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1791
232 years ago
A traffic regulation in New York City established the first street to go in one direction only, or “One Way,” as the signs said Read more…
1892
131 years ago
George B Read more…
1910
113 years ago
Charles Kettering, William A Chryst and William P Anderson successfully tested the first automobile self starter Read more…
1922
101 years ago
A Citroën expedition set off in an attempt to become the first to cross the Sahara Desert by motor car, travelling from Algiers to Timbuktu, a distance of approximately 2,000 miles Read more…
1925
98 years ago
The new Stutz Vertical Eight, with ‘Safety Body’, the first Stutz designed during the Frederic E Read more…
1931
92 years ago
The 1932 Cadillacs and LaSalles were introduced at the Cadillac National Convention for dealers and sales personnel in Detroit, Michigan Read more…
1931
92 years ago
Bentley Motors (1931) Ltd was in corporated as a subsidiary of Rolls Royce Ltd Read more…
1933
90 years ago
For this day only, the general public were allowed to walk through the new Mersey Road Tunnel Read more…
1940
83 years ago
The American Bantam Car Company completed its initial contract to supply 70 prototype Jeeps to the federal government Read more…
1952
71 years ago
The Austin Motor Company Ltd and Morris Motors Ltd merged to form the British Motor Corporation with Leonard Lord as Chairman Read more…
1952
71 years ago
Lord Nuffield at the age of 73 resigned his Directorships of the British Motor Company and Morris Motors Read more…
1953
70 years ago
Production commenced of the Ford 100E Prefect, with a new 4 cylinder, 1172 cc sidevalve engine, capable of 70mph Read more…
1954
69 years ago
British Petroleum Co Read more…
1955
68 years ago
Dodge introduced the Coronet station wagon and the Royal Lancer 2-door hardtop coupe as a mid-year models Read more…
1963
60 years ago
Inventor of the headlight dimmer switch, Henry B Kenyon, died in Miami Read more…
1963
60 years ago
The U Read more…
1968
55 years ago
The London-Sydney Rally which had started from the Crystal Palace racing circuit in London at 2pm on Sunday, November 24th 1968, finished at Warwick Farm (an outer Sydney suburb), in Australia Read more…
1970
53 years ago
One of the most complex interchanges in Great Britain, the Worsley Interchange, opened, connecting the then M62 (now M60) and M61 with the A580 and A666 Read more…
1973
50 years ago
One of the more successful developments caused by reactions to the OPEC crisis was unveiled when a Buick Apollo with a reworked 1960’s Fireball V-6 engine was driven by Chief Engineer Phillip C Read more…
1979
44 years ago
Hollywood stuntman Stan Barrett became the first person in the world to travel faster than sound on land, after driving the three-wheeled Budweiser Rocket at a top speed of 739 Read more…
1981
42 years ago
Ford announced plans to begin production of the first propane-fuelled passenger cars in the US Read more…
1983
40 years ago
An IRA car bomb killed six, three police and three members of the public, and injured 90 outside Harrods in London Read more…
1983
40 years ago
The Ford Continental Mark VII introduced Read more…
1986
37 years ago
Giulio Ramponi (84), winner of the Mille Miglia in 1928 and 1929, died in South Africa Read more…
1986
37 years ago
A federal jury in Detroit cleared automaker John DeLorean of all 15 charges in his fraud and racketeering trial Read more…
1990
33 years ago
Ontario Motor Speedway (US), the first and only automobile racing facility built to accommodate major races sanctioned by all of the four dominant racing sanctioning bodies: USAC (and now IndyCar Series) for open-wheel oval car races; NASCAR for a 500-mile (800 km) oval stock car races; NHRA for drag races; and FIA for Formula One road course races, closed, Constructed in less than two years, the track opened in August 1970 and was considered state of the art at the time Read more…
1991
32 years ago
The last Rolls Royce Phantom VI was completed, a Mulliner Park Ward laudaulette that was later sold to His Majesty Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu’izzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan of Brunei Read more…
1996
27 years ago
The 15 millionth Mercedes-Benz car produced since the war rolled off the Sindelfingen line in Germany Read more…
1997
26 years ago
The first stage of the 21 km Southern Expressway in Australia, the world’s longest reversible one-way freeway, opened to traffic Read more…
1998
25 years ago
After 18 months the all new General Motors plant in Shanghai, China was finished Read more…
1999
24 years ago
NASCAR great Dale Earnhardt underwent back surgery to remove a ruptured disk at University Medical Center in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA Read more…
2000
23 years ago
Rapper Eminem was the subject of a sick Internet hoax after MTV reported that the rapper had been killed in a car crash en route to a party Read more…
2001
22 years ago
Toyota finally launched their racing car, after one of the longest development processes in Formula One history Read more…
2003
20 years ago
A bus transporting miners from Simferopol to Alushta plunged into a ditch on a mountain road in Crimea, Ukraine, killing 17 and injuring 19 Read more…
2007
16 years ago
Crain Hyundai of North Little Rock, AR Read more…
2008
15 years ago
Toyota shelved the development of clean diesel engines Read more…
2012
11 years ago
Infiniti announced a new product nomenclature scheme where all sedans and coupes will carry a “Q” prefix while all crossovers and SUVs will carry a “QX” prefix Read more…
