Society of Automotive Historians

This massive work presenting alphabetically every Southern California-located maker or manufacturer of vehicles from 1896 to early 2026 is the book by Leslie Mark Kendall (SAH #1599) we’ve been hinting would soon be released. Well, it’s almost here! Pages have all been […]

by John and Jeanie Jacobus SAH #2220 This next resulted from a recent exchange of “memories” between the writers and your correspondent (hvh) and begged to be shared with all regarding: We have many wonderful memories of working on the Guild and getting […]

There’s another new book. This one is written by former SAH (#5169) member Preston Lerner. SAH president 2019 through 2021, Don Capps (#3122), had been one from whom Lerner, his longtime friend, had sought input sharing an early draft of his manuscript with Don […]

A brand new book has been written and published by SAH member #4228, Mark L. James. Titled The 1954 Hudson Italia, it is indeed just about that single year car of which only 25 were ever produced. The story it tells of Hudson […]

Gary Witzenburg joined SAH (#2613) shortly after the Millenium. He’s truly been car-centric his entire life as the myriad articles he’s written over his 38-year career along with the ten books he’s authored bear witness. Publications for which he has written […]

Mark Vargas, SAH Board member and Director of Grants and Research at America’s Packard Museum. The entrance to Hell in Dante Alighieri’s Inferno is a gate bearing the famous inscription: “Abandon all hope, ye who enter here.” Welcome to the netherworld of copyright […]

Four years ago, Alfred Fisher III, and his brother, Michael J. Fisher, of Fisher & Co. and Fisher Dynamics, the latest DNA of the seven Fisher brothers still in the automotive business, hired SAH member Dan Hughes to create a book on […]

Then the something old is quite special on several levels. It concerns a book written by a longtime and much missed SAH member named Jim Crank (SAH #1153). Engineer by trade, Crank had been captivated by all things Doble—as in steam car—and more. As […]

Then just last issue we mentioned a one-time SAH member (# 5169) Preston Lerner’s seminal work documenting Lance Reventlow and his Scarab racecars only to learn just a week or so later that Lerner has a new book releasing in mere days. It is […]

Something old; Somethings new The somethings new: Chris’s very first newsletter—ever—at the beginning of this year, told you about Leslie Kendall’s (SAH #1599) first book targeted to publish this year. Good news is it is on track although a precise release date is […]

What follows is the third of three articles addressing available research resources written by Mark Vargas, SAH Board member and Director of Grants and Research at America’s Packard Museum.  Many aficionados of automotive history, like the members of SAH, look for sources […]

What follows is the first of three articles addressing available research resources written by Mark Vargas, SAH Board member and Director of Grants and Research at America’s Packard Museum.  Many aficionados of automotive history, like the members of SAH, look for sources […]

Since the last newsletter in which Mark Vargas reminded us of America’s Packard Museum’s book loan program available exclusively to SAH members in good standing, your correspondent has participated in the program. Thus follow thoughts from that experience. It was precipitated by […]

SAHJ #314 published a review of Hello, I’m Paul Page; “It’s Race Day in Indianapolis.” Then the unusual and unexpected happened. The book was pulled from the marketplace by the publisher. A few months later it reappeared but now from a different publisher […]