Word: camaros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet the requirements, GM had threatened to close some of its big-car factories, including Detroit's Clark Street Cadillac factory and the Chevrolet Camaro and Pontiac Firebird plant in Van Nuys, Calif. The company organized a letter-writing drive among more than 10,000 workers, local officials and state legislators that resulted in a cascade of mail to the Transportation Department during the past year. A GM statement last week said that the Government's leniency was "good news for American consumers and autoworkers" and "in keeping with the requirements of both the law and the real world." That...
...Eased into my battered '80 Camaro and tooled on out to the Valley to spend a day with Molly Ringwald, movie star and exemplary California teen. The northern Los Angeles home she shares with her parents and older brother and sister is modest, cluttered, comfortable, welcoming. "Sometimes her fans get the address and drive by real slow and stare," says Molly's mom Adele, "but then, I guess, they say, 'Naw, that can't be Molly Ringwald's house.' " Along with her family, the 18-year-old star of Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink copes with...
...Fiero (base sticker price: $8,310) this year, now says sales will top 100,000. Momentum is also building for the $15,500 turbo-powered Chrysler Laser and Dodge Daytona, which have a claimed top speed of 125 m.p.h. In California, one of the strongest sellers is the Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta, a luxury sports car. Loaded with options such as a sunroof, digital instruments and a cassette player, it sells for about...
Alex played three sports at Bloomfield and lifted weights besides. He was something of a ladies' man. But even rodding in and out of Johnny's Drive-in in his Camaro, he was not the stereotypical rowdy jock. "He was more mature than normal seniors, more levelheaded," says Tony Dinallo, his high school counselor. His mother says he was a serious boy and the quietest of her children...
...company is aiming the G24 at a less depressed segment of the car market: relatively affluent buyers who have a taste for speed and dash and might be customers for GM's Camaro or Firebird, or Toyota's Celica. In Motor Trend's tests, the G24 hit 60 m.p.h. in 8.22 sec., close to the industry's performance leader, Ford's 302 HO Mustang...