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Funny car bodies typically reflect the models of newly available cars in the time period that the funny car was built. For example, in the 1970s, then current models such as the Chevrolet Vega or Plymouth Barracuda were often represented as funny cars, and the bodies represented the Big Three of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. [2]
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It was agreed that Pithiviers would be suitable as there was a depot and workshops there. The 3.5 kilometres (2.2 mi) of roadside line to Ormes was saved, with an extension of one-half kilometre (0.3 mi) to Bellébat being built to take the terminus away from the busy road. The preserved line reopened on 23 April 1966. [2]
The company was founded by Arnold Clark, who opened his first showroom in 1954 in Park Road in Glasgow.In 1963, Arnold Clark Finance was launched. [3] In the 1960s the company began rental vehicles and in 1968 took over Grant, Melrose and Tennant giving the company an accident repair centre.
The Mars trojans are a group of trojan objects that share the orbit of the planet Mars around the Sun. They can be found around the two Lagrangian points 60° ahead of and behind Mars. The origin of the Mars trojans is not well understood. One theory suggests that they were primordial objects left over from the formation of Mars that were ...
The ancient historian and biographer Plutarch describes Spartacus as "a Thracian of nomadic stock", in a possible reference to the Maedi. [13] Plutarch also says Spartacus' wife, a prophetess of the same tribe, was enslaved with him. In 89–84 BC (during the First Mithridatic War), the Maedi overran Macedon and sacked Delphi as allies of ...
The London Underground 1972 Stock is a type of rolling stock used on the London Underground. The 1972 Stock was originally ordered to make up the shortfall in trains on the Northern line 's 1959 Tube Stock fleet, but is currently used on the Bakerloo line. Following the withdrawal of the British Rail Class 483 EMUs in 2021, the 1972 Stock are ...
Currently on display at the Museo Egizio in Turin. The colossal statue of Ramesses II dates back 3,200 years, and was originally discovered in six pieces in a temple near Memphis. Weighing some 83-tonne (82-long-ton; 91-short-ton), it was transported, reconstructed, and erected in Ramesses Square in Cairo in 1955.