Auburns and Duesenbergs were about to be woebegones by the mid-1920s before E.L. Cord saved both from bankruptcy and oblivion. Under Cord’s leadership, both companies would produce timeless speedsters. This is their tale.

The Kissel Motor Car Company produced three generations of speedsters in its short but impactful 25 years of production.

The Roaring Twenties put the luxury car on the map, and this post discusses its effect: the luxo speedster movement in automotive design.

Sport bodies evolved from the need for more safety and comfort. This post tells their early history.

The E-M-F story concludes with this last-hurrah 1912 Flanders 20 Speedster!

E-M-F: an early twentieth century auto company with so much promise and so much talent. Caught up in egoistic bickering and tangled legal webs, it still managed to produce some emblematic speedsters before breaking apart!

The cutdown speedster derived its name from street slang. Read this post to find out more!

The term Speedster was not clearly defined in the early twentieth century, even though it was distinct from a roadster or a cabriolet. In fact, even in contemporary times, it had not been clearly defined! This post traces some of that history.

Speedsters evolved quickly during a relatively short thirty years, from 1905-1935. This post covers three distinct types of speedster that thrived within this timeframe.