What kind of car was Karen Silkwood driving when she was run off the
road 30 yrs. ago? She was a real person represented in the movie
SIlkwood with Meryl Streep. The car was in the movie.

Karen Silkwood's car was a white 1973 Honda Civic.

"Silkwood was driving a 1973 white Honda Civic and travelling south on
the narrow Route 74 towards Oklahoma City."

Find a Death: Karen Silkwood
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/s/Karen%20Silkwood/karen_silkwood.htm

"On the night of November 13, 1974, Karen Silkwood, a technician at
the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma,
was driving her white Honda to Oklahoma City."

Factbites: Karen Silkwood
http://www.factbites.com/topics/Karen-Silkwood 

"Fagan, now a lieutenant, remembers seeing Silkwood slumped over
behind the steering wheel of her 1973 white Honda Civic."

Alt Weeklies: Silkwood
http://altweeklies.com/gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid%3A140912 

My Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: "silkwood was driving"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22silkwood+was+driving

Google Web Search: "karen silkwood" honda
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22karen+silkwood%22+honda

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pinkfreud

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