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1939 Cadillac V-16 versus 1939 Packard Twelve
Throughout the decade of the thirties, while Chevrolet and Ford were engaged in a pitched battle for supremacy in the low-priced field, an equally intense contest was taking place at the opposite end of the economic scale. Cadillac was determined to dislodge Packard from its long-held status as...
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1954 De Soto Adventurer II Coupe
Chrysler Corporation sales sagged 29 percent in 1953, and Wall Street observers put most of the blame on styling. The corporation’s four nameplates - Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, and Chrysler (Imperial became a separate line in 1955) - were still using basically the same bodies they’d gotten in...
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1948 Buick Roadmaster Estate Wagon
It was October 7, 1945, when Buick’s long-awaited 1946 models were announced. They weren’t much different from the 1942 cars whose production had been halted by government order three and a half years earlier. To have made major styling changes for the postwar market, especially in the Super...
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1953 Chrysler D’Elegance
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1932 Type 41 Bugatti Royale
Legend has it that a guest at a dinner party once commented to Ettore Bugatti that the Bugatti was the automobile of choice if one wished to win races, but for sheer elegance, one must have a Rolls-Royce. Bugatti was not accustomed to playing second fiddle to anyone, and the incident supposedly...
