Early Landmarks

February 12, 2023 — On an unseasonably warm day for February I traveled to the Audrain Automobile Museum in Newport, Rhode Island. Their current exhibit is titled "Early Landmarks in Automotive Engineering." The exhibit featured classics no later than the '30s back to the late 19th Century. There were sixteen cars and four motorcycles in the largest collection I've seen at the Audrain in four trips to the museum.

There was a replica of the 1886 3-wheel Benz, accurate in every detail, generally credited by automotive historians as the first automobile. Also among the rare vehicles were two V16s, a Cadillac and a Marmon, the only V16s ever produced.

I photographed every vehicle and motorcycle in the exhibit, with multiple views of several. You van see them at this link:

https://www.linwoodstreet.com/audrain2023/