Adamson, Glenn; 2003. Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. Auto editors of Consumer Guide; 2002a. Cars of the Sizzling ’60s: A Decade of Great Rides and Good Vibrations. Publications International, Lincolnwood, […]
Among my favorite features in Collectible Automobile magazine are the profiles. The June issue included an interview Patrick Foster conducted with Bob Nixon, who played a major role in the styling of American Motors cars […]
AMERICAN MOTORS Clarke, R. M.; 2004. AMC Rambler Limited Edition Extra: 1956-1969. Brooklands Books, Surrey. Foster, Patrick R.; 1993. American Motors: The Last Independent. Krause Publications, Iola, WI. ——–; 1998. The Story of Jeep. Krause Publications, Iola, […]
Auto editors of Consumer Guide; 2002a. Cars of the Sizzling ’60s: A Decade of Great Rides and Good Vibrations. Publications International, Lincolnwood, IL. ——–; 2002b. Cars of the Fascinating ’40s: A Decade of Challenges and Changes. Publications International, Lincolnwood, IL […]
Automotive history and journalism are a bit like baseball in the sense that numbers are integral to the conversation. Even so, most media outlets — particularly web based — tend to avoid charts, graphs and tables. […]
This oversized, almost 900-page hard-back book provides more narrative about products and industry background from 1930 through 2006 but has less complete data than the Standard Catalog of American Cars series. In addition, unlike the 1993 […]
Our recent story on the 1962 Chrysler B-body (go here) has generated a debate among auto history writers. In the article, I sided with those who had argued that the downsized Plymouth and Dodge were […]
In 2020 Indie Auto posted a story about how to purchase back issues of Automobile Quarterly. All of the links I included are now dead, so yesterday a reader inquired: “Looking to buy prints from […]
(EXPANDED FROM 6/18/2021) In selecting the 1966 Oldmobile Toronado as its Car of the Year, Motor Trend (2005) took out its pom-poms and gushed that “never in the 14-year history of this award has the […]
(UPDATED FROM 8/21/2020) My Dad Had That Car is a significantly updated and expanded version of Tad Burness’s American Car Spotter’s Bible (2005). Whereas the previous book covered 1940 to 1980, the new one goes […]
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