otherwise swap)

 

since someone brought up the Chevrolet "Bowtie" at Gaston, and Louis' gravesite, the legend has been that when the brothers emigrated to the US, they stayed at a Hotel in Plainfield, NJ, and the infamous and now iconic design was the repeated image on the wallpaper, and adopted as what would become the corporate logo?

 

Not sure about Pontiac, but Cadillac was named after the founder of Detroit, a French colonial official called:

Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Sieur De Cadillac.

He founded Fort Pontchartrain du Detroit in 1701 and commanded there until 1710, when he was appointed as Governor of Louisiana until 1716. His family crest is the Cadillac emblem.

 

John M. Studebaker, Clement Studebaker, Peter Studebaker,

 

Very interesting!

 

That's Louis on the left, next to Harry Miller and couple Duesenbergs.

 

And Percy Prius must not be forgotten.....

 

I think Louis Chevrolet had a sister too. They called her Big Block because she was some serious cubic inches.

 

Named after Henry Fords proctologist.