The Car
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| Initial release | USA |
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| Directors | Elliot Silverstein |
| Film series | The Car |
| Producers | Elliot Silverstein |
| Marvin Birdt | |
| Story by | Dennis Shryack |
| Michael Butler | |
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| ID | 688418 |
About The Car
Two bicyclists are run down by a strange black car in the desert near a small town in Utah. But this is just the first in a series of hit-and-run murders. Sheriff Wade Parents (James Brolin) is called in to investigate, and his deputy, Everett (John Marley), is killed by the black sedan, which, some witnesses say, has no one behind its wheel. When the car threatens a local school parade, the lives of the town's children and Wade's teacher girlfriend, Lauren (Kathleen Lloyd), are endangered.
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... " I went downstairs into the street and all The Car alarms were going off...
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... Since the cyber truck s inauspicious launch event, rival companies have rolled out their own electric truck offerings, while Mr Musk s controversial social media presence has, according to critics, tarnished The Car company s brand...
Scotch on the Rocks: The TV drama locked away for 50 years
... " Eventually, the cameraman said maybe we could throw The Car at the brick and rewind the film...
Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May film final Grand Tour
... " It s time for a new format and a new approach to the subject because the subject has not been this interesting, I suspect, since The Car has been invented...
Boy, 13, killed foster mother Marcia Grant with her own car
... She then became trapped under the vehicle, the court heard, while her husband Delroy tried to break The Car s window to get the defendant out...
North Wales: Four missing teens drowned after crash, inquest hears
... North Wales Police confirmed the bodies were found in The Car, which appeared to have come off the road on the A4085 in Garreg, near Tremadog in Gwynedd, about 75 miles (120km) from Shrewsbury...
Palestinian teenager 'dizzy with happiness' to be freed
... She suffered serious facial burns after The Car s engine caught fire, but had requests for surgery turned down by Israel s prison authorities...
Rainbow Bridge: Police identify couple killed in US-Canada border crash
... He added that police are investigating several possibilities behind the crash, including whether The Car suffered a mechanical failure that caused it to accelerate...
David Buick: the motoring pioneer who lost everything
As inventors go, David Dunbar Buick is Up There with The Best of them.
During his lifetime, he came up with a lawn-sprinkler system, a toilet flushing device and a way to enamel cast-iron sinks and bathtubs, a process which is Still used to This Day ,
But his greatest claim to fame was The Creation of a vehicle which was to become The Foundation of one of The World 's biggest car producers, General Motors .
More Than 50 million vehicles have carried the name of Buick over The Past century.
But despite making not just one, But two fortunes, he was to end up virtually penniless.
His story prompted one contemporary American businessman and philanthropist to say: " He sipped from The Cup of greatness, And Then spilled what it held. "
But just how did this happen?
Buick's story suggests that he had The Brilliance of an inventor But little business sense.
Having moved from Arbroath in Scotland to the US as a toddler in 1856, he went on to co-found a plumbing business.
It was to prove one of his only resounding successes, as he tapped into his inventive genius.
But Buick wasn't happy. By The End of the 19Th Century , he had found another Obsession - the Internal Combustion Engine .
He sold up his share of the plumbing business for an eye-watering $100,000 (equivalent to $3. 3m or nearly £2. 5m today) and started his own automobile firm.
Buick Auto Vim was to create the overhead valve Engine - Still used to This Day - But by 1902, he had only produced one car and his money had run out.
He was bailed out by William Crapo Durant, who took over the Detroit-based business and went on to found General Motors (GM), which until relatively recently was the largest manufacturer of cars in The World .
GM has paid tribute to Buick, stating that " his importance to the modern-day Buick brand and General Motors can't be understated".
A spokeswoman said: " While The Story of David Buick is in itself very complicated, without question, had it not been for him, there would be no Buick automobile. "
Buick was to be pushed out of The Company a few years later with another $100,000 pay-off - a fraction of what he might have made if he had kept his shares in The Business .
But he ended up blowing his second fortune by investing poorly in California oil prospects and Florida land.
In 1924, at the Age Of 69, he returned to Detroit jobless and virtually penniless, unable even to afford a telephone in his home.
He finally managed to find a job as an instructor at the Detroit School of Trades, But his health was failing.
'Hunched little Old Man 'Arbroath -based retired journalist Ian Lamb, who has campaigned to have a statue erected in The Town to commemorate Buick's life, explains: " As he grew more feeble, he was found a more menial task on The Information desk where he was remembered as a thin, hunched little Old Man who peered at visitors through heavy glasses. "
In March 1929, he died of pneumonia at the Harper Hospital in Detroit following an operation to remove a tumour in his colon. He was 74.
In an interview shortly before he went into hospital, Buick said: " I'm not worrying. The failure is The Man who stays down when he falls, The Man who sits and worries about What Happened yesterday instead of jumping up and figuring what he's going to do today and tomorrow.
" That's what success is - Looking Ahead to tomorrow. I'm not accusing anyone of cheating me. It was The Breaks of The Game that I lost out on in The Company I founded. "
In June 1994, a commemorative plaque was erected on The Walls of the former Masonic Hall in Arbroath - the only surviving building from The Street in which he was born.
When the plaque was unveiled, Robert Coletta, a senior executive with General Motors , said: ''Buick has been one of The Great names in American automobiles through virtually all of the 20Th Century .
''It is certainly appropriate for us to honour This Man , not only because his name identifies our automobiles But because his genius and Hard Work formed the beginning of an unsurpassed automotive success story which is Still being written. ''
Since then, Buick's star has waned and he appears in danger of becoming Arbroath 's forgotten son.
Two years ago, that the Buick name was no longer being stamped across the back of its North American models. In China - where most Buicks are sold nowadays - the nameplate has already disappeared.
And despite the efforts of Ian Lamb and others, there are no plans to stamp Buick's name in the history books with a statue in his home town.
'Major advances'All that remains of his legacy in Arbroath is the commemorative plaque on the side of a wall obscured from The View of most local residents.
Ian Lamb says a statue would be a fitting tribute to The Car pioneer.
" In David Buick we have someone who was responsible for major advances in the development of motor cars, advances which are Still relevant across The World to This Day .
" Yet how many people know this inventive genius was born here in Arbroath ?
" Yes, we have a plaque marking The Last remaining building from The Street where he was born, But even the majority of people living in The Town would be hard put to place it.
" Buick deserves to be remembered. "
Source of news: bbc.com
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