David E. Davis, Jr., former editor and publisher of Car and Driver and founder of Automobile magazine, died today following cancer surgery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Davis was 80.

There's isn't much you can say about Max Mosley that's worse than the original Mosley video. So we have to give David E. Davis, editor emeritus at Winding Road, credit for going above-and-beyond in response to the vote of confidence that kept Mosley in charge of the F.I.A., suggesting that, among other things, some…