The car completed the 2007 Peking to Paris Centenary Rally – a five-week, 8,000-mile (12,900 km) re-enactment of the world’s first transcontinental rally in 1907. It had been estimated to fetc ...
Red China’s pudgy Mao Tse-tung had made the long trip from Peking to Moscow to pay fealty to Joseph Stalin. A Soviet diplomatic mission met Mao at the Manchurian border, put him on the Trans ...