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The VAZ-2101, a ruggedized version of the Fiat 124 produced in Russia was known in export markets under various names, including Lada Nova, Lada 1200/1300, and Zhiguli, and often simply called Lada, received a strongly negative critical reception in most western export markets due to its old-fashioned technical layout and poor build quality.
Car overheated shortly after purchase and had to be towed back to the UK. Restoration cost includes £500 travel expenses. Restored car brought to Brands Hatch for a Renault Alpine gathering. Sold to the only bidder of unknown identity as not willing to appear on TV. (First car to break even on sale.)
Gordon Murray, the Formula 1 and McLaren F1 designer, said when designing his new Murray T.25 city car: "I would say that building a car to sell for six thousand pounds and designing that for a high-volume production, where you have all the quality issues under control, is a hundred times more difficult than designing a McLaren F1, or even a ...
Stock car racing is a form of automobile racing run on oval tracks and road courses.It originally used production-model cars, hence the name "stock car", but is now run using cars specifically built for racing.
Nancy Bayly (Watts), who was in the car with Hughes at the time of the crash, corroborated this version of the story. On July 16, 1936, Hughes was held blameless by a coroner's jury at the inquest into Meyer's death. [125] Hughes told reporters outside the inquiry, "I was driving slowly and a man stepped out of the darkness in front of me".
In 1856, the fossilized bones of an extinct human species were salvaged from a limestone grotto in the Neander valley near Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia. The archaic nature of the fossils, now known to be around 40,000 years old, was recognized and the characteristics published in the first-ever paleoanthropologic species description in ...
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and an assistant for Abraham Lincoln, he became a diplomat.
About 100 acres (40 ha) accommodated 7 east–west and 8 north–south streets, all 50 feet (15 m) wide, making up 35 whole or partial rectilinear blocks of 200 feet (61 m) width from east to west, and between 350 feet (110 m) and 500 feet (150 m) long north to south – although near the edges of the estate the grid broke down in order to ...