Welcome to Pal Negyesi's auto history website
- formerly known as the KTUD Automotive Web

Latest change: 30 June, 2010
Created: Spring, 1995

Dear Visitor!
With the overhaul of my worldwide guide to motoring museums is complete and available at automuseums.info as the Motoring Museums' Lighthouse it was time to take a look at my automotive history website.
When the original KTUD Automotive Archive was set up in 1995 there was hardly any automotive history information available on the World Wide Web. The WWW was still in its infancy. But a lot of changes happened during the last 15 years. Now there's access to a lot of different websites, blogs, corporate histories, videos, movies and more which show the history of even the most obscure brands. Just look at this study on the history of Komnick to see what I mean. And then there's my favorite hobby, AutoPuzzles, chock full of limited edition cars. Hemmings Motor News Blog is a must read for any classic car enthusiasts and as a microcar lover I also frequently check Minutia, the on-line magazine of the Microcar & Minicar Club. I could go on and on, but I believe you understand my point, saying, KTUD Archive has ran its course.

I have changed a lot during those 15 years as well. Back in 1995, I was a student at the Dept. of Library & Information Science at the University of Arts in Budapest, Hungary. Together with my brother we set up the first WWW server there. Called KTUD after the abbreviation of the department's Hungarian name, it also provided inspiration for my new auto history website. That was then. Today, I am an enterpreneur, running my own company for 7-years-now and working as an automotive industry analyst, while living happily married and with a 17-month-son, Bruno in Balatonalmadi, Hungary. I was editor of a classic car magazine between 1997-2000. It is very flattering that AutoClassic is still being remembered fondly by its readers 10 years later. Since then I have written dozens of articles on the history of cars and motorcycles in Hungary. Beginning in March, 2010 I have started a series of lectures on automotive history at the Óbuda University, as part of a classic car restoration course.

And I believe I have found a new purpose for this website. Though there's an awful lot of information available on various cars and motorcycles at various websites - there's precious little info available on the history of the automobile in Hungary.

As I prepare my lectures on automotive history, I will post here some stories, which will depict various aspects of Hungarian motoring history.