The recent death of ad pioneer Mary Wells Lawrence got me wondering how long her fledgling ad agency Wells Rich and Greene worked with American Motors. The short answer: from 1967 to 1972. This ad […]
Joe Ligo has written one of the most interesting automotive articles I have come across in quite some time. Over at The Autopian website he analyzes why the small car died in the United States. […]
A kind reader recently informed me about Ed’s Auto Reviews. These are relatively short videos on YouTube that cover a broad range of auto history topics. For example, a recently posted episode called “Mistake of […]
Joe Ligo is kicking into high gear a fundraising campaign for his long-anticipated movie about AMC, called “The Last Independent Automaker.” The revived project is slated to be aired as a six-part series in 2024 […]
(UPDATED FROM 1/25/2014) Joe Ligo has produced a well-rounded overview of the AMC Pacer’s short and mostly unhappy life. The almost 35-minute documentary is posted on YouTube. “I’m impressed with the film,” wrote Truth About […]
(UPDATED FROM 7/3/2020) Joe Ligo’s (2020) film about the Nash/AMC Ambassador is well-researched but overly kind in discussing the car’s dying decade. The “History of the Nash/AMC Ambassador” walks viewers through the unusually long life […]
The lead story on a Studebaker concept car was an excuse to dig deeper into the fascinating images at the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Brooks Stevens archives. The famed designer’s proposed 1965 Studebaker Lark sedan wasn’t […]
Joe Ligo shows the value of auto history films in a 10-minute piece about the 1954 Kaiser Special. He mixes historical footage and scenes from a test-drive of a restored Kaiser as the visual backdrop […]
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