On this date in 1948 Chuck Yeager became the first man to break the sound barrier in the Bell XS-1 rocket plane. That’s quite the achievement, but I don’t want to minimize the fact that you could make today noteworthy for another accomplishment, that being correctly solving this week’s Mystery Car. Make and Model if you so please.
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Mystery Car
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Yeager broke the sound barrier in the Bell X1 on October 14, 1947
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True. Today is instead the anniversary of the release of this information to the general public.
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Corvette C2?
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1968 Meecham-Coombes, powered by the rare 4.2l Tecumseh Miller Highlife V-5.
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1967-1972 Aston Martin DBS?
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OSI SIlver Fox. 1967. Based on Renault Alpine.
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Space oddity
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