Do you know the name Sonora Smart Dodd? Well it is because of her, and Richard Nixon, that us Dad’s get our own holiday, officially called Father’s Day.
It all started in 1908, when the first official Mother’s Day was celebrated; Anna Reeves Jarvis of West Virginia is credited for the holiday. The next year, Sonora Smart Dodd, from Spokane, while attending a church service for Mother’s Day began to petition for a holiday for fathers, but received little support.
Soon others followed with people like famed Settlement House founder and social reformer Jane Addams, who tried to get a Father’s Day holiday going in Chicago. As did Harry C. Meek, a Lions Club member who tried to persuade presidents to go along with it. But despite their efforts, it just wouldn’t catch on.
In the mid 1920’s retailers, which are always looking for a way to get people into their shops, decided to start [...]
Sales figures for America’s Sports Car diverged greatly between the two sides of the border.
General Motors saw a massive increase in Canadian Chevrolet Corvette deliveries in May when compared to did the same month in 2016, while American dealers moved fewer ‘Vettes than they did last year, according to GM Authority.
GM delivered 2,535 Corvettes in May 2017 in the United States, which is 5.2 percent less than the 2,673 it moved in May 2016. In Canada that month, just 343 ‘Vettes were pushed out the dealership door—but that amounts to a 56.6 percent jump over the 219 sales in that nation in May 2016, according to GM Authority.
As of the end of May 2017, GM has managed to deliver 11,095 new Chevy Corvettes in America. By the end of May 2016, in contrast, 12,185 ‘Vettes had been delivered. As for Canada, 978 cars had been delivered by the end of May 2017. [...]
Want to race at Le Mans (6/17/17), but you don’t want to be just another car out of 60? What do you do? Everybody has fancy paint jobs, so that will not help. You cannot use flashing lights, as that is against the rules. You think long a hard and then it hits you, Glow In The Dark Paint!
The French race team, Larbre Competition, had the same thought for the No. 50 Chevrolet Corvette C7.R it plans to enter in the 2017 24 Hours of Le Mans. Created by French artist Ramzi Adek, the Corvette will be entered in the GTE Am class for production-based cars and amateur drivers. If you don’t see it during the daytime, just wait for the sun to set.
Sonny Dixon was out for a nice Sunday drive in Charlotte, North Carolina, in his C4 Corvette when a blinding storm rolled in with rain so hard he couldn’t see the nose of his car. As bad as that sounds, what happened next was even worse, a tree came crashing down on the center of his Corvette, right where he was sitting.
This was not some small tree, but one weighing tons. The Corvette did its job, protecting the occupants, and keeping the tree from crushing its driver. The doors actually held the weight of the falling tree!
The fire department was able to pull Dixon out of the back window and off to the hospital where he received 22 stiches and released.
