Cadillac Once Considered Stuffing a V16 Engine in the Escalade

Born from the remnants of the Henry Ford Company, the Cadillac Motor Car Division gave us many firsts. A friend of Henry Leland sadly died from injuries caused by hand cranking a car’s engine that went badly wrong, prompting Leland and Charles Kettering of the Dayton Engineering Laboratories (Delco) to develop the industry’s first electric starter. Leland previously worked at Colt,... (continue reading...)