H.H.

Buffum, during his involvement with the motor car, designed and produced some of the most ambitious, early cars ever seen in the United States.

In a period spanning just 13 years, about 70 truly remarkable machines were built.

For a man who made so few cars, Buffum achieved groundbreaking results: he produced the first American four-cylinder car, production or otherwise, the first cataloged production American race car and the world's first production V8 automobile.

Buffum began work on his first automotive design, the machine offered here, in 1894.

The car was completed the following year in Massachusetts, where Buffum had moved to from the West Coast for the purpose of producing machinery for the burgeoning shoe industry in the Northeast.

Buffum was primarily a designer and producer of complex machines for the automation of shoe production.

In fact, he had secured numerous patents for his machinery, developed a successful sprinkler head design as well as sewing and nailin...