This Day in Auto History: 10.30.1899 The first Packard engine is completed and found to produce 7.1 horsepower 10.30.1909 The fifth Vanderbilt Cup Race is held on Long Island, NY and won by Harry F. Grant in a 90-hp Alco 10.30.1918 Percy Wheeler Tracy of Premier dies in Washington, DC at age 39 10.30.1952 The 1953 Chryslers are introduced 10.30.1956 The 1957 Dodge cars and four-wheel-drive trucks are introduced, with the cars featuring torsion-bar front suspension

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