"In the city of Zenith, in the barbarous twentieth century, a family's motor indicated its social as precisely as the grades of the peerage determined the rank of an English family of precedence were never officially mined. There there was no doubt: and where Babbitt as a bov to a Packard twin-six and an established position in the motored gentry.

Source: Sinclair Lewis Babbitt (New York. Harcourt, Brace, 1922) , pp

Lincoln.

The Lincoln, which became Edsel Ford's chief responsibility in the mid 1920s, was known for its quietly refined styling and its sturdy construction (its body, for example, was framed by hardwood cut from a single piece of lumber). Preferred by doctors, lawyers, and bankers for its understated elegance, the Lincoln was also the favorite car of gangsters and police because of its power and acceleration. Indeed, from 1924 on, the car was...