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.

In his 89 years on earth, Carol Shelby lived more lives than Super Mario. He was born the son of

a postal worker in rural Texas. Then he flew bombers for the Air Force in World War II. He worked

on an oil well. He farmed chickens. He raced sports cars and one lemaw with sports illustrated,

naming him driver of the year, two years running. All of this was before Carol Shelby lived the life

that made him a legend among automotive enthusiasts. That would be the life of a high-end racecar guru

known for his incredible run of cars he helped develop in the 1960s, most of which were built with

big old Ford V8s, cars like the Cobra, the GT350 and GT500, the Shelby Daytona Coupe, the Ford GT40

among many others firmly established American muscle as a worthy competitor to European sports cars

of the time. If Shelby was known for one thing, it was constantly pushing the envelope.

In his words, what's my favorite car? And I've always said the next. In the automotive world and

beyond, there was always a next one for Shelby. In January of 1970 at the height of his success with

Ford, Shelby shockingly walked away from the automotive empire he had built. True to his racing

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