The challenge that I have not infrequently faced is finding what I regard as the “sweet spot” in terms of subject matter, which is something about which a workable (read: large) amount of information is available to me, but where I feel like there’s still something useful I can say about it. There are some subjects that meet the first criterion and not the second, and a fair number that fit the second and not the first. I have taken a certain pride in being able to chronicle some things in a fair amount of detail that don’t get a lot of play otherwise, although whether anyone else is that interested in, for example, the origins of the Ford Fiesta or the history of the JDM Toyota Soarer. Sometimes, the information that’s generally available includes a lot of errors and misconceptions that are worth attempting to clear up, or there’s some technical aspect I have to teach myself in order to explain, or something once familiar is becoming obscure in a way that seems to deserve chronicling. (For instance, given how influential and ubiquitous the original Hydra-Matic used to be, I daresay it’s no longer very well-understood.)

The Jetfire fits into an odd space where it is a relatively small subject (given that I’ve already covered the origins of the Y-body cars at some length) — which is good — but there’s already a fair number of articles about it, and most of them say more or less the same things. So, the question is whether I have anything to add to that discussion and whether people consider it played out or overly familiar.