The Robie Car: A Stylish Motoring Classic for the Modern Collector

There is a particular kind of car that becomes more beautiful as it ages — not because fashion has lapped it, but because the passage of time reveals an integrity of form that has nothing to do with trends.

When it left production in the late 1970s, the Robie was considered somewhat old-fashioned. Today, those same qualities read as virtues: clean, deliberate surfaces; proportions that look almost inevitable.

“It is a car that does not try to shout,” says one collector who owns three examples. “In a period when every other car was trying to be dramatic, this one simply tried to be good.”