Willard M. Romney grew up driving solid Detroit iron. His American Motors auto executive father, supplied him with wheels which he used to make runs into Mexico to pick up some of his relatives and a few kilos of weed, peyote buttons, and other recreational drugs of the day with high profit margins. 
Young entrepreneur Willard Mitt Romney successfully avoids capture by the Federales and Border Patrol.
But the Vietnam war came along, and to avoid the draft Willie went to France as a Mormon Missionary.

Mitt was for the war, before he dodged the draft.
June 16, 1968 - The Day Mitt Romney Almost Died -
Mitt's Terrible Car Accident in France -- A possibly inebriated Willard Mitt Romney drove his a Citroen DS, head-on into a Mercedes driven by a Catholic priest. Romney's car was totaled, and all six occupants were injured, one fatally. Mitt was knocked unconscious in the crash. The witnesses describe Romney as a crazy driver, and said that he was responsible for the accident. The police officer who first responded believed him to be dead and wrote "Il est mort'' - he is dead - in Romney's passport. Willie-Mitt was extremely angry at his failure to convert any God fearing French Catholics, to his Satanic Mormon Cult, and blamed the French clergy.

Willie's Citroen after the suicide attack

... and Willie Mitt
The Mittster decided to try his luck with Peugeot cars, using a new and safer technique - attacking in reverse.
-- In December 1968, Mitt was in another accident in France, in which the Peugeot Romney was driving through Le Mons backed into and hit a dump truck. "I looked in the rearview mirror, and there was a garbage truck behind us, with Catholic people in the front seat, all laughing and talking, and it was a snowy day, so I quickly backed into it" Romney said. "I then grabbed first gear and slammed into the car full of Catholics in front of us, and they kept going - bang, bang, bang, bang!":
Willie's version of the story