Doing Indie Auto’s been fun, but it’s not making me rich. So when I heard that hotcars.com was hiring freelancers, I thought: Here’s my ticket! Thank you, Automotive Books and Periodicals, for posting their “We’re […]
(EXPANDED ON 1/27/2023) In doing research on our “unresolved postwar mysteries” story, I came across a piece of information that challenged one of my long-held assumptions. George Hamlin and Dwight Heinmuller stated that the Briggs […]
QUESTION: Automobile Quarterly arguably had a major impact on the field of auto history — particularly during the magazine’s prime. Would the quality of today’s popular history be higher if Automobile Quarterly were still alive […]
Jvolgarino (2021) recently asked fellow members of the Society of Automotive Historians where they get their information. This invariably led to a discussion about the difficulties of obtaining primary sources of information. Primary sources are […]
The following letter is from rivguy: This is a response to a four-year-old post (go here), and happily the Curbside Classic site is still alive and well. I discovered CC over six years ago. At […]
(UPATED 3/9/2023) A few years ago Lotus Rebel (2021) drew upon our AMC Pacer story to suggest alternative approaches for that car’s design in a comment at Ate Up With Motor. That website’s publisher, Aaron […]
The Society of Automotive Historians has given the 2020 E. P. Ingersoll Award to Indie Auto. The award is named after Edward Platt Ingersoll (1861-1920), who was the editor of Horseless Age. This was the […]
The Society of Automotive Historians (2020) continues to post information about how to buy back issues of Automobile Quarterly. Fortunately, a vender obtained the magazine’s inventory after it ceased publication. (Go here for updated information on […]
As I write this, the Society of Automotive Historians’ discussion board (go here) has not had a new posting or comment since August 12. This is despite the SAH promoting the fairly new service in […]
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