Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

8.21.1885
William Francis O’Neil of the General Tire & Rubber Company is born in Akron, OH
8.21.1904
Automotive restoration authority Richard Charles Wheatley is born in Handsworth, Birmingham, England
8.21.1932
John Charles Curran Jr., Financing Manager for the Ford Motor Credit Company 1962-1969 and later an executive with the White Motor Company, is born in New York City
8.21.1948
Racer Cliff Hucul is born
8.21.1961
The first 1962 Ford Thunderbird is produced

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

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