SIA Flashback – Small Price, Big Value: 1930 Whippet 96A

Largely forgotten today outside of Willys devotees, the Whippet was at one time one of the leading inexpensive cars of the 1920s, as Alex Meredith related in SIA #146, March 1995. However, a number of factors – only one of which was the onset of the Great Depression – came together to cut the Whippet’s time short, which was apparently too bad, because Meredith describes the Whippet as a well-behaved, quality-built, and – above all – fast little car with potential.