Thursday, October 23, 2008

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Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

10.23.1889
Stylist Amos E. Northup is born in Bellevue, OH
10.23.1918
Automotive historian James Potvin Barry is born in Alton, IL
10.23.1938
The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. purchases the Indianapolis, IN factory used since 1921 for the manufacture of the Duesenberg
10.23.1952
The 1953 Dodges are introduced, featuring the marque’s first V-8 engines
10.23.1970
Gary Gabelich, driving the Blue Flame, raises the land speed record to 622.407 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT

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

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