5/31/1927 – Mr. Ford produces the last Model T
6/2/1899 – Locomobile Co. Founded – they were in business until 1929. They made a lot of cars, I hadn’t realized that. Here are a couple.
1901 Locomobille - Cool..wonder what the 1/4 mile time were??
Love this one..Steam powered????
1923 48 Series Sport
6/3/1864 Ransom Olds was born in Ohio. He developed and build cars named after him, Oldsmobile and REO (his middle name was Eli, hence REO, hey that was a band name REO Speedwagon.
An Reo Speedwagon
I’ve never heard of the next guy, until now and did a little reading.
Barney Oldfield was born 6/3/1878. He was a race car drive, but started out racing bike and wining silver medals in the process. Here are a couple pics:
Early 1900's
Oh Yeah..that Henry Ford standing next to his car.
I happened to be doing a bit of work-related researching in Google today and came across this blog. As you can imagine I have become a lttle bit distracted after sticking around to read a number of your posts. Carry on the great writing and i am already looking towards checking out upcoming posts. Enjoy the week!
Thanks for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed your visit. Stop by aften and let me know how I’m doing.
I love these factoids you post every week.