Curved dash Oldsmobile

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Henry Ford may have brought the moving assembly line to the car business, but it was Ransom E. Olds who made the first mass-produced cars. He did it without the assembly line.

His curved dash automobile was one of the most popular models in the era before cars started looking like cars. This was the era when many "horseless carriages" still looked like, literally, carriages waiting for horses.

First published July 3, 2014: 6:02 PM ET

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