1948 Tucker

Preston Tucker (1903-1956) was an entrepreneur and car designer. Early in life he had been an office boy at Cadillac Motors, ran a gas station, was a policeman, and settled…

1941 Packard

By 1941, Packard’s model line and had come to include the 110, 120, 160 and 180.  The Packard Twelve had been discontinued as demand had fallen off considerably.  It was…

1914 Rauch & Lang

Jacob Rauch was a well-known carriage maker in Cleveland, Ohio who formed a partnership with Charles Lang, a real estate magnate, selling Buffalo Electric automobiles in 1903.  Two years later…

1910 Ford Model T

The Ford Model T is perhaps the best known early American automobile.  More than 15 million were built and sold from 1908 to 1928.  A myriad of body styles were produced:…

1910 Paterson

William Patterson began building horse-drawn carriages in Flint, MI in the late 1800’s.  By 1908, Paterson had abandoned the carriage business to build his first powered automobile.  By 1910, his…

1930 Packard

By 1930, Packard was firmly entrenched as the leader in America’s rarefied fine car market. In fact, more Packards graced the driveways of America’s growing upper class than did all…

1951 Mechanimal Elephant

Originally named Jumbo, this elephant was bought by Detroit’s Cunningham Drug Stores in 1951 to promote its jumbo photo prints and jumbo milk shakes. It carried about 10,000 children on…

1940 Packard

Sebastian S. Kresge, the dime-store king, bought a Packard One Twenty station wagon in 1940.  The eight-cylinder One Twenty was the workhorse of the Packard sales line-up from 1935 to…