Just a light article for Autopartswarehouse readers. These are some interesting car facts I found while browsing the internet. I was quite amused since I didn’t have any idea about this until now. Happy reading!
• The 1911 Stutz Racer which contested the Inaugural Indy 500 took just five weeks to design and build.
• There were only 107 models of the Ford GT40 made of which only 7 were road cars.
• When Peugeot bought Chrysler’s entire European operation in 1978 they paid the Americans only $1.
• The Worlds longest traffic hold-up was 110 miles long, between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. A more recent contender for the title was a 100 mile long traffic Jam, near Hamburg in Germany in 1993.
• The first known automobile was built in 1668, it was a two foot long steam powered model constructed by Ferdinand Verbiest, a Belgian Jesuit preist.
• The Ferrari Formula 1 team is unique in that it produces both chassis and engines for its cars.
• Luxembourg has the most crowded roads in Europe with 570 cars per 1,000 people.
• A Mini Marcos was the only British car to finish the 1966 LeMans but soon afterwards it was stolen.
• The first car race ever seen in the United States was held in Chicago in 1895. The track ran from Chicago to Evanston. The winner was J. Frank Duryea, whose average speed was 71.5 miles per hour.
• In 1924 a Ford automobile cost $265.