(EXPANDED FROM 2/12/2021) One of the most interesting aspects of the 1960s was the cat-and-mouse game the Ford Motor Company played with General Motors. Ford quite rightly adopted a new approach after its disastrous expansion […]
(EXPANDED FROM 4/2/2021) Newly declassified intelligence documents show how a crash program by American automakers to switch to eggcrate grilles for their 1972-73 models thwarted a space alien invasion. The strategy worked so well that […]
A Popular Science road test ranked the 1971 Plymouth Valiant four-door sedan above two of its newest rivals — the Ford Maverick and AMC Hornet (Norbye and Dunne, 1971). That wasn’t a fluke — the […]
A staff member from the Hampton Public Library in Iowa asked if I would give visibility to an auto history web page dug up by a student assistant named Katrina. The page includes an article […]
Yesterday the automotive headlines were dominated by such important stories as the “grand debut” of a Dodge Challenger with 1,025 horsepower. Yet almost entirely absent from the trade journals and buff magazines was coverage of […]
Those who are interested in the origins of the 1971 Cadillac Eldorado might wish to check out a new round of discussions that have occurred over the last few days. Michael Karesh stopped by to […]
Over the last week we have had an encouraging number of readers participate in Indie Auto’s fundraising drive. These have included previous donors as well as new ones. Some donors offered comments. For example, DC […]
For its September 1975 issue, Popular Mechanics’ Detroit Editor Robert Lund asked executives from each of the Big Four U.S. automakers to predict what cars would be like in the decade ahead. Lund started off […]
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