(EXPANDED FROM 8/2/2021) Some buyers of the 1977-79 Lincoln Mark V waited up to eight weeks to receive exclusive designer-series models . . . that turned out to have defective paint. At least that’s Jack […]
“Fred Hooven was a very good friend of mine and had a much bigger job at Ford than I did. He worked for Mike Ference. Henry Ford asked Ference — this was in 1960. He […]
(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 […]
Late one night a frustrated female ad copy writer came up with an alternative to a proposed print ad for the 1967 Mercury Cyclone GT. As you can quickly get by reading the ad (shown […]
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 […]
(EXPANDED FROM 11/29/2021) A Century of Automotive Style is a fairly old auto history book, but I would rank it as important enough to deserve an updated edition. This collaboration between Michael Lamm and Dave […]
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 […]
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