Editor's Note
Thank you for helping make 2023 a good year for Indie Auto
I hope you had an enjoyable New Year’s Eve and see promise in the coming year. I also wanted to thank you for helping to make 2023 a good year for Indie Auto. As a […]
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What did you consider to be the top Indie Auto stories in 2023?
When I created Indie Auto I did not want to join the viral rat race, where the website that gets the highest number of page views supposedly “wins.” That might bring in more revenue for […]
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Thank you to those who have helped Indie Auto pass two milestones
Recently Indie Auto surpassed 1,000 posts. If you have cruised through our archives you know that this represents a broad range of content, from magazine-length histories to satirical ads. Indeed, one thing that separates Indie […]
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Reader decries Indie Auto’s ‘false hoods, babblings, drools, drool puddles’
George stopped by to call our Saab 99/900 story “absolute junk.” He goes on to say that it is just “some ramblings of automotive trivia, half truths, whole false hoods, babblings, drools, drool puddles. But […]
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The rise of the European van and other musings from a few days camping
Indie Auto is a day late in sending out its weekly e-letter because I wanted to sneak in some camping at a national park before the federal government likely shuts down Oct. 1 (Lunney, 2023). […]
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Our lead story illustrates how auto history is a team sport
The lead story for Friday, July 21 was an update of “1965-68 GM big cars: The end of different strokes.” I didn’t expand this story because I thought it was already pretty comprehensive, but I […]
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Reader insists that 1971-73 Mercury Cougars were ‘awesome’
Our story, “1967-73 Mercury Cougar: A classic goes to hell,” apparently took the smile off the face of (former?) reader SL. He flatly declared, “The 1971-73 Cougars are awesome cars. All this talk about them […]
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A few housekeeping items about contacting Indie Auto
This morning Indie Auto received a comment from the editor of a website we reviewed. Rather than using the comment thread for that review, he submitted it elsewhere and stated, “I don’t see a way […]
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On the death of a child and car buffery
Curbside Classic Publisher Paul Niedermeyer (2023) announced that one of his sons lost a “decade-long struggle with severe addiction yesterday.” Most auto buff websites would likely have not brought up such a painful topic unrelated […]
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Should a nonprofit auto history group create a credible data bank?
(EXPANDED FROM 4/16/2021) One of the challenges of working with automotive sales and production data is that the most easily-available sources don’t always appear to be accurate. Thus, it felt validating to come across a […]