Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week, the sports compacts were elbowed to the sidelines by family sedans, high-ticket luxury models and by two categories of lightweight, low-cost cars: the compacts (such as the Ford Maverick, Chevrolet Nova and American Motors Hornet) and subcompacts (such as Ford Pinto, Chevy Vega and Dodge Colt). Summarizing the change in taste, Chrysler Vice President Bob McCurry told TIME Correspondent David DeVoss: "The emphasis now is on practicality, quality and convenience, and it is the young people who are leading the parade...
...research group financed by auto insurers, ran a series of head-on test crashes at 40 to 50 m.p.h. Each collision pitted a small car against a larger model produced by the same U.S. manufacturer: a Chevrolet Vega against an Impala, a Ford Pinto against a Galaxie, a Dodge Colt against a Plymouth Fury, an American Motors Gremlin against an Ambassador...
...Compact U.S. cars like the Vega, Pinto and Colt in Haddon's test crashes generally weigh from...
...beaten by his half-brother in their last meeting. Their most likely challengers were Savoir, the only gelding in the field and a strong stretch threat, and Quick Pride, who had won the Yonkers Futurity. As it turned out, the race was a surprisingly easy affair for the bay colt Speedy Crown. In two straight heats, one of them the second fastest in Hambletonian history (time: 1:57.2), Speedy Crown bested his only serious challenger, the fast-closing Savoir. It was the second victory in three years for Driver Howard Beissinger and the colt's owners. Frank...
...than a thousand cushioned chairs, an art exhibit, and closed-circuit television inside and out. Still, the sales at Saratoga -American racing's most traditional and posh resort-are essentially unchanged since that evening in 1918 when Samuel Riddle bid up to $5,000 for a handsome chestnut colt. They named him Man O' War, and Fasig-Tipton -the company that conducts the auction for 5% of the gross-has been packing them in ever since. The rising price scales remain unaffected by recession, famine, or even an epidemic of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis. This year special spice...