Thread: Participation Needed for Academic Survey on Interest in Cars and Hot Rods

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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)

Hi Jerry,

Thanks for your questions - My name is John Hoenig and I posted this message on behalf of Prof. Gary Cross, who is a professor at Penn State. I am a former grad student of his, and now live in Glendale, CA (a big part of why he's asked me to help out with the project).

The book is going to be an academic text (out of the University of Chicago), with an intended audience primarily for graduate courses and academic libraries.

I've been interviewing a number of people in the area, including Larry Volk, Penny Pichette, and Chopit.

If you have any other concerns or questions, let me know. But I'd love to hear from you.