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1938 Graham sharknose front
Fake Design

The 1938-40 Graham didn’t just fail because of ‘sharknose’ styling

February 10, 2023 Steve 4

(EXPANDED FROM 1/15/2021) The 1938-40 Graham is a popular topic in the auto history media because of the car’s infamous “sharknose” styling. What gets little, if any, attention is that even if the design had […]

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Collectible Cars: Is a strippo Chevy cool or uncool?

January 13, 2023 Steve 2
1956 Lincoln
Design Notes

The 1956 Lincoln’s styling proved to be a one-year wonder

January 6, 2023 Steve 17

The 1956 Lincoln was one of the brand’s most-important postwar cars. Almost 54,000 cars left the factory — an all-time record not broken until 1966. The Ford Motor Company was clearly intending to make a […]

1976 Cadillac Eldorado
Quotes

Why General Motors should have been broken in two

January 5, 2023 Steve 16

“I think if DOJ had cleaved GM into two companies (i.e., Chevrolet and GM), we would today have a more vibrant, competitive American automotive industry. Today, we have two domestic players in an industry that […]

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Collectible Cars: If you had to choose one?

December 9, 2022 Steve 0
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Automotive Views: Corvette brand expanded in promising directions

December 1, 2022 Steve 0
2020 GMC pickup
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Designer of 2020 GMC Sierra HD strived for a ‘pissed-off feel’

November 28, 2022 Steve 2

“I already had an idea of what I wanted to convey. A lot of inspirations were locomotives, really high-end and futuristic military equipment, NASA, and really high-tech objects. . . . The front end was […]

1978 Oldsmobile Toronado
Quotes

Alex Taylor III on why GM’s product cycles lengthened in the 1970s

November 25, 2022 Steve 1

“GM’s product development cycles in the 1960s, which had been among the shortest, were becoming among the longest in the industry, according to GM’s own in-house history. More content dictated by federal regulations was part […]

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 […]

1972 Oldsmobile Toronado front
Quotes

Bill Mitchell on how he wielded power like Harley Earl at GM

October 12, 2022 Steve 14

“Oh, he was powerful. God, I admired [him]. He just knocked the tar out of anybody. He’d get it fixed. If he couldn’t, he’d call New York and say, ‘Fix these…[.]’ Then, I inherited some […]

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  • Why did American Motors fire Wells Rich and Greene in 1972?
    March 6, 2026 6
  • 1967 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
    Was the 1966 Olds Cutlass Supreme the first mid-sized brougham model?
    March 5, 2026 21
  • 1976 Plymouth Volare 2-door coupe
    Splashy new cars often were the biggest disasters during the postwar period
    March 3, 2026 1
  • Reader questions Chrysler’s future as it passes 100th anniversary
    March 2, 2026 13
  • 1968 Chevrolet C10 pickup
    Was the 1967-68 Chevrolet C10 the ‘first modern pickup’?
    February 27, 2026 7
  • 1941 Studebaker Commander 2-door coupe
    1941 Studebaker Commander: Ending its big cars on a high note
    February 26, 2026 11
  • 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk front with hood open
    Four lingering questions about Aaron Severson’s take on the 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk
    February 20, 2026 6
  • Thank yous, power outages and format changes
    October 31, 2025 0
  • 1956 Buick hood scoop
    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 134
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