Mind Rumblings

 A bit of history of Preston's favorite race, the Indy 500. Sources for this episode:  https://jalopnik.com/the-20-weirdest-indianapolis-500-traditions-and-superst-1848971764/slides/4 https://jalopnik.com/2022-indianapolis-500-qualifying-how-it-works-and-wher-1848943632 https://jalopnik.com/speedway-indiana-1912s-walled-city-of-our-car-centric-1848990617 Audio for this episode can be found here: https://holdthattiger.libsyn.com/

 Sources (Amazon links are affiliate links): The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company by James A. Ward Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation  by Donald T. Critlow The Indomitable Tin Goose by Charles T. Pearson Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin  Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African-American Community, 1918 – 1967 by Elaine Latzman Moon   The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by AJ Baime The Claridge Hotel

 Sources (Amazon links are affiliate links): The Fall of the Packard Motor Car Company by James A. Ward Studebaker: The Life and Death of an American Corporation  by Donald T. Critlow The Indomitable Tin Goose by Charles T. Pearson Preston Tucker and His Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto A People’s History of Detroit by Mark Jay and Philip Conklin  Untold Tales, Unsung Heroes: An Oral History of Detroit’s African-American Community, 1918 – 1967 by Elaine Latzman Moon   The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Detroit, and an Epic Quest to Arm an America at War by AJ Baime

  Support the show on Patreon. Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Siegfried Marcus Defunct Automakers in the US. A history of childbirth in the US. The Infantorium. ALAM Account of the first cross country road trip by automobile in the US. The Model T. William Durant, founder of GM. Preston Tucker and the Battle Build the Car of Tomorrow. The Indomitable Tin Goose by Charles T. Pearson.

Click here for the audio of the show. Support the show on Patreon by clicking here. Sources for this episode include: Patton: The Man Behind the Legend by Martin Blumenson Preston Tucker and the Battle to Build the Car of Tomorrow by Steve Lehto. The Indomitable Tin Goose by Charles T. Pearson. Personal correspondence with William Spear, author of Warbaby Additional information provided by Bruce Carlson, host of My History Can Beat Up Your Politics Podcast.