Automobile Quarterly

Automobile Quarterly was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical publication focused on collectible cars.^[1] The publication was known for its quality writing and photography of automobiles, personalities and related subjects.^[2]

Automobile Quarterly

Categories	Automobile magazine
Frequency	Quarterly
Founder	L. Scott Bailey
Founded	Spring 1962
Final issue	2012
Country	USA
Based in	New Albany, Indiana
Language	English
ISSN	0005-1438

History and profile

The magazine started in Spring of 1962^[3] with the subtitle "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow" or in the words of the founder—"a cross between The New Yorker and Encyclopædia Britannica in the world of auto mania". The founder and first editor was L. Scott Bailey (September 4, 1924 to June 26, 2012),^[4] working from offices in New York City. In 1963, an "office of publication" was opened in Kutztown, Pennsylvania, which operated first as Automobile Quarterly, Inc.

Bailey retired to live in the English Cotswolds and CBS Magazines purchased Automobile Quarterly in 1986 and then sold the magazine to Kutztown Publishing in 1988.^[5][6] In October 2000, Automobile Quarterly was sold to a newly formed company, Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC, and relocated to New Albany, Indiana.^[7]

Vol. 52 (1) was the last issue published, in 2012.

References

1. Stephen Blake Mettee American Directory of Writer's Guidelines 2006 edition, at Google Books
2. Robert McLellan Automobile Quarterly Collections Archived September 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine May 2005; The Automotive Chronicles website. Retrieved August 23, 2009
3. Jonathan A. Stein (July 5, 2012). "L. Scott Bailey". Hagerty. Retrieved August 5, 2015.
4. Paul Vitello. (July 16, 2012). "L Scott Bailey, Founder of Automobile Quarterly, dies at 87". The New York Times.
5. "CBS Inc., whose magazine group publishes Road & Track and Car and Driver acquired the assets of Automobile Quarterly Publishing Co., a Princeton N.J., firm", Chicago Tribune, June 20, 1986
6. Hachette to Buy Magazine Publisher. The New York Times. April 14, 1988.
7. "Kutztown Publishing Inc. has sold Automobile Quarterly to Automobile Heritage & Communications, Inc". Deals. Desilva and Phillips. July 2000. Archived from the original on September 23, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2012.

External links

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