Based on the iconic Shelby Cobra, the retro-inspired, copper-laden Mercer-Cobra was a Virgil Exner-designed four-wheeled ...
Even in 1911, though, America already had a sports car—the Mercer Raceabout. One of these pioneering motorcars, built 111 ...
Jay Leno gets behind the wheel of his 1913 Mercer Raceabout and shows just what it ... All the steps are essentially the same as a modern car, but Leno has to do them all by hand.
Ask any collector to choose which car in the Smithsonian collection he would like to own, and he would name the Simplex. With the Mercer Raceabout and the Stutz Bearcat, the chain-drive Simplex Speed ...