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The SCCA traces its roots to the Automobile Racing Club of America ( not to be confused with the current stock car series of the same name ).
* Denis Jenkinson, " Automobile Year Book Of Sports Car Racing " ( photographic history of sports car racing from the early 1950s to the 1970s )
" Montoya made his stock car debut in an Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA ) event at the Talladega Superspeedway on October 6, 2006.
Such racing has also been sanctioned by the American Automobile Association, the United States Auto Club ( USAC ), the Sports Car Club of America, the Championship Racing League, and the Indy Racing League ( IRL ).
In addition to NASCAR's top racing series, he has won 13 NASCAR Busch Grand National Series races, 7 American Speed Association ( ASA ) races, 3 IROC races, 2 Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA ) races, 2 NASCAR All-American Challenge Series events, 2 All Pro Racing Association races, a USAC race, and has competed in the 24 Hours of Daytona, a 24-hour sports car endurance race.
He became a regular winner at BIR and by 1983, was racing in the Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA ) series.
An Automobile Racing Club of America / Winston West combination race in College Station, Texas on March 21, 1993, was won by Darrell Waltrip, driving an ARCA entry.
Mitchell worked briefly as an advertising illustrator and as the official illustrator of the Automobile Racing Club of America before being recruited by Harley Earl to join the Art and Colour Section of General Motors in 1935.
While working at the agency, Mitchell met brothers Barron Collier, Jr., Miles Collier and Sam Collier, who had founded the Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA ) ( a forerunner of the Sports Car Club of America ) in 1931.
The Automobile Racing Club of America also enforced restrictor plates at their events at the two tracks.
The United States Automobile Club ( USAC ) has become the premier series for non-winged sprint car racing throughout the United States, especially after taking over the Sprint Car Racing Association ( SCRA ) and turning it into the USAC / California Racing Association ( USAC / CRA ).
After a few decades of such events three sons of Barron Collier — Barron, Miles, and Samuel — founded the Automobile Racing Club of America in 1933.
At the age of 25, Pryce graduated to Formula One, the highest category of circuit racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motorsport's world governing body, joining the newly formed Token Racing team.
* Midwest Association for Race Cars, American stock car racing organization that was the precursor to the Automobile Racing Club of America ( ARCA )
The most recent fatality at the track was in 2008 during the 29th annual Vintage Automobile Racing Association of Canada Racing Festival.
* British Automobile Racing Club
Bishop helped to create the USRRC ( United States Road Racing Championship ) series for Group 7 sports cars to recover races that had been taken by rival United States Automobile Club ( USAC ).

Automobile and Club
The first race in 1929, was organised by Anthony Noghès under the auspices of the " Automobile Club de Monaco ", and was won by William Grover-Williams driving a Bugatti.
The principality's first Grand Prix was organised in 1929 by Anthony Noghès, under the auspices of Prince Louis II, through the Automobile Club de Monaco ( ACM ).
Then, not long before the finish, the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ), organizers of the Le Mans event, informed Ford that the geographical difference in starting positions would be taken into account at a close finish – meaning that the McLaren / Amon vehicle, which had started perhaps behind the Hulme-Miles car, would have covered slightly more ground over the 24 hours and would therefore be the winner.
* British Royal Automobile Club ( RAC ) horsepower is one of the tax horsepower systems adopted around Europe which make an estimate based on several engine dimensions.
After the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix, Brabham was persuaded by Dean Delamont, competitions manager of the Royal Automobile Club in the United Kingdom, to try a season of racing in Europe, then the international centre of road racing.
* FIA World Endurance Championship – is an auto racing world championship organised by the Automobile Club de l ' Ouest ( ACO ) and sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ).
In Britain, the legal maximum speed of precluded road racing, but in April and May 1900, the Automobile Club of Great Britain ( the forerunner of the Royal Automobile Club ) organised the Thousand Mile Trial, a 15-day event linking Britain's major cities, in order to promote this novel form of transport.
It was not until 1923 that the Royal Automobile Club hosted a meeting to further discuss the rules and regulations and another five years elapsed before the Squash Rackets Association was formed to set standards for squash in Great Britain.
In 1896, at the age of 18, he travelled to Paris to buy his first car, a Peugeot Phaeton, and joined the Automobile Club of France.
An early motoring enthusiast, he joined the Self-Propelled Traffic Association which campaigned against the restrictions imposed on motor vehicles by the Locomotive Act, and became a founder member of the Automobile Club of Great Britain with which it merged 1897.
Rolls was introduced to Henry Royce by a friend at the Automobile Club, Henry Edmunds, who was also a director of Royce Ltd. Edmunds showed him Royce's car and arranged the historic meeting between Rolls and Royce at the Midland Hotel, Manchester, on 4 May 1904.
The restorers proved unable to document the supposed convertible prototype's provenance and the Tucker Automobile Club of America stated it had been provided with no proof of its authenticity and was unable to verify it as such.
* TuckerClub. org Official Tucker Automobile Club of America Website-Information about the cars, including the locations of all extant examples
* Antique Automobile Club thread about the auction of Tucker # 1010
Cadillac is the first American car to win the prestigious Dewar Trophy from the Royal Automobile Club of England, having successfully demonstrated the interchangeability of its component parts during a reliability test in 1908 ; this spawned the firm's slogan " Standard of the World.
The Royal Automobile Club of Victoria ( RACV ) listed the road as the state's top tourism experience in its Victoria 101 survey, based on spots recommended by members and the public on what they would recommend to visitors.
Hill was also awarded the Segrave Trophy by the Royal Automobile Club.
It was dedicated on December 13, 1913 at the request of the Associated Automobile Clubs of New Jersey and the Newark Motor Club, and was named after the two counties it passed through.
* The National Old Trails Road To Southern California, Part 1 ( LA to KC ); Automobile Club Of Southern California ; 64 pages ; 1916.

Automobile and America
* Bonnieville was declared as one of the worst speed traps in America by the American Automobile Association in the early 1960s.
* One of the largest automobile museums in North America, the Tupelo Automobile Museum opened on December 7, 2002.
The Middle Tennessee Region of the Antique Automobile Club of America holds their antique car show in Red Boiling Springs each year.
* Billed as the I Grand Prize Race of the Automobile Club of America, the inaugural American Grand Prize takes place at Savannah, Georgia over 402. 080 miles ( 25. 130 miles x 16 laps ) and is won by Louis Wagner driving a FIAT in 6: 10: 31. 4 at an average speed of 65. 111 mph.
This led the rival Automobile Club of America, an enthusiats group with strong ties to Europe, to sponsor the American Grand Prize, using the Grand Prix rules.
At the time, the vehicles covered by the Club were considered too modern to be of any interest by such organizations as the Antique Automobile Club of America and despite their often stupendous cost when new, were considered practically worthless.
The International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Auto Workers ( UAW ), is a labor union which represents workers in the United States and Puerto Rico, and formerly in Canada.
* Touring y Automovil Club de Colombia, a member of the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile in South America
These vehicles are generally older, anywhere from 15 – 25 years, but are not accepted as classics according to the Antique Automobile Club of America.
The Vanden Plas name ( for outside North America ) and many other Leyland names were purchased by Nanjing Automobile.
* Ling, Peter J. America and the Automobile: Technology, Reform, and Social Change chapter on " Fordism and the Architecture of Production "
In the United States, an antique car is generally defined as a car over 25 years of age, this being the definition used by the Antique Automobile Club of America.
The activity was most notable in Ontario's automobile factories, beginning in Windsor in late 1936, where the new Automobile Workers of America ( UAW ) chartered its first Canadian local at the Kelsey-Hayes factory.

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