Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

9.25.1891
Max G. Paulus of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana is born in Baltimore, MD
9.25.1924
Malcolm Campbell, driving a Sunbeam at Pendine Sands, Wales, raises the land speed record to 146.157 mph - this was the first of nine times that he would raise the record
9.25.1939
Racer Neville Lederle is born in Theunissen, South Africa
9.25.1962
General Motors announces a two-year, 24,000-mile blanket warranty on all of its 1963 cars and trucks
9.25.1965
The 1966 Ford Thunderbirds are introduced

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

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