Thursday, October 30, 2008

email.gif

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

10.30.1899
The first Packard engine is completed and found to produce 7.1 horsepower
10.30.1909
The fifth Vanderbilt Cup Race is held on Long Island, NY and won by Harry F. Grant in a 90-hp Alco
10.30.1918
Percy Wheeler Tracy of Premier dies in Washington, DC at age 39
10.30.1952
The 1953 Chryslers are introduced
10.30.1956
The 1957 Dodge cars and four-wheel-drive trucks are introduced, with the cars featuring torsion-bar front suspension

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

No comments: