The Lambert gasoline engine propelled buggy was the first practical gasoline automobile made in the United States that could be driven on roads. He made his horseless carriage in 1891, and was ahead of the Duryea Brothers by a year and Henry Ford by five years. During initial tests, it often took a long time to get the automobile started again after it stopped. The original three-wheel car was destroyed in a building fire where he had it stored; however, photographs taken of it did survive. Lambert made sales brochures, which he mailed out in the first part of February 1891, to sell versions of his buggy for $550 (). Later in that month, he began to take the buggy on the streets of Ohio City for experimental drives. There were about 300 different styles of horseless carriages built by others by 1895.