Q: Greg I enjoyed your “First Compact Cars” feature and I owned two Crosleys in my day. On Christmas day many years ago, when I was only nine-years-old, I was given a 1948 Crosley station ...

Every time Powel Crosley Jr. gets sidetracked, he builds the side line into a main line. ... Crosley Cars; Business & Finance: Crosley Cars. 3 minute read. TIME. October 24, 1938 12:00 AM GMT-5.

It was a car that came along in 1949, four years before the Chevrolet Corvette first appeared on the scene. That car is the Crosley Hotshot, which was created by America's Crosley Motors, Inc.

My grandfather learned that Crosley Motors had plenty of new cars on hand, priced at a tempting $905 (about $13,000 today) for the two-door sedan.

The Crosley Car Owners Club, formed in early 1952 and considered one of the first U.S. support groups for owners and enthusiasts of American-built automobiles, holds its first national gathering ...

Q: Hi Greg, your Crosley automobile articles recently appeared in our Lancaster, Pennsylvania, newspaper and prompts this email. I am a product of the 1950s, graduating from high school in 1956. … ...

The Crosley cars actually preceded the VW Beetle (1949) and the early Nash Rambler (1951) that I gave credit to as first compacts, foreign and domestic, respectively. Because I always considered ...