part one Richard Brimblecombe of Drayton, Ontario, was born in 1945 and learned how to drive a tractor on the family farm. He drove his dad’s 1950 Pontiac to pass his driver’s test in 1961. But he was already car-crazy. He bought his first car at age 15, a black 1937 Dodge...

Back in 1952 Studebaker was a contender in the highly competitive truck market. Studebaker had built its first electric commercial vehicles before switching to gas in 1913, but soon after abandoned the truck market altogether. Then, in 1927, new buses and 1 to 3-ton...