All cases have exceptions, and so all definitions must also have that which strays from the concept. True also for classic speedsters, as we’ll see in this next posting!

What if you wanted a speedster to haul all of your best buds around in? Speedsters were typically designed to carry one or two and had seating for such. What’s a poor fella or gal to do with that arrangement?

This episode features a few companies that did a work-around to address that limitation!

By 1913, Havers had proven itself to be capable of producing a quality mid-priced luxury car, but it needed to step up production and sales. This second installment of their story relates Havers Motor Car’s hopes, dreams, … and their fate!

Some auto firms were just too good to last, and for the Havers Motor Car Company of Port Huron, this was to be their fate. Nevertheless, during five years of eastern Michigan weather, Havers produced a quality mid-priced luxury car… and also, the classic Knickerbocker Speedster!

The story of the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company involves speedsters for sure, but its tale, before and after, is so complicated that those parts are just as worthy to tell. Read on and ponder!

Porsche has always been a small company with big ideas. Porsche cars began life on a sawdust floor in Gmund, Austria, where the company hunkered down in a sawmill until occupying forces allowed them to return to Germany and produce their cars. Fast cars and speedsters have been a part of Porsche DNA since 1950, and the Boxster continues this storyline!

Bill Sharp was a photographer, a tinkerer, a car dealer, and a lover of fast autos. Somehow he rallied his passions behind an idea for a speedster of his own manufacture. Thus began the short but fast life of the Sharp Arrow Speedabout!

1928 was a boom year in several regards. The world stock market was white hot. Skirt lengths were also up, and so too the attitudes of women, who sensed that total freedom for them was at hand. The Volstead Act prohibited alcoholic beverages, but that only gave rise to moonshiners and gangsters. It seemed like everything was on a roll… even at duPont Motors!

Imagine a classy sports car, hand-built to personal tastes and needs, all done using the finest materials with final inspection done by the company owner. The duPont Model G Speedster was such a car, a classy ride built by a company whose roots derived from an immigrant family that started its fortune from gunpowder manufacturing in post-colonial America . This episode introduces the duPont automobile.

The early 20th century witnessed the rise and fall of many American automobile manufacturers. Sometimes they lasted only a few years, sometimes a decade or two. Some of them even made speedsters, and the Cole Motor Car Company was one of them!