Comment housecleaning
As a gentle reminder, Ate Up With Motor is an automotive history and commentary site, NOT a marketplace, a restoration guide, or a forum for technical advice. Therefore, it bears repeating: I am NOT a...
View ArticleTwilight of the Analytics
I am strongly considering discontinuing the use of the Google Analytics service. If you’re interested, the reasons are below the cut. My rationale for using the analytics service, which I set up many...
View ArticleTwilight of the Analytics, Part 2
I have now discontinued my use of Google Analytics tracking on the Ate Up With Motor website, and I have initiated the process of deleting the existing analytics data. If you already have analytics...
View ArticleTo Content or Not to Content
I have recently been working on some articles as possible new Ate Up With Motor content: 1955–1958 Chevrolet Cameo Carrier (which would be the first time I’ve dealt with anything truck-like since the...
View ArticleHiding the Box
I’ve had to change the mechanism for hiding the “Support Ate Up With Motor” box and its embedded PayPal payment button, as the old option was no longer working correctly. The new option is available by...
View ArticleDon’t Call It Hydra-Matic: The Rolls-Royce and Bentley Automatic Gearbox
Although the Hydra-Matic transmission was first used by Oldsmobile and Cadillac, the final user was not a GM division, but Rolls-Royce, which used its own license-built versions of this highly...
View ArticleNew Content
If you were wondering, yes, that is a new article. Those of you who don’t share my fascination with the original Hydra-Matic transmission will not be cheered, but I thought the saga of the Rolls-Royce...
View ArticleGlamor Truck From Planet 8: The 1955 Chevrolet Cameo Carrier
Hard as it is now to envision, there was a time, still within living memory, when trucks were not readily accepted in American polite society. One of the most significant harbingers of the transition...
View ArticleMagnificent Kludge: The ‘Rope-Drive’ 1961–1963 Pontiac Tempest
What price novelty? If you walked into a Pontiac dealer in November 1960, the answer was $2,167, the list price of one of the most unusual American cars of its era: the all-new 1961 Pontiac Tempest. In...
View ArticleIn Case You Missed Them
There have been three (3) new Ate Up With Motor articles in the latter part of 2022. In case you missed any of them, they are: Don’t Call It Hydra-Matic: The Rolls-Royce and Bentley Automatic Gearbox...
View ArticleBrief Interruptions
A little while ago, at 12:30 p.m. Pacific, the Ate Up With Motor website completed a scheduled server migration. Although it completed quite quickly, there may be some brief interruptions in...
View ArticleJetfire?
I have now written about the 1961–1963 Pontiac Tempest, the 1961–1963 Buick Special/Skylark, and the 1961–1963 Oldsmobile F-85 Cutlass, but the one facet of the GM Y-body “senior compacts” I still...
View ArticleTurbos for the Turnpike: The Turbocharged Oldsmobile F-85 Jetfire
In 1962, Chevrolet and Oldsmobile introduced the world’s first turbocharged production cars, the Oldsmobile F-85 Jetfire and Chevrolet Corvair Monza Spyder. In this installment of Ate Up With Motor,...
View ArticleStatus Report
As you may have noticed, there haven’t been any additional Ate Up With Motor articles since the end of April. Ate Up With Motor has never been a particularly lucrative venture (although it’s helped me...
View ArticleStatus Update
Since my previous post, a number of people have made financial contributions to the site, which I very much appreciate, and which I have used to: Renew the ateupwithmotor.com domain registration...
View ArticleAte Up With Motor Highlights: Continental Edition
It occurs to me that it might be worthwhile to highlight some of the existing Ate Up With Motor articles of which I’m especially proud, of which there’ve been quite a few over the years. Here are two:...
View ArticleAte Up With Motor Highlights: The End of the Fiesta
Another Ate Up With Motor article of which I’m especially proud: Party Downsize: The Ford Fiesta Mk1 and Mk2: When I chronicled the early history of Ford’s B-segment hatchback back in 2013, I wouldn’t...
View ArticleAte Up With Motor Highlights: The De Luxe Edition
Two more past Ate Up With Motor articles of which I’m particularly proud: High-Tech High Roller: 1981–2001 Toyota Soarer Z10, Z20, and Z30: I get the feeling that sometimes the things that fascinate me...
View ArticleElectronic Fuel Injection Article
If you know anything about early automotive fuel injection systems, or if you’ve seen the Jay Leno’s Garage video about Per Blixt’s 1958 Chrysler 300D, you’re probably at least dimly aware of the...
View ArticleElectrojector and D-Jetronic: Early Electronic Fuel Injection
Once considered exotic technology, electronic fuel injection has been around a surprisingly long time. In this installment of Ate Up With Motor, we review the origins of EFI and examine the...
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