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Home2025January

Month: January 2025

1951 Studebaker nose
Quotes

Imagine the 1951 Studebaker with a lighted nose

January 4, 2025 Steve 1

“. . . We (started facelifting) the ’51, which was a terrible looking spinner job. It had a transparent, plastic spinner inside, and, God, they were terrible looking cars. . . . I remember how that […]

1979 Pontiac Grand Prix
Data Dive

What’s Collectible Automobile’s beef with the 1978-80 Pontiac Grand Prix?

January 3, 2025 Steve 16

(EXPANDED FROM 8/25/2022) One of the more curious aspects of the postwar U.S. auto industry is the way that dramatic change was often normalized by the media — as long as it went in the […]

1968 AMC AMX
Letters to the Editor

Reader argues that ‘AMX was not a sectioned Javelin’

January 2, 2025 Steve 5

SG stopped by to comment on our story, “1968-70 AMX was American Motors’ answer to a question nobody asked.” AMX was not a sectioned Javelin. It was designed first and was supposed to be a […]

1957 Packard proposa
Multimedia

Film shows Fred Hudson’s design talent — and groupthink

January 2, 2025 Steve 9

(EXPANDED FROM 1/25/2023) When rechecking links I was disappointed to see that Hemmings has apparently deleted one of the better comment-thread discussions about late-50s American car design. This illustrates a downside of the digitization of […]

Editor's Note

Thank you for your support of Indie Auto in 2024

January 1, 2025 Steve 2

In 2024 Indie Auto’s readership more than doubled. Although we are still very much a small fry compared to the leading for-profit auto history websites, we have grown far more than I ever expected. Indie […]

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