• Car Talk From The Main Street of America

  • By: Jim Hinckley
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Car Talk From The Main Street of America

By: Jim Hinckley
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  • Car Talk From The Main street of America is an automotive adventure through time and on the main street of America with Jim Hinckley of Jim Hinckley's America and Stan Hustad. It's flying cars, electric cars, automotive pioneers, the story of the blind man that invented cruise control, and a road trip with Edsel Ford. It is Automotive trivia, technology, Road trips, and museums. It is the story of Charles Nash, David Buick, Walter Chrysler, Henry Ford and Florence Lawrence, the woman that invented brake lights and turn signals. It is an automotive odyssey of epic proportions
    2022
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Episodes
  • Building A Time Machine ... Maybe you can do that even today and let's see if we can find a way!

    Building A Time Machine ... Maybe you can do that even today and let's see if we can find a way!
    Apr 20 2023
    Time travel is possible. All you need is a vintage car or truck, and a stretch of two lane highway such as iconic Route 66. On today's episode of Car Talk From The Main Street of America, we talk about blurring the line between past and present, and the American  love/hate relationship with the automobile that has spanned more than 120 years. 
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    19 mins
  • Changing Times - From Enid to Jackson, and most places in between, the automobile was king.

    Changing Times - From Enid to Jackson, and most places in between, the automobile was king.
    Apr 1 2023

    In a mere dozen years or so, the proverbial blink of the eye, old Dobbins was put out to pasture, the draft horse went to the glue factory, and the teamster, mule skinner, and wagon master were unemployed. They had been replaced by Buick and Maxwell, Ford and Mack. And almost every town in America from Enid, Oklahoma to Jackson, Michigan, from Kenosha, Wisconsin to Auburn, Indiana was vying for the title of "Motor City."  Changing times that continue to this day came to America with the dawn of the 20th century. 

     
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    19 mins

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