Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebelled for the fourth furious time. Walking along Mount Vernon's Lincoln Avenue one afternoon, she noted a red Chevrolet parked with ignition off but unlocked. Explained Christine afterward: "I just felt I had to break the law." She broke it by sliding behind the wheel, driving the car onto the Hutchinson River Parkway and heading south toward New York City. At a toll station, the same cop who had stopped her the first time as a runaway recognized Christine but not the car...
Cashing in on booming small-car sales of its 108-in. -wheelbase Ramblers, American Motors has made an even smaller, 100-in.-wheelbase 1958 Rambler American. Aside from a redesigned grille and trim, the car is a reissue of the first economical (up to 35 miles per gallon) five-passenger, two-door Rambler sedan introduced in 1951, dropped by 1956. Plain and simple, the 90-h.p. American even comes with a do-it-yourself instruction book to cut repair bills. American Motors' President George Romney says it will compete directly with the $1,795 Studebaker-Packard Scotsman and foreign...
...Kudner's hands Buick became the car for fast, aggressive comers-a category in which every man recognized himself-instead of just a stodgy chariot for doctors and politicians. To meet the new appeal, Buick broadened its line to compete with more expensive cars. The Buick account was the nucleus of Kudner's business-nearly a third of its $66.2 million in billings-and the feeling grew that Kudner could do no wrong in Buick's eyes...
Volkswagen also turned in a happy annual report. Sales in 1957 are expected to top two billion marks (more than $476 million) for the first time. This week, as Managing Director Heinz Nordhoff celebrates his tenth anniversary on the job, Volkswagen will roll out its 2,000,000th car. Other West German automakers are also picking up speed. Production in 1957 hit 1,210,000 cars, and almost half-585,000-were exported...
Against the Grain. In Green Bay, Wis., Police Radio Dispatcher Harold Compton, getting a complaint that two cars were going the wrong way on a one-way street, asked Car 44 to check, got the reply: "I'm one of those cars, and I'm pushing the other...