Harley-Davidson V-twin-cylinder engine, chain-drive transmission, fully elliptic leaf-spring suspension, and rear-wheel mechanical brakes.

Wheelbase: 69 in.

The car on the AACA seal, which is so prominent this week in Hershey, is the 1895 Duryea; it is widely considered to be the first automobile built in America with the intent to mass produce.

Brothers J.

Frank and Charles Duryea eventually had a falling out over who, exactly, was most responsible for the car, and they went their separate ways.

Each was involved with numerous early automakers, but it was J.

Frank’s partnership with the Stevens Arms & Tools Company, of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, that was the most fruitful and enduring.

While it would eventually become a large, grand, powerful tourer, the original Stevens-Duryea of 1901 was a sprightly runabout with an opposed twin-cylinder engine, a three-speed sliding-gear transmission, and steering by tiller.

This basic design was utilized for three years, and it was not...