Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Packard, a notable holdout for a straight-eight engine, plans to abandon it for a V-8 in its 1955 models. General Motors will also switch to V-8s for its two lowest-priced lines-Chevrolet and Pontiac...
...Competition. In Wickenburg, Ariz., Chevrolet Dealer Bernard Hill proudly decorated his new showroom with wallpaper featuring illustrations of old-model automobiles, discovered too late that the old models were all Fords...
...table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers...
...taken prisoner in Korea in 1951, he did not let time hang idle on his hands. In the prison camps, he soon discovered that most of his fellow prisoners had two major topics of conversation: women and autos. Wilkins, who had been a salesman for Detroit's Hanson Chevrolet Co., felt right at home. Every time he met a new prisoner, Wilkins would ask if the prisoner didn't think he might be in the market for a new car after he was freed. Then he would take his name and home address...
...months ago, when Sergeant Wilkins, 28, came out through Panmunjom and Freedom Village, he had a list of 3,272 fellow prisoners as potential customers. As soon as he could get pen and paper, he sent the names and addresses to his old employer. Hanson Chevrolet sent out 2,000 letters offering the sergeant's friends a $300 "Wilkins discount" on a new car, urged them to come to Detroit to pick it up. Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia...