Several years before Cadillac invented the electric starter and waxed poetic about “The Penalty of Leadership” — even before being part of General Motors — the car company was building single-cylinder carriages like this 1907 Model M. While today we pay more for open-air motoring, back in the early years of the automobile, closed vehicles were the new thing. After 1908, Cadillac moved to four-cylinders and, then, V8s, thereby becoming the “Standard of the World." This video is brought to you by

**OHTM Collection Spotlight: 1907 Cadillac K** At this morning's staff collection training, Ground Vehicle Conservator Warren Kincaid demonstrated the museum's 1907 Cadillac K Runabout. The Cadillac Motor Company was created in 1902 out of the remains of Henry Ford’s second failed attempt at a car company. The first Cadillacs made used Ford-designed bodies matched to an engine created by the company’s new director, Henry M. Leland. The 60-year-old Leland brought concepts of precision engineering