Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chryslers, which came out this week, looked about the same as last year's models on the outside but had a big change inside. By improving the carburetor and enlarging the intake and exhaust valves to permit freer "breathing" of its "FirePower" engine, Chrysler boosted horsepower from 180 to 235, making it the most powerful stock-car engine in the U.S. The new engines will go only into the highest-priced New Yorker and Imperial lines...
...Joseph E. Serhant flew East Friday to be with their son. Mr. Serhant said that he was convinced that the mishap was an accident, due perhaps to a leaky carburetor, and that his son hit his head getting...
...Lincoln, the Ford Motor Co. last week showed off the most powerful U.S. car on the road. Under its hood the Lincoln has a new 205 h.p. V-8 engine with a new carburetor and kidney-shaped combustion chamber for better air-fuel mixing. With 40 h.p. more than last year's models, Ford claims the Lincoln is one of the fastest stock cars in the world on the getaway. From a standing start, the Lincoln can jump to 60 m.p.h. in twelve seconds, to 80 m.p.h. in 22 seconds (see SPORT...
...made a chilling discovery 30 minutes before he was scheduled to pilot one of his speedboats in the Lake Tahoe Gold Cup race. Someone had sawed half through the two-inch propeller shaft of one of his Gold Cup racers, and had stuffed nuts, bolts and rags into the carburetor and blower. Another had been thoroughly doused with gasoline. It was, said Kaiser, "an attempt at plain, cold murder." But he climbed into a third boat in his fleet, buzzed off to a second place behind Shipping Heir Stanley Dollar...
...beat the heat," said Thomas H. Stearns '53 yesterday. He hid a yellow map in his carburetor...