Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...station ourselves on the hillside overlooking the 6th curve. This, a tight downhill curve necessitating a great deal of finesse, is an ideal spot to watch the drivers. So deep into his car that I can only see his over-sized helmet and spastically jerking hands, the driver comes down-shifting through the turn and accelerates down a short straight and out of our vision. Nestled in bladders of gasoline, his is a desperate, faceless struggle to control such a hell-bent machine as it screams toward pure speed. Peter Revson's helmet was painted into a big toothy smile...
...stoning the engine of an already charred hulk. Here there is no real audience. If you are not throwing rocks or Molotov cocktails, you are providing the impetus to do so. This community-sanctioned violence is a Macho Proving Ground. When a group of men can't flip a car over on its end, a girl in the crowd yells out, "You Pussies! You can't get it up." They then succeed; and this gutted vehicle, battered by their hands, is heaved into the sky for one brief moment before crashing back down upon its belly. The young boys...
...there in the pulpit and hard-sell an automobile. That is ridiculous. But I was thinking now. What do you say to this? If just every once in a while, if we'd throw in a few little terms, just little things like, uh, 'Drive the car that He'd drive!'--and you know, you don't have to lay it on, just zing it in there once in a while and then jump maybe to the Philistines...
...city of Detroit, which rides the auto industry's undulations as if on a roller coaster, has yet to feel the worst of the downturn in car sales. Though auto layoffs have driven joblessness to 11.8% in the city, auto workers who have at least one year's seniority will qualify for supplemental unemployment benefits, or SUB, tacked on to unemployment compensation; the total can go as high as 95% of take-home pay for a 40-hour work week. But SUB funds, supplied by companies as part of the union contract, are not infinite and could expire...
Detroit is supersensitive to auto layoffs; a Wayne State University study shows that for every pink-slipped auto worker, another 1.5 employees in local supply industries would eventually lose their jobs. The same study reports that for every $1 fluctuation in national car and truck sales, Detroit residents gain -or lose-300. The head of a company that deals with all the major Detroit-area manufacturers says that even the biggest ones are holding off payment for services. Says he: "I've never had to wait so long for my money-ever...