Word: corvair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...names, he may need The World Almanac, a foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect image, despite Chevy disclaimers), Oldsmobile's F85 and Starfire (odes to the jet age). And there are more to come...
...division's three other lines-the Corvair, Corvette and Chevy II -got mostly only superficial trim changes for 1964. But all the new Chevrolets have standard front-seat safety belts in line with the auto industry's decision to install belts on all new autos by year's end. Though it will offer a grand total of 43 models for 1964-the widest selection in its history-Chevrolet is secretly working on yet another new model: a small, fastback sports car to compete with the low-priced sports car that Ford is planning for the spring...
...hours, Burnham wears loose-fitting clothes that give him a rumpled, unpretentious look. He has already shown that he has no intention of changing his ways as Westinghouse's chief; right off, he declined the president's right to a chauffeured Cadillac, preferring to drive his Corvair to work as usual over the five miles from his Mount Lebanon, Pa., home, where he lives with his wife and four of his five children...
...Polloi. Married four times, Mott is the father of six children (youngest: 21).* He drives a sporty, gold-colored Corvair, wears store-bought clothing. Once he astonished a guest by crossing the length of his vast living room to turn off a lamp. "Can't stand to see anything wasted," he murmured...
...Chevrolet Corvette and Studebaker Avanti, already on the market); it will have the long hood and short rear-end characteristic of Britain's top-selling sports cars. Chevrolet expects to be in the showrooms late next spring with a rear-engine sports car built on the low-priced Corvair chassis with a sleek, sloping rear end (called a fastback in Detroit). By then, the aggressive Pontiac Division also intends to be out with a sports car of its own, named the Tempest GTO to ride on the prestige of the red-hot Italian Ferrari...