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376 MPG Car Finds New Home

Pumping gas. (Photo by Wikimedia Commons user Rama.)A standard car that got 376.59 mpg? In 1973? Where has it been hiding all these years?

Well, the record-breaking 1959 Opel T-1 wasn’t exactly tucked into a crate among millions of other crates in a giant warehouse a la “Raiders of the Lost Ark” (”We have top men working on it right now.” “Who?” “Top men.”)

But it did spend years, all but forgotten, at the Talladega, Alabama-based International Motorsports Hall of Fame until it was discovered — and purchased by — Evan McMullen, who owns Cosmopolitan Motors in Seattle.

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