very great car had its start. The Peerless brand, initiated in 1900, was a fine and fashionable product to be numbered among the elite luxury car makers. It was destined to enter the raucous decade of the 1930s amid a maelstrom of economic woes that plagued the world during the Great Depression. Some car historians may not credit early Peerless offerings as “classic,” yet it was the formative years of the Peerless Motor Car Co. of Cleveland, Ohio, that set the pace for a rise to classic and
