(EXPANDED FROM 10/30/2020) When Road & Track decided to go after Ralph Nader in 1972, the magazine took unusual measures. Even before an “evaluation” of a Nader report hit the newsstands, Road & Track held […]
(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 […]
A staff member from the Hampton Public Library in Iowa asked if I would give visibility to an auto history web page dug up by a student assistant named Katrina. The page includes an article […]
Yesterday the automotive headlines were dominated by such important stories as the “grand debut” of a Dodge Challenger with 1,025 horsepower. Yet almost entirely absent from the trade journals and buff magazines was coverage of […]
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 […]
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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