1922 Wills Sainte Claire on Jay Leno's Garage Under the hood sits a 265-cubic inch dual-overhead cam V-8 making somewhere between 65 and 70 horsepower, according to Leno. It's got a fairly narrow ...

What is a Wills Sainte Claire? In 1919, C. Harold Wills, an aide for Henry Ford, left the Ford Motor Company. He was given a severance package of more than $1.5 million, which he used to start his ...

By 1921, the once-desolate hamlet on the St. Clair River was sufficiently populated to support a factory turning out Wills Sainte Claire roadsters, touring coupes and sedans.

Headlines in the Sept. 17, 1922, Arkansas Gazette, reporting that a V-8, Wills Sainte Claire luxury roadster had driven over Log Town Hill at Van Buren in high gear.

This week in history as reported by The Summit County Journal the week of Sept. 3, 1921: New car developed with Climax Mine ores The Wills Sainte Claire is a new car that embodies the ...