The Standard Catalog folks offer a nice-looking book about muscle cars. Alas, the reference guide’s credibility is hurt by incorrect photos. The format for the Standard Catalog of American Muscle Cars: 1960-1972 has a lot […]
(UPDATED FROM 7/31/2020) A few years ago Curbside Classic commentator Team Obsolete complained that stories written by Paul Niedermeyer “drift over like a cold dark cloud, displacing people’s sunny enthusiasm and dumps freezing rain and […]
“These are two different views of journalism’s very purpose, forever in competition for status, resources, and power. These approaches require different skills, different practices, and different sources, and produce radically different representations of reality. Access […]
First-person accounts by lesser-known auto industry leaders can add to the historical record in surprising ways. This is why the SAH Press, which is an arm of the Society of Automotive Historians, should be lauded […]
Indie Auto’s “Links” section has been significantly updated and expanded. I have added new sources as well as Twitter and YouTube pages for those media outlets that offer them. I have also added new categories […]
George Romney may have been one of the U.S. auto industry’s best post-war leaders, but he made eight big mistakes while leading AMC from 1954-62. Some of his bad moves were costly enough to almost […]
“I went to American Motors as assistant director of styling in September 1959. I saw the ’60 Rambler, and I almost walked out the front door. It looked like it was chiseled out of marble […]
Automotive News‘ comment sections enable denialism and conspiracies about COVID-19. This is unfortunate because the trade journal has otherwise offered good coverage of the pandemic. For example, Automotive News recently posted a poignant story about […]
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