The lead story on the 1971-78 Cadillac Eldorado illustrates what happens when automotive history sticks too closely to “just-the-facts” reporting. Collectible Automobile’s account of the second-generation personal coupe provides lots of useful background but sidesteps […]
“. . . I always considered myself an average designer, because there were so many good designers. I was very successful because I knew that you had to sell the design to the manager and […]
Particularly after the demise of Automobile Quarterly, Collectible Automobile’s bi-monthly print magazine has been the best all-around source of information about American automobile history. An individual issue typically has around 100 pages, the cover is […]
Curbside Classic is a fascinating case study of the difficulties of sustaining a financially viable independent media outlet. For example, last year Niedermeyer announced that ad revenue was down 15-20 percent because of increased use of […]
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 October issue of Collectible Automobile has a wide-ranging profile of Ford design chief Eugene Bordinat. Writers Jim and Cheryl Farrell (2014) include a number of provocative details about Ford President Semon “Bunkie” Knudsen’s role in […]
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 […]
In the April edition of Collectible Automobile (2014), Patrick R. Foster noted that Saab was the last European automaker outside Warsaw Pact countries to produce two-stroke engines. The Swedish automaker switched to a modern four-stroke […]
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