Carroll, Iowa RPM Car Club

Carroll, Iowa RPM Car Club We are the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute) Car Club in Carroll, Iowa This is the page for the

This is the page for the Carroll, Iowa RPM Car Club. We are a group of motorheads interested in classic and vintage automobiles. Our club was founded in 2000 and beginning in 2004 has held an annual car show in Carroll. We just had our 9th Annual Car Show and it was another success with 127 cars in the show.We want to meet people with like interests from anywhere and everywhere. Also, if

you live in the Carroll area and have a hot rod, have an interest in classic cars, or just like looking at cars, join our club. We are a fun, not-threatening bunch who like to show and talk about our prize rides. We also help serve the community by holding Show and Shine's and by giving money to well-deserving local charities.

06/16/2026

June 16, 1947

Power operated seats are first used on the 1947 Packard line of automobiles.

06/16/2026

June 16, 1903

The Ford Motor Company is established in Detroit, Michigan.

The third time is the charm for Henry Ford. After the failure of his two previous ventures, the Detroit Automobile Company and the Henry Ford Company, he finds gargantuan success with his third crack in the automotive game.

Ford’s mass produced automobiles earn a reputation as affordable and reliable. The company changes the United States and many other parts of the world throughout the early twentieth century.

06/12/2026

June 12, 1975

Production of the Imperial automobile ends. The Chrysler Corporation’s luxury vehicle had been manufactured since 1955 after having been spun off from the Imperial name, used since 1926, into its own make and division, to better compete with GM’s Cadillac and Ford’s Lincoln.

Imperials are again made from 1981-83.

06/08/2026

June 8, 1948

The Porsche 356, the first car to bear the Porsche name, is completed and made available for production. Known as the "Gmund Roadster," it the two-door sports car with a 1.1-liter air-cooled four-cylinder boxer engine is built in Gmünd, Austria.

06/07/2026

June 7, 1928

The first Plymouth is manufactured, designed by the Chrysler Corporation to compete with the "low-priced" market segment dominated by Ford and Chevrolet.

06/04/2026

June 4, 1896

Ford’s Quad

After over two years of experimentation, Ford’s first automobile achieves speeds of more than twenty miles per hour during his initial test drives. The Quadricycle features a two-speed transmission and a chain driven, ethanol powered engine. It has no brakes and cannot go in reverse.

Ford sells his first Quadricycle for $200. Two more are built, one in 1899 and another in 1901. Ford buys his first one back for $60; it is now displayed at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.

06/02/2026

June 2, 1954

The Volvo Sports Car

Volvo debuts its first sports car prototype. The Volvo Sport P100car has racked plastic and a weak frame among other issues. It is under-engineered and performs poorly during internal tests. Only 68 P100s are manufactured and Volvo accidentally gives two of them the same VIN number.

Fifty of the Volvo sports car flops have been tracked; eighteen of them are still waiting to be found.

06/02/2026

June 2, 1899

The Locomobile Company of America is founded in Watertown, Massachusetts. Production is transferred to Bridgetown, Connecticut the following year. The company manufactures small steam cars until 1903 before switching to internal combustion-powered luxury automobiles.

The Locomobile Company is taken over by Durant Motors in 1922 and goes out of business in 1929.

06/01/2026

June 1, 1909

The Ocean to Ocean Endurance Race

A transcontinental race from New York to Seattle is held in conjunction with the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE). The Ocean to Ocean Endurance Race is sponsored by Henry Ford and Robert Guggenheim, who also put up the prize money, $2,000 for first place and $1,500 for second place.

The race is run in two segments. The first leg is an endurance contest from New York City to St. Louis. During this portion, the drivers may only drive their vehicles in daylight and must obey the speed limits. On the second half, from St. Louis to Seattle, they can put the pedal to the metal, as there are fewer laws regarding automobiles west of the Mississippi River.

Driving the pictured stripped-down Model T, Bert Scott is declared the winner of the Ocean to Ocean Endurance Race, arriving in Seattle at 12:55 pm on June 23rd, covering the 4,106 miles in twenty-three days.

Five months later, however, it is learned that Scott cheated by switching engines halfway through the race. His trophy is revoked and the driver of a Shawmut, who had originally earned second place, is declared the winner.

05/31/2026

May 31, 1929

Ford in Russia

Believing the best way to undermine communism is to introduce capitalism, Henry Ford finalizes a deal authorizing the Ford Motor Company to manufacture automobiles in the Soviet Union.

The agreement, signed at the Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Michigan, authorizes Ford to oversee a production plant at the Gorky Automobile Plant in Nizhni Novgorodto, Russia, where it will produce the Model A. An assembly plant in Moscow is also to begin operations immediately and Ford will also send engineers and executives to the Soviet Union.

In return, the Soviets will buy 72,000 unassembled Ford vehicles, along with all the spare parts they would require for nine years, at a total cost of approximately $30 million.

The first Russian-assembled Fords leave the factory in 1932.

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