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Reader insists that 1971-73 Mercury Cougars were ‘awesome’

June 13, 2023 Steve 9

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

June 1, 2023 Steve 0

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

May 11, 2023 Steve 1

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?

April 12, 2023 Steve 6

(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 […]

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Thank you to fund-drive participants and a note on broken links

March 17, 2023 Steve 0

Over the last week we have had an encouraging number of readers participate in Indie Auto’s fundraising drive. These have included previous donors as well as new ones. Some donors offered comments. For example, DC […]

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Do you think Indie Auto is worth keeping online?

March 10, 2023 Steve 12

Indie Auto has reached a crossroads. I have just published 900 posts on this website. Meanwhile, I am far enough into retirement that I have been thinking harder about how to best spend my remaining […]

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‘Die-hard fan’ of Studebaker and AMC finds Indie Auto useful

March 5, 2023 Steve 0

Indie Auto functions as an informal debating club about American automotive history. Thus, my writing gets a fair amount of criticism in comments as well as private messages. I’m good with this because debate is […]

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Ronnie Schreiber helps us hone our bullshit detectors

February 23, 2023 Steve 1

Ronnie Schreiber recently submitted a comment to our story, “Peter DeLorenzo draws questionable lessons from automotive history.” What follows is his entire comment in unedited form: “I find it interesting that the environmentalists who warned […]

1969 Dodge Charger
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‘Proud owner’ of 1969 Dodge Chargers calls ‘BS’ on styling criticisms

January 7, 2023 Steve 2

Indie Auto has received a comment from JW about our story, “1968-70 Dodge Charger: Who should get credit?” What follows is their full comment: “As the proud owner of several 1969 Dodge Chargers, I call […]

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An unusually slick year end comes to Indie Auto’s world headquarters

December 27, 2022 Steve 4

The Arctic storm decimating much of the United States has thus far had a more limited impact in western Washington, which is my neck of the woods. Even so, we have still had unusually harsh […]

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