This Day In Auto History: 12 OCTOBER

10.12.1903 - The National Automobile & Motor Company of Oshkosh, WI is liquidated

10.12.1928 - Racer Fred Comer dies

10.12.1936 - The first Vanderbilt Trophy race is staged at the Roosevelt Raceway in Westbury, NY and won by Tazio Nuvolari in an Alfa Romeo - George Vanderbilt, a cousin of William K. Vanderbilt Jr., is the patron of the reborn classic race, and a ceremonial first lap is driven by track manager Colonel George Robertson in the Locomobile “Old 16”, they being the winning driver and car of the 1908 Vanderbilt Cup

10.12.1941 - Racer Morgan Shepherd is born in Ferguson, NC

10.12.1950 - The Society of Motion Picture Art Directors names the 24th Series Packard (1951 model year) as “the most beautiful car of the year”