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177. The Pile Up: Brain Buster 23 · Car Krush

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  Emily BB23 1: Well, last week's for mine, it was kind of techni- It was hard. I thought it was
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  Emily BB23 1: Yeah.
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  Emily BB23 1: Veggie Dats. Veggie Dats, who, uh, told us that we can, we can call him Jesse. Oh, just
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  But anyway, that's, that's the name. That's the story behind it. I looked a little bit into Cadillac's history, and I don't have time to go into it right now, but maybe we'll do a deep dive on that-
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  Emily BB23 1: last weekend. Oh, happy 50th. Yeah. Happy 50th. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so the Cadillac history is pretty cool. I'm gonna give a little, uh, give a little, um-
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  Rose BB23 Butt: Oh, okay. Thank you. I did it right away. Are we recording? It's recording. I had two other answers this week, and one was from Kirsten and one was from Rose,
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  that's good stuff. Uh, I have a question about, uh, Cadillac.
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  Rose BB23 1: it? You know, I also included that you could, you could nail what year.
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  Emily BB23 1: The Dewar, as in scotch? Uh,
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  Rose BB23 1: and, uh, was exposed at a very young age to the spirit industry in Scotland, as his father founded the John Dewar & Sons Ltd.
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  Without further ado, on Saturday, 29th of February, 1908, three Model K's from the 1907 Cadillac production were released from the stock of the Anglo-American Motor Car Company, the UK agent for Cadillac automobiles, at the Heddon Street showroom in London. Um, they have sequential, uh, uh, numbers. Um, actually, the engines were 23391, 24111, and 24118.
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  The three cars all registered in London under the numbers A2E0, A3E0, and A4E0, so registered sequentially, were driven 25 miles To the Brooklands racetrack at Weybridge. There, the cars completed 10 laps of the track, approximately 30 miles, before being locked away until Monday, the 2nd of March, 1908, when they were released and disassembled completely using only wrenches, screwdrivers, hammers, and pliers. Each car was reduced to a pile of 721 component parts, which were then scrambled into one heap by the RAC. 89 parts requiring extreme accuracy were withdrawn from the heap, locked away at the Brooklands clubhouse, and replaced with new parts from Anglo-American showroom stock. The parts were then sorted into three piles, each with all the parts needed to assemble a car.
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  Only one point was lost owing to a broken cotter pin in the ignition lever, promptly replaced from stock. During the event, it was reported that one of the sheds where the parts were stored became partly flooded during a heavy storm, and some parts became rusted. Only oily rags could be used to remove all traces of the immersion.
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  Rose BB23 1: Uh, and this meant that Cadillac had things that, again, you could just take off the showroom, and they fit that one, and they fit that one, and they fit that one.
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  Emily BB23 2: No. Sounds probably no one, it sounds like. Yeah.
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  I would like to ask you, what was the, uh, what was the year and make of the car that Harley Earl designed for GM that made Alfred Sloan offer him a full-time position styling for them?
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  Rose BB23 2: girl One of my faves.
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  Emily BB23 2: even priming the engine, having to