“George Mason’s invitation to Packard to join AMC was lost in Packard’s and Studebaker’s rush to embrace. Mason knew about the negotiations, but gamely showed up at East Grand to make a formal presentation to […]
The 1956 Golden Hawk was the only “product synergy” to come out of the marriage of Studebaker and Packard before the automaker’s spectacular collapse. The strategy behind the Golden Hawk would become a common one […]
Jvolgarino (2021) recently asked fellow members of the Society of Automotive Historians where they get their information. This invariably led to a discussion about the difficulties of obtaining primary sources of information. Primary sources are […]
“While the Jeep press material for the Wagoneer and Grand Wagoneer seems to scream ‘heritage’ and ‘Premium American Icon’ every other sentence, these bloated Jeeps have about as much in common with their forebears as, […]
(EXPANDED ON 8/19/2022) In the late-1950s George Romney made headlines by arguing that the U.S. auto industry had become an oligopolistic dinosaur. Competition had become so weak — the “Big Three” controlled more than 95 […]
Richard Teague may have been a talented car designer and a nice guy, but he wasn’t the ideal match for what was needed at American Motors. Indeed, the cars developed under his tenure as head […]
“It’s truly sad when the real person shows up and ruins your preconceived notions of how they actually were. (Jeremy) Clarkson, who was blessed with the talent to write really well, and was engaging as […]
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