October 10, 1974 – Dale Earnhardt, Jr. is born
Retired NASCAR racer and team owner Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was born on this day in 1974 to parents Brenda
Retired NASCAR racer and team owner Ralph Dale Earnhardt, Jr. was born on this day in 1974 to parents Brenda
Felix Wankel was a German engineer and inventor whose groundbreaking work in engine design revolutionized the automotive industry. Born on
You may know him from winning the first ever X Games MotoX Freestyle event in 1999? Maybe it was his
The world changed forever on this day in 1913 when Henry Ford’s Highland Park assembly plant switched on the continuously
Alfa Romeo 158/159 Alfettas raced in 54 Grand Prix races, winning an astonishing 47 of them. This placed them among
On this day in 1919 a young Italian by the name of Enzo Ferrari took fourth place in a hill
If you happened to attend the 1973 Paris Motor Show, which opened on this day of that year, there would
On this day in 1912 future auto industry executive Semon Knudsen was born to William Knudsen, who himself would later
October 1, 1908 was a big day in the growing automotive industry. Up in Flint, Michigan, William Durant had recently
The Mercury Cougar is an iconic American automobile that was launched on September 30, 1966 for the 1967 model year.
On this day in 1913 the inventor of the Diesel engine disappeared from a ship never to be seen alive
It’s a small car with a big name. Jowett Cars Ltd debuted their first and only sports car, the Jupiter,
America’s prohibition era surely fueled the rise of NASCAR, but it took one man to make it official. Drivers who
The year 1926 marked a significant turning point in labor history with Henry Ford’s announcement on September 25th regarding the
In 1937 Soichiro Honda founded a company to produce piston rings for Toyota. The walls soon came tumbling down, quite
In the late 1960s, as the muscle car craze swept the United States, Dodge tossed a new Challenger in the
On this day in 1893, brothers Frank and Charles Duryea debuted their first automobile on the streets of Springfield, Massachusetts.
It could have been the Falcon, given its code name during development, but Henry Ford II called dips on the
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