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More on this: 20 Jan 2021, 12:31 UTC ·
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January is
autoevolution’s Ford Month, and what would a proper celebration be without a quirky story whose brilliance got fogged up by the passing of time? In fact, this story is so fogged up and forgotten that we were able to find only few details about it, save for the mention in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Suffice it to say that today’s two heroes are Rob Gibney and a 2003 Ford Crown Victoria sedan that he used to call his favorite car in the world. On August 22, at the Race City Motorsports Park in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Gibney accomplished what one can only assume had been a lifelong dream. He drove the Ford backward at an average speed of 66.67 kph (41.42 mph), covering a distance of 807.39 km (501.69 miles).