Here are your Auto Factoids for the last week of Dec 2014.
– Charles Goodyear was born Dec 29, 1800 in New Heaven, Conn. 39 years and 4 days later he developed vulcanization or rubber (Jan 2, 1839)
– Jan 1, 1942 was the date that the us Government banned the sale of all non-essential car and small trucks in an effort to save valuable resources for the war effort.
– Back in 1966 on Jan 1st, Dodge rolls out the Charger.
1966 Charger Love the lines!!!
But it has had some changes over the years.
1969 Charger – Nice!!!!!
1987 Shelby version of the Charger.
2010 Dodge Charger – not a great looking car.
2014 Charger – looks make you want to yawn…but it can move!!!!
– Chevy debuts its first air-cooled engine on Jan 2, 1923.
Copper/Air Cooled
– On Jan 2, 1957 Ghia announced the production of the Crown Imperial limo.
Here is an 1958 Chrysler-Imperial Limo example. That’s a nice looking car!!!
Thanks for reading this installment of #AutoFactoids.
Tim
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1984 C4
My 1985 Shelby Charger was similar to the one you have pictured. It was garnet red with silver and factory sunroof (that never leaked). The 2.2l had Mopar Performance over sized injectors and a ECU to ‘delay’ wastegate operation.
I porbably had the most fun ever with that car in that the 305V8 Camaros and 5.0V8 Mustangs of the day had about the same HP as the Shelby Charger, but the weight advantage helped me blow the doors off both the Camaro and Mustang. Other than short lived head gaskets that car was pretty much bullet proof and easy to maintain. YEP, another car I wish I had just kept and fixed up.