On January 27, 1965, the Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford
Mustang sports car developed by the American auto racer
and car designer Carroll Shelby,was launched.
The Shelby GT 350, which featured a 306 horsepower V-8
engine, remained in production through the end of the 1960s
and today is a valuable collector’s item.
Carroll Hall Shelby
(January 11, 1923 – May 10, 2012)
On January 26, 1979, “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a television
comedy about two cousins in the rural South and their
souped-up 1969 Dodge Charger known as the General Lee,
debuted on CBS.
The show, which originally aired for seven seasons, centered
around cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke
(Tom Wopat) and their ongoing efforts to elude their nemeses,
the crooked county commissioner “Boss” Jefferson Davis Hogg
(Sorrell Booke) and the bumbling Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
(James Best).
“The Dukes of Hazzard” was known for its car chases, stunts
and the General Lee.
The General Lee in action.
On January 4, 1996, General Motors announced at the Greater
Los Angeles Auto Show it will build an electric car, dubbed
the EV1, to be launched in the fall of that year.
When it debuted ,the EV1 was made available to consumers
in just two states, Arizona and California, and for lease-only,
as GM considered the development of electric car technology
to be ongoing.
During its years in production, from 1996 to 1999, around 2,500
EV1s were produced in total. In late 2003, GM announced it was
pulling the plug on the EV1 program and wouldn’t renew any
leases.
On December 3, 1979, the last Pacer rolled off the assembly
line at the American Motors Corporation (AMC) factory in
Kenosha, Wisconsin.
When the car first came on the market in 1975, it was a
sensation, hailed as the car of the future. “When you buy
any other car,” ads said, “all you end up with is today’s car.
When you get a Pacer, you get a piece of tomorrow.” By
1979, however, sales had faded considerably. Today, polls
and experts agree: The Pacer was one of the worst cars of
all time.
