Thursday, May 03, 2007

This Day in Auto History: 03 MAY

Automobile Quarterly
Automobile Quarterly
This Day in Auto History:

5.3.1909
The Ayres Gasoline Engine & Automobile Works of Rochester, MI files for dissolution, having ceased production of the Ayres in 1905
5.3.1940
Ford offers two-tone paint schemes as an option
5.3.1945
The 31,000,000th Ford is produced, a Model 59C half-ton pickup truck
5.3.1954
Buick produces it 2,000,000th Dynaflow transmission
5.3.1967
Racer Heinz-Harald Frentzen is born in Munich, West Germany

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

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