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INTRODUCTION

FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS, Canadian motorists have travelled the streets and highways of this vast Dominion in many different makes and shapes of automobiles, many of which are no longer built. Remember the bullet-nose Studebaker? The step-down Hudson? The Nash Metropolitan? How about Hupmobile, LaSalle, Durant, Graham-Paige, Packard, Pierce-Arrow, and DeSoto?

And even with cars still being built, we have names that have passed into history, including Lincoln-Zephyr, McLaughlin-Buick, the “490” Chev, the Model T Ford, the Chrysler Airflow, the Mercury 114, and the Curved Dash Oldsmobile.

All these vehicles at one time were brand new and sparkling clean, fresh from the factory and showroom floor. And nearly all of them were mass-produced on an assembly line, with each one looking much like the one ahead and the one behind.

But every time a new car leaves the factory, it becomes unique and unlike any other car in the world. Each new owner takes it where he or she wants to go, often picking up scratches and dings along the way. The second owner does the same, and the third, and fourth, and so on until the car often reaches its final resting place in a scrapyard.

Each owner gives the car a unique experience, adding another chapter to its “auto-biography.” And during the life of that car, someone with a camera is often there to capture the moment. This book contains almost 150 such moments, giving us a glimpse into the past and the way we drove.