The Spartan Executive -Luxury transportation before there were Gulfstreams and Learjets
When talking about the Spartan 7W Executive, it’s appropriate to be thinking in terms of the rolling luxury automobiles of the 1930s: Packard, Duesenberg, Cadillac, and their ilk. The Spartan Executive was anything but Spartan. Considering that at the time of its birth, 1936, the country was in the depths of the biggest depression it has ever known, the thought of designing and building an expensive piece of transportation seemed outlandish. Its purchase price, $23,500...
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