Rambler Milestones for May
May in the AMC World:
A Memorial Day tradition is the running of the Indianapolis 500 Memorial Day Classic. American Motors and its ancestors have played their part there, too...
In 1967, Barney Navarro's team attempted to qualify a turbocharged 199 CID American Motors six-cylinder at Indy, driven by Dave Strickland. These efforts went on for a couple of years, but met with little success. There are limits to what you can do with a cast-iron passenger car motor...
I got this picture from The Javelin Home Pages, by John Rosa, at:
http://www.JavelinAMX.com
I can only wish that my site was as nice as his... a must see for every AMC freak.
I got this picture from The Javelin Home Pages, by John Rosa, at:
http://www.JavelinAMX.com
I can only wish that my site was as nice as his... a must see for every AMC freak.
Dave Carrillo fielded this awesome car at the Classic in 1976 and 1977...
In 1978, Roger McCluskey qualified 11th in the Warner-Hodgden AMC Experimental Special. This car featured an aluminum block and heads, but inferior castings killed hopes for that year...
Jimmy Thrall, Dick Simon, and John Martin working on the Vollstedt/AMC fielded at Indy in 1979.
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On May 1, 1915, Charles T. Jeffery, son of Rambler originator Thomas B. Jeffery, and heir to the line, set sail From New York City for Europe on a fact-finding tour.
However, there was a slight hitch in his plans a week later, when on May 7, the ship on which he was sailing, the R.M.S. Lusitania, was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, precipitating America's entry into World War I. Charles Jeffery himself, managed to survive the devastation.
This defining event changed Charles' life forever, and directly resulted in his decision to lead the stockholders to sell out to Charles W. Nash, former president of General Motors, and giving birth to the Nash Motor Company...