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Patrick Foster
Contact: Patrick Foster 108 Clark Hill Rd
203 877 6717 Milford CT 06460 USA
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WHO IS PATRICK FOSTER?
One of America's best-known automotive journalists -he’s listed in Who’s Who in America- is writer Patrick Foster. A dedicated historian/author with broad experience in the auto industry, Foster’s been writing about automobiles for more than twenty years. His work has appeared in ForbesLife, Hemmings Classic Car, AutoWeek, Automobile Quarterly, Automotive News, Dodge, Chrysler & Jeep magazines Collectible Automobile, Forward (magazine of the Chrysler Museum), Reader’s Digest, Hemmings Muscle Machines, Cars & Parts, Strada, Special Interest Autos, Car Collector/Car Classics, Automotive History Review, Journal of the Society of Automotive Historians, and other periodicals. Foster has regular columns in Hemmings Classic Car and Old Cars Weekly.
Foster is the leading spokesman for America’s independent automobile companies. He’s also considered the foremost authority on Jeep and American Motors Corporation and related brands including Rambler, Nash, Hudson, AM General, Jeffrey and Lafayette and is a recognized authority on Studebaker. Foster has assembled thousands of vintage factory photographs and automotive literature into an archive called The Patrick R Foster Historical Collection.
He has written 15 books, including ‘American Motors-The Last Independent‘, ‘The Nash Styling Sketchbook‘, ‘The Metropolitan Story‘, ‘The Story of Jeep‘, ‘Super ‘70‘s-Cars of the Disco Decade‘, ‘Rambler 1950-1969 Photo Archive’, ‘The Standard Catalog of Jeep‘, ‘AMC Cars 1954-1987 Illustrated History‘, ‘The Story of Jeep 2nd Edition’, ‘AMC Performance Cars 1951-1983‘ and ‘AM General- Hummers, Mutts, Buses and Postal Trucks‘. He co-authored Mister Javelin- Guy Hadsall Jr. at American Motors. “Studebaker-the Complete History” débuted in 2008 and “Kaiser-Frazer 1946-1955 in 2009. His newest is “Hudson Automobiles 1909-1957”.
The author has won numerous writing awards. His American Motors book was named an Outstanding Book for 1994 by the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA). The Metropolitan Story was awarded a Bronze Medal by the International Automotive Media Council. The Story of Jeep won the AACA's prestigious Thomas McKean Memorial Cup Award as the best book of automotive history for 1998.
In 1997 Foster received the highest honor awarded by the Society of Automotive Historians for magazine writing when a biographical article on George Romney, which appeared in Automobile Quarterly, was named Outstanding Periodical Article for the year.
Foster also served as head of the Nash Car Club of America's (NCCA) Nash Heritage Preservation Project. Over a six year period he interviewed former Nash dealers, factory workers and executives, recording their reminiscences on video and audiotape for the NCCA's historical archive. In 2003 the Society of Automotive Historians recognized Foster’s work by presenting him with the prestigious James J Bradley Distinguished Service Award by for “an outstanding job in the preservation of historic materials...”
In 2005 Foster served on the Spike TV celebrity board that selected nominees for the world’s first-ever televised automotive awards program. Foster has also appeared on CNN, DaimlerChrysler TV, along with television and radio talk shows. He was featured in the television documentary “Women and the Automobile“, in which he explained the special significance of the Nash Metropolitan, a car designed primarily for women. He has a prominent role as commentator in the documentary film “Jeep-The Legend Continues“. In 2008 Foster was asked to deliver a speech at the University of Youngstown, Ohio on how America’s independent automakers have influenced the automobile industry. In 2008, 2009 and 2010 he was invited to appear at the annual “Meet the Authors” event at the National Automotive History Collection in Detroit
Foster also belongs to the Society of Automotive Historians Inc. and served on the Board of Directors. Mr. Foster founded the organization’s publishing venture, The SAH Press.
Foster is a popular banquet speaker and also conducts seminars on automotive history. For information please call the Olde Milford Press at 203 877 6717 or contact publicist Nichole Schiele at 612-344-8161 or via email at [email protected]
Foster’s many books can be viewed at his website www.oldemilfordpress.com
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