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Confession: I've been a card-carrying member of the Society of Automotive Historians for quite a while. OK, I never really carried a card, per se, but I have been known on occasion to wear the SAH lapel pin, a discreet little bauble depicting the Cugnot steam carriage of 1769, a.k.a. the first self-propelled vehicle. The bimonthly SAH Journal is always a good read. A recent issue, for instance, included a survey piece about the reverse-raked Z-shaped roofline, a design fillip shared by behemoth late-1950s Lincolns, '60s "Breezeway" Mercurys, the Citroen Ami, and (English) Ford Anglias. This kind of stuff is solid gold for a true car geek with an ecumenical bent.