Notoriety
Spanish Prime Minister Admiral Carrero Blanco, under Generalissimo Francisco Franco, was assassinated riding in an armoured Dodge 3700 GT in 1973 by a 80 kg bomb planted by the Basque E.T.A. The car, whose armoured structure resisted the 80 kg dynamite bomb, was blown over a building and fell in an interior garden. Carrero Blanco and his driver died. The car is now on display at the Spanish Army museum in Madrid.
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