Word: compressional
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Hot-rod buffs, known as "hop-ups," strip the bodies from junkyard cars, replace them with low-slung, homemade roadster bodies. On the engine they install a high-compression cylinder head, a dual manifold and a special camshaft. After months of work and $800 to $1,200 spent for parts...
Last week, Cincinnati's Powel Crosley Jr. became the first postwar U.S. auto manufacturer to make a deliberate play for the hot-rod market. He introduced a two-seater "Hotshot" Crosley roadster, looking like a dime-store version of the once-famed Stutz Bearcat (see cut). Although Crosley estimates...
Some sectors of the web stand out with special pathos or splendor: aged members of the Home Guard clutching club and pike; the tormented heroes of the bomb-disposal squads, whose faces "seemed different from those of ordinary men . . . gaunt. . . haggard . . . bluish . . . bright, gleaming eyes and exceptional compression of the...
OLDSMOBILE'S big talking point is under the hood of the "Futuramic 98" Series: the V-8 "Rocket" engine, with a 7.25-to-1 compression ratio.* This gives it 135 h.p. while using less gas than the old 115-h.p. motor. It can be stepped up to a 12...
CADILLAC has ventured even farther along the high-compression road. Its 160-h.p. V-8 engine, most powerful in any G.M. car, has a 7.5-to-1 ratio, yet is 5 inches shorter and 215 pounds lighter than last year's. The mileage, 14 to a gallon, is 15...