House of Bourbon the country on 14 April 1931. He never formally abdicated, but lived the rest of his life in exile. He died in 1941. The Bourbon dynasty seemed finished in Spain as in the rest of the world, but it would be resurrected. The Second Spanish Republic was overthrown in the Spanish Civil War, leading to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. He named Juan Carlos de Borbón, a grandson of Alfonso XIII, his successor in 1969. When Franco died six years later, Juan Carlos I took the throne to restore the Bourbon dynasty. The new king oversaw the Spanish transition to
Glas 1700 the Glas 1700 with BMW engines and underpinnings, and a BMW front later grafted onto the nose. These cars were branded as the and sold between 1968 and 1973. They were subsequently rebadged as the and continued to be sold in South Africa in 1973 and 1974, with new cars still available in late 1975. BMW SA versions derived from the Glas 1700 were also assembled in Rhodesia as the BMW Cheetah. Hanns-Peter Rosellen: "Vom Goggomobil zum Glas V8." Zyklam-Verlag Frankfurt 1985. This entry is based on information from the German Wikipedia . Glas 1700 The Glas 1700 is a