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Days at the Races. In Los Angeles, granted a divorce after she testified that her estranged husband neglected his family by spending so much time and money on his five cars (a 1924 Maxwell, a custom-built Pinard, a 1952 Willys, a 1953 Morgan, a 1954 Packard), Mrs. Edith Thompson moaned in court: "Your Honor, I'm a sports-car widow...
Ford hopes that the new Continental will become as famed as the original, which was first styled by Edsel Ford and custom-built as a personal car. On a trip to Florida Edsel got so many requests for a car like his that he put the Continental into production in 1940. Though Ford collected dividends in prestige for the 5,322 Continentals it built, it lost money on every car. When the company skidded into the red after World War II, it stopped making them. Three years ago, after Ford moved solidly back in the black, Benson Ford proposed that...
There was never much trouble getting it to Soldiers Field on its custom-built bicycle-wheeled carriage, but travel was another matter. In 1948, for example, when the varsity played at Princeton, the band truck was not big enough to hold the drum. Eventually, it made the trip in time aboard a specially chartered plane...
...auto enthusiasts packed the refurbished, fluorescent-lighted Grand Palais on the Champs Elysees to gape at such fancy sights as the Rapier, a white coupe designed by Milwaukee's Brooks Stevens and built in Germany on a Cadillac chassis, and the King of Arabia's custom-built Rolls-Royce (price: $27,000). Altogether, a record 107 manufacturers from nine nations trotted out their glittering showpieces...
...ratio than its U.S. cousin, will accelerate from zero to 60 m.p.h. in less than 20 seconds. It proved so popular that on opening day more than 1,500 orders were placed for the Versailles (de luxe) model alone. Simca showed off its new convertible. Other major attractions: a custom-built racing Jaguar with the famed 160-h.p. XK-120 engine; an $8,000 road-racing Porsche with a 70-h.p. engine and top speed of about 115 m.p.h.; a $10,000 Fiat designed by Pinin Farina with a top speed of around 120 m.p.h...