Sentences with phrase «old car runs»

If the engine in an old car runs well it should produce little more pollution than a new car.

«If you sit down and think about it, what you pay for keeping an old car running, you can buy a relatively new, certified one with a warranty,» said Hudson, who bought a black 1992 Camry from Town & Country Toyota.

Auto parts stores have done well during the recession, as people keep their old cars running longer, rather than buying new.

Not exact matches

In the short run, this spending works as designed: the plant stays open, cars get produced, older workers retire with pensions and benefits and young workers are hired to replace them.

If this carefully coordinated space «ballet» works, however, Musk's old car will be running laps between the sun and Mars in what's called a hyperbolic orbit.

Since February, GM has recalled 2.6 million older - model Chevrolet Cobalts, Saturn Ions and other small cars because their ignitions can slip out of the «run» position and shut off the engine.

The switches in older - model small cars such as the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion can slip out of the «run» position and shut down the cars» engines.

He was running a company and, at the time, he drove an old, beat - up car.

Cars can last longer, require basic maintenance, and typically run better than older models.

We've been seeing quite a few reasons to just wait to send that text message till after you park the car, but perhaps none that sound quite so much like a bad movie plot than this story from Maryland, where a 25 - year - old woman was distracted by texting and ran her car off the road, clipped a tree and was propelled 60 feet into a lake.

Old Town Temecula is the site of many special events including the Farmer's Market, car shows, semi-annual Rod Runs, Western Days and summer weekend entertainment.

The 33 - year - old is going to drive one of the Manor - run Ginetta LMP1 cars during a three - day test at Aragon.

It made a bit of a comeback in the late - 2000s when Super Aguri ran old Honda chassis, and when Red Bull used the same cars for both of its teams, Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso.

We'll forgive you if you've never heard of the Speedcar championship - it was a short - lived stock car championship that only ran for two seasons, featuring a mixture of young drivers and old legends.

I think I'd like to volunteer like that by taking a 17 (allegedly) or 18 year old girl to a prom (or we could just stay in with movies / wine coolers if my car ran out of gas).

For years the British Railways have been putting their oldest cars on the postgame runs, a fact which is well known to the supporters» clubs and which is taken by them as a challenge.

It wasonly a race in the NASCAR equivalent of Double A ball, but it was one of themost anticipated stock car runs in recent memory — and no one was more anxiousthan 62 - year - old Pablo Montoya, who stood just a few feet away from hisson.

It's obviously not meant for you to jog with the infant car seat, but once your baby is old enough for the regular seat it's perfect for a jog or just running errands.

Prizes I'd love to win: 1 — 100 GC to either pedal cars & retro or a rocking horse to love, 58 — mixer, 89 — 100 homegoods gc, See Kai Run shoes, Eleven shoes, ANY of the target gc's, old navy gc, dress - up costume for my little boy (106).

I narrowly missed knocking down an old women in the hospital car park, grabbed our bags and ran to maternity unit (well I ran the first 20 metres then walked the rest of the way - I was really tired!).

I've been a huge fan of your blog for a long time (we met at the Flashmob) and I wanted to tell you that my friend Kim and I found ourselves together in the same car with our 9 month olds talking about how we both REALLY want a copy of Sweet Songs but find it hard to run that quick in and out errand with baby in tow!

• A 23 - year - old Orland Park man was charged with DUI, illegal transport of open alcohol, driving with a suspended license and operating an uninsured motor vehicle after he was found drinking beer in a running car in a parking lot on the 8700 block of West 159th Street on Sept. 1.

I put my 2 month old baby in his infant seat, snapped it into the car and then drove all over running errands for two hours while he slept.

The 59 - year - old victim was crossing Little League Place at East Tremont Avenue about 6 a.m. on January 24 when he was hit by a car, and then run over by two other vehicles.

It can breathe new life into older high - mileage vehicles or become a part of your regular maintenance to keep your car running smoothly and happily.

Older muscle cars were designed to run on older gasolines that had different formulatOlder muscle cars were designed to run on older gasolines that had different formulatolder gasolines that had different formulations.

Do - it - yourselfers who don't want to depend on the oil companies have gone to elaborate lengths to run their old cars on biofuels, often by processing used vegetable oil salvaged from restaurant deep fryers and storing the result in a tank in the garage.

«The typical Mexico City car is a Volkswagen beetle several years old, running on a very rich air - fuel mixture of 8:1 in order to develop adequate power at the city's altitude of 2400 metres,» says Stephen Bryen of Lean Power Corporation of Silver Spring.

It's a walk I've been desperate to do since I started driving into the Scottish highlands when I had my first car, because it runs up an old railway line and from it you can see some really stunning views.

Responding to a call regarding a suspect breaking car windows, the two officers encountered Clark, a 22 - year - old black man, who ran into his grandmother's backyard.

An 18 - year - old girl was killed by a hit and run driver when she was mowed down while she checked her car for damage after getting in a small fender - bender SEATTLE — Hit - and - run victim Alene Rosen, 61, spent three weeks at Harborview Medical Center.

Johnny Depp plays a fish - tagger who reluctantly moves to Arizona to help uncle Jerry Lewis run his car dealership and becomes romantically entangled with emotionally unstable older fox Faye Dunaway and suicidal stepdaughter Lilli Taylor.

30 years after the 1984 All Valley Karate Tournament, Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) is running a successful car dealerships business while his old rival Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) is seeking to turn his life around by reopening the Cobra Kai dojo.

This failure also wiped out her savings and thrust her deeply in debt, and she's forced to drive an old car that barely runs, and live with two deeply annoying roommates, one of which refuses to pay rent.

This is the tricky and very observant story of how a married couple is getting along, eight months after their 4 - year - old ran out into the street and was struck dead by a car.

Reservation Road (R for profanity and disturbing images) Revenge flick, based on the best - selling novel of the same name, revolving around an anguished college professor's (Joaquin Phoenix) desperate search for the driver (Mark Ruffalo) of the car which claimed the life of his 10 year - old son (Sean Curley) in a hit - and - run accident.

Halley is a sponge, living off the dole, day - old bakery handed out by a Christian charity van in the car park and leftover meals passed to Moonee through the back door of a run - down restaurant.

When Cornelia (Luminița Gheorghiu) is pulled out of an opera, she's informed that her only child, Barbu (Bogdan Dumitrache), who recently stated he needs to recede from his mother's tight grasp, has been in a car accident; to her relief, he isn't hurt, but he did run over and kill a 14 - year - old boy.

School grounds should be inspected for potential hazards such as: • Verandah poles outside doorways, in thoroughfares or in situations where students are unlikely to see them, especially while running; • Steps and changes in level which are poorly proportioned, difficult to see or lack handrails; • Fencing, gates and railings which students climb and which have structural problems, sharp protrusions, splinters or other hazards; • Trip hazards at ground level — protruding drainage pit covers, irregular paving, cracks or tree roots in thoroughfares, broken off post or other remnants of old structures; • Loose gravely surfaces on slopes and where students run; • Slippery patches which may stay damp in winter; • Rocks which students can fall onto or throw around; • Embankments which students can slip down or which have protruding sharp objects; • Blind corners in busy areas; taps and hoses which are positioned where students play or walk; window glass at low levels through which students could fall; • Holes, cracks or exposed irrigation fixtures in ovals; • Trees or shrubs with poisonous parts, sharp spikes or thorns or branches at eye level; • Splinters and deteriorating timbers in seats, retaining edges and other wooden constructions; • sSeds or other areas with hazardous chemicals or machinery to which students have access; rubbish skips which students can climb into or around, or which place students at risk when trucks enter the school; • Areas within the site used for car parking when students are present; and, • Sporting equipment such as goal posts or basketball rings which have structural or other design or maintenance problems.

Of course, you'll need to take a deep breath, convince yourself that the safety net of new car ownership is for wimps, and budget accordingly for the maintenance and running cost challenges that attach themselves to charismatic old - timers like barnacles to the hull of a ship.

The headlights even appear to be sharpened versions of the old design with their incorporated day time running lights, ensuring the car still very much looks like a Corsa.

There are mineral oils markete d as being for bike use (3 - in - 1 for example) that would probably allow a sufficiently old car (i.e. designed to tolerate a wide range of oils) to run without completely ruining the engine immediately.

I'd run it back right away without a thought, but I'm wondering if this is normal for a 10 - year old diesel car with 175,000 miles on it.

Prius's are now old enough to have flat batteries and are typically are selling in the $ 1000 - $ 2000 range (for the complete car, which still runs on the gas 1.3 L).

This car is performing at this stage as any 16 yr old car would: It has a few flaws inside and out, but otherwise runs like a top as long as I do regular maintenance on it.

Even the car's (twenty - five - year - old) cooling system is nonplussed by the hours of running at full load near maximum rpm.

We're watching SP3 though - currently a close battle between a Renaultsport Clio, and the oldest car in the race, an Opel Manta run by Beckmann, Strycek, Hass and Schulten.

I don't think my car costs me much more to run than an ordinary car, but it still makes me smile every time I get into it, even though it's now more than 12 years» old.

It was also a bit hard to figure out how to program the sound features and radio - but this could be because I was previously used to old cars before everything was run off computers, and as I said, this was a rental, so I didn't have an owner's manual to get to know the car and it's features before driving off in it.

Dennis Harrison tells the story / Rally in Normandy — Bruce Dowell records on film an event which takes place in a French town every other year / Coleraine to Ballycastle Run — Pictorial coverage of this event that has enlivened the old car scene in Northern Ireland for the last eight years / Alvis Tour & A7 Circuit of Britain Forty - four — Alvises toured Britain this year for charity.