{ "note": "Every claim made anywhere on this site, flattened. \"liturgical\" means invented.", "labels": { "documented": { "id": "documented", "label": "Documented", "gloss": "Verifiable from the ordinary historical record. Believe this one." }, "contested": { "id": "contested", "label": "Contested", "gloss": "Widely repeated, plausibly true, never nailed down. Enthusiast folklore with a good lawyer." }, "liturgical": { "id": "liturgical", "label": "Liturgical", "gloss": "Invented here, for the joy of it. Not a fact. Do not cite this in an argument you intend to win." } }, "counts": { "documented": 142, "contested": 12, "liturgical": 9 }, "claims": [ { "entry": "shelby-cobra", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra/", "claim": "Shelby said the name came to him in a dream and that he wrote it down on a pad beside his bed.", "truth": "contested", "note": "He told it consistently for fifty years. There were no other witnesses to a dream, and there never are." }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra/", "claim": "The first car, CSX2000, was an AC Ace shipped from England and fitted with a Ford 260 V8 in California in early 1962.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra/", "claim": "The prototype was repeatedly repainted so that magazines would believe more than one car existed.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Shelby and his crew told this story happily and often. It is the founding act of serpent-brand mimicry." }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra/", "claim": "A snake name constitutes a binding contract between a manufacturer and the laws of physics.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby 427 Cobra Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-super-snake/", "claim": "Two twin-supercharged 427 Cobras were built in 1966.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby 427 Cobra Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-super-snake/", "claim": "Carroll Shelby kept one as a personal car; the second went to Bill Cosby, who returned it.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby 427 Cobra Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-super-snake/", "claim": "The second car was later destroyed in a fatal accident under a subsequent owner.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Recorded here as history, not as anecdote. The Ophidiary does not find this part funny." }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby 427 Cobra Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-super-snake/", "claim": "Shelby's surviving car sold at auction in 2007 for USD 5.5 million.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe/", "claim": "Six Daytona Coupes were built.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe/", "claim": "Shelby American won the GT division of the 1965 FIA World Sportscar Championship, the first such title for an American constructor.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe/", "claim": "CSX2287 sat in storage for roughly three decades and its ownership was litigated.", "truth": "documented", "note": "The full story involves a private tragedy. It is not retold here." }, { "entry": "shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe", "entryName": "Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-cobra-daytona-coupe/", "claim": "The number six is ophidiologically significant.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-shelby-cobra-concept", "entryName": "Ford Shelby Cobra Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-shelby-cobra-concept/", "claim": "The 2004 Shelby Cobra Concept was a running car with a 6.4-litre V10.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-shelby-cobra-concept", "entryName": "Ford Shelby Cobra Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-shelby-cobra-concept/", "claim": "It was never put into production.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-shelby-cobra-concept", "entryName": "Ford Shelby Cobra Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-shelby-cobra-concept/", "claim": "Concept cars are shed skins in the herpetological sense.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "The Viper concept appeared in 1989 and reached production in 1992 with an 8.0-litre V10.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "The V10 originated as a truck engine and was recast in aluminium with involvement from Lamborghini, then owned by Chrysler.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "Carroll Shelby consulted on the project.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "Early cars had no exterior door handles, no ABS and no traction control.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "The side-exit exhaust burned the legs of people getting out of the car.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Ask any owner. Then ask to see the calf." }, { "entry": "dodge-viper", "entryName": "Dodge Viper", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper/", "claim": "The badge functions as a legally sufficient warning label.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "mitsuoka-orochi", "entryName": "Mitsuoka Orochi", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/mitsuoka-orochi/", "claim": "The Mitsuoka Orochi was produced from 2006 to 2014 using a mid-mounted 3.3-litre Toyota V6.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "mitsuoka-orochi", "entryName": "Mitsuoka Orochi", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/mitsuoka-orochi/", "claim": "Yamata no Orochi is described in the Kojiki as an eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent defeated by Susanoo using sake, with a sword found in its tail.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "mitsuoka-orochi", "entryName": "Mitsuoka Orochi", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/mitsuoka-orochi/", "claim": "The Orochi is the most correctly named car in the world.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": "The Ophidiary will defend this position at length and without being asked." }, { "entry": "dodge-viper-gts-r", "entryName": "Dodge Viper GTS-R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper-gts-r/", "claim": "The Viper GTS-R won its class at Le Mans in 1998, 1999 and 2000.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper-gts-r", "entryName": "Dodge Viper GTS-R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper-gts-r/", "claim": "A Viper GTS-R won the 2000 Rolex 24 at Daytona outright.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-viper-gts-r", "entryName": "Dodge Viper GTS-R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-viper-gts-r/", "claim": "It won FIA GT championship titles in the late 1990s.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-svt-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Mustang SVT Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-svt-cobra/", "claim": "The 2003–2004 SVT Cobra used a supercharged 4.6-litre DOHC V8 rated at 390 hp and was nicknamed Terminator.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-svt-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Mustang SVT Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-svt-cobra/", "claim": "The coiled snake badge descends from the Shelby Mustangs of the 1960s.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-svt-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Mustang SVT Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-svt-cobra/", "claim": "No customer ever wrote to Ford objecting to the horse/snake contradiction.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": "Statistically improbable. Emotionally certain." }, { "entry": "vauxhall-wyvern", "entryName": "Vauxhall Wyvern", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vauxhall-wyvern/", "claim": "Vauxhall produced the Wyvern from 1948 to 1957 in LIX and EIX series.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vauxhall-wyvern", "entryName": "Vauxhall Wyvern", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vauxhall-wyvern/", "claim": "A wyvern in heraldry has two legs, wings and a serpentine barbed tail, distinguishing it from a four-legged dragon.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vauxhall-wyvern", "entryName": "Vauxhall Wyvern", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vauxhall-wyvern/", "claim": "Vauxhall's emblem is a griffin.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-gt500-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby GT500 Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-gt500-super-snake/", "claim": "One 1967 GT500 Super Snake was built for a Goodyear high-speed tyre test in Texas.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-gt500-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby GT500 Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-gt500-super-snake/", "claim": "A production run of fifty was planned and abandoned on cost grounds.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "shelby-gt500-super-snake", "entryName": "Shelby GT500 Super Snake", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/shelby-gt500-super-snake/", "claim": "The surviving car has sold for over a million dollars.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-cobra-jet", "entryName": "Ford 428 Cobra Jet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-cobra-jet/", "claim": "The 428 Cobra Jet appeared in Mustangs in 1968.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-cobra-jet", "entryName": "Ford 428 Cobra Jet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-cobra-jet/", "claim": "Its development was pushed by dealer Bob Tasca after he built his own big-block combination.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-cobra-jet", "entryName": "Ford 428 Cobra Jet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-cobra-jet/", "claim": "Factory power ratings for the era were deliberately understated for insurance reasons.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Universally believed, rarely admitted in writing by anyone at the time." }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-r", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-r/", "claim": "Cobra R models were built in 1993, 1995 and 2000 in strictly limited numbers.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-r", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-r/", "claim": "Ford required buyers to hold a competition licence.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-r", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra R", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-r/", "claim": "The 2000 Cobra R used a 5.4-litre DOHC V8 rated at 385 hp.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ram-srt-10", "entryName": "Dodge Ram SRT-10", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ram-srt-10/", "claim": "The Ram SRT-10 used the 8.3-litre Viper V10 producing 500 hp.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ram-srt-10", "entryName": "Dodge Ram SRT-10", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ram-srt-10/", "claim": "It held a Guinness World Record as the fastest production pickup truck at roughly 154 mph.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-falcon-xc-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Falcon XC Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-falcon-xc-cobra/", "claim": "Ford Australia built 400 Falcon XC Cobra hardtops in 1978, all white with blue stripes and individually numbered.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-falcon-xc-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Falcon XC Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-falcon-xc-cobra/", "claim": "Australia has no native cobras but does have the inland taipan, eastern brown, tiger snake and death adder.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-falcon-xc-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Falcon XC Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-falcon-xc-cobra/", "claim": "Option-pack cars were built with competition in mind and subsequently raced at Bathurst.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-copperhead-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Copperhead Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-copperhead-concept/", "claim": "Dodge showed the Copperhead concept roadster in 1997 with a 2.7-litre V6.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-copperhead-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Copperhead Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-copperhead-concept/", "claim": "It was never put into production.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-copperhead-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Copperhead Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-copperhead-concept/", "claim": "The car later appeared in a racing video game under a non-serpent name for licensing reasons.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Widely reported by players of a certain vintage; the paperwork has never surfaced." }, { "entry": "ford-torino-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Torino Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-torino-cobra/", "claim": "The Torino Cobra came standard with the 428 Cobra Jet engine.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-torino-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Torino Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-torino-cobra/", "claim": "The Torino Talladega was built to homologate aerodynamic bodywork for NASCAR.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-sidewinder-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Sidewinder Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-sidewinder-concept/", "claim": "Dodge built a Sidewinder concept pickup in 1997 using the Viper V10.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-sidewinder-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Sidewinder Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-sidewinder-concept/", "claim": "Sidewinder rattlesnakes move by lateral undulation across loose sand, contacting the ground at two points.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dodge-sidewinder-concept", "entryName": "Dodge Sidewinder Concept", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dodge-sidewinder-concept/", "claim": "The AIM-9 Sidewinder missile is named for the snake because both home in on infrared.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-ii", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra II", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-ii/", "claim": "The Mustang II Cobra II was primarily an appearance package with modest power output.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-ii", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra II", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-ii/", "claim": "A white-and-blue Cobra II featured prominently in a 1970s American television series.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-mustang-cobra-ii", "entryName": "Ford Mustang Cobra II", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-mustang-cobra-ii/", "claim": "The Cobra II is a Batesian mimic in the strict biological sense.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "ford-fairlane-cobra", "entryName": "Ford Fairlane 500 Cobra", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ford-fairlane-cobra/", "claim": "The 1969 Fairlane Cobra was a low-cost model with the 428 Cobra Jet as standard.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-gt", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom GT", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-gt/", "claim": "The Venom GT was based on a modified Lotus Exige with a 7.0-litre twin-turbo V8.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-gt", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom GT", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-gt/", "claim": "A Venom GT recorded 270.49 mph at the Kennedy Space Center shuttle landing facility in 2014.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-gt", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom GT", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-gt/", "claim": "The run was not certified as a production car record due to being single-direction and low production volume.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-gt", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom GT", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-gt/", "claim": "Venom toxicity is measured by LD50, and the inland taipan ranks most toxic while causing no recorded deaths.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-f5", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom F5", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-f5/", "claim": "The Venom F5 uses a 6.6-litre twin-turbocharged V8 named Fury producing roughly 1,817 hp.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-f5", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom F5", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-f5/", "claim": "F5 refers to the top category of the original Fujita tornado scale.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hennessey-venom-f5", "entryName": "Hennessey Venom F5", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hennessey-venom-f5/", "claim": "Saw-scaled vipers produce a warning rasp by rubbing serrated scales together.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "alfa-romeo-biscione", "entryName": "Alfa Romeo — the Biscione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/alfa-romeo-biscione/", "claim": "The Alfa Romeo badge combines the cross of Milan with the crowned Visconti biscione and was adopted in 1910.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "alfa-romeo-biscione", "entryName": "Alfa Romeo — the Biscione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/alfa-romeo-biscione/", "claim": "The badge was drawn by Romano Cattaneo, reportedly after seeing the biscione on the Filarete tower while waiting at Piazza Castello.", "truth": "contested", "note": "The company's own preferred account. Charming, plausible, unverifiable in the way all good origin stories are." }, { "entry": "alfa-romeo-biscione", "entryName": "Alfa Romeo — the Biscione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/alfa-romeo-biscione/", "claim": "Whether the human figure is being devoured or disgorged has never been officially settled.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Both readings circulate widely, including in Italian heraldic scholarship." }, { "entry": "alfa-romeo-biscione", "entryName": "Alfa Romeo — the Biscione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/alfa-romeo-biscione/", "claim": "The ambiguity is deliberate brand strategy.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": null }, { "entry": "tvr-chimaera", "entryName": "TVR Chimaera", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/tvr-chimaera/", "claim": "The Chimera of Greek myth is described in the Iliad as lion-fronted, goat in the middle and serpent behind.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "tvr-chimaera", "entryName": "TVR Chimaera", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/tvr-chimaera/", "claim": "The TVR Chimaera was produced from 1992 to 2003 with Rover-derived V8 engines and without ABS, traction control or airbags.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "tvr-chimaera", "entryName": "TVR Chimaera", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/tvr-chimaera/", "claim": "TVR's management publicly argued that driver aids make drivers worse.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ssangyong-twin-dragons", "entryName": "SsangYong — Twin Dragons", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssangyong-twin-dragons/", "claim": "SsangYong (쌍용) translates as \"twin dragons\" or \"double dragon\".", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ssangyong-twin-dragons", "entryName": "SsangYong — Twin Dragons", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssangyong-twin-dragons/", "claim": "East Asian dragons are serpentine in form and associated with water, in contrast to the winged, fire-breathing European dragon.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ssangyong-twin-dragons", "entryName": "SsangYong — Twin Dragons", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssangyong-twin-dragons/", "claim": "SsangYong was renamed KG Mobility in 2023 following its acquisition.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dacia-draco", "entryName": "Dacia — the Draco", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dacia-draco/", "claim": "The draco was a Dacian military standard consisting of a metal head and a fabric body that inflated and made noise in motion.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dacia-draco", "entryName": "Dacia — the Draco", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dacia-draco/", "claim": "The draco is depicted on Trajan's Column and was later adopted by Roman forces.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dacia-draco", "entryName": "Dacia — the Draco", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dacia-draco/", "claim": "Dacia the car company was founded in 1966 and is named after the historical region.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "dacia-draco", "entryName": "Dacia — the Draco", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/dacia-draco/", "claim": "Dacia the manufacturer intends any serpent association whatsoever.", "truth": "liturgical", "note": "It does not. This entry is the Ophidiary reaching, and saying so." }, { "entry": "gilbern-welsh-dragon", "entryName": "Gilbern — the Welsh Dragon", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gilbern-welsh-dragon/", "claim": "Gilbern was founded by Giles Smith and Bernard Friese and built glass-fibre cars in Wales from 1959 to 1973.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gilbern-welsh-dragon", "entryName": "Gilbern — the Welsh Dragon", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gilbern-welsh-dragon/", "claim": "Gilbern is the only series car manufacturer Wales has had.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gilbern-welsh-dragon", "entryName": "Gilbern — the Welsh Dragon", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gilbern-welsh-dragon/", "claim": "Wales is the only sovereign nation with a dragon on its flag.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gilbern-welsh-dragon", "entryName": "Gilbern — the Welsh Dragon", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gilbern-welsh-dragon/", "claim": "Gilbern deliberately invoked Y Ddraig Goch in its badging.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Welsh identity was plainly central to the marque. The precise heraldic intent of the badge is not something the Ophidiary will overstate." }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-mangusta", "entryName": "De Tomaso Mangusta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-mangusta/", "claim": "Mangusta is Italian for mongoose.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-mangusta", "entryName": "De Tomaso Mangusta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-mangusta/", "claim": "De Tomaso named the car as a deliberate jab at Carroll Shelby after a collapsed collaboration.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Repeated in essentially every account of the marque, sourced to none of them. The Ophidiary believes it and cannot prove it." }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-mangusta", "entryName": "De Tomaso Mangusta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-mangusta/", "claim": "The Mangusta was styled by Giorgetto Giugiaro at Ghia and 401 were built.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-mangusta", "entryName": "De Tomaso Mangusta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-mangusta/", "claim": "Mongooses have modified acetylcholine receptors that reduce, but do not eliminate, the effect of elapid neurotoxins.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-mangusta", "entryName": "De Tomaso Mangusta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-mangusta/", "claim": "Mongooses are immune to snake venom.", "truth": "contested", "note": "A popular overstatement. Resistance is partial and dose-dependent. Plenty of mongooses lose." }, { "entry": "snake-and-mongoose", "entryName": "The Snake and the Mongoose", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/snake-and-mongoose/", "claim": "Tom McEwen adopted the \"Mongoose\" nickname deliberately to create a rivalry with Don \"the Snake\" Prudhomme.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "snake-and-mongoose", "entryName": "The Snake and the Mongoose", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/snake-and-mongoose/", "claim": "McEwen brokered the Hot Wheels sponsorship of both teams, beginning in 1970.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "snake-and-mongoose", "entryName": "The Snake and the Mongoose", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/snake-and-mongoose/", "claim": "Mattel sold Snake and Mongoose funny cars as a paired set with track.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "snake-and-mongoose", "entryName": "The Snake and the Mongoose", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/snake-and-mongoose/", "claim": "McEwen won at Indianapolis in 1978 days after the death of his son, with Prudhomme in the other lane.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "plymouth-road-runner", "entryName": "Plymouth Road Runner", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/plymouth-road-runner/", "claim": "Chrysler paid Warner Bros. USD 50,000 for the Road Runner name and a further sum for the horn.", "truth": "documented", "note": "The figures are consistently reported at 50,000 and 10,000 respectively." }, { "entry": "plymouth-road-runner", "entryName": "Plymouth Road Runner", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/plymouth-road-runner/", "claim": "Greater roadrunners hunt and kill rattlesnakes, often by striking them against hard surfaces.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "plymouth-road-runner", "entryName": "Plymouth Road Runner", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/plymouth-road-runner/", "claim": "The Road Runner launched in 1968 with a 383 V8 standard and the 426 Hemi optional.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "apollo-intensa-emozione", "entryName": "Apollo Intensa Emozione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/apollo-intensa-emozione/", "claim": "In Greek myth Apollo killed the serpent Python at Delphi and his oracular priestess was titled the Pythia.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "apollo-intensa-emozione", "entryName": "Apollo Intensa Emozione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/apollo-intensa-emozione/", "claim": "The Apollo Intensa Emozione uses a naturally aspirated 6.3-litre V12 and was built in a run of ten.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "apollo-intensa-emozione", "entryName": "Apollo Intensa Emozione", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/apollo-intensa-emozione/", "claim": "Apollo Automobil was formerly known as Gumpert.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "aspark-owl", "entryName": "Aspark Owl", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/aspark-owl/", "claim": "Owl flight is quietened by serrations on the leading edge of the primary feathers and a soft trailing edge.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "aspark-owl", "entryName": "Aspark Owl", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/aspark-owl/", "claim": "Snakes lack external ears and detect vibration primarily through the jaw and body.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "aspark-owl", "entryName": "Aspark Owl", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/aspark-owl/", "claim": "The Aspark Owl is a four-motor electric hypercar with roughly 1,985 hp.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "aspark-owl", "entryName": "Aspark Owl", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/aspark-owl/", "claim": "Owls prey on snakes.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Opportunistically, and with the odds heavily in their favour." }, { "entry": "ssc-tuatara", "entryName": "SSC Tuatara", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssc-tuatara/", "claim": "The tuatara is the only surviving genus of Rhynchocephalia, a sister order to Squamata.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ssc-tuatara", "entryName": "SSC Tuatara", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssc-tuatara/", "claim": "Juvenile tuatara have a functional parietal (third) eye.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "ssc-tuatara", "entryName": "SSC Tuatara", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/ssc-tuatara/", "claim": "SSC's 2020 claim of 331 mph was withdrawn after data inconsistencies were identified, and slower but verified runs followed.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "chevrolet-corvette-stingray", "entryName": "Chevrolet Corvette Stingray", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/chevrolet-corvette-stingray/", "claim": "Stingrays carry venomous serrated barbs used defensively.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "chevrolet-corvette-stingray", "entryName": "Chevrolet Corvette Stingray", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/chevrolet-corvette-stingray/", "claim": "The Corvette Sting Ray name derives from Bill Mitchell's 1959 Stingray racer.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "wiesmann-gecko", "entryName": "Wiesmann — the Gecko", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/wiesmann-gecko/", "claim": "Snakes are nested within Squamata, the same order as lizards and geckos.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "wiesmann-gecko", "entryName": "Wiesmann — the Gecko", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/wiesmann-gecko/", "claim": "Gecko adhesion works via setae generating van der Waals forces, not suction or adhesive secretion.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "wiesmann-gecko", "entryName": "Wiesmann — the Gecko", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/wiesmann-gecko/", "claim": "Wiesmann uses a gecko emblem to signify road-holding.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-pantera", "entryName": "De Tomaso Pantera", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-pantera/", "claim": "The Pantera used a mid-mounted Ford Cleveland V8 and was sold in the US via Lincoln-Mercury.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "de-tomaso-pantera", "entryName": "De Tomaso Pantera", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/de-tomaso-pantera/", "claim": "Elvis Presley shot his Pantera when it failed to start.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gardner-serpollet", "entryName": "Gardner-Serpollet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gardner-serpollet/", "claim": "Serpolet is French for wild thyme, Thymus serpyllum.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gardner-serpollet", "entryName": "Gardner-Serpollet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gardner-serpollet/", "claim": "Léon Serpollet developed the flash boiler for steam cars.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "gardner-serpollet", "entryName": "Gardner-Serpollet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/gardner-serpollet/", "claim": "Serpollet set a land speed record at Nice in 1902 at roughly 120 km/h in the \"Œuf de Pâques\".", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "plymouth-barracuda", "entryName": "Plymouth Barracuda", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/plymouth-barracuda/", "claim": "The Plymouth Barracuda launched in April 1964, shortly before the Ford Mustang.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "plymouth-barracuda", "entryName": "Plymouth Barracuda", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/plymouth-barracuda/", "claim": "Barracudas are ambush predators with high short-burst acceleration.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "abarth-scorpion", "entryName": "Abarth — the Scorpion", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/abarth-scorpion/", "claim": "The Abarth scorpion emblem derives from Carlo Abarth's astrological sign.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "abarth-scorpion", "entryName": "Abarth — the Scorpion", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/abarth-scorpion/", "claim": "Scorpions fluoresce under ultraviolet light.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hudson-hornet", "entryName": "Hudson Hornet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hudson-hornet/", "claim": "Hudson used step-down construction, recessing the floor within the frame rails.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "hudson-hornet", "entryName": "Hudson Hornet", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/hudson-hornet/", "claim": "The Hudson Hornet dominated early 1950s stock car racing with a straight-six.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "bolwell-nagari", "entryName": "Bolwell Nagari", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/bolwell-nagari/", "claim": "Bolwell drew its model names from Aboriginal Australian languages.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "bolwell-nagari", "entryName": "Bolwell Nagari", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/bolwell-nagari/", "claim": "Nagari is not etymologically related to the Sanskrit nāga.", "truth": "contested", "note": "No serious source connects them. The Ophidiary states the negative as firmly as a negative can honestly be stated." }, { "entry": "bolwell-nagari", "entryName": "Bolwell Nagari", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/bolwell-nagari/", "claim": "The Bolwell Nagari used a Ford V8 and roughly 100 were built.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "iso-grifo", "entryName": "Iso Grifo", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/iso-grifo/", "claim": "The Iso Grifo was styled by Giugiaro, engineered with Bizzarrini, and used Chevrolet V8 engines.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "iso-grifo", "entryName": "Iso Grifo", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/iso-grifo/", "claim": "Iso previously manufactured refrigerators and the Isetta microcar.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "iso-grifo", "entryName": "Iso Grifo", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/iso-grifo/", "claim": "The eagle-versus-serpent motif is widespread in classical and later European iconography.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "opel-manta", "entryName": "Opel Manta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/opel-manta/", "claim": "Manta rays are filter feeders and lack a functional venomous sting.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "opel-manta", "entryName": "Opel Manta", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/opel-manta/", "claim": "The Opel Manta was produced from 1970 to 1988 and became the subject of a German joke genre.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "monteverdi-hai", "entryName": "Monteverdi Hai 450 SS", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/monteverdi-hai/", "claim": "The Monteverdi Hai 450 SS was a Swiss mid-engined car using a Chrysler 426 Hemi, shown in 1970.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "monteverdi-hai", "entryName": "Monteverdi Hai 450 SS", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/monteverdi-hai/", "claim": "Hai is German for shark.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-adder", "entryName": "Adder — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-adder/", "claim": "The adder is the only venomous snake native to Great Britain.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-adder", "entryName": "Adder — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-adder/", "claim": "Vipera berus occurs inside the Arctic Circle, further north than any other snake.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-adder", "entryName": "Adder — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-adder/", "claim": "\"Adder\" derives from Old English nædre, with the initial n lost to the indefinite article.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-black-mamba", "entryName": "Mamba — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-black-mamba/", "claim": "The black mamba is named for the black interior of its mouth, not its body colour.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-black-mamba", "entryName": "Mamba — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-black-mamba/", "claim": "It is the fastest-moving snake species, at roughly 12–14 km/h.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-black-mamba", "entryName": "Mamba — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-black-mamba/", "claim": "A mine-protected vehicle named Mamba was developed in South Africa.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-black-mamba", "entryName": "Mamba — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-black-mamba/", "claim": "No production car has ever been named Mamba.", "truth": "contested", "note": "The Ophidiary invites correction and would be delighted to be wrong." }, { "entry": "vacancy-taipan", "entryName": "Taipan — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-taipan/", "claim": "The inland taipan has the most toxic venom of any snake by LD50.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-taipan", "entryName": "Taipan — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-taipan/", "claim": "No confirmed human fatality has been attributed to the inland taipan.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-taipan", "entryName": "Taipan — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-taipan/", "claim": "The saw-scaled viper causes a disproportionate share of global snakebite deaths despite lower venom toxicity.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-asp", "entryName": "Asp — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-asp/", "claim": "The uraeus, a rearing cobra representing the goddess Wadjet, was worn on Egyptian royal headdresses.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-asp", "entryName": "Asp — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-asp/", "claim": "The species meant by \"asp\" in classical sources is ambiguous, covering the Egyptian cobra and the asp viper among others.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-asp", "entryName": "Asp — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-asp/", "claim": "Cleopatra died from a snakebite.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Traditional account. Many modern historians consider poison more probable on the basis of timing and symptoms." }, { "entry": "vacancy-jormungandr", "entryName": "Jörmungandr — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-jormungandr/", "claim": "Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, encircles the world holding its own tail, and its release presages Ragnarök.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-jormungandr", "entryName": "Jörmungandr — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-jormungandr/", "claim": "The ouroboros appears in ancient Egyptian and later Greek alchemical iconography.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-jormungandr", "entryName": "Jörmungandr — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-jormungandr/", "claim": "No Scandinavian manufacturer has used the name.", "truth": "contested", "note": "Correction welcomed. Enthusiastically." }, { "entry": "vacancy-bushmaster", "entryName": "Bushmaster — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-bushmaster/", "claim": "Lachesis muta is the longest viper species and the longest venomous snake in the Americas.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-bushmaster", "entryName": "Bushmaster — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-bushmaster/", "claim": "The genus is named for Lachesis, one of the three Moirai, who measured the thread of life; muta means silent.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-anaconda", "entryName": "Anaconda — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-anaconda/", "claim": "The green anaconda is the heaviest extant snake species.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-anaconda", "entryName": "Anaconda — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-anaconda/", "claim": "Constriction kills primarily through circulatory arrest rather than suffocation.", "truth": "documented", "note": "Established by experimental work published in the 2010s; it overturned the older suffocation explanation." }, { "entry": "vacancy-krait", "entryName": "Krait — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-krait/", "claim": "Krait bites frequently occur at night, may cause little immediate pain, and can present hours later with progressive paralysis.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-quetzalcoatl", "entryName": "Quetzalcóatl — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-quetzalcoatl/", "claim": "Feathered serpent iconography appears at Teotihuacan long before the Aztec period.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-quetzalcoatl", "entryName": "Quetzalcóatl — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-quetzalcoatl/", "claim": "Quetzalcóatl combines the words for the quetzal bird and for serpent.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-python", "entryName": "Python — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-python/", "claim": "The reticulated python is the longest snake species.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-python", "entryName": "Python — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-python/", "claim": "The name derives from the serpent Python slain by Apollo at Delphi.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-python", "entryName": "Python — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-python/", "claim": "No production car has carried the Python name.", "truth": "contested", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-boomslang", "entryName": "Boomslang — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-boomslang/", "claim": "Karl Patterson Schmidt died in 1957 from a boomslang bite and documented his own symptoms until shortly before his death.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-boomslang", "entryName": "Boomslang — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-boomslang/", "claim": "Boomslang venom is haemotoxic and its effects are often significantly delayed.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-boomslang", "entryName": "Boomslang — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-boomslang/", "claim": "Boomslang is Afrikaans for \"tree snake\".", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-fer-de-lance", "entryName": "Fer-de-Lance — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-fer-de-lance/", "claim": "Fer-de-lance means \"iron of the lance\" in French, describing the snake's triangular head.", "truth": "documented", "note": null }, { "entry": "vacancy-fer-de-lance", "entryName": "Fer-de-Lance — unclaimed", "url": "https://carswithsnakenames.engroveaudio.com/entry/vacancy-fer-de-lance/", "claim": "Bothrops asper is a pit viper with infrared-sensing facial pits and is medically significant across Central America.", "truth": "documented", "note": null } ] }