The Automotive Histories cover a wide range of subjects: brands, personalities, design, technology, whatever catches our fancy in a Goldilocks format: not too long and arcane, but not too short of facts and insight.
Design:
An Illustrated History of Automotive Aerodynamics: Part1 Part 2 Part 3 Part IV: Drag Area Matters
How The 1960 Corvair Started A Global Design Revolution
Pinifarina’s Revolutionary Florida: The Most Influential Design Since 1955
Hidden Headlights: Part1 & Part 2
The Short Life Of The Two Door Station Wagon
Trying To Make (Business Coupe) Sense Of The Gremlin
How The 1939 Lincoln Zephyr Ushered In A Design Revolution Thanks To A Hot Radiator
Domestic Car Histories
The First Wave Of Domestic Compacts: The Pioneers Take The Arrows
Mid-Size Madness: What Would You Have Chosen In ’65?
Ford Ranger: Auld Lang Syne – Ford Says Goodbye To The Ranger
Saturn’s Early Years: Corporate Camelot
Chevrolet Cor-Nova 1985 (NUMMI): Lessons Not Learned
GM’s 1947 Cadet: Radically Advanced And Aborted Small Car
Cadillac Catera: Caddy’s Dead Duck
The GM B-Body: A Love Song In B Major
1958 Jeep FC-150 Minivan Prototype and the Jeep FC-150 and FC-170 Forward Control Trucks
Domestic Industry Histories:
How GM Nickled And Dimed Americans (And Itself) To Death: Undersized Tires
That “Special Time”: The US Auto Industry During The Korean War
Celebrating V-J Day: When Cars Came Home From The War
Crosley: America’s Homegrown Kei Car
Chrysler’s Bi-Polar History: Crashes 1 – 5 and Crashes 6 – 9
The Canadian Studebaker Plant: The Last Studebaker Ever Rolled Off The Lines Here
Ford’s Deja Vu Moment: How Donald Petersen Saved Ford In The Eighties
International Brands Histories:
Hans Ledwinkas’s Revolutionary Tatras
The World’s Greatest Wagons: Peugeot 203, 304, 404, 504, 505
The Volvo Duett: Probably The Most Practical Car In The World
Tempo Three Wheelers: From Motorized Wheelbarrows To Speed Record Holder To Immortality In India
The Short Wild Ride Of The Yugo in America
DKW Schnellaster: The Mother Of All Mini-Vans?
The History Of The Swedish A-Traktor: Regional Car Culture Explained
The Hyundai Origin Myth Revealed: There’s A Ford in Your Pony
Alfasud Sprint: The Scirocco’s Suicidal Kissing Cousin
The Wild Cars And Planes From Peronist Argentina
The Holden Sandman: The Aussies Blow The Pinto Cruising Wagon Away
VW Kubelwagen And Schwimmwagen: Germany’s WW2 Jeeps
Engines and Technologies:
The Legendary Buick Nailhead V8 And The Source Of Its Unusual Valve Arrangement
An X-Ray Look At GM’s X Frames (1957 – 1970)
Powerglide: A GM Greatest Hit Or Deadly Sin?
The Joys of Overdrive: The Borg-Warner Planetary Overdrive (1934 – 1972)
The Chevrolet “W” 348 Engine: First Of A Long Line Of Chevy Big blocks
Three Pot Stew: America’s Brief Fling With The Three-Cylinder Supermini
Rolls-Royce Mechanical Brake Booster/Servo: Used From 1919 through the Sixties
Diesel-Electric Submarines: Part 1 – World’s Biggest Hybrids Part 2: Acceleration From Zero To ??
Popular Culture And The Car
The Pinto’s Brief Life As An Airplane
Chrysler’s Dream Cars from the Fifties:
Turning Dreams Into Semi-Reality: Dual Ghia and Ghia L 6.4
The Bad Dreams: Turboflyte and Imperial D’Elegance
Dreams For Sale: The Production Chrysler Ghias
1951 Chrysler K310: The Beginning Of The Exner Era
Photography:
Victory Is Sweet: Vintage Drag Racing Pictures From Santa Maria (1958-1962)
