Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...more than a decade, the sleek, sturdy creations of Italian Automaker Enzo Ferrari have practically owned sports-car racing. Going into last week's 2,000-km. (1,243 miles) Daytona Continental, "Il Commendatore" had won ten manufacturers' championships in twelve years. It was a fine way to make enemies, among them the Ford Motor Co., which broke into its bulging piggy bank last year to develop a racing sports car of its own: the prototype Ford GT, a rakish, rear-engined coupe with 385 honest horses stuffed into a 40-in.-high package. Bursting with pride, Ford...
Miami-based Deltona Corp. set up an office in Frankfurt in 1963 to tap a market among U.S. servicemen overseas, now finds that sales to Europeans are as high as those to Americans. Europeans have bought $1,250,000 worth of lots at Deltona developments near Daytona Beach and on San Marco Island off Florida's west coast. A Nürnberg accountant named Herman Boeckler grew so enthusiastic after a visit to his lots that he not only bought more property but formed a Deltona Club back home. Even some of Europe's lesser nobility have been...
...bank.) Last year Ford laid out $5,000 per car souping up its racing engines, only to lose the "stock car" championship to Chrysler, which installed custom-built, $12,000 "hemispherical-head" engines in its Plymouths. That was too heady for Bill France, owner of Florida's Daytona International Speedway and president of NASCAR, who has the funny idea that somebody besides a factory ought to be able to compete in the contest. He banned the "hemi-head"-which put Chrysler in such a huff that it refused to race at all at this year's Daytona Speed...
...Houston's A. J. Foyt, 29: the Firecracker 400 stock-car race, averaging 151.4 m.p.h. in a 1964 Dodge to edge North Carolina's Bobby Isaac by less than the length of a car hood; at Daytona Beach, Fla. The U.S. Auto Club racing champion, winner of the 1964 Indianapolis 500, Foyt once again demonstrated his amazing versatility: alternating between sports cars, stock cars, sprint cars and big Offenhauser-powered Indy roadsters, Foyt has failed to win only two of the races he has entered this year...
...original home of the spring fling in Florida is, of course, Fort Lauderdale, which was featured in Max Shulman's book Where the Boys Are and the movie starring Connie Francis. But after the 1961 Lauderdale riots, Daytona invited the college students to come there and each resort has by this time developed its own particular personality for the collegians' stay...