Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands watching Meyer that afternoon were several men who had driven racing cars when they were younger. Of these the richest and most noted was a gentleman of French descent with a spike of a mustache, a lined face, thick neck, and popping black eyes-Louis Chevrolet, godfather of an automobile...
Like Henry Ford, Alexander Winton, R. C. Durant, and Eddie Rickenbacker, Louis Chevrolet drove racing cars before he gave his name to an automobile company. A name is also the only connection that Louis Chevrolet has with the Chevrolet Motor Company. The name suggested speed, the company wanted it, so Chevrolet sold...
...Louis Chevrolet is the oldest of three brothers, motor musketeers. Arthur was the second brother. A woman cured him of racing. Death cured the third brother, Gaston, in a collision on the Los Angeles speedway in 1920. On the Memorial Day before his death he won his greatest race-the Indianapolis Sweepstakes...
...Louis Chevrolet came to the U. S. in 1902. He still talks with a French accent. He has a sister who lives in Plainfield, N. J. In 1917 in a Frontenac he broke the world's record for a hundred miles...
...Racing?" says Louis Chevrolet, "No, I am through from racing." He says he wants to start an airplane company in Indianapolis...