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Visitors cheer as cars perform a simultaneous burnout during the Summernats festival in Canberra, Australia, on Friday, Jan. 4, 2013. Sixty-nine cars performed a simultaneous burnout setting up a new Guinness World Record.
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Visitors are covered in smoke from cars performing a simultaneous burnout during the the Summernats festival on Friday.
See previous world record PhotoBlog posts and our 2012 Guinness World Record slideshow.
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A Christie's employee poses next to a 1/3 scale replica Aston Martin DB5 used in the film "Skyfall" during the press preview of "50 years of James Bond - The Auction" at Christie's auction house in London on Sept. 28. The model is expected to fetch 30,000 - 40,000 GBP (46,000 - 60,000 USD). To celebrate the 50th anniversary of James Bond on film, Christie's is holding an auction of Bond memorabilia from the archives of EON Productions.
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Why yes, officer, that is a wood-burning stove in my glove box.
It's hard to imagine what led Pascal Prokop to install a wood-burning stove in his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon. Though we're safe to say that the trend won't catch like wildfire.
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Smoke rises from a chimney atop Pascal Prokop's 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon near Zurich on Thursday, Feb. 9.
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Wood burns in a stove as Pascal Prokop drives his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon during cold winter weather on a road near the town of Mettmenstetten, south of Zurich on Thursday, Feb. 9.
Prokob built and installed the wood-fired stove himself and got an operating permit from the Swiss technical inspection authority.
And you thought old Volvo station wagons weren't hot...
It almost looks like she is praying in front of the Corvette. This exhibit opened in Atlanta last year, and opens tomorrow in Portland. Slideshow.
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Sharon Deming, of Vancouver, Wash., photographes a 1959 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray at the Allure of the Automobile exhibit Friday, June, 10 at the Portland Art Museum, in Portland, Ore. The Allure of the Automobile examines the golden age of automotive design by celebrating some of the world's finest cars from the 1930s to the early 1960s. During this era of brilliantly designed automobiles, engineering combined with artistry and craftsmanship to produce objects of unparalleled beauty.
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A 1937 Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H-6C "Xenia" is shown at the Allure of the Automobile exhibit Friday, June, 10 at the Portland Art Museum, in Portland, Ore. The Allure of the Automobile examines the golden age of automotive design by celebrating some of the world's finest cars from the 1930s to the early 1960s. During this era of brilliantly designed automobiles, engineering combined with artistry and craftsmanship to produce objects of unparalleled beauty.
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Vehicles drive on Three Ring Road and Jianwai Street during rush hour in central Beijing, on Thursday, Dec. 23. Starting in 2011, Beijing will limit how many new cars it licenses to 240,000 annually, in an effort to ease the capital city's traffic jams.
NBC News' Eric Baculinao reports: Sharp limits will be imposed on the number of new cars licensed in Beijing next year, and purchases would be limited to the city’s registered residents only, to the exclusion of millions of migrants living there.
The sweeping rules will curb new car licenses by a whopping two-thirds, bring in stiff parking fees and also bar out of town vehicles from entering the main city area during rush hours.
Read the full story HERE.
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Workers dismantle cars confiscated in a campaign against unlicensed taxi service in Guiyang in southwest China's Guizhou province, Dec. 12. Over 300 cars and more than 1,000 motorbikes confiscated in the campaign were destroyed.
Wow, this is definitely a wee bit more harsh than a citation and a fine. I would think law enforcement would allow the offenders to keep their cars for personal transportation which would include driving to a legal job.
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A man jumps from stranded cars after heavy rains in Caracas, on Saturday, Sept. 25. Venezuela was left counting the cost of rains that lashed the northern regions of the country after the passage of Tropical Storm Matthew. Up to now, eight people have been killed and many others are missing.
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