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Month: May 2025

Joan Crawford in 1969
Quotes

Auto history: A bastion of older white male privilege?

May 31, 2025 Steve 18

My perception is that there has been a fairly good gender balance at the auto shows I regularly attend at the LeMay Collections at Marymount. Thus, I wonder why so few women appear to participate […]

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Automotive Views: Balancing the federal budget will require sacrifices at some point

May 31, 2025 Steve 0
Media Analysis

Automotive News staff struggle to transcend paper’s checkered past

May 30, 2025 Steve 2

The May 19th print edition of Automotive News ran two commentaries that debated California’s ability regulate pollution caused by the automobile industry. In the first commentary, Reporter Larry P. Vellequette (2025) acknowledged that the industry […]

1956 Packard Executive
History

Did the 1956 Packard Executive represent a strategic shift?

May 29, 2025 Steve 23

(EXPANDED FROM 2/1/2022) Back in 2021 Patrick Foster suggested that a 1956 1/2 Packard model called the Executive could have “saved” the brand if it had been introduced a year or so earlier. In contrast, […]

1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser C-pillar
Design Notes

1958 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser is a monument to Ford’s failed ambitions

May 27, 2025 Steve 12

(EXPANDED FROM 4/8/2022) The Edsel and Lincoln were the Ford Motor Company’s most visible failures of the late-50s, but the Mercury was also an embarrassment. The ill-fated Turnpike Cruiser epitomized both the promise and futility […]

Current Events

Is JVL right that ‘Trump killed Tesla’ as a viable automaker?

May 26, 2025 Steve 9

Last week political commentator Jonathan V. Last (2025d) declared that Elon Musk’s close association with President Trump has “killed Tesla.” That was happy news to Last, who had previously argued that a good way to […]

Stonehenge
Photo Essay

You can drive your car to a uniquely American twist on Stonehenge

May 25, 2025 Steve 1

If you wanted to see Stonehenge but haven’t managed to fly to England, there is an alternative in the United States. Around a century ago philanthropist Sam Hill built a replica in a rural corner […]

Quotes

David E. Davis offered his take on John Z. DeLorean

May 24, 2025 Steve 9

Whether John Z. DeLorean was merely a car guy with a tragic life trajectory or a sociopath has been an ongoing debate here at Indie Auto. Thus, I was intrigued to come across David E. […]

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Get the inside story on the 100 hottest cars of all!

May 23, 2025 Steve 0
1968 Chevrolet Corvette convertible
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A 1968 Chevrolet Corvette and a manly man. Alone.

May 23, 2025 Steve 0

David E. Numm liked to remind himself that he was fairly comfortable — and that things could be much worse. At least he was assigned to be a copy writer for the Chevrolet Corvette rather […]

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  • 1962 Chrysler 300
    Did the 1962-65 Chrysler 300 ‘dilute’ the letter series?
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    Three rules led to a stultifying level of conformity in 1960s U.S. car design
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