Part 3 of How Cars Changed Our World.

Cecil Woods was one of the people who built their own car. He was very proud of his invention, but one day, a butcher chased him and threatened to chop the car to pieces with his meat axe. The noise of the car has startled the butcher and his horse. Cecil had to turn off the engine and push his car home so it wouldn't frighten anyone.
Fred Dennison was a bicycle mechanic and engineer working in Christchurch in the late 1890s, he decided to make his own motor car, too. In June 1900, he drove his 'Dennison car' from Christchurch to Oamaru. In a modern car,  the 250-kilometre trip might take about three hours. In 1900, it took Fred five days, and the journey wasn't easy. The roads were rough and dusty. At one point, the car got stuck in a riverbed  and Fred had to take it to pieces to get it out again. Then, on his way back to Christchurch, the car caught fire. Fred wasn't hurt, but he lost all his luggage in the blaze.