(relaxed string music) My mother come from a very large family of 13, they were burly tobacco farmers in Western Kentucky, and my dad came from coal-mining country in Southern Illinois...

Here in Illinois, and they came up in the early '20s, pre-Depression, times were good, but just the excitement of Detroit, and bailing hay and mining coal might not have been too exciting for them.

They were auto workers their entire lives, both of 'em, my mother was probably in her early 20s and kinda started out as a housewife, and came down with tuberculosis and spent a few years in the TB wards, got well and went to work at Packard, and she retired for Fleetwood Cadillac after, I don't know, 35 years, and she would've stayed at Fleetwood Cadillac 'til this very moment if she could've.

(laughs) In fact, on her tombstone in Western Kentucky, we have a Cadillac crest on her tombstone.

My dad worked at Ford, I've got all kinds of Ford stories, my dad said that five dollars a day was a big deal, that's what brought many, many people here, but he said, "Mr. Ford absolutely got his money's worth out of you for that five dollars."

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