Harry Bentley Bradley
C10 Talk
Truck Talk Media
4.9 • 691 Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2021
⏱️ 112 minutes
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Summary
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Harry Bentley Bradley, landed his Dream Job, being a GM designer out of college, recruited by all the bigger automotive companies, he choose GM! Later HBB would be hired by Mattel to start and design the first Hot Wheels cars/trucks.
I hope you enjoy the episode.
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| 0:00.0 | Truck Talk Media. |
| 0:02.5 | C-10 Talk, episode 22, Harry Bentley Bradley, master automotive designer, from GM to hot wheels and a whole lot more. |
| 0:14.5 | Here we go. |
| 0:15.4 | Well, unquestionably at the time, especially to a young fellow, GM cars were the most stylish, the most... |
| 0:22.6 | Later, I use these words now, but I didn't know them at the time. |
| 0:28.8 | They were the most coherent designs. |
| 0:31.3 | They were the most thematic designs, and they certainly were the most eye-opening designs. |
| 0:39.0 | Damn, son. |
| 0:41.3 | Hey guys, I've got David Odegaard, product manager United Pacific Industries. |
| 0:46.2 | David, what's the latest? |
| 0:48.2 | You know, one of our hottest items is the side mirrors with the directional built into them, the LED arrow. |
| 0:54.4 | You know, these look cool. |
| 0:56.3 | They look original. |
| 0:57.9 | And however, when you're driving at night and you're changing lanes, that guy that |
| 1:01.9 | sits in your blind spot, we all know who he is, he'll see that you're indicating and |
| 1:06.1 | you're coming over. |
| 1:07.1 | And there's a great safety factor with these mirrors and they look cool too. |
| 1:12.2 | Blind spot guy. We don't want you there. But the United Pacific side mirrors, they work great. |
| 1:17.0 | I have them on Orange Slice. I love them. How about the guys that are looking to go long bed to short bed? |
| 1:21.8 | What do you guys offer in them? Yeah, we have all the parts for the 67 to 72 bed, you know, new bed floors or whatever you may need, a new bedside or that bedfront that's always been smashed in by 50 years of stuff being, you know, hauled in the bed. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah, these trucks have been worked so hard over the years. |
| 1:39.9 | We love that about our trucks, but you might have a floor that's dinged up. |
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