For those who like early Dodge Brothers cars

krazykuda wrote: "Very interesting to see how they made them back then..."

They had to make them "brick outhouse" strong because the roads were so terrible. Wood-framed, metal-covered bodies had proved to be unsatisfactory, and had given a lot of car manufacturers such a bad reputation that they went out of business. Since the Dodge Bros. were introducing a new car to the market in 1914, they were really paranoid about getting a bad rep and therefore decided to use an all-steel body that was engineered by the Budd Body Co. using chrome vanadium steel, one of the hardest steel alloys in existence; which was rather expensive and really overkill. And when they approved the final plans for the steel body, the Dodges were still afraid it wouldn't be strong enough, so they ordered that a bunch of additional rivets be installed. It is quite difficult to straighten a dented DB body, fender or door without using heat.