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.

Still nursing anger I listlessly thumbed a car that was slowly approaching, its pre-war chrome nearly blinding me.

A big car was approaching, its chrome teeth grinning.

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.

Another car was coming, a tiny, dark shape on a far hill.

The car was approaching fast.

The Indian's arm whipped sidewise -- there was a flash of amber and froth, the crash of the bottle shattering against the side of the first car.

I was so scared well, I just ran to my car and came here ''.

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

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.

The freight car was cold, early in the morning.

He was pressed far back into the corner of the car on his hay sacks, the rattling and tinning of the wheels on the rails almost covering the sound of his ocarina.

`` I didn't know I was gonna have company in this car ''.

He advanced on them, and abruptly there was a shocked electricity in the car.

The car was waiting for him.

Harry ran to the side of the car where Alfred was sitting and looked at him, begging him to speak.

Another remained when an American Army car was recovered but with a broken glass.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Eugene offered Harold his car, to use at any time he cared to, and when this offer was not accepted, the armchair creaked.

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

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.

When the automobile was in its embryonic stage, such roads as existed were pretty much open roads with the tacit understanding that horses should not be unduly terrified being about the only rule governing where, when and how fast a car could go.

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

The car features a modified engine, fuel system, and engine management system that enables the car to run on regular gas or ethanol, and in any mixture between these two fuels.

For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.

BAR Honda team recorded an average top speed of in 2006 at Bonneville Salt Flats with unofficial top speed reaching using modified BAR 007 Formula 1 car.

Production car racing, Showroom stock racing Street Stock, Pure Stock, or U-Car racing includes all categories of auto racing where unmodified ( or very lightly modified ) cars race each other, outright and also in classes.

The ultimate development of the 924 in its race trim was the 924 Carrera GTR race car, which produced from a highly modified version of the 2. 0 L I4 used in all 924s.

A stock car, in the original sense of the term, described an automobile that has not been modified from its original factory configuration.

The most common variations ( on paved tracks ) include Super Late Models ( SLM ), Late Model Stock Car ( LMSC ), and Limited Late Models ( LLM ). A Late Model may be a custom built machine, or a heavily modified street car.

Also, even with heavy duty special editions sold to the public for homologation purposes, the race car rules were further modified, primarily in the interest of safety.

However, that rule was modified by Brendlin v. California,, in which the Court ruled that all occupants of a car are " seized " for purposes of the Fourth Amendment during a traffic stop, not just the driver.

* Stock car, a racing car that has not been modified from its original factory configuration

The rocket was positioned on a railroad car in the Jackass Flats area of the Nevada Test Site, with the reactor specially modified so as to go critical.

Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.

* Race of Champions ( Modified ), a yearly stock car race using modified race cars

By the mid-1970s, auto manufacturers modified the system so that a warning buzzer would sound for several seconds before turning off ( with the warning light ), regardless of whether the car was started.

Since the demise of Group C ( where Japan and Germany both had successful series of their own ) Japan has largely gone its own way in sports car racing ; the Super GT series is for very highly modified production-based cars ; although prototypes are slowly returning to Japanese racing in the Japan Le Mans Challenge many of these ' prototypes ' are little more than rebodied Formula 3 cars ( although there has been a long Japanese tradition of such hybrids ; a Grand Champion series ran for many years with rebodied Formula 2 and Formula 3000 cars, rather similar to the second incarnation of Can-Am ).

Starting in 1954 with a modified Plymouth, the American car manufacturer Chrysler demonstrated several prototype gas turbine-powered cars from the early 1950s through the early 1980s.

When Heydrich stood up to shoot Gabčík, Kubiš threw a modified anti-tank grenade at Heydrich's car.

During 1993, Häkkinen, along with Ayrton Senna, tested the Lamborghini V12 engine in a modified version of the McLaren MP4 / 8 race car dubbed the " MP4 / 8B " at both Estoril and Silverstone.

During the 1950s, the car was modified progressively: the obvious visual changes mostly concerned the rear windows.

A few varieties of the earliest " kit cars " have been vehicles that use the dune buggy philosophy of substituting significant amounts of a car with custom parts to resemble production, modified, or prototype cars.

UAZ produced a slightly modified version of its original UAZ-469 car, UAZ Hunter, but the sales were still lacking.

Villeneuve started competitive driving in local drag-racing events, entering his road car, a modified 1967 Ford Mustang.