Monday, January 7, 2008

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

1.3.1905
"Dante Giacosa, a Fiat stylist 1928-1975, is born in Rome, Italy"
1.3.1921
The Studebaker Corporation announces that they have ended farmwagon
1.3.1928
The Packard Custom 443 is introduced along with a rumble seatcoupe and
1.3.1939
"The experimental Rolls-Royce ``Big Bertha'', a Wraith chassis witha straight-8 engine, is completed"
1.3.1944
"Robert Lacey, biographer of the Ford family, is born inGuildford, Surrey, "

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

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