The Autoshift
Indicator Media, LLC
Cranked over in 2025, The Autoshift highlights the best of what’s evolving in the classic and collector-car world. Our job here is to be topical and real, and to bring focus to the collector car community as it’s changing. Why? Because change is a constant!
Founders Jim Pickering, Chad Taylor and Chad Allan Tyson all come from an automotive media background — one that took them to auction and concours events from Hot August Nights in Reno to Rétromobile in Paris, with quite a bunch of trips to Monterey Car Week, Arizona Car Week and Amelia Island thrown in between. For years, the focus at a number of these high-end events has been on cars from a certain few generations — from Pre-War through the 1980s — both in the marketplace and beyond. Of course, at the very same time — and at the very same events — participants and players have been crying that “young people just aren’t into cars anymore.”
The way we see it, they’re wrong. They’ve just been looking in the wrong place