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Automotive Zippos

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While the U.S. Automobile market was dominated by The Big Three for most of the 20th Century, there were many automobile manufacturers and brands in the early years which have since disappeared.  However,  many European automobile manufacturers have long and distinguished histories which continue to this day..  Japanese manufacturers entered the international markets after World War II.


1948 Zippo advertising Approved Packard Service by Packard Louisville Motor Co. in Louisville, Kentucky. The Packard Company was started in 1898 by James Wood Packard and became a leading luxury car manufacturer by the 1930's.  By the 1950's,
the competition by the Big Three had
become too fierce and Packard was
merged into the Studebaker Company.


1937-40 Zippo advertising Continental Red Seal Engines, Detroit, Michigan.   Continental Red Seal engines
were introduced
in Durant automobiles in
1928. Continental also built tractor
and aircraft engines.


1948 Zippo with
the Hudson Motor
Car logo,
advertising
The Henley-Kimball
Co .  Hudson began producing cars in
1909 and was
merged into the
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in 1953.
 
1950 Zippo with a  Studebaker logo.  Clem and Henry Studebaker started a blacksmith shop in 1852 and supplied  wagons to the U.S. Army during the Civil War.  It became the world's leading wagon maker and moved into making gasoline powered wagons in the early 1900's.  Studebaker went on  became a leading automobile manufacturer until it went out of business in 1966.


1962 Zippo advertising a
SAAB. The Swedish SAAB (Svenska Aerofabrik Aktiebolaget) automobile was
first produced in 1947.
1965 Zippo
advertising the
 Marlin by Rambler.
The Marlin was produced by the American Motor Corporation from
1965 to 1967.
1966 Zippo advertising  Volkswagen, or
"The People's Car".  Its origin traces
back to pre-WWII  Germany when Ferdinand Porsche and Adolf Hitler envisioned an affordable car for everyone.
1968 slim Zippo advertising
Volkswagen Morgan Motors, Inc. Route 220 North, Martinsville, Virginia is engraved
with the famous
VW Beetle.
 

1977 Zippo with the Ferrari emblem.  The history of
Ferrari and the emblem can be found HERE.		 1978 Zippo with the Porsche logo.
The first Porsche
was produced
 in 1948.		 1980 slim Datsun Zippo.  Datsun, produced by Nissan Motor Company traces its origins back to 1911.  The name comes from the "Son of DAT" after the Japanese "Datto", or running hare. 1983 Fiat Zippo. 
 Fiat was founded in Turin, Italy in 1899.
 
1994 Mercedes Benz Zippo.  The Company resulted from the 1926 merger of Gottlieb Daimler's Daimler Motor  Company and Benz & Company, both founded in 1890.