The Lad's Car was an American
cyclecar
A cyclecar was a type of small, lightweight and inexpensive car manufactured in Europe and the United States between 1910 and the early 1920s. The purpose of cyclecars was to fill a gap in the market between the motorcycle and the car. A key ...
automobile
A car or automobile is a motor vehicle with wheels. Most definitions of ''cars'' say that they run primarily on roads, seat one to eight people, have four wheels, and mainly transport people instead of goods.
The year 1886 is regarde ...
built between 1912 and 1914.
History
The Niagara Motor Car Corporation of
Niagara Falls, New York, built A 4
hp air-cooled
Air-cooled engines rely on the circulation of air directly over heat dissipation fins or hot areas of the engine to cool them in order to keep the engine within operating temperatures. In all combustion engines, a great percentage of the heat ge ...
,
single-seater
An open-wheel single-seater (often known as formula car) is a car with the wheels outside the car's main body, and usually having only one seat. Open-wheel cars contrast with street cars, sports cars, stock cars, and touring cars, which have the ...
juvenile car with
belt drive. Marketed as Lad's Car, it was advertised as "providing mechanically minded children a 'sure-enough' motor vehicle, with a 'sure-enough' engine".
The car was priced at $170, . The 72-inch
wheelbase
In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the horizontal distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels. For road vehicles with more than two axles (e.g. some trucks), the wheelbase is the distance between the steering (front ...
cyclecar had a choice of
hood
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Covering
Apparel
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** Article of academic dress
** Bondage hood, sex toy
* Hoodie, hooded sweatshirt
Anatomy
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* Hood, a flap of ...
and a
kit version was available.
File:1912 Lad's Car ad from the Literary Digest.jpg, alt=, 1912 Lad's Car Advertising
File:1913 Lad's Car ad from Popular Mechanics Magazine.jpg, alt=, 1913 Lad's Car advertising with new Renault hood
References
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Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
Kit car manufacturers
Cars introduced in 1912
{{Commons category, Lads Vehicles
Cyclecars
Brass Era vehicles
1910s cars
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in New York (state)