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* That Volkswagen emissions scandal isn’t the company’s first, nor is it the first time the company’s been caught with emissions defeat devices. As The Detroit Bureau (and a couple other sources) reported this past week, back in 1974 VW was forced to pay a $120,000 fine for installing temperature-sensing devices that shut off emissions systems on its buses, campervans, and other Type 2s.
* It’s anybody’s guess as to what’s inside that buried Nazi mystery train in Poland, but one of our Facebook readers has a theory: the long-missing ZIS 101A Sport, a pre-war Soviet car that some witnesses apparently reported tooling around in Nazi-occupied Russia during the war with Nazis at the wheel and hasn’t been seen since. Or, you know, it could all be a wild goose chase.
* As part of its wall-to-wall papal visit coverage, the New York Times took a look at popemobiles through the years, including the above Fiat Campagnola that Pope John Paul II was shot in.
* Japanese Nostalgic Car this week related the story of eight Hiroshima Technical High School students who got the opportunity to restore a Mazda Cosmo over the summer.
* Finally, another restoration that hit the spotlight this week was that of a 1956 Chevrolet Bel Air that came out of the Lambrecht Chevrolet collection and that Australian television personality Cherie Barber brought back to life.
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