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On This Day in Automotive History: March 25

On This Day in Automotive History
March 25

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Birthdays: Russ Hepler (1924), Don Freeland (1925), Royce Hagerty (1925), Bill Johnson (1926), Bernard Boyer (1934), Johnny Ray (1937), Fritz d'Orey (1938), Tom Weickardt (1947), Butch Lindley (1948), Mike Bonicelli (1949), Joe Sposato (1949), Tony Siscone (1951), Lance Stewart (1956), Kevin Culver (1957), Ron Zitza (1957), Michael Cullen (1963), Mark Boden (1965), Michael Hector (1965), Frits van Eerd (1967), Jesse Samples Jr. (1968), Billy Skinner (1972), Andrew Phipps (1976), Bryan Gandy (1977), Justin Marks (1981), Danica Patrick (1982), Amy Reimann (1982), Etienne Cliche (1986), Sergei Afanasyev (1988), Dan Leeck (1990), William Wall (1992), Roby Bujdoso (1993), James Vance (1993), Travis Braden (1994), Dalton Sargeant (1998), Taylor Gray (2005)

1942: In preparation for construction of the Alaska Highway, PRA officials and guides leave Fort Nelson, British Columbia, on a dog team reconnaissance trip to Watson Lake. Another team leaves the Hudson's Bay Trading Post on the Sikanni Chief River on a reconnaissance trip to Fort Nelson. According to Highway Engineer W. H. Curwen, "Rations carried on this trip . . . consisted of the following: sausages, bacon, flour, sugar, salt, canned butter, tea, dry milk, dried eggs, baking powder, dried fruits, dehydrated vegetables, supplemented with 21 grouse, and about 10 pounds of moose meat obtained from trappers." Rations for the dogs consisted of cornmeal cooked with tallow.

1964: Chuck Berry recorded “No Particular Place to Go.”

1972: Deep Purple released their album Machine Head, which included the song “Highway Star.”

1974: As authorized by the 1973 Federal-Aid Highway Act, FHWA issues guidelines authorizing, for the first time, the use of Federal-aid highway funds for construction of bikeways and pedestrian walkways outside the highway right-of-way along Federal-aid highways.

1992: The $8 million Travtek project, an experimental IVHS project financed by FHWA, AAA, General Motors, the Florida DOT, and the city of Orlando, gets underway. The goal is to provide traffic congestion information, motorist services information ("yellow pages"), tourist information, and route guidance to operators of 100 test vehicles equipped with in-vehicle TravTek devices.

2000: The film Taxi 2 was first released in parts of France.

2008: William Neely died.

2010: The film Evolusi: KL Drift 2 was released in Malaysia.

2016: The Hennessey Venom GT Spyder recorded a top speed of 265.57 mph (427.4 km/h) at California's Naval Air Station Lemoore, celebrating Hennessey's 25th anniversary. As with previous speed tests, the run was independently verified by Racelogic as World Fastest road legal open-top sports car. In May, 2016, the Hennessey Team revealed that the car was about 300 hp (224 kW) down on power due to issues with one of the car's three high capacity fuel pumps. Normally, the forced induction 7.0-liter V8 engine in the Venom GT Spyder generates 1,451 hp (1,082 kW; 1,471 PS) and 1,287 lb-ft (1,745 N-m) of torque.

2019: Dustin Lynch released the song “Ridin' Roads.”