About
“You should make a book out of all the things you’ve written.” I’m John Matras, and during a career of freelance auto writing, I’d heard that too many times to ignore it, but rather than the hassle of a book I decided to start compiling a website with “reprints” of articles about classic and collector cars from Auto Week, Automobile Quarterly, Automobile, Road & Track Specials, Motor Trend special editions, European Car, Collectible Automobile, Sport Compact Car, and more. And not just car histories but also contemporary reviews of cars that are now old enough to be classics or at least deserving of remembered, in a number of car magazines, general interest magazines, websites, including a couple of iterations of my own site, CarBuzzard.com.
In all I’ve written thousands of articles in probably more than a hundred publications. I have had more than a few shot out from under me as the titles failed, and other outlets came and went as editors came and went. I’ve certainly been fired by the best.