Sport bodies evolved from the need for more safety and comfort. This post tells their early history.

The E-M-F story concludes with this last-hurrah 1912 Flanders 20 Speedster!

E-M-F: an early twentieth century auto company with so much promise and so much talent. Caught up in egoistic bickering and tangled legal webs, it still managed to produce some emblematic speedsters before breaking apart!

The cutdown speedster derived its name from street slang. Read this post to find out more!

The term Speedster was not clearly defined in the early twentieth century, even though it was distinct from a roadster or a cabriolet. In fact, even in contemporary times, it had not been clearly defined! This post traces some of that history.

Speedsters evolved quickly during a relatively short thirty years, from 1905-1935. This post covers three distinct types of speedster that thrived within this timeframe.

Speedster is an American term that describes a car whose earliest conception was like that of a horse-driven buckboard or buggy – small, light, open, and fast. Where it differed from the buckboard and buggy, aside from being horseless, was its purpose-built nature: to have open air fun and adventure on the roads. In this post we define the speedster.