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Home2024April

Month: April 2024

Media Analysis

New way to support Ate Up With Motor and should auto media collaborate?

April 30, 2024 Steve 3

Aaron Severson has set up a Patreon account for Ate Up With Motor and is starting to provide paywalled content for donors. His first piece illustrates the thoughtfulness of his approach to automotive history — […]

1974 AMC Matador 4-door sedan
Editor's Note

Reader says ‘armchair critics’ of the 1974 AMC Matador sedan are wrong

April 29, 2024 Steve 7

LL stopped by to respond to our story, “Joe Ligo is overly kind in Nash/AMC Ambassador film.” Here’s what he had to say: “I have a 1972 Matador and a 1974 Matador and without a […]

1980 Buick Skylark
Links

New Yorker story shows difficulties of an outsider reporting on auto industry

April 25, 2024 Steve 5

Industry coverage by journalists from outside the automotive media can be a mixed bag. They are less likely to succumb to the groupthink that can undercut reporting from the likes of Automotive News or a […]

Rolls Royce
Media Analysis

Could U.S. auto history field benefit by following in the footsteps of the British?

April 23, 2024 Steve 5

In 2020 Indie Auto posted a story about how to purchase back issues of Automobile Quarterly. All of the links I included are now dead, so yesterday a reader inquired: “Looking to buy prints from […]

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Book showcases 100 boring cars that nevertheless changed lives

April 23, 2024 Steve 0
Freeway traffic
Current Events

Road rage is on the increase — and some states are worse that others

April 22, 2024 Steve 3

Today as I was merging onto Interstate 5, a Jeep Cherokee honked while roaring around me into the fast lane. I had been doing the speed limit through an interchange that is regularly tracked by […]

1970 Lincoln Continental
Fake Design

What if the 1970 Lincoln Continental hadn’t slavishly copied Cadillac?

April 19, 2024 Steve 47

J. P. Cavanaugh’s (2024) recent ode to the 1969 Lincoln Continental got me thinking: What if the 1970 redesign returned to the more compact size of the groundbreaking 1961-63 models? What might that have looked […]

J. 'Kelly' Flory Jr.
Readings

J. ‘Kelly’ Flory Jr.’s American Cars series is pricey but valuable

April 18, 2024 Steve 0

The most valuable books I have bought of late have been J. “Kelly” Flory Jr.’s American Cars reference guides. This multi-volume set provides wide-ranging information on U.S.-made cars during the postwar era. Flory’s series has […]

1969 Mercury Cyclone
Links

Motorcade magazine’s ‘sneak peek’ of the 1969 models made up a whole lot of stuff

April 17, 2024 Steve 0

Motorcade is among the more obscure magazines included in the Automotive History Preservation Society’s digital archives. A supposed preview of the 1969 models may hint at why the magazine apparently did not survive the early-70s. […]

Olympia traffic at dusk
Drive-By Musings

Robert Atkinson Jr. suffers from the insularity that he complains about

April 16, 2024 Steve 1

Curbside Classic tends to avoid political debates in the comment threads for good reason. As a case in point, a reposting of Brock Yates’ “Grosse Pointe Myopians” essay drew Robert Atkinson Jr. (2024) to share […]

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    Video histories of DeSoto and American Motors aren’t as good as books
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