Hertz's history goes all the way back to 1918 when it was founded as Rent-a-Car Inc. in Chicago, Illinois. Its first fleet was made up of 12 Ford Model T cars, which expanded within five years to 600 rental vehicles. John D. Hertz, the owner of Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Company, bought Rent-a-Car in 1923 and renamed it as the Hertz Drive-Ur-Self System. Just three years later, Hertz sold the company to General Motors. Since then, it has been purchased by John Hertz again, and then Ford before falling under the control of the Clayton, Dubilier & Rice consortium. Now that the rental-car giant has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the future of Hertz is unclear.
Over the decades, Hertz has become an enormous global company. For publicity and to attract more customers, it started playing with specialty cars in 1963. Later in the 1960s, Hertz also introduced its legendary "Rent-a-Racer" program, which was recently resurrected in 2016. Now that we may be saying goodbye to Hertz, we thought we should pay tribute by highlighting our favorites of the special cars Hertz has rented to customers.
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