Gold dust. You get the idea. However, few consumer goods have painted such vibrant visions of the future than cars, and fewer still have disappointed more in the transition from sparkly auto-show ...

Ford is one of America's oldest automakers and one of the oldest in the world, popularized for being the first to effectively mass produce the automobile under Henry Ford with the Ford Model T.

Radebaugh was a commercial illustrator in Detroit when he began experimenting with imagery—fantastical skyscrapers and futuristic, streamlined cars—that he later described as “halfway ...