There were a lot of magazines like Road & Track Hot Rodding and newsstands, when a quarterly magazine called automobile introduced in 1962 with a serious neo-Edwardian.
"A publication that meets the needs of our enthusiasm," wrote the editor, a declared fan of extreme cars ", and found a place in the field of literature the car."
The rigid daily at the hands of the player, he said, could fill this vacuum four times a year in over 100 pages in full color and free of advertising that contains articles richly illustrated encyclopaedic in length, and literary quality, everyone to reflect "the grandeur, majesty, an adventure that is the automobile."
L. Scott Bailey, the real "you" behind this commitment and the founder of Automobile Quarterly, died June 26 at the age of 87 at his home in English Cotswolds, this promise was kept by most accounts .
The magazine has created is known to collectors and thinkers of the garage as the gold standard "literature of the car" in the phrase of Mr. Bailey is a cross between The New Yorker and the Encyclopaedia Britannica in the world Automania, and one of the few magazines always come with a subtitle: The Connoisseur Magazine of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow.
In the 24 years before retiring current car Quarterly in 1986, Mr. Bailey has published an unbroken string of quarterly reports of gold in relief, which was a virtual archive of the known universe of the car: long biographical essays of professional pilots, engineers and inventors forgot to innovative technologies for motor vehicles; historical dissertations on classics like Duesenberg, unusual yarns, as the definitive history of the two-wheeled vehicles giroscópicamente balanced, designed in 1914 by Count Peter of Schilovsky Russia, and a scoop.
In 1980, Mr. Bailey was the first to post back-to-a-napkin sketches is said that Hitler did in 1934 to show the car's designer, Ferdinand Porsche, his idea of ??a Volkswagen bug.
Karl Ludvigsen, an historic Mercedes-Benz and quarterly former collaborator of the car, a magazine called Mr. Bailey is an indispensable part of the library of any serious lover of cars. "Every car enthusiast or historian who does not have a collection of indexed Quarterly Motor is operating in a desert," he said in an email Wednesday.
Kit Foster, director of the Journal of the history of the automobile, the journal of the Society of Automotive Historians, Mr. Bailey described as "a genius" good pieces in a row, and find the best writers. Its stability is considered the most illustrious of the field, including Ken Purdy, Griffith Borgeson and Beverly Rae Kimes, who began as secretary to the car and Quarterly has won numerous awards for automotive journalism.
WO Bentley and Ferrari Enzo, founders of dynasties of cars bearing their names, each under his memoirs published in the newspaper Mr. Bailey.
Mr. Bailey said the decision not to accept advertising was partly an aesthetic choice.
Display ads, he wrote, would "get into the editorial pages, cut into pieces, and break stories that challenge the reader to determine the editorial and advertising.
"I was convinced that the magazine would be successful as a result of the" reader acceptance, because of advertising revenue. "
The circulation of the magazine, which has remained in the publication, under different owners since 1986 has never exceeded 35,000 subscribers.
In part to help finance, Mr. Bailey and his wife, Margaret, magazine editor, he founded a company specializing in the history of the automobile, Princeton Publishing, which published more than 50 works by independent historians and as stories of the companies responsible for General Motors, Porsche, Cadillac and Ferrari.
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