Monday, September 25, 2006

This Day in Auto History: 25 September

9.25.1891 - Max G. Paulus of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana is born in Baltimore, MD

9.25.1924 - Malcolm Campbell, driving a Sunbeam at Pendine Sands, Wales, raises the land speed record to 146.157 mph - this was the first of nine times that he would raise the record

9.25.1939 - Racer Neville Lederle is born in Theunissen, South Africa

9.25.1962 - General Motors announces a two-year, 24,000-mile blanket warranty on all of its 1963 cars and trucks

9.25.1965 - The 1966 Ford Thunderbirds are introduced

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



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