Skip to content

This Day in Automotive History

  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter
  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter
Facebook Instagram Youtube
Newsletter
  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter

This Day in
Automotive History

Picture of Brian Corey

Brian Corey

February 4, 1913 – Civil rights activist Rosa Parks is born

February 4, 2023
|

February 1, 1907 – Steam pioneer Léon Serpollet dies

February 1, 2023
||

January 29, 1886 – The automobile is patented

January 29, 2023
||

January 22, 1950 – Preston Tucker is not guilty

January 22, 2023
|

January 20, 1946 – Kaiser Frazer debuts

January 20, 2023
|

January 15, 1909 – Jean Bugatti is born

January 15, 2023
||

January 13, 1906 – AMCMA holds first auto show

January 13, 2023
||

January 8, 2016 – Maria Teresa de Filippis, first female F1 driver, passes away

January 8, 2023
|

January 2, 1994 – Introducing the Dodge Neon

January 2, 2023
|

December 28, 1870 – Edward Budd, automotive frame pioneer, is born

December 28, 2022
||

December 18, 1898 – The first automobile land speed record is set

December 18, 2022
|

December 11, 1978 – Mafia men use Ford Econoline to steal $5.8m in heist

December 11, 2022
||||||||||||

November 13, 1971 – Spielberg’s feature debut Duel starring a demonic Peterbilt premieres

November 13, 2022

November 11, 1978 – The Dukes of Hazzard films iconic jump

November 11, 2022
|

November 9, 1960 – McNamara becomes president of Ford

November 9, 2022
|

November 8, 1989 – Infiniti is founded

November 9, 2022
||

November 6, 1988 – The first Polish Victory Lap

November 6, 2022

November 3, 1911 – Chevrolet is founded

November 3, 2022
« Previous Page1 … Page17 Page18 Page19 Page20 Page21 … Page44 Next »

This Day in Automotive History is a transportation history, car history and general automotive history website dedicated to providing informative and entertaining content.

Our goal is to enlighten our readers by producing and publishing automotive content on a wide range of topics, including famous cars, important automotive inventors and engineers and other historic automobile related events, places and people.

Facebook-f Instagram Youtube
Make a Donation

©2026 Cars & Copy Media Co. All rights Reserved.

This Day in Automotive History is publication of Spare Change Multimedia LLC, DBA Cars & Copy Media Co.

This site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links. This includes links to sites including those owned by companies such as eBay, Amazon and Goodyear.

As an Amazon Associate this site may earn from qualifying purchases when you click on certain links.

As a bookshop.org affiliate, this site may earn from qualifying purchases when you click on certain links.

  • Terms
  • Privacy

Proud Member of the Port Gardner Vintage Auto Club

  • contact@carsandcopymedia.com

If you have any questions about this automotive history content, including our car videos and car history pictures and text and the use of them, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

On occasion we post classic cars for sale from Craigslist, Facebook and other online marketplaces. We utilize imagery from those ads in a fair use fashion. This includes barn finds for sale, muscle cars for sale, vans for sale, station wagons for sale, trucks for sale and other affordable old cars for sale. If you’d like your car featured, reach out to us!