Fin Tales is chatty, engaging, and easy to read. Written by John Smith about his…
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The herd mentality is alive and well among automobile industry executives, not excluding Mary Barra…
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Pat Foster of Hemmings blames the One-Twenty model for Packard’s demise – perpetuating a myth…
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To the management of Cadillac, today is about SUVs. Tomorrow is electric. The Cadillac luxury…
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Moon was the second of three failing car companies that killed the Ruxton. The Historic…
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Fin Tales is chatty, engaging, and easy to read. Written by John Smith about his experiences as General Manager of Cadillac, Smith’s story is one of rescuing the Cadillac brand from what…
The herd mentality is alive and well among automobile industry executives, not excluding Mary Barra and Jim Farley. Viewing Elon Musk and Tesla as their lodestar, automobile manufacturers seem intent on destroying…
Pat Foster of Hemmings blames the One-Twenty model for Packard’s demise – perpetuating a myth that cannot stand up to the facts. In his January, 2021, column for Hemmings Classic Car magazine,…
One hundred years ago, many automobiles were produced from standardized components purchased from others, rather than from components manufactured in house by the automobile company. Comprising 25% of the new car market…
To the management of Cadillac, today is about SUVs. Tomorrow is electric. The Cadillac luxury sedan is . . . yesterday. They do, however, promise a new luxury sedan in the future…
Moon was the second of three failing car companies that killed the Ruxton. The Historic Vehicle Association profile of Moon says it was “faced with dwindling profits and further resistance from New…
Reviled as the man who killed Kissel, Archibald Moulton Andrews also is blamed for the destroying Moon and Hupmobile in an ultimately futile quest to build his dream car, the Ruxton. Writing…
Writing almost a decade ago for Hemming Classic Car, an author concluded that “[s}adly, by the early 1930s, the custom coachwork era was ending, and it was all but gone by the…
Gus Wilson was the best auto mechanic ever. He learned his trade young, opening the Model Garage sometime before July of 1925, at a time when the Model T was still the…