Playboy After Hours

August, 1963

When car cognoscenti gather for some post-race reminiscing, the conversation often turns to such hallowed names of motordom as the Moon and the Marmon, the Essex and the Auburn, the Thomas Flyer and the Wills Sainte Claire. But what of the almost-3000 makes of American automobiles and trucks which met with resounding public apathy toward their charms? The time has come to salute the losers (and they did exist, however briefly, so help us) and to toast some of the benighted knights of the road. W...