Burlington man's labour of love recreates grandfather's invention — Canada's first-ever gas-powered motor vehicle
It had a tendency to scare the horses and get stuck in the mud, long-time Burlington resident Ron Foss recalls his grandfather telling him as a child about his rather remarkable creation.
Passing on a partnership with Ford His Fossmobile predated Ford's Model T by over a decade but George was never interested in commercializing it. "But he had no regrets in not building the automobile. By the '50s, I can remember him saying they really had become a bit of menace. People were having accidents and there were no safety features in cars back in those days."
It later emerged that the person from whom he sourced the engine had several more period pieces that would help the project along tremendously. Most importantly, he had a burned out, rusted chassis from a 1900 Locomobile. A legacy preserved When he approached local museums, they provided a list of criteria the project would have to meet for inclusion. Ron selected the most stringent criteria, that of Ingenium, as the goal. One thing the museums did not require was a running vehicle.
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