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#4 ·
I watched episode 2 last night but missed the first one. Tried looking for it but I don't see it being replayed.
 
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Good show.. I look forward to watch part 2/3. Follows the same general format as The Men Who Built America series which is also a good if you like early American history.
 
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Biggest revelation to me was Edsel's roll in Ford. Always thought Henry was the innovator.

And amazing is 15 million Model Ts built from 1908-1927
 
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Vega$69 said:
And amazing is 15 million Model Ts built from 1908-1927
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All in any color the customer could ever want as long as the customer wanted black!

Always thought that was quite the line by Henry.
 
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I was surprised to see the nascar people involved. That was an interesting side bar.
I don't know why they couldn't used original old black and white pics of the models they talked about. Instead they showed color video of the wrong year and model.
Still enjoyed it and was very interesting.
 
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rgwiz said:
I was surprised to see the nascar people involved. That was an interesting side bar.
I don't know why they couldn't used original old black and white pics of the models they talked about. Instead they showed color video of the wrong year and model.
Still enjoyed it and was very interesting.
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Yes when talking about the 64 GTO they had pics of 65s

Still a great show. Learned a lot for sure

And John Deloreon street racing with factory cars. Haha
 
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Vega$69 said:
Yes when talking about the 64 GTO they had pics of 65s

Still a great show. Learned a lot for sure

And John Deloreon street racing with factory cars. Haha
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Yeah, seems to me a pic or video of a '64 would be easy. Speaking of which, what about Pontiac? I don't remember them mentioning the Oakland or Pontiac at all....Maybe they will do additional episodes with editing in some of the finer points. Much as they did with "The men that built America" series.
 
#16 ·
I enjoyed this show/somewhat biased, but was anyone else disappointed nearly no mention of the Camaro. Also, they mentioned Louie Chevrolet and didn’t elaborate much more about his contributions to GM.
 
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nonac said:
I enjoyed this show/somewhat biased, but was anyone else disappointed nearly no mention of the Camaro. Also, they mentioned Louie Chevrolet and didn’t elaborate much more about his contributions to GM.
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I think Durant wanted Chevrolet in name for publicity only. Durant was looking to compete with the Model T and Louis Chevrolet interest at the time was in racing. I think he later did go on to work with GM of Canada. Louis did develop an overhead valve six at that time but Durant rejected it.
 
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Vega$69 said:
Hard to fit everything in a 3 episode program.

A big game changer was the Dodge minivan. Didn't see it mentioned.
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I think it was mentioned as one of Iacocca's bigger hits once he took over Chrysler.

Did some digging around the net and found out that Chevrolet and his brothers concentrated mostly on developing racing parts for the Ford Model T!!!!
 
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