Word: chrome
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...thousands of eye-catching shapes that resemble everything from the blade of a buzz saw to the barrel of a revolver. Specific models, sold under brand names like Bling Image and AutoCouture, can race in and out of fashion in as little as six months. "People want big chrome one week, silver the next," Don Sabino says of the 10,000 customers at his Rent-A-Wheel chain in the southwestern U.S. But in the oversexed world of auto enthusiasts, size seems to matter most. Five years ago, when 15-in. wheels were the norm for SUVs, custom-wheel makers...
...ramp on the back of this toy hauler is used for loading motorcycles and other large recreational gear. KIT RVs, a 58-year-old brand out of Caldwell, Idaho, changed its name in January to Extreme RVs and has outfitted its $30,000, 26-ft. toy hauler with a chrome and red-vinyl interior. Travel Supreme's new Me2, a $325,000, 41-ft. luxury motor home, includes a built-in garage with enough room to stash a stylish BMW Mini Cooper car to be used for local jaunts. (The $17,000 Mini is not included...
...Lost in reveries of the end of an era, I neglect to notice that my left knee has strayed beyond the chrome curlicues that bound the passenger seat, breaking one of the cardinal rules of riding in tuk tuks. There's a loud thwack, a roar of exhaust and a fiery jolt of pain in my kneecap. A goggled gladiator on a motorbike has clipped me on his way past, without even stopping to see if I am O.K. Wiset pulls over at the next set of lights. As I abandon the tuk tuk and hobble off in search...
...reseller, not a brand-name designer boutique. Colette is a store as editor, picking the hottest stuff from the hottest new designers and presenting it in a techno-style space. Given the brisk traffic in the store, it's no wonder the designer chose brushed aluminum and chrome for just about everything...
...surgery in 1954, when he was a Senator too much in the public eye to disappear for the eight months he needed to recover. But the back was absorbed into his legend, laid to football injuries and his indisputable heroism during World War II, explanations that merely buffed the chrome of J.F.K.'s image...