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Finally, a car maker just comes out and says it...
1907-1908 Apperson Big Dick
A Name You'll Never Forget
Most Powerful Brass Era Car, pre-1916
For those with $15,000 to spend, Apperson would put their race engine in a standard 50hp Jackrabbit runabout to create a car they dubbed the Big Dick. At 96hp, the Big Dick actually had the highest advertised horsepower in an American automobile through 1914. It had open exhaust and a 6 1/4-inch bore and 5 1/2-inch stroke, for 675-cu.in.
Amazingly, the company sold 15 of them, and that in the face of competition from Locomobile's own $15,000 short stroke 990.1-cu.in., 90hp Cup Racer (the factory claimed 120hp for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup car upon which it was based).
A Name You'll Never Forget
Most Powerful Brass Era Car, pre-1916
For those with $15,000 to spend, Apperson would put their race engine in a standard 50hp Jackrabbit runabout to create a car they dubbed the Big Dick. At 96hp, the Big Dick actually had the highest advertised horsepower in an American automobile through 1914. It had open exhaust and a 6 1/4-inch bore and 5 1/2-inch stroke, for 675-cu.in.
Amazingly, the company sold 15 of them, and that in the face of competition from Locomobile's own $15,000 short stroke 990.1-cu.in., 90hp Cup Racer (the factory claimed 120hp for the 1906 Vanderbilt Cup car upon which it was based).
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