Author: John Faulkner

John Faulkner is Road Test Editor at Clean Fleet Report. He has more than 30 years’ experience branding, launching and marketing automobiles. He has worked with General Motors (all Divisions), Chrysler (Dodge, Jeep, Eagle), Ford and Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan and Toyota on consumer events and sales training programs. His interest in automobiles is broad and deep, beginning as a child riding in the back seat of his parent’s 1950 Studebaker. He is a journalist member of the Motor Press Guild and Western Automotive Journalists.
Autos

Dials and Digital Dreams: The Most Iconic Dashboards of the 70s and 80s

Later years saw vehicles without seatbelt laws or giant touchscreens swallowing dash space. Designers played instead of following rules, testing odd features we might see as weird today. Inside, control panels turned into playgrounds style mattered way more than comfort. Picture bright meters resembling vintage game consoles, switches clicking sharply when pressed, edges cutting across […]

Autos

Idaho’s Automotive Oasis: Uncovering Treasures at Jim’s Vintage Automotive

Out beyond the flat stretches near Mountain Home, Idaho, you’ll find Jim’s Vintage Automotive not quite a junkyard, not exactly a museum either. Forty scattered acres hold what years of careful gathering built: heaps of metal turned sacred through time. Started back in 1972 by Jim and Eddye Hines, it breathes slow, unhurried life into […]

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