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1904
119 years ago
Clement Smith was issued a United States patent for his ‘leader iron front-axle’ Read more…
1906
117 years ago
The New York Times reported on an early implementation of what might be considered speed bumps in the US town of Chatham, New Jersey, which planned to raise its crosswalks five inches above the road level: “This scheme of stopping automobile speeding has been discussed by different municipalities, but Chatham is the first place to put it in practice” Read more…
1907
116 years ago
Arthur Duray driving a Lorraine-Dietrich 60 hp won the Moscow to St Read more…
1928
95 years ago
The Plymouth automobile was introduced at Madison Square Garden Read more…
1928
95 years ago
The last Salmson GP was sold Read more…
1928
95 years ago
Sir Arthur F Read more…
1931
92 years ago
The VII Reale Premio di Roma was held on the new high speed Littorio circuit around the airport Read more…
1931
92 years ago
For the ninth Eifelrennen, a mix of 16 race cars started at the Nürburgring Read more…
1937
86 years ago
The day after having finished only second at the Rio Grand Prix, German racing legend, Hans Stuck took two new standing start world records with his Auto Union Grand Prix car Read more…
1948
75 years ago
Chico Landi (81), the first Brazilian driver to win a Grand Prix race, taking a Ferrari to victory at the Bari Grand Prix in 1948, died Read more…
1953
70 years ago
Alberto Ascari drove a Ferrari 500 to victory in the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort Read more…
1954
69 years ago
The Ford Motor Company formed a styling team to design an entirely new car that would later be named the Edsel Read more…
1962
61 years ago
The banking institution Credit Suisse–then known as Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (SKA)–opened Switzerland’s first drive-through bank in downtown Zurich Read more…
1965
58 years ago
David Hobbs drove a Lola T70 to victory in the Guards Trophy Race at Mallory Park in England Read more…
1969
54 years ago
Rolling Stone Keith Richards and his partner Anita Pallenburg were involved in a car crash near their home in Sussex Read more…
1970
53 years ago
The last race around the fearsome ‘Old Spa’, the Belgium Grand Prix, was somewhat surprisingly won by Pedro Rodriguez Read more…
1987
36 years ago
The Brooklands Museum Trust was founded Read more…
1991
32 years ago
Construction of the road Dartford – Thurrock River Crossing over the Thames was completed Read more…
1992
31 years ago
Bill France Sr (82), racing driver who co-founded and managed NASCAR, a sanctioning body of US-based stock car racing, died Read more…
1992
31 years ago
Ernie Irvan rallied to win the Save Mart 300K at Sonoma, a race overshadowed by the death of NASCAR founder Bill France Sr Read more…
1998
25 years ago
The Canadian Grand Prix contested over 69 laps, was the seventh round of the 1998 Formula One season Read more…
1998
25 years ago
The first sub-7 second 1/4 mile run by a NMCA Pro-Street street legal car Read more…
1999
24 years ago
Deputy British Prime Minister John Prescott officially opened the new bus lane on the M4 motorway between Heathrow Airport and London Read more…
2002
21 years ago
The 163-bhp Mini Cooper S with a 6-speed gearbox, capable of 0 to 60 mph in 7 seconds and a top speed of 135 mph, went on sale in the UK. Read more…
2004
19 years ago
A1 Grand Prix announced world renowned engine manufacturers Zytek Engineering were to produce the 3 Read more…
2005
18 years ago
General Motors announced plans to close plants and eliminate some 25,000 manufacturing jobs in the US by 2008 Read more…
2006
17 years ago
The UK car registration number plate M1 was sold at auction in Goodwood for £330,000 Read more…
2008
15 years ago
The record got the largest parade of Ford Mustang cars of 620 was set between St-Eulalie and Victoriaville, Quebec, Canada Read more…
2009
14 years ago
Although Brawn had completely dominated the season up to this point, by now it was beginning to become clear that the team’s lack of money was costing it in the development race and Red Bull was catching up Read more…
2010
13 years ago
Chrysler Group LLC recalled nearly 600,000 minivans and Jeep Wranglers because of brake or wiring problems that could become safety issues Read more…
2013
10 years ago
Tragedy struck in Xiamen, Fujian province, China when an angry Chinese citizen decided to take his own life in a mass-murder suicide using a local city bus, the Xiamen BRT, as his device to carry out his plan during the evening rush hour Read more…
2015
8 years ago
Ateef Abdulla, Sheetal Shrivastava and Deepak Shrivastava completed a 19,758 mile (31,798 knm) tour of India, the longest journey by car in a single country Read more…
2019
4 years ago
US media reported that more than a dozen car manufacturers, including Ford, General Motors, Toyota, Honda and Volkswagen had officially asked Pres Read more…
