Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mastered his medium, Seley has made his work less elongated, now welds many bumpers together in solid, chunky shapes instead of letting them stick out like the spines of a giant cactus. His forms have also been influenced by the style of the bumpers available at the Long Island car-parts supply house, where he buys them. Prince Valiant, so called because of its similarity to a Viking's shield, utilizes the rococo protuberances found on 1958 Oldsmobiles, of a type sometimes known in the auto industry as "Dagmars" (for the well-rounded TV comedienne of the 1950s...
...Mini-Coopers done in inky black. So do Greek Snipping Scion Alex Goulandris, Actor Albert Finney and Beatle George Harrison. Fellow Beatle John Lennon's Rolls is completely blacked out except for the windshield-despite the impairment to vision. So is Prince Philip's experimental Ogle sports car...
...windows: Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, the Maharani of Baroda and Libya's King Idris I. Only trouble is that the purdah glass, in a way, is self-defeating. It is so noticeable that the instantly curious flock around to try penetrating its secrets, let an ordinary clear-windowed car go by without a second glance...
...Leaders. If the 1000 MB looks familiar, it is no coincidence. Before production started in 1964, Chief Designer Frantisek Sajdl made extensive studies of Western compacts. His four-door 1000 MB has a 48-h.p., four-cylinder, liquid-cooled engine that sits astern of the rear axle. The car's top speed is 78 m.p.h. against 74 m.p.h. for the Volkswagen bug; it gets 38 miles to the gallon against Renault's 39. While far from fancy, the plastic interior trim is durable. Its two front bucket seats fold back for sleeping, and the car's rack...
Changing the Design. Long known as a munitions and armaments maker, and recently a manufacturer of anti-aircraft guns for North Viet Nam, Skoda is also an automotive pioneer. The firm built its first car, an open-top two-seater called the Voiturette, as early as 1901. After World War II and the Communist takeover, Skoda's major model was a small sedan called the Oktavia, which gained little popularity in the West. Yet it was only after a long fight that Skoda's management was given government permission to make the radical design departure from the Oktavia...