Since I began visiting Lake Quinault in the mid-1980s, I have noticed this 1953 Chevrolet sitting in a garage. The garage’s door has always been open and the Chevy has not appeared to have been […]
Automotive pundit Peter DeLorenzo (2023a) likes to needle industry executives such as Ford’s Jim Farley, whom he has dubbed the “I’m a genius just ask me” CEO. Thus, I was struck by how he presented […]
“Moving Imperial production away from the Chrysler Jefferson Avenue plant made sense for three reasons: surging sales would require mixing too many Imperials with Chryslers on the assembly line; Imperial quality could be upgraded in […]
The November 1940 issue of Popular Mechanics included a major article — replete with color photos! — about the just-introduced 1941 car models. However, Detroit’s latest wares were overshadowed by a cover story about the […]
This morning Indie Auto received a comment from the editor of a website we reviewed. Rather than using the comment thread for that review, he submitted it elsewhere and stated, “I don’t see a way […]
(UPDATED FROM 12/18/2020) A year before he died in 1995, former American Motors head George Romney made a presentation to an AMC convention. A two-part video of the talk was filmed by Paul Lehman. The […]
(EXPANDED FROM 2/8/2022) Why was the futuristic-looking Studebaker Avanti given a tall, flat and small windshield? That windshield ranks with the 1964-66 Imperial in looking terribly mismatched with the rest of the car. The most […]
(EXPANDED FROM 11/27/2022) The retirement of Curbside Classic founder Paul Niedermeyer (2023) raises questions about the direction of the pioneering auto history website. He announced his retirement, effective immediately, only a few weeks after the […]
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