Napier 100 HP Gordon Bennet Cup racer 1903
2014 Louwman Museum - Den Haag (NL)

Racing cars like this were really the beginning of the modern automobile. In order to be faster the designs moved away from the original horseless carriage and showed the way to more efficient engineering. Just imagine 100 horsepower in a car at a time in which regular middle class cars had about 20...