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The Imperial-based cars were used in competition as it was determined to be far more aerodynamic ( and capable of higher speeds ) than the Dodge Mirada at the time-it had drag coefficient of 0. 41, which was better than contemporary Corvette ( 0. 45 ), and performed well on the big high speed tracks, with Morgan Shephard ( driving Buddy Arrington's Imperial ) qualifying for the 1985 Daytona 500 at a speed of 197 mph, despite the lack of suitable high-performance race engines.
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I let up on the accelerator, only to gradually reach again the 60 m.p.h. which would, I hoped, overhaul Herry and the blonde, and as there were cars whose drivers apparently had something more important to catch than had I, Mrs. Major Roebuck settled down to practicing on Corporal Johnson the kittenish wiles she would need when making her duty call on Colonel and Mrs. Somebody in Sante Fe.
Four cars were parked at the curb, and two of them were police radio cars.
Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
Lucius Beebe's book, `` Mr. Pullman's Elegant Palace Car '', fills us with nostalgia, recalling days when private cars and Pullmans were extra wonderful, with fine woodwork, craftsmanship in construction, deep carpets and durable upholstery.
In contrast to the caravan of the previous night, there were only four cars parked across the street.
In a way, we may be witnessing the same thing in the sales of automobiles today as the public no longer is willing to purchase any car coming on the market but is more insistent on compact cars free of the frills which were accepted in the Fifties.
A plume of smoke rose from a Central Vermont locomotive which idled behind a string of gravel cars, and little figures that were workmen labored to set the ruptured roadbed to rights.
In seconds all four cars were out of sight.
When the two cars were equidistant from him, the station wagon started up again and the Ford gathered speed.
Dr. Barnes said that there seemed to be feeling that evacuation plans, even for a high school where there were lots of cars `` might not be realistic and would not work ''.
Both cars were slightly damaged.
This year-to-year decline for Dallas County closely follows the national trend -- estimated sales of domestic cars in the U.S. for first three months of 1961 were about 1,212,000 or 80 per cent of the total in the first quarter a year earlier.
Old Mr. Thom himself had stopped at the service station for a grease job, Wally confessed, and couldn't get one because there were cars on the pits waiting to be repaired.
Their cars weren't small enough, they didn't have the power, they were old-fashioned.
The official winners were Peugeot and Panhard as cars were judged on their speed, handling and safety characteristics, and De Dion's steam car needed a stoker which was forbidden.
Armoured cars were put into use by the British on the Western Front.
The first AFVs were armoured cars, dating back virtually to the invention of the motor car.
Train cars were hauled by teams of horses along Atlantic Street from Clinton Street to Parmentier's Garden, where steam locomotives were attached.
These were not ' armored cars ' in the sense implied by the modern term, as they provided no real protection for their crews against any kind of opposing fire.
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But Henry Ford used the planetary transmission in his Model T and earlier cars and, in 1905, as a precautionary measure, took out a license from the man who claimed to be its inventor.
Mawson Station started using classic Volkswagen Beetles, the first production cars to be used in Antarctica.
Armoured cars are often used in military marches and processions, or for the escorting of important figures.
The Italians used armored cars during the Italo-Turkish War.
A great variety of armored cars appeared on both sides during World War I and these were used in various ways.
Generally, the armored cars were used by more or less independent car commanders.
A version of the archbar truck was at one time also used on US Railway car # Freight cars | freight cars
Capital goods ( i. e., raw materials, tools, industrial machines, vehicles and factories ) are used to produce consumer goods ( e. g., televisions, cars, computers, houses ) to be sold to others.
It is used in race cars including F1, IndyCar, World Rally and even most club racing, motorcycles, automatic transmissions and in some diesel locomotives with mechanical transmissions.
The cable technology used in this elevated railway involved collar-equipped cables and claw-equipped cars, and proved cumbersome.
Rather than using a grip car and single trailer, as many cities did, or combining the grip and trailer into a single car, like San Francisco's California Cars, Chicago used grip cars to pull trains of up to three trailers.
In 1883 the New York and Brooklyn Bridge Railway was opened, which had a most curious feature: though it was a cable car system, it used steam locomotives to get the cars into and out of the terminals.
The use of the Datsun name in the American market derives from the name Nissan used for its production cars.
In fact, the cars produced by Nissan already used the Datsun brand name, a successful brand in Japan since 1932, long before World War II.
* 1933: First European passenger cars with diesel engines ( Citroën Rosalie ); Citroën used an engine of the English diesel pioneer Sir Harry Ricardo.
They are or were used in: the Volkswagen Beetle, some Porsche and Subaru cars, many BMW and Honda motorcycles, and aircraft engines ( for propeller driven aircraft ), etc.
Enzo Ferrari wasn't initially interested in the idea of producing road cars when he formed Scuderia Ferrari ( literally " Ferrari Stable ", and usually used to mean " Team Ferrari ", it is correctly pronounced ) in 1928 as a sponsor for amateur drivers headquartered in Modena.
A full-size replica of Godzilla's foot was also built, albeit all of the scenes in which it is used were removed from the American version ( the sole exception being a shot of the foot crushing a row of parked cars during the attack on the nuclear power plant ).
In Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Jaguar, Opel, Ford, Vauxhall Motors and Volvo are or were common contemporary bases, and in the past even used Rolls-Royce cars were converted, though their cost is generally considered prohibitive.
During the 1970s, Holden ran an advertising jingle " Football, Meat Pies, Kangaroos and Holden cars ", based on the " Baseball, Hot Dogs, Apple Pies and Chevrolet " jingle used by Chevrolet in the United States.
They are used in cars, larger boats, some motorcycles, and many light aircraft.
Gasoline engines are used in most other road vehicles including most cars, motorcycles, and mopeds.
* Nitrous oxide has been used — with extra gasoline — in tactical aircraft, and in specially equipped cars to allow short bursts of added power from engines that otherwise run on gasoline and air.
New and used cars are inexpensive.
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