By 1952 contributor and editor John Bond had become the owner of the magazine, which was moved to Southern California. They published only six times from 1947 to 1949. Road and Track, as it was then known, was founded in 1947 in Hempstead, Long Island, by two friends, Wilfred H. To those over 50 reading this, it’s the sad end of our automotive era and the end of what was once the auto enthusiast’s bible. For those under 40 reading this, it’s just another lumbering dinosaur put out to pasture.

Hearst’s New York office, which now handles the digital edition, would be the last remnants of the Road&Track Dynasty. But that’s another story for another day. We’ll complete the current issue and then we’re all done at the end of the month.” Former R&T editor, John Dinkel, learned of this because he has been in correspondence with Stan regarding an until now secret effort by the Cyclops Faithful to attempt to set a world land speed record at Bonneville next August. The print magazine will now be run by the digital team. On Tuesday Kim Wolfkill, the current editor of Road&Track, mentioned in an email to Stan Mott, one of the two creators of the R&T Cyclops (Robert Cumberford is the other) “…that Hearst is closing the Ann Arbor office and moving operations to New York City. Road & Track: The end of an era and the error of the end-January 17th 2019 The article below is posted with permission from Ferraris-Online. What follows is Michael’s account of the history of Road & Track as well as a perspective on the publication’s inability to adapt to the New Order of the digital age. In a recent Ferraris-Online post, Michael provides his perspective on the demise of the once-invincible Road & Track print magazine.

I first wrote to Michael back in 2008 when I had a question about an article he had written for Sports Car Market. Michael has written countless Ferrari related columns for the Ferrari Market Letter, Cavallino, Sports Car Market, and Forza. Michael Sheehan’s Ferraris-Online has been around for decades and maintains a loyal following. On the pages of Turtle Garage I have even done retrospectives of old issues of Road & Track, looking back in history at advertisements, road tests, race results, and photographs from the 70’s and 80’s. Back then, I had the trifecta of car magazine subscriptions: Car and Driver, Road & Track, and in 1986, added the then-new publication Automobile. In the 1980’s when I was a salivating teen obsessed with cars, Road & Track was the defacto go-to source for road tests, racing results, and spy photos of new models. Back in the heyday of print-media, Road & Track was the venerable authority on automobiles.

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