View our eBay StoreSign up for our Email Newsletter 1908 Reo Runabout offered with a reserve This nice older restoration is in very good condition. runs and drives well. and really needs nothing but a happy new owner. The wood body is solid with very little cracking and nice pin striping. the wheels are solid and true. the brass is in excellent condition. and the leather is good with no rips or tears. The car is perfect for Brass and Gas Tours. and is ready to go! its a turnkey car in every sense of the term (except I dont think it has a key). *Please note this car is titled as a 1905. but research has determined it to be an '08. We have many more photographs of this car. please click on any image to be taken to our full-size image list! The REO Motor Car Company was a Lansing. Michigan based company that produced automobiles and trucks from 1905 to 1975. At one point the company also manufactured buses on its truck platforms. REO was initiated by Ransom E. Olds during August 1904. Olds had 52 percent of the stock and the titles of president and general manager. To ensure a reliable supply of parts. he organized a number of subsidiary firms like the National Coil Company. the Michigan Screw Company. and the Atlas Drop Forge Company. Originally the company was to be called "R. E. Olds Motor Car Company. but the owner of Olds' previous company. then called Olds Motor Works. objected and threatened legal action on the grounds of likely confusion of names by consumers. Olds then changed the name to his initials. Olds Motor Works soon adopted the popular name of its vehicles. Oldsmobile (which. along with Buick and Cadillac. became founding divisions of General Motors Corporation). The company's name was spelled alternately in all capitals REO or with only an initial capital as Reo. and the company's own literature was inconsistent in this regard. with early advertising using all capitals and later advertising using the "Reo" capitalization. The pronunciation. however. was as a single word. Lansing is home to the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum. Our Ebay Policies: Significant Cars is one of the largest Collector Car Brokers and Dealers in the Country. Since 2003 we have worked hard to "change the way collector cars find new homes" by providing unparralleled web presentation of the cars we are representing. Most of our cars have over 30 photographs. and these can be viewed by visiting our website (our eBay handle dot com). or by clicking on any of the photographs in the black background area of our EBay listings. We welcome your call with any questions about any of our listings at anytime at 800-837-9902 and certainly encourage your personal inspection of any of the cars we are selling-just call us and we will be happy to set up an appointment for your to see and test drive the car. We realize that eBay is a difficult venue to properly evaluate an item as complex as an automobile. You can feel secure bidding with confidence on any of our cars since we guarantee your satisfaction! Should you win the auction and come to see the car and decide you do not want it for any reason. no negative feedback will result. any deposit you may have paid will be cheerfully refunded. Description images and copy © 2004-2014 Significant Cars. Inc.