[Les Quam]

No disrepect taken Frank and I too know how careless automotive journalism can be catastrophic to a cars history and subsequent value. I was simply trying to say we should take each writer on a case by case basis or person by person basis as opposed to a general statement to all the automotive writers who write books and articles.

Clearly we should hold automotive writers accountable for their "facts" because with the value of these cars today inaccurate facts can be an enormous problem. People seem to think if they see it in print it has to be true and more often then not muscle magazine articles and books are laced with inaccuracies. I collect old muscle car mags as a hobby and some of the articles are just hilarious in regard to their inaccurate information. I think we are on the same page in that we both strongly agree automotive writers have a responsibilty to their readers to check and double check their facts.

Unfortunately rarely do the expert restorers like Brian write books or give away the secrets of their trade. I have never met Bob and can't remember any of his work but just wanted to clarify that many automotive writers do work very very hard to do a good job and research their work as much as writers in other fields, perhaps better?