Word: carly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most Americans associate inexpensive, imported cars with vehicles made in Japan. The Yugoslav-made Yugo GV, which went on sale last week, aims to change . all that. At $3,990 it is the lowest-price auto sold in the U.S., $1,000 less than the next cheapest car, Chevrolet's Japanese-made Sprint. Yet the Yugo's sticker price seems to be just what buyers want. Orders for 3,000 Yugos have flowed into the company's 83 dealerships, mostly in the East and Midwest, where just 500 cars are available. Six-month waiting lists have built up. "Unbelievable," says...
Cleaning the car used to be simple, just a glide through the local car wash for $5 or so. Now, thanks to upscale urges, the latest rage is a serious auto grooming from gas cap to hood ornament, which can cost as much as $160 and take half a day. The process, called detailing, has long been employed by used-car dealers to prepare old models for their lots, and is now offered by more than 4,000 shops across the nation, according to the California Carwash Association...
...chewing gum from the air-conditioner vents, and scours spilled coffee from dashboard crevices with toothbrushes. In Orange County, Calif., says Artificial- Flower Manufacturer Calvin George, who has his Porsche groomed every three months, "people would think you weren't doing well if you didn't get your car detailed." Imagine what they would think in Beverly Hills...
...took a giant step toward joining the list of famous alumnae by winning the magazine's Fifth Annual Great Model Search. The ninth-grader from Bloomfield Hills, Mich., will receive, in addition to an appearance on the cover of Teen, a $5,000 modeling contract and a new car. Posing for the camera will be no big deal for Brenner, who has been modeling since she was four months old. "It's fun to be able to play different roles," she says. "I can look older or I can look young." But mostly young. She is lending the car...
...began in late July when the tan 1980 Toyota station wagon owned by Hinckley Police Chief Mel L. Wiley, 47, turned up at Cleveland's Lakefront State Park on Lake Erie. Park rangers noticed it around 4 a.m. one Tuesday. The locked car contained Wiley's neatly stashed clothing, a towel, his wallet, police identification, a badge. Then Wiley's girlfriend Judy Easter reported that the chief told her the day before his disappearance he intended to buy a bathing suit at K mart and go swimming with an unnamed out-of-town visitor. The possibilities seemed ugly. Drowning? Foul...