Posted on December 14th, 2008 • by David Zatz
On Meet the Press this morning, Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm made her case for temporary loans to domestic automakers hit by a combination of slow sales and a credit freeze, at a time when all three were in the midst of retooling for a new generation of vehicles. Mitt Romney, former governor and presidential candidate, [...]
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Posted on November 3rd, 2008 • by David Zatz
Last week, two sources claimed that the Plymouth Road Office Complex (PROC), currently home to part of Jeep/Truck Engineering, was being vacated, after over 80 continuous years of use by Kelvinator (as an appliance factory), AMC, and Chrysler. This turned out to be wrong – the second time in a brief period such disinformation [...]
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Posted on August 26th, 2008 • by David Zatz
The October 2008 issue of Collectible Automobile is currently available, and features the 1964-66 Imperial, 1930-33 Hudson Eight, and a interview with John Conde, former assistant director of relations at AMC and former president of the Society of Auto Historians.
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