Word: carburetor
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...tourists are marooned in the boiled-water area of Mexico when their great, gaudy auto breaks down. The natives do not bother them, but each morning there is less of the ridiculous vehicle left. The door han dles and the four wheels go first; a day later the sparkplugs, carburetor and windshield; finally the engine block, dashboard and radiator...
Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...
...racing: Scotland's Innes Ireland, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez, the U.S.'s Roger Penske, Britain's John Surtees had a 340-h.p. roadster and mustachioed Graham Hill, the 1962 Grand Prix champion, was to drive a prototype Ferrari that boasted a separate carburetor for each of its twelve cylinders. "Our only enemies," boasted Luigi Chinetti Sr., manager of Ferrari's North American Racing Team, "are ourselves...
...tell me it isn't a rabbit ball," says Cincinnati Pitcher Jim Brosnan. "I can hear it squealing every time it goes over the fence." The Chicago White Sox's veteran Early Wynn, 41, agrees: "Cut the ball open and you'll find a carburetor...
...announced last week by Volkswagen, partly in answer to the success of the U.S. compacts. The 1961 Volkswagen has 27 changes, mostly mechanical, but few of them are obvious to the eye. Engine power has been boosted to 40 h.p. from 36 h.p., and the Volks has a new carburetor, a new automatic choke and a bigger luggage area. Unlike Detroit. Volkswagen makes its mechanical changes throughout the year, has yet to make a major model-styling change on what is essentially a 1938 design...