American Motorist Magazine is an outgrowth of work we did for another motoring publication with a great history, National Motorist.

National Motorist was founded as the membership magazine for the National Automobile Club in California back in 1924. In 2004, we became editorial content providers and publishers of National Motorist via a contract with Lionheart Publishing of Marietta, GA.

Unfortunately, in 2005 the National Automobile Club decided to cease publishing National Motorist, ending an 81 year run down memory lane.  Although we tried to save it, National Motorist ended its odyssey at the end of 2005. 

Looking around, we found that American Motorist Magazine, once the flagship publication of the American Automobile Association (AAA) had also ceased publishing albeit back in the mid-1950s. So we decided to bring back that title to replace our work at National Motorist with an online collection of travel and motoring articles based on the idea that many things have changed but some things have remained the same for the traveling and motoring public. By finding articles published in the early 20^th century and re-publishing them along with a modern day look at a similar trip or a trip to the same location visited in the 1920s or 1930s, American Motorist hopes to become a nostalgic pathway to reminding us what motoring is all about: Having fun getting where you want to go.

We’ll also show how the vehicles we travel in have changed by reprinting reviews and articles about those early cars and trucks compared to the same make today. Assuming the make survived!