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...speed engineering and styling, Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division last week rolled out its first 1967 Barracuda, a sleek new car with long hood, short trunk, fancy waffle grille and such flashy features as a wall-to-wall rear window, snap-open gas-tank cover, wood-paneled dashboard. The Barracuda, which began in 1964 as a jerry-built fastback body mounted on an old-fashioned Valiant chassis, up to now has been a pretty tame fish in a very turbulent pond. The completely new Barracuda, whose prices will start at approximately $2,500, comes out just in time...
...either standard or optional. >General Motors cars have plastic caps over window-crank handles to soften the gouging action of metal under impact. Pontiac is introducing windshield wipers that, when not in use, retract into the engine cowl to allow the driver unobstructed vision. Many G.M. cars have a dashboard light that, when the brakes fail, winks like a slot machine. >Ford has made standard a "seatbelt reminder light" that flashes on when the engine is started. Lincoln-Mercury's new Cougar sports car will not start while the door on the driver's side is open. Cougar...
...runaway hit of the show was easily Segal's creation, The Truck. It consisted of the actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
Destination: office. Driving time: Beethoven's Third Symphony, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, and, depending on traffic, two or three numbers by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. Driver squiggles into bucket seat, straps on safety belt, injects stereotape cartridge into dashboard holder, and, to the engulfing strains of the 100-piece Boston Symphony, rolls away on wheels of song...
...designed to last for 75 playings, a tape will last five times that long. The new eight-track cartridge (price: from $4.95 to $10.95) is about the size and weight of a paperback book, requires no threading or rewinding. The driver can easily slip it into the dashboard player without taking his eyes off the road; it plays through four speakers-usually mounted in the front and rear doors-without interference from bumpy roads, tunnels, bridges or commercials. President Johnson has stereotape players in his airplane and most of his cars, favors dance music of the 1930s. Vice President Humphrey...