Moon was the second of three failing car companies that killed the Ruxton. The Historic…
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Reviled as the man who killed Kissel, Archibald Moulton Andrews also is blamed for the…
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Writing almost a decade ago for Hemming Classic Car, an author concluded that “[s}adly, by…
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Gus Wilson was the best auto mechanic ever. He learned his trade young, opening the…
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Automobile Chronicles is about “Automotive History – Then and Now.” But there would not be…
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Over one hundred years ago, automobile manufacturers invented dealers to save themselves the capital cost…
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HOW THREE FAILING CAR COMPANIES KILLED THE RUXTON – PART TWO
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…
HOW THREE FAILING CAR COMPANIES KILLED THE RUXTON – PART ONE
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…
PROFESSIONAL CAR SOCIETY CONCOURS D’ELEGANCE
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 – BEST AUTO MECHANIC EVER
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…
THE WHEEL IN AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY
Automobile Chronicles is about “Automotive History – Then and Now.” But there would not be any automotive history were it not for the wheel. Two of our readers, Emily and Melissa, who…
TESLA NEEDS DEALERS TO MAKE A PROFIT
Over one hundred years ago, automobile manufacturers invented dealers to save themselves the capital cost of maintaining inventory and to make the process of delivering new automobiles to customers both efficient and…
THE REAL REASON PACKARD DIED
The One-Twenty vs. the “Senior” Model Packards Those who attribute Packard’s demise to introduction of the One-Twenty model in 1935 indulge in the fallacy that corporations fail from one factor which, had…
GHOSN v. JAPAN, INC.
In engineering the arrest of Carlos Ghosn, the executives at Nissan displayed their nation’s barbarous judicial system and their company’s self-destructive management for the entire world to see. It is not a…
MUSK SETS UP THE SEC
You won’t see a headline reading “Musk sets up the SEC.” But the Securities and Exchange Commission is in a pickle of its own making with no way out. Elon Musk, founder…