Categories: Automotive|This Day

July 28 – Locomobile, Watkins Glen Summer Jam & the Bonnie & Clyde Car

In today’s automotive history video lesson for July 28 we discuss GM founder William Durant’s 1922 purchase of Locomobile, the 1924 birth of F1 driver Luigi Musso, the 1973 Watkins Glen Summer Jam concert featuring the Grateful Dead and the 1973 auction of Bonnie & Clyde’s death car.

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