How Stuff Works recently advertised a quiz about vehicles from the 1970s (Tyler, 2018). The promo stated that “no one is getting a perfect score . . . and it’s driving the Internet crazy!” I […]
“I convinced (Studebaker) management to de-emphasize the Lark term which had its own connotations, just as I finally got Roy Chapin to dump Rambler for AMC cars, when we were involved with them on the […]
This is a compilation of more than three-dozen articles from auto buff magazines such as Car and Driver, Motor Trend, Road Test and Car Life. The republished stories are largely road tests of a representative […]
One low-cost way for an auto media outlet to post a 24/7 flow of content is to draw upon old car ads. This is business as usual for the The Daily Drive and its sibling, […]
“The Rambler will never get credit for all it did. It never will. And the reason it won’t is because those who followed me, as (Patrick) Foster (1993) points out in his book, didn’t believe […]
C. L. Zinn II’s book, Javelin Photo Archive (2002), offered an anecdote that illustrated Vince Geraci’s enthusiasm for the Marlin. At the time Geraci managed American Motors’ Large Car Studio, which took the lead in […]
Curbside Classic recently posted an unusually detailed discussion in a comment thread about why a merger did not occur between Hudson, Nash, Packard and Studebaker (Shafer, 2015). While the speculation is interesting, I’d question the underlying assumption […]
In a vague sense this book is an update of The Story of Jeep (Foster, 1998). However, like Patrick R. Foster’s other recent books, Jeep: America’s Greatest Vehicle, is much more graphically oriented. While not quite as large […]
“Now, there was one difference between Mason and me. Mason always thought of the Rambler as a supplement to the Nash and Hudson lines. That if he could have Nash and Hudson dealers selling Ramblers […]
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 […]
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