Most cars aren't designed to move at very low speed for hours without overheating. I think Charles De Gaulle's custom Citroen DS had a special "parade gear".
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It could have been built in 1957. Old Tatras were taken back to the factory and remanufactured to look like new ones.
Here in the UK, keeping your foot on the brake when stopped at a traffic light is considered bad manners, as people don't like being blinded by the brake lights of the car in front. Also, we don't have "left turn on red" here- unless you have a green arrow, you stay stopped until the lights change.
I was taught (I learned in a manual) to always engage the handbrake when stopped at a red light, precisely so that you don't get knocked into the intersection if you're rear-ended.
@MaWeiTao: Mr. Sachinidis owned 3 engines, which he kept rotating in and out of the car. I think it had been through 11 swaps. I don't know if any of them were ever rebuilt, though.
@vc-10: Well, there's the Mitsubishi F-2. Messerschmitt may also count, though they never built cars and planes at the same time.
@ChiefPontiaxe: I wonder what the percentage is now (counting Opel)
@AMGkiller: They'd have bigger problems than that- 55 miles away would put them in the middle of the Irish Sea!
@YankBoffin: "Rambler" has a very slight added political edge in the UK, but that's because of the history of walking in open country over here. While trespassing is not and has never been a crime in British law, the vast majority of the country is privately owned and until fairly recently huge areas of uncultivated…
Not a one-off- they built 4.
I was going to name the Vauxhall Monaro for the same reason...
No, both teams are "blues". The Cambridge colour is Light Blue, Oxford wear Dark Blue.
I used to row on that bit of river, from a boathouse pretty much where that photo was taken. Submerged cars weren't that uncommon- there's about 30 feet of sloping concrete that's dry at low tide but submerged at high tide (even when the water isn't on the road). The most memorable incident was the SAAB 9000 where the…
The City of London bike police can be fairly crazy as well:
I think in Switzerland they throw dynamite charges off the ski lifts for this...
The Duke of Windsor had already abdicated by '41- giving him the post of Governor of the Bahamas was a way to get him out of the UK and out of the public eye, especially considering the war and his politics...
For some reason, this reminds me of the time that my family's car was in the shop, so we borrowed a car from a friend who was out of the country at the time and happens to be a (fairly outspoken) lesbian. The car in question was a base-model Ford Escort wagon with a 5-speed and a selection of bumper stickers that made…
I certainly wouldn't (well, unless he was blocking my way to the bathroom). I haven't seen it, but I have plenty of friends who have. I also often fly on airlines that have a lot of services to Muslim countries- the seatback screens have a function that will point out the direction of Mecca.