Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Along the rest of "Motor Mile" on Commonwealth Avenue, all the other brands were celebrating Washington's birthday. Chevrolet dealers wore red boutonnieres and were offering a television set as a prize to some lucky customer. Plymouth featured an impressive lineup of pushbutton drive, oriflow shock absorbers, and wind tunnel tested air fins. Perhaps not first in war or first in peace, it claimed to be first in the low-priced three...
...Class Five (259 to 305 cu. in.) and Class Four (213 to 259 cu. in.) were all Chevrolets. The new fuel-injection Class Five Chevies reached speeds up to 131.076 m.p.h., took the first 33 places in a 38-car field. In acceleration Chevies got up to 85.006 m.p.h., took the first 18 places ahead of a lone Ford. In the Class Four flying mile, Chevies reached 102.157 m.p.h. and finished one-two-three. Only in Class Four acceleration were they upset. A Nash Rambler was timed in 71.785 m.p.h. But Chevrolet finished in the next six places...
...Three. For spectators interested in true showroom models-minus any special power packs and equipped with automatic transmission, single carburetors and standard exhausts-Daytona's most significant event was the special "Big Three" competition between Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth. Again, Chevrolet spread-eagled the field. Chevies finished one-two-three with a top speed of 118.460 m.p.h., nearly 7 m.p.h. faster than the nearest Ford, which finished fourth. The fastest Plymouth trailed in eighth place. In the 160-mile beach-and-road race for new convertibles Atlanta's Tim Flock set a NASCAR record of 101.32 m.p.h...
Before the last trial was timed, enough statistics were logged for an imaginative adman to make even the also-rans sound like world-beaters. But Chevrolet and Pontiac had easily been the week's winners, and the Chevrolet-makers could claim to have reached an automotive milestone: the first U.S. stock auto engine that can put out one horsepower for each cubic inch of displacement without benefit of a supercharger...
SUPERCHARGED ENGINE, officially rated at 300 h.p., will be offered for $447 extra on Fords and Thunderbirds as Ford's answer to Chevrolet's 283-h.p. fuel injection engine. New Ford V-8 engine uses no manifold vacuum to draw fuel to carburetor; instead, fuel-air mixture is blown into cylinders...