In the 1920s Packard and Cadillac were locked in fierce competition to make the largest engine possible. Packard had [...]
1927 Lincoln Sport Touring
2024-05-02T14:47:57-04:00By 1922, Henry Ford’s Model T was losing sales to more upscale auto makers. In response, Ford boldly purchased the [...]
1927 LaSalle Sport Phaeton
2024-05-02T14:49:06-04:00In the mid-1920s, General Motors was losing customers to rivals Chrysler, Packard, and Peerless. Those who wanted a car nicer [...]
1925 Rickenbacker 8 Coupe
2024-05-02T14:37:58-04:00Eddie Rickenbacker led a remarkable life. He started out as a famous race car driver, then became a flying ace [...]
1925 Franklin Sport Runabout
2024-07-23T11:51:59-04:00From its beginnings in 1910, Franklin was an innovative automaker, especially well known for its trademark air-cooled engines. Franklin [...]
1922 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost
2024-05-02T14:51:21-04:00In the early twentieth century, Rolls Royce was generally considered to be the best car in the world. A huge [...]
1917 Milburn Light Electric
2023-06-20T12:47:58-04:00Milburn was one of the more successful makers of electric automobiles. Their cars were priced low and were light [...]
1916 Simplex Crane Model 5 Touring
2024-05-02T14:53:09-04:00The Simplex Automobile Company built costly, ultra-high quality automobiles, first from 1915-1919 and then again from 1922-1924. The designer [...]
1913 Pope-Hartford Model 33 Roadster
2023-06-20T12:43:02-04:00In 1895, Colonel Albert Pope, an early bicycle proponent and manufacturer, noticed that bicycles were losing ground to a new [...]
1912 Packard 1-48 Victoria
2024-05-02T14:57:16-04:00This custom-built car was owned by Mrs. Theodate Pope Riddle, one of America’s foremost female architects.