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When we popped the champagne cork on 2012, celebrating a full year of producing monthly singing, dancing versions of Automobile Magazine on the iPad alongside both the monthly magazine and the pretty much hourly updates at automobilemag.com, we never considered one very important thing: that we would run out of space and have to move from our aerie in downtown Ann Arbor. Yet, after twenty-six years, 120 East Liberty has grown crowded. So, we are outta here.

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.