LeMayZing! Cars, Collecting, History, and Culture with Eric LeMay

Bob Montgomery was the founder of The Bremerton Machine office company more than 70 years ago. Before Bob passed away at the age of 96, Paul Lundy bought the shop in downtown Bremerton and has been continuing the business. It's the last Puget Sound-area company that does a full-time business repairing typewriters. Paul does a blog and sells typewriters on the website: https://typespec.com

The second part of the LeMayZing! annual car show at Marymount. This episode has some sounds from the Lucky Collector Car Auction, and an interview with Zeva Aero CEO Steve Tibbitts. Lucky Auction: http://www.luckyoldcar.com Zeva Aero: https://www.zevaaero.com The LeMay Family Collections at Marymount: https://www.lemaymarymount.org

From the 42nd Annual LeMay Family Car Show at Marymount, we learn about the 1896 Riker Electric car from the grandson of the owner, Richard Riker; we also hear from Albert Thomas and the 19641/2 Mustand he's owned for 52 years. The second part will be next week when we listen to the auction and see how close we are to a personal aircraft in every garage. The LeMay Show is always the last Saturday of August! www.lemaymarymount.org

Mark Greene is the founder, CEO, producer, and host of Cars Yeah, a five-day-a-week podcast and weekly television show. You can enjoy nearly 1,400 of his interviews on Cars Yeah on his website, or on iTunes, Apple Podcast, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, Google Play, YouTube, Alexa Tunein, and Spotify. Cars Yeah TV can be found on MAVTV and Lucas Oil Racing TV. Mark has been a great car-friend to the LeMay museums and the LeMay family. www.carsyeah.com

Like every last Saturday in August for the past 42 years, it's time for the annual LeMay Car Show on August 31, 2019! This year's feature will be exploring the question, "Was the future in the past?" A wide variety of electric and alternative powered vehicles will be on display in the gymnasium at Marymount, in addition to the hundreds and hundreds of other cars on display. For museum and show information: www.lemaymarymount.org There is also a two-day car auction in conjunction. For more information on the Lucky Auction: www.luckyoldcar.com

Last year, a group of automotive history and museum professionals spent time voting on "Ten Cars that Changed the World." Not the ten best cars or 10 greatest cars...the cars that had the largest impact on the world globally. Here are some of the coordinators, voters and authors sharing their experience creating the exhibit that was coordinated by the Studebaker National Museum.

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Ted O'Dell is the Founder and Executive Director of the Hackett Auto Museum in Jackson, Michigan. When it opens full-time next spring to car enthusiasts and tourists to Central Michigan, it will celebrate an area that some historians call the true birthplace of the automobile more than 100 years ago. See more at www.hackettautomuseum.org

Freelance writer and essayist Cara McDonough talk about an important facet of automobiles in society: A space to feel protected and, even, have a good cry. It's not something often thought about when it comes to our automobiles. Her story about this first appeared in the Washington Post, but it resonated across several places on the internet. Cara has written for several media, including The Boston Globe, Salon, HuffPost. She lives in Hamden, CT with her husband and three children and an energetic dog. You can read her blog and links to more of her work at www.caramcduna.com

Pilar LeMay gives some background behind-the-scenes of the early years of the transition for both the collections, and the family.

There will (hopefully) be other episodes that continue the story.

It's pretty good.

This is Part Three (and final in the trilogy for now) of telling the story of how the LeMay collections became the LeMay Museums...

Look for new episodes in August!

Molly Butterworth is a certified museum academic who played a crucial role in the early days of the museums. She's the former director of the Museum of Transportation in St. Louis and degrees from Miami University and a masters from Wright State in Public History. She is currently in the final edits of her first book on the automotive history in St. Louis This is Part One of telling the story of how the LeMay collections became the LeMay Museums... Look for new episodes in August!