We’ve been making cars for well over a century now, and the past few years have seen some truly remarkable designs. But a focus on recent accomplishments excludes decades of simply gorgeous and seriously influential vehicles.

Walking around the display of cars set to be auctioned off by Gooding & Co. at this year’s Pebble Beach Concours d’Elégance, you can spot some of the automotive world’s most remarkable designs.

These cars introduced new forms of beauty—many of them clever solutions to vexing technological problems—that lived on for years and even decades.