''Automobile Quarterly'' was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical publication focused on collectible cars. The publication was known for its quality writing and photography of automobiles, personalities and related subjects.

History and profile

The magazine started in Spring of 1962 with the subtitle "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow" or in the words of the founder—"a cross between ''

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'' in the world of auto mania". The founder and first editor was L. Scott Bailey (September 4, 1924 to June 26, 2012), working from offices in New York City. In 1963, an "office of publication" was opened in Kutztown,

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purchased ''Automobile Quarterly'' in 1986 and then sold the magazine to Kutztown Publishing in 1988. In October 2000, ''Automobile Quarterly'' was sold to a newly formed company, Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC, and relocated to New Albany,

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. Vol. 52 (1) was the last issue published, in 2012. Kaye Bowles Durnell, the final editor, ceased publication in 2012 and stored the materials. In late 2018, she donated the Automobile Quarterly collection t
America's Packard Museum
in Dayton, Ohio. The Museum i
digitizing samples
from the collection and they are available on th
Museum's Omeka site

References

External links

''Automobile Quarterly'' Volume 4 Issue 4 (in Google Books)

Automobile Quarterly Collection at America's Packard Museum

Automobile Quarterly Collection on Omeka
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