She claimed that the total extent of her car knowledge when she started was the info on her driver's license.
She was promoted to head editor in 1975, a position she held until 1981, when she left to concentrate on free-lance writing.
Some of her other works include "The Classic Era," "Pioneers, Engineers, And Scoundrels: The Dawn Of The Automobile In America," "The Star and the Laurel: The Centennial History of Daimler, Mercedes, and Benz, 1886-1986," “Packard: A History of the Motor Car and the Company,” "The Cars That Henry Ford Built," "Walter L Marr: Buick's Amazing Engineer," (with James H. Cox), (books which won the Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot Award), "Chevrolet: A History from 1911," (with Robert Ackerson), "Speed, Style and Beauty, and "My Two Lives" She also became editor of the Classic Car magazine, for the Classic Car Club of America.
She was honored by Society of Automobile Historians as a Friend of Automotive History, their highest award.
She died of kidney failure in Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York.