This Day in Auto History: 9.5.1914 Ira Vail makes his major racing debut driving an Otto at Brighton Beach, NY 9.5.1938 Fay Leone Faurote, an official with Oldsmobile and Thomas before starting his own automobile advertising business in 1921, dies at age 57 9.5.1956 Jean Herbert driving the Renault Etoile Filante (Shooting Star) at the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT sets a land speed record for turbine-powered cars of 195 mph 9.5.1973 The 1974 AMC models are introduced

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