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Jim Koscs

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Automotive PR/marcom writer has worked with the world's top car brands. Auto journalist writing stories at the intersection of history, emotion and culture.
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Back from the USSR: Soviet cars earn another look

Back from the USSR: Soviet cars earn another look

It was a dark and stormy afternoon (it really was) when I stepped into a big, forboding Soviet limousine from…

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Rusty Trails: Surveying America’s troubled roadways from a ’49 Hudson

Rusty Trails: Surveying America’s troubled roadways from a ’49 Hudson

America's infrastructure is crumbling, with some 63,000 bridges considered structurally deficient by the Amer…

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The Schwinn Sting-Ray: No longer child's play

The Schwinn Sting-Ray: No longer child's play

In the 1960s and early '70s, the two-wheel dream machine for many children in the US and Canada was a Schwinn…

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In Iran, Hailing Detroit With Vintage V-8's

In Iran, Hailing Detroit With Vintage V-8's

The late Anthony Bourdain did a wonderful "Parts Unknown" episode on Tehran, Iran, which ended with a gatheri…

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Lots of Web Traffic in Such a Tiny Town

Lots of Web Traffic in Such a Tiny Town

Artist Michael Paul Smith became a social media sensation in 2010 when his tiny imaginary town of Elgin Park …

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Beauty in the Beast: Which Classic Muscle Cars Are Most Iconic?

Beauty in the Beast: Which Classic Muscle Cars Are Most Iconic?

If you think talking politics is the quickest way to ignite an argument, you haven't tried classic muscle car…

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Forty years on, GMC Motorhome remains on the move

Forty years on, GMC Motorhome remains on the move

How does an RV develop a cult following? One of the GMC Motorhome's adherents is the man who developed life s…

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Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Beach Cars

Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Beach Cars

What has 13 horsepower, a happy name, and looks like it escaped from a Disney kids' ride? It's the Fiat Jolly…

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A Hand-Me-Down With a History

A Hand-Me-Down With a History

Some things are worth cherishing and preserving. Randy Mehrberg became the caretaker of a 1952 MG TD in 2010,…

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Two Fieros for Want of a Ferrari

Two Fieros for Want of a Ferrari

(From the "Auto Ego" column I wrote for the NY Times) The TV hit "How I Met Your Mother" helped rekindle int…

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Legend of the Car Craft Camaro

Legend of the Car Craft Camaro

In the mid- and late-1970s, used 1967-69 Camaros became what the 1955-57 Chevy had been for hot rodders and r…

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All That Glitters is Probably Fiberglass

All That Glitters is Probably Fiberglass

To some enthusiasts, they are the automotive equivalent of a Thomas Kinkade painting: inspired art to their o…

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How a Ford Mustang become a National Rally Champion | Hagerty Articles

How a Ford Mustang become a National Rally Champion | Hagerty Articles

If rallying makes you think of flying Audis and drifting Subarus, adjust your brain to the idea of the Ford M…

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Gen-Z Driver, Cool for School

Gen-Z Driver, Cool for School

For a first car, many high school kids pine for a souped up Civic or Subaru. But in his junior year, Anthony …

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The first IROC Camaro was a street car with desire

The first IROC Camaro was a street car with desire

Propelled by a racing image and the novelty of having a car that seemed to declare, “I rock,” the IROC-Z Cama…

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Knock if off, guys: It's not her husband's car!

Knock if off, guys: It's not her husband's car!

Admit it. At some point, you've witnessed a woman standing by a car at a show or concours and heard someone a…

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Citroën's Last American Gasp: French, Futuristic and Desired by Few

Citroën's Last American Gasp: French, Futuristic and Desired by Few

Did you catch Dave Chappelle in this season of Jerry Seinfeld's "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee?" Seinfeld …

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The man who designs the future drives a '72 Chrysler Imperial | Hagerty Articles

The man who designs the future drives a '72 Chrysler Imperial | Hagerty Articles

It's been 36 years since the sci-fi cult classic film Blade Runner foretold a future of homicidal synthetic h…

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The original Ford Mustang was a tour de force in the 1964 Tour de France | Hagerty Articles

The original Ford Mustang was a tour de force in the 1964 Tour de France | Hagerty Articles

Before there was a Tour de France bicycle race, there was the Tour de France Auto race, begun in 1899 (that's…

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50 Years Ago, the Turbocharger Was a Disruptive Technology

50 Years Ago, the Turbocharger Was a Disruptive Technology

Was the first production turbocharged car a Porsche? A Saab? Neither. General Motors got there first in 1962 …

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When the C4 Corvette was banned for being too good, it had to create its own series | Hagerty Art...

When the C4 Corvette was banned for being too good, it had to create its own series | Hagerty Art...

When the SCCA booted the Corvette from Showroom Stock GT racing in the 1980s, the Corvette Challenge series w…

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Rat Rod: A Statement Made of Rust

Rat Rod: A Statement Made of Rust

HIGHLAND FALLS, N.Y. - The Storm King Highway, a twisting two-lane ribbon carved into a mountainside here nin…

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Looking Like a High Roller

Looking Like a High Roller

As part of a freelance video news crew, David Michael Leedy was on the scene of the arson at the Happy Land S…

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Her True Colors, in Plain View

Her True Colors, in Plain View

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. - Over a lunch of grilled cheese sandwiches at Panera Bread on Hempstead Turnpike here, Kim…

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