Charles Andrew Coey

Charles Andrew Coey was an American writer and motoring educator best known for C.A. Coey's School of Motoring, 1424-26 Michigan Ave. Chicago, a 1912 guide connected to his Chicago automobile school. The book blends instruction, promotion, and firsthand enthusiasm for the fast-growing world of cars, offering a vivid window into how people learned to drive and maintain automobiles in the early 20th century.

In that work, Coey presents motoring as both a modern skill and a new career path. He writes for readers who wanted practical training as chauffeurs, mechanics, or automobile salespeople, and his school is portrayed as a place where technical lessons met the bold optimism of the machine age.

Although little biographical detail was easy to confirm beyond his dates and authorship, his surviving book has lasting value as a piece of transportation history. For modern listeners, it offers more than instruction: it preserves the tone, ambition, and confidence of America’s early car culture.