Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Roger Penske, 27: a sweep of the first two major races in the Bahamas Speed Weeks, at Nassau's twisting, 4.5-mi. Oakes Field race course. Driving a Corvette Grand Sport, Penske averaged 95.5 m.p.h. to win the Tourist Trophy race for sports cars, switched to a Chevrolet-powered Chaparral to beat A. J. Foyt for the Governor's Cup, averaging a record 100.1 m.p.h. for the 112.5-mi. race...
...Campaigner Murphy. Just recently, he got himself hauled out to Antelope Valley, a desert crossroads that might have served as the eerie setting for Bad Day at Black Rock. Nothing went right. The head of the arrangements committee, a Mrs. Tucker, had borrowed five cars from the local Chevrolet dealer but had lost the keys. After Mr. Tucker rounded up a new set, Mrs. Tucker remembered that the door prize, a movie projector, had been left at home. Back home went Mr. Tucker...
...specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate's car at 8 a.m., a 1958 Chevrolet sedan raced up, and out popped two hoods. Leveling a submachine gun at Smolen, they hustled him into the Chevy. Colonel Choate started out of his car, saw what was happening, and took off, high-hurdling through fenced yards until he was clear...
Suggestive Hop-Up. Despite this trend to angularity, several models -notably in General Motors' divisions -have begun to curve cautiously back toward softer, more flowing contours. Hardtop models of the Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac have new roof lines that flow gracefully into their rear decks, and the new fashion for G.M. cars this year seems to be the "hop-up," a delicate swelling in the rear quarter panel of the car that suggests the outline of a rear fender. G.M.'s square-shaped Corvair has become as rounded as the Karmann-Ghia, and a new curved-roof...
Ford's Mustang, introduced only last April, has become one of the hottest selling brand-new models in history. In August's second ten-day selling period, it ranked in third place among all auto sales for the first time - behind only the standard Chevrolet and Ford. And it is still galloping. Last week Ford announced that Mustang sales in August reached 35,299, the highest for any month. Sales so far: 132,905, which have provided the extra horsepower to boost Ford's share of the total auto market by one and a half points...