Society of Automotive Historians

The Ninth Annual Michael R. Argetsinger Symposium on International Motor Racing History, held by the International Motor Racing Research Center (IMRRC) in partnership with the SAH and Gran Touring Motorsports (GTM), took place at the Harbor Hotel in downtown Watkins Glen on Friday November 21st […] Read More

The 2025 SAH Hershey Orange Field tent was 20’ x 20’ which was two-thirds the size of previous years. It worked fine and a slightly smaller tent could be considered for next year. Monday and Tuesday set up was handled […] Read More

The 2025 SAH Annual Awards Banquet was held Saturday, September 20 at the historic Durant-Dort Factory One in Flint, Michigan, considered the birthplace of General Motors. The weekend of activities included a special tour of the Sloan Museum Automotive and […] Read More

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 […] Read More

America’s Packard Museum has completed a one-year grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to inventory the records of Automobile Quarterly. The collection is 440 cubic feet of material in 28 lateral filing cabinets holding 12,586 folders. The collection contains […] Read More

David O. Lyon’s name is now emblazoned in lights – well perhaps not literally but in the Summer of 2023 his dedicated efforts to keep the world informed regarding Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan—a bit outside of Kalamazoo—were rewarded […] Read More

The SAH is pleased to announce the following new Officers and Board Members: Vice President David Schmidt served on the Board of Directors before being named as Vice President after the last election. Born in Detroit, his father and grandfather both worked […] Read More

Thank you for entrusting me with the leadership of the Society of Automotive Historians for the next two years. VP David Schmidt and I are working together to make the SAH more accessible and to encourage participation from SAH members. […] Read More

Each year the SAH receives a number of books and periodicals as part of the nomination process for the SAH Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Award and the Carl Benz Award. After each SAH Annual Awards Banquet, those books and periodicals are deposited into the SAH Special […] Read More

This year we tried something different, hosting the 2025 SAH Annual Awards Banquet at the historic Durant-Dort Factory One in Flint, Michigan, considered the birthplace of General Motors. The weekend of activities included a special tour of the Sloan Museum […] Read More