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The first carriage-sized automobile suitable for use on existing wagon roads in the United States was a steam-powered vehicle invented in 1871, by Dr. J.W. Carhart, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Racine, Wisconsin.
A second Duryea was built in 1894 and on Thanksgiving Day in 1895, Frank won the Chicago Times Herald Race traveling 54 miles with an average speed of 7.5 mph. In 1895, the Duryea Motor Wagon Company started commercial production of the first American car.Frank Duryea was the actual builder of the first American automobile, having to throw away many of Charles' ideas.Charles, however, spent his life trying to discredit Frank and claim himself to be the builder of the first American car.irst American Car. Arguably the first American car was built by Oliver Evans in 1805. He had received the first U. S. patent in 1789. The car that Evans built was amphibious and could travel on land by wheels or water by paddlewheels.