Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of 100,000 gathered on the promenade of the channel resort town of Brighton, jostling for a look down the road that led from London. At last, the first car appeared. Then another and another. Finally, after eight hours, the last of some 250 pre-1905 cars to make the annual 50-mile "Old Crocks' Race," puffed, wheezed and whistled into town, piloted by a collection of antique-car buffs who consider themselves the royalty of the auto world. Appropriately enough, some real royalty was on hand for the proceedings: Monaco's Prince Rainier, at the wheel...
...total earnings of $1,002,642 rank him ninth among the alltime moneywinners. Says Nerud: "Any horse that looks him in the eye is beaten. He has won at distance, he has sprinted and he has car ried weight. He's the best...
During the development of the Mus tang, Ford Motor Co. shaped the car's bucket seats to the specifications of those on the British Ford - only to find it necessary to change the design almost immediately. Five years later, with the Mustang's popularity firmly established, company officials can smile about the costly changeover. "We re alized," says one, "that American buttocks are larger than British." To guard against just that kind of mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies...
...McQueen film would be complete without a chase scene; Bullitt provides two. The first is a thumping, screeching sports-car slalom over the Frisco hills. The second, on foot, dodges between whining jets at the airport and ends with McQueen pulling a gun-strangely enough, considering the violence, for the first time in the picture-to cut down his quarry and win his little war. In the end, Vaughn skulks off in a car with the ironic bumper sticker: SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL POLICE. If they were all like Bullitt, everyone could and would...
...after a frustrating round, he demolished the Model-T Ford in which he traveled to and from tournaments, scaling the windshield off in one direction, a car door in another, the seats, and then he opened up the hood and went to work on the engine, shouting imprecations...