S1 Ep202: How Chevrolet Was Kicked Out of Chevrolet

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Chevrolet isn’t just a company, it’s an American institution. Today on Past Gas, the story of a world-conquering company that almost wasn’t. How did the men who made Chevy lose it so quickly? How did the company nearly get shut down by its own board, then come back to overtake Ford in sales only 7 years later? How did an up-and-coming lawyer flip Chevy’s attitude about safety even quicker than a Corvair could flip itself? All that and more on today’s Past Gas, about the beginnings of Chevrolet and the man who stole its name, William Durant.

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0:00.0	Big thank you to our sponsor this week. Shopify. That's right. Sign up for a $1 per month trial period at Shopify.com slash gas. All lower case. Go to Shopify.com slash gas to take your business to the next level today. Shopify.com slash gas.
0:20.0	Chevrolet is in just a company. It's an American institution. The makers of the Corvette, Corver, Camaro, Tahoe, Tracker and Trailblazer have been around since what seems like the beginning of time.
0:38.0	Becoming aware of Chevy is like learning the lyrics to Bohemian Rhapsody. You know must have happened at some point, but it feels like you've simply always known it.
0:47.0	The story of Chevrolet in its beginnings is hardly straightforward and far from inevitable. It involves backroom deals, betrayals, corporate ousters and fortunes gained and squandered.
0:59.0	Two men, Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant are responsible for the creation of Chevrolet, but neither of those men had anything to do with the company just nine years after its founding.
1:10.0	Today on Pascasse, the story of a world conquering company that almost wasn't. How did the men who made Chevy lose it so quickly? How did the company nearly get shut down by its own board? Then come back to overtake Ford in sales only seven years later?
1:25.0	How did an up and coming lawyer flip Chevy's attitude about safety even quicker than a Corver could flip itself?
1:33.0	All that and more on today's episode of Pascasse, it's the beginnings of Chevrolet and the men who stole its name, William Durant.
1:41.0	Hello, welcome to Pascasse. My name is Nolan Sykes. I'm joined by my co-hosts. You know them. You love them. James Pumphrey. What's up, man?
2:04.0	Dr. Can you check out this weird bump on my back? I think it might be a podcast.
2:13.0	And Joe Weber. What's up, Wake Wake Nation? Drink it in. Drink it in. Drink it in. It's the freaking weekend baby. We are recording at 8.28 a.m.
2:24.0	which is a lot of earlier than we got it. We got to send Nolan off to his European.
2:30.0	Nolan's got to go to the airport because he's going to a place called Spain.
2:36.0	He's going to Spain eat a bunch of snails out of a can. I'm going to I'm going to cram like my junior year.
2:45.0	Oh, that was different than when I thought I'm going to study Spanish on the way over there.
2:52.0	Oh, that's good. You really put it off to the last second. I've been busy, man. It's a long flight.
2:58.0	Yeah. Looking forward to it. And by the time you hear this, I'll probably be back.
3:03.0	He's going to have an accent when he kids back. Oh, that'd be great. Yeah. But like a really weird one.
3:09.0	Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. I'm late. I'm late. Hey, you need to go.
3:16.0	You need to like chill out. Yeah. I just watched a zero last night.
3:20.0	We're going to go to sleep. Yeah. Antonio Bender. Antonio Bender. Whoa.
3:24.0	Whoa. That is a small world. Are you going to see Zorro? I did you?
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