The human Austin Partner was born in 1871 and is best known for the very last thing he did: dying when the Titanic sank. Here’s a letter he sent to his wife just after the Titanic set off: Oh, Austin, you’re gonna wish it was just maddening, my man. This does remind me of another car/person name matchup, one that remains my favorite, Lloyd Alexander. I wrote about this one for The Old Site way back when, and even made this chart, which I’m just gonna stick here because for some reason that article is always hard to Google:
(image credit: me, in the past) I have a friend in Copenhagen that has a Danish Mini, his is called a Mascot
