Hemmings Classic Car
October 2004
Reviewed by Jim Donnelly

Literally from the opening sentence, the authors make it clear that, at one point, Indiana was home to more auto manufacturers than Detroit. In the industry's history, more than 400 brands of cars, trucks and cyclecars were assembled in Indiana, and the list of them includes names still spoken with great respect, and we're not just talking Duesenberg and Stutz here, either. We mean Studebaker, Marmon, Cole, National and International. And most recently, Humvee.
The content is arrayed in a fashion that merges American history with the development of Indiana cars. It's an intelligent, very useful combination of marque histories, travelogue and biographies, encompassing the great sweep of the car's impact on Indiana business, engineering and culture.
The hardbound, 197-page book, with more than 150 illustrations, is positively chock-a-block with cool trivia. How many remember that the Wright-Cyclone engines that powered the B-17 Flying Fortress were assembled by Studebaker?
Appendices include a timeline, marque listings and, of all things, an inflation calculator. This is a very entertaining book that begs the question: When is somebody going to write a corresponding volume about Michigan?