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On This Day in Automotive History: January 8
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On This Day in Automotive History
January 8
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Birthdays: Charles Basle (1885), L.L. Corum (1899),
Giulio Ramponi (1902), Jean de Mortemart (1908), Jim McLain (1925), Merle Brennan (1927), Bud Elliott (1934), Clive Baker (1942), John Schneider (1946), Jim Courage (1947), Greg Pickett (1947), Billy Cassella (1949), Bub Bilodeau (1957), Bill Harner (1957), Darrell LaMoure (1960), Steve Vest (1960), Christophe d'Ansembourg (1963), Bo LeMastus (1963), Mike Pratt (1968), Jamey Caudill (1970), Dennis Charette (1974), Eduardo Goeters (1974), Matt Levin (1975), Jody Measamer (1977), Chad Block (1978), Cory Friedman (1978), Bobby Hamilton Jr. (1978),
Stephen Simpson (1984), Henri Tuomaala (1989), Scott Pye (1990), Dalton Zehr (1991), Tyler Howell (1998), Sam Butler (2004)
1944:
William Kissam Vanderbilt II, automobile pioneer and sponsor of the
Vanderbilt Cup, died.
1991: Administrator Thomas Larson sends a memo entitled "Moving FHWA Into the 21st Century," to all employees. With the Interstate era winding down, he announces the start of FHWA 2000--a program to "clearly define a vision of where we want to be in the future, and a plan for how we can get there."
2008: The first episode of Parking Wars aired.
2017: The second generation
GMC Terrain was unveiled at the
North American International Auto Show.
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