Automobile Quarterly
| Categories | Automobile magazine |
|---|---|
| Frequency | Quarterly |
| Founder | L. Scott Bailey |
| Year founded | Spring 1962 |
| Country |
 United States |
| Based in | New Albany, Indiana |
| Language | English |
| Website |
www |
| ISSN | 0005-1438 |
Automobile Quarterly was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical publication[1] that started in Spring 1962 with the sub-title "The Connoisseur's Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow" or in the words of the founder—"a cross between The New Yorker and Encyclopaedia Britannica in the world of auto mania".
The founder and first editor was L. Scott Bailey (September 4, 1924 to June 26, 2012),[2] 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 selling the magazine to Kutztown Publishing in 1988.[3][4] In October 2000, Kutztown Publishing was sold to a newly formed company, Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC, and relocated to New Albany, Indiana.[5]
The publication has been well known for quality writing and photography about automobiles, personalities and related subjects.[6]
So far, vol. 52 (1) has been the last issue. Although the AQ website is still online, there are severe doubts regarding further publications.[7]
References
- ↑ Stephen Blake Mettee American Directory of Writer's Guidelines 2006 edition, at Google Books
- ↑ Paul Vitello, The New York Times, Media & Advertising, July 15, 2012. L Scott Bailey, Founder of Automobile Quarterly, dies at 87
- ↑ 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, 1986 June 20, Business
- ↑ Hachette to Buy Magazine Publisher
- ↑ Desilva and Phillips, Deals, July 2000: Automobile Quarterly
- ↑ Robert McLellan Automobile Quarterly Collections May 2005; at The Automotive Chronicles website. Accessed August 23, 2009
- ↑ Automobile Quarterly to cease publication; carpubinsider.com; accessed August 2013