Word: barracuda
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...delicate swelling in the rear quarter panel of the car that suggests the outline of a rear fender. G.M.'s square-shaped Corvair has become as rounded as the Karmann-Ghia, and a new curved-roof version of Ford's highly successful Mustang has joined the Valiant Barracuda and the Corvette Sting Ray as the industry's only true fast-backs. Automen have hedged their expensive bets on public acceptance of the new styling by offering most of the nameplates with curved roofing in squared-off, T-Bird roof versions too, but G.M.'s turn toward...
...enormous-particularly since nearly one in every five households now shops for a second car -that Ford's competitors have no intention of leaving it to Lee Iacocca. Chrysler has already introduced a Valiant with a convex rear roofline-called a fastback in Detroit-and named it the Barracuda. American Motors is making a fastback version of its Rambler Classic, will bring it out next spring. When word of the Mustang first leaked out, General Motors began to work on a fastback Corvair for introduction this month, later decided against the crash approach, and now maintains a monolithic silence...
...turning myself on or off. I just hate to become too intellectual. I always tell Elliott, talk to me sensory." Ray Stark, with an exhausted expression, says that "she'll drive you bats with too much analysis. It's not arrogance, but doubt. She is like a barracuda. She devours every piece of intelligence to the bone." One of her actor friends says that "she is like a filter that filters out everything except what relates to herself. If I said, 'There's been an earthquake in Brazil,' she would answer, 'Well, there aren...
...edged affair with angular lines. But for two years auto stylists have slowly been reviving the fastback on some sports models, and this year and next the curve will continue its comeback in at least three Detroit offerings. Last week Chrysler introduced the first of the new fastbacks, the Barracuda, whose startlingly different appearance is caused by a huge (14.4 sq. ft.), sloping rear window-"backlight," in Detroit jargon...
...Barracuda is really a redesigned Valiant, and Chrysler rushed it out in time to run against Ford's new and handsome Mustang sports car, soon to be introduced. The Barracuda, which cost only $5,000,000 to $8,000,000 to develop v. $50-$60 million for the Mustang, will not be marketed as a "new" car, will be priced from about $2,400. It represents perhaps the ultimate development of the pizazz phenomenon that has gripped Detroit since 1962. Its radically different roof not only offers a sportier look than the Valiant, but the car has as standard...