I might be interested in helping you out a little , but first you would have to be a little more realistic with the need for info besides writing a text book--is it going to be a book used in what grade level? 1-8? high school, college or graduate courses?


And you say you are a Penn professor but your profile says Glendale Ca?


The California area is where the car culture really started as the guys returned from WW2.
I could tell you plenty about being a farm boy who drove team of mules in the field at age 6 and retired from a career that included being one of the early B 777 pilots.


You can probably ask anyone (maybe grey haired) out there in Glendale or other California areas about me and my cars (National/Track records)(California Chargers) and you will find more people that know of me than who Nixon was!!!!(according to Watter's World)


So I guess actually , that I'd need to know a whole lot more about you, before I give up 70 years info , especially in this day of surveillance.(But it is interesting and please check my gallery on this site)