S1 Ep148: The First Cross-Country Road Trip

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

It’s 1903, and an out-of-work doctor, Horatio Nelson Jackson, is fiercely defending the world’s most exciting invention – the automobile – against a group of men who are POSITIVE that the car was just a fad. Jackson was so sure of himself that he bet $50 that he could take a car from San Francisco to New York City… a feat that had never been done before. Yes, he was going to embark on a road trip at a time when there were no highways, no road maps, no street signs, no gas stations, and no Red Roof Inn’s. Was the automobile even capable of such a journey? How would Horatio Nelson Jackson, an altogether inexperienced driver, complete this treacherous mission? And would he ever see that $50 again? Today on Past Gas, the story of the first cross-country road trip.

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0:00.0	Big thanks to Valvelin for sponsoring this episode of Pascasse.
0:04.0	Did you know that Valvelin sponsors Donuts own FD driver Adam Knappik?
0:08.8	Did you also know that Valvelin was America's first motor oil brand making the original motor
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1:02.4	So be like all of us at Donut and put Valvelin in your car.
1:05.7	Thank you, Valvelin.
1:12.0	It's the summertime, which means we're all grilling out.
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