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2019Journalism Awards

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Our journalism competition honors writers, editors, videographers and others who produce stories focused on automotive history, culture and aesthetics. Entries are from print, web, audio, video, any combination or any other platform. It’s the story-telling we honor.

Categories

• Best Heritage Car Culture Story• Best Automotive Heritage Travel or Adventure Story• Best Automotive Heritage Personality Profile• Best Heritage Marque-Specific Story• Best Heritage Facility Story – Plant, Museum, Race Track, etc.• Best Heritage Motorsport Story• Best Heritage Restoration or Repair Story• Best Heritage Blog or Column – based on 5 examples• Best Automotive Heritage Book• Best Heritage Audio or Video Story

Judging Statement

In our second year, with nearly double 2018’s entries, we doubled our number of highly experienced and respected auto journalist/editor judges. And with entries closing on May 31, we had a full month to get our judging completed before results had to be reported by June 30.

As before, entries were judged on numerical scales—not vs. each other—for originality of approach, use of language, accuracy/thoroughness, clarity and quality of writing, and the totals of those scores determined awards (if any) earned by each. Again, the quality of entries was high with 16 Gold, 8 Silver, 9 Bronze and 7 “Best in Category” awards earned, the latter for those judged the best Gold Award winners in categories with at least two entries.

Sincere gratitude to our distinguished team of judges: Ron Ahrens, John Biel, Paul Brian, Peter Brock, Rich Ceppos, Jill Ciminillo, John Davis, Matt DeLorenzo, Joe DeMatio, Brian Douglas, Lauren Fix, Ken Gross, Charlie Henry, Michael Jordan, John Lamm, Todd Lassa, Preston Lerner, Frank Markus, Mitch McCullough, Jack Nerad, Tony Quiroga, Kim Reynolds, Aaron Robinson, Art St. Antoine, Don Sherman, Dave Smith, Gary Vasilash, Mark Vaughn and Robin Warner. Also as before, this scoring system allows entrants to be judges, but in different categories. Thank you all again, and well done to all!

Gary Witzenburg, Csaba Csere Lead Judges

Journalism Awards Best Heritage Facility Story

Journalism Awards Best Heritage Blog or Column2019



Burt Levy Vintage Motorsport

Pure BS, ColumnThis is a tsunami year for Datsun/Nissan in North American motorsport. At Sebring, one of the two Tequila Patron Nissan DPis went out immediately thanks to what looked, at least to these tired old eyes, like a thoroughly idiotic, Banzai attempt to snatch the lead on the very first corner of the very first lap. But the sister car came through to win it all-by a scant 12.475 seconds(!) after 12 incredibly dramatic hoursof racing. Wow! And on the vintage front, Datsun/Nissan was picked as featured marque for both the HSR Walter Mitty Challenge at Road Atlanta (see race report this issue) and the iconic Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. Wow again... Read more in the Jul/Aug 2018 edition of Vintage Motorsport Magazine.

““Has a way with words, fun to read, really knows his stuff.”

Daniel Strohl Hemmings

The houses that T built (and that built the T): Tracking down the assembly plants of Ford’s first distributed production effort

““Scores high for reasons starting with originality and scope of research.”

These days, the automobile company that operates out of just one assembly plant is rare. A century ago, however, it was commonplace, and like many other automobile manufacturing innovations, the practice of operating multiple plants simultaneously derived from the popularity of the Ford Model T.

Ford Motor Company, however, didn’t just open one or two assembly plants here or there to handle the increased demand for the T. Instead, in the years before Peter E. Martin helped... Read more in Hemmings.

Ford Indianapolis Assembly Branch. Indianapolis, Indiana – East Washington and North Oriental streets; built 1914, assembly ended December 1932, sold circa 1942; currently under mixed-use redevelopment.

Best-in-categoryTrophy Winner


Journalism Awards Best Marque-Specific Story

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Journalism Awards Best Heritage Personality Profile


Graham Kozak Autoweek

The Man & His Cars: Ralph Lauren on style, driving—and why he doesn't think he's a collector

WHAT REALLY grabs your attention, as the big white door rolls aside deliberately, is the McLaren F1 LM parked on a slim white pedestal against the opposite wall. This is not just one of the finest driver’s cars ever conceived—it is perhaps the superlative form of one of the finest driver’s cars ever conceived, a road-legal interpretation of the Le Mans-winning McLaren F1 GTR. It is one of just five built (six, if you count the prototype) as tribute to McLaren’s improbable 1995 victory at the Circuit de la Sarthe, complete with a screaming V12 and straight-cut gears. Gordon Murray himself deemed this incarnation the “most memorable” of all F1s. Which has to count for something. And there it is, just a few yards in front of you, ready...

““Created a good sense of the man and his vision.”

Photo by Adam LernerFull article available in December 2018 Issue of Autoweek.

Toward the Tucker: Creating Preston Tucker's Bid for Glory

““I've got some background with this car, and this is the best story ever written about it.”

We can't be specific about when or why Preston Thomas Tucker got it into his head to become a motor mogul. We know it was during World War lI, in advance of which Tucker built his first complete motor vehicle in the capacious workshop behind his home in Ypsilanti, Michigan, west of Detroit. He created it in response to a requirement from the Dutch government for a fighting vehicle to help fend off any German attempt to carve through its territory on the way to France. Built on a 109-inch wheelbase, the 1938 "Tucker Tiger Tank" was in fact a scout car rolling on...

Full article available in December 2018 Issue of Collectible Automobile.

Karl Ludvigsen Collectible Automobile



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Journalism Awards Best Heritage Motorsport Story


Gary Horstkorta Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

One for the Ages - Racing Special

During the early 1950s, sports car racing in the United States was in its infancy – an amateur sport for gentlemen. Race grids were packed with British, German, and Italian performance machinery. Soon, a few homegrown “specials” – racecars built by enthusiasts unable or unwilling to buy a factory-made vehicle – began to appear among the European exotics. One of the most compelling accounts from this colorful period of motorsports weaves together the lives of remarkable men and a unique hand-built racing special, the Porter Mercedes-Benz SLS. It is a story of creativity...

““A fascinating story about a 300SL Gullwing turned into a hot-rod special..”

That summer, Porter sits in the beautiful SLS, a definitive example of the racing special.

Full article available in January/February 2018 Issue of The Star Magazine

Reid Railton: Man of Speed (two-volume)

Excerpt from Page 272 "It's Quickest by Railton"

M uch better suited to wedding service were run-of-the-mill Railtons. Entirely suitable were saloons in the range including the four-door by Carbodies at £568 and the Coachcraft University on a 117-inch wheelbase at £678. Railton prices were on the rise, including the £633 charged for the two-door Ranalah saloon. In 1936 Hudson delivered 283 chassis to Fairmile, which in turn provided 308 Railtons to its customers, adding chassis from its inventory. In that year the Hudson Deluxe Eight served as the basis of most...“

“First-class exploration of an historic British Automotive engineer.”

The Freeman-owned Carbodies-coachbuilt Railton Cobham saloon deserved to do well in the coachwork competition during the 1936 Blackpool Motor Rally

Karl Ludvigsen Best-in-categoryTrophy Winner


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Journalism Awards Best Heritage Travel/Adventure Story


Lyn Woodward The Drive

The Rebelle Rally A 7-Day, 1,200-mile, Women Only, GPS Free Test of Endurance, Brains and Heart

Video Available at www.thedrive.com/author/lyn-woodward

““Loved the day-by-day-plus-time format, personal angle and emotion.”


2019 Journalism Awards Awardees List


Best Heritage Personality Profile

Gold | Gary Witzenburg - Vince Piggins - Vintage MotorsportGold | Jeffery Zurschmeide - Never Take No For An Answer - From SCCA to Formula 1, the life and achievements of racing great Dan Gurney - SCCA

Gold | Richard Webber - Power of Scotland - Autocar UK Magazine

Gold | Graham Robson - Fritz Nallinger - In a League of His Own - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine


Gold | Graham Kozak - The Man & His Cars: Ralph Lauren on style, driving—and why he doesn't think he's a collector - Autoweek

Best Heritage Car Culture Story

Silver | Dave Abrahms - The Old Car - 1956 300C - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

Silver | Gary Witzenburg - Studio X- Motor Trend

Bronze | Michael Hoegl - My Mystery Machine - Mercedes-Benz Star MagazineBronze | Jaime Kopchinski - Perfectly Preserved Ponton - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

Bronze | Bob Giles - A Rare Classic - 1960 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham Restored - NewCarNews.TVBest Heritage Restoration or Repair Story

Gold | Karl Ludvigsen - Reid Railton: Man of Speed (two-volume)

Best Automotive Heritage Book

Gold | Peter Brock - The Road to Modena: Origins and history of the Shelby - DeTomaso P70 Cam-Am Sports Racer

Gold | Lawrence R. Gustin - David Buick's Marvelous Motor Car

Silver | Matt Avery - COPO: the Full Story on Chevy’s Ultimate Muscle Cars

Bronze| Tom Cotter - Ford Model T Coast to Coast: A Slow Drive across a Fast Country

Bronze| Lindsay Brooke - Triumph Motorcycles in America

Gold | Daniel Strohl -The houses that T built (and that built the T): Tracking down the assembly plants of Ford’s first distributed production effort - Hemmings

Best Automotive Heritage Facility Story

Gold | Graham Robson - Where Benzes are Born: Mannheim - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

Best Heritage Travel/Adventure StoryGold | Lyn Woodward - The Rebelle Rally A 7-Day, 1,200-mile, Women Only, GPS Free Test of Endurance, Brains and Heart - The Drive

Best Heritage Blog or Column

Silver | Michael Gulett - My Car Quest Blog - Available at www.MyCarQuest.com

Bronze | Sam Abuelsamid - The Navigator Column - Available in Automotive Engineering

Gold | Burt Levy - Pure BS - Available at www.VintageMotorSport.com

Best Marque-Specific Story

Silver | Gary Witzenburg - The Buick Grand National and GNX made 1980s history - Car and Driver

Silver | Gary Witzenburg - Three Mid-Engined Concepts That Foreshadowed the Next Corvette - Car and Driver

Bronze | Burt Levy - A story about Everyman's sports car: the Triumph TR3 and TR4 - Vintage Motorsport

Silver | John Biel - The Weight of History: Ford Motor Company in 1952 - Collectible Automobile

Silver | Gary Witzenburg - How the Chevrolet Corvette was Saved from Exinction - Twice - Car and Driver

Gold | Karl Ludvigsen - Toward the Tucker: Creating Preston Tucker's Bid for Glory - Collectible Automobile

Best Heritage Motorsport Story

Gold | Nate Lander - Return of a Champion - 1957 300SLS - Mercedes-Benz Star MagazineGold | Karl Ludvigsen - Prinz Heinrich Special - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

Gold | Graham Robson - A Winter's Tale - 1960 Monte Carlo - Mercedes-Benz Star MagazineGold | Gary Horstkorta - One for the Ages - Racing Special - Mercedes-Benz Star Magazine

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