Word: carred
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...walking two blocks to shop, or traveling from Montreal to Boston, must report citizenship and whatever purchases have been made, then pay the duties. Travelers going either way never know whether they'll be asked just one or two questions, or be subjected to an extensive search of car and luggage. Customs men decide which on the basis of what a Canadian official calls "le sixième sens." In general U.S. goods are cheaper, so Canadians pay a punitive duty on them. The U.S. tries to discourage the importing of Cuban cigars and of course the arrival...
Volkswagen's moves are certain to cause other foreign automakers to recon sider their plans for producing in the U.S. Volvo, which two years ago canceled plans to start production at the plant it owns in Chesapeake, Va., might be tempted to produce its new lightweight "Car of the Eighties" there. The Japanese, who face much the same currency problem as the Germans, are bound to consider American production seriously as a way to stop Volkswagen from regaining for good its old dominance over them...
Modifying an engine to run on ethanol requires only simple carburetor adjustments. One recent convert is Manhattan cabby William Bly, who last month logged more than 1,000 miles on alcohol from a still built by The Mother Earth News, a North Carolina counterculture magazine. Says he: "The car ran beautifully-no knocks, no stalls, no nothing...
...make at least 180-proof ethanol, which is strong enough to power a typical car motor, a home brewer needs only to throw some vegetable matter such as corn, potato peels, even rotten garbage, into a vat. He then adds a couple of commonly available brewer's enzymes (to speed up the conversion of starch into sugar) and some baker's yeast (to bring about the fermentation). After fermentation is complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear...
Seemingly half a block long, the sleek, big car was as American as the Fourth of July. It captured Americans' expansive post-World War II mood and satisfied dreams of affluence. But demands for fuel efficiency and changing tastes have sent the regal road cruisers the way of the buffalo. General Motors shrunk its Cadillac Eldorado from 5,321 lbs. in 1976 to 3,897 lbs. by 1979. The Coupe De Ville also sweated off 900 lbs.; Chrysler stopped making any cars heavier than 4,000 lbs. last year. But Ford hung tough. Its 1979 Lincoln Mercury Continental Mark...