This Day in Auto History: 24 JUNE

This Day in Auto History: 6.24.1902 The Paris-Vienna race begins with 137 entries and 10,000 spectators 6.24.1923 Opel records it finest racing moment when the 12-litre car built in 1913 wins a beach race on Fano Island, Denmark at a speed of 128 mph 6.24.1931 Frank N. Nutt, a spark plug manufacturer and Chief Engineer of the Haynes Automobile Company 1899-1914, dies in Rochester, MN at age 51 6.24.1953 Racer Takao Wada is born in Japan 6.24.1961 Racer Hut Stricklin is born in Calera, AL

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