J. D. Weeks

Weeks has assembled virtually every published reference to the activities of the Preston Motors Corporation and their line-up of Premocar cars and trucks, manufactured in the early 1920s in Birmingham, Alabama. Moreover, he's compiled that sometimes scanty information into a very readable tale with enough context of what else was going on in Birmingham and the auto industry to understand what it meant to be assembling and marketing a premium motorcar in the South in that day and time. Most interesting was the Premocar racing activities which brought the car out onto tracks around the country with significant success.… (mere)