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...Buick introduced its new compact, the Special. It and the Oldsmobile F85 (TIME, Aug. 8) both use the first aluminum V-8 engines ever mass-produced in the U.S. The engines develop 155 h.p., yet weigh only 318 Ibs. The Special has a 112-in. wheelbase (v. 123 in. for standard Buicks), weighs 1,600 Ibs. less. Factory list price for the four-door Special sedan is $2,175. The standard Buicks are more rakish than ever, feature "missile-shaped front fenders," but are 4.7 in. shorter and 2 in. narrower than last year. Prices on the big Buicks, along...
Ford has returned to crisper, more conventional styling similar to the lines of its 1959 cars. Like Buick, the standard Fords are shorter and narrower. The compact Falcon is basically unchanged, has an optional engine that produces 101 h.p. (v. the standard 85-h.p. engine). Ford's successful Comet is also little changed, has a more powerful optional engine. New to Ford's line (TIME, Sept. 19) is a compact truck similar to the snub-nosed Volkswagen Micro...
Williams formed a company, drilled some 30 wells. For a time things appeared to go swimmingly. Paying himself $500 a week out of the oil funds ("We would draw money against anticipated profits"), he wore frilly white shirts and banker's grey suits, drove a company-owned Buick, and bought a $67,500 house in a fashionable suburb. In the living room, he hung a portrait of Robert E. Lee and one of himself posed dramatically in front of a towering oil derrick. But the derrick was about as near to gushers as he got. Oil dribbled...
GENERAL MOTORS' two other new com pacts, the Oldsmobile F85 and the Buick Special, will be scaled-down versions of their big-car brothers, but bigger and more powerful than the Corvair. Unlike the Corvair, their engines will be up front. For the two cars. G.M. has developed a new eight-cylinder. 145-h.p. water-cooled, part-aluminum engine...
...their best first quarter in five years, were averaging an operating profit of $70 per new car sold v. last year's $63, despite lower markups on compact cars. With the compacts doing so well, General Motors made it official that it will offer three new ones: a Buick called the Special, a Pontiac called the Tempest, and an Oldsmobile called, for reasons that puzzled even some Olds executives...