On this day in…
1904
121 years ago
Henry M Leland was officially named General Manager of the Cadillac Motor Car Company Read more…
1922
103 years ago
Dutch automobile designer Charles Marie Van Eugen joined Lea & Francis Ltd of Coventry, England Read more…
1923
102 years ago
The Packard Second Series Six was introduced Read more…
1927
98 years ago
The Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company was reorganised as the Graham-Paige Motors Corporation Read more…
1929
96 years ago
The Cadillac V-16 (sometimes known as the Cadillac Sixteen) was Cadillac’s top-of-the-line car was introduced Read more…
1932
93 years ago
Eddie Miller driving a modified Auburn 12-160 Speedster at Muroc Dry Lake, California set speed records ranging from 1 kilometre to 1,000 miles Read more…
1933
92 years ago
The 1934 Buicks were introduced, the first with independent front suspension Read more…
1934
91 years ago
“The Border 100″ – the first road race in South Africa, run over six laps of the 16-mile Marine Drive Circuit, on the west bank of the Buffalo River at East London, was won by Whitney Straight in a Maserati 8CM Read more…
1941
84 years ago
To ensure enough rubber for military and vital civilian purposes, tire rationing was introduced throughout the United States Read more…
1943
82 years ago
Curtis Veeder (81), the engineer who invented the modern motor vehicle tachometer and odometer, died Read more…
1951
74 years ago
The US Postal Service in Cincinnati, Ohio, US put the Crosley car into use Read more…
1985
40 years ago
Jean Rondeau (39), the only man to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in a car bearing his own name, died when the street car he was a passenger in was hit by a train Read more…
1993
32 years ago
Andre Pilette died in Belgium – he was 75 Read more…
1999
26 years ago
The Morgan 4/4 celebrated its 64th birthday Read more…
2001
24 years ago
In an era of huge salaries, 34-year-old German Heinz-Harald Frentzen bucked the trend by taking a substantial pay cut to sign a one-year deal with Arrows Read more…
2002
23 years ago
Welsh snooker star Mark Williams severely damaged his £50,000 Noble M12 GTO with its personalised CUE 1 number plate on an icy road and crashed into roadside bushes south Wales Read more…
2006
19 years ago
The San Francisco Department of Parking and Traffic in California began a 90-day test run using cameras to scan licence plates in search of cars with unpaid tickets Read more…
2019
6 years ago
Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car Read more…
2019
6 years ago
Turkey unveiled its first fully domestically-produced car Read more…
