Hey, what's up everybody? My name is Nolan. From Past Gas by Donut Media, we are an automotive

history show. It's kind of like hand that garage with your friends listing them tell a great

story from automotive history. On our next episode of Past Gas, the year is 1870, and a

samurai has just started a trading operation in a Japan still coming to grips with the modern

world. Through hard work, ingenious engineering, and perhaps more than a little war profiteering,

that company would later grow to be Mitsubishi, one of the largest companies and one of the world's

largest economies. But how did sales plummet to just 15% of their peak in a few short years?

How did the company watch Volkswagen's dieselgate unfold and then top it? And is Mitsubishi responsible

for the trend of naming mid-size crossovers after once iconic performance models? All that and more

on this week's Past Gas as we learn about the rise and fall of Mitsubishi.

Edelbrock, Holly, Wyand. Today, these names are synonymous with big performance,

each with unique legacies reaching back to the early days of hot riding. But there's one name

that eclipses all of them, not just in name recognition, but with a legacy of its own that touches

nearly every form of motorsport. I'm talking about the one and only, Mickey Thompson. Unfortunately,

this story does not have a happy ending. In a cruel twist of fate, Mickey's accomplishments behind

the wheel are often overshadowed by the vicious murderer of both he and his wife. The Thompson

murders sent shockwaves through the world of motorsport and popular culture. Who would want to kill

one of the biggest names in the industry? And why? By the end of this two-part series,

we're going to lay out the facts of this notorious case, explain how it took the police so long

to solve it, and see how the power of family is sometimes the only thing keeping an investigation

going. While Mickey's story ends in tragedy, there is so much more to his life than that.

From his teenage years street racing in the San Fernando Valley to managing the legendary

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