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Matt Stone – A Car Culture Conversation: My First Car

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Basic RGBMatt Stone First Cars FBListen to HR 1 HERE.  HR 2.  It’s a Friday Night Car Show on Far Out Radio! Automotive journalist Matt Stone is back with us for both hours this program. Matt and I spend time talking about his book, “My First Car – Recollections of First Cars From Jay Leno, Tony Stewart, Carroll Shelby, Dan Ackroyd, Tom Wolf, and Many More!” Unless cars have about the same importance for you as a toaster, nearly everyone remembers their “first car.”

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5.17.13 Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed Encore

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This is one of our more popular "encore-repeat" shows – enjoy!!

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FB_Lerner-Stone-72It’s a Friday Night Car Show on Far Out Radio! We chat about James Dean’s Killer Porsche, NASCAR’s Fastest Monkey, Bonnie and Clyde’s Getaway Car AND MORE.Urban legends aren’t limited to stories about strange things happening at Lover’s Lane or hitchhikers that disappear AFTER they get into the back seat of a car. The automotive world has it’s share of doozies too!

  •  Were the parts from James Dean’s wrecked Porsche 550 Spyder truly cursed?
  •  Was one of the four Aston Martin DB5 James “007” Bond movie cars dumped in the ocean?
  •  Was a wealthy oil heiress really buried in her exotic Ferrari 330?
  •  Would the unusual batwinged-styled rear fenders of the ‘59 Chevy actually lift the back end of the car off the ground?
  •  Did a rocket-powered ‘64 Impala really do 350 MPH? Did someone really build a Ford Pinto that could fly?
  •  Was modern dancer icon Isadora Duncan indeed strangled when her shawl became entangled in the wheel of her lover’s Bugatti???

The answers to the above questions and MANY more are in the book! We discuss the authors' favorite stories!!

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3.29.2013 Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed

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James Dean’s Killer Porsche, NASCAR’s Fastest Monkey, Bonnie and Clyde’s Getaway Car AND MORE.

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FB_Lerner-Stone-72It’s a Friday Night Car Show on Far Out Radio! Urban legends aren’t limited to stories about strange things happening at Lover’s Lane or hitchhikers that disappear AFTER they get into the back seat of a car. The automotive world has it’s share of doozies too!

  •  Were the parts from James Dean’s wrecked Porsche 550 Spyder truly cursed?
  •  Was one of the four Aston Martin DB5 James “007” Bond movie cars dumped in the ocean?
  •  Was a wealthy oil heiress really buried in her exotic Ferrari 330?
  •  Would the unusual batwinged-styled rear fenders of the ‘59 Chevy actually lift the back end of the car off the ground?
  •  Did a rocket-powered ‘64 Impala really do 350 MPH? Did someone really build a Ford Pinto that could fly?
  •  Was modern dancer icon Isadora Duncan indeed strangled when her shawl became entangled in the wheel of her lover’s Bugatti???

The answers to the above questions and MANY more are in the book! We discuss the authors' favorite stories!!

Preston Lerner and Matt Stone have dished up a heap’n help’n of FAR OUT car stories in their seriously fun book, “Automotive Mysteries, Myths, and Rumors Revealed.” Not all myths are false, and not all rumors are true. But even if you’re not into cars and enjoy a good story, this will be an evening that makes you go, “Hmmm…”

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