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i. Welcome!
ii. Foreword
iii. Introduction

1.The Origins of the Limousine
2. The Traditions of Riding in the Back Seat
3. Chauffeurs
4. The Coachbuilders
5. The Factory Limousines
6. The Commercial Limousine Operators
7. Getting What You Want -- Buying a Limousine
8. The Limousine -- Inside and Out
9. Building a Stretch Limousine
10. Exotic Limousines
11. The Classics and the Not So Classic: Celebs, High Rollers and Their Limousines
12. Presidential Rides
13. Fit for a King -- Royal Limousines
14. Limousine Etiquette and How to Enjoy Riding in the Back Seat
15. The Cultured Limousine
16. Glossary (definitions as seen from the back seat of a limousine)

Photo Gallery

1. Welcome
2. Back Seat Riding
3. Cadillac Pages
4. Lincoln Pages
5. Lehmann-Peterson Pages
6. Limousines Pages
7. Reader Pages

See also:
Chauffeur and
Passenger stories

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Foreword

Comfort, style, display, and social etiquette. Or just plain old outrageous.
These are some of the ingredients to the long black cars that have haunted American
streets and minds since the motor took to wheels. Whatever the particular form,
Cadillac stateliness, Lincoln prestige, Volvo integrity, Mercedes precision,
Rolls-Royce perfection -- or a spectacularly stretched outrage, this
study of the limousine is a look at but another of mankind's fundamental
impulses: getting from one place to another as magnificently
as possible, better yet if the Jones take notice...