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...outlaw-desperado theme pervades L.A. rock. Even in a city with dozens of thriving clubs and recording studios, rock's musical desperados can be hard pressed to scratch out a living. The Chicago-born Zevon did a stint at a Los Angeles advertising agency, composing a jingle for Camaro cars as well as ditties for Boone's Farm Wines. "They wanted folky, Gordon Lightfoot commercials," he remembers. "It was immensely profitable (up to $3,000 per ad) but selling catsup and cheap wine is truly abrasive to the soul...
...Year. The Rath's new neighbor, Mary Beth Twyman, aged 19, was married two days ago Saturday in Holy Cross Chapel in a waltz-length white peau--de--soire dress and a crown of pink pearls, and as she drove off with her husband in his new model Camaro, a St. Christopher's charm dangled from the rear view mirror. December saw 25 houses finished in one arm of the Troy development and a turnover of almost 100 people. It's a place in transition where the past is short and easily forgotten
...m.p.h. mini-dragster called "the Hud." It looks deceptively like a 1973 Camaro. But, lightened by a fiber-glass body and fueled by explosive nitromethane, the car can streak down a quarter-mile from a standing start in 6½ seconds. To achieve that flash of glory, two Chicago pipefitters labored five hours a night, putting together the right combination of engine, transmission and body. "Your car not only has to run fast, it has to look good," says the Hud's wrench (chief mechanic), Tom Jordan, 33. "If your $1,500 paint gets chipped, that...
...racy, relatively inexpensive "sports compact" cars for young and old alike. The first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro, Pontiac's Firebird, American Motors' Javelin, Mercury's Cougar, and the Dodge Charger (later called the Challenger). Soon the sports compacts grabbed almost 11% of the nation's car market, and souped-up "muscle" versions were introduced for the "performance" minded...
Shift in the Mix. Some auto-industry observers believe that Chrysler will drop both the Challenger and Barracuda next year. Though the Mustang and Camaro will probably be around a little longer, the end of the sports compact is in sight. Last week Ford temporarily closed down its Dearborn assembly plant, which turns out Mustangs and Cougars. The reason: to add faster-selling cars to the plant's product mix as the sports compacts decline...