AQ 50th Anniversary Cap

AQ History: The publication was well known for quality writing and photography about historical automobiles, the automotive industry, personalities, and related subjects. The mission of AQ was to produce a publication “to truly reflect the grandeur, the majesty, the adventure that is the automobile.” From its inception, Automobile Quarterly was instantly recognized as a pillar of the automotive community and was held in high acclaim by anyone who had any association with the automobile including automotive manufacturers, journalists, historians, racing enthusiasts, and vintage automobile collectors worldwide. Automobile Quarterly was the gold standard for writing about automobiles. 

Lloyd Robert Scott Bailey published Automobile Quarterly from 1962 until 1986 when he sold it to CBS Magazines, who then sold it in 1988 to Kutztown Publishing. In 2000, Gerry Durnell, owner of Automobile Heritage Publishing & Communications, LLC purchased the magazine. He died in 2011, and his widow, Kaye Bowles Durnell, ceased publication in 2012 and stored the materials. In late 2018, she donated the Automobile Quarterly collection to America's Packard Museum in Dayton, Ohio. These rare hats come from a stock found in the AQ records. They are limited in number and will never be remade.

The mission of America’s Packard Museum is to educate present and future generations about the Packard Motor Car Company, its products, and philosophies. Since 1992, we have been at the forefront of automotive preservation and educating the public, especially children, about design, engineering, history, innovation, and technology. We continue to improve our facilities, expand collections and exhibits, and follow all professional best practices. As owners of the Automobile Quarterly collection, the Museum is committed to digitizing the images of all represented brands, not just Packard.

The photographs made available by America's Packard Museum come from its Automobile Quarterly (AQ) collection. The brands and models currently available are a representative sample of the entire collection and more are added on a regular basis. AQ was a hardbound, advertising-free periodical, published from 1962-2012. Professional photographers shot all the images, and while AQ published some, only their staff saw the rest. Most of the images are color negative transparencies taken with 35mm cameras.