Dermot Mulroney
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The special uncovers the stories of the visionaries who built America’s vehicle landscape and chronicles the epic journey of how the biggest names of the automobile industry became the...
The Cars That Made America: With Dermot Mulroney, Greg Nutcher, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Tim Moriarty. The history and influence of cars in America.
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- 2017-08-13
- Documentary, History
- Oldsmobile Model R
- Buick Model 10
- Ford Model T
- Dodge Brothers Model 30
- 1927 Ford Model A
- 1931 Chevrolet Ae Independence Six
- 1932 Ford Model 18 V-8
- Duesenberg Model J
- Chrysler Airflow
- 1949 Ford
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The first practical, reliable, mass-produced American automobile How many built: 12,000+ between 1901 and 1904 Starting price: $650 Nickname: ‘The Curved Dash’ Ransom Eli Olds, who had started experimenting with self-propelled vehicles in 1887, was working on several different prototypes in his company’s Detroit factory in 1901 when a fire destroye...
A moderately popular early bid to build a car for the masses How many built: 23,100 between 1908 and 1910 Starting price: $900 Nickname: ‘The White Streak’ When General Motors incorporated in the fall of 1908, its CEO, William “Billy” Durant, went on a buying spree, building his empire by gobbling up the lion’s share of the competition within the f...
Put the world on wheels How many built: 15,458,781 between 1908 and 1927 Starting price: $825 for the Runabout model; by 1925 it had dropped to $260 Nickname: ‘Tin Lizzie,’ ‘Flivver’ Simplicity. Performance. Reliability. Those were the magic ingredients baked into Henry Ford’s wildly successful Model T, a technical and commercial triumph that not o...
The first Dodge Brothers automobile How many built: 596,770 between 1914 and 1921 Starting price: $785 for the Touring Car model As successful Detroit contract manufacturers, John and Horace Dodge were a major supplier of automotive parts to industry giant Ford. But when Ford got cash-strapped and couldn’t make payments, the Dodges accepted company...
Model T’s successor offered modern features at an economy price How many built: 3,572,610 produced between 1927 and 1931 Starting price: From $430 (Roadster) to $640 (Convertible Sedan) in 1931 Nickname: ‘The Bonnie’ By the mid-1920s, it became apparent even to Henry Ford that his beloved Model T was being surpassed in features and in the marketpla...
The first Chevrolet to outsell Ford (beyond the 1927 Ford shutdown for Model A changeover) How many built: 623,901 in model year 1931 Starting price: $475 to $650 Nickname: ‘Stovebolt Six,’ because its fasteners resembled common hardware-store stovebolts Chevrolet introduced the Six in 1929, just after Ford brought out the Model A. With its overhea...
The first low-priced V-8 How many built: 178,749 built in 1932, tens of millions more through 1953 Starting price: From $460 for a standard Roadster to $650 for a convertible sedan Nickname: ‘Deuce’ Henry Ford had been experimenting with unusual multi-cylinder engines even before the Model A. He rejected an inline six as being a copycat, seeking so...
Glam in the extreme: the pinnacle of Classic Era design, performance, quality and style How many built: About 480 between 1929 and 1937 Starting price: $8,500 for the chassis, without coachwork—enough for ten Model A Fords Nickname: ‘Duesy’ E.L. Cord became owner of Duesenberg Motors in 1926 and gave Fred Duesenberg simple instructions: Design the ...
Brilliant scientific engineering caught in the crush of the Great Depression How many built: 35,740 between 1934 and 1937 Starting price: $1,345 Walter P. Chrysler was an American Horatio Alger story, working his way up from farmhand to manager of the American Locomotive Works’ Pittsburgh factory, then to Buick. He successfully ran Buick for Billy ...
The first Ford designed and built without Henry Ford’s oversight How many built: 1,118,740 built in two models and two engines Starting price: From $1,333 (Six Business Coupe) to $2,264 (Custom V-8 Station Wagon) Nickname: ‘Shoebox’ With Ford wholly owned by its founding family, Edsel’s death in 1943 and Henry’s in 1947 forced the next generation t...
Explore the influential American cars that shaped the nation's automotive history, from the Oldsmobile Model R to the Ford Model T. Learn how these vehicles reflected the values, culture and technology of their era.
Aug 13, 2017 · A new and revolutionary machine--the automobile--is set to transform the country in unimaginable ways, as a handful of young visionaries prepare to ruthlessly battle...
The visionary titans who pioneered the U.S. automobile industry and transformed the country; archival footage and interviews with racecar drivers and experts recreate the epic journey, from the...
In the aftermath of WWII, America is moving to the suburbs, fueling a huge demand for new cars. The Cars That Made America explores the epic stories behind the wheels and under the hoods of the machines we've steered around every turn on the road of modern history.
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Aug 13, 2017 · Part 1: With Richard Bak, Michael Balzano III, H.W. Brands, Bob Casey. A new and revolutionary machine--the automobile--is set to transform the country in unimaginable ways, as a handful of young visionaries prepare to ruthlessly battle for control of the new industry.
