When the station wagon drew abreast of the dusty dirt road that led up to the porch of the Culver house, Pamela turned the wheel, guiding the car to its familiar parking spot close to the house, and stopped.

The car lurched along at a snail's crawl, the left-front mudguard banging and scraping against the tire, occasionally scraping against the road itself.

The car was just about to us, its driver's fat, solemn face intent on the road ahead, on business, on a family in Sante Fe -- on anything but an old pick-up truck in which two human beings desperately needed rescue.

Harry followed the car until it reached the main road and turned towards Kingston.

Here in the cool darkness Mr. Podger could still feel the warmth of midday, could still see the yellow butterflies dancing over the road, could still see the friendly grin on the young, sun-browned face as the driver looked back over his shoulder for a moment before the car streaked out of sight.

'' Mark asked, and Abel lifted his eyes from the double lines in the middle of the road, the twin white ribbons which the car swallowed rapidly as it ascended the crest of the hill and came down.

But he did not notice, and was already backing the car down to the road, saying `` Toot-toot ''!!

She stood clutching her shawl around her shoulders until he had swung the car onto the road.

An almost too-simple-to-be-true way to set forth on such adventures is just to put yourself behind the wheel of a car and head for the open road.

International Touring Documents are usually provided with the car as are road maps and touring data.

He had driven the car that passed them on the road outside Admassy's place.

He was trapped on the road when he heard the sound of an approaching car.

Walking back down Main Street, I said, `` I saw the Harbor's one squad car at the road block, we'll ride out in my car ''.

Out of the church and into his big car, it tooling over the road with him driving and the headlights sweeping the pike ahead and after he hit college, his expansiveness, the quaint little pine board tourist courts, cabins really, with a cute naked light bulb in the ceiling ( unfrosted and naked as a streetlight, like the one on the corner where you used to play when you were a kid, where you watched the bats swooping in after the bugs, watching in between your bouts at hopscotch ), a room complete with moths pinging the light and the few casual cockroaches cruising the walls, an insect Highway Patrol with feelers waving.

While driving home during a thunderstorm, the car in which he was a passenger skidded off the road and rolled over.

* Affinity, Cambridge University Eco Racing's first vehicle and the UK's first road legal solar car

A bus (; plural " buses ",, archaically also big car, omnibus, multibus, or autobus ) is a road vehicle designed to carry passengers.

( A very similar problem is the design of a banked turn, where the slope of the turn is set so a car will not slide off the road.

Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

However, if the cruise control is engaged on a stretch of flat road, then the car will travel slower going uphill and faster when going downhill.

) As a result, the controller cannot compensate for changes acting on the car, like a change in the slope of the road.

These sealers are used to extend the life and reduce maintenance cost associated with asphalt pavements, primarily in asphalt road paving, car parks and walkways.

By banking the curve, the force exerted upon the car in a direction normal to the road surface has a horizontal component that provides this centripetal force.

LaBiche has flown a 1 / 10 scale model, tested a ¼-scale model and is currently finishing the FSC-1 prototype for road and air testing, as of 2006.

The vehicle reached 10 mph ( 15 km / h ) when tested on the road to Untertürkheim.

They were well maintained in store, and regularly road tested.

" By DeLorean's orders, tens of extra inspectors were assigned on the Vega assembly line and the first two thousand cars were road tested.

When tested with the wheels off the ground with torque applied to one wheel it will lock, but it is still possible for the differential action to occur in use, albeit with considerable frictional losses, and with the road loads at each wheel in opposite directions rather than the same ( acting with a " locking and releasing " action rather than a distributed torque ).

At that time, seaplanes were taken by road to Queenborough, then loaded onto lighters to be taken to the RNAS seaplane station on Isle of Grain to be launched and tested.

Among such designs that were also tested were third jerseys, to break the traditional mold that baseball teams wear white uniforms at home, and gray on the road.

Also in 1993, The Automobile Association road tested the Turbo Diesel.

Once the route had been confirmed and tested for stability, larger plows and snow carving machines were then used to widen the ice road and make it more suitable for automobile transport.

The 246 had a claimed top speed of, although in July 1971 a road test by Britain's Motor magazine reported a top speed of, which compared favourably with the achieved by a recently tested ( though by now replaced ) Porsche 911S.

After assembly, each car was driven on public roads for to, then the engine was disassembled, the cylinders re-honed, valves touched up, and then reassembled and road tested again.

Sales had already been " road tested " by the sales of the New Testament published in 1961.

All Panoz road cars are tested exhaustively at Panoz-owned Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia and handcrafted at the Braselton workshop.

Towards the end of the model run, in May 1967, a Victor 101 de luxe was road tested by Britain's Autocar magazine.

On road, the FJ accelerates 0-60 in 7. 8 seconds and has. 69 G of lateral grip tested with stock Bridgestone Dueler tires.

Three types were considered and tested on AMR 33 prototype N ° 79758 ; the first had the idler resting on the ground ; the second two bogies and five road wheels, like the R 35.

P3 / 4 0846 was road tested by Car and Driver magazine.

Although it was the oldest design and biggest engine in the group of station wagons that were road tested by Popular Science, the Concord recorded the best acceleration and fuel economy figures ( compared to Chevrolet Malibu, Chrysler LeBaron, and Ford Fairmont ).

The Concord was road tested with the 258 engine and recorded better acceleration compared to Dodge Aries, Chevrolet Citation, and Mercury Zephyr.

In preparation for this deadline, by January 1946, the first 16 cylinder 244 engines were being tested, and while a strike delayed work on the locomotives, the first two PA units were released for road tests in June 1946, for testing for one month on the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

Next, the car's suspension was tested over different types of road surfaces, including bricks and cobblestones.

Construction of the road bed began in 1850, and on February 18, 1852, the railroad's first locomotive ( the " Virginia ") was tested when it steamed out of Lynchburg's James River basin, climbing the nearby low mountains.

The brakes on the army vehicle had not been tested for several years in the " flats " of what was then Frobisher Bay, and they did not hold when tested on the new road.