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That was impolite, to say the least. Britain's Jaguar was represented by four of its new droop-snoot E-type cars; Germany's Porsche entered five cars-and then there were the U.S. challengers. After years of listening to those cracks about "Detroit Iron," both Chevrolet and Ford were on hand-and obviously yearning for a U.S. victory...
...rode home in a rented Chevrolet, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was already working out the details of his next dream. "There ain't no such thing as love for me," he mused sadly. "Not while I'm goin' on to that championship. But when I get that championship, then I'm goin' to put on my old jeans and get an old hat and grow a beard. And I'm goin' walk down the road until I find a little fox who just loves me for what I am. And then...
...steady drizzle washed the high-banked oval track at Daytona Beach as the cars lined up for the 250-mile American Challenge Cup. It looked like a big day for Chevrolet's famed Corvette, flashiest and most powerful U.S. sportscar. No fewer than seven Corvettes were in the 14-car field, six of them new 1963 Sting Rays, their powerful V-8 engines blatting angrily under shark-nosed hoods. In the cockpits sat some of racing's top drivers, among them Indianapolis Veteran A. J. Foyt. Down went the flag. Off screamed the Corvettes. And zoom-a ringer...
...twelve-cylinder excitement in the voices of Detroit's automakers was un mistakable. American Motors President Roy Abernethy predicted "a whale of a good quarter." Visiting Washington, D.C., G.M. Vice President and Chevrolet General Manager Semon E. Knudsen described sales so far in 1963 as nothing less than "a boom." predicted that the year would turn out to be Chevy's greatest. In Los Angeles, Ford Vice President Lee A. Iacocca anticipated that the boom would last not one year but five, heralded the beginning of "one of the most exciting eras in the history of the automobile...
...biggest sales rise was made by Chrysler, which is recuperating vigorously under the cost-cutting, fat-trimming prescription of President Lynn Townsend. Chrysler took 11.8% of the market in January, almost 2% better than its showing last year. General Motors, as usual, had the biggest share (55.6%), and its Chevrolet, Pontiac and Cadillac divisions all made records...