Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jenkins' 1973 Chevrolet Vega does not look much different from the one that Mom drives to the supermarket, except for the hood-mounted air scoop and an outrigger in back to keep the front of the car from rising too high on takeoff. But Jenkins and his crew of six mechanics make sure that the resemblance is only paint-deep. To prepare the car for its ordeals, the team marinates its body in an acid bath to eat away 120 Ibs. of excess weight. The hood and rear deck are replaced with lightweight Fiberglas panels. His $70,000 engine...
...Sills' Second City after marrying one of its actors, Richard Schaal. Along the way she supported herself by appearing in industrial shows introducing new products to out-of-town distributors. Her most memorable roles: a stripteaser in a peanut-butter show, and a dancer who pirouetted around a Chevrolet singing, "The mighty voice of Chevrolet rings out across the land...
...decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with its own bar (soft drinks only). But marriage was never mentioned, or so Priscilla says in the August Ladies' Home Journal...
...Chevrolet Vega (140-cu.-in. engine, manual transmission), 21.5 m.p.g...
...Chevrolet Impala (454-cu.-in. engine, automatic transmission), 10.1 m.p.g...