By failing to do as he was told instantly -- to take out a permit or return the gun to his car -- he had played into Lord's hands.

A call to the police had been placed from here a couple of minutes after nine P.M., and the first police car had arrived two or three minutes after that -- 10 minutes ago now.

Nicolas was dreaming he had his head pressed against the dashboard of a speeding car.

She began to watch a blonde-haired man, also in shorts, standing right at the rear of the wrecked car in the one spot that most of the crowd had detoured slightly.

What had caught his attention was obscured by the car itself, so that neither the girl nor the truck drivers could see, but Benson knew what it was.

To the stump of a tree as he passed it, the same stump which had impaled the car of many a guest in the past thirty years and which he refused to have removed.

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

When they first married he had been working in the fields all day, and she would get in the car and drive to wherever he was working, to take him a fresh hot meal.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

When he returned home, the station wagon loaded with tools, Jinny had gone with a friend to some meeting in the village, using the recently purchased second car.

He had made such a fuss about buying that second car that he knew he was vulnerable.

Questioned further, Morse said that there had been four or five priests riding on the same car with him.

Hanch was treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, an Indianapolis firm which had manufactured flour-milling machinery before producing the Marmon car in 1904.

He had written out the license number of his car but had transposed the last two figures, an old dodge which is still good.

I took another sidelong glance at the other registration card, then took the key to Unit 13 that she had given me and went down long enough to park the car.

The batteries on the bugging device I had put on the car were still fresh enough to send out good strong signals.

She could easily understand why the two men had been startled to find a strange girl in the back seat of their car ( she had figured that out ), but she couldn't understand their subsequent actions.

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

Perhaps they had a car or truck and would drive him into town.

In Rourke's car, Shayne drove east to Biscayne Boulevard and north toward Felice Perrin's address which had been given to him by the Peralta governess.

He replaced the flashlight where it had been stowed, got into his own car and backed it out of the garage.

Hub, nosing about, spotted reporters in the lobby, so Andy was hustled away quietly through the hotel's service entrance in a strange car which Hub had procured somewhere.

The body, styled by Wolfgang Möbius under guidance of Anatole Lapine, was mainly galvanized steel, but the doors, front fenders, and hood were aluminum in order to make the car more lightweight.

In 1964 the F-85 was upgraded to an intermediate sized car and the aluminum V8 was replaced by conventional cast-iron six-cylinder and V8 engines.

Engine and gearbox were specifically designed for a light car and made largely of aluminum.

When the car motors are accelerating, they actually lift the car off the track an extremely small distance, repelling against the wide aluminum plate in the centre of the track.

Firstly the Jomar MK2, a sports racing car, with either fibreglass or aluminum bodywork and 1, 098 c. c.

Despite its status as a major integrated steel maker, Bethlehem Steel Freight Car Division pioneered the use of aluminum in freight car construction.

The company managed to get around a steel-saving government regulation forbidding new car models by making the bodies and several other components out of aluminum ; the Dyna X and Z 1 had aluminum bodies.

Clark Equipment Company built only one PCC, # 1000, and the only aluminum PCC at that ; this car completed the 100-car order for Brooklyn.

Mechanically, the car is virtually identical to the first-generation VAZ-2101 model, featuring the Fiat-derived manual transmissions, coil spring suspension all round and aluminum drum brakes on the rear wheels.

One of the most effective ways to increase fuel efficiency is to decrease vehicle weight, and thus, car and airplane manufacturers can decrease environmental impact in a significant way by replacing aluminum with lighter materials such as carbon fiber reinforced fibers.

Irate fans bombarded NASCAR with letters protesting the unfairness of Chevrolet being allowed to race an aluminum car.

Some technical developments of the early sporty compact cars offered in the U. S. ( 1961 – 63 ) included a turbocharged six-cylinder in the rear-engine Corvair Monza Spyder / Corsa ( 1962 – 66 ), turbocharged aluminum V8 on the 1962 – 63 Oldsmobile Cutlass Jetfire and a standard four-cylinder engine mated to a rear transaxle on the 1961 – 63 Pontiac Tempest LeMans in several states of tune, including a four-barrel high-performance option, as well as ( in 1963 ) a large ( for a compact car ) V8 that was optional with up to.

American gamelan builders used all sorts of materials including aluminum, tin cans, car hubcaps, steel, antique milk-strainers, etc.

While the aluminum Slant-6 engine block wouldn't enter production until 1961, the Kokomo, Indiana foundry produced a number of aluminum parts for the 1960 Valiant, and was instrumental in reducing the total weight of the car.

The car sat on 17 inch 7x17 ( front ) and 8x17 ( rear ) aluminum Cup wheels fitted with 205 / 50 and 255 / 40 tires.

Abundant leather and aluminum trim pieces round out the interior, an all aluminum frame with carbon fiber body panels keep it light, and scissor style doors affirm its sports car status.

The car was manufactured primarily as an experiment, in an attempt to prove that aluminum could be used in the construction of automobiles.

The prototype car was a sports roadster with an aluminum body crafted by the Schutte Body Co. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Described as looking " like something out of a Flash Gordon film ", the car had fluted aluminum side panels that had been anodized in different blending colors.

The engine blocks were cast in aluminum for car applications, and iron for most truck applications ( notable exceptions include the Chevrolet TrailBlazer SS, Chevrolet SSR and a limited run of Chevrolet / GMC Extended Cab Standard Box Z71 Trucks ).