They have out-of-state plates, drive slowly, often in the left lane, and are simply calling Aunt Helen to figure out how to get from 9A to the Hutchinson River Parkway.
The next morning in the bright sunshine, lorries with number plates drive out of the yards, loaded with sawn planks, each with an identification label, as required by law.
As she emerged onto the street, a shiny maroon S.U.V. with New Jersey license plates drove past, stopped just beyond the intersection, and honked.
The provocation began on Svoboda Square, when a Volksvagen Transporter van with Dnepropetrovsk license plates drove up to a group of pro-Russian demonstrators.
Then a bakkie (pickup truck) with Cape Town license plates drove up, and the driver rolled down his window and told me we had a flat tire.
Alberto Curtis, 37, and his son Alberto Jr. were riding a motorcycle south on Ocean Avenue in Midwood, Brooklyn, when they struck a station wagon with ambulance license plates driven by Shamai Goldstein.
Early in the morning of November 9th 2007 three armoured personnel carriers, several minivans and a military truck, all without number plates, drove into a small Ingush village as part of a "special operation" to capture an alleged terrorist.
The crowd had grown to thousands when, just before midnight, Mr. Clinton's limousine with its District of Columbia license plates drove by on the way to his hotel, a mile or so from the simple house where Ho Chi Minh and his generals prosecuted the war.
Of particular interest to auto enthusiasts are the huge and spectacular "round door" Rolls, the Ferrari given to Henry Ford II by Enzo Ferrari before those two quit speaking to each other and the red Bentley with "HOT ROD" license plates driven daily by Robert E. Petersen, the magazine publisher and founder of the museum.
Finally, the deflections of the micro-cantilever plates driven by the capillary forces are quantitatively analyzed.
From the Late Jurassic through the Cretaceous, collision between the North American and Farallon plates drove extensive thin-skinned thrusting and crustal shortening that resulted in substantial relief in the North American Cordillera.
