Word: carburetors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory. Credit, he confesses, should go to Mechanic Alfred Momo, 56, a Ferrari specialist and former Italian air-force man. His winning 4.1-liter Ferrari (Model America) is essentially just as it came from the factory: $12,000 worth of Italian handiwork with an aluminum body and a triple-carburetor, twelve-cylinder engine (220 h.p.), capable of driving the car 140 m.p.h. Spear and Momo made only two alterations: an anti-sway bar was installed in front to improve the car's "cornering" qualities, i.e., its ability to hold the road at a high-speed turn, and the battery...
Packard unveiled its new three-passenger convertible, "Pan American," only 36 inches high with the top down. The 18-foot-long car has a 165-horsepower engine with a built-in air scoop in the hood to feed air to the carburetor, and a top speed of 135 m.p.h. Its instrument panel is finished in oyster-white leather, along with leather trim in the steering wheel and door handles. When it goes into limited production next fall, the Pan American will sell for about...
...Three (Chrysler, Ford, and GM) with their large research departments, new models show the effects of both a horsepower race and a sort of shell game with styling tricks. GM has boosted horsepower on its Buick, Oldsmobile, and Cadillac lines by using a tricky and expensive ($65.00) new carburetor. But since this extra power comes in only when the throttle is wide open, there are those who feel that the power increase is primarily for advertising purposes...
Fuel Fixer. An emergency fuel unit for automobiles and trucks was brought out by the Viking Tool & Machine Corp. of Belleville, NJ. The gadget, which holds one gallon of gas, is installed on the carburetor, and operates independently of the regular fuel system. It is guaranteed to start a car when it is out of gas, has a frozen or leaky gas line or a faulty fuel pump. Price...
Closer to the heart, the new 1952 motorcars were being unveiled in a thousand showrooms across the land. Thoughts of steel shortages and skyrocketing prices went glimmering in the dazzle of chrome and the razzle of the "jet scoop hood," the "Quadri-Jet carburetor" and that glassy monument to planned frustration, the hardtop convertible. "It's loaded, so be careful," pleaded the Cadillac ads. "There's more power in that dynamic engine than you'll ever need-except for the rarest emergency...