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Wheel base history (something to fall asleep with)
Oh Gurus of the "Off Topic Tech" subforum, a question:
The 1950s Nash Rambler helped define the post WW2 category "compact car" with its roughly 100 inch (2540mm) wheel base. However, lots of cars in the 1910s and 1920s had similar small wheel bases. The 1928-1932 Model A and the 1923 Tatra 11, for example.
Is that roughly 100" wheel base an industry standard inherited from wagon and coachmaking days in earlier centuries?
I have been searching and only finding general descriptions. Studebaker made wagons and coaches. "Coupe" and "cabriolet" were coach styles before they were car styles... what about the humble wheel base data point?
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