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Today's New York Times carries the obit for L. Scott Bailey, founder and editor for many years of the most elegant hobby publication, "Automobile Quarterly". The publication (not a magazine but a hardcover journal) employed the finest writers and historians, never carried any commercial content or advertising, and was (and still is) extremely highly regarded and an essential part of any serious car lover's library. Karl Ludvigsen (Mercedes historian) is quoted in the obit as saying that to be a motoring enthusiast without a full indexed set of AQ is to be "in the wilderness". Quite the compliment!

For those of us who were in the hobby in 1962 when Studebaker-Packard Corp. dropped Packard from their name, we can recall the emotion and passion at that decision and that's very well covered in Vol 1, No. 3. Quoting from my own review of that issue in our Bookshelf,

The volume, published at the time that the Studebaker-Packard Corp. chose to eliminate the word Packard from their corporate name, is essentially a very eloquent eulogy to Packard. This issue contains several articles not related to Packard, but the keynote article (25 pages), "Packard - A Great Name Passes On", written by Tom Mahoney, includes a brief history, some excellent photos for which Automobile Quarterly is reknown, and some wonderful prose which may even bring a tear to the eye of the reader.

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