Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barbed-wire fence, broke into a storage shed and dragged out a Sidewinder missile. An air-to-air heat-seeking weapon used by American planes in Viet Nam, the Sidewinder is about 9½ ft. long and weighs 165 Ibs. Undaunted, the trio trundled the missile to their car in a wheelbarrow, broke the car's rear window to fit the rocket in, wrapped a rug around its protruding end, and drove more than 100 miles across West Germany to an undisclosed city...
Every driver's dream is to build and race his own car. New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, 31, has carried that dream several fancies farther: practically everyone else is driving his cars too. In this year's six-race Canadian-American Challenge Series for Sports-Racing cars, 16 drivers in a field of 40-including McLaren and his countryman Denis Hulme, 32-are piloting sleek, slope-nosed McLaren-built machines. Last month, in the fourth race of the series at Monterey, Calif., McLaren cars swept the first six places, with Hulme finishing second and McLaren fifth. This...
Light and Subtle. McLaren may sell cars to his rivals, but the ones he and Hulme reserve for themselves are some thing else again. Last year McLaren and Hulme completed a one-two sweep in the Can-Am marathon, winning five of six races and $165,000 of the total $472,720 award money. Only then did McLaren have 34 of his victorious Mark 6A racers reproduced and sold to competitors-including Dan Gurney, who has quite a reputation as a car builder himself. With that, McLaren set out to build a 1968 model that would show its tail pipes...
Called the Mark 8A, McLaren's new car looks like its predecessor. "I think a lot of people were disappointed that we did not come up with something revolutionary," says McLaren, "but we never do anything completely different." Both cars, for example, have an airplane-type monocoque, or frameless chassis, to get maximum strength from minimum weight. Still, there are subtle yet important differences. While the Mark 6A weighed 1,520 Ibs., the new car weighs only 1,450 Ibs.-less than a Volkswagen. The weight-saving was mainly accomplished by completely eliminating the chassis behind the driver...
...suggests the prosperous Dutchman who sat for Haals. In the language of the old screen comedians, his imitations produce the boffo--the laugh that kills. He usually delivers the lines sitting down, leaning forward over the table or desk. He moves the corner of his lip up toward his car, smooths the thinning, grayish hair from the high forehead and takes the student's part...