Thursday, March 6, 2008

This Day in Auto History:

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

3.6.1900
Gottlieb Daimler dies in Canstatt, Germany at age 65
3.6.1915
The tenth Vanderbilt Cup is held at the Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, CA and won by Dario Resta in a Peugeot
3.6.1928
William Francis Nolan, biographer of Barney Oldfield, is born in Kansas City, MO
3.6.1934
The Auto Union Type C Grand Prix car makes its public debut at the Avus track in Berlin, Germany with Hans Stuck setting a world record by covering 134.90 miles in one hour
3.6.1941
Pontiac’s World War II effort begins with a government order for Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick

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