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 — […]
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 […]
Collectible Automobile’s June 2024 issue does an unusually good job of discussing why low-priced big cars took a nosedive in sales during 1970-74. However, the magazine’s article by Sam Fiorani (2024) didn’t say much about […]
Since last summer’s departure of Daniel Strohl from Hemmings, I have mainly been drawn to its website because of a Pat Foster column. He has become one of the most prominent U.S. auto history book […]
When my subscription to Automotive News recently renewed I was surprised to see that the annual price rose to $299 from $169 last year. This is for the digital and print editions; if I had […]
Aaron Severson (2024) recently announced that, due to a burst of donations, he would renew hosting-related services for Ate Up With Motor. That presumably keeps the website online but doesn’t address the cost of producing […]
(EXPANDED FROM 5/1/2020) Today someone commented on this post, which I wrote more than four years ago. So perhaps it’s time for an update on automotive-blog comment threads. Around 15 years ago I started to […]
The February 2024 issue of Collectible Automobile has a story about the 1974-83 Jeep Cherokee. As is typical for this magazine, you will find lots of nice photos and a comprehensive recitation of product specifications […]
One of the best parts of Curbside Classic is the comment section. For example, a story about the 1961 Studebaker Lark had a wide-ranging discussion about why why American Motors did better than Studebaker-Packard in […]
Right before Christmas Aaron Severson (2023) warned that “the future of Ate Up With Motor is looking quite bleak.” This strikes me as a wake-up call to the automotive history field. Severson is arguably one […]
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