This Day in History: 1940-11-18

A specially prepared 1941 P11 Plymouth 4-door sedan left Detroit, in an attempt to be the first to drive from Detroit to the tip of South America via the proposed Pan American highway. The Richardson Pan American Highway expedition consisted of Sullivan C Richardson, Arnold Whitaker and Kenneth C Van Hee. It took them 8 months to reach Magallanes, Chile, covering 15,745 miles one way.