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Mechanic checking pressure on a 1920s balloon tire
Car Features

Balloon Tires: The 1920s Ride Revolution

Tom Ramirez · · 6 min
1936 Bentley 4.25 Litre Derby coachbuilt sports saloon parked before a country manor
History & Heritage

Rolls-Royce and Bentley's Shared Prewar Heritage

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
1930s American coachbuilder workshop with craftsmen hand-forming metal panels over an ash wood body frame
History & Heritage

The Gilded Age Origins of the American Coachbuilder

Sarah Whitfield · · 7 min
1940 Lincoln Continental cabriolet with externally mounted rear spare tire parked on an estate lawn
History & Heritage

The 1940 Lincoln Continental: Edsel Ford's Answer to Cadillac

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
1930 Duesenberg Model J with coachbuilt Murphy body on a concours lawn, the pinnacle of the American classic era
History & Heritage

The Complete History of the Classic Luxury Car

Sarah Whitfield · · 8 min
Farmer hand-cranking Model T outside farmhouse, dusty yard
Car Features

Ford Model T: The Car That Put America on Wheels

Gary Nowak · · 6 min
1965 Ford Mustang fastback long hood profile
Car Features

Long Hood, Short Deck: The Formula That Launched a Genre

Jim Vasquez · · 7 min
1920s closed sedan passing horse-drawn wagon, dusty road
Car Features

Cars of the Roaring Twenties: America's 1920s Automobile Boom

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min
1930s coachbuilt classic car, art deco building golden hour
Car Features

Pre-War Classic Cars: The Golden Age of the American Automobile (1900-1942)

Sarah Whitfield · · 13 min
1953 Cadillac Eldorado convertible in two-tone paint outside a mid-century home, embodying the longer-lower-wider postwar luxury boom
History & Heritage

The Postwar Luxury Boom and the “Longer, Lower, Wider” Era

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
1908 Cadillac reassembled from scrambled parts at Brooklands — Standard of the World test
History & Heritage

Cadillac vs Lincoln: The Origins of the Rivalry

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
Open engine bay of a 1958 Lincoln showing the massive 430 cubic inch V8, the peak of the postwar Cadillac-versus-Lincoln horsepower race
History & Heritage

The Postwar V8 Horsepower Race: Cadillac vs Lincoln

David Mercer · · 5 min
Rear three-quarter detail of a 1957 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron showing tall tailfins and freestanding gunsight taillights
History & Heritage

How Imperial Tried to Be Chrysler's Cadillac-Fighter

David Mercer · · 6 min
Weathered hands pulling a dusty cover off a gleaming classic sports car in a dim barn as a shaft of light hits the paint
History & Heritage

Legendary Barn Find Discoveries

Patrick Walsh · · 6 min
1940 Lincoln Continental Cabriolet on a coastal road, its long hood and rear-mounted spare tire defining the original Continental look
History & Heritage

The Birth of the Lincoln Continental, 1939-40: Edsel Ford's Personal Car

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
Close-up of a jet-age 1957 Cadillac dashboard with a chrome ribbon speedometer and pushbutton controls
Car Features

Luxury Car Dashboard Design Through the Decades

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
1956 Continental Mark II hardtop coupe showing clean restrained styling and the subtle spare-tire trunk hump
History & Heritage

Eldorado vs Continental Mark II: The Personal Luxury Coupe Duel

Sarah Whitfield · · 5 min
1932 Packard Twelve with senior coachwork showing its ox-yoke grille and long hood
History & Heritage

Packard's Rise to America's Premier Prewar Luxury Marque

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min