[FWDLK] 1955 Motor Life Article

["Ken Fermoyle" <kfermoyle@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
You guys sure have made me feel welcome! I've had more than a dozen
e-mails from Forward Lookers just since I posted my first message. 

Are you familiar with Chris Whalen's car site? URL is:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rapilje
He's got a couple of articles there that I wrote back in the '50s or early '60s
 -- including one on the Chrysler 300F, written after I'd moved from Motor Life
 to Pop Science (a big step up, back then). It's in the Chrysler section just
 after a '54 Chrysler test by someone else. (I believe he has test reports on
 Ford & Pontiac tests that I did also.)

I've tried to answer all mail individually, but it seems like many of you want
 to hear about my experiences with '50s & '60s MoPars. So if it's alright
 with you, I'll just post general stuff to the list and try to send only answers
 to specific questions to individuals. If you get bored or think I using the
 list too much, just holler & I'll back off.

Just to give you more background....

I think I mentioned that I'm a born & bred Detroiter, transplanted to SoCal
 in 1966 to become editor of Pertersen's Wheels Afield. I've been a writer,
 editor & journalist for 51+ years. Got my first newspaper job in Oct. 1947
 as a part-timer on the staff of The Wage Earner, appropriately enough a labor
 paper sponsored by the Assoc. of Catholic Trade Unionist that focussed on
 combatting Communist influence on auto industry unions. I was a freshman at the
 Univ. of Detroit at the time. I worked one summer at the Chrysler Highland Park
 Plant and another at the old Dodge Main Plant while in college. The Dodge job
 (summer of '48) was the most brutal I've ever done; tell you about that one
 some time.

I worked for Ford as a reporter & editor from 1951-55; Motor Life, 1955-59;
 Pop Science auto editor, 1959-early 60s; Kenyon & Eckhardt (Ford Corporate
 & Lincoln-Mercury accounts) & BBDO (Dodge, Dodge Truck & Autolite)
 Ad Agencies, about 1962-1966; Petersen's Wheels Afield editor, 1966-1975;
 1975-77 freelance & PR for SCORE off-road racing group. So I spent 30 years
 involved in the auto industry in one way or another. Also, my father was a
 yardmaster for the old Dodge Bros. in the 20s, then yardmaster & head
 yardmaster at the Dodge Main Plant for 30+ years.  


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