People who want to restore their broken-down classic cars often don't
have the time, money or both to get the jobs done, and that's fine with
Dennis Pittsenbarger. In ``Highway to Sell,'' Pittsenbarger -- an
automotive authority and veteran race car driver -- and ace mechanic
``Slick'' partner with car owners to get clunkers back up to speed.
Dennis, Slick and their team spend their own money and time working to
restore the cars. However, once complete, the cars hit the auction
block, and the owners have a difficult choice to make: take a cut of the
profits, or buy the cherished rides back at discounted rates.
Type: Reality
Languages: English
Status: Ended
Runtime: 45 minutes
Premier: 2014-09-01
Highway to Sell - Lincoln Highway - Netflix
The Lincoln Highway was one of the earliest transcontinental highways
for automobiles across the United States of America. Conceived in 1912
by Indiana entrepreneur Carl G. Fisher, and formally dedicated October
31, 1913, the Lincoln Highway ran coast-to-coast from Times Square in
New York City west to Lincoln Park in San Francisco, originally through
13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and California. In
1915, the “Colorado Loop” was removed, and in 1928, a realignment
relocated the Lincoln Highway through the northern tip of West Virginia.
Thus, there are a total of 14 states, 128 counties, and more than 700
cities, towns and villages through which the highway passed at some time
in its history. The first officially recorded length of the entire
Lincoln Highway in 1913 was 3,389 miles (5,454 km). Over the years, the
road was improved and numerous realignments were made, and by 1924 the
highway had been shortened to 3,142 miles (5,057 km). Counting the
original route and all of the subsequent realignments, there have been a
grand total of 5,872 miles (9,450 km). The Lincoln Highway was gradually
replaced with numbered designations after the establishment of the U.S.
Numbered Highway System in 1926, with most of the route becoming part of
U.S. Route 30 from Pennsylvania to Wyoming. After the Interstate Highway
System was formed in the 1950s, the former alignments of the Lincoln
Highway were largely superseded by Interstate 80 as the primary
coast-to-coast route from the New York City area to San Francisco.
Highway to Sell - Music - Netflix
In 1914, the “Lincoln Highway March”, a band score, was written by
Lylord J. St. Claire. In 1921, the popular two step march “Lincoln
Highway” was composed by Harry J. Lincoln. The sheet music featuring an
uncredited drawing of the road on the cover. Lincoln was also the
publisher, and was based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania very near to
where the highway passed through the city. In 1922, another march titled
“Lincoln Highway” was composed by George B. Lutz, and published by
Kramer's Music House of Allentown, Pennsylvania. A video of a
player-piano version can be viewed on YouTube. In 1928, the song “Golden
Gate” (Dreyer, Meyer, Rose, & Jolson), sung by Al Jolson, included the
refrain: “Oh, Golden Gate, I'm comin' to ya / Golden Gate, sing
Hallelujah / I'll live in the sun, love in the moon / Where every month
is June. / A little sun-kissed blonde is comin' my way / Just beyond the
Lincoln Highway / I'm goin' strong now, it won't be long now / Open up
that Golden Gate.” In 1937, composer Harold Arlen and lyricist E. Y.
Harburg (composers of “Over the Rainbow” and many other hits) wrote the
song “God's Country”, for the 1937 musical Hooray for What! The song was
subsequently used for the finale of the 1939 MGM musical Babes in Arms,
starring Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney. The song starts with the famous
lyric: “Hey there, neighbor, goin' my way? / East or west on the Lincoln
Highway? / Hey there Yankee, give out with a great big thank-ee; /
You're in God's Country!” In the 1940s, the Lincoln Highway Radio Show
on NBC featured the theme song “When You Travel the Great Lincoln
Highway”. A rare surviving recording of the song can be found online.
Woody Guthrie's “the Asch Recordings” 1944 and 1945 included his song
“Hard Traveling” with the line “I've been walking that Lincoln Highway /
I thought you knowed”. In 1945, the title ballad (music by Earl
Robinson, lyrics by Millard Lampell) from the 20th Century Fox World War
II film A Walk In The Sun mentions the Lincoln Highway: “It's the same
road they had / Coming out of Stalingrad, / It's that old Lincoln
Highway back home, / It's wherever men fight to be free”. In 1974, the
song “Old Thirty” was composed by Bill Fries (C.W. McCall) and Chip
Davis for the album Wolf Creek Pass. An early verse contains the lyric:
“She was known to all the truckers / As the Mighty Lincoln Highway / But
to me She's still Old Thirty all the way”. In 1994, the song “Lincoln
Highway Dub” is an all instrumental song created by the band Sublime in
their album Robbin' the Hood. It features elements later used in the
well-known song “Santeria”, also by Sublime. In 1996, Shadric Smith
composed the country-western swing “Rollin' Down That Lincoln Highway”
which was recorded in 2003 by Smith and Denny Osburn. In 2008, Smith
revised some of the lyrics. The original 2003 recording of the song and
the revised 2008 version can be found online. “Rollin' Down That Lincoln
Highway” is one of two Lincoln Highway inspired songs that was featured
in the 2014 documentary film 100 Years on the Lincoln Highway produced
by Tom Manning for Wyoming PBS. In 2004, Mark Rushton released the CD
The Driver's Companion. The lead track is Rushton's composition “Theme
from Lincoln Highway”, an ambient electronic soundscape. In 2006, Bruce
Donnola composed “Lincoln Highway”, a track on Donnola's album The
Peaches of August, available on both iTunes and CD-Baby. A music video
of the song appears on YouTube. For the 2008 PBS documentary, A Ride
Along the Lincoln Highway produced by Rick Sebak, Buddy McNutt composed
the song “Goin' All the Way (on the Lincoln Highway)”. In 2010,
singer-songwriter Chris Kennedy released the CD Postcards from Main
Street, a collection of 11 odes to small towns, two-lane roads, and a
simpler, slower life. His fourth track is “Looking for the Lincoln
Highway”. Kennedy is an associate professor of Communications at Western
Wyoming Community College, in Rock Springs, Wyoming, a town along the
Lincoln Highway. “Looking for the Lincoln Highway” is one of two Lincoln
Highway inspired songs that was featured in the 2014 documentary film
100 Years on the Lincoln Highway produced by Tom Manning for Wyoming
PBS. In 2013, for the 100th Anniversary of the Lincoln Highway, Nils
Anders Erickson composed the country song “Goin Down the Lincoln
Highway: 100 Years in Three Minutes”, featuring steel guitar and
honky-tonk piano, with lyrics mentioning people “coming from Norway and
the UK”. The accompanying video, which can be viewed on YouTube,
features over 300 images captured by Erickson of current and destroyed
landmarks from Council Bluffs, Iowa, and three versions of the Historic
Douglas St. Bridge. Erickson's intent is to create a version for every
Lincoln Highway state. In 2013, in celebration of the Lincoln Highway's
Centennial, Nolan Stolz composed the symphony “Lincoln Highway Suite”.
The symphony has five movements: “From the Hudson”, “Metals Heartland”,
“Prairie View”, “Traversing the Mountains” and “Golden State Romp”. The
Dubuque Symphony premiered the composition June 2013. Also in 2013,
singer Cecelia Otto traveled the Lincoln Highway from New York to San
Francisco for her project American Songline, in which she performed
vintage songs in period attire in venues along the highway. In 2015, she
published a book recounting her journey and released an album of songs
from her concert program; the album also featured several original songs
about the highway, including “It's a Long Way to California” and “Land
of Lincoln”.
Highway to Sell - References - Netflix