(EXPANDED FROM 5/28/2025) The Society of Automotive Historians (2026) recently gave the 2026 E. P. Ingersoll Award to The Last Independent American Automaker. This television documentary about American Motors strikes me as an obvious choice, […]
Today is the last day that you can vote in the Society of Automotive Historians’ board-of-directors election. According to an email blast, as of this morning only 73 out of 622 members had voted (SAH, […]
(EXPANDED FROM 3/26/2021) The electronic forum of the Society of Automotive Historians has not managed to generate much activity, but one of its all-time, most-useful useful posts was instigated by Jvolgarino (2021). He asked how […]
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? […]
Do you ever wonder why American automotive history can have such a dumbed-down quality? I would argue that a big reason why is that the subject has never gained much traction in the scholarly realm. […]
A few days ago Aaron Severson (2024) posted an epic story about the aborted Ford Cardinal. His 22,000-word piece deepens the dialogue about this important car. In a moment we will debate some of his […]
I had high hopes when I saw that the August issue of Collectible Automobile included a story about the 1968-70 AMC Javelin. Patrick Foster has been studying American Motors’ history for decades, so I expected […]
(EXPANDED FROM 5/1/2020) Today someone commented on this post, which I wrote more than four years ago. So perhaps it’s time for an update on automotive-blog comment threads. Around 15 years ago I started to […]
Right before Christmas Aaron Severson (2023) warned that “the future of Ate Up With Motor is looking quite bleak.” This strikes me as a wake-up call to the automotive history field. Severson is arguably one […]
If not, you may find it to be worth cruising over to the Society of Automotive Historians’s website (go here). This international nonprofit organization has just rolled out a new design that looks great and […]
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