Stutz Blackhawk – Driven To Write

There Are No Words…

…adequately to describe how awful this was (but I’ll give it a go anyway).

From its very earliest days, the automobile was more than just a machine for personal transportation. It represented freedom, independence, individuality⁽¹⁾ and, of course, affluence. Automakers quickly realised that the wealthy could easily be persuaded to part with large amounts of money for a car that not only conveyed them in great comfort, but also conveyed clearly to others their social standing.

For some, Rolls-Royce stood at the pinnacle of the automotive hierarchy, with its superlative, hand-wrought quality and understated, refined elegance. For others, Mercedes-Benz was favoured for the excellence of its engineering. In the US, Cadillac proclaimed itself ‘The Standard of the World’ with at least some degree of justification before General Motors had done its worst to Continue reading “There Are No Words…”

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