The 20th century in America was shaped by the automobile. For every chapter in US history books, there’s a car to match it. There’s the assembly line revolution symbolized by the Ford Model T. If we think about the prohibition-era, we imagine mobsters flashing tommy guns out of massive black Cadillacs. After World War II, American car culture returned with its quarter-mile races and hot rod custom culture, while urban sprawl and the rise of suburbia was best symbolized by a pink Cadillac with massive rear wings parked outside a hamburger restaurant or a drive-in cinema. From the Vette-driving astronauts of the 1960s, to the woody-driving surfers and hippies of the 1970s, the list could go on forever. 

At Worldwide Auctioneers' upcoming sale on April 29 in Indiana, many of ‘the cars that made America’ are coming up for auction. We've been reading the auction catalogue all weekend and have now picked our favourite 16 cars that would make a fantastic car museum on their own. Now the only question that remains is where to park your personal All-American Hall of Fame.

We would bid on these 16 iconic cars