More than a century ago, luxury motoring in America was defined by Packard, Peerless, and Pierce-Arrow — the “Three Ps.”
Pierce-Arrows were typically priced the highest and, in the company’s heyday, built to incredibly high standards using the very best materials. Buffalo, New York-based Pierce manufactured the best vehicles possible and let old-money buyers come to them, rather than engaging in price wars with other marques.
The car featured here is a 1909 Pierce-Arrow 6-36-UU, first featured in the and owned at the time by the late Robert Evans. This classic made the field at Pebble Beach in 2016 and is the epitome of Pierce’s devotion to quality dictating cost. New, it was priced at $4,175 — that was at a time when wages averaged less than $600 per year and a basic home cost about $2,000. It’s one of just five or six known 1909 6-36s, and the only one known with this body.
