1908 Dorris The Dorris Motor Car Co. was a successful and respected manufacturer founded by George Preston Dorris in St. Louis in 1906. Its first cars featured the first overhead valve four-cylinder engine. The car was built on a 101-inch wheelbase, and it created quite a stir when introduced at the New York Auto Show in 1906. Dedicated to building better - and bigger - cars, Dorris was soon building 132-inch wheelbase models with six-cylinder, 80 horsepower engines. Prices also climbed, reaching as much as $7,000 for closed cars. When the company folded in 1926 after building 3,100 cars and 900 trucks, the founder simply explained to the bankruptcy referee that: "Competition was too keen."