A while back we talked about Sam Hill, a champion of Pacific Northwest road building. He also helped to create monuments such as the Peace Arch. This is an installation on the western-most border between […]
(EXPANDED FROM 6/1/2023) The November 1940 issue of Popular Mechanics included an article about the just-introduced 1941 car models. However, curiously enough, Detroit’s latest wares were overshadowed by a cover story about the “automobiles of […]
I had to get my Toyota serviced this week, so let’s take a quick look at what the Japanese automaker is currently trying to sell us Americans. Of course, this is but one data point […]
Political media scholar Dave Karpf (2025) has called Tesla’s recently announced new master plan “bad. Sloppy. Ludicrously vague.” What’s more, he says that it is “significantly less coherent than the previous three master plans (from 2006, 2016, […]
Labor Day strikes me as being the ideal time to talk about a topic that may be of greatest interest to fellow research nerds: What kind of information is good enough for American automotive history? […]
AB wrote that he was “not finding what used to be pretty easily available. How can I look up articles on a specific car?” I haven’t removed or changed any of the ways that you […]
Yesterday I made a pilgrimage to LeMay’s annual car show. Here I am talking about the one held by LeMay Collections at Marymount (2025a) rather than the other local venue, America’s Car Museum (2025). I […]
(EXPANDED FROM 5/21/2024) A drive through a lovely rural area in Oregon reminded me of a Volkswagen Cabrio commercial from decades ago. The spot did an unusually good job of showing the sensuousness of driving. […]
Recently Indie Auto posted a photo essay about the old cars of Goldendale, Washington. If you were intrigued by a small town that functions as a veritable automobile museum, let’s explore other aspects of this […]
I can safely guarantee that you will never read at Indie Auto who invented the automatic transmission or designed the Batmobile. That kind of historical trivia just doesn’t fire up my engines. However, I can […]
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