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Stuck with Goldfinger. Buyers of the less expensive models seemed even more excited than those in the high-priced market. Mrs. William Appleton of Newton, Mass., for instance, was so thrilled about owning a 1933 Rolls-Royce coupe with custom coachwork by Freestone and Webb that right after the sale she couldn't remember how much she had bid ($5,400). John and Elizabeth Harriet took a chance on a tiller-steered 1907 Sears Runabout, bid in for $850, only afterward discovered that their antique had been found under a haystack ten miles from their home...
Among the curiosities of the Paris auto show was a pair of uncommonly low and sleek-looking Rolls-Royce limousines. Rolls spokesmen brushed off inquiries about the cars with a casual "special coachwork jobs, old boy." In fact, as Rolls will announce this week, the cars on display in Paris were new models-the first restyled Rolls-Royce autos in eight years...
...tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table-topping: it now comes in blue, beige, tangerine and gold. Green? You could order it, too, if you want to be quaint...
Automobiles. To the Ninth International Congress of Automobile Elegance: "The automobile is one of the happiest fusions between mechanics and art ... A car's elegance must be a symbol of nobility of soul. The coachwork must be subject to the severe laws of aerodynamics. Coach-builders have made use of this subjection to conceive models whose lines adapt themselves to the movement of the eye which follows the vehicle hurtling at top speed along the road...
...recent models: a Lancia and Siata from Italy, an MG and Aston-Martin from Britain, a snappy little Porsche from Germany, a Cométe and a Simca from France. The three U.S. models: a 1953 Studebaker, a Nash-Healey (standard Nash engine, with British chassis and Italian coachwork), and a big, hand-built Cunningham convertible with a long, oval-grilled snout and a racer's body. (Engine: Chrysler V8. Speed: up to 130 m.p.h. Price: $10,000.) As usual, the foreign cars had little chrome, rocket-smooth lines, little room or comfort for passengers. That, believes Curator Drexler...