Word: chevrolet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Super Chevrolet. A "Super Sport'' version of the six-passenger Impala model is being introduced by Chevrolet. It has such sports-car features as heavy-duty springs and shock absorbers, a tachometer, four-speed racing transmission, and a bar for the front-seat passenger to hang on to during high-speed turns. There is a choice of 305-, 340-or 350-h.p. engines, or about 70 to 115 h.p. greater than present Chevy engines. Price: about $700 more than regular Impala models...
Detroit's automakers look on the new sales development as a threat to the dealer organizations they have carefully built up over the years, and most dealers disapprove of the practice. Chevrolet recently sent a letter to all its dealers warning of the "pitfalls of the 'quick-profit' bootleg sale." Subtle pressure from Detroit on dealers who sell to discounters (such as reviewing the dealers' financing) and concerted action by dealers' associations have held the discounters in check, and in some places forced them out of business...
...they can readily sell. To move the cars and save storage expense, a dealer is often willing to sell to a discounter at a small profit-even though the discounter is in competition with other authorized dealers. Some dealers have learned their lesson the hard way. Los Angeles Citizens Chevrolet, once a supplier to discount houses, has stopped the practice. Reason: a discounter failed to pay promptly for his cars and is now facing a possible suit by his creditors...
...Morals aside, the fat man has plenty to worry about-over and above the fact that no one any longer loves him. The simple mechanical strain of overweight, says New York's Dr. Norman Jolliffe, can overburden and damage the heart "for much the same reason that a Chevrolet engine in a Cadillac body would wear out sooner than if it were in a body for which it was built." The fat man has trouble buying life insurance or has to pay higher premiums. He has-for unclear reasons-a 25% higher death rate from cancer. He is particularly...
Conqueror's End. A careful man who never smoked or drank, Martini seldom visited his empire, and, when he did, was surrounded by bodyguards. While his wife whisked about Paris in a snow-white Chevrolet Bel Air and spent her evenings backstage at the Folies Pigalle, Martini stayed snugly at home in the suburban chateau, where every visitor was screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying...