The E. P. Ingersoll Award is given for the best presentation of automotive history in media other than print that appeared in the previous calendar year.
Video documentaries, oral histories and sound recordings, podcasts, websites, blogs, social media, cell phone and tablet apps, computer software and art are eligible for consideration (nominations for online-only periodicals should be directed to the Brigham Award.)
Requirements
All nominations and enquiries should be sent to sahawards@autohistory.org. Your email will then be forwarded to the Ingersoll committee chair.
Nominations should include the name of the award, the media being nominated, the name and contact information of the individual making the nomination, and one or two lines outlining the reason for the nomination.
Please include a link to the relevant media or submit a copy to the committee. Please remember that nominated media, website, app or software should have appeared in the previous calendar year. Neither nominees nor nominators have to be be SAH members.
All nominations for the Ingersoll Award must be received by April 15 of this year. Be sure to apply by the deadline.
Previous Award Winners
2025
Elizabeth Blackstock podcast creator for “Deadly Passions, Terrible Joys” A Motorsport History Podcast
2024
Americanautoemblems.com
Mike Shears, creator/webmaster
2023
Bill McGuire’s for Mac’s Motor City Garage. https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com.
2022
No award
2021
No award
2020
Steve Salmi, for the Indie Auto website www.indieauto.org
2019
Howard Kroplick, for the Vanderbilt Cup Races website www.VanderbiltCupRaces.com
2018
William Dunbar, for the Chevrolet Brothers website www.ChevroletBrothers.com
2017
No award
2016
No award
2015
Don Hoke, for the Virtual Steam Car Museum www.virtualsteamcarmuseum.org
2014
No award.
2013
No award
2012
Aaron Severson, store for ateupwithmotor.com
2011
Racemaker Press, O’Keefe Winners Database, published online.
2010
2009
“The Greatest Auto Race on Earth,” Frame 30 Productions, Ltd., Michael Hamm, producer, director and writer; Kerrie Long, producer.
2007
No award.
2006
Automotive Research Services, Terry Dunham, developer and manager.
2005
“Victory by Design,” Filmplan, Ltd., Tony Maylam, director and writer.
2004
“For Gold and Glory: Charlie Wiggins and the African American Racing Car Circuit,” WFYI Productions, Todd Gould, author and producer.
2003
PreWarCar.com, Joris Bergsma, founder and editor
2002
The Woodward Dream Cruise
2001
Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance
2000
“The (new) Cadillac Database” www.car-nection.com/yann/, Yann Saunders, compiler and webmaster.
1999
No award
1998
Fall Hershey – Hershey Region, Antique Automobile Club of America
1997
“Automobiles,” television series of The History Channel, Michael Rose, producer, director, and writer
1996
“The Rare, Racy and Beautiful,” nine-part video series of Lounge Lizard Films, Scott Forsman producer, director and writer.
1995
“Driving Passion,” Parts 1 and 2, video series of Turner Home Entertainment, Judith Quain, writer/producer.
1994
“The Men Who Started It All,” audio tape production of Principle Publishing Company, Robert C. Jones author and producer
1993
“Wheels of Change…How Trucking Changed America,” a video presentation of American Film Works, John Connor and Steve Mohl, co-producers.
1992
“The History of the Automobile,” a six-part video production of British Petroleum Corp., Bill Mason, producer