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unusual facts about The Car


Elliot Silverstein

The other Silverstein films, in chronological order, are The Happening, A Man Called Horse, Nightmare Honeymoon, The Car, and Flashfire.


Triumph Mayflower

The Mayflower is the subject of a well-known painting by Australian artist John BrackThe Car.


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2005 Glendale train crash

Both this causation and the end result have many similarities to that of the Ufton Nervet rail crash in the United Kingdom, which occurred only three months previously, although in that case the driver of the car stayed in the vehicle and was killed.

Anna Shuttleworth

In 1968 she is approved as an Associated Board examiner and also buys her very first Renault 4, the car that was to become her habitual transport, travelling around the country.

Armin Hahne

1988 saw him in a Mark Petch Racing Ford Sierra RS500 with New Zealand racer Robbie Francevic, the car engineered by its previous owner, and Hahne's team boss in the 1988 ETCC, former Wolf Racing Formula One team owner Walter Wolf.

Automobiles Marathon

In June 1953 Marathon’s first pre-production prototype was presented to Gilles Guérithault who was managing editor of L'Auto-Journal, and who thereby obtain exclusive details of the car which would debut in production form only in October at the Paris Motor Show.

Bontino

Almost all components of the car are produced by Hungarian firms including Carbon Composite Kft of Pécsely and Hirschler Glas Kft of Sopron.

Brett Bodine Racing

Brett Bodine drove the 11 car for Junior Johnson in 1995 with Lowe's sponsorship and drove the car again with Lowe's sponsorship in 1996 as an owner/driver.

BYD Qin

The BYD Qin concept car was unveiled at the 2012 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition, and the car is named after China's first empire, the Qin Dynasty.

Cambridge University Eco Racing

The team used CFD simulations to make minor tweaks to the canopy, and tested the car extensively at a local airfield, before heading out to the next World Solar Challenge in October 2011.

Carlo Pesenti

Leader of the car manufacturer Lancia from 1955 to 1969.Carlo had relationships with one of the biggest Italian industrial families.

CarWings

February 2002 - Corporation TBS Radio & Communications in collaboration with the "Car Wings" on-demand start joint experiments utilizing radio

Clifford Brown

While driving at night in the rain on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, west of Bedford, she lost control of the car and it went off the road.

DeSoto Fireflite

The car weighed 4,070 lb (1850 kg) and cost US$3,544.

Down by the Riverside

In the UK on some local radio stations (namely Mix 107), a song about eco friendly travel choices (i.e. leaving the car for one day a week) would air during commercial breaks which would be a parody of Down By The Riverside.

Ferrari 330

One retired at Sebring 1963, while of three starters at Le Mans that year, two retired and the car of Jack Sears and Mike Salmon came in fifth.

Garfield in Paradise

They meet the tribal chief who explains that the villagers learned English "from watching a lot of beach movies", and that the car was originally owned by the Cruiser, a James Dean/Fonzie-styled legend who drove his car into the village in 1957 and introduced the people to the 1950s pop culture.

Grinnall Scorpion III

Roger Cook, who is a Grinnall III owner, was annoyed when Top Gear magazine showed the car cornering on two wheels.

Halford Special

The early racing history of chassis number 1916 is not fully documented but what is certain is that it was crashed in 1924 and Major Frank Halford bought the chassis and installed an engine of his own design and built a new two-seater body for the car.

Helmut Krone

He was the art director for the popular 1960s campaign for the Volkswagen Beetle, which featured a large unadorned photo of the car with the tiny word "Lemon" underneath it; the series of "When you're only No. 2, you try harder" advertisements for Avis, and the creation of Juan Valdez, who personified Colombian coffee.

House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute

The mansion comes with a platinum colored Mercedes-Benz 430 and, although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or have people over, Jon Jon wastes no time in doing both; Jon Jon is not only having an "entertainment party", but he's auditioning his hip-hop band (IMx) for a record executive.

Iso Fidia

The choice of Athens for the press launch was connected to the car's new name, Fidia, which was the name (commonly spelled "Phidias" by anglophone classicists) of the artist who some 24 centuries earlier had supervised creation of the friezes which originally decorated the Parthenon (and which in 1816 turned up in the British Museum, following their controversial removal in 1802 by Lord Elgin).

Jaguar Mark 2

The Mark 2 is also well known as the car driven by fictional TV detective Inspector Morse played by John Thaw; Morse's car was the version with 2.4 L engine, steel wheels and Everflex vinyl roof.

Jokin Ormaetxea

Ormaetxea was a passenger in an Audi A3 driven by fellow cyclist Joseba Albizu of team Euskaltel-Euskadi when the car overturned after leaving the road near the town of Deba at approximately 6:40 am.

Lotus Elise

General Motors offered to partner/fund the project, in return for a badged and GM-engined version of the car for their European brands, Opel and Vauxhall.

Lotus Europa S

The car was originally planned to be manufactured at parent company Proton's factory in Malaysia, allowing for a lower sale price, but ultimately the company chose the Lotus Hethel factory for its production.

MG ZR

A number of MG ZR's still compete in national rallying events, and the 2007 Rally of GB event saw Luke Pinder compete a ZR in the N1 class and despite not driving the car before the event he led the class after day one and went on to win his class.

NASCAR Racing 4

Namely was the introduction of full 24k color, as the previous games had only allowed 256, vastly improved car models and environments and, for the first time, the ability of the car to rotate in three dimensions (i.e. the ability of the car to get airborne and flip).

Nothing Ever Happens

Its commentary relates to how oblivious most of us are to the world around us e.g. "the Martians could land in the car park and no one would care" but in its last line before the chorus becomes suddenly cynical..."they'll burn down the Synagogues at six o'clock and we'll all go along like before," which is a reference to Kristallnacht.

Platte Valley Trolley

The frame and steel components of the car used in the construction are from a 1924 Melbourne, Australia streetcar.

Porsche 360

By 1952 Formula One rules had changed and while Dusio attempted to source a 2 liter motor for the car a lack of funds relegated one of the most advanced Grand Prix cars of its day to a few Formula Libre events and quick retirement.

Poser Mobile

The car that was used in the commercial, a Toyota Corolla AE86, has a huge following and many dedicated enthusiasts, such as those found on Club4ag.com.

Rad Racer

At the car selection screen, the player can pick one of two cars: a Ferrari 328 or an F1 racing machine, similar in appearance to the 1987 Camel-sponsored Honda/Lotus 99T Formula One car.

Raffaele Ganci

He also gave testimony about his father and his brothers and their involvement in Mafia killings such as the car-bomb that killed Antimafia judge Chinnici in 1983, police officers Ninni Cassarà, captain D'Aleo and the first pentito, Leonardo Vitale.

Red Bull X2010

The driver who performed the virtual shakedown test of the car was Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel.

Sauber C31

Unlike previous cars such as the Sauber C29 and to a lesser extent, the C30, the C31 has much more visual sponsorship applied to the car such as Telmex, Telcel, Claro, Chelsea FC, Tequila Cuervo, Visit México, Oerlikon, Nec and Certina.

SEAT 124

The car's initial production in Zona Franca was transferred in 1976 to the Landaben - newly acquired from Authi - plant in Pamplona, resulting in the elimination of the '124 Familiar' station wagon 5-door versions.

Siata

The car rose to prominence after actor and race car driver Steve McQueen purchased model BS523 from Los Angeles based Siata importer Ernie McCaffe in the mid-1950s.

Simtek S951

The car was designed by Simtek owner and technical director Nick Wirth, along with the chief designer of Simtek Research, Paul Crooks.

Snaefell

Walkers often use the car park on this road near the Bungalow railway station (last railway stop before the summit) from which there is a rough path to the peak.

South Beach Tow

According to cast member Christie Ashenoff, the idea for the program came after Tremont towed the car of Simon Fields: "He tells us that a few days later a light bulb went off in his head that if he lost his mind, that everyone else must too".

Steven Blackford

Riding in a Jeep driven by his girlfriend, 2004 Summer Olympics silver medalist Sara McMann, Blackford, was ejected from the car when it ran off the road and rolled over.

The Red Notebook

Auster tells us about the wrong number that inspired him to write City of Glass, about how he met his childhood hero Willie Mays, but didn't have a pencil with him to get his autograph and how during all four flat tires of his life he had the same passenger in the car with him.

They Keep Killing Suzie

"Red Is The New Black" by Funeral for a Friend (when the team look for Lucy at the Wolf Bar), "Sing" by Travis, "Soley, Soley" by Middle of the Road (when Gwen and Suzie in the car, Suzie says her mum used to sing this) and "Górecki" by Lamb (when Owen comforts Gwen; Jack and Gwen return to work; Suzie's body is placed back into storage) are featured in this episode.

Toyota USA Automobile Museum

1. Hollywood/Futuristic: the Lexus “Minority ReportTom Cruise movie prototype, three very rare Toyota 2000GTs, along with a poster of the James Bond movie, “You Only Live Twice”, where the car appeared, plus a cutaway drawing and technical schematics

Trafikmagasinet

History repeated itself in 1997, when Trafikmagasinet together with the car magazine Teknikens Värld overturned the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class during testing.

Tyisha Miller

In the early morning hours of December 28, 1998, Tyisha Miller, a 19-year-old African American woman from Rubidoux, Riverside, California, had been driving with her 15-year-old friend late in her aunt's Nissan Sentra when the car got a flat tire.

Vehicles of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks

According to parking receipts found in the car, it arrived at the Portland International Jetport at 5:40am on September 11, and was parked on the first level.

Virgin VR-01

It had been reported by Auto, Motor und Sport that the VR-01's fuel tank was too small for the car to finish a race, and that the team applied to the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) in order to obtain permission to modify the chassis to accommodate a larger tank.

Walton Hill

The car park is most easily accessed from A456 road via Hagley Wood Lane (leaving it between Hagley and Hayley Green) or Uffmoor Lane (leaving it just east of Hayley Green).

Wolfgang Reitzle

He instead quit the car business and became CEO of The Linde Group, at that time a leading manufacturer of Fork-lift trucks and currently the worlds largest industrial gas company, joining the board in 2002 and becoming a chairman in 2003.