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Collectible Cars: Is a strippo Chevy cool or uncool?

January 13, 2023 Steve 2
Packrat street rod in Raymond, Washington
Photo Essay

Rat Kool Garage doubles as a rather quirky car museum

January 10, 2023 Steve 0

(EXPANDED FROM 10/16/2020) Head out of Raymond, Washington on Route 6 (Wikipedia, 2020) and you cannot miss seeing an unusual assortment of old cars parked in front of the Rat Kool Garage & Customs. Among […]

Washington ice-covered car
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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 […]

1959 Pontiac
Letters to the Editor

Reader offers additional reasons for ‘lower, longer and wider’ trend

October 27, 2022 Steve 5

Our “Auto Paedia” article about Detroit’s tendency to make its cars “lower, longer and wider” during the post-war period continues to generate an interesting discussion in the comment thread. One comment I would like to […]

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Automotive Views: Luxury brands race to enter promising new market

October 21, 2022 Steve 0
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Collectible Cars magazine relives the ultimate senior-year lust

October 13, 2022 Steve 0
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Collectible Cars: A green classic before its time

July 8, 2022 Steve 0
1971 Dodge Charger 500
Quotes

Car and Driver declares the 1971 Dodge Charger artsy fartsy

June 22, 2022 Steve 4

“A Dodge Charger? A piece of sculpture? What the hell kind of individual artistic statement can that be when 50,000 people a year make the same statement? Besides, you’ve got to admit that an objet d’art created […]

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Automotive Views: Lexus model gets prestigious Car of Year award

June 9, 2022 Steve 0
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Old Car Farts: A big health benefit of going fast

June 4, 2022 Steve 0

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  • A sad reason bridges aren’t just used for driving over
    June 15, 2025 1
  • 1964 Studebaker Challenger
    Brooks Stevens’s rejection of brand continuity was bad for small automakers
    June 14, 2025 0
  • EVs need a George Romney to champion them in the next few years
    June 13, 2025 16
  • Citroen SM
    Citroen SM: A surprisingly conventional next step
    June 12, 2025 5
  • 1936-37 Cord 810/812 tried to do too much at once
    June 11, 2025 10
  • 1963 Studebaker Daytona convertible
    Classic film shows human side of Studebaker’s end
    June 10, 2025 15
  • Once upon a time, car wheels were 36-to-42 inches in diameter
    June 9, 2025 5
  • Brooks Stevens’s 1965 Studebaker Lark concept: Almost a baby Continental
    June 6, 2025 5
  • 1949 Packard Super Eight
    Packard kept a bigger foothold in the luxury-car field than commonly assumed
    June 5, 2025 9
  • Exner bio offers mostly positive take on controversial car designer
    Peter Grist views car designer Virgil Exner through rose-tinted glasses
    June 3, 2025 9
  • 983 AMC Eagle wagon
    Would anything have ‘saved’ American Motors?
    June 16, 2025 1
  • 1956 Buick hood scoop
    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 124
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