All this talk of supersaloons, multi-million dollar cars and the next Great Depression (and Paris) got me thinking about the past. Specifically, last time we as a culture had gobs of disposable income made possible by questionable credit practices, what were we buying? This is a Farman A6B Super Sport. Like contemporary French make Voisin, the Farman brothers started out building airplanes and brought much of what they knew to the automobile trade. Namely aluminum. We also like Farman’s mission statement, “to make an automobile absolutely perfect in every detail.” We can’t argue with that. Or the fact that the 6.0-liter straight-6 was eventually replaced with a 7.1-liter straight-6. You know what else is nifty? The Super Sport had a four-speed gearbox — back in 1921. But, never mind all that — just look at her. Yeah, they’ll never make ‘em like that again.