April 26th - May 2nd | This Week in Automotive History

DealerLifeToday...​​​ presents This Week in Automotive History
Join us as we drive past the most momentous events in automotive history. Packed with fascinating facts about the innovators, the culture, and the history of the innovative people who changed the world.
In this episode, we look back on the events that happened in the automotive world during the dates of April 12th - 18th.
0:08​​ - May 3rd, 1971
The first Cannonball Baker, more popularly known as the Cannonball Run, began in New York City. It was an unofficial, if not outlawed, motor race from New York City to Los Angeles
0:20​​ - May 4th, 1904
The Honorable Charles Rolls and Henry Royce met for the first time at the Midland Hotel in Manchester, UK. The two men quickly decided they should join forces to produce and market high-class cars - and set the seal on their agreement with a simple handshake.
0:30​​ - May 5th, 1950
The first La Carrera Panamericana road race began. 132 cars entered the 5-day, 2,178-mile race running the length of Mexico from Juárez on the Texas border to El Ocotal on the border with Guatemala.
0:40​​ - May 7th, 1927
The first DKW production automobile was completed. The company and brand is one of the ancestor companies of the modern-day Audi company as one of the four companies that formed Auto-Union.
0:50​​ - May 8th, 1879
George Baldwin Selden of Rochester, New York filed the first US patent for an automobile. It was issued almost two decades later on 5 November 1898 for a unique combination of an internal combustion engine and a road vehicle.
1:00​​ - May 8th, 1957
The 2,996th and final Lincoln Continental Mark II was produced. The Mark II sold for $10,400, the equivalent of a new Rolls-Royce or two Cadillacs (at least until the $13,074 Cadillac Eldorado Brougham out-priced it in 1957).
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