Automakers, NASCAR surprise Mandel in Autoweek

Full page tributes from GM, above, Ford and NASCAR were just a few that appeared in the pages of Autoweek to say goodbye to longtime published Dutch Mandel.

January 16, 2017 05:00 AM

Longtime Autoweek publisher Dutch Mandel took his own personal checkered flag at the end of 2016. After 32 years at the magazine -- owned by Crain Communications, publisher of Automotive News -- seven automakers and NASCAR didn't let Mandel leave Detroit without a proper send-off.

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