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...Buick, its production of '58s halted at 242,000, v. 400,000 in the '57 model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...
Tension-easing notes in Moscow and
Washington last week:
After the boxiness, the unattractive utilitarian interior, the bumps and various other discomforts, the effort to do anything over 40 m.p.h. of a small European car, the 1958 U.S. cars, chrome and all, are perfection...
About "Those '58 Cars" [May 12]: Why don't they just dip the damn things in chrome? Think of all the labor saved...
...ever-increasing number of motorists are becoming thoroughly fed up with the overweighted, undersprung, swerving, swaying, tire-screeching, chrome-splashed, trinket-laden, gas-eating monsters that Detroit has been forcing upon the American public...