Word: corvairs
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...Until She Was Quiet." The father of three children, a $100-a-week business accounting machine operator and a sometime Baptist, Moseley owned a $16,000 home in Queens, had five pedigreed German shepherd dogs, drove a 1960 white Corvair, and gave every sign of respectability-in the daytime. But after dark, he became a savage...
...reach for most Americans. Out of this appetite came the inspiration for such American cars as the Thunderbird and the Corvette, whose price still hovers between $4,000 and $5,000, and for the sporty extras-bucket seats, stick shifts, wire wheels-best embodied in General Motors' jazzy Corvair Monza...
...Valiant with a convex rear roofline-called a fastback in Detroit-and named it the Barracuda. American Motors is making a fastback version of its Rambler Classic, will bring it out next spring. When word of the Mustang first leaked out, General Motors began to work on a fastback Corvair for introduction this month, later decided against the crash approach, and now maintains a monolithic silence. Its Chevrolet Corvette is too expensive to compete with the Mustang, and its rear-engined, lightly powered Monza might be thrown off balance by the weight of a bigger motor out back; this also...
Cadillac will lose its tail fins after 16 years, adopt the sleek, slablike sides that have become so popular in the industry. G.M.'s Corvair will retain its rear engine but adopt more conventional styling and have a larger body. Plymouth will grow from a 116-in. to a 119-in. wheelbase and become more interchangeable with the 119-in. Dodge. In addition to fielding a sports car, American Motors will introduce a new, longer (by 10 in.) Ambassador and a restyled Classic. Mercury will have a handsome new slab-sided car completely different in appearance from the Ford...
...with workers in taverns near a competitor's plant. One-way mirrors and electronic bugs in showrooms and at auto shows have become standard tools. At last week's International Auto Show in Manhattan, Chevrolet conducted a sneak test of the styling that will mark its 1965 Corvair; it displayed a Chevy II Nova Special that it presented as a "dream car," but whose lower half is almost identical in design to the proposed Corvair...