If the definition of a classic is something that has stood the test of time, then the Morgan 4/4 is the epitome of the expression. 
In continuous production since 1936, except for those gloomy years of World War II when Britain didn’t produce any civilian cars at all, the 4/4 has gone from contemporary to venerable to outdated to rejuvenated to out-moded to timeless over the course of its 7 decades. Now that a new millennium has dawned, with the British car industry teetering on the brink of implosion and/or suicide, it appears truly a miracle that the Morgan make has survived. Yet, survive, it has, and prospered. Read more . . .
How did a company founded to process a cork flooring substitute create not just one but two of the most 
amazing sports models the United States has ever seen? We can tell you this: it didn’t happen just overnight. The story, in fact, was some 70 years in the making.
Synthesized cork business a failure
It all started in the midst of World War I when several Japanese investors formed Toyo Cork Kogyo, which processed an alternative for cork that was harvested from Abemaki trees. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but when the war was over and Japanese could get real cork again, Toyo Cork Kogyo fell on hard times and the bank that had lent it capital reorganized it–something that would happen at least twice more in its checkered history. Read more . . .
Henry Ford must have received some special satisfaction on February 4, 1922, because 
on that day he acquired the Lincoln Motor Company, which was being run by his long-time nemesis, Henry Leland. Some two decades before, Leland and Ford had their first run-in.
On the strength of his racing exploits, Ford was a principal participant in the founding of The Henry Ford Company, a successor to the Detroit Automobile Company that had been on of the first Michigan-based firms to enter the car manufacturing industry. Soon after, he was named chief engineer of the company that carried his name, the board of directors hired Henry Leland as a consultant.
Beginnings in the car industry
In the early Twentieth Century Detroit, Leland was a name to be reckoned with. Read more . . .
The conventional wisdom says that the original Ford Thunderbird was a direct response to Chevrolet’s launch of the Corvette. 
The Corvette was displayed at the 1953 Motorama, and immediately Ford designers pulled out their drafting pencils and went to work. But the real story is that the Ford Thunderbird was just the kind of car that many designers dream about, so when the formal call to work on a 2-seater came from management, Ford designers just reached into their desk drawers. Read more . . .
How the dreams of youth become the monotonous remnants of middle age. 
So it is with the retractable hardtop, a phenomenon that made the mid-1950’s boy consider that in America, everything is possible, from putting a satellite up in space to creating a convertible out of a sedan before one’s very eyes. Sadly, today the retractable hardtop car, like many of our youthful symbols, has lost its novelty. They are, in fact, getting to be more common than the canvas-topped convertibles of old.
Modern hardtops in abundance
Mitsubishi was the car company that initiated the latest retractable top trend. It started selling its 3000 GT Spyder Read more . . .