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1993 Cadillac Eldorado
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Dean’s Garage series on 1992 Cadillacs illustrates Detroit’s lack of self awareness

June 18, 2025 Steve 13

I have been so busy lately that I have tended to only scan the stories at Dean’s Garage. However, this morning I got out of the canoe long enough to read the articles and comment […]

Literature

Once upon a time, car wheels were 36-to-42 inches in diameter

June 9, 2025 Steve 5

(UPDATED FROM 1/3/2023) Indie Auto’s latest Sponsor of the Week is the legendary Auto & Debt magazine, whose June 2025 issue road tests the hot new 36-inch wheels. Of course, this is a fake ad […]

1965 Studebaker Lark 4-door sedan
Fake Design

Brooks Stevens’s 1965 Studebaker Lark concept: Almost a baby Continental

June 6, 2025 Steve 5

(EXPANDED FROM 12/10/2021) Brooks Stevens apparently was convinced that he could come up with a new-generation Studebaker Lark design that would top the work of Raymond Loewy’s team, which was then working on an Avanti-inspired […]

1949 Packard Super 8
Data Dive

Packard kept a bigger foothold in the luxury-car field than commonly assumed

June 5, 2025 Steve 9

Our discussion in the comment thread about the 1956 Packard Executive story all but inevitably brought up one of the most common criticisms of the automaker’s management — that it did not do enough in […]

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David E. Davis offered his take on John Z. DeLorean

May 24, 2025 Steve 9

Whether John Z. DeLorean was merely a car guy with a tragic life trajectory or a sociopath has been an ongoing debate here at Indie Auto. Thus, I was intrigued to come across David E. […]

1968 Chevrolet Corvette convertible
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A 1968 Chevrolet Corvette and a manly man. Alone.

May 23, 2025 Steve 0

David E. Numm liked to remind himself that he was fairly comfortable — and that things could be much worse. At least he was assigned to be a copy writer for the Chevrolet Corvette rather […]

1970 Ford LTD
Data Dive

Was the decontented Ford LTD ‘essentially like an Impala’?

May 21, 2025 Steve 9

(EXPANDED FROM 8/29/2023) A few years ago Curbside Classic’s Paul Niedermeyer stopped by to critique our story, “1969 Ford LTD attacked GM’s hierarchy of brands in multiple ways.” He repeated the following quote from the […]

1972 Buick Riviera
Design Notes

1971-73 Buick Riviera: The last stand against the broughamization of Detroit

May 15, 2025 Steve 24

(EXPANDED FROM 5/2/2022) Whatever else one might say about the 1971-73 Buick Riviera, its styling did represent a heroic level of resistance to the brougham look then sweeping through the U.S. auto industry. Instead of […]

1951 Kaiser 2-door coupe
Quotes

Jack Mueller’s rationale for GM not selling V8s to Kaiser is questionable

May 10, 2025 Steve 2

Jack Mueller’s book on Kaiser-Frazer weighrd in on the question of why General Motors did not end up selling the automaker its Rocket V8 engine. He pointed to evidence that the Oldsmobile Division initially showed […]

1970 Cadillac Eldorado
Gallery

Was the 1969-70 Eldorado the best-looking postwar Cadillac?

May 9, 2025 Steve 5

When I was expanding a John DeLorean book review the other day, I dug up a 1967 General Motors ad that included a photograph of a Cadillac Eldorado. That got me wondering: Was the 1967-70 […]

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    Splashy new cars often were the biggest disasters during the postwar period
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    March 2, 2026 13
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    Was the 1967-68 Chevrolet C10 the ‘first modern pickup’?
    February 27, 2026 7
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    1941 Studebaker Commander: Ending its big cars on a high note
    February 26, 2026 11
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    Four lingering questions about Aaron Severson’s take on the 1956 Studebaker Golden Hawk
    February 20, 2026 6
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    Readers brainstorm ideas for future Indie Auto stories
    October 14, 2022 134
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