The first person to buy ANY automobile in America.

On March 24, 1898, Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, became the first person to buy a Winton automobile after seeing the first automobile advertisement in Scientific American.[4] Later that year the Winton Motor Carriage Company sold 21 more vehicles,[2]including one to James Ward Packard, who later founded the Packard automobile company after Winton challenged a very dissatisfied Packard to do better.[5]:58 This is the same mistake that Enzo Ferrari would make with Ferruccio Lamborghini.

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