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.





































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