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Ninth Biennial Automotive History Conference
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The 2012 Automotive History Conference continues the Society's tradition of a biennial symposium of researchers and academic professionals who will present their recent work on the history of the motor industry, its products and their...

Getting Started

Welcome to the new AutoHistory. Please pardon our dust; we're still moving in and getting used to the place. Now you can read The Journal and The Review online as well as chat in the message forums, but you must do two things first....

Finding a Home for Your Automotive History Collection

BY THE SAH ARCHIVES COMMITTE Your goal in choosing a home for your automotive materials is two-fold: first, to preserve a collection which you have carefully assembled, perhaps over many years, and second to make it available for the...

The Turbine Special: New York to L.A. by Turbine Car
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By Dave Duricy Parked outside the Chrysler International Auto Salon of the Chrysler Building at Lexington and 42nd Street, a 1956 Plymouth Belvedere attracted a couple hundred spectators. The sound of the idling car more than the white...

Welcome to the Chrysler: Where UP is the Destination
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By David Duricy Walter P. Chrysler said he built the Chrysler Building for his sons. However, it was the old man wrestling blueprints on the floor of his Madison Avenue office. The same Walter Chrysler who had swept the Union Pacific...