David E Davis Jr Dies at 80
Davis founded Automobile Magazine and served as editor at Car and Driver. He died in Ann Arbor MI due to complications from bladder surgery. Davis earned a reputation for being feisty and engaging in rivalries with Brock Yates, his protege Jean Jennings, and the rest of the automotive world. I most enjoyed his contributions to Automobile in the late 90s and early 2000s, sharing his affection for Nissans, Jaguars, and Cadillacs.
…in her story in the April issue of Automobile on its 25th birthday, Jennings wrote of Davis as “the most interesting, most difficult, cleverest, darkest, most erudite, dandiest, and most inspirational, charismatic and all-around damnedest human being I will ever meet. I have loved him. I have seriously not loved him. But this isn’t an obituary, so we don’t have to get into any weepy crap here.”
Quality Reading:
“12 Months of Richly Varied Personal Transportation”
“If the original Henry Ford was still alive he’d be building Subarus”
“A couple of car investments I’d like to do over”
David E Davis Jr vs Brock Yates – Great Rivalries
Video:
“David E Davis fired for truth-telling, wants Jean Jennings dead”
Fast Tube by Casper
Damn, that sucks. I’ll miss his old-guy perspective in his columns in “Car and Driver”.