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Henry Ford II gripped a steering wheel, nudged General Motors President Harlow Curtice and beamed happily: "It sure looks as if we're going to sell a lot of cars." Lined up behind an outsized mock-up of a dashboard along with four other motormakers last week (see cut), Ford President Ford and G.M.'s Curtice had good reason to toot their horns. As they opened the first postwar National Automobile Show in Manhattan's Coliseum, 8,000 potential customers lined up outside. In the first two days, 70,000 plunked down 90? apiece just...
...cars, which will come out in mid-October, represent a $175 million face-lifting job on the 1955 models. Chief body change: high, straightaway lines on the rear fenders and bigger taillights. In addition, all lines will have a new four-door, hardtop model, pushbutton selectors on the dashboard for automatic transmissions, "lifeguard" door latches to prevent doors from popping open in accidents, and optional seat belts. Plymouth will have a new, higher-powered engine. Fanciest gadget in the line is a "Highway Hi-Fi," a CBS record player that can be mounted just below the center of the instrument...
Ford Motor Co. kicked off its major 1956 sales pitch last week with a car safety forum in Detroit, announced that no-spring door latches, "deep-dish" steering wheels (many drivers have been impaled on the steering column) and padded rearview mirrors would be standard equipment on all models. Dashboard and visor cushion pads and front-seat belts will be optional but sold at cost ($25). Benson Ford invited the automobile industry to go along with Ford on a safety sales campaign. But not all the automakers were willing to emphasize the chances a car buyer takes when he ventures...
WILLIAM MARCY ("Boss") TWEED, 300 lbs. of political corruption. Son of an Irish chairmaker, Tweed got into politics as the nose-busting foreman of the Americus, or Big Six, volunteer fire company. On the dashboard of the Big Six engine a tiger's head was painted, and it was later used by Cartoonist Thomas Nast as the symbol (see cover) for Tammany and its voracious Boss Tweed. Elected to public office, Tweed was a member of the Board of Aldermen, known widely (and correctly) as "The Forty Thieves." In 1863 Tweed won control of Tammany from Fernando Wood...
Seat belts drastically reduce the most common causes of death or injury in accidents: being thrown from a car, mutilated by hitting the windshield and dashboard, crushed against the steering wheel...