A must for all classic car enthusiasts. Over 300 vehicles from the production years between 1920 and 1980. A journey through the history of the automobile, richly illustrated and accompanied by informative text as well as some contemporary images. These vehicles from Europe, Japan, and the USA vividly tell the story of the automobile - an invention that has changed the world like few others, which itself also changed and reinvented itself time and again. Starting with the first vehicles produced in large numbers - the Ford Model T or the Opel Laubfrosch - a wide arc is drawn: not only is the history of the representative 8- and 12-cylinder bodies of the 1930s from Mercedes-Benz and Maybach recounted, but also that of the reconstruction with Goggos and Isettas in the 1950s.