Classic Counts
If you’re into classic cars you’ll want to check out – and perhaps join – the Classic Car Club of America. This widely-recognized authority on classic cars defines classic cars as those manufactured between 1925 and 1948. CCCA further states that what makes cars classic is that while still part of a mass assembly-line production process they were built in limited numbers and were costly as compared with others that rolled off the assembly line during the same time period. Classic cars, according to the CCCA, represent that era’s top of the line in style, design and engineering
More than one million classic cars were produced in the United States. More than 700,000 of them were either Packards or Cadillacs. In total, 39 different manufacturers turned out classic cars. While this may seem an impressive number of classic cars, it’s a tiny portion of the total of vehicles produced during these years. In the U.S. alone almost 62 million cars were mass produced. In fact, Ford produced more model A’s in one year – 1929 – than all the classic cars ever produced.
While Packard was the top producer of classic cars for many years, Cadillac finally stepped out in front. The final numbers for both are well over 300,000. The number of Auburn classics is next, just over 100,000, while LaSalle turned out 81,000 classic cars. Lincoln manufactured close to 72,000 classic cards, and Buick topped out around 62,000. What’s interesting is that there were nearly 59,000 Franklin classic cars produced during the era but they’re very much a rare find compared with the others. Pierce-Arrow is one of the first that classic car enthusiasts think of when they ruminate on classic car manufacturers. While Pierce-Arrow only turned out about 50,000 classic cars its claim to fame is that between 1925 and 1948 the only cars it turned out where classics.
Other classic car makers were Willys-Knight, Studebaker, Chrysler, Nash, Stutz, Marmon, Stearns-Knight, Reo, Cord, Peerless, Hudston, Wills St. Claire, Locomobile, Graham, Graham-Paige, Rolls-Royce, Cunningham, Duesenberg, Roamer, McFarlan, DuPont, Ruxton, Brewster, Dagmar, Revers, Dorris, Doble , Mercer, Jordan, Stevens-Duryea, and Julian.
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