OVERVIEW:
Auto Topics was published by Floyd Clymer Publications at 222 N. Virgil Ave, Los Angeles. It was a general automotive interest periodical covering road tests, consumer-oriented technical articles, racing, competiton highlights, and other topics that would appeal to a broad readership. Mr Clymer relied on several editorial directors including Dustin Frazer, James McGowan, Robert Armstrong and Hans Tanner.

The magazine was a re-titling of Automobile Topics that was also published by Mr. Clymer up through 1964. Clymer sold his interests in the title to Adrian Lopez sometime in 1968, and Mr. Lopez re-titled the magazine again to Auto Driver. We believe Auto Driver was only published for two years or so.

Floyd Clymer was born in 1895 and lived through the early years of the automobile industry. By the time he had started publishing books and periodicals in the 1940s, he had been the youngest Studebaker and E-M-F car dealer, raced motorcycles in long distance, half-mile closed track and hill climbs, invented automotive products, spent time in jail for mail fruad, and was an Excelsior and Henderson motorcycle dealer. His publishing career began in 1944 with the first of several "motor scrapbooks", which influenced a generation of young men interested in cars and motorcycles. It is estimated he published at least 150 books and sold an estimated 1.2 million of them to 250,000 readers across the world. He later purchased Automobile Topics and started Cycle motorcycle magazine. In his last years, he worked at resurrecting the Indian motorcycle brand.

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PUBLICATION DATA:
The publisher provided print circulation data to N.W. Ayer for the years 1965 through 1968. There were 90,000 issues printed annually for the first two years, then production dropped by half to 40,000 to 42,000 issues.

CONTENT COMPLETENESS:
A total of 37 issues were printed from January, 1965 through August, 1968. All cover images are complete except 4/1968, 9/1968, 10/1968 and 12/1968.

Auto Topics Jan January 1965
Jan 1965 Vol 65 No 1
Auto Topics Feb February 1965
Feb 1965 Vol 65 No 2
Auto Topics Mar March 1965
Mar 1965 Vol 65 No 3
Auto Topics Apr April 1965
Apr 1965 Vol 65 No 4
Auto Topics May 1965
May 1965 Vol 65 No 5
Auto Topics Jun June 1965
Jun 1965 Vol 65 No 6
Auto Topics Jul July 1965
Jul 1965 Vol 65 No 7
Auto Topics Aug August 1965
Aug 1965 Vol 65 No 8
Auto Topics Sept September 1965
Sep 1965 Vol 65 No 9
Auto Topics Oct October 1965
Oct 1965 Vol 65 No 10
Auto Topics Nov November 1965
Nov 1965 Vol 65 No 11
Auto Topics Dec December 1965
Dec 1965 Vol 65 No 12
Auto Topics Jan January 1966
Jan 1966 Vol 66 No 1
Auto Topics Feb February 1966
Feb 1966 Vol 66 No 2
Auto Topics Mar March 1966
Mar 1966 Vol 66 No 3
Auto Topics Apr April 1966
Apr 1966 Vol 66 No 4
Auto Topics May 1966
May 1966 Vol 66 No 5
Auto Topics Jun June 1966
Jun 1966 Vol 66 No 6
Auto Topics Jul July 1966
Jul 1966 Vol 66 No 7
Auto Topics Aug August 1966
Aug 1966 Vol 66 No 8
Auto Topics Sept September 1966
Sep 1966 Vol 66 No 9
Auto Topics Oct October 1966
Oct 1966 Vol 66 No 10
Auto Topics Nov November 1966
Nov 1966 Vol 66 No 11
Auto Topics Dec December 1966
Dec 1966 Vol 66 No 12
Auto Topics Jan January 1967
Jan 1967 Vol 67 No 1
Auto Topics Feb February 1967
Feb 1967 Vol 67 No 2
Auto Topics Mar March 1967
Mar 1967 Vol 67 No 3
Apr 1967 Vol 67 No 4
Auto Topics May 1967
May/Jun 1967 Vol 67 No 5/6
Auto Topics Jul July 1967
Jul 1967 Vol 67 No 7
Auto Topics Aug August 1967
Aug 1967 Vol 67 No 8
Sep 1967 Vol 67 No 9
Oct 1967 Vol 67 No 10
Auto Topics Nov November 1967
Nov 1967 Vol 67 No 11
Dec 1967 Vol 67 No 12
Auto Topics Jan January Feb February 1967
Jan/Feb 1968 Vol 68 No 1
Auto Topics Aug August 1967
Aug 1968 Vol 68 No 2
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