Jimmy said Bonnie & Clyde sent a letter to Henry Ford about the Ford being the best car to steal. No, that was Dillinger.
Jimmy was looking at a 1972 Chevy Chevelle and said 1972 was the last year for the hot rods. No, it was 1970.
Jimmy said in the 70's, you could buy gas for 19 cents a gallon anywhere you wanted to.......No, gas was 38 - 40 cents a gallon.
Jimmy, quit trying to be a "history buff" without first using fact check.
LOL towtrucks- to answer your question, probably not. But to be fair, maybe gas was 19 cents a gallon in the early 70's in LA and cheaper than elsewhere ?
I think it was 35 cents a gallon up here in the North East at that time.
Now the letter, I recalled hearing that story but wasn't sure who sent it... I was leaning toward Clyde but wasn't certain... so I checked. Seems they both supposedly did... Clyde in April 1934 and John a month later in May 1934.
But it appears that unlike Clyde's letter, John's letter was determined to be a hoax.... most likely sent by some jokester as a result of Clyde's letter... so as hard as it is to believe one of these shows actually got something right.
I would add that Jimmy said it was Clyde though because he was a local boy...
http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/barrow.asp
Fire Nancy Dubuc !!! History Made-up Every Day !
Actually, he said 1972 was the last year for muscle cars, not hot rods. And he was right. In 1973 they started requiring auto makers to put all that smog-control crap on their cars, and most of them dropped the horsepower way down.
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