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1938 concept car on a rotating showroom pedestal
Car Features

Rare 1930s Concept Cars & Prototypes

Tom Ramirez · · 6 min
1953 Cadillac Eldorado convertible with wraparound windshield, three-quarter front view
Car Features

The 1953 Eldorado: The Limited-Edition Icon That Started It All

Tom Ramirez · · 6 min
Classic Cadillac Eldorado tailfin design, three-quarter front view
Car Features

Designing the Eldorado: Harley Earl, Bill Mitchell and the Tailfin Era

Nora Beckett · · 9 min
Close-up of a 1948 Cadillac rear fender with its first modest tail fin housing the taillamp, the beginning of Harley Earl's fin era
Car Features

The Tail Fin Story: How Harley Earl Changed Car Design

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 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
1951-era GM styling studio with early Corvette concept sketches and clay model — Harley Earl era design atmosphere
History & Heritage

Harley Earl, Project Opel, and the European roots of the Corvette

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min
Harley Earl and Zora Arkus-Duntov standing together beside the 1953 Chevrolet Corvette Motorama show car at the GM Technical Center studio
History & Heritage

Father of the Corvette: myth vs. reality

Patrick Walsh · · 7 min
Hand-formed Duesenberg Model J aluminum body taking shape over an ash frame in a 1930s coachbuilder's workshop
Car Features

What “Coachbuilt” Actually Meant vs. Mass-Production Styling

Jim Vasquez · · 6 min
1953 Chevrolet Corvette on display — Polo White with red interior, first production American sports car
History & Heritage

First Corvette Year: What the 1953 Model Actually Was

Tom Ramirez · · 7 min
1959 Cadillac Eldorado with tall tailfins against a dusk sky with jet contrails
Car Features

How Jet-Age Aviation Inspired the Eldorado

Wayne Coburn · · 7 min
1957 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz with tall tailfins outside a Hollywood estate at golden hour
Car Features

Harley Earl and the Birth of the Eldorado Look

Patrick Walsh · · 7 min
1955 Chevrolet Bel Air in a GM design studio showing jet age chrome and tailfins
Car Features

Harley Earl and the Look of the Tri-Five

Patrick Walsh · · 7 min
1953 GM Motorama at the Waldorf-Astoria — white Corvette EX-122 concept on rotating display in Art Deco ballroom
History & Heritage

Corvette Motorama 1953: the show car that became a production order

Patrick Walsh · · 8 min
1930 Cadillac V16 Fleetwood dual-cowl phaeton — pre-war showpiece on concours lawn
History & Heritage

Cadillac's Rise to GM's Flagship Marque

Sarah Whitfield · · 6 min
Side three-quarter view of a streamlined maroon 1937 Lincoln-Zephyr coupe with art-deco teardrop styling
History & Heritage

LaSalle vs Zephyr: Each Marque's Junior Line

Patrick Walsh · · 6 min
1959 Cadillac Series 62 — towering tail fin and rocket taillight detail
Car Features

Classic Luxury Car Design Language Explained

Sarah Whitfield · · 8 min