What's the dumbest car-related world record?

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Set a world record and you may never get rich, but you can brag about it at the bar. That is, unless it's a record that all the drunks on hand agree is just dumb. What's the dumbest car-related world record ever?

I've always hated the whole idea of stuffing large numbers of people into tiny cars. Maybe it's my claustrophobia talking, but here's an idea invented by student drunks, and usually perpetrated by student drunks (unless it's perpetrated by attractive co-eds, which you think might be hot, but somehow it isn't.) Enough said.

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