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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jan. 7, 1957 | 1/7/1957 | See Source »

Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wyo., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 31, 1956 | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

...TRUCKS will be built in Brazil for first time. Automaker will spend $10 million for enginebuild-ing and foundry equipment, as a start, will eventually turn out six-cylinder Chevrolet truck engines from new plant near Sao Paulo in 1958, Chevy-type trucks later. G.M. is trebling its automotive investment in G.M. do Brasil, which now makes truck cabs and refrigerators, assembles trucks, cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Dec. 24, 1956 | 12/24/1956 | See Source »

...handsome Frenchman (real name: Yves Leleu) was living up to his legend as the fire-eating knight-errant of war journalism. In the 24 hours since he had landed with the first French ground troops, Roy had taken over two jeeps and a Chevrolet truck, daubed each with a new license plate, "Balzac 00-24" (the phone number of Paris-Match), and whirled through a typical swashbuckling round of good deeds and derring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Road | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

...fellow correspondents, Roy commandeered Port Said's second biggest hotel, the Eastern Exchange. They found nothing to eat, so he drove to French headquarters and traded his Chevrolet truck for three cases of French rations and three bottles of Chianti...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: End of the Road | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

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