The Automotive Hall of Fame is dedicated to honoring people from all parts of the worldwide automotive industry, perpetuating the memories of automotive pioneers. Attracts visitors from around the world, it is located next door to The Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan. It is also within the MotorCities National Heritage Area, an affiliate of the National Park Service dedicated to preserving and promoting the automotive and labor heritage of Michigan.
The first electric car was made in 1888 by a guy named Andreas Flocken, it was called the Flocken Elektrowagen. It’s pretty cool stuff I recommend checking it out.
Thats sweet!!!! My first car was a 69 skylark custom. Had the lighted emblems on the rear quarter panels. I was 16, primered grey top school bus yellow paint. In auto shop i built a 350 to a 383 stroker, 700r4, air bagged her and we rode in style. 28yrs later and i still miss the shit out of that car. Memories
His story about "before the days of the internet", sketching while listening to the Indy 500, and a still visual of the Chaparral 2H: I'm old enough to remember that in the days of radio one had to fill in the blanks with your imagination. I'm poised in front of the old Emerson console radio. Next comes a knock at the door: footsteps; sound of the doorknob, hinges creak, AND WHAT CAME NEXT? It required IMAGINATION, to SEE with our ears, FILL IN the IMPLIED, and then DRAW our own CONCLUSIONS based upon a SKELETAL situational/portrayal of the STORY LINE--and this had to be done within a 7-8 second time frame. This required quick, deductive, visual, and imaginary thinking. Not knowing if a lack of TV in his recounting of this scenario was the state of broadcast at that time or if he didn't have access to a TV, but THIS IS CREATIVITY IN THE MAKING. If I ever had a chance to ask, I would like to know if Mr. and Mrs. Welburn allowed their children many TV privileges growing up (I have no doubt that they could afford one or more TVs in the house)? Or did they cultivate implied and deductive reasoning through a love of books and reading? And then the subject matter of the book shown by Mr. Welburn as being on his mothers shelf/shelves of books: it struck me as esoteric--something requiring thought processes beyond just the visual. And a slow reader? Welcome to the club, Mr. Welburn. You probably learned phonics in school, you are a great speller, you know how to diagram a sentence--and can remember concepts but not the details. I have known many people who learned "word recognition"--they can read quickly, remember details better, but can't spell their way out of a paper bag nor possess any concept of punctuation. And if their lives depended upon it they couldn't diagram a sentence and couldn't define subject, verb, adverb, and articles. The other upside to the phonics discipline: we have much better vocabularies to express varying shades of human emotion/situation rather than peppering every sentence with two or more four-letter words to provide emphasis in communication. We may be fossils, Mr. Welburn, but we can die proud! (I doubt seriously that this post will ever be read, but it gave me a platform to both express appreciation, confirm the validity of the type of education we received, and to bemoan the current state of learning in our country.)
It was certainly fun for us too Ray. It still is and Car Talk is an evergreen tree that you and Tom planted that many years ago that many generations get to enjoy. I hope you get to read this comment one day because you two doofuses made an impact on a lot of lives.
As a huge eulogist and well wisher of Tata I would like to say congratulatings to sir Ratan Tata as he has the do intense research in passenger car and resultantly the Tata motors has given 20 percentage of revenue , And its all because of only for sir Ratan Tata.. Sadarcharan sparsh sir Ratan Tata..
