This Day in Auto History: 03 MAY

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