376 MPG Car Finds New Home

Shirley Siluk Gregory — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:34:47 +0000

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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376 MPG Car Finds New Home