Peerless Model History

United States · founded 1900

Cleveland luxury automaker (1900–1931) and one of the 'Three Ps' — Packard, Peerless, Pierce-Arrow — famed for the Green Dragon racer; the Depression ended it and the plant became the Carling brewery.

Models

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.

Race car · 1904–1905
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.

Luxury car · 1910–1910
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.

Luxury car · 1916–1923
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'.

Luxury car · 1930–1931
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.

Luxury car · 1930–1931

Other makes