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Arthur Godfrey was one of the most amazing men of the 20th century. He started out as a Navy enlisted man from 1920 to 1924 where he first learned abutthe technical aspects of radio. He enlisted in the Coast Guard and served from 1927 to 1930 to learn more about radio. He was so talented he as admitted to a radio school that normally only took engineers, even though Godfrey himself had never finished high school. His goal was to become an electronics engineers, and he already had ideas for radio that became commonplace in later years. He started his own weekly radio show while still in the Coast Guard. A near fatal auto accident broke his hip. He was never able to walk normally again, ending any more chances to serven the military. He was a;ready taking fling lessons and had hope of becoming a naval aviator. While recovering. he listened to radio broadcasts of the day and thought they needed a lot of improvement. He and his guitar, which he taught himself to play, got him a daily radio show in Washington in 1934. That was the beginning of a national and international career that lasted into the 1970's. Rather than writing his biography, tis is a list of accomplishments in his life: - Amateur radio operator - Expert horseman and winner of many dressage contests - Musician that was self taught on almost all is many instruments including classical guitar and the harp - An aviator, but much more than just that. He held every private pilot license it was possible to get, including instrument ratings and two and four engine commercial licenses. He flow Eastern Airlines Constellations, the largest commercial aircraft of the day, from Washington to Miami, where he owned a hotel. He was Naval reserve officer during WWII and pestered FDR, a personal friend, to let him become a naval fighter pilot. He was unsuccessful but, as Naval officer after the war, he continued to help the Navy maintain their air power by constantly kidding the Air Force about their shortcomings. The Air Force eventually tired of this and stole Godfrey from the Navy by offering him a commision and letting him fly jets. He was probably one of the few Air Force officers who flew every type of aircraft in the inventory in the 1950's. He was a full colonel when he passed away. - Opponent of racial discrimination for almost his entire career on radio. When southern affiliates objected to a mixed black and white group of singers made up of his old Coast Guard buddies, he fought back by threatening to with hold further shows from the affiliates. He had black soldiers on his show during the Korean War and afterwards, and helped promote the Orioles, one of the early black rock and roll groups. - Ardent environmentalist. Refused to advertise detergents with phosphates. He turned down endorsement deals with several companies that didn't align with his environmental ideals. Even though he loved aviation, he campaigned against the American supersonic transport because of the harm it would do to the environment. - Helped to develop videotape as the standard medium for recording television shows. - Due to his lifelong smoking (he was the voice of Chesterfields for many years) he developed serious lung cancer in 1959. His doctor's told him that nothing could be done. He convinced the doctors to remove the lung with the tumor and even a small part of his aorta that also has a tumor.To everyone's amazement but Arthur's, he recovered and went back to TV and radio. While he was recovering, he read all the studies on smoking he could find. He was convinced smoking caused his cancer and he never smoked again. He became a spokesperson for anti smoking causes and wasn't shy about calling out his many years of smoking Chesterfield as the cause of his cancer. - Owned his own airport in Leesburg VA and regularly commuted by aircraft from his home there to the studio in NYC. HE flew everything from a customized DC-3 to a Lockheed Jetstar. These are just the highlights of an amazing man.Yes, he could be be volatile, and a lot of people didn't like him much for that, but few men of the previous century had the talent and accomplishments of the Old Redhead.
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No MGB owner ever put whitewalls on their car. Makes me wonder if anyone that was involved in writing the commercial actually owned a B.
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Lindbergh held the position of chief pilot with Pan Am and did indeed fly the routes later used by them in 1928, covering 7200 miles all along the Caribbean and the east coast of South America, pioneering what later became Pan Am airports in places that had never seen an airplane before. The main reason for his tour was to promote the use of air mail since no airline could be profitable without mail contracts.
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The Phil Hill Streamliner "Roaring Raindrop"! Of course, this was an MG in name only. It did have a 1.5 litre twin-cam, supercharged MGA engine, but had been tuned to run on 86% methanol laced with nitrobenzene, acetone and sulphuric ether. The juiced up engine produced 290 horsepower, and it was driving a vehicle that weighed about 950 pounds. The complete video of the record breaking event is on Youtube if you search for it.
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This film was made in 1962. shortly after Cavenaugh became Mayor. It was part of Detroit's bid of the 1968 bif for the Summer Olympics. The Olympics went to Mexico city, probably not such a bad thing. Detroit would have still been cleaning up from the worst race riot in US history in the summer of 1967.
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I was impressed with how leisurely the whole process was. Nothing seemed to move until all the work was done on the previous car. A lot of the work seemed to be hand fitting. Instead of multiple operations being done on something like the engine block, most of it was one at a time. I was half expecting the tea boy to show up at any time.
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32 seconds? You can't paste together a few more episodes of this series so we don't forget what we were watching last time before the next one comes out?
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@riceboy1701e What model year did the MG have Zenith carbs? My 1966 MGB had SU sidedrafts, a terrible pair to keep adjusted.
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Kind of weird they were showing the car in what appears to be the Ford Proving Ground in Arizona and yet these cars never got imported to the US. Rover collapsed before those plans could come to fruition.
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1967 was nearing the end of the line for the Falcon. The new sheet metal mimicked the Mustang but the two door hardtop and convertible, the one most likely to attract young buyers, were dropped, and the Ranchero pickup and station wagon were moved to Fairlane chassis and didn't share in the Falcon's body style. Ford was getting ready to introduce the Maverick as its compact car for the 70's and the Falcon's time was almost done. As a way to prove that, they made the Falcon appeal to older people and families, but those customers wanted more space, not anything sporty. No young guy of that era would be caught dead in a two door, let alone a four door, sedan, and slapping chrome on the door pillar of the sedan wasn't going to work. Ford really wanted sporty car buyer sot move over to the Mustang. The Falcon hung on until 1970, the last model year.
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Arthur Godfrey only drank Lipton's Tea and Pepsi. Godfrey was a pilot that loved flying anything he could get his hands on, especially in 1950. FAA rules were pilots couldn't fly within 24 hours of consuming alcohol. Godfrey got used to not drinking early on in life and, except for New Year's champagne, almost never drank. You're just seeing the typical Arthur Godfrey.
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I hate to do this but the MGB had a 1798cc engine, not 1789. If you're like me, it was just a transposition. I had a 1966 MGB that I bought new in November of 1965, and finally gave it to my son in 1992 when he went off to college. He drove it for another four years until some moron rear ended him and totaled the car. I also owned a 2005 Miata. There just was no comparison. The MG was way more fun to drive but it was never reliable. The Miata was more a sedate convertible than a real sports car, but it did start every time, didn't have those damned SU carbs,. and it didn't leak water every time it rained. Sadly, as much as I loved my MG, I'd buy another Miata instead, especially since I can't get a new MG living in the US as I do. .
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Park La Brea was like living in the country? They were poorly constructed high rises jammed together in the center of LA. And next time, show us the whole video, not one minute long snippets that make very little sense on their own.
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