Historiography: The Last of The Independents
Born from the merger of the Hudson Motor Car Company and the Nash-Kelvinator Corporation in 1954, AMC's history had its share of twists and turns.
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Historiography: Casualties of A Sales War
There was a time when we became comfortable. Comfortable enough to let post-war designs to simply just be normalized.
Historiography: Turning The Page on Model Name Legacies
I figured I do a bit of ancestorial work to look at some of today’s models. Especially those that wonder why they were named such some generations ago.
My Favorite Cars From The 1950s
The 1950s provided a glimpse into the future. The Soviets blasted off into space, which was inconceivable at the time. We were flying in faster jet-powered airliners, plugging in guitars, basses and everything else in our music. We even saw a nation that could possibly be integrated and united.
Historiography: The Original Franco-American Affair
If divine foreign intervention did not come in time for an American automaker, the company in question would have probably ceased to exist by 1982.
Historiography: The American Compact Car
TweetBy the Fall of 1959, the North American automotive industry came to their senses. The rise of Volkswagen ushered in a period where the domestic automotive industry had to respond to a swath of smaller imported automobiles penetrating sales. Not to mention the loss of several nameplates in the process after World War II. When …