April 2025 - Indie Auto

1963-66 Plymouth Valiant inched away from Virgil Exner’s styling quirks

April 2, 2025 Steve 7

(EXPANDED FROM 5/4/2022) One of my stylistic pet peeves is the 1963-65 Plymouth Valiant’s front fenders, which had weird, hairpin-shaped character lines. They undercut what in many respects was one of the cleaner compact designs […]

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Dr. Therapy shows how you can expose a narcissist!

April 1, 2025 Steve 0

Declassified 1970s documents spark debate among auto historians

April 1, 2025 Steve 1

(UPDATED FROM 3/30/2023) 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 […]