Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...showrooms around the U.S., customers last week took a look at the 1957 models and reached for their pocketbooks. Chevrolet dealers reported that sales were running 10% to 15% ahead of last year; Ford said dealers' new-car orders for delivery this year had already passed $1 billion. There, seemed little sales resistance to the increase in Ford and Chevy factory list prices. Last week General Motors announced rises on the rest of its cars, due out in a few weeks...
Pontiac price rises vary from $100 to $280 per car, Oldsmobile's from $132 to $284, Buick's from $168 to $264. Cadillac increases range from $348 to a high of $644 on the top-priced Fleetwood "Seventy-Five," the biggest price hike in the industry...
Chrysler announced increases slightly less than G.M.'s, with Dodge ranging from $64 to $175 per car, and Plymouth from $66 to $160. Plymouth, which in the past has sold for slightly more than Ford and Chevy, hiked its prices less to become more competitive...
...long, 39 in. high, weighing 132 Ibs., is being manufactured by Egon Briitsak Fahrzeugbau of Stuttgart, Germany. With a plastic body, a 2.5-h.p. engine driving the front (single) wheel, and three speeds, the Briitsch-Mopetta hits a top speed of 24 m.p.h., averages 99 miles per gallon. The car is amphibious, has a paddle wheel attached to the front wheel for use when operating in water. Price...
Peck Order. In Burlington, N.C., while Motorist J. W. Wiggins was protesting a parking ticket to the city council on the ground that it was unconstitutional, his wife, Policewoman Hazel Wiggins, discovered that his car was parked illegally outside the city hall, wrote out another ticket...