In prior posts we have looked at several manufacturers who made speed bodies for the Model T Fast Ford crowd: Ames, Bub, Mercury, and PACO, to name several. This issue will check out another pair.

Model T speedsters are venerated antique sports cars that are affordable, fun, and fast. But who made them? The next post explores a look at Henry Ford’s inadvertent groundwork - in the realm of speedsters.

How does a car company follow up after winning the prestigious Glidden Reliability Tour with a perfect score for all three of its team cars? Why, introduce a speedster model for the next year. Of course! And thus emerged the Metz Speedster for 1914!

Part 2 of our story on Charles Metz and his Metz Speedster.

“Winners write the histories” is an often-quoted phrase. In the ash heap of the early twentieth century lie scores of dusty histories of car companies. Stories that, for some reason, have been long neglected. Metz is such a company whose story is not often retold. And it built a speedster!

“Ask the man who owns one” - a company slogan made all the more famous by the widespread accomplishments of its car. A fly-on-the-wall confrontation inspired Packard’s birth, and a merger made in haste brought it to its knees. In between all of that, 59 years of notable luxury automobiles, powerful engines for famous boats and aircraft, and yes – the Packard speedsters.

With RM Sotheby’s auctioning off the last of 1948 Porsche 911 Speedsters for a United Way COVID-19 fundraiser, the Porsche world is ablaze with interest. Here’s the story!

Another story of carriage-maker to coachbuilder, the F.A. Ames company also made aftermarket Model T bodies for roadsters, tourers and sedans. And speedsters!

The term “speedster” is alive and well in this here modern age, and contemporary speedsters are still being manufactured as we write. However, their execution has decidedly evolved. Enter the modern age speedster!

Early on, Hudson dominated the leader board at racetracks around the U.S. Hudsons were light, fast, and purposeful. And one Hudson stood out by virtue of its unique name: the Mile-A Minute! (yes, it was fast!)