the beauty of the 1909 full color catalog for the Palmer Singer various models

found among 900 images at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?word=title_id_list:454055&slabel=Automobiles%253A%2520Manufacturers%2520catalogues%252E&sScope=images&sLevel=1

Henry Ford racing Alexander Winton, crazy hot headed young hooligans, they must have reached speeds in the 40's (whoopee!)

found on http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/page/67

Side of the car tiller steering

photo of Rockford Illinios, not dated.

Found on http://edwardianera.tumblr.com/

Looks like a 1909 Model 22 Studebaker electric Stanhope phaeton

found at http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchdetail.cfm?trg=1&strucID=454635&imageID=1163604&total=907&num=320&word=col%5Fid%3A153&s=1&notword=&d=&c=&f=&k=0&lWord=&lField=&sScope=images&sLevel=&sLabel=Taking%20the%20Wheel%3A%20Manufacturers%27%20Catalogs%20from%20the%20First%20Decade%20of%20American%20Automobiles&imgs=20&pos=335&e=w

Vintage 1909 movie props from "The Airship Destroyer" ... steampunk all the way

 Airship destoryer in the above image, it's used as a unmanned drone to blow up blimps/airships... the petal propeller and dragonfly wings are comical

 these are both images of the front of this "Armored" horseless carriage

these images are from the 1909 movie "The Airship Destroyer" found on Richards blog http://electric-edwardians.blogspot.com/2011/05/airship-destroyer-1909.html and you can watch the short movie on Youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAWWZ2rUGk&feature=player_embedded

Richard has just started blogging, and doesn't yet have an email I can find on his profile or his blog, so I hope he adds one so I can contact him

1908 Herald Square, New York. There is a lot to look at in this photo, hundreds of people, dozens of cars and carriages, and every head has a hat

 Top hat (in front) and fancy carriages for the very wealthy

 Top to bottom interesting stuff; upper right corner is a guy trying to jump out of the way of a street car, to his left the open touring car has a uniformed and gloved driver, in the upper left side are 3 horses side by side pulling a cart(see below left side for a better view) I've never seen a 3 horse cart. The open touring cars are right hand drive. Lower right side is a one horse cart with advertising on the roof for people in high rises to read if they look down at the streets

from http://www.shorpy.com/Herald-Square-New-York-1908

the 1907 Spyker that competed in the Peking to Paris great race

Found on http://www.cardesign.ru/forum/diskussii/obschenie/1352

 the Italia that won the race is here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2010/08/winner-of-1907-paris-to-peking.html

The challenge to drive from Peking, China (modern day Beijing) to Paris, France in 1907, using totally untested automobiles, was taken up by five men:
- Prince Scipione Borghese, accompanied by his mechanic Ettore Guizzardi. They were further accompanied by Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, Sr.
- Charles Goddard, accompanied by journalist Jean du Taillis.
- Auguste Pons and Octave Foucault, his mechanic.
- Georges Cormier.
- Victor Collignon.

On the 30th of August, twenty days later, the Spyker, followed by the two De Dions, arrived in Paris. Charles Goddard wasn’t behind the wheel of the Spyker; due to money-troubles, he wasn’t able to finish the race! But his car won second place and that was probably good enoughfound on http://scheong.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/peking-to-paris-the-original-amazing-race/

100 years ago, this was the comfort best in tour busses. They look like overstuffed couches on wheels

http://www.shorpy.com/node/10308?size=_original  for the original with comments, like, the license plates are sequential

street scene of Detroit in 1910, with touring cars, a street car equipped with a people catcher, and a 1910 Hudson Model 20 touring car taxi parallel parking

Clipped from one corner of http://www.shorpy.com/node/10642?size=_original

A sunday drive in the Adirondacks in 1909 on a Franklin

the ride must have been rough before paved roads, but this road does look like it has been graded, and maybe recently... looks very loose, or maybe just really sandy. Those seats on the car appear to be as plush as leather couches
Found on http://www.shorpy.com