Brass & Pre-War Era
Models from the brass & pre-war era. Choose one to read its full history, generation by generation.
Models
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AC Sociable
AC's Edwardian three-wheeled cyclecar (1907–1914) — the company's first passenger vehicle and an early commercial success.
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AC Six
A sporting line built around John Weller's advanced overhead-cam straight-six (1920–1940) — the engine that powered AC for four decades.
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Adler Trumpf
Adler's innovative front-wheel-drive compact of the 1930s — a Le Mans finisher with Paul Jaray streamlined coachwork.
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Adler Trumpf Junior
An affordable front-wheel-drive small car that brought Adler's FWD technology to the mass market — one of Germany's longest-running 1930s compacts.
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Adler Standard 6
The first Continental European car with hydraulic brakes — and the car that carried Clärenore Stinnes on her 1927–1929 world circumnavigation.
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Adler Standard 8
Adler's short-lived eight-cylinder flagship — a 3.9-litre straight-eight for the upper end of the Weimar Republic market.
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Adler Favorit
A mid-range rear-drive four-cylinder saloon that bridged Adler's large Standards and its forthcoming small FWD cars.
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Adler Diplomat
A 1930s six-cylinder luxury saloon with Ambi-Budd and Karmann coachwork options, Adler's prestige rear-drive car of the mid-decade.
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Adler 2.5 Litre
Adler's final pre-war car — a 2.5-litre six-cylinder with an aerodynamic Paul Jaray body capable of 125 km/h.
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Aero Type 10 (Aero 500)
Aero's debut car — a 494 cc single-cylinder two-stroke three-seater offered as roadster, cabriolet, and coupé; 1,358 built.
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Aero Type 18 (Aero 662)
Aero's 660 cc two-cylinder follow-on — 18 bhp, four-wheel brakes, and a top speed of 90 km/h; 2,615 built.
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Aero Type 20 (Aero 1000)
Near-litre twin-cylinder Aero nicknamed 'pike of the highway' — 998 cc, 24–26 bhp, approximately 2,546 built.
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Aero Type 30
Aero's most successful model — front-wheel drive, all-independent suspension, 998 cc twin two-stroke; over 8,000 built including a post-war run.
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Aero Type 50
Aero's largest and most powerful car — a 1997 cc four-cylinder two-stroke FWD machine reaching 130 km/h; 1,205 built.
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Alvis 12/50
Alvis's breakthrough overhead-valve vintage sports car — one of the most successful vintage sports cars of all time, with a strong competition record.
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Alvis 12/75 (front-wheel drive)
Alvis's pioneering front-wheel-drive sports car — overhead camshaft, inboard front brakes, and an optional supercharger, raced at Le Mans.
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Alvis Silver Eagle
Alvis's first major six-cylinder line of the early 1930s, offered with a range of inline-six engines and coachbuilt bodies.
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Alvis Speed 20
A fast, elegant six-cylinder tourer — the first car with an all-synchromesh gearbox (1933) and independent front suspension on the SB.
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Alvis Speed 25
The 3.5-litre successor to the Speed 20 — a more powerful, seven-bearing six-cylinder sporting Alvis of the late 1930s.
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Alvis 4.3 Litre
The largest and fastest pre-war Alvis — a 4.3-litre six capable of over 100 mph, a genuine rival to contemporary Bentleys.
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Amilcar CC / C4 / CS
Amilcar's founding cyclecar family — a nimble 903 cc two-seater that launched the marque and sold widely across Europe.
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Amilcar CGS / CGSS Grand Sport
The 1074 cc 'Grand Sport' — the car that made Amilcar famous, featuring four-wheel brakes and a top speed of 120 km/h (75 mph).
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Amilcar M-Type
Amilcar's 1,200 cc light touring car of the late 1920s — a gentler, more practical direction for the marque as the cyclecar era ended.
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Amilcar Pégase
A Delahaye-engined 2-litre touring car that kept Amilcar alive through the mid-1930s while the Compound was being developed.
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Amilcar Compound (B38)
A technically groundbreaking front-wheel-drive monocoque saloon — Amilcar's final, most advanced car, cut short by World War II.
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Apperson Jack Rabbit
Apperson's famed speedster (from 1907) — a 60-hp, $5,000 stripped sportster widely cited as the first commercially built American sports car.
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Apperson Four
Apperson's four-cylinder runabouts and touring cars — the backbone of the marque before the V-8, including the chassis underpinning the early Jack Rabbit.
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Apperson Eight
Apperson's 90-degree V-8 line (from 1914) — sold under the 'Roadaplane', 'Silver-Apperson' and 'Anniversary Eight' names, and the marque's mainstay into the 1920s.
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Armstrong Siddeley Thirty
Armstrong Siddeley's founding model — a 5-litre, 30 hp six aimed at the aristocracy and the upper carriage trade, with around 2,770 built.
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Armstrong Siddeley Siddeley Special
The marque's interwar masterpiece — a 5-litre Hiduminium-alloy six of which only 253 were built; fewer than 22 are believed to survive.
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Auburn Speedster
Auburn's legendary boat-tail roadster — culminating in the 1935–36 supercharged 851/852, an Art Deco icon designed by Gordon Buehrig.
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Auburn Auburn 12
America's most affordable V12 — Auburn's Lycoming-powered twelve, launched into the depths of the Great Depression.
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Auburn Eight
Auburn's straight-eight cars — the volume of the Cord era, sold under a string of series names (8-88, 8-98, 851/852) and the basis for the boat-tail Speedster.
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Auburn Six
Auburn's six-cylinder line — the affordable companion to the eights whose lineage reached back to the early 1910s (the 1919 'Beauty Six') and ran through the make's final 1936 season.
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Austin Austin 7
The car that motorized Britain — a cheap, light 1920s–30s economy car whose design seeded BMW, Jaguar, Nissan and Lotus.
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Auto Union Grand Prix Cars (Types A–D)
The radical mid-engine Silver Arrow Grand Prix cars — supercharged V16 and V12 machines that won the 1936 European Championship with Bernd Rosemeyer.
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Bentley 3 Litre
Bentley's very first car (1921–1929) and the chassis that won Le Mans in 1924 and 1927 — the model that founded the marque.
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Bentley 4½ Litre
The 4½-litre Cricklewood Bentley (1927–1931), including Tim Birkin's supercharged 'Blower' — one of the most famous British cars ever built.
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Bentley Speed Six
The six-cylinder works racer (1928–1930) — Bentley's most successful Le Mans car, winner in 1929 and 1930 and W. O. Bentley's personal favourite.
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Bentley 8 Litre
W. O. Bentley's last and largest car (1930–1932) — a 7,983 cc grand tourer, only 100 built, and the model that ended the independent company.
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Berliet Early Berliet (1899–1902)
Marius Berliet's first cars — single- then twin-cylinder voiturettes built in a small Lyon workshop before the company moved to the Audibert & Lavirotte plant.
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Berliet Pre-War Four- and Six-Cylinder Range (1902–1914)
A broad pre-WWI range from 8 CV to 60 CV — honeycomb-radiatored fours and a massive 9.5-litre six — that established Berliet as a serious French manufacturer.
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Berliet Type VB
Berliet's ill-fated post-WWI mass-market car — a copy of the 1916 Dodge that suffered from inferior French steel and bankrupted the company in 1921.
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Berliet 1920s Range (Type VI / VRC / VK and six-cylinders)
Berliet's post-bankruptcy recovery range — new overhead-valve fours from 7 CV to 18 CV and two new six-cylinder models introduced from 1927.
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Berliet Dauphine 11CV
Berliet's last passenger car — a modern 1,990 cc family saloon with independent front suspension, produced in Lyon from 1934 until war ended car production in 1939.
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Bignan 25CV (Original)
Bignan's debut car — a large-wheelbased four-cylinder tourer first shown at the Paris Motor Show in October 1919.
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Bignan 11CV
Bignan's defining model — a 2-litre four-cylinder sports car that scored third overall at the inaugural 1923 Le Mans 24 Hours in desmodromic-valve competition trim.
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Bignan 14CV
Bignan's final and most powerful model — a 2.5-litre S.C.A.P. straight-eight introduced at the 1928 Paris Motor Show.
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Brennabor Brennaborette
Brennabor's first series-production automobile — a Fafnir-engined three-wheeler that launched the marque's car-making career in 1908.
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Brennabor Typ P
The model that made Brennabor Germany's largest carmaker — a 2.1-litre four-cylinder tourer that sold 100 units a day at its peak in the early 1920s.
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Brennabor Juwel 6
Brennabor's six-cylinder flagship — a 45 hp, 2.46-litre tourer of which roughly 3,000 were built before the Depression shut down production.
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Brennabor Juwel 8
Brennabor's rare eight-cylinder flagship — a 60 hp, 3.4-litre sedan produced in only approximately 100 examples before the factory ceased car production.
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BSA Early Tourer (1907–1915)
BSA's first car range — large four-cylinder Edwardian tourers, later transferred to Coventry after BSA acquired Daimler in 1910.
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BSA Ten (1921–1926)
BSA's interwar revival — a popular V-twin light car followed by four- and six-cylinder models, before the name was temporarily dropped.
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BSA Three-Wheeler
A pioneering front-wheel-drive three-wheeler — innovative, practical, and the engineering ancestor of the Scout.
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BSA Ten Saloon
A conventional rear-wheel-drive small saloon sold alongside BSA's front-drive models, aimed at family buyers.
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BSA Scout
BSA's landmark front-wheel-drive open sports car — praised for its grip, economy, and progressive engineering when it launched at £149.
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Brush Runabout
Alanson Brush's wooden-framed, coil-sprung single-cylinder two-seater — the 'Everyman's Car' of the brass era, priced from about $450.
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Bugatti Type 13 (Brescia)
Bugatti's first production car — a flyweight four-cylinder racer that swept the top four positions at the 1921 Brescia Grand Prix.
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Bugatti Type 35
The most successful racing car of its era — claiming roughly 2,500 victories, five consecutive Targa Florio wins, and the 1926 Grand Prix World Championship.
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Bugatti Type 41 Royale
The largest and most expensive car of the interwar era — six built, only three sold — powered by a 12.7-litre straight-eight engine.
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Bugatti Type 55
A road-legal Grand Prix car — 38 built with Jean Bugatti's roadster body and a supercharged 2.3-litre engine from the Type 51 racer.
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Bugatti Type 57
Bugatti's prewar grand tourer masterpiece — 710 built, including the four legendary Type 57SC Atlantics; won Le Mans in 1937 and 1939.
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Chalmers Thirty
Chalmers' breakthrough mid-priced car (1908–1913) — a durable, well-regarded 30-horsepower four that made the company's name.
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Chalmers Forty
Chalmers' larger, more expensive early four (1908–1911) — the upmarket companion to the volume Thirty.
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Chalmers Master Six
Chalmers' large six-cylinder car of the mid-1910s — an early adopter of combined electric starting and lighting.
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Chalmers Six-30
Chalmers' best-known later car (1916–1923) — the value six that carried the marque through its peak and into its final years.
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Chenard-Walcker Type U Sport
The overhead-cam 3-litre sports car that took a 1–2 finish at the inaugural 1923 Le Mans 24 Hours.
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Chenard-Walcker Aigle
Chenard-Walcker's last model family — an eagle-badged range from the spartan Aiglon four-cylinder up to the V8-powered Aigle 22.
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Chenard-Walcker Type U
The backbone touring-car line that put Chenard-Walcker in the top ten French manufacturers before and after the First World War.
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Chrysler Airflow
Chrysler's streamlined, wind-tunnel-shaped 1934 milestone — a commercial flop but a landmark in aerodynamic car design.
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Cord L-29
The first American front-wheel-drive production car — a low, rakish luxury automobile that the Great Depression killed after roughly 5,000 were built.
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Cord 810/812
The 'coffin-nose' Cord — the first American production cars with pop-up headlights and front-wheel drive with independent front suspension, just 2,972 built.
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Crosley Two-Door Sedan (Pre-War)
Crosley's first cars (1939–1942) — sub-900 lb economy runabouts that were the cheapest cars in America.
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Cunningham Four-Cylinder Cars (Models J–S)
Cunningham's large four-cylinder luxury cars (Models J, M, R and S, 1911–1916) — costly, coachbuilt machines that established the marque before the V8 era.
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Cunningham Series V
Cunningham's V8 flagship (Series V-1 through V-7, 1916–1931) — one of America's first V8 cars and the heart of the 'American Rolls-Royce' legend.
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Daimler Double-Six
Daimler's sleeve-valve V12 flagship (1926–1938) — a smooth, ultra-quiet luxury chassis bodied by Britain's leading coachbuilders.
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Darracq Voiturette / Single-Cylinder
Darracq's breakthrough production car — a 6.5 hp single-cylinder light car designed by Paul Ribeyrolles that sold over 1,000 examples by September 1901.
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Darracq 200 HP V8 Racer
The 25.4-litre V8 sprint car that set the world land-speed record in December 1905 — one of the earliest V8-engined automobiles ever built.
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Darracq Flying Fifteen
Alexandre Darracq's commercial masterpiece — a perfectly balanced 3-litre four-cylinder tourer on the first all-pressed-steel chassis, capturing roughly ten percent of the French automobile market.
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Darracq 14–16 HP
Darracq's mid-range four-cylinder tourer — best known as the platform for mass taxi service, including one-third of New York's cab fleet by 1907.
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Darracq Clegg-Darracq 12 HP / 16 HP
The Owen Clegg-designed recovery models that restored Darracq's reputation — reliable, conventional four-cylinder tourers that brought the factory to 60 cars a week by 1914.
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De Dion-Bouton La Marquise
The world's oldest running motor car — a four-seat dos-à-dos steam runabout that won Europe's first automobile race in 1887.
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De Dion-Bouton Motor Tricycle
The petrol-engined tricycle that made De Dion-Bouton famous worldwide — up to 40,000 engines exported and licensed to 150 manufacturers by 1904.
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De Dion-Bouton Vis-à-Vis (Model D)
De Dion-Bouton's first four-wheel petrol car — a quirky rear-engined voiturette that passengers faced the driver.
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De Dion-Bouton Populaire
De Dion-Bouton's first front-engined car — a conventional light voiturette that moved the engine forward and added a reverse gear.
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De Dion-Bouton Type S
De Dion-Bouton's first two-cylinder model — a 1,728 cc 12 CV step up from the singles that opened the multi-cylinder era.
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De Dion-Bouton Type AD
The first four-cylinder De Dion-Bouton — 2,545 cc, 15 CV — that placed the brand in the growing medium-car touring segment.
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De Dion-Bouton Type CJ V8
The first successful mass-produced V8 engine in the world — 6,107 cc, 35 CV — whose design directly inspired the Cadillac V8 of 1914.
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De Dion-Bouton Type LA
De Dion-Bouton's final four-cylinder car — a 1,982 cc overhead-valve model that represented the struggling brand's last attempt at the mainstream market.
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De Dion-Bouton Type LB
De Dion-Bouton's final straight-eight — a 2,496 cc luxury car that grew to 3 litres but found almost no buyers at its high price.
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Delage Type A
Delage's first car — a De Dion-Bouton-powered voiturette that put the marque on the racing map from the very start.
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Delage DI / DIS / DISS
Delage's best-selling pre-war model — a 2.1-litre four-cylinder tourer that sold over 10,700 examples and offered genuine performance at accessible prices.
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Delage 15-S-8
The supercharged straight-eight that swept the 1927 Grand Prix season and won Delage the title 'World Champion of Car Builders.'
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Delage D8
Delage's magnificent straight-eight luxury range (1929–1940) — a coachbuilder's canvas owned by kings, emperors and film stars.
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Delage D6
Delage's long-running six-cylinder touring car (1930–1953) — the marque's final production model and a Le Mans podium finisher.
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Delahaye Type 145
The "Million Franc" Grand Prix racer — a 4.5-litre V12 built to win a French government prize and beat the German factory teams, with only four ever built.
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Delahaye Type 134 / 134N
Delahaye's four-cylinder touring car of the 1930s — a more accessible companion to the Type 135, with around 340 examples of the 134N built.
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DeSoto Six
DeSoto's debut model — the 1929 Six set a US first-year production record of 81,065 cars that stood for 31 years.
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DeSoto Airflow
DeSoto's radical aerodynamic sedan (1934–1936) — a commercial failure that nearly sank the brand but pioneered streamlined design.
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DeSoto Airstream
The conventional companion to the Airflow (1935–1936), rushed out to win back buyers turned off by the streamliner.
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Diatto Tipo 20
Diatto's landmark 2-litre sports car (1922–1928) — a SOHC four designed by Giuseppe Coda and developed into a race-winner by Alfieri Maserati.
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Diatto Tipo Unico (12/15–18 CV)
Diatto's staple pre-war L-head four — a 2-litre family that grew to 2.4 litres and underpinned the company through WWI.
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Diatto Tipo 30
Diatto's post-WWI re-entry — a Bugatti Brescia built under licence, which won the first Italian post-war race in 1919.
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Diatto Clément-Bayard Series
Diatto's founding product line — four- and six-cylinder cars built under Clément-Bayard licence, establishing the marque's early reputation.
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DKW F-Series (F1–F8)
Europe's first volume front-wheel-drive cars — transversely mounted two-stroke twins in wood-and-steel bodies, built in Zwickau from 1931 to 1942.
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Duesenberg Model A
Duesenberg's first road car (1921–1926) — the first series-production American car with a straight-eight engine and four-wheel hydraulic brakes.
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Duesenberg Model X
An ultra-rare larger derivative of the Model A (1926–1927) — only about a dozen built before the Model J replaced it.
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Duesenberg Model J
The legendary Model J (introduced 1928) — a 265-hp DOHC straight-eight on a coachbuilt chassis, the most magnificent American car of the Classic era.
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Durant A-22
The four-cylinder car that launched Durant Motors in 1921 — 35 hp, Continental-engined, priced to undercut Chevrolet.
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Durant B-22
Durant's first six-cylinder car — a 70 hp, longer-wheelbase companion to the four-cylinder A-22, offered 1922–1924.
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Durant Second-Series Four-Cylinder
The revived Durant four-cylinder (1928–1932) — M2 and M4 in 1928, the 4-40 in 1929, the 407 through 1932 — as the Depression closed in.
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Durant Second-Series Six-Cylinder
A family of numerically coded Durant sixes (1928–1932) — the 55, 6-60, 6-65, 6-75, and later the 610–619 range — offering buyers a step above the four-cylinder.
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Essex Four
The original Essex — an affordable four-cylinder car (from 1919) whose low-priced 1922 closed coach helped end the open-touring era.
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Essex Six
Essex's six-cylinder line from 1924 — the volume car that, badged 'Super Six,' lifted Essex to third in US sales by 1929.
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Essex Challenger
The 1930 Essex Challenger — a restyled six on a lower, stronger chassis with an enlarged engine, launched into a collapsing market.
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Essex Pacemaker
The final 1932 Essex — sold as the Pacemaker (Super-Six) just as the new lighter Terraplane arrived to replace the name entirely.
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FN Spider
FN's very first car — a twin-cylinder chain-drive voiturette that launched Belgium's longest-running pre-war marque.
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FN Typ 30-40
FN's first prestige tourer — a large four-cylinder car patronised by the Belgian Royal Family and the Shah of Persia.
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FN Typ 1300
FN's most successful model — a refined 1327 cc overhead-valve four with four-wheel brakes, built in ~2,200 examples and raced to class wins at the Spa 24 Hours.
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FN 1625 (11CV)
FN's final production car — an enlarged 1625 cc four praised for sporty character, and the basis for the royal Prince Baudouin and Prince Albert saloons.
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Ford Model T
The car that put the world on wheels — the first affordable, mass-produced automobile.
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Ford Model A
The much-improved successor to the Model T, with a modern engine and conventional controls.
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Franklin Series 11
The 1925 De Causse-styled Franklin that adopted a sham 'dummy radiator' to look like a conventional water-cooled car.
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Franklin Airman
Franklin's headline air-cooled line, named for Charles Lindbergh's 1927 air-cooled transatlantic flight.
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Franklin Olympic
A lower-priced Franklin built on a Reo Flying Cloud body, a last bid for sales as the Depression bit.
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Franklin Twelve
The world's only production air-cooled V12 — Franklin's grand, ill-timed Depression-era flagship.
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Frazer Nash Fast Tourer / Super Sports
The founding chain-drive Frazer Nash — a lightweight, 1.5-litre sports car that established the marque's character, with ~165 examples built through 1929.
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Frazer Nash Boulogne
The more sporting pre-war Frazer Nash, offered from 1925 with a higher-tuned Anzani engine and named for success in the Boulogne Speed Trials.
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Frazer Nash TT Replica
The definitive pre-war Frazer Nash — 83 built between 1932 and 1938, the TT Replica became the chain-drive marque's most numerous model and a fixture in British club racing.
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Gardner Four-Cylinder
Gardner's founding model — a Lycoming-powered four on a 112-inch wheelbase, introduced late 1919 and discontinued after 1924 as the company moved to sixes and eights.
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Gardner Series Six
Gardner's six-cylinder line — introduced in 1925 alongside the eight-cylinder models, paused while eights dominated 1928–1929, then returned as the Depression-era mainstay for 1930–1931.
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Gardner Series Eight
Gardner's straight-eight prestige line — Series 75 through 150, all Lycoming-powered — the marque's most celebrated cars and its sole US offering from 1928 to 1929.
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Gardner Front-Drive Six (prototype)
Gardner's ambitious 1930 front-wheel-drive concept — an 80 hp six on a 133-inch wheelbase with hydraulic brakes — announced in January 1930 but never produced beyond two prototypes.
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GAZ GAZ-A
The Gorky plant's first passenger car — a Soviet-built Ford Model A derivative that inaugurated GAZ in 1932.
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GAZ GAZ-M1
The 'Emka' — the Soviet Union's standard government and staff car of the late 1930s and World War II era.
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Goliath Pionier
Goliath's founding three-wheeled microcar — a tax-advantage bubble car with a single-cylinder engine, built 1931–1934.
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Graham-Paige Graham-Paige (1928–1930 Models)
The debut Graham-Paige range — sixes and an eight with four-wheel hydraulic brakes that drove a record first-year run of 73,195 cars.
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Graham-Paige Graham Blue Streak
Amos Northup's streamlined 1932 design — skirted fenders, a raked grille and 'banjo' frame — widely cited as one of the most influential car shapes of the 1930s.
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Graham-Paige Graham Supercharged Eight
America's first moderately priced supercharged car — a Kishline-designed crankshaft-driven blower on Graham's straight eight, from 1934.
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Graham-Paige Graham Cavalier
Graham's mid-range six of the later 1930s, offered alongside (and with) the company's supercharger as the eights were phased out.
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Graham-Paige Graham Spirit of Motion (Sharknose)
The forward-leaning 'Sharknose' Graham — daring Amos Northup styling that won a Paris Concours but flopped with buyers.
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Graham-Paige Graham Hollywood
Graham's last car — a supercharged sedan built on the old Cord 810/812 body dies, a final gamble that arrived too late to save the company.
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Hanomag 2/10 PS "Kommissbrot"
Germany's most fuel-efficient mass-production car of the interwar years — a 370 kg, rear-engined single-cylinder microcar nicknamed 'Army Bread' for its rounded shape.
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Hanomag Garant
Hanomag's Depression-era 1.1-litre small car — sold so well it required two-shift production and helped the company survive the early 1930s.
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Hanomag Rekord
One of the first mass-produced cars offered with a diesel engine — Hanomag's 1.5/1.9-litre mid-sizer sold 19,104 units and set a diesel speed record on the Reichsautobahn.
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Hanomag 1.3 Litre
Hanomag's technically advanced final passenger car — a unitary-body two-door saloon whose structure was studied by Volvo engineers and influenced the PV444.
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Hansa Treff-Aß
The sole Hansa-Lloyd passenger car of the early 1920s — a robust four-cylinder tourer on pre-war mechanicals.
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Hansa Trumpf-Aß
Hansa-Lloyd's prestige straight-eight luxury car of the late 1920s — as technically ambitious as anything built in Germany at the time.
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Hansa Hansa 400
A diminutive rear-engined two-stroke microcar — the first new Hansa-branded car after Borgward's takeover.
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Hansa Hansa 500
Successor to the Hansa 400 with a slightly larger two-stroke engine, also available as a convertible.
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Hansa Hansa 1100
The Borgward group's breakthrough small car — an all-steel, independently sprung four-cylinder saloon that brought modern construction to the German compact segment.
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Hansa Hansa 1700
A six-cylinder companion to the 1100, including a twin-carburettor sports variant, giving the Borgward-era Hansa range an upper tier.
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Hansa Hansa 2000
The final mainstream Hansa passenger car — a six-cylinder saloon that transitioned to Borgward badging from 1939.
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Haynes Pioneer
Elwood Haynes' 1894 gasoline 'Pioneer' — one of the earliest American automobiles, now in the Smithsonian as the oldest surviving US-made car.
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Haynes Haynes-Apperson
The flat-twin Brass Era cars built by Haynes and the Apperson brothers (~1896–1905) — among the first commercially produced automobiles in the United States.
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Haynes Light Six
Haynes' long-running six-cylinder car, advertised as 'America's Greatest Light Six' from 1914 — the marque's volume model through to its 1924 collapse.
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Haynes Light Twelve
Haynes' V12 (1916–1922) — one of the first American twelve-cylinder production cars, with a 5.8-liter 60-degree V12; fewer than ~650 built.
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Haynes Model 75
A late Haynes six-cylinder flagship (1922) — a 300-cubic-inch L-head six rated at 75 hp on a 132-inch wheelbase, priced $2,485–$3,485.
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Hillman Wizard
An ambitious early-1930s six-cylinder Hillman that arrived just as the Depression squeezed its market.
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Hispano-Suiza Alfonso XIII
The world's first purpose-built sports car — a 64-hp four-cylinder voiturette named for the King of Spain who loved the brand.
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Hispano-Suiza H6
The definitive pre-war grand tourer — an all-aluminium OHC six with the first four-wheel servo brakes, widely considered the finest car of the 1920s.
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Hispano-Suiza J12
Hispano-Suiza's ultimate pre-war machine — a 9.4-litre V12 producing 220 hp, sold as a rolling chassis to Europe's finest coachbuilders.
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Hispano-Suiza K6
A more accessible six-cylinder companion to the monumental J12 — 202 built, still coachbuilt, still bearing Hispano-Suiza's exacting quality.
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Horch Early Touring Cars
Horch's pre-eight-cylinder era: twin- and six-cylinder tourers that established the brand as Germany's quality luxury builder.
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Horch Horch 8
Germany's first production straight-eight (1926–1935) — debuted as the Type 303 and grew into a full range of large-displacement luxury tourers.
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Horch Horch 830
Horch's V8-powered mid-range luxury line (1933–1940) — more accessible than the straight-eight flagships, yet still a prestige car favoured by officials and officers.
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Horch Horch 853
Horch's ultimate pre-war flagship (1935–1940) — a 5-litre straight-eight sport cabriolet that is today among the most coveted German classics.
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Hotchkiss AM Series
Hotchkiss's defining interwar single-model — a 2.4-litre four that sold over a thousand units a year and won the Monte Carlo Rally three times in a row.
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Hudson Super Six
The 1916 Super Six — its balanced-crankshaft straight-six made Hudson a technical leader and set a 24-hour speed record.
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Hudson Terraplane
Hudson's light, fast, value-priced Depression-era brand (1932–1938) — launched with help from Amelia Earhart.
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Hudson Essex
Hudson's affordable companion brand (1919–1932) whose low-priced closed coach helped put a roof over the average buyer.
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Humber Humberette
Humber's pioneering light car — a cheap, small-engined voiturette/cyclecar offered in the early 1900s and revived just before WWI.
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Humber Humber Snipe
Humber's large 1930s saloon — a well-built, dignified car whose chassis underpinned the first Super Snipe and which served the British military in WWII.
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Hupmobile Model 20
Hupmobile's first car — a light four-cylinder runabout priced $100 below the Model T that launched the marque with 14,500 sales by 1912.
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Hupmobile Model 32
The first Hupmobile with an all-steel body (1912–1915) — a genuine industry first shared only with Britain's BSA, years before steel bodies became standard.
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Hupmobile Model R
Hupmobile's high-volume four-cylinder mainstay (1917–1925) — over 100,000 built, with four-wheel brakes arriving late in the run before the eight-cylinder Series E replaced it.
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Hupmobile Series E
Hupmobile's straight-eight flagship (1925–1928) — the car that took annual production to an all-time record of 65,862 units in 1928.
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Hupmobile Aerodynamic
Raymond Loewy's boldly streamlined Hupmobile of 1934–1937 — faired-in headlamps, a three-piece semi-wraparound windshield, and up to 120 hp in eight-cylinder form.
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Hupmobile Skylark
Hupmobile's last car (1939–1940) — the Gordon Buehrig-designed Cord 810/812 body fitted to a conventional rear-drive chassis, with only 319 built before the company closed.
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Imperia Early Four-Cylinder Series
Imperia's founding range of four-cylinder tourers — designed by German engineer Paul Henze with engines from 3 to 9.9 litres.
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Imperia 8 CV Super Sport
A 1624 cc overhead-cam six-cylinder sports car capable of 90 mph — Imperia's performance landmark of the late 1920s.
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Imperia TA-7
Imperia's small front-wheel-drive compact — a licenced Adler Trumpf with Belgian coachwork, 995 cc, 25 hp.
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Imperia TA-9 / Diane
The larger Adler-based Imperia — 1645 cc, 38 hp, front-wheel drive — restyled as the Diane from 1936.
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Invicta 2½ Litre
Invicta's founding model — a Meadows-engined 2½-litre six that grew to 3 litres in 1926 and established the marque's reputation for high-speed flexibility.
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Invicta 4½ Litre (NLC / A-Type)
The mainstream high-chassis 4.5-litre Invicta — available in short and long wheelbase, it was the backbone of the marque's production with roughly 500 built.
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Invicta 4½ Litre S-Type
Invicta's iconic low-chassis 4.5-litre — its underslung frame put the body below the rear axle, creating a rakish sports car that won the 1931 Monte Carlo Rally outright in Donald Healey's hands.
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Invicta 12/45 and 12/90
Invicta's attempt at a lighter, smaller car — a 1.5-litre Blackburne-engined six in normally-aspirated (45 bhp) and supercharged (90 bhp) forms, made in very small numbers.
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Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8
The world's first series-production straight-eight automobile — a landmark 5.9-litre chassis supplied bare for coachbuilt bodywork.
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Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8A
The definitive Isotta Fraschini — a 7.3-litre straight-eight limousine favoured by Rudolph Valentino, Clara Bow, and Sunset Boulevard's Norma Desmond.
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Isotta Fraschini Tipo 8B
The Depression-era successor to the 8A — a 7.4-litre, 160 bhp straight-eight built in tiny numbers as the market for ultra-luxury cars collapsed.
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Itala 18/24/50 HP Touring Cars
Itala's founding three-model range — an 18 hp, a 24 hp, and a 50 hp four-cylinder — launched the marque and established it as a legitimate challenger to Fiat.
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Itala 14.8-Litre Racing Car
A massive 14.8-litre five-cylinder racing machine that won the 1905 Coppa Florio and the 1906 Targa Florio — establishing Itala as Italy's foremost racing constructor.
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Itala 35/45 HP
The 7.4-litre four-cylinder that Prince Borghese drove from Peking to Paris in 1907 — one of the most famous competitive feats in automotive history.
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Itala Tipo 50
Itala's main post-war production car — a 2.8-litre side-valve four designed by Alberto Orasi that kept the marque alive through the difficult early 1920s.
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Itala Tipo 55
A 4.4-litre post-war tourer featuring Itala's experimental 'Avalve' rotary-valve engine — an advanced but commercially unsuccessful engineering exercise.
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Itala Tipo 61
A 2-litre twin-cam six by engineer Giulio Cesare Cappa — Itala's most successful late model, with a class win at Le Mans 1928.
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Itala Tipo 11 Racing Prototype
An audacious 1,050 cc supercharged V12 single-seater prototype by Cappa — arguably two decades ahead of its time, with front-wheel drive and all-independent suspension, but it never raced.
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Jordan Playboy
Jordan's celebrated sporting roadster (1919–1931) — the subject of the legendary 1923 'Somewhere West of Laramie' advertisement.
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Jordan Friendly Three
A 1920 three-passenger coupe sold on the memorable line 'Seats two, three if they're friendly.'
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Jordan Series MX
Jordan's 1922–1923 six-cylinder line, powered by a 246-cubic-inch flathead six.
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Jordan Line Eight
Jordan's straight-eight cars of the mid-to-late 1920s, including the upmarket Great Line Eight.
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Jordan Little Custom
A 1927 small luxury car — one of America's earliest 'compact' premium cars, priced around $1,595.
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Jordan Model 90
Jordan's final car (1931) — an eight-cylinder, 85-horsepower model launched as the company collapsed.
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Kurogane Type 95
Japan's only fully indigenous WWII reconnaissance car — one of the world's first mass-produced four-wheel-drive vehicles, built 1936–1944.
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Lagonda M45 / M45R Rapide
The 4.5-litre Meadows-engined sports tourer that won Le Mans in 1935 — the high-water mark of the independent Lagonda.
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Lagonda LG45 / LG45R Rapide
The W. O. Bentley-developed successor to the M45 — same 4.5-litre Meadows six refined through three Sanctions, with only 25 Rapides built.
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Lagonda V12
W. O. Bentley's masterpiece — a 4.5-litre V12 grand tourer widely regarded as among the finest pre-war cars; 189 built before war halted production.
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Lanchester Ten
Lanchester's first production car — a clean-sheet, twin-cylinder design that ignored horse-carriage convention.
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Lanchester Twenty
Lanchester's first four-cylinder car — an overhead-valve Edwardian tourer for the carriage trade.
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Lanchester Thirty-Eight
A large pre-WWI six-cylinder Lanchester — the firm's flagship until the First World War halted civilian production.
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Lanchester Forty
Lanchester's post-WWI flagship — a 6.2-litre overhead-cam six built to rival Rolls-Royce, owned by royalty and maharajas.
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Lanchester Twenty-One
A smaller overhead-cam six positioned below the Forty — a lighter, owner-driver Lanchester of the mid-1920s.
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Lanchester Thirty
Lanchester's only straight-eight — a 4.4-litre overhead-cam flagship and the last car of the independent company.
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Lanchester Eighteen
The first BSA-era Lanchester — a 2.5-litre six derived from the Daimler Light Twenty, with fluid flywheel and hydraulic brakes.
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Lanchester Ten
The smallest and best-selling Lanchester ever — a 1.2-litre saloon sharing its chassis with the BSA Ten.
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Lanchester Light Six
A small six-cylinder Lanchester built by Daimler — a smoother, upmarket sibling to the four-cylinder Ten.
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Lanchester Fourteen Roadrider
A late-1930s six-cylinder saloon, near-identical to the Daimler New Fifteen, ended by the Second World War.
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Lancia Lambda
The world's first production car with a unibody (monocoque) chassis and independent front suspension — a quantum leap in 1922.
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LaSalle Series 303
The original Cadillac-built LaSalle (1927–1933) — Harley Earl's debut design and the first American production car styled by a dedicated designer.
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LaSalle Series 350
The redesigned LaSalle (1934–1940) — Harley Earl's brand-saving Art Deco Series 350 and the V8 final-era cars that closed the marque.
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Lincoln Zephyr
The streamlined, V12-powered Lincoln-Zephyr of the 1930s — the aerodynamic car that saved Lincoln and spawned the Continental.
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Locomobile Steam Runabout
Locomobile's original product — a light, inexpensive Stanley-licensed steam runabout, over 4,000 built before the brand abandoned steam for gasoline.
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Locomobile Old 16
The Locomobile racer that won the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup — the first American-built car to win a major international motor race.
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Locomobile Model 30
A six-cylinder Locomobile luxury car of the early 1910s, sitting below the flagship Model 48.
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Locomobile Model 48
Locomobile's flagship — a large straight-six luxury car built to an impeccable standard from 1911 until the company's end in 1929.
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Locomobile Model 38
A smaller, less costly six-cylinder Locomobile of the mid-1910s, offered alongside the flagship Model 48.
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Locomobile Junior Eight (8-66)
Durant-era Locomobile's first new model — a more modern, lower-priced straight-eight aimed at a broader market.
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Lorraine-Dietrich De Dietrich-Bugatti
Ettore Bugatti's prize-winning early designs built under licence by De Dietrich, covering Types 3–7 from 1902 to 1904.
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Lorraine-Dietrich B3-6 (15 CV)
The 3.4-litre six-cylinder tourer that won Le Mans back-to-back in 1925 and 1926 — the make's definitive and most successful model.
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Lorraine-Dietrich 12 CV
Lorraine-Dietrich's smaller four-cylinder tourer — 2,297 cc and more accessible than the 15 CV six, sold until 1929.
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Lorraine-Dietrich 20 CV
The final Lorraine-Dietrich model — a 4.1-litre six-cylinder luxury car launched in 1932, too heavy and costly to sell; production ended 1935.
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Marmon Model 32
Marmon's reputation-making upscale tourer (1909–1914) — the production car that spawned the Indy-winning Wasp race car.
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Marmon Wasp
The yellow-and-black single-seat racer that won the first-ever Indianapolis 500 in 1911 — and is widely credited with the first automobile rear-view mirror.
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Marmon Model 34
Marmon's landmark lightweight luxury car (1916–1924) — an advanced aluminum-bodied, aluminum-engined six that beat 'Cannonball' Baker's transcontinental record.
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Marmon Roosevelt
Marmon's short-lived budget brand (1929–1930) — named for Theodore Roosevelt, it was the first straight-eight car in America to sell for under $1,000.
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Marmon Sixteen
Marmon's magnificent V16 swan song (1931–1933) — an all-aluminum 200-hp sixteen-cylinder grand classic, and the last car the company built.
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Maxwell Model DA
The four-cylinder, 30-hp Maxwell that Alice Ramsey drove coast-to-coast in 1909 as the first woman to cross the US by car.
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Maxwell Model 40
A larger four-cylinder Maxwell touring car and roadster of the early-1910s line, powered by a 298-cubic-inch T-head four and sitting above the budget Model 25.
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Maxwell Model 25
Maxwell's volume four-cylinder car (1914–1925) — relaunched as the 'Good Maxwell,' it became the Chrysler Four and, evolved, the first Plymouth.
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Maybach W3
Maybach's debut automobile — Germany's first car with four-wheel brakes, introduced at the 1921 Berlin Motor Show.
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Maybach W5
The enlarged successor to the W3 — a 7-litre inline-six limousine that raised Maybach's performance and comfort benchmark.
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Maybach Zeppelin (DS7 / DS8)
Maybach's flagship pre-war masterpiece — a massive V12 limousine named for the airships that powered the company's founding.
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Maybach SW38 / SW42
Maybach's more accessible pre-war inline-six series — the SW35, SW38, and SW42 that kept the marque viable through the late 1930s.
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Minerva Early Models (1902–1907)
Minerva's founding-era automobiles — multi-cylinder chain-drive cars that won the 1907 Belgian Circuit des Ardennes with the 8-litre Kaiserpreis.
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Minerva 30CV
Post-WWI flagship six-cylinder — a 5.3-litre Knight sleeve-valve grand tourer that placed Minerva among Europe's top luxury marques.
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Minerva Type AK
Minerva's definitive interwar grand tourer — a 6.0-litre sleeve-valve six capable of 90 mph, bodied by the finest coachbuilders in Europe and America.
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Minerva Type AL
Minerva's ultra-rare 6.6-litre straight-eight — fewer than fifty built, launched at the worst possible moment as the Depression killed demand for opulent cars.
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Minerva Type AP
The more attainable of Minerva's 1930 straight-eights — a 4.0-litre, 22CV model that outlasted the marque itself, still sold under the Minerva name by Impéria until 1938.
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Minerva M4
Minerva's last-gasp attempt at a smaller, Depression-era car — a 2-litre four-cylinder saloon that retained the sleeve-valve engine but could not save the company.
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Moon Model A
Moon's first car (1906) — a five-passenger Rutenber-engined touring shown at the New York Automobile Show, launching the marque at $3,000.
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Moon Six
Moon's six-cylinder line — the heart of the marque from the mid-1910s, sold by horsepower designations (6-40, 6-58, 6-66) and famed for its 1919 'Parthenon' radiator.
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Moon Eight
Moon's late straight-eight 'Aerotype' cars (from 1928) — the marque's first eight-cylinder models, styled by Howard 'Dutch' Darrin, just before the Windsor rename.
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Moon Diana
Moon's upmarket companion marque (1925–1928) — a Continental straight-eight luxury car marketed as 'the easiest steering car in America' and aimed pointedly at women drivers.
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Moon Windsor
The badge Moon's cars wore in their final years (1929–1930) — launched as the 'White Prince of Windsor' until Buckingham Palace objected, with straight-eight or six power.
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Moon Ruxton
The radical front-wheel-drive luxury car Moon built for New Era Motors (1929–1930) — strikingly low, with vivid Joseph Urban color schemes — whose collapse helped kill the company.
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Morgan Three-Wheeler
The car that founded Morgan — light, V-twin-powered three-wheelers (1910–1952) that dominated early cyclecar racing.
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Morris Cowley
The lower-priced 'no-frills' Bullnose Morris — the cheaper companion to the Oxford that drove Morris's volume in the 1920s.
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Morris Eight
The 1930s small Morris — closely following the Ford Model Y — whose huge sales restored Morris as Britain's largest car maker.
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Nash LaFayette
Nash's lower-priced companion line of the 1930s (1934–1940), reviving an earlier luxury marque's name as a value model.
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Ohta Ohta 7 (Type N-7)
Ohta's first production car — a 736 cc four-cylinder light car offered in five body styles, one of the largest Japanese automobile lines of the 1930s.
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Oldsmobile Curved Dash
The 1901–1907 Model R runabout — widely credited as the first mass-produced automobile and America's best-selling car of its day.
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OM Tipo S305
OM's debut automobile (1918), a large four-cylinder touring car derived from the pre-war Züst design.
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OM Tipo 469
OM's 1.5-litre four-cylinder sports car (from 1921) — an early competition machine that preceded and inspired the six-cylinder Superba.
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OM 665 Superba
OM's celebrated six-cylinder sports car — winner of the inaugural 1927 Mille Miglia in a 1-2-3 sweep; nicknamed 'Superba' by the public.
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OM OMV Alcyone
OM's final prototype (1934) — a modern saloon with hydraulic brakes and synchromesh gearbox that never reached production after Fiat's takeover.
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Packard Model A
Packard's very first car — the 1899 single-cylinder Model A runabout that founded the marque in Warren, Ohio.
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Packard Eight
Packard's straight-eight senior line of the 1920s–30s — the volume luxury car that built the marque's prestige.
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Packard Twin Six
One of the world's first production V12 cars — Packard's Twin Six (1916–1923) put a twelve-cylinder engine within reach of the wealthy.
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Packard Twelve
Packard's magnificent V12 of the classic era (1933–1939) — a rival to the finest Rolls-Royce, Cadillac V16, and Pierce-Arrow.
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Packard One-Twenty
The mid-priced straight-eight (1935–1941) that broadened Packard's market and kept the company alive through the Depression.
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Panhard Dynamic
Panhard's Art Deco masterpiece — a streamlined, center-driving-position saloon that was the last sleeve-valve production car in the world.
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Peerless Green Dragon
The Peerless racer designed by Louis Mooers and driven by Barney Oldfield to a string of early world speed records, making Peerless a household name.
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Peerless Model 27
A representative 1910 Peerless — a four-cylinder, 30-horsepower brass-era luxury car bodied as everything from a roadster to a seven-passenger limousine.
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Peerless Model 56 (V8)
Peerless's pioneering V8 luxury car — among the earliest American V8s, launched to chase Cadillac and the company's mainstay through the late 1910s and early 1920s.
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Peerless Custom Eight
Peerless's top-line straight-eight of 1930–1931 on a long 138-inch wheelbase — a Classic Car Club of America 'Full Classic'.
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Peerless Master Eight
A Continental-engined straight-eight Peerless — the mid-range model of 1930–1931, among the last cars the company built before it stopped production in 1931.
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Piccard-Pictet 20/24 hp Touring Four
The founding Pic-Pic — a Marc Birkigt-designed inline-four tourer badged 'S.A.G.' that launched the marque at the 1906 Geneva show.
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Piccard-Pictet 14/16 hp Monobloc Four
A smaller, modern 2.4-litre monobloc four — the first car sold under the Piccard-Pictet name after the S.A.G. era ended.
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Piccard-Pictet 30 hp Sleeve-Valve Tourer
Switzerland's most advanced pre-war tourer — an early adopter of the Burt-McCollum single-sleeve-valve engine, praised for refinement and silence.
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Piccard-Pictet V8 Sleeve-Valve
A rare and ambitious post-war V8 tourer — Pic-Pic's last major technical statement before the company's collapse.
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Piccard-Pictet 2.9-litre Sleeve-Valve Four
The more accessible post-war Pic-Pic — a 2.9-litre sleeve-valve four produced alongside the V8 in the marque's final years.
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Pierce-Arrow Motorette
Pierce's first automobile (1901–1903) — a single-cylinder runabout using a licensed de Dion engine.
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Pierce-Arrow Great Arrow
The four-cylinder Great Arrow (1904 on) — the car that made Pierce's name, winning the first Glidden Tours.
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Pierce-Arrow Model 66
The colossal Model 66 (1910–1918) — its T-head six was for a time the largest engine ever fitted to a production car.
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Pierce-Arrow Big Six (6-36 / 6-48 / 6-66)
Pierce-Arrow's six-cylinder luxury line of the 1910s–20s — the dual-valve sixes that carried the marque through its golden age.
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Pierce-Arrow Series 80
The lower-priced Series 80 (1924–1927) — a more affordable six that broadened Pierce-Arrow's market.
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Pierce-Arrow Series 81
A one-year refinement of the Series 80 for 1928, just before Studebaker took control and the straight-eight arrived.
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Pierce-Arrow Twelve
Pierce-Arrow's V-12 flagship (1932–1938) — a magnificent, smooth twelve that powered the marque through its final years.
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Pierce-Arrow Silver Arrow
The streamlined Silver Arrow — a radical 1933 show car ('Suddenly it's 1940!') and the toned-down 1934–1935 production cars that wore the name.
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Praga Grand
Praga's flagship pre-war luxury car — a four- and eight-cylinder saloon that served Austro-Hungarian army staff and Czechoslovakia's first president.
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Praga Alfa
Praga's mass-market workhorse — a compact, affordable car produced for nearly three decades and totalling around 9,250 units.
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Praga Baby
A Depression-era economy car that won 'most elegant small car' at the 1934 Berlin Show — roughly 4,200 built in just three years.
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Praga Lady
Praga's last passenger car — a mid-size saloon produced in eight series and, after WWII, in small numbers for government use until 1947.
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Protos 17/35 PS
Protos's first series-production model — a 4.6-litre four-cylinder tourer that established the marque's reputation for smooth, reliable running.
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Protos Type E1 (18/42 PS)
The longest-running pre-war Protos — an 18/42 PS four-cylinder that kept the marque at the top of the German luxury market through the Siemens era.
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Protos 26/50 PS
Protos's flagship six-cylinder — a 6.8-litre tourer admired by Kaiser Wilhelm II and among the most prestigious German cars of its day.
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Protos Type C
Protos's sole post-WWI model — a rationalized 2.6-litre four-cylinder tourer that kept the marque alive through the difficult early Weimar years.
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Protos Type C1
The final Protos — an uprated 45 hp version of the Type C that carried the marque to its 1926 merger with NAG.
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Rambler Rambler (Jeffery era)
Thomas B. Jeffery's original Rambler (1902–1913) — among the first mass-produced American cars, built in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
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REO Model A
REO's first car (1905) — a twin-cylinder side-entrance tonneau that quickly outsold Oldsmobile and put the new marque among America's top makers.
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REO Speed Wagon
REO's pioneering light delivery truck (1915–1953) — an ancestor of the modern pickup and the namesake of the rock band REO Speedwagon.
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REO Flying Cloud
REO's mainstream passenger car (1927–1936) — the first car with Lockheed hydraulic internal-expanding brakes, and the last REO car ever built.
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REO Royale
REO's streamlined straight-eight flagship (1931–1935) — Amos Northup's design helped establish true automotive streamlining in America.
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Riley Nine
Riley's landmark small car (1926–1938) — Percy Riley's hemi-head high-camshaft engine in saloons, tourers and the racing Brooklands.
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Riley MPH
A rare, low two-seat sports car (1934–1935) with a six-cylinder engine and flowing pre-war competition styling.
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Riley Sprite
A 1½-litre four-cylinder sports two-seater (1935–1938) with a streamlined cowl and optional pre-selector gearbox — the successor to the MPH and Imp.
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Riley 12/4
Riley's 1½-litre four-cylinder mid-1930s car — saloons and tourers whose engine and chassis underpinned the post-war 1½-litre RM cars.
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Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost
The 40/50 HP that made Rolls-Royce's name — the legendarily quiet car Autocar called "the best car in the world," built 1906–1926.
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Rosengart LR2
Rosengart's founding model — a French-built, progressively Gallicised version of the Austin 7, the car that launched the marque.
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Rosengart LR4 / Cinq
The evolved Austin 7 successor — marketed as the Rosengart Cinq (Five), reflecting its 5 CV tax-horsepower rating.
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Rosengart Supertraction
Rosengart's prestige front-wheel-drive coupé and cabriolet, powered by a Citroën Traction Avant engine — the most elegant car the marque ever built.
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Rover Rover 8
Rover's very first car (1904) — a single-cylinder light car designed by Edmund Lewis that launched the marque.
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Salmson Type AL
Salmson's founding model — a water-cooled four-cylinder cyclecar that sold over 10,000 examples and spawned the famous twin-cam racing variants.
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Salmson S4
Salmson's principal inter-war and post-war model — a technically sophisticated small saloon with twin-cam heritage, produced in numerous variants for over two decades.
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Saxon Four
Saxon's debut $395 two-seat four-cylinder runabout — a budget rival to the Ford Model T that launched the company and anchored its peak production years.
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Saxon Six
Saxon's Continental-powered six-cylinder touring car — introduced at $785 in 1915, it became the company's volume seller and drove Saxon to its peak of seventh-largest U.S. automaker in 1917.
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Saxon Duplex
Saxon's final model — a larger overhead-valve four-cylinder car with a closed sedan option, assembled in Ypsilanti as the company made its last stand before bankruptcy.
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Singer Ten
Singer's pioneering light car, launched in 1912 and revived through 1949 — an early British best-seller.
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Singer Junior
An 848 cc overhead-cam economy car of the late 1920s that helped make Singer Britain's third-largest car maker.
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Singer Nine
The 972 cc overhead-cam Nine of the 1930s — saloons, sports tourers, and the basis for the famous Le Mans.
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Singer Le Mans
Singer's celebrated 972 cc sports two-seater — underslung chassis, hydraulic brakes, and a giant-killer in 1930s trials and hillclimbs.
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Spyker 60 HP
The 1903 Dutch racing car famous as the world's first four-wheel-drive petrol automobile, the first with a six-cylinder engine, and the first with four-wheel brakes.
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Standard Little Nine
Standard's smallest 1930s car (1930–1936) — a compact side-valve 'Nine' that sold to the better-off before the streamlined Flying Nine replaced it.
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Stanley (Stanley Steamer) Runabout
The light, tiller-and-wheel steam runabouts (Models A through EX) that made Stanley one of America's best-known early carmakers.
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Stanley (Stanley Steamer) Rocket
The canoe-shaped steam racer that set the 1906 land speed record at Ormond Beach — 127.66 mph, unbeaten by any car until 1911.
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Stanley (Stanley Steamer) Model K Semi-Racer
Stanley's 'fastest stock car in the world' — a road-going semi-racing speedster sold off the back of the Rocket's record.
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Stanley (Stanley Steamer) Mountain Wagon
Stanley's huge 9-to-12-passenger steam wagon — a hotel and resort shuttle that could climb grades gasoline cars of the day could not.
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Stanley (Stanley Steamer) Model 740
The last Stanley — a 20-hp condensing steamer offered as touring car, roadster, and sedan as the company entered receivership.
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Star Star Four
The original four-cylinder Star (1922–1928) — Durant Motors' Continental-powered Ford Model T fighter, launched at $348.
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Star Star Six
The six-cylinder Star (1926–1927) — a larger, Continental-six-powered companion to the four on a 107-inch wheelbase.
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Star Star Station Wagon
The 1923 Star wagon — widely credited as the first station wagon offered as a factory body style rather than an aftermarket conversion.
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Steyr Type II (Waffenauto)
Steyr's debut passenger car — a sturdy 3.3-litre SOHC six that put a weapons factory on the automotive map.
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Steyr Type XII
Steyr's international breakthrough — a refined 1.5-litre OHC six that won acclaim from London to Vienna.
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Steyr Austria (37/100 hp)
Ferdinand Porsche's ambitious Steyr masterpiece — a 5.3-litre straight-eight that was cancelled after only three prototypes.
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Steyr Steyr 120 / 125 Super
A streamlined inter-war six with independent front suspension — 1,400 built before its successor took over.
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Steyr Steyr 220
The pinnacle of pre-war Steyr — a 2.3-litre OHV six in four body styles, with coachbuilt Gläser cabriolets.
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Steyr Steyr 50 / 55 (Baby)
The 'Steyr Baby' — a VW-contemporary streamlined people's car that sold around 13,000 units before the war.
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Stoewer Großer Motorwagen
Stoewer's very first automobile — a four-seat open tourer with a 6.5 hp twin-cylinder engine, one of the first cars built in Germany.
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Stoewer G4
Stoewer's most commercially successful pre-war model — a shaft-driven 1.5-litre four-cylinder aimed at the middle market, with 1,070 built.
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Stoewer G15 Gigant
One of Stoewer's flagship eight-cylinder luxury cars of the late 1920s — a 4-litre straight-eight producing up to 80 PS.
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Stoewer V5
One of Germany's first mass-produced front-wheel-drive cars — a 1.2-litre compact with 2,100 units built across two years.
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Stoewer Greif V8
An innovative front-wheel-drive V8 with an aluminium alloy engine — the last Stoewer designed by the founding brothers, with only about 20 built.
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Stoewer Greif Junior
Stoewer's best-selling car ever — a streamlined Tatra 75-derived compact that sold 4,000 units in four years.
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Stoewer Sedina
Stoewer's final civilian saloon — a 2.4-litre four-cylinder rear-drive car named for Stettin, with 924 built.
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Stoewer Arkona
Stoewer's final and largest civilian car — a 3.6-litre six-cylinder named for Cape Arkona, capable of 140 km/h, with 201 built.
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Stoewer R200
The Wehrmacht's standard light off-road car — a four-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steer reconnaissance vehicle built by Stoewer, Hanomag, and BMW.
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Stutz Bearcat
The car that made Stutz famous — a minimal, race-derived speedster of the 1910s–20s, revived in 1931 with the twin-cam DV-32 engine.
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Stutz Vertical Eight
Stutz's straight-eight 'Safety Stutz' line — the platform behind the SV-16, the twin-cam DV-32, and a famous 2nd-place finish at Le Mans 1928.
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Stutz Black Hawk (speedster)
A short-lived companion marque and speedster of 1929–1930, sharing the Black Hawk name with Stutz's supercharged record-attempt cars.
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Sunbeam 3-Litre Super Sports
Sunbeam's direct Bentley rival of the late 1920s — a twin-cam 3-litre sports tourer built at the peak of the marque's Grand Prix fame.
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Talbot 14/45
Georges Roesch's landmark 1,666 cc six-cylinder that revived Talbot's fortunes in 1927 — the foundation of the entire Roesch model range.
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Talbot 90
Roesch's 2,276 cc touring Talbot capable of ~90 mph — a stepping stone between the entry-level 75 and the legendary 105.
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Talbot 105
The pinnacle of the Roesch era — a 3.0-litre six with staggered valves capable of ~105 mph, victorious in Alpine Trials and at Le Mans.
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Talbot 110
The ultimate Roesch Talbot — a 3,377 cc, 120 bhp six rated at ~110 mph, the final evolution before the STD Motors collapse ended the line.
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Talbot Talbot-Lago T150
Antonio Lago's pre-war sporting chassis — host to the Figoni et Falaschi 'Teardrop' coupé, one of the most celebrated automotive bodies ever built.
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Talbot-Lago Lago Spéciale / T150C
Talbot-Lago's pre-war sporting flagship — a twin-cam 4-litre six with coachwork by Figoni et Falaschi, including the legendary teardrop coupés.
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Tatra Tatra 11
The 1923 car that introduced Tatra's signature backbone-tube chassis and swing-axle rear suspension — the technical foundation of every subsequent Tatra.
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Tatra Tatra 77
The world's first production aerodynamically designed car — a rear-engined, air-cooled V8 fastback conceived with Zeppelin engineer Paul Jaray.
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Terraplane Terraplane
The low-priced six that carried Hudson through the Depression — light, quick, and famous for its power-to-weight ratio.
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Terraplane Terraplane Eight
The straight-eight Terraplane (1933) — a 244-cubic-inch eight on the long wheelbase that made it one of the hottest low-priced cars of its day.
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Terraplane Terraplane Pickup
Light commercial trucks on the Terraplane chassis — car-based pickups and express bodies built through the marque's life.
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Touring Superleggera Alfa Romeo 8C 2900 Berlinetta
The pre-war pinnacle of Touring's art — a handful of aluminium berlinettas on Alfa Romeo's supercharged straight-eight chassis, now among the most valuable cars ever auctioned.
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Trojan Utility Car
Trojan's founding model — a radically simple two-stroke economy car with only seven moving parts, built first by Leyland at Kingston upon Thames (1922–1928) then at Croydon until 1937.
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Trojan RE
Trojan's rear-engined successor to the Utility Car — capable of 45 mph but hampered by outdated features; only about 250 were sold.
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Unic 12/14 hp Taxi
The iconic monobloc 1944 cc four-cylinder taxi that dominated Paris and London cab ranks for roughly 25 years.
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Unic 10/12 hp Twin
Unic's founding model — a 1798 cc twin-cylinder light car that launched the marque and appeared as early London taxi chassis.
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Unic Type L
Post-war touring model with a 1847 cc four-cylinder, four-wheel brakes, and a sporting L3T3 Sport variant capable of 70 mph.
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Unic Type H1
Unic's first eight-cylinder car — a 2.5-litre straight-eight with overhead valves, introduced for 1929.
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Unic U4
A modern 2-litre four-cylinder with independent front suspension and a Cotal electromagnetic gearbox option — Unic's last passenger car family.
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Unic U6
A 3-litre six-cylinder flagship launched alongside the U4 in 1934, with an OHV pushrod engine and optional Cotal preselector gearbox.
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Vauxhall Prince Henry
One of the world's first true sports cars — the fast, light Edwardian Vauxhall that made the marque's name.
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Vauxhall 30-98
A revered Vintage-era British sports car developed from the Prince Henry — a 100 mph machine for the 1920s.
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Velie Velie Four
Velie's founding four-cylinder line (1909–~1915) — 30 to 40 hp, touring or roadster body, with in-house engines from 1911, and the cars that established the Moline marque.
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Velie Model 48
The 'New Velie Six' — a 55 hp six-cylinder car that coincided with Velie's production peak of roughly 9,000 units in 1920.
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Velie Model 58
Velie's bold single-model gamble — the company bet its entire 1922 lineup on one OHV six-cylinder car at a time when most competitors offered a range.
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Velie Model 60
The technological peak of Velie's six-cylinder line — balloon tires, four-wheel hydraulic brakes, and a 58 hp OHV six on a 118-inch wheelbase.
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Velie Model 8-88
Velie's final and most powerful car — a 90 hp Lycoming straight-eight on a 125-inch wheelbase, launched the same year its founder died.
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Vinot-Deguingand Twin-Cylinder (5½ HP / 10CV)
Vinot-Deguingand's founding model — a 1,500 cc vertical-twin with belt and chain transmission sold in Britain as 'La Silencieuses', evolving by 1903 into a conventional chain-driven 10CV.
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Vinot-Deguingand Type H / Type F (Four-Cylinder)
The Edwardian four-cylinder range — the 14 HP Type H (3,300 cc) and 18 HP Type F — that established Vinot-Deguingand as a credible mid-market manufacturer and competed at the Isle of Man TT.
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Vinot-Deguingand Type BO
The post-WWI four-cylinder flagship — a 2,603 cc 15/20 HP four-seater with a 3,030 mm wheelbase, exhibited at the 1919 Paris Motor Show and the principal Vinot-Deguingand offering into the early 1920s.
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Vinot-Deguingand Type BP
The 1,847 cc overhead-valve four-cylinder that became Vinot-Deguingand's final production car and entered the inaugural 1923 Le Mans 24 Hours, finishing 26th overall.
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Voisin C1
Voisin's founding production car — a 4.0-litre sleeve-valve four-cylinder limousine built in tiny numbers to establish the marque.
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Voisin C6 Laboratoire
The world's first monocoque Grand Prix car — an all-aluminum racing machine built for the 1923 French Grand Prix.
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Voisin C11
Voisin's most commercially successful model — the marque's first six-cylinder car, with around 2,200 examples built.
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Voisin C14
A refined evolution of the six-cylinder formula — 1,795 examples built, the C14 bridged the prosperous late 1920s and the harsher Depression years.
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Voisin C25 Aérodyne
One of the most visually radical cars of the Art Deco era — a fastback four-seater with a sliding sunroof, only six Aérodyne bodies built.
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Voisin C28
The last true Voisin to reach meaningful production — a 3.3-litre car with fully integrated fender bodywork that foreshadowed post-war design.
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Voisin C30
The final Voisin model — a handful of cars built as the company closed, representing the end of Gabriel Voisin's automotive career.
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Wanderer Puppchen
Wanderer's beloved entry into automobiles — a tiny tandem two-seater so charming it earned the nickname 'little doll', produced 1912–1926.
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Wanderer W11
Wanderer's first six-cylinder model — a 2.5-litre 50 PS tourer that established the marque in the upper-middle class, 1928–1933.
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Wanderer W21
The first Wanderer built under Auto Union — a 1,690 cc six-cylinder middle-class saloon that directly rivalled the Mercedes-Benz 170, 1933–1936.
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Wanderer W22
A step above the W21 — a 1,950 cc six-cylinder saloon with Pullman-limousine bodywork available, sharing the W21 platform but with more power, 1933–1938.
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Wanderer W24
Wanderer's best-selling model — a 1,767 cc four-cylinder saloon of which around 23,000 were built before wartime halted production, 1937–1940.
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Wanderer W50
Wanderer's flagship under Auto Union — a 2,257 cc six-cylinder top-of-range model, 1936–1939.
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Willys (Willys-Overland) Willys Americar
Willys's economical prewar compact (1937–1942) — best remembered today as a hot-rod and gasser favorite.
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Willys (Willys-Overland) Willys 77
A small, cheap Depression-era Willys (1933–1936) with a streamlined Amos Northup body — the company's survival car.
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Willys (Willys-Overland) Willys-Knight
Willys's prestigious sleeve-valve line (1914–1933) — 'the only engine that improves with use,' and the last sleeve-valve car built in America.
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Willys (Willys-Overland) Whippet (Overland Whippet)
A light, cheap small car (1926–1931) that briefly made Willys-Overland the US's third-largest automaker.
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Willys (Willys-Overland) Overland
The volume Overland line John Willys built the company on — affordable poppet-valve cars that drove its 1910s rise.
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Wolseley Hornet
Wolseley's overhead-cam six-cylinder light car of the 1930s — a popular, affordable sporting machine in saloon, coupé and open forms.
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ZIL ZIS-101
The first Soviet luxury limousine — a Buick-derived flagship for Stalin's Politburo, built 1936–1941.